Nick Offerman Gets Emotional
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ron Swanson has been “social distancing” his entire life. Nick Offerman, on the other hand, is a “social animal.” On this episode, the actor opens up about staying busier than ever under quarantine, from hosting his podcast “In Bed with Nick and Megan” with his wife Megan Mullally to tearing up at the end of the “Parks and Recreation” reunion special. Offerman also breaks down his most intense performance to date on ‘Devs,’ looks back on his earliest TV roles on ‘ER’ and ‘24,’ shares how his priorities have shifted on the cusp of turning 50 and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's what you need to know about Nick Offerman. |
| 0:09.2 | He is both extremely talented and insanely humble. |
| 0:15.1 | Oh, and that giggle that he would sometimes let out on parksreation, that's his real laugh. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and on today's episode of The Last Laugh, |
| 0:30.2 | the man who brought Ron Swanson to life is here to share his story with you. |
| 0:35.5 | It would have been exciting to get Nick on this podcast anytime over the past year, but I am especially thrilled that he is here now because |
| 0:38.8 | I'm kind of obsessed with his latest show. On Devs, which is streaming in its entirety now |
| 0:45.1 | on FX on Hulu, Nick leaves his comedic persona behind to take on the deadly serious role |
| 0:51.5 | of Forrest, the enigmatic founder of a dystopian tech company called |
| 0:56.0 | Amaya. As Nick explains in this episode, it was his enormous, deep-set eyes that first convinced |
| 1:03.5 | creator Alex Garland that he could play a man who seems simultaneously evil and wholly sympathetic. |
| 1:10.5 | The show can be majorly disturbing, and Nick is fantastic on it. |
| 1:16.9 | Nick and I went deep on devs with pretty minimal spoilers, but if you're not caught up, |
| 1:22.1 | what are you waiting for? |
| 1:24.5 | Of course, we also spent a good amount of time talking about last month's Parks and Rec reunion special, which I still think is the most successful piece of quarantine content yet. |
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| 1:42.1 | If you have ideas for guests you want to hear on the show |
| 1:44.4 | or questions you want me to ask comedians, |
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| 1:55.9 | Okay, this is me and Nick Offerman. |
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