With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.
I'm an audiophile and have been collecting records for as long as I can remember.
I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It's kind of like why I got into comedy.
I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.
I've worked on shows where it's fun; you want to hang out. If you're enjoying it, that's how you take ownership of it. You want to give to be a part of this thing. I feel that's the mood on the set of 'Detroiters.'
Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.
I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong.
I left Detroit in 2007, worked on a cruise ship for a year, moved to Chicago in '08, then moved to L.A. in February 2012.
I was a shy kid up until the sixth grade, and then I started to let loose.
The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.
I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I'm like, 'What's wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can't we?'
Being on 'Veep,' it's so much fun, and I get to put so much creative input in there, but at the end of the day, what they say, I do.
I've worked on shows where the set was very morose and boring, kind of like nobody wanted to be there. I felt that affects the work.
There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.
I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?'
I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone.
When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.
On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.
Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.
When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.
