The 30 Rock alum at present hosts HGTV’s Zillow Gone Wild, a present that, with a kind of various host, may have simply made enjoyable of the householders whose typically weird, additional and downright, nicely, wild, properties are featured on it. As a substitute, it is a celebration of the bizarre, with a wide-eyed McBrayer displaying precise pleasure round each flip, because the homeowners share private tales about what impressed their superb abodes.

Talking with TooFab forward of the present’s second season — which debuts tonight — McBrayer mentioned that in the case of his optimistic outlook, “that is just about how my backyard grows.”

“It’s simple and it’s enjoyable and it isn’t hurtful or cynical or something like that and I actually like that,” he mentioned of fronting the sequence. “HGTV was very accommodating early on when the entire thing was coming about. I used to be like, ‘Hey, I am not the comic who’s like snarky or gonna tear you down or embarrass you or something.’ They have been like, ‘Good. We would like this to be optimistic and exploratory and celebratory.’”

McBrayer mentioned he goes about filming with the “curiosity of a child” — and mentioned that, as an “unintended” results of his cherry demeanor and strategy, “youngsters have been tuning in.” He then joked, “HGTV is like, ‘Sure. We’re getting that 7-year-old buying energy!”

Whereas doing analysis for the interview, TooFab’s reporter got here throughout a Reddit thread about McBrayer and his optimistic status. It is there we noticed a remark promising some “tea” in regards to the actor, which learn, “I used to work at an improv theater the place Jack carried out …and he is not as good as you assume he’s … HE’S ACTUALLY NICER THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE.”

“Do not try this to me. You are very impolite,” McBrayer exclaimed after the remark was learn aloud to him.

“I do know individuals roll their eyes and assume I’m simply saccharine candy, however my complete factor is like, it would not really feel good to me to get up indignant,” he then defined. “It would not really feel good to me to make anybody else really feel unhealthy.”

“One factor I cherished about getting into improvisation is my profession, inherently, it’s all about teamwork and collaboration, ensemble, caring for your associate, making your associate look higher than you. I like that,” he continued. “And now I’m simply on the age and stage of my profession, I do not want consideration. I do not want fame. I do not want that stuff. It is enjoyable for me to root for my buddies. It is enjoyable for me to rejoice anybody with a ardour, anybody with route and motivation.”

“So, I do know everyone’s gonna be like alright, what’s this dwelling cartoon character making an attempt to inform me?’ But it surely comes sincere. That’s what I’ll say,” he mentioned, earlier than including, “Are you able to think about I simply take off my wig and I am only a jerk. I believe the digicam is off. I begin smoking.”

Whereas Zillow Gone Wild looks as if an ideal match for the actor-comedian, he admitted that he was “a bit trepidatious” about taking the gig at first. In truth, he checked in with Retta — the Parks and Recreation actress who hosts HGTV’s Ugliest Home In America — earlier than signing on, asking whether or not she thought it was a good suggestion.

“She was like, ‘Do it.’ She goes, ‘It is quite a lot of journey. but when you are able to do that, do it,’” he informed TooFab. “I am grateful.”

He mentioned that whereas he is aware of HGTV audiences are used to a “sure sort of host” who could know extra about residence renovation or actual property, he has no intention of “reinventing” the community together with his present.

“I’m honored to be part of what their programming is and … for me, the enjoyment of the job is the educational. The enjoyment of the job is exploring and determining with you the viewers in just about actual time.”

He added that he would like to see a crossover with Retta in some unspecified time in the future, including that he had a blast filming a promo for his new season alongside My Lottery Dream Residence host David Bromstad.

“I all the time get nervous assembly established HGTV individuals as a result of once more, I don’t know what I’m speaking about. However to this point everybody has simply been superb,” he continued. “I kinda cannot consider I’ve this chance. By no means in one million years I would be like, ‘At some point, I am gonna host an HGTV present’ and right here we’re.”

Take a look at the total interview above to see what McBrayer needed to say about how seeing these wild properties makes him really feel about his personal home — and whether or not he does any “homework” by lurking the Zillow Gone Wild Instagram account that impressed the sequence earlier than doing any residence visits.

New episodes of Zillow Gone Wild air Fridays on HGTV.