Welcome to the show, my friend.
-Thank you. -Uh, I'm not gonna lie.
This is one of the stranger movies that I've watched,
-and I enjoyed it. -Oh, good.
-I really did. -Uh, thank you.
Because-because it's a... it's... For...
There were moments when I was watching it, I was like, "Wait."
-When it starts, it's like, "Is this a documentary?" -Yeah.
And I was like, "No, this is..." I was like, "That's Nick Kroll."
-Yes. -And then the... and then the film goes on a...
Just-just to help me understand here...
This is a movie about you...
-You're playing a dentist? You... -Correct.
-I'm not an actual dentist in real life. -Right.
You're playing a dentist who is at the Winter Olympics.
-Yes. -But all of this actually happened at the Winter Olympics?
Yeah, so, um, I made this movie with a-a couple--
Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher.
-Alexi is a Summer Olympian. -Uh-huh.
Uh, she ran at Rio.
Uh, they got a grant from the Olympic Committee
to go and, uh, make some art at the Winter games.
Um, they brought me in, uh, to be a part of it,
and I helped them sort of shape the script a little bit.
About two weeks before the Olympics, I signed on to do it.
Then we flew to Korea and shot a movie,
just the three of us, no crew, inside of the Olympics, be...
-No... Wait. No crew? -No crew. It was just the three of us.
-(laughter) -So I was lugging a dentist chair
around Korea, uh, because we had no crew,
because we were shooting inside the Olympic Village.
-Right. -So they don't give out passes
to very many people to get inside of the Olympic Village.
-Right. -Because we were part of the Olympics,
we had access to elements of the Olympic games
-that nobody's ever really seen before. -I've-I've never
seen pieces of the Olympic Village
the way I saw them in this film. It... Like,
-I've watched documentaries about the Olympics. -Mm.
-I've seen behind the scenes, before the events. -Mm-hmm.
You-you never see the Olympic Village,
-like, where the athletes just eat. -Yeah, we were...
You have real athletes in the movie, as well, like...
I'm the only... I mean, Alexi's an actor as...
in addition to being an Olympian.
Um, every other actor in the film is an actual Olympian
-who was there competing at the time. -Wow!
So those guys I was interviewing are real snowboarders
who are on the Olympic team,
and I'm a dentist giving them dental exams
-and interviewing them about their experiences. -(laughter)
Like, one girl had been called up.
She didn't make the Olympics,
and then got a call halfway through the Olympics
that someone had been injured, and she was getting called up
to then appear at the Olympic Games,
-and showed up in the middle. -Wait. So,
help me understand this, though.
So, people there thought you were a real dentist?
-(laughs) No, no. -(laughter)
Uh, although, I get it. If they saw me, they'd be like,
"Yeah, that guy looks like a dentist."
Uh... no, it was a--
No, they knew, they knew that they were part of a,
-a-a fictional film. -Got it, got it, got it, all right,
-all right, cool. -But... uh, but, well,
but I was also dressed as a volunteer
-in that volunteer jacket, um... -Yes, right.
So, we would be in the middle of shooting scenes,
and then, people would come up and it be, like,
an emotional scene, and then someone would come up
and be like, "Can you tell me how to get to the dining hall?"
-'Cause I looked like a volunteer. -Right.
And, so, we would sort of be like, "Uh, I think you go left,"
And then I'll be like, "I don't know what we're gonna do
in our relationship," you know, because we were...
You know, 'cause our direct-- Jeremy, who was shooting it,
and was also the sound man and also the camera man
and all the bags on and shooting the film,
he was, like, on a long lens, like, 30-40 feet away,
so people didn't know that we were even filming the movie.
-That is insane. -So, it was very easy to drop in, but--
And, also, we had no crew, so nobody quite knew
what we were doing.
This is an insane way to shoot a movie.
It was an insane way to spend, like, two and a half weeks.
-Right. -It was so cold, it was insane.
What did, what did it feel like to be, definitively,
-the least athletic person... -(laughter)
-in, like, a mile radius? -Uh...
Like, everyone else there's an athlete, everyone.
-and I mean, everyone. -Everywhere, yeah.
-And then there's you. -Well, Mike Pe--
-Mike Pence was there, as well. -(laughter)
-Uh... -(applause and clapping)
-He was at the Olympics! -He was.
-Yes, he was, okay. -Yeah.
Looking thick, looking thick.
Um, he can feel you saying that, stop it.
-Um... let's talk a little bit about Big Mouth. -Yeah.
One of my favorite shows of all time,
animated series on Netflix.
And, I remember when I first started watching it,
I was like, "Oh, it's, this is just gonna be a cartoon.
-There's just gonna be funny jokes in it." -Mm.
It-it's actually a really educational show that I wish
I got the chance to watch as a prepubescent teen
or even younger, 'cause, I mean, like, you're teaching kids
about sex, you're teaching kids about, like, hormones,
-growing up, like, you know, gender dynamics, -Mm-hmm.
everything-- Uh, the show's just been renewed for a third season.
-Yeah. -Oh, three more seasons, actually.
-Three more seasons, yes. -Congratulations.
-Thank you very much, thank you. -Three more seasons.
-(applause and cheering) -Thank you.
I'm truly fascinated about how you even began to think about
a show doing what it's doing right now.
Uh, well, you know, part of the way I thought of it
was I didn't, um, in that my partners,
Andrew Goldberg and-and, uh, Mark Levin
-and Jen Flackett brought me the idea. -Right.
Andrew and I had grown up together, uh,
since first grade we've known each other.
He went on to become a writer for Family Guy.
They brought me the idea about a show about two kids
going through puberty based on me and Andrew's life.
And, I was a very late bloomer, he was a very early bloomer.
And, uh, like, he-- (laughs) his parents waxed his upper lip
-when he had like, when he was... -Oh, lord.
And, so, and they waxed his upper lip and pulled it off,
and, so, for years, he couldn't grow any facial hair.
He could grow a full beard by the age of, like, 13,
and nothing here, so we called it his "reverse Hitler."
-Um... and, -(Noah laughing)
so, we figured it was, it just felt, like, ripe
-to do a show about puberty. -Right, right.
And, then it sort of, as we continued to grow it,
realized it's really this show not only about these two boys,
but about all, bunch of different boys and girls
and-and sexual development and adolescence
and puberty on a much grander scale of what we're all
going through, and the things that happen to us in that
period of life, how they then stay with us.
Like, you know, we have these hormone monsters,
-and in season two, we have a shame wizard. -Yep.
Uh, and-and these things are foundational
for who we become for the rest of our lives.
I-I honestly hope that there would be schools in America
where they would get kids to watch the show
as part of their curriculum, 'cause I think it's
great sex-ed and it's fun if you're a kid.
Like, it's not, it's not, you now what I mean? -Yeah.
It's not, it's not soft in any way, it's really hardcore,
-Yeah. -but you-you learn things that you think about as a kid.
-Yeah. -Like, I thought about... where the shame monster pops out
-when this kid is masturbating all the time. -Yeah.
And I was, like, anyone who's masturbated knows that feeling
-Yeah. -of just, like, "Oh, shame on you!"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, uh, I was actually talking to Mike Pence about that and...
-uh... -(laughter)
Don't do it! Don't do it!
Thank you so much for coming on the show.
-Thanks for having me. -Olympic Dreams will be
in theaters and on demand February 14.
Nick Kroll, everybody!