At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'
As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
I don't think anyone in my family was funny.