“I was kinda fascinated by how openly people will express hate and brand themselves as bigots. I kept thinking: ‘We can see you!’' 🎙️ Helen_R_Brown interviews Nick_Offerman
For those who haven’t seen his standup, Offerman has gentle fun unpicking his “brand” as the poster boy for modern American masculinity. Yes it’s true: he loves red meat, beer, plaid shirts and carving canoes in his workshop. To Mullally’s annoyance, he also loves not shaving. But the affable Offerman is a sly enemy of “the gendering of things”.
He hopes his show, too, will appeal to anyone and everyone, although those who admire his onscreen love of hard liquor are more likely to find it an easy ride. He feels that “among the thing attached to my brand are hedonism, scotch, beer, lovemaking… I’m fuelled by Dionysis” – the ancient Greek god of wine-making, fertility and festivity – “and I hope that my audience is as well and we’ll have some sort of catharsis together just shy of ruining the night of the janitorial staff”.
Like Keillor, he came from “a small farming family who continue to be my heroes, to the point of annoyance. My dad was a teacher who became the mayor. My mum was a nurse. My sister is the town’s head librarian. When they’re not doing that they love gardening and drive for meals on wheels. They live lives of service and are decent to the point of ‘please give me a break’. I was all the infirmities that were filtered out of the family and packed off to Los Angeles.
Above all, Offerman is thrilled to be returning to the UK. He digs out a mobile phone to tell me his genealogy report came up… “wait… hang on… wait… 32 per cent Scotland, 27 per cent Ireland, 23 per cent Europe, 17 per cent England. So I came by it honestly.” He laughs. “I’m in the minority but people my whole life would complain about the cuisine of England. But man it is just ambrosia to me. Fish and chips are my cocaine. Bangers and mash? Oh man, that’s my medicine.
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