About Nick
Hello, as you might have guessed from the shelf - my name is
Nick Kroll.
I like acting, writing and producing comedy. My
perfect meal would start with pigs in a blanket, followed by
fried chicken and end with chocolate covered pretzels. I play Ruxin on an F/X show called THE LEAGUE and Stu on HBO's animated series THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TIM. I'm also hoping to not get cut out of a couple really funny movies coming out soon. I should also tell you that I'm allergic to cats.
Upcoming Shows
Contact Info
Management
- Christie Smith, Mosaic csmith@mosaicla.com
Standup Booking
- Mike Berkowitz mberkowitz@apanewyork.com
Press
- Liz Mahoney, ID-PR,
lmahoney@id-pr.com - Carrie Byalick, ID-PR,
CByalick@id-pr.com
Nick's Email
nickkroll@gmail.com
November 12th, 2009
I was on a Show Called Cavemen
A lot of people thought it was a terrible idea for a TV show. A few people thought it was a great idea. I just needed a job acting on TV and this was the one I got. I can’t say that I was sad when it got cancelled— we spent 4 hours in makeup every morning and another 45 minutes to get out of the makeup every night. I couldn’t eat anything wider than quarter and I averaged about 4 1/2 hours of sleep. But losing your job is never easy especially when you’ve spent all your waking hours with the same group of people for months on end.
The reviews were overwhelmingly bad. But I will say that, like most shows, it got better and better as time went on. People don’t realize how hard it is to make a tv show, especially one with as much baggage as Cavemen. The Geico commercials were (and are) amazing. They captured our imagination like almost nothing in advertising has. So we had big shoes to fill. I would argue, though, that they were completely different shoes. The expectations were so high (or low) that to get it right, right from the beginning was nearly impossible.
The craziest thing about working on a TV show is that if it is just a pilot or gets cancelled before all the episodes air, no one ever sees it. All that work, gone. I have had a lot of people asking me over the last couple of years about whether they’re going to put it out on DVD. I was told ABC Studios was going to but I ain’t seen shit. So… Below is a link to all the episodes we shot including the unaired pilot.
Check em out, I think there is some pretty funny stuff in there. Definitely some great performances from some very talented actors: Bill English, Sam Huntington, Dash Mihok, Kaitlin Doubleday, Stephanie Lemelin, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Kim Director and the amazing Julie White. Our Cave Kid was played brilliantly by Kelly Stables-Patino. Also the makeup department headed by Tony Gardner with our amazing sfx artists Gabriel De Cunto, Steve Prouty and James Roland were our saviors over those 18 or 19 hour days. Not to mention a very funny writing staff who spent countless hours coming up with some very funny stuff for us to say.
Working on Cavemen was the most important experience of my professional career. I learned more about acting, writing, and show business in general, in the four months I worked on that show than I had before or since. I made amazing friends both in front of and behind the camera and I realized, without a doubt, that comedic acting was what I wanted to do with my life.
I know this is all very schmaltzy but fuck it. We’ve all worked on things that we put our hearts and soul into that disappear, never see the light of day. The fact that the internet allows people all over the world to see our work (even when it was intended for a different medium) whenever its convenient to them is amazing. So if you choose not celebrate Cavemen, at least celebrate the fucking internet. OH, ALSO I GOT TO GO ON THE FUCKING VIEW, SO IT WASN’T ALL BAD!
My personal faves to check out are: Cave Kid, Hunters Gatherers, Cavemen Holiday but all are worth checking out.
*Unaired PILOT (when we were southern)—
1— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3-VniegiM&feature=related
2— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhpZ3AO2h08&feature=related
3— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpS1eg00GWQ&feature=related
*AIRED PILOT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFIijFD9kg&feature=related
****THE CAVEWOMAN EPISODE:
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAID2VZdUtk&feature=related
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3VGbDnqiAI&feature=related
****THE SHAVER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ono2CiMSPH8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYdbr2af8RY&feature=related
****ROCK VOTE:
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-8P0MCaoU&feature=related
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3-VniegiM&feature=related
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXBG86ZCalI&feature=related
***ANDY STAND-UP
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmlET1hqV48
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYhmzbC8EUE
*NICK JERK, ANDY WORK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-_V0bRoaE&feature=related
**THE CAVE KID
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6YXUtsH1dI
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrgBpAGx4Wg
****CAVEMAN HOLIDAY:
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtbPiIMQ2g
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6n9vI6fPXo
*HUNTERS AND GATHERERS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBpn4-pNVI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBpn4-pNVI
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November 9th, 2009
watch paul scheer on bonnie hunt. probably not the first time he’s worked the pole. heyo! im implying he was a stripper. zing! he’s a lovely person. and so are many strippers. yoinks!
I’m THE BONNIE HUNT show today.
Which means I got to slide down a fire pole, we discussed the differences between Sweater Vests and Sweaters, and I told her a story about how I was a giant TV as a part time job.
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November 9th, 2009
November 3rd, 2009
Nick Kroll and Friends w/ the cast of FX’S “THE LEAGUE”
jon LAJOIE! steve RANNAZZISI!! fabrice FABRICE!! Special GUESTS!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
doors at 8pm show at 9pm
Largo @ the Coronet Theater
366 n. la cienega
A comedy based humor show at the delicious Largo Theater. Nick’s guests will include Jon Lajoie, Steve Rannazzisi and others from the new FX show THE LEAGUE. Fabrice Fabrice, Bobby Bottleservice and other very special guests will likely appear.
For reservations:
http://largo-la.com
for purchase w/ visa/mastercard - 310 855 0350
20 dollars but…
Tix now 2 FOR 1! What a deal!
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October 29th, 2009
Set Your Tivo’s Tonight for THE LEAGUE - THURSDAYS 10:30PM on FX.
I think this review from THE SALT LAKE CITY PAPER DESERET NEWS tells you more about the show than anything I could write.
“It’s astonishing that something this downright dirty could be on basic cable. “The League” is actually dirtier than most of the shows on HBO and Showtime.
A little more nudity and a few f-bombs, and this would be the dirtiest show on TV.Actually, even without the full-frontal nudity and f-bombs this is certainly one of the dirtiest shows on TV.
It’s no exaggeration to tell you that the dialogue in “The League” is actually more crude than the dialogue in pay-cable shows. The only show that even compares in terms of content is HBO’s sex-therapy series, “Tell Me You Love Me.”There are so many examples of crude sexual terms in “The League” that it’s, well, unbelievable.
In the first 45 seconds of Thursday’s premiere, there are multiple uses of a crude term that I can’t even allude to in a family newspaper — and, believe it or not, it’s what a father is saying to his infant. And there’s a bit of nudity. In the first 45 seconds. Not just talking about it, either. Proving that you can be graphic without showing body parts, there’s a sex scene in the pilot that — once again — I can’t even begin to describe for you because it’s so crude. But the show makes it crystal clear what’s going on beneath the sheets.
What’s even more astonishing is that “The League” involves children. Not just the danger that children might watch the show, but children in the show.
Hey, I watch TV for a living. I watch the shows on the pay-cable networks. And my jaw literally dropped watching the first couple of episodes of “The League.”
The next time some politician proposes regulating basic cable content the way broadcast TV is regulated, clips of “The League” will be front-and-center.”
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October 28th, 2009
Clip from the first episode of THE LEAGUE. COMING OUT TOMORROW NIGHT, THURS. OCT. 29TH AT 10.30PM!!! LET’S DO THIS!!!
