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Dan Harmon and James Siciliano discuss the genesis of the 'Rick & Morty' spinoff, emphasizing that the immense talent of voice actor Keith David was the primary catalyst. Harmon jokingly refers to using David's powerful voice as 'cheating' due to the instant production value it adds.
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00:00What made us want to?
00:03Money, money.
00:06We had Keith as a starting place.
00:09That was a huge thing and also it felt like the first thing when we were talking about
00:15this that wouldn't be overly redundant with Rick and Morty.
00:19That we could make a world and make a workplace comedy and build it out and have it feel tonally
00:26similar but have it be its own show.
00:28So it was kind of the first time.
00:29And we did want to work.
00:30When Keith was like a ghost in a jar.
00:34Like what was it?
00:35Reverse giraffe.
00:36The stuff that we were having Keith do on the show it was like that was the other thing.
00:41Using Keith is cheating.
00:43He adds production value and you know his voice makes people believe everything's happening.
00:50And that's cheating.
00:52You can write worse.

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