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Redd likes to find the heart in hard characters, like theFriendoswho are working their feelings out in therapy.
And thats just in the first season.
Redd recently released his first stand-up album on Comedy Central Records,But Here We Are.
Tell me what you like aboutThe Mick.Oh, besides everything?
I really liked that show because it made unlikable characters likable.
It had strong female leads that werent typical for a sitcom, which was super dope.
And it found a creative way to use kids, too.
They were really joking on the rich, and using everything, which is in my bag as well.
Kaitlin Olson is the absolute truth.
To watch her carry that show was insane.
They had growth, but it was never fake.
The daughter and Kaitlins character disliked each other, but they learned to be warm without it being phony.
Sometimes there were no redeeming qualities to their actions, and I love that bang out of shit.
Because Ive known people my whole life that, to the world, are assholes.
But theyre also some of the funnest and funniest people you will ever know.
And I like when someone can really capture that on TV.
It also felt like an interesting throwback to that 80s sitcom trope of How did I get these kids?
I find that intriguing as well.
There are a lot of layers to the show.
How far she would go rolling up to a school.
Having her fuck buddy in the house playing a really shitty dad role.
Jimmy.Yeah, that guy was also brilliant.
An insane person doing insane shit the whole time.
And people would go Oh, thats just Jimmy.
I love characters like that.
It was a show I really wanted to be on, too.
It got canceled earlier this year, or late last year.
When I heard, I posted about it like Iwason the show.
This is a campaign to renew the show, man.
Thats all this interview is.
Were bringing it back, then youre getting a guest spot.
What would you have wanted to do?I would want to be from Jimmys world.
That would be perfect if I came back, and we played that Im your dad thing.
None of the timeline matches up, but Jimmy just needs to guide someone through life so bad.
I had it way thought out.
A refreshing lead, period.
That relationship was amazing.
Them being a duo, fucking life up more it was so fun.
Having this maid be a caretaker for the children, but she has her own agenda.
He had quips, but Im glad we didnt go that route with this show.
I said we like I was involved somehow.
But they made her a whole person.
You got to see the layers on her.
They kept her flawed too.
Nearly every scene she had would reveal another chunk of her extremely fucked-up backstory from Guatemala.
It reminds me ofThe Good Place,with Kristen Bells character.
They really do that fantastically, dropping little hints of how bad this person was in life.
But I love how Kaitlin really did it.
And how [her character] tried to grow.
But even as shes growing, shes not elevating who she is as a person.
Shes just elevating what the bad looks like.
This is going to change everything.But by the end of season one, theyve burned it down.
Its literally all burned down.
Now youre in a shitty-ass mansion thats been burnt to nothing.
The symbolism in that!
Did you get anything as a writer or performer from seeing the show make such bold choices?
Burning it all to the ground or being so unlikable as a protagonist?I live in the dark.
I like the dark.
Thats my favorite stuff its always been.
Stuff like this inspires me because [it shows that] there canbe assholes on TV.
We can use them to satirize certain ideas.
Thats what Glenn Howerton is doing onA.P.
Seeing that done well, that energizes me.
Do you have nieces and nephews?I do, I do.
Well, I have little cousins who are more like nieces and nephews to me than cousins.
And I have a godson.
Whats your uncle style?
And if there are teachable moments, I bring them where I can.
When theyre acting up, I gotta put the Scarface on.
Im the one thats going to teach them to use condoms.
Not now, but for future shit.
I get to spoil them if theyre being good, and I can give them a talking-to.
Or another likes video games, so I wind up playing these games I hate.
Just so they always feel like they have a connection.
We cant be serious all the time.
They see me joking constantly, so theyre always ready to play when I come around.
I let them know who I really am that its not jokes every minute of the day.
But Im the fun one!
If I come around, were gonna have fun.
As long as your grades are up.
Youre going to have to work hard.
Like, is that your math homework?
Well, heres my brother whos going to help you do it.
Im not doing that math homework.
I called my role.
Yall do the rest.
Its weird that people are surprised at how many scams there are.
That shit, you know its bad.
The chair was like a stool with a resistance band on it.
The commercial said this.
All you gotta do is sit and you get abs?
Yeah, thats never how you get abs.
I dont care what you use.
Lets just say Ive had my fair share of cons.
