Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and ‘The League’ while also getting to do other bits, that’s awesome. – Nick Kroll
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called ‘Boiling Points’ on MTV. – Nick Kroll
My thinking is, if we’re setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game. – Nick Kroll
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That’s the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers. – Nick Kroll
‘Cavemen’ was obviously a big opportunity. I learned a lot about how to act and about the politics of being on a set every day. Like, who do you have to listen to and who you don’t have to listen to. – Nick Kroll
Wikipedia is a strange thing. Whoever gets there first, you know, they decide. Like the picture: You can’t choose it! You can’t be like, ‘You know, I hate that picture of me doing stand-up from 2005 – that doesn’t exemplify who I am.’ You take it down, and someone puts it back up. – Nick Kroll
I think a lot of podcasts have a lot of amazing character work. Seth Morris does this amazing character, Boch Duco, which I think is one of the funniest, most well-realized characters that I’ve ever seen or heard. – Nick Kroll
The one place I’ve seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you’re really shocked. – Nick Kroll
I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don’t think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them. – Nick Kroll
If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they’re rarely at peace with what they’re doing because they need an engine to keep moving. – Nick Kroll
I guess my first big break was getting the hit show ‘Cavemen’ on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn’t want to be in makeup for four hours a day. – Nick Kroll
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn’t work, you can’t force it to. – Nick Kroll
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. – Nick Kroll
Meeting someone you admire, and then that person’s like, ‘I’m a fan of your work’ – it’s a really neat feeling. – Nick Kroll
I do a lot of eavesdropping. That’s one of the things I miss about New York: just checking people out. – Nick Kroll
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. – Nick Kroll
I’m proud of the work that we did, and my hope is that everyone who worked on ‘Kroll Show,’ it will be a credit that people will be like, ‘Oh, you worked on that show? The word on that show was that it was good.’ – Nick Kroll
Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don’t think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness. – Nick Kroll
One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time – but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what’s coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you’re locked into it. – Nick Kroll
I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn’t matter. – Nick Kroll
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. – Nick Kroll
We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I’m not, ‘Oh, I’m a stand-up who’s sad,’ but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don’t think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see. – Nick Kroll
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.’ – Nick Kroll
When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we’d be on vacation, and I’d just recite Andrew Dice Clay jokes. They seemed to think that was pretty funny. Then it evolved into ‘Wayne’s World.’ – Nick Kroll
Whether it’s corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it. – Nick Kroll
Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there’s a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general. – Nick Kroll
I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it. – Nick Kroll
Comedy is so collaborative. You’re going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense. – Nick Kroll
