On May 29, at 10:30 p.m. after “Tosh.0,” Comedy Central’s smash-hit “Workaholics” returns for its third season. The series’ stars Blake Anderson, Adam Devine and Anders Holm took some time out on April 30 for a telephone conference with students from college papers across the country, excerpts from which are below.

Q: What crazy shenanigans can we expect in the third season?

A: We’re tackling serious issues like finding drug dealers and doing hallucinogens on business trips… stuff the youth of American really wants to know about. We’re doing a public service.

Q: How do you get your ideas for the show?

A: We sit around in a room with our staff writers, talk about stuff we’ve done… we have three months to get the show together, so we just sit around and hash it out.

Q: How much of the show is improv?

A: Some episodes are a lot more improv than others, but you can’t improve a story, so we focus on writing the story first. [Anders] I’d say it’s about 65 percent written, 35 percent improv. [Blake] That’s a terrific ratio, Ders.

Q: The show could easily drop into cruelty in some of the topics you guys cover, like B-Rad or Juggalos, but it has a heart of gold instead. How do you keep the show so positive with such potentially dark topics?

A: We got all love. We don’t sip that Haterade. I don’t know how much longevity you can get from people kicking each other in the nuts; you want to like someone whose heart is good, deep down. And when you get down to it, Juggalos really know how to party.

Q: You guys got your start on Youtube with your comedy with Mail Order Comedy, how did that help you get where you are today?

A: Our Youtube sketches since 2006 helped us find our comedic voice and prepare us to get better; then Comedy Central saw it and gave us our shot. We pretty much owe it all to Youtube. We owe it to our moms and Youtube.

Q: How often do you guys crack up during shoots?

A: When you get on set, and you laugh during a set, it’s not like “SNL”; you can’t use that take. We crack up all the time while writing, but try not to laugh on set. By the end of the season, we have holes in our cheeks from trying not to laugh. And in our pants. From the boners.

Q: How has everything changed since the show became successful?

A: We’re kind of famous now, it’s pretty cool. People ask me if I don’t like it, and I’m like “It’s freaking awesome, it’s cool to people are so nice to us all the time.”

Q: Why do you think your show has such a huge following?

A: In college, or in your 20s, these are the kinds of jobs you get [in the show, the main characters are telemarketers], and you’re living with your friends… We make the shows we would want to watch. It’s cool that Comedy Central let us retain our voice, which we hope shows through on the screen. Plus, we have more dick jokes per capita than any other show.

Q: Are your characters autobiographical, or are they based off other people you’ve known?

A: They’re based off real, exaggerated versions of ourselves. We enhance any little character flaw we have in real life. [Anders: “But I’m way hotter in real life.”]

Q: Where did the idea of the bear coat come from?

A: We wanted a character to have some big ass fur coat, and we’d recently seen a Ghostface Killa video where he had a sick ass fur coat. We thought something like a bear coat would be awesome, and our costume department came through.

Q: How would you compare Season 3 to the past seasons?

A: We’re excited. I think this is going to be the funniest, most outrageous season we’ve ever done. We’re comfortable now and we’ve done 20 episodes, so we’re ready.

Q: What hair products does Blake use?

A: It’s mostly shampoo and hairdrying. We have a hair guy on set who might use something like Moroccan oil, but other than that it’s just shampoo and hairdrying.

Q: Does Comedy Central ever say “That’s too much”?

A: Not really, they’ve been really cool with us. If we stick by something and we say it’s funny, they usually let us do it. When we tried to make an unburnable American flag in the show to sell through TelAmeriCorp, they were like “you can’t burn American flags,” but other than that they were cool.

Q: Did you bring the show to Comedy Central, or did they come to you?

A: Comedy Central found us online through Mail Order Comedy, and we pitched the show to them. We came up with the idea, they gave us money to shoot a pilot presentation, and here we are today.

Q: When you reference stuff, do you have to pay for rights?

A: We had to pay to show the “Die Hard” clip in the pilot, but if you just mention stuff in the show, you don’t have to pay.