and professional woodworker
you may know from "Parks and Rec,"
although I know him best from the time he rapped
about earwax on season one of this show.
Please welcome back Nick Offerman!
Hello!
- Hello!
You have quite an interesting Zoom name.
What is your Zoom name. Can you just--
- Mr. Megan Mullally. [laughs]
- Can I ask why?
We share everything, my wife and I.
Megan Mullally is her name.
We're kind of Luddites, so, like, when email came around,
we resisted getting it, but finally we just shared
one email treating it like it was,
like, a phone answering machine.
She was the first one to set up a Zoom on our computer,
so there's no reason to, like, have mine and hers.
I just--when I go in, I just add "mister"
to the front of her name.
How long did you share an email address
with your wife?
- 15 years?
- What?
What if you had personal matters?
Like, personal-- I'm so intrigued.
[crackling]
My sound guy is coming around to tell me
my necklace is stuck on my mic. Give me one second.
Should move to the middle maybe? Is that good?
- And, by the way, it's good to let your audience know
that you are sporting some bling.
- It has nothing to do with the mic.
I just wanted to flex real hard.
- Oops, sorry, got--that was a couple of my emeralds.
Not a big deal.
Now, Nick, I want to ask you this.
I want to get to the real, real before "Parks and Rec"
era of your life.
So you got a huge role
in "Parks and Rec" in 2009, correct?
- That's right.
- Were there any close calls in terms of getting big roles,
or was it always just like, small roles, "Parks and Rec."
- It was really a steadily rolling snowball.
You know, supporting roles,
and there were some big swings in there.
By the time I got to LA in the late '90s,
word got around that this guy Peter Jackson from New Zealand
was making movies of "The Lord of the Rings."
So I was, you know, really super unknown,
but I'd wrote him a few letters
trying to explain to him why I was clearly the perfect choice
for Samwise Gamgee...
- Frodo's sidekick,
mainly because of my gardening skills.
And so it was really strange.
The very same year, I think it was 1998,
I had an audition for the role of Wolverine.
I also did not get that job,
but...you know,
I'm pretty okay with the way things turned out.
- So, of course, Nick, we've got to talk about
your new animated show, "The Great North."
I watched it. I loved it.
I think it's so funny. It's so heartwarming.
Tell everyone what it's about.
- Well, I play the patriarch
of a family in Alaska
in the town of Lone Moose. I'm a single dad.
I have this wonderful spread of kids.
There's four of 'em,
and my wife Megan Mullally is in it.
She works at the photo booth at the mall.
And also Alanis Morissette plays, like--
- Which is crazy.
She's kind of like--
Jenny Slate is my teenage daughter,
Judy, and Alanis is kind of her imaginary friend.
- Nick, I want to show a clip from the show real quick.
Check it out.
- Your brother was just telling me
he's having some doubts about bigfoot.
- You mean like whether or not the snow-colored Sasquatch
and his brown-haired bigfoot brethren
are the exact same species? Personally, I think they are.
- I'm going to my room to stare out the window.
- Okay, son, have fun.
- Wow, he's even more serious than usual.
- He's wrestling with that existential question
that plagues every adolescent Alaskan kid.
Does bigfoot really exist?
- You know, I meant to say, Lilly,
when we all get together and do our Zoom,
they give us these backgrounds.
- Oh, nice!
- So everybody knows who's who.
- That's dope. That's super dope.
Technology--from sharing an email to Zoom backgrounds.
Look at you thrive and evolve.
- Well, let's not get too excited.
I'm still learning.