YASSIR LESTER: Well number one, there are other time travel shows on the air right now, but we’re the only comedy. Every other time travel show takes itself very seriously. It’s all about the ripple effects of this and that and what happens if we do this to history…There’s a lot of alt universe stuff out there, which we still deal with, but it’s not like we do stuff where we’ll go to the past and then come back and everyone is enslaved by sex robots.

So first, it’s a comedy. Then secondly, the biggest thing out there is that tonally it’s a fun comedy. At the end of the day it’s not one of these shows that claims to be a comedy and then 17 out of 22 minutes is someone walking down the sidewalk, looking at the ground, while a Bon Iver plays over it all. And there’s like four jokes in the whole thing.

In our show, every twenty seconds there are like five to ten jokes. It’s just fun. It’s fun. It’s funny. It’s goofy—and I mean that in a good way. I feel that sometimes people will use the word “goofy”—not as a slur—but in a diminishing way. But this show is goofy in the most fun way possible. I find it to be very family friendly, and on top of that it’s going to be fun for both adults and kids. It’s escapism. It’s a show that’s not trying to step out of the realm in which it’s been created. We’re here to just make you laugh.

You bring up a good point that there are a bunch of revisionist history shows suddenly popping up. You’re right to say that you’re the only comedic one, but you have other big differences present too, like bringing somebody from the past back with you and making them part of the cast.

Right, well all credit goes to the creator, Julius “Goldie” Sharpe. He’s made a very funny, wild, crazy show on its surface, but Goldie truly is a genius, and I don’t use that term lightly. Even just the choice to make a duffel bag into a complicated time machine is brilliant. Everything is so meticulous and well thought out. Nothing’s just there for a joke and then moved on from. Everything here pays off. Goldie knows how to tell a good story, but also how to do it in the funniest way possible. He did his research and knew exactly what he wanted here. He went for it and clearly it worked because now we’re a TV show.