Nick Offerman

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 –

view me as someone who can be funny.

So I did it.

And within minutes, people, casting directors were calling and saying, I didn't know you do comedy.

And I was like, I just, I just do acting.

I don't like, I do whatever I can be a horrible bad guy, or I can be an absolute clown.