- Hi, I'm Jon Hamm.
This is Brother Nick Offerman,
and we are here with Buzzfeed to play First Times.
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- First kiss, first kiss.
- First kiss.
- Between us?
It was a couple years go.
- It was '07.
- Yeah, my first kiss was in the seventh grade,
and it was in the middle of the street
with a girl named Leslie.
We sat in the middle of the street
'cause that seemed like a thing to do.
- [Nick] Yeah.
- It was cul-de-sac.
It wasn't like an active motorway.
It wasn't like a dare or anything.
- It sounds really romantic.
Hmm.
- I'm betting a cornfield had something to do with this.
(Nick laughs)
- I guess my first kiss was at the home
of (beep) and he would throw parties
for the young teenagers.
- This is already sounding inappropriate.
- And there was a closet off his living room
where people would pair off,
like you wanna go hang out in the closet for a minute?
- Seven minutes in Heaven.
- There was a cute girl named Amy Baker,
had a very big crush on her.
And I was pretty nerdy.
I wasn't smooth with the ladies.
- [Jon] What age are we here? - Eighth grade.
I got her to go in the closet with me,
and we kissed and she was like, "Thank you very much."
- That'll be $400.
- And it still took me a while then to find my mojo
'cause I definitely did not win Amy Baker's heart.
- No one's got mojo when they're 13.
- You're right.
- If you do at 13, you have peaked wildly early.
- The first person you bonded with on set.
I'm gonna discount the people I was
already friends with when we arrived.
I'm gonna go with Jim O'Heir.
- Oh, nice.
I was gonna say Pratt.
- Pratt I already knew.
- Oh, you did, okay.
- I met Pratt at a pool party
at Justin Long's house years before.
- Everything about that sentence is amazing.
- And he immediately was intelligent
and hilarious and friendly,
and I said, "If you don't screw up,
"I think you're gonna be a movie star."
- Turns out he did okay. - So you're welcome.
- You should get 10% of that. - I should.
- Mine was probably Slattery for kind of similar reasons.
We had not really met,
and the first day, kind of all my scenes were with John.
It was a very challenging day
of a lot of lines and a lot stuff.
And by the end of that first day,
I was like I think I'm gonna be friends with this guy.
- First person you call when you're having a bad day.
My wife and best friend, Megan Mullally.
That answer is earnest.
- Same person, she's actually really sweet to talk to.
And I have her phone number. - She's really empathetic.
- She just listens.
Sometimes you don't need a talker, you need a listener.
- First wild fan experience.
The first wild fan experience I had
was I was wearing a robe in a hotel room.
The sash of it got caught in the ceiling fan,
and I got whipped around that room,
once around real quick until the robe gave away
and I ended up sort of on all fours, buns to the sky.
That was wild.
(Nick laughs)
- That is wild.
Many years ago, I was on the F train.
At the end of the train, I saw Paul Giamatti.
I told myself don't do it, don't do it.
And I went up--
- Were you famous at this time?
- No, it was just during Parks and Recreation.
- Oh, so it's a no. No one saw that show.
- I went down to Paul Giamatti
and told him how good he was in this movie
called The Hawk is Dying I had just seen at Sundance.
I immediately was informed by his face
that I had made a grave mistake.
- Meaning that it wasn't Paul Giamatti?
Or that he was not good in that movie or--
- No, it turns out it was Kevin Bacon.
And he just was like, you got everything wrong.
- Everything you're saying is wrong.
- Yeah.
First celebrity crush.
I'm gonna try and tell the truth here.
Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees.
He got in there before girls mattered.
- Mine has to be Farrah Fawcett.
- Sure.
- For sure.
- Up top.
- Did you have that poster?
- I was not allowed.
- I don't think I was either, but I found it.
- Which upped the crush.
- And I ruined it.
- First big purchase after getting your first major role.
Well, see, here's the thing.
People think that once you get
a part in anything that you're set.
That's not how it works.
At least that's not how it works for guys like us.
Honestly, my first major purchase was paying
off my student loans and the debt that I had accrued
over the six years after I got out of college
before I really worked at anything other than
being a waiter and a bartender.
It still felt good to be able to be sort of debt free
for the first time in your life.
- It actually feels better.
It's not as good of a story,
but it feels better than what people
think they would like to hear,
which is like, I bought--
- I bought a car.
- A Lambo.
- Yeah, yeah, ice cream Lambo with suicide doors.
- I learned early on in my career that each
good job I got, if I bought a machine
for my woodworking shop instead of a bag of--
- Diamonds.
- Cocaine.
- Diamonds and cocaine.
You know cocaine is just crushed diamonds.
- We call cocaine diamonds in our house.
- First time you realized you wanted
to be a part of the Good Omens cast.
We both have talked about that we're long-time fans
of the writing of Neil Gaiman.
Anytime you hear that one of your favorite writers,
one of their works that's one of your favorite books
is going to be made into a thing that you might
get to play somebody in, two things happen for me.
One is incredible excitement, and the other is dread.
When I heard they were making Lord of the Rings,
I wrote dogged letters for a couple years
to Peter Jackson asking him to audition
me to play Samwise Gamgee.
After about 18 months, I was awarded an audition
for the role of Gimli, the dwarf.
- Gimli the dwarf, yeah.
- And they got some jerk British guy, first-timer.
- Classic move, classic move.
- So there's that dread of they're making a thing
out of something that I love so much.
It's hard to get into it.
- Oh, my version of that is the Star Wars stuff.
There've been more Star Wars things
with more people in them, where's my phone call?
I've been a nerf herder, I get the lingo.
So at least we get to be in this.
- Yeah, and I'm glad we had this chance to call them out.
- For sure, still a little upset about that, I can tell.
- Let's take a breath.
- First experience on a TV or movie set.
This is gonna be an interesting one for me.
Again, this is a true story.
I got to go visit the set of Jake and the Fat Man.
I was a little kid, and I was visiting my aunt
out in California, in LA, to be specific.
My uncle, he knew a guy that produced a TV show,
so he said, "Do you wanna go see a TV set?"
He said, "How do you feel about Jake and the Fat Man?"
And I was like, "It's my favorite
"television show in the world."
It wasn't, I was being nice.
Got up really early in the morning,
and we got to go see Jake and/or the Fat Man do a scene.
It was kinda like oh, this is really boring.
There wasn't really much happening.
- That's the lesson of visiting a set.
- Yes, there's a lot of down time.
- I don't think I was on a set of any sort
before my first job, which was in Chicago in 1993 or 4.
I was just there for the summer,
and I got cast as the bad guy
on a show called Angel Street for CBS.
It was a buddy cop show.
They spend the episode finding me,
and they cuff me and lead me away,
and the episode ends with me saying,
"What about my tools?"
(Jon laughs)
- Which actually, I could see you really caring about.
- Absolutely, you can't leave your tools out in an alley.
- They're gonna get rusty.
Thank you very much, Buzzfeed.
This has been First Times.
Consider yourself blessed.
Please tune into Good Omens, May 31st on Amazon Prime.
We're both in it to win it.
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