west covina california california >> musical theater is an american art form. and i think that with comedy especially, music and musical comedy, it's one of the best and most efficient joke-delivery devices. i study musical theater in school, and the thing that i noticed was a lot of the musical comedies that were out there were very, like, cutesy humor or like, feeling really dated. i was craving much more comedy songs that were like funny in an edgy, modern way, and between seeing mel brooks' stuff and then the south park guys -- i mean, that's really inspired me to go more towards taking modern comedy sensibility and using musicals to tell those stories. to be clear i didn't move here for josh i just needed a change 'cause to move here for josh now that'd be strange but don't get me wrong if he asked for a date i would totally be like "that sounds great!" >> the reason we call the show "crazy ex-girlfriend" is, from the beginning we wanted to take a term that is often labeled on women, and also a term that women label themselves, and deconstruct it. love, wh