Jason Gann

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.