Nick Offerman
speaker
1,205 appearances
7 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2022
last heard 2 May
Nick Offerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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what is it you want do you want to get rich and famous do you want to make good art you know do you want to like deliver medicine to an audience via laughter or pathos or catharsis you know what is it you're after and then that directly affects the choices you begin to make where you
Are you going to get on the hamster wheel and run like hell for as long as your knees hold or not?
Do you want to have a more considered, more unique personal approach to your work as an artist?
So things like being told you should watch one episode of every show so that you can mimic what they do or sort of ape their taste, that pretty quickly became clear to me as people
a fallacious idea where it was like uh if i succeed i want it to be because people see something in me that they're like oh this is good and fresh and like we want this ingredient in our recipe i don't want them to hire me because they're like oh he's kind of similar to david schwimmer or whoever else you know he's kind of similar to a proven commodity that's safe
He could be a third Belushi or whatever, you know, let's put him on our show.
To me, that's not my bag.
That would be really depressing.
So I worked a lot less than maybe I would have if I just was like, hey, guys, I love beer and tips.
Let's let's have fun.
Several years in, you were living in a basement in Silver Lake and hadn't had a TV for 10 years when you went on an audition for the play The Berlin Circle and heard that Megan Mullally, one of the stars of the most popular television shows on the planet, was starring.
Yet you weren't impressed.
Well, no.
I mean, that was the last bastion of my Chicago snobbery, my dumb, defensive Chicago snobbery.
Because even when I got cast in the show, they dangled Megan as an incentive.
And our lead is on the new hit show, Will & Grace.
They had just finished their second season.
This was the spring of 2000.
And I said, listen, I know that that's supposed to be an incentive, but I'm from Chicago theater.
I've played John Proctor in The Crucible.
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