Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore Talk New Season Of "The Whitest Kids U'Know"

Whitest Kids Moore (left) and Cregger in front of a green screen, just waiting for you to put a monster dong in there with 'em.

Since forming a decade ago, sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U'Know has performed rap songs dressed as Hitler, smoked pot with dinosaurs, and filmed a movie at the Playboy Mansion (Miss March). Now the boys have brought their outlandish brand of humor back to IFC for the fourth season of their subversive, critically acclaimed television show, The Whitest Kids U'Know (Fridays, 10 p.m.). Recently, Complex caught up with Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore at their New York studio, where they're currently filming the show's fifth season, and demanded that they be funny for us. Here's how it went down.

Interview By Yang-Yi Goh

Complex: How's everything been going so far with production on the new season?

Zach Cregger: It's really good. We're actually shooting the fifth season right now. The fourth we ended a while ago, but they pushed the air date to line up with some other shows this summer to help bring attention to the summer funny stuff.

Complex: What should fans expect from Season Four?

ZC: Some of our favorite pieces are in Season Four, for sure. I think things look a lot better. Every season we kind of learn a bit more about how to shoot a TV show. We've kind of been teaching ourselves from scratch, from the beginning. Season One has a very different look than Season Four—I think it's more polished looking—but it also has some of our dumbest shit, which is sometimes some of our funniest shit. I like it—it's weird, it's real trippy, but I think it's gonna be good. I'm happy with it.

Trevor Moore: Yeah, Season Four is the best season of all of them. I actually think Season Four is the strongest first episode of any of our seasons. We were just watching it a couple days ago, because I guess it's almost been a year now since we've watched the show. It's weird because we shot it a year ago, but the good thing is that we don't make that many time-sensitive jokes. We kind of do that on purpose. There's a sketch that we're writing this year that's about the oil spill, where we're like "Oh, should we do that or not?" since this season probably won't come out for another year. But then there was this very sad moment where we were like, "I think the oil spill will still be around in a year." [Laughs.] This joke will probably make just as much sense in a year as it will now.

Complex: What are you guys working on right now for the fifth season?

ZC: We're actually doing things a little differently this time—we're working on this Civil War thing that's going to stretch through all the episodes. I think it's really fucking funny. We're really happy with it, it's gonna be awesome.

TM: It's an idea that we've had since the first year we started the group. We wanted to do this as a movie, but it's a period piece comedy and it's very hard to get those green-lit. So every time we'd talk about this Civil War idea, everyone would just say, "Well, no studio is going to do that." So we were like, "Well, we've loved this idea for so long, let's find a way to incorporate it into a season of the show."

Complex: You guys push a lot of boundaries with your show. Have there ever been any sketches so obscene that you haven't been able to do them?

ZC: There was one that we really, really worked hard on called "McGriff" about a cartoon crime dog—kind of like "McGruff," but he teaches kids how to dodge rapists. And he's basically just scaring the kids, where he's like, "Don't fall asleep, they're gonna rape ya!" and just traumatizing them. We loved that, but that couldn't air. [Laughs.] Usually it's little things. Like in Season Three, we had this skit with these aliens that had dicks coming out of them, and shots got cut where originally that alien was supposed to suck his dick and then it comes in his face. But they were like, "Well, clearly you guys can't show a dick coming in a dude's face." And I get it, I get it, but you know...

TM: Yeah, there's really not a lot that we can't do. Every now and then there'll be something, but it's usually just people being like, "C'mon." We had this other sketch that we shot for Season Three where the majority of the sketch was just a large penis that was in the middle of the frame, for like most of the sketch. But then they put it on the DVD. So even the ones that don't make it on the show end up on the DVD.

Complex: Whitest Kids has an all-male cast, and as a result you all end up playing female roles. Which of you makes the hottest girl?

ZC & TM: Darren. [Both laugh.]

ZC: It's like hands-down, and he plays them like a lot. I think in Season Two, Darren might be a woman more than a man. [Laughs.] Like, he's always a woman. In this season, we're all kind of doing more female roles, and in the fifth season even more so.

TM: Yeah, it's definitely Darren. I think it's because of his collarbones. I actually overheard somebody on set talking about that today, they were saying it's because of his collarbones. And I was like, "Oh, maybe that's why it is... "

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