Nick Kroll talks Human Resources, Big Mouth and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Nick Kroll is a comedian, actor and writer. Nick starred on the FX show The League, created the sketch comedy series Kroll Show. And if you watched VH1 in the early 2000s, you probably saw him making jokes about pop culture on Best Week Ever. But lately, Nick's focused more on the animation world. In 2017, he co-created the show Big Mouth on Netflix. It was an instant hit. And last year, Nick launched a new show in the same universe called Human Resources. The show centers around those same monsters from Big Mouth. But, it takes a look at their workplaces, along with the adult feelings they represent. Its second season just hit Netflix. Nick Kroll joined us to talk about his work on Big Mouth and Human Resources. Plus, why he's traded in his on-screen roles for voice acting gigs and a seat behind the scenes. He also gets into the lessons he's learned since becoming a father.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:17.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. My first guest this week is Nick Crowell. He's a comedian,
0:22.8	actor and writer. He starred on the FX show The League for years and created the
0:28.4	Sketch Comedy Series Cruel Show. If you watched VH1 in the early 2000s, you probably saw him making
0:35.2	jokes about pop culture on Best Week Ever. Nick also created the Broadway show Oh Hello,
0:42.0	where he and John Mulaney played Gilfaison and George St. Gieglund, two men who embody a very
0:49.6	specific kind of New Yorker. The kind you might find in a cotton baseball cap and ill-fitting khakis
0:55.5	frowning at a folded-up copy of The New York Times or maybe if we're being less generous to the
1:01.5	kind who might be going through coat pockets at a house party or hosting a $900 acting seminar
1:09.3	despite not really being an actor. The inspiration was two real guys in a bookstore who were arguing
1:16.0	about Alan Alda's autobiography. Who are we really? You know what is our essence? How to describe.
1:24.1	You know when you get to the bottom of a tub of chumis and you can't fit your carrot in there,
1:30.4	so you got to use your fingies to scoop it out? Bam, that says, baby!
1:39.4	Lately, Nick Crowell has been focused more on the world of animation. In 2017, he co-created the show
1:45.9	Big Mouth, which is on Netflix. It's a hit comedy that's basically about puberty. There's a group of
1:53.3	teens in upstate New York. They're really going through it. There are hormone monsters. They're the
1:59.9	ones who cause puberty. Then friends and family who have to live with pubecent teens. It's a little
2:07.6	bit like inside out. If I don't know, I guess if Nick Crowell made Inside Out.
2:15.6	Oh, hey, Levy, you want to get a drink or something? I think they have LeCroy. It's only the
2:19.6	coconut kind, which is a little gross, but it's still kind of... No, I'm sorry. Dylan. Oh, who? I
2:25.5	thought we were going to this dance like together. No, no. No. Sorry, bro. She wants a real man.
2:33.1	9th grade. Top of the food chain. Last year, I talked with Nick about his new show in the same
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