Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are once again out to prove that couples who play together stay together.
Their latest project is the comedy seriesGods Favorite Idiot, which debuted June 15 on Netflix.
Since youve made a show about God, Ben, do you believe theres someone steering the ship?
Ben Falcone:I do.
I think theres a benevolent force that is trying to help us all out.
I am, by the way, so respectful of each and every persons religion or lack thereof.
But personally, I think there are too many coincidences to just account for a random cosmic explosion.
Whats the best thing about working together?
We have written and worked together from day one.
The first day we met 25 years ago or more we were working together and writing and improvising.
Its always been such a delight.
No ego between us, never a matter of, I wrote this; now you do that.
We always build together.
It is the fun of the puzzle that we both love putting together.
BF:I cant believe we get on the lot each time.
MM:I hope it feels like that forever.
I never want to stop having that feeling.
I think its the importance of writing original content.
So many people are like, What on earth made him write that?
As an actress, Im like, Exactly.
Give me something where I don’t know what goes on in that head of yours and Im delighted.
Ben gets me to do it.
Do you have a comic inspiration, maybe a comedy-duo inspiration?
BF:I grew up watching a lot of sitcoms.
I made VHS tapes of tons and tons of sitcoms.
Probably the one I watched the most wasCheers.
It had so many characters, and I knew them all by heart.
Nichols and May, [American improvisational comedy duo Mike Nichols and Elaine May] of course.
I would literally look through a crack in the door.
Carol Burnett broke my brain; Lucille Ball.
I remember thinking,Theyre generating this, these women.They werent given funny lines and then they said them.
Theyre making this so funny because theyre funny.
And that energy nobody else can say it like that; nobody else can give a look like Lucy.
It was odd, and it was unexpected.
I immediately fell in love with those types of characters.
In life, those are the people Im interested in and attracted to.
Thats the fun of it.
Is there something thats never funny?
BF:Really dark crimes.
I dont want to tell jokes about that.
We dont do gross stuff.
