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“So they’re often teaching the teachers. That was largely to FX’s credit.”

FX’s “English Teacher” is equal parts funny, sweet and raunchy, mining laughs from divisive cultural issues and messy relationships that aren’t usually seen on television.

“It was like butter” being in development with FX chairman John Landgraf and the other execs, he says.

The actor stars alongside her frequent collaborator Brian Jordan Alvarez in FX’s new comedy premiering Monday; she also wrote one of the season’s funniest episodes, ‘Powderpuff.’

In “Say Nothing,” FX’s adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction book about the most violent era of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, he steps in as Gen. Frank Kitson, the real-life officer tasked with quelling the Irish Rrepublican Army with a variety of counterinsurgency tactics in the 1970s.