![]() One of my first songs, for instance, was suggesting that we all carry a handkerchief.” Offerman’s description makes it sound sweet and innocent in fact, like a lot of his songs, it gets very dirty very quickly. Now when I walk on stage and say ‘Good evening’, everyone laughs like they’re somehow already on board.”Ĭheer up, petal … Nick Offerman Photograph: Joe CarrottaĪudiences at his touring show can expect a mixture of songs and wry commentary: “I do my best to take whatever is annoying me in the news, or in general with people’s lack of comportment. I am a spoilt baby who was able to leap past the ‘paying of dues’ stage. I mean, I was afforded an easy step up because of Parks and Rec. “And so I thought: ‘OK, there are some things I would love to tell 2,000 young people.’ My agent was also telling me: ‘Look, they pay great and they don’t care if you’re a comedian or not.’ That was around 12 years ago. When Offerman asked how many students would attend, he was told 2,000. After the success of Parks and Recreation, universities would ask him to perform and he kept turning them down: “I told them I was a theatre actor, that I perform works of literature on stage.”īut the invitations kept coming, including one from Ohio State University. On the road is where he’s headed next: having just wrapped filming on the fourth series of superhero drama The Umbrella Academy, in which he and Mullally play married college professors, he is putting the finishing touches to his one-man show, which comes to the UK this month. But, after a couple of days, Dad’s got to head back out on the road.” I was afforded an easy step up into standup because of Parks and Rec. Everywhere you look, there’s somebody you want to hug or there’s a project calling out your name. I do miss it terribly it’s like getting home to a family you hardly see. ![]() He tries to visit a few times a month “to do problem-solving and offer my two cents on the designs that are going out the door. ![]() Which is fitting, since, when he’s not acting or writing books (he has published five, with a sixth in the works), or at home doing jigsaws, Offerman can be found – also like Ron Swanson – at his wood shop, a business in LA that he launched in 2001 when he was still a struggling actor, and where he now has four employees producing everything from dining tables and shelving units to handcrafted canoes. Wearing black-rimmed specs and sporting Lemmy-style mutton chops, he has the rugged, outdoorsy look of a man who, given an axe, would make light work of a pile of logs. Offerman – whose recent roles have included the real-life porn producer Milton Ingley in Pam and Tommy the American football quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s adoptive dad in fictionalised drama series Colin in Black and White and a lonely prepper in HBO’s zombie series The Last Of Us – is talking to me from the guest room of his and Mullally’s home in Los Angeles. We are maintaining a relationship, like anybody.” As Offerman tells it, “the fanbase began to absolutely shit themselves … It was all very over the top given we are just a couple of expectorating human beings who happen to have gotten some lucky acting jobs. An early scene saw them breaking the furniture while kissing in a diner before hightailing it to a nearby motel, shedding clothes as they went. Mullally was cast as Swanson’s ex-wife, Tammy, with whom Ron has a lust/hate relationship. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images ‘Like winning the lottery’ … Offerman with Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation.
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