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

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.

I'm sorry.

I didn't realize I had to like, let you guys know that.

Yeah.

And then it's funny, then my big break was Parks and Recreation.

Then there was a period where I had to convince people that I could be dramatic.

You're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

What made you decide to move to Los Angeles, given your love of the theater?

At that point, were you very consciously determined to go beyond the theater?

No, it was pretty stupid.

I mean, I have had a pretty blissfully ignorant existence before.

really my whole life, things were going well in Chicago.

I was starting to get cast in good parts at big theaters.

I won like an award for acting in this Pulitzer prize winning play called the Kentucky cycle.

That was really good.

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