95. Nick Kroll: Old Friends

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kroll and Mike met in college and started doing improv and sketch comedy together. Since then, Nick has become a comedy superstar, from his Comedy Central series Kroll Show, to Oh, Hello, to the animated series Big Mouth and Human Resources, to roles in films like Don’t Worry Darling and the Hulu series History of the World Part II. Now the old friends sit down for a candid conversation about Nick’s new projects, memories from their college improv days, and how comedy benefits from silliness. Plus, Nick shares a gem of a story about F. Murray Abraham from his and John Mulaney’s legendary Oh, Hello Broadway run.

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0:00.0	The idea came like Mel and his producing partner Kevin Salter came to me and with
0:06.0	with Searchlight to be like, do you want to do history with a little part two?
0:09.2	Name drop on Mel by the way.
0:10.6	My dear friend Mel.
0:11.9	Mel, you said Mel.
0:13.4	Yes.
0:13.9	We've known each other for 25 years.
0:15.8	We met over 19.
0:17.4	You just said Mel Brooks, but you didn't say his last name.
0:20.2	I'm sorry, but I have to acknowledge it.
0:23.8	You know, Mel and Marty came to me.
0:31.0	That is the voice of the great Nick Crowell.
0:34.1	I love that Nick Crowell.
0:35.6	One of my oldest friends, you know how with your friends, sometimes over the years you have less in common with them.
0:41.4	Nick is the opposite.
0:44.8	We have more in common than he's just such a lovely person and brilliant actor and writer and producer.
0:50.8	I mean, you probably know him from the Crowell show, from O'Holo on Broadway, from the league.
0:56.1	I've done a bunch of things, you know, with him.
0:58.8	I did human resources on Netflix.
1:01.6	I was the role of Barry, which is a fantastic animated show, which is an offshoot of Bigmouth,
1:07.2	which is a hilarious thing that he did with Malaney and a whole bunch of other great people.
1:11.9	I mean, I got Nick's resume.
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