Hot on the heels of Detroiters being renewed for a second season, we chat with co-creator Zach Kanin.

Comedy Central has been going through a period of transition.

Even more recently, the long-runningWorkaholicsbowed out on the data pipe.

Its now the perfect time for a new series to come in and fill a void.

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DEN OF GEEK: First off, congratulations on the recent second season renewal!

ZACH KANIN:We have!

Were in the writers room now working on that.

Are peoples responses going how you expected they would?

Has anything caught on a lot greater than you anticipated, or the opposite of that?

Its just kind of impossible to anticipate that.

So its nice to see that a lot of people seem to like this.

For instance, I used to work atSaturday Night Livebefore this.

And the takeaway is, Oh, I guess that was horrible… Or its not.

You dont really know!

Youre always prepared to be completely wrong about what you think is good.

Do you think you guys are doing anything differently than other comedies out there?

They love each other, theyre emotional together, they hug each other.

I would be in a lot of trouble if I said this was a good representation of Detroit!

Detroits a very complicated place.

Many books have been written about its complicated history.

All the stuff like boomtown, the riots, and now just its revitalization.

Was he an important element you wanted to include in the show, or just a fun coincidence?

Yeah, Tim and Sam grew up watching him and knew his history, too.

you might give him lines and hell get them out there.

It must be a lot of fun to do this sort of bizarro Mad Menwith shlubs show.

Was this always the premise you guys had in place for the show?

Talk a little about developing the series and if you considered any other ideas when starting out.

Yeah, the advertising angle is not where the show started.

What we were talking about a lot were these iconic weird local ads.

Every town has them, but Detroits are really weird and people really know them.

Is it freeing in a way to get to write these really terrible ads within the show?

Do you have a favorite from Tim and Sams career?

They are all so much fun.

Most of them that we have in there are based on real ads.

For them it functions as parody and for everyone else its just something insane and funny to take in.

Theyre all pretty fun to see and then make your own take on them.

Well half the writing staff is the same on both shows.

I think thats an interesting, funny thing to explore, even if it wasnt intentional for us.

Is there a particular episode or scene that youre especially excited for people to see from this season?

If people could only see one episode, which is the perfect one?

I definitely like the one with Sams dads birthday.

Its a pretty unique episode thats kind of a bottle episode even though theres like 150 people in it.

The Smilin Jack one is maybe my favorite.

Its so good and then you get a great Keegan-Michael Key performance.

That one has a lot of really fun moments.

Its definitely one of the funniest ones.

Finally, are you a fan of hot dogs?

Whats your go-to topping?

I would say that before I shot this show I did not eat hot dogs very much.

But now there are a lot of hot dogs on set and Ive fallen victim to that.

Just go for a regular Coney dog with everything on it.

Thats what youve got to go with.

Detroitersfirst season is currently airing on Comedy Central on Tuesdays at 10:30pm.

Its already been renewed for a second season.