Nick Offerman
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Podcast Appearances
And one of my favorite things to do was be funny and make people laugh.
It's a weird specialization in modern thought.
And nowhere is more specialized than Hollywood.
Like if my big break was playing a tennis player in a movie, nobody then wants me to audition to play basketball because they say, no, no, no, you're the tennis guy.
And so I met Amy when she was studying at the Improv Olympic in Second City in Chicago.
And I...
didn't even understand what that meant.
I had never been to an improv or sketch theater.
And it sounded to me like she was saying she and her friends were making stuff up in a bar to make people laugh.
And I was like, okay, have fun with that.
I'm trying to perform works of literature.
I had some weird, snotty separation.
And then years later, I was like, wait a second.
You were on the path to SNL?
Son of a bitch.
I had no idea.
And so it was only years later that I realized the specialization of Hollywood's brain.
It occurred to me that I was not getting auditions for comedy stuff where I was like, oh, I specifically had to call Amy and say, hey, can I start doing stuff at your comedy theater, the Upright Citizens Brigade, so that the business will โ
view me as someone who can be funny.
So I did it.