I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.
There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.
I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line. . . I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.