Nick Kroll

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

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For the first chapter of his career, Nick Kroll's comedy centered around big, outsized characters – the more preposterous the better. He created the sketch comedy series Kroll Show, and he starred on the FX show The League. These days he's behind the camera a lot more. In 2017, he co-created the animated show Big Mouth on Netflix. Now he's got a new show in the same universe: Human Resources. It centers around a group of personified emotion monsters and their workplace, and the feelings they represent. Nick Kroll joins us to talk about developing Big Mouth and Human Resources. Plus, why he's taken fewer on-screen roles lately for voice acting gigs and a seat behind the scenes instead. He'll also talk about the lessons he's learned since he became a father.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	For MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:18.1	My first guest this week is Nick Kroll and I think this is his third appearance on our
0:24.4	show over the course of many years.
0:26.8	It's a hat trick.
0:28.2	Nick is a comedian, actor and writer and starred on the FX show The League, created the
0:33.8	sketch series, Kroll Show.
0:36.4	If you watched VH1 a lot in the early 2000s, you probably saw him making jokes about pop
0:41.6	culture on Best Week Ever.
0:44.0	Nick also co-created the Broadway show, Oh Hello, where he and John Mulaney play Gilles
0:50.1	Faizon in George St. Gieglund.
0:53.6	Two men who embody a very specific kind of New Yorker.
0:58.4	The kind might find going through coats at a house party or hosting a $900 acting seminar
1:05.0	despite never having acted much.
1:08.0	Let's put it this way.
1:09.1	They were inspired by two real men who were comparing notes on Alan Alde's autobiography.
1:15.3	Who are we really?
1:17.3	You know what is our essence?
1:19.3	How to describe.
1:20.3	You know when you get to the bottom of a tub of chumis and you can't fit your carrot
1:26.9	in there so you gotta use your fingers to scoop it out?
1:30.2	Bam, that says baby!
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