MALE SPEAKER: Nick, Google.
Google, Nick.
I'll do that again.
NICK OFFERMAN: Welcome.
[APPLAUSE]
MALE SPEAKER: Thank you so much for coming by.
NICK OFFERMAN: My pleasure.
Oh Jesus.
MALE SPEAKER: We're up in the San Francisco office.
NICK OFFERMAN: We're on the Jumbotron.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah.
There are folks from other offices who I think are just
peeking in.
I'd like a higher angle, sir.
[LAUGHTER]
MALE SPEAKER: So Nick's in town, in northern California,
just to stop through--
usually you come through to pick up wood, but this time
you're actually coming through for kind of dual reasons.
One is for-- you have an "American Ham" show tonight?
NICK OFFERMAN: That's right.
MALE SPEAKER: And then there's also a premiere of "Somebody
Up There Likes Me" tomorrow night.
NICK OFFERMAN: Tomorrow at the Roxy.
MALE SPEAKER: And how many "American Ham" shows has it
been so far?
NICK OFFERMAN: I think it's about four dozen.
I got invited last year, about a year ago to
speak at some colleges.
And I thought, by god, I have some things I'd like to say to
the young people.
And so I wrote this show, and it was really fun.
And then more colleges invited me.
And then the show ended up being kind of humorous.
So then we turned it into a real show.
And now I'm just playing at legit theaters like the
Masonic Center this evening.
And it's also been super fun because my wife has a new band
called Nancy and Beth, and they're about as entertaining
as anything I've ever seen.
And so they've been opening for me.
And it's quite a package.
MALE SPEAKER: Is it something that you had always wanted to
do as far as kind of a one man-- because you're not a
stand-up comedian as such.
NICK OFFERMAN: No.
I never--
I'm a trained theater actor.
I never dreamed that I would perform as myself.
MALE SPEAKER: Is that tough?
Is it hard to play yourself?
NICK OFFERMAN: Well, no.
Because as my dad always said, I have a
good line of bullshit.
My grandpa was the mayor of my small town in Illinois, and my
dad is also kind of a former politician.
So I wasn't too freaked out.
I think if somebody said, I need you to go do an hour of
stand-up, that would make me scared.
Because I don't think I'm particularly
much of a joke writer.
I put together a show that's 10 tips for a prosperous life,
and then I laced it with things that make people laugh.
And it seems to be working out.
But I always say that I'm a humorist and not a stand-up.
MALE SPEAKER: And then over the course of the year and
plus that you've been doing this, do you make adjustments
to the show?
Is it kind of originally what it was and it still is?
NICK OFFERMAN: The skeleton remains the same, the 10 tips,
and If I do a tight version of the show,
it's about 90 minutes.
But usually, it comes in over two hours, because I am known
to run off at the mouth on something
that strikes my fancy.
So every show has about 30 or 40 minutes of unique material
that I pull straight out of my ass.
MALE SPEAKER: Well, it's nice that it's your show, so it's
your prerogative.
NICK OFFERMAN: It is.
It's really fun.
And everyone seems to have a pretty good time, unless
they're faking it.
MALE SPEAKER: Now, as far as the fact that you've been an
actor originally coming from a theater background, now you're
a writer, and now a producer with "Somebody Up There Likes
Me." How did that come to be?
NICK OFFERMAN: I guess organically.
I've always, I guess, written things that I--
little stupid funny things.
There's a great group from the Bay Area, and I think they
were prevalent in the '70s, maybe into the '80s, called
the Firesign Theater.
And when I was in college, they were like a radio play
group, but sort of a pot smoking version of a radio
play group.
And they were super, super funny.
They had five or six albums that were a big deal.
And I was very inspired by them.
So when I was in college, I wrote some stuff kind of
emulating that medium.
And I've always been a big fan of Garrison Keillor.
But even on my show, I am by far the one who's always
pitching a lot of--
for better or worse, I'm always pitching stuff for
everybody to say, which I think some people like and
some people might find irksome.
But so then eventually my boss asked me to write an episode,
which was really fun.
And this friend of mine that I've worked on a bunch of
films with asked me to produce this film that we're opening
at the Roxy tomorrow night, "Somebody Up There Likes Me."
And it's all just very organic.
And then this year, my boss also asked me to direct an
episode of "Parks and Rec." And they don't come about
because they're things that I aspire to do.
They just come about because we love collaborating as a
group, and there's a--
my boss decided he thought it would be funny to see if I
could write one, or my friend wanted me to
produce this movie.
It wasn't that I had any kind of resume as a producer.
He just thought that my energy and work ethic would help.
And it's a small crew.
It's 20, 24 people.
It's a very low budget movie.
And so I was a very creative producer.
We had a second producer named Hans Graffunder who worked on
"The Sopranos," and now he produces for Terrence Malick,
who's an up-and-coming filmmaker you'll be hearing
more about.
And he's the dad.
He ran the office.
He did all the paperwork he knew where to find all the
money we needed.
And I helped the wardrobe ladies carry clothes from
their car to the set.
I ran the set and he ran the office.
So I kind of learned how I am a producer as I did it.
MALE SPEAKER: And having those dual roles, so not just being
a producer, but actually being a lead in it, is
it difficult to--
or how is that different than just having one role, on, say
"Parks," or in theater?
NICK OFFERMAN: Well, the downside of directing or
producing is that they want you to pay attention to the
whole goddamn thing, which takes a lot more energy than
just working as an actor.
I don't think I would want to--
I don't know if I would want to producer or direct
something that I had a really huge role in.
Even though I have a leading role, I don't have long
monologues or any days that are particularly strenuous,
beyond standing in the right place and making funny faces.
So I think if somebody wanted me to direct myself playing
Hamlet, I'd probably demur, or at least get a co-director,
get my wife signed up.
MALE SPEAKER: As far as roles that you really think you'd
like to tackle in the future, are there ones-- whether
they're theater, whether film-- that you'd
like to take on?
NICK OFFERMAN: Yeah, sure.
I mean, I don't really fit the mold it to play someone like
Hamlet or some of the greater leading man roles.
Wouldn't mind taking a crack at Rozencrantz or
Guildenstern.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: I'm keen to do something with the role of
Theodore Roosevelt.
I think that would be a lot of fun.
My friend Conan O'Brien really wants to produce something in
the realm of Teddy Roosevelt, but we're talking about--
we can't figure out what to do, because we can't really do
something serious and have his and my name on it.
It'd be like, a dead-serious biopic brought to you by the
funniest tall redhead ever created.
MALE SPEAKER: Well isn't John Stewart actually now directing
something serious?
Maybe he's leading the charge.
NICK OFFERMAN: Maybe.
Maybe we'll--
who knows.
I mean, it's something we talk about a lot.
I don't know if it'll come to pass.
There's a lot of roles like that.
There's this great character, Ernest Shackleton, who Kenneth
Branagh beat me to.
But maybe that'll fade from memory soon enough that I can
take him on.
He led an incredible South Pole expedition in the very
early 20th century or late 19th century.
There's a lot of roles like that.
I'm not particularly ambitious.
I like seeing what comes down the pike.
MALE SPEAKER: It sounds like "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
is something that booked because you were asked.
And actually, the genesis for it started out here, right,
just kind of outside of this building, almost.
NICK OFFERMAN: Well, yeah.
The last time actually I was the lead in the film was this
movie called "Treasure Island." It's set in 1943, and
it's based when it was a naval base out
there on Treasure Island.
And the movie looks like it was made in the early '40s.
We shot it actually on a period
camera called a Mitchell.
The filmmaker was a very wonderfully weird old timey
meticulous filmmaker.
And it's a delightfully difficult film.
It's like if David Lynch made a film in 1941.
There's a lot of kickass sex in the movie.
But we should we shot a scene right out by the fire
department down there on the water.
There's like a piece of decrepit pier.
We shoot a pivotal scene with the Bay Bridge in the
background.
And we got them to turn their lights on in the middle of the
scene, which was very exciting for us.
It was one of my most Michael Bay moments I've had to date.
MALE SPEAKER: And then that led to a friendship that then
evolved into him asking you to--
NICK OFFERMAN: Yeah, Bob Byington, this filmmaker who
wrote and directed "Somebody Up There Likes Me" was the
script girl on "Treasure Island," and
that's where we met.
And we liked the cut of one another's jib.
His writing is really smart and funny, and he has a great
dry sense of humor.
So he kind of kept me around.
Every couple years, I would fly myself to Austin and do a
couple scenes in his movies.
He finally wrote me a nice big part, and then asked me to
produce it.
MALE SPEAKER: And that's coming out--
well, it's already come out, but it's being premiered
tomorrow in San Francisco.
NICK OFFERMAN: Yeah.
We're having a big event.
I'm going to be at all the
screenings at the Roxy tomorrow.
And I believe I'm giving away an Offerman Woodshop mustache
comb at each of three Q&As.
MALE SPEAKER: And speaking of woodworking, as long as you
went there, oftentimes I think you come up, you said, to
northern California to pillage our wood and bring it down to
turn into whatever catches your fancy.
As you've evolved and have your own woodworking shop,
where does chainsaw sculpture fall in the pantheon?
Is that one you think you might tackle?
NICK OFFERMAN: No.
Never.
I have a few very large chainsaws that I love to use.
But I don't--
there's actually a few small tools known as power carvers
that are like a little right angle grinder, but they have a
little circular chainsaw head on them.
And carving with a machine--
I'm not much of a carver to begin with.
But carving with a machine doesn't appeal to me.
If I was ever going to try carving, I would do--
I mean, what little carving I've done, I do with gouges,
and I do it by hand.
MALE SPEAKER: And do you have something that you eventually
are going to be working towards, your Rachmaninoff
three that your big--
NICK OFFERMAN: Woodworking is something I love doing and I
hope to continue to improve at for the rest of my life.
I don't have--
I suppose a pipe dream would be to build maybe a wooden
sailboat before I'm done, but nothing too big.
I don't want to ruin my marriage.
But right now, we're getting ready to build some ukuleles
in the shop.
And that's--
we love the ukulele, but it's also with an eye towards
trying some acoustic guitars.
If we get any good at that, maybe we'll try some other
instruments.
I have the luxury of--
because I have a nice waitress job during the daytime, I
don't have to make kitchens for people with my shop, and I
can kind of pick and choose what I want to make.
So I want to try some stringed instruments.
I always hope to build more boats.
Those are incredibly satisfying.
But who knows.
Maybe a grand piano one day.
We'll see.
MALE SPEAKER: Well, if folks want to start lining up in
front of the mic to ask any questions, please do.
But I wanted to talk a little bit about your writing with
"Parks and Rec" and how that evolved.
Was it something that you have been asking for, you wanted to
kind of try it out?
Or did it just come to be?
NICK OFFERMAN: I let my boss know early on.
I went in and said, I just want to let you know that if
you ever have anything more for me to do--
because I come from this theater company in Chicago
where I generally would build the set, and I would make the
props, with help.
It's always a wonderful collaboration, but I was the
technical director of the company.
I had all the tools.
I was a makeup artist.
I was a fight choreographer.
And so when I get with a group and we love making some sort
of entertainment together, and they just want me to show up
and crack wise and then go back to my trailer, it's not
how I'm trained.
I'm like, well, I'm just sitting in my trailer.
Is there something else I could be doing?
Can I sew buttons on something?
So I told my boss early on that, like, if there's
anything else I could do--
and we love making each other giggle.
So a couple summers ago, during the off
time, we had lunch.
And he asked me if I wanted to write an episode, and I
totally started crying in the middle of this restaurant,
where I was like, yes, that would be fine with me.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: And I said of course, I would love to.
But why--
like, you can get the greatest--
people really love our show and hold it
at a very high level.
You can get the greatest talent to write an episode?
Why would you ask this guy?
And he said, because I don't want to get somebody who wrote
a really funny movie.
I love making the show with us.
And it sort of came from the same vibe of just
collaborating as a group and enjoying this lucky time where
we're allowed the freedom to make the show how we want to.
MALE SPEAKER: And making the show by us, is that something
that's very much, during the filming, there's a lot of
collaboration there in the way which you actually shoot
scenes and try out dialogue?
How does that work?
NICK OFFERMAN: Well, we're so spoiled.
Because our writer's room is so brilliant that none of us--
we could be really pretty lousy actors and still come
out smelling like a rose, because the
writing is just so good.
They have that ability--
we get asked a lot of questions in the sort of
bailiwick of, do you guys--
do you write everything yourselves?
Or like, did you make up everything
about Ron Swanson yourself?
Because it seems so much--
it seems to fit you so naturally.
And that's just what great writers do, is they pick out
parts of your personality and then writ it large as a sort
of cartoon.
And they do it so well that people are like, oh, Nick
obviously must have made that up, because no one
could think of that.
But in truth, they did think of all of it.
And so it is very collaborative.
We get on set, and we have these beautiful scripts.
But then we're all goofballs with our own skill set.
And so Pratt is my favorite.
He is such an amazing combination of a boyish sort
of clumsy child, combined with--
don't let him fool you.
He is a fucking genius, when it comes to coming out of left
field with improvisation, nobody--
I mean, Amy is just an amazing--
like, Amy is a corporation all of her own.
She's like a comedy factory.
But Pratt's sitting over there just waiting for the camera to
throw to him, and he floors us with this cleverness so
frequently.
But everybody does.
I mean, everybody has their own flavor.
And so that just-- when you start with a great script and
then have all of these home run hitters sort of throwing
in their additional ingredients, it just makes it
for an incredibly fun collaboration.
MALE SPEAKER: And it sounds like everyone trusts everyone
to step it up.
And because it's so fun, just dive in with the best of what
they've got.
NICK OFFERMAN: It is, yeah.
It's a very safe environment.
Greg Daniels sort of learned this system on the American
"Office," RIP.
My life was completely changed by that show.
And he created this paradigm wherein when we started our
show on the very first day, he said, this is
very important, everybody.
If you ever feel like you want to do anything or say
anything, you can.
You have permission.
We're no longer shooting on film.
We can shoot all day.
We don't have to cut the cameras.
So if you feel like getting up and going over there and
making a sandwich, you can, as long as it's natural and it
feels like it's part of the scene.
And so the first couple episodes then, of course, have
just hours of masturbation, where I was like, well, Greg
said it would be cool if I go over here and
take my pants off.
And then the edits started to come in, and we're shooting
hours and hours of footage for a 21 and 1/2 minute episode.
And so we quickly learned, like, OK, maybe that's a
little indulgent.
MALE SPEAKER: How to make friends with the editors.
NICK OFFERMAN: Exactly.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
Welcome.
NICK OFFERMAN: Hello.
Thank you.
AUDIENCE: I had a question.
You mentioned the writers kind of pick up on aspects of your
personality to build the Ron Swanson character.
And you yourself just a moment ago said you were really
interested in Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Shackleton
quote-unquote rugged individualists.
And I think Ron Swanson falls into kind of a
subcategory of that.
And I'm wondering what draws you to those characters?
NICK OFFERMAN: Gosh, I don't know.
I grew up in a farm family in Illinois, and they're
certainly rugged individualists.
I grew up in the '70s, and we were not doing great.
And so there was a lot of pulling ourselves up by our
own bootstraps and flying by the seat of our pants.
And then we get into a more sort of middle class
existence, and then sort of got swept up with the rest of
a lot of our society into an incredibly comfortable world.
And I think that I just personally long for--
I would rather not be inside in the air conditioning.
I would much rather be in a canoe on a river, even if
there are mosquitoes, or even if it is a little scary.
That just feels more alive.
And in the career that my tool set led me on, I never
imagined that I would become a performer.
Going into the arts was unheard of in my little farm
town, but inexplicably, I managed to do it anyway.
And that was necessitated being in an urban area.
I went into theater, so you had to be someplace where
there's an audience.
And so as I've lived in cities, I always yearned for
the sort of canoe of my youth.
And I think that's a lot of what led me
to maintain my woodshop.
It makes me feel like I can still hold my head up around
the farmers in my family who are so badass.
I mean, when people ask me, like, if I'm manly or what do
I think about manliness, I say, I'm
the sissy in my family.
I'm the one that went and took ballet in college.
Go talk to my uncles, who are still welding their own corn
wagons out of scraps around the shop.
And so I think in the world of what I do for a living, I like
to choose things--
I would much rather go shoot something where I'm playing a
lumberjack and I'm getting to spend a few
months out in the woods.
Even though I'm going to work, it's much more delicious to me
than working in a sound stage.
And you know, the place that our country is in
right now, I often--
whenever I get riled up, certainly during election
years, and I want to do something or I want to make a
difference, I always have to say, well, the thing I can do
I think the most effectively is reach the audience that I
already have in place.
And so I try to choose subject matters and characters and
stories that I think can have a positive influence.
In my "American Ham" show, I talk a lot about encouraging
people to be more of a rugged individualist.
Even if you live in the city, you can now become a
blacksmith on your back porch.
Or you can set up a knitting business and
sell things on Etsy.
And I feel like that is the kind of thing that's going to
help us keep from being squashed by China, if we're
going to succeed in doing that.
AUDIENCE: Thank you.
NICK OFFERMAN: You bet.
AUDIENCE: Hi.
I love the show.
One of my favorite parts of "Parks and Rec"
is the Jerry jokes.
And I was wondering how Jim O'Heir is in real life.
NICK OFFERMAN: I don't talk about Jerry.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: No, go ahead.
AUDIENCE: I was just curious.
Are those jokes written in the script, or does it
just kind of happen?
NICK OFFERMAN: No, actually.
We secretly hate him.
No, Jim O'Heir is the sweetest, the greatest guy.
He's in his early 50s or his late 40s.
And he's worked steadily as just a character actor.
And for a guy like me or Jim who's been in town, been in
the business for so long, to land a spot on a show like
this, you could literally punch me in the balls every
scene, and I'd be like, I don't care.
I'm so happy that I'm on a show this good.
You can have my testicles.
It's worth it.
And Jim talks a lot about that, that he's
like, are you kidding?
I've got such a great part on this funny show.
But we do have to be careful, the rest of us, not to let it
bleed over.
Because it's so delicious, the whole shitting on Jerry, like
Jerry as the Eeyore of the group.
We do have to remind ourselves.
And I'll send him random texts, that I'm
just like, hey Jim.
It's Nick.
I just want to tell you I really love you.
I think you're great.
Because otherwise, it's so delicious and it so naughty
that we start--
There's a story coming up.
It's hardly a spoiler to say some bad
things happen to Jerry.
Jerry gets some bad news.
And we played this gag on him.
Like, the producers and everybody, we all just started
pretending that he was being killed off the show.
And we started sending him messages of like, hey Jim.
I have to tell you, I've loved working with you.
I really think we had a great run.
I hope you'll come back and visit us next year.
And then we're like, OK, you guys, we can't be mean to Jim
like he's Jerry.
He takes it all in stride and we all have a lot of fun, but
we do have to be careful.
Because he's the sweetest--
he's an amazing wonderful nice guy, which, that engenders
that sense of humor.
I mean, when I meet people and they're incredibly nice and
soft-spoken and shy, it makes me immediately want to be
shitty to them, in a funny way.
And I let them know that it's my way of saying I like them.
But I'm like, hey, keep it down.
Would you shut up please?
You're disrupting the room--
to the shy, retiring person.
AUDIENCE: Thank you.
NICK OFFERMAN: You bet.
AUDIENCE: Hey.
I recently bought tickets to Sasquatch and noticed that you
were on the bill for that, and was curious how you prepare
for an audience or a setting like that, or if you've ever
done any big festival-ish kind of shows before.
NICK OFFERMAN: I've done my show in a couple comedy
festivals in Austin last year, and in Chicago.
But they were still just me in a theater.
And so it was no different, really, other than maybe a
slightly more drunk audience than usual.
I'm a little curious myself, because a couple friends of
mine are also doing it that are stand-ups.
And they said that I'm going to be in a comedy tent.
And I'm just envisioning--
I'm very excited to see the Gorge.
It's supposed to be the most beautiful outdoor music venue
in Washington.
Is it in--
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
It's outside Seattle, like an hour and a half east.
NICK OFFERMAN: Yeah.
It's over the mountains.
AUDIENCE: Right.
NICK OFFERMAN: And I'm a little nervous about being in
an outdoor comedy tent.
I'm envisioning hearing Cypress Hill playing a couple
hundred yards away.
And my show is kind of thoughtful.
It's funny, but it's like, OK, we're going to talk about some
serious shit.
And I think I depend on silence.
So I'm going to be putting some thought into upping the
energy, like, what's up, everybody?
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: So your guess is as good as mine.
I heard from some people--
is it true that you can only buy the whole pass to that
thing, and it's like $400?
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
They used to sell single day back a while ago, but now you
have to buy a four-day pass.
NICK OFFERMAN: That's terrible.
AUDIENCE: That's how all the festivals
are going these days.
NICK OFFERMAN: I'm new to the whole thing.
I mean, I went to Lollapalooza in '96, I think.
It was fucking awesome.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: Chili Peppers were the big headliner.
AUDIENCE: Do you plan on being there for the whole weekend
and seeing some acts, or are you just
going to do your show?
NICK OFFERMAN: I just wanted one day-- oh, for Sasquatch?
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
Are you just going to be there for your--
NICK OFFERMAN: My wife and I are doing
a play in Los Angeles.
We had booked Sasquatch before then.
So we're keeping the booking, but it's the kind of thing
where we're going to have to fly in and do the day and then
leave, unfortunately.
So we will do peyote while we're there.
AUDIENCE: That's encouraged.
NICK OFFERMAN: I'd like to do the full three day, the whole
vision quest.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: Maybe next year.
MALE SPEAKER: I think we've got time
for two more questions.
AUDIENCE: I was wondering, how does your Midwest background
influence your time on "Parks and Rec"?
Was that the dream casting for you, or do you throw some
Midwest-isms in there?
NICK OFFERMAN: Interestingly, I think it has a profound
influence that is subliminal.
It's not something that I'm cognitive of.
It's what got me the part, probably.
It's funny, though.
When I read the script and they started talking to me
about the role, I showed up in jeans and a flannel shirt.
And I had pictured a guy-- they were like, this guy runs
the parks department.
I was like, fantastic.
I drive a dark green pickup truck and I wear work boots
and I use a shovel.
And they're like, oh, no it's a city.
It's a small city.
So you wear shitty clothes from JC Penney, and you work
at City Hall.
And I was like oh, wow.
OK.
I guess I'll be cool with that.
So I think just by using my natural Illinois demeanor, it
seems to be working out effectively.
But I don't really--
I mean, we talk about things.
I pitched the scouting episode were Leslie
and I each had scouts.
And the basketball team with the pyramid of greatness,
those both came from me saying--
and it literally is this simple, where I'm like, can I
please have a troop of scouts?
I take things from my youth that I think it
could provide comedy.
Or, can I please coach a group of boys in
basketball or baseball?
And then the writers take it, and they always extrapolate my
simple idea into something much more complex and
delicious that I could--
they always put a twist on it, where I'm like, of course,
I'll be badass and I'll cook steaks over a fire.
And they're like, no, you'll suck, and Leslie will have--
they always come up with a much better twist on whatever
my initial thing is.
But beyond that, I keep saying there's a ridiculous--
the show is ridiculously bereft of fishing.
There needs to be a hell of a lot more fishing on the show.
But LA doesn't have a lot of great fishing locations that
can pass for Indiana.
So hopefully we'll remedy that in the near future.
MALE SPEAKER: So they do turn to you for kind of a Midwest
gut check sometimes?
NICK OFFERMAN: Some, but one of our main producers, Morgan
Sackett, is from Iowa.
There's enough of a Midwestern sensibility.
It's not cloaked information.
People have a pretty good idea of what's going on.
But they will say--
things come up, like do you guys say soda or pop?
Or just stuff like that, and you find that that's
incredibly regional anyway.
People from Muncie will complain if you say it like
people from Indianapolis.
You're screwed no matter what you do.
AUDIENCE: So we've got a bottle of Lagavulin here.
Can we interest you in a drink?
NICK OFFERMAN: Christ almighty.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: I will not allow this occasion to go by
without imbibing, but I'll make it a small drink, because
I have to keep my wits about me for
3,000 people this evening.
By all means.
[APPLAUSE]
MALE SPEAKER: Actually, on that note--
NICK OFFERMAN: I see three glasses, and I see a great
many people.
[LAUGHTER]
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, the keg's in the back.
We also have some parting gifts that--
NICK OFFERMAN: Goddamn.
Google's all right.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: You guys should stick around.
I think you're going places.
MALE SPEAKER: We hope it can inspire you if you have any
downtime and need to--
NICK OFFERMAN: That could have been really ugly.
MALE SPEAKER: This is a wooden carved
Android, and one for Megan.
NICK OFFERMAN: Thank you so much.
She's going to love that.
And I love it too.
I love cute things.
Thank you.
That's a beautiful amount.
When I showed up, the first time Ron had scotch on the
show, there was a bottle of Lagavulin sitting on my desk.
And I said, these people are so goddamn good, they found
out what my favorite scotch is.
Because it was a little more obscure four and
a half years ago.
And a year later at Mike Schur's birthday party,
somebody brought him a bottle of it.
And I said, oh, great gift.
Ron's drinking Lagavulin because
that's my favorite scotch.
And he said, no, you idiot.
That's his favorite scotch because
it's my favorite scotch.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: Which was a delicious piece of
serendipity.
To comedy.
[APPLAUSE]
MALE SPEAKER: Once again, on behalf of Google and the San
Francisco office, thanks so much for coming by.
It's my absolute pleasure.
Thank you so much for having me.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: Let's talk about some other shit now.
[LAUGHTER]
NICK OFFERMAN: Thanks very much, you guys.
[APPLAUSE]