We went to talk to YouTube Red about it and it was just perfect timing. They’re starting to do all of these cool, original shows at the moment and it’s sort of the perfect place for this project. It’s not like normal TV where you have to worry about creative restrictions or commercials. They just got the idea from the start and were really into it. They had a bunch of funny takes on it too, so it felt like a good partnership. Honestly, they never gave us any notes creatively and let us just make the show that we wanted to make. So as a result we got to make this very insane, fucked up show.

It’s a very simple premise—I take a famous person to go see a dead body. Sometimes they want to go, sometimes they don’t. Everyone has a different reason for coming along, but in the end it’s not even really about the dead body. It’s about the fucked up adventures that my guest and I get into along the way. Sometimes stuff gets so messed up that we can’t even find the dead body.

Obviously these are longer than the Funny Or Die shorts and you’re allowed to tell more of a story, but did you want this version of the idea to differentiate from the previous one in any ways?

Well originally we had some kind of overarching structure that we did want to put in place. We had some ideas that we ended up throwing away. For example, at one point we were considering the idea that I get arrested at one of these dead body scenes and there would be a huge trial and all of that and I go on the lam. So we did have these big plot ideas, but the more we got into it, it just didn’t seem as funny. So the perfect format that we found in the end was doing 15 minutes that are unconnected from the other episodes. Anything can happen and there are no real rules. So it’s almost this live-action cartoon, which was a great approach for an idea that has such a simple story. It helps optimize the jokes and comedy.

On that note too, there’s never an explanation towards why or how I know where all of these dead bodies. We wrote it that way on purpose because who cares? It’s absurd that no one would ask me that, but it works and it helps keep it as short and funny as possible.