The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

Nick Kroll

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I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.

building fans thinking

For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.

emotional crazy character

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their... by Nick Kroll

My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.

tvs shows way

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

comic boring mind

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist. by Nick Kroll

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

comedian

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.

boss jobs people

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

fun long interesting

The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable. by Nick Kroll

The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.

unbeatable interaction immediacy

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.

perfect teacher giving

In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they're reading, what they smell like, what they are listening to, how they talk to their friends.

smell reading new-york

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

details everyday genius

I tend to play sort of douchey. by Nick Kroll

I tend to play sort of douchey.

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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.

wikipedia sacred internet

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

real lying interesting

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.

that-one-person pieces littles

What business would judged on the first week that it's in busines... by Nick Kroll

What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

judged week firsts

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

class fun kids

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

play men thinking

I had PubLIZity, I had Oh, Hello, I had Bobby and Farley - all of these sketches that were really these duo sketches, but the relationship between them is really what catapulted them forward. A lot of that, I think, came from Wayne and Garth, these two similar guys - they're Midwestern metal guys - but in the end, they're quite different because there's an alpha and a beta. And I think that model became very present for me on Kroll Show.

guy two thinking

It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.

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