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You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

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Nick Kroll
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 5
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New York City
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Nicholas Kroll
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I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.
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In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.
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A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
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There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.
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The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.
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My first job. I got fired from this MTV prank show, or I didn't make the cut of what ended up being, as we all know, Boiling Points. It was my first professional job and I was bragging.
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My best friend, Andrew Goldberg - and this is genuinely not me trying to cross-promote, but this new Netflix show I'm doing called Big Mouth is about me and my best friend, Andrew Goldberg, from childhood - but there was a year when I went to his house after school every day and we watched Wayne's World and ate Doritos.
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I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.
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For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.
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My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.
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I tend to play sort of douchey.
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A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.
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I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.
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A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.
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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.
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Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.
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My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.
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My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, My first concert was the Backstreet Boys, but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.
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It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
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