Hi, I'm Dan Patrick here to bring you a special highlight clip from my podcast that scene. We sat down with the actor comedian Nick Croll to discuss his iconic run as ruxon in the league as well as his love of sports and the necessity of comedy in his life.

I went to a John Thompson basketball camp at Georgetown and I thought I was a little pretty good little player, but you know, I was like playing my like Jewish private school like New York league and then went down there and you know Thompson had.

Alonzo there and De Kenbaim Mutumbo and you know and those guys were coming back because they were all playing together summer and then he had all they had all the kids from like silver spring and all the Baltimore Maryland area kids and I was like oh.

Oh, there's a there's another level to this game that I'm not playing.

You mentioned going to basketball camp did you have designs on being an athlete when I was a little guy you know I loved sports and and then I was a late bloomer so like around Babe Ruth in baseball you know you move to the big field and I was still around 4 10 basketball.

So I'm one of a challenge at that point and I started to find myself worth in other places like comedy so I was a really die hard baseball and basketball and some soccer and stuff and then played hockey for your and loved it but was absolutely terrible small and slow a terrible combination for getting into P.W.s when they hitting full contact is allowed.

Could you laugh at yourself even back then you know no when I was in the thick of like why is everyone a foot taller than me and I used to be a top tier amongst my peers and now I fall in behind I did not have a great sense of humor about it at that moment only a few years later did I start to be like oh that was funny you know but at the time it was such a bummer because I was coordinated as a kid and then to just get.

Just to get lapped by everybody was a genuine bummer when did comedy become a necessity I mean I think comedy was always a necessity on some level even when I was playing sports a lot I still I was still finding value in myself and in the comedy being funny and but really it was in college it became a necessity in that I joined the improv group and you know sports by high school I I decided I wasn't good enough and so I stopped trying really hard and it obviously as you know.

And everyone you talk to to be a great athlete you just have to you can have natural talent but at some point you just have to work you have to work harder than everybody else and with comedy when I got to college I was happy to do all the extra work I was happy to do anything whatever the equivalent to like spending more hours in the gym I was happy to do that because I was not spending more hours in the gym that's for sure to check out more of that city.

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