So you really did learn live that Mayor Karen Bass had called into the show?
Yeah. That one, they didn’t write like, “Bob D in Malibu.” They wrote, “It’s Mayor Bass. Can you take it before 7:27? ‘Cause she had a hard out.”
Were you surprised that she was watching the show?
Yes. But as she started talking, I thought, “Oh, maybe someone on your team was watching.”
In our first episode, when I was talking about some of the flaws in Los Angeles, I said that there’s no shade on the current mayor at all. I don’t know how any person could look at the whole city and go, “I got this. I’m pretty sure I know how to run it.” I did find, over the course of six nights, a lot more community in the city than I thought.
Did you expect your hair to be such a frequent topic of conversation on the show?
No, ‘cause my hair’s been this length for a little bit. But it’s great with me, you know? Any topic’s great.
Have you watched Everybody’s in LA since you taped it?
I actually did a panel in LA, and they were showing the “Earthquakes” episode with [David] Letterman and Luenell. I watched some of it when I got backstage, and I was really shocked how much we were able to pack into it.
Is that your favorite one? Is that your Emmy submission?
Well, we declared that that was the Emmy submission at the beginning of the show, so I have to be a man of my word and submit that one. We called our shot before it was done, just because it’s funny to declare it ahead of time.
Except Earthquake, the comedian, is on the “Helicopters” episode.
Earthquake is on “Helicopters.” Again, availability.
Well, everybody was in LA, but everybody was booked.
That would have been a good subtitle for the show.
I’m sure doing this appealed to you in part because it was a limited run. But now that it’s over, do you think you’d want to do a longer run of a similar sort of show?
Sure, I’m open to anything. I also felt like there’s something about the confines of this, the restrictions of this and the blank slate of this that lent itself to having a pretty fun, unique time. I guess the question would be, how do you keep that alive? So I have thought about it, but I have zero conclusions.
Do you think that if there were to be more episodes, you would want to go to a different city or just keep it in LA?
If everybody was there. And I’m not just trying to stay on title, but [the idea of the show] was that all these comedians who never get to see each other are all in this city at one time. And the city happens to be fathoms deep with weird shit.
Was there an L.A. topic you didn’t get to that you wanted to do?
