Nick Offerman

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1,205 appearances 7 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2022 last heard 2 May

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TED Talks Daily · Nick Offerman | Design Matters with Debbie Millman · 23 Jan 2022 podcast

Or absurdist Pirandello or Pinter or you name it.

Or musical theater or like Fado farces.

Hopefully in your toolbox you are able to do anything that's on the season.

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.

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