Comedian, actor, author and woodworker Nick Offerman joined WNYC’s Sean Carlson Wednesday evening for a live broadcast of “All Things Considered” at the Greene Space, WNYC’s events venue
The show focused on the city’s cultural scene – and how it’s changed since the pandemic. For Offerman, the Hollywood strikes are examples of cultural shifts brought on by the pandemic — which created a huge demand for new shows as people were stuck at home and then had a quick decline when people went back to their “normal” lives.
“In the last couple years, everybody I know has something getting canceled or dumped or curtailed,” said Offerman.
“It’s the dice that you roll,” he said. “It’s why they call it ‘show business,’ and not ‘show-fun-with-your-friends.’”
But the conversation went beyond the state of the arts, spanning a wide range of topics, including: Offerman’s interest in nature, why you should “give a dang” about agriculture and what he’d tell anyone starting out in comedy today.
Below is a lightly edited transcript of the conversation.
Sean Carlson: We are glad to have you here at WNYC in New York City. Though the irony is not lost on me that your book is, in large part, about connecting with nature. And you’re here downtown, in maybe the most urban place in America. How out-of-place do you feel right now? Or is it easy for you to slip between the two?
Nick Offerman: No, this is actually the ideal audience for my book, because the sense of the book comes from my own epiphany when I started reading Michael Pollan and the agrarian Wendell Berry, and realizing that we’ve been trained to no longer know where our food comes from.
That’s my way into this subject matter and this book with a sense of humor is: If you eat, then you should give a dang about agriculture. You should think about the farmers and the people who catch the fish and grow the green leafy stuff that rabbits eat. You should think about all these things.
And so,…
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