Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll
Nicholas J. "Nick" Kroll is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his role as Rodney Ruxin in the FXX comedy series The League, and for creating and starring in the Comedy Central series Kroll Show...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth5 June 1978
CityTown Of Rye, NY
CountryUnited States of America
fun interesting long
As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.
art media study
I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.
unbeatable immediacy interaction
The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.
teacher giving perfect
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.
sacred wikipedia internet
I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.
real lying interesting
Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.
comedian
Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.
character views easier
It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
thinking bills hicks
I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things.
ideas numbers people
I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing "That guy is also that guy!" "Oh, he does that!" I really like having a number of different ways to reach people.
lucky way different
I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.
real character night
It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just be a classic stand-up to get a special, or you don't just have to be on Saturday Night Live to do characters and sketch on TV. The web has allowed me to show that there are different ways to make people laugh, and the special is a combination of those things.
goal special something-new
For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.
goal special stuff
My goal was to do something that incorporated all the stuff I do and have it feel like something new, like it was hopefully taking the stand-up special paradigm and turning it on its head.