These interviews are based on actual interviews, with real audio derived from Trussell's podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. The episodes typically end with an apocalyptic event from which Clancy barely manages to escape.

Are the interviews in Midnight Gospel real?

The Midnight Gospel is based on interviews recorded for Trussell's podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour. ... Once Trussell and Ward selected audio clips, a separate animated story was created.

Is The Midnight Gospel improvised?

Ward's best work feels improvised and playfully meta — so the "guests" in Midnight Gospel keep accidentally calling Clancy "Duncan." You sense a simultaneous urge to push animation past ornate outer limits, every freeze frame a heavy metal album cover, every movement a complex Rube Goldberg contraption.