Hi!
Hello, you two.
It's so nice to see you.
Now, I've seen you many times on the show.
Nick, this is your first time on the show.
By God.
Yeah.
You're kidding me.
Yes.
No.
He's never been here before.
You know the tradition, right?
Yep.
Bank wagon.
[BLEEP] No?
No, no, no.
Oh, well.
It's-- no.
No, now that's a new tradition.
Because it wasn't one.
No, we show shirtless pictures when it's your first time.
We've shown Amy's before.
So let's-- sometimes we have to search.
But you had plenty of them.
What a head of hair.
Look at that hair.
Thank you.
Yeah, look.
There's a lot of them.
Yeah.
Hey, what's going on with that apple?
There was an apple.
You post them yourself too.
We run a home for apples and poodles.
I mean, look at how you transform as an actor.
It's fantastic.
Yeah.
Right.
Oh, that's when you and Megan do puzzles,
and then you pose as them.
Yeah, it's hubba, hubba, puz, puz.
Uh-huh.
Ha-ha.
Those questions were easy today.
Usually, they struggle.
It was a tight race today.
Anyway, how long have you all known each other?
Did you meet on Parks and Rec?
No, I actually met Nick probably '93, 2?
I think '93ish, yeah.
At a house party in Chicago.
And I was doing improv at the time.
And Nick was in experimental theater.
So he was-- he had a beard and horns.
No, I had the front inch of my hair and the rest of it shaved.
It looked like a face plate for a production
of A Clockwork Orange.
That's right.
Wow.
That's commitment.
And he was really scary-looking.
Because you can look quite scary--
Thank you.
--even though you have the heart of an angel.
We've seen the photos.
Yes.
So he was really intimidating.
But he had a very--
like a disarming giggle.
I've never heard the giggle.
And I've known you for quite some time.
Can I hear the giggle?
Stick around.
OK, all right.
There's--
Oh, it's a little--
[GIGGLES] I see it.
Yeah.
It's right there.
I know, you do look like you could be a really scary guy.
And you're the sweetest thing in the world.
That's right.
I've known-- and Megan--
you are.
Megan Mullally, your wife, who is on Will and Grace,
of course.
Now, OK.
Then gone back-- this show was gone, taken off
the air, sent away.
They come back.
They're more popular than ever.
And then what can--
Parks and Rec could happ--
Any time.
Same thing, right?
Yeah, we're--
Why don't you do it?
We just had a fitting earlier.
Just in case they come back.
We said that if Beyonce will play the mayor,
we'll bring the show back.
This is Beyonce Knowles.
The singer?
Yeah, the singer, the entertainer.
I was wondering which Beyonce you were referring to.
Knowles.
OK.
It's good to clarify that.
Yeah, yeah.
Because the Oprah Winfrey, that one, I know her.
And you have to clarify.
Well, she could be the mayor too.
Also.
Yeah, she could.
So wait, now could Parks and Rec come back?
Oh, my god, I'll speak for everybody
and say we would all do it.
Yes.
I think we'd all do it some day,
Amy's the boss of the show.
I hope it does.
It would be great.
Yeah, it would be great.
It's a great group.
All right, now I did know this about you, because as I said,
I know you, that you are a master woodworker,
that you actually are very, very good
at making furniture and things.
You knew that about him also.
I did.
Nick is an incredible craftsman.
It's why doing this craft show together was so awesome,
because he's so talented.
And he's made beautiful things for me over the years,
a lot of them parks related--
a cutting board in the shape of Pawnee,
which was the fictional town that we all
worked in on the show.
And he made oars out of the doors of the offices
that we used on set, like really gorgeous stuff.
Yeah.
He's very, very talented.
Very talented.
Now, are you also, since you're part of the show,
are you crafty?
You know, Ellen--
Starting that way.
You always need someone to hold things.
You know what I mean?
Like, hold on, I'm almost done.
Hold this.
And I'm really good at that kind of stuff.
Oh, OK.
All right.
So let's talk about this.
No one gets kicked off.
It's not like The Bachelor or Bachelorette.
No one wins a million dollars.
No one-- what do they win?
Well, they win the title of being Master Maker.
So it's really cool.
We brought all these incredible creators and makers
from all over the US to come in and make things.
And what they win is patches for challenges that they win.
And the title of being Master Maker, which is,
you know, good on the resume.
Yeah.
It sounds good, but it's really all about the patches.
Right.
The patches are dope.
Right, yeah, they are dope.
They win a little bit of walking around money.
There's a little money, yeah.
There's some folding money.
There's some money.
How much?
I don't know, $10 million.
No, they don't win that.
They don't win that.
They don't win anything.
All right.
But they win a chunk of change.
They do.
Well, you're not mentioning it.
It must be nothing.
Or else--
Oh, I think it's $100,000.
Oh.
That's not nothing.
No, well, why didn't you say that instead
of-- why did you say a patch?
Because the patches, they're multi-colored,
embroidered patches.
Like, it turns out someone wins $100,000,
but you're just now saying it's Master Maker and a patch.
But look at the patch.
I mean, you can't find a patch like that in a store.
No.
Although if you had $100,000, you could make anything
you want.