Nick Offerman

I removed the sconce, fired up my grandfather's torch, heated up the pieces in a cast iron bucket, liquefied the metal, poured into a mold, obviously keep it over a low flame to achieve a nice temper, cooled it in antifreeze, and just forged and shaped the rings.

Any moron with a crucible and a sutilene torch and a cast iron waffle maker could have done the same.

Whole thing only took me about 20 minutes.

People who buy things are suckers.

I was getting pretty bummed.

I was in my late 30s, and I'd had a few instances where writers took a shine to me, TV writers, and they would write me a part in their pilot, and it never worked out.

And then finally...

We were watching Rainn Wilson on The Office, who's a dear old friend, and I said, you know, if I'm ever going to get a shot, I think it's going to be something like Dwight on The Office.

And sure enough, Dwight's cousin, Mose Schrute, played by Mike Schur, who created Parks and Rec with Greg Daniels of The Office, they had me in.

They looked at me for another role.

That role never happened, but they took a shine to me, thankfully.

and wanted to put me in as Amy's boss, this guy Ron Swanson, who, thank goodness, they really wanted a slow talker.

And still, NBC, of course, in their corporate wisdom, said, I don't think so.

Like, he's weird.

We've never been able to wrap our heads around Nick Offerman.

Let's keep looking.

So for five months since they first read me as Ron,

They read every guy under the moon.

I mean, everybody I met was like, oh, my God, I went in for the greatest part.

It's Amy's boss on our new show.