Nick Kroll on ‘Big Mouth,’ Stand-Up, SNL and More

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kroll is an actor, stand-up comedian and co-creator of one of the funniest shows on television, ‘Big Mouth.’ Season six of the Emmy-nominated animated series just dropped on Netflix and Kroll joins us to talk all about how it continues to push the envelope and how its themes led to his first real hour of stand-up, ‘Little Big Boy,’ also streaming on Netflix. He also explains why so-called “woke culture” has never stopped him from getting away with “crazy shit” on screen, shares the story of auditioning for SNL alongside John Mulaney, teases the ‘Big Mouth’ spinoff show ‘Human Resources’ and a lot more.

This episode was originally published on October 22, 2019

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week we are
0:10.4	revisiting one of my favorite conversations I've ever had on this show with one of my favorite
0:15.8	comedians, Nick Kroll. Nick and I spoke in the studio back in the fall of 2019 when season three of
0:23.1	his Netflix animated series Big Mouth was just about to drop. This past weekend, that shows
0:28.6	six season premiered, and since I already binged it as fast as I could, I can confirm that
0:34.2	it remains one of the funniest shows on TV.
0:41.1	Since we talked, Nick has only become a bigger comedy star.
0:46.8	And in just the past month or so, he co-starred in the most talked-about movie of the fall,
0:53.2	Don't Worry, Darling, and put out his first real hour of stand-up called Little Big Boy,
0:55.0	also on Netflix. Here's a clip from the special in which he explains how he became a comedian.
1:00.0	I was in seventh grade and it was our first like boy-girl party.
1:06.0	And that was always very exciting.
1:08.0	This was back in the day when everyone was still straight. I was very excited
1:12.4	particularly about this party because there was this girl there, Lizzie, who I had had a crush
1:16.6	on my entire childhood. And she's sitting alone watching TV and I walk in and I already have my
1:23.3	opening line ready to go. I go, so did you hear Mrs. Goldman's daughter might have cancer?
1:31.7	Just spitting hot
1:33.8	game.
1:36.8	And just as she looks over at me,
1:39.9	Jenny, the girl whose house it is,
1:41.8	comes up behind me, and she pances me. Lizzie looks comes up behind me and she pantses me.
1:45.0	Lizzie looks over at me and she is horrified.
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