I was watching an interview Stephen Colbert did where he talked about how he runs his show like a “joy machine.” Recognizing the grind that producing a nightly comedy show can be, Colbert encourages his staff to be intentional, collaborative, and above all, joyful. As he told a Canadian TV program:
“...The only way to approach something that is truly hard has got to be with joy, because if you don’t approach it with joy, it’s just a machine. And it will grind you up. And the lesson that I took from that is that: Doing something joyfully doesn’t make it any easier, it only makes it better.