The Nick Kroll Handbook - Everything you need to know about Nick Kroll

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Nicholas J. "Nick" Kroll (born June 5, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Ruxin on The League. He previously co-starred in comedy programs such as Best Week Ever, Cavemen, Sit Down, Shut Up, and The Life & Times of Tim.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Nick Kroll's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, Nick Kroll, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, Adventures of Power, Ari Gold (filmmaker), Cavemen (TV series), Childrens Hospital, Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism, Jules B. Kroll, Media Blitz, Parks and Recreation, Rye Country Day School, The Benson Interruption, The Fight (Parks and Recreation), The League 74…and more pages!

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 28 février 2013
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• EAN13: 9781486475841
• Langue: English
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Nick Kroll A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Adventures of Power Ari Gold (filmmaker) Cavemen (TV series) Childrens Hospital Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism Jules B. Kroll Media Blitz Parks and Recreation Rye Country Day School The Benson Interruption The Fight (Parks and Recreation) The League

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Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll

Kroll at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival premiere ofA Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Born

Occupation

Years active

June 5, 1978 Rye, New York, U.S.

Actor Comedian Writer Producer

1998–present

Website

http://www.nickkroll.com

Nicholas J. "Nick" Kroll(born June 5, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Ruxin onThe League. He previously co-starred in comedy programs such asBest Week Ever,Cavemen,Sit Down, Shut Up, andThe Life & Times of Tim.

Life and career [1] [2] The son of Kroll Inc. founder Jules B. Kroll, Nick Kroll was raised Jewish in Westchester County, NY. He went to the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester until the 8th grade, but then left for high school, going to Rye Country Day School. During this time, he also briefly attended The Mountain School in Vermont where he [3] developed his fondness for hiking. After Rye Country Day, he went on to graduate from Georgetown [4] University. He has been a contributing writer to Comedy Central'sChappelle's Showand MTV'sHuman Giant. Kroll's live work is a mix of standup, sketch and characters. He is well known as a performer for his characters: Bobby Bottleservice; Fabrice Fabrice, craft services coordinator for the sitcomThat's So Raven; and Gil Faizon of theOh, Hello Show, which he created with writing partner John Mulaney.

Kroll voices Stu on the HBO animated seriesThe Life & Times of Tim. He also co-stars as Ruxin in the FX comedy seriesThe Leagueand had a recurring role onChildrens Hospitalon Adult Swim. In 2008, Kroll co-starred in the ABC sitcomCavemenbased on the popular GEICO Cavemen commercials and was a regular commentator on VH1'sBest Week Ever. Kroll is one of the co-authors of the critically acclaimed bookBar Mitzvah Discoand a

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graduate of Rye Country Day School, where he gave a contentious graduation speech in which, contrary to [5] widespread belief, he did not expose his genitals, although he did gently chastise the school administration. He has studied and performed regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC and LA and co-hosted the stand-up showWelcome to Our Weekwith Jessi Klein. In November and December 2008, he toured as the support with Aziz Ansari on hisGlow in the Darkcomedy tour in the USA. Also in 2008, Kroll played the role of Versatio Bakir in the critically acclaimed comedy filmAdventures of Poweras the comic MC of an airdrumming competition. His other co-stars included Ari Gold, Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Chiu Chi Ling, and Shoshannah Stern. Later, Kroll signed several items in support of director Ari Gold's music education charity auction "Power Saves the [6] Music", created to support the Vh1 Save the Music Foundation, Nick Kroll performing on stage [7] which works to preserve music education in public schools. Other artists who participated with Kroll in the auction included Ke$ha, Ringo Starr, Rush, and many more. The auction eventually raised enough to help the Foundation restore a full music program at an elementary school in New [8] Jersey.

In 2009, Kroll became a regular voice cast member of the animated Fox comedy seriesSit Down, Shut Up. He voiced Andrew LeGustambos, the flamboyant, bisexual drama teacher. According to Kroll, Andrew is (alongside [9] [9][10] Helen) a loser amongst losers. Kroll voices him to talk like a "modern day Snagglepuss". The series [10] premiered on April 19, 2009. He also lent his voice to Reuben Grinder in the PBS Kids GO! seriesWordGirl. Kroll has appeared on the Comedy Central seriesJohn Oliver's New York Stand Up Show, once performing stand-up as his character "Fabrice Fabrice", a flamboyant craft services coordinator and the other time as himself. Kroll has also recently created a new stand-up character named "Bobby Bottleservice." He has featured the character in a number of online videos for the Funny or Die website, including theEd Hardy Boyzand an audition tape for the MTV show Jersey Shore. Kroll also appears as a character known as El Chupacabra on numerous comedy podcasts, radio programs and the [11][12] Comedy Central showReno 911!. In 2010, Kroll performed on the Comedy Central program The Benson Interruption. In 2011, Comedy Central aired his stand-up specialThank You Very Cool. He also appeared in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreationin the Season 3 episodes "Media Blitz" and "The Fight" as well as inCommunityin the Season 3 episode "Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism", and appeared in the feature filmA Good Old Fashioned Orgy, premiering September 16, 2011. Kroll created and stars in a sketch show titledKroll Showfor Comedy Central that began airing in January 2013. On January 23, 2013, Kroll conducted an "AMA" on Reddit.

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References

[1] http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/01/the-other-other-kroll/ [2] Nick Kroll On "The League," Fantasy Football, And How Chris "Mad Dog" Russo Is His Personal Cobain (http:/ /deadspin.com/5419835/ nick-kroll-on-the-league-fantasy-football-and-how-chris-mad-dog-russo-is-his-personal-cobain) [3] Goldman, Andrew (13 January 2013). "Taking A Hike" (http:/ /www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/nick-kroll-takes-a-hike.html). The New York Times Magazine. . Retrieved 23 January 2013. [4] Growing Up in Rye Helps TV Star - Rye, NY Patch (http:/ /rye.patch.com/articles/growing-up-in-rye-helps-tv-star) [5] "Nick Kroll" (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006157.html?categoryid=3183&cs=1).Variety. 2009-07-17. . [6] http://www.PowerSavestheMusic.com Power Saves the Music [7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8HTxCpU9k Nick Kroll and Power Saves the Music! [8] Kroll and Power Save the Music http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjupGPt0USQ.Power Saves the Music & The VH1 Save the Music Foundation in Jersey City [9] Jensen, Michael (2009-01-15). "FOX's animated "Sit Down, Shut Up" includes bisexual male character" (http:/ /www.afterelton.com/blog/ michaeljensen/foxs-sit-down-shut-up-includes-bisexual-gay-character). After Elton. . Retrieved 2009-04-11. [10] "Sit Down, Shut Up" (http://sitdownshutupwiki.fox.com/?t=anon). Fox. . Retrieved 2009-04-14. [11] WTF with Marc Maron - http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=_frQMqxdvUw [12]Comedy Death-Ray Radio

External links  Official website (http://www.nickkroll.com/)  Nick Kroll (https://twitter.com/nickkroll) on Twitter  Nick Kroll (http://funnyordie.com/nick_kroll/) on Funny or Die  Nick Kroll (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1802209/) at the Internet Movie Database

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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Directed by

Produced by

Written by

Starring

Music by

Theatrical release poster

Alex Gregory Peter Huyck

James D. Stern

Alex Gregory Peter Huyck

Jason Sudeikis Leslie Bibb Lake Bell Michelle Borth Nick Kroll Tyler Labine Lindsay Sloane Lucy Punch Will Forte Martin Starr Angela Sarafyan

Jonathan Sadoff

CinematographyJohn Thomas

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Language

Box office

Anita Brandt-Burgoyne Patrick J. Don Vito

Endgame Entertainment

Samuel Goldwyn Films

9,a2011Aprila2(Tribeca Film Festival) 0p1taS2eb2e,erma1(Limited) [1]

[2] 95 minutes

United States

English

[3] $200,227

A Good Old Fashioned Orgyis a 2011 ensemble-comedy film written and directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. It stars Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Tyler Labine, Lindsay Sloane, Lucy Punch, and Will Forte. The main plot follows Eric (Sudeikis), who, having thrown parties at his father's house for years, decides to have one last party when the house is to be sold: an orgy.

The world premiere ofA Good Old Fashioned Orgywas held at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 29, 2011. The film received a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 2, 2011.

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Plot Eric (Jason Sudeikis) is a perpetual adolescent who lives to party, holding lavish theme-events with his friends using his father's large house in the Hamptons. On July 3, Eric throws a White trash bash party attended by his friends Sue (Michelle Borth), Adam (Nick Kroll), Mike (Tyler Labine), Laura (Lindsay Sloane), Kate (Lucy Punch), Glenn (Will Forte), Doug (Martin Starr) and his girlfriend Willow (Angela Sarafyan), Alison (Lake Bell) and her boyfriend Marcus (Rhys Coiro). Eric meets Kelly (Leslie Bibb) at the party. The following morning, Eric's father (Don Johnson) arrives and informs him that he is selling the house. The next weekend, the group arrive back at the house and find it for sale by Dody (Lin Shaye) and Kelly. Eric and Mike decide to throw a last ultimate party at the house on Labor Day weekend. Lamenting the more liberal sex attitude of the younger generation that passed over his own, Eric suggests having an orgy. When they present the idea to their friends, they are all reluctant, but when Mike and Eric argue that afterwards everyone will be moving away from each other and that this might be their last real time all together, Sue agrees to join. Laura joins the plan to improve her self esteem, and is later joined by Alison after she breaks up with Marcus. Sue has feelings for Eric from high school, but Eric pursues a relationship with Kelly, to attempt to interfere with her selling the house. Doug and Willow join the orgy, hoping it will make him more confident. At Kate and Glenn's wedding, a drunken Adam reveals he has lost his job because Eric destroyed his phone at the White Trash bash, and agrees to join the orgy. Glenn finds out about the orgy and informs Kate, causing the pair to fall out with the group for not including them. Eric and Mike go to an underground sex club to research orgies, and gain advice from Mike's uncle Vic (David Koechner). Later, during a date with Kelly, she asks Eric to meet with her friends on Labor Day, to which he reluctantly agrees. Eric admits to Mike that he is developing feelings for Kelly and is no longer sure about taking part in the orgy. The week before Labor Day, Kate and Glenn ask to join the orgy but the group refuses because the couple have a child. Kelly tells Eric that she has asked Dody to slow the house sale down until the end of the summer. The Labor Day weekend arrives and the group prepare for the orgy. Doug decides to back out at the last minute, causing the group to descend into arguments, culminating when Alison publicly reveals Sue's feelings for Eric, and Doug accuses Mike of being Eric's "pet". Glenn and Kate arrive uninvited, intending to gatecrash the orgy, but they end up having sex in their car. Eric decides to leave and go to Kelly's home, but discovers she is on a date. Eric returns to the party where the group reconcile, and the orgy finally begins. On Labor Day, Doug gives Mike a copy of his finished album, having finally found the confidence to pursue his music career. Sue gets over her feelings for Eric, Adam and Laura enter into a relationship, and Eric reconciles with Kelly. Kelly tells Eric that the house deal fell through and it will now take longer to sell. Eric begins planning a party for Memorial Day.

Cast [4] The cast includes: [5] [6]  Jason Sudeikis as Eric Keppler. Sudeikis was confirmed to star in the film in May, 2008. [5]  Leslie Bibb as Kelly. The real estate agent selling the house and object of Eric's affections. Bibb was confirmed [6] to star in the film in May, 2008. [5]  Lake Bell as Alison Lobel. A psychologist who agrees to the orgy after breaking up with her boyfriend. Bell [7] joined the film in June, 2008. [5]  Michelle Borth as Sue Plummer. One of the friends who has feelings for Eric. Borth joined the cast in May, [8] 2008. [5][9]  Nick Kroll as Adam Richman. A hypochondriac workaholic. [5][9]  Tyler Labine as Mike McCrudden. Eric's best friend. [9]  Angela Sarafyan as Willow Talbot. Doug's girlfriend.

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 Lindsay Sloane as Laura LaCarubba. A school teacher and Eric's shy friend. Joins the orgy to confront her body [5][9] image issues. Sloane was initially reluctant to take the role, stating "I got the script and saw the title and [10] immediately put it down". [9]  Martin Starr as Doug Duquez. A law-student and wannabe musician. [5][9]  Lucy Punch as Kate. Glenn's wife who wants to take part in the orgy [5][9]  Will Forte as Glenn. Kate's husband who wants to take part in the orgy. Forte was confirmed to star in the [6] film in May, 2008.  Lin Shaye as Dody Henderson. Kelly's real estate coworker and underground sex-club member.  David Koechner as Vic George. Mike's uncle from whom Mike gets orgy advice at an underground sex-club. [5]  Don Johnson as Jerry Keppler. Eric's father. [4] Gregory and Huyck cameo in the film as, respectively, a pizza delivery man and a date of the character Kelly.

Development

Writing A Good Old Fashioned Orgywas long in development, with Gregory and Huyck beginning writing the script as early as 1997 while they were writers on the television series,The Larry Sanders Show. The concept of the film was based upon a story told by a fellow writer concerning a party he had attended in the Hollywood Hills that ended in an impromptu orgy. Skeptical about the amount of truth to the story, believing that people would be "too full of shame, fear and guilt to make a successful orgy happen," it nevertheless inspired Gregory and Huyck. The pair believed that the concept would make for an interesting ensemble comedy due in part to the powerful emotions that such a sexually charged situation would entail. The characters were all based upon Gregory, Huyck and their own friends. Gregory claimed that Eric (Sudeikis) and Mike (Labine) are based largely on Huyck with both Sudeikis' and Labine's [4] wardrobe being based on him. Huyck claimed that Adam, Glenn and Marcus were based on Gregory. Gregory and Huyck brought their first draft to their current TV agent who advised them to progress no further with the idea and abandon the project. Undaunted, the pair circulated the early draft and met with several producers to assemble a production team. With producers in place, the pair then began thinking about casting, initially setting their sights on Vince Vaughn. Vaughn ultimately did not take part in the film but worked with Gregory and Huyck [4] on reworking the script. On Vaughn's input, Gregory stated:

Vince Vaughn gave us the single best piece of advice about the movie. We [Gregory and Huyck] were trying to make a generational movie, “ and he suggested that in order to make something universally resonant, you need to make it specific and personal. It's counterintuitive, but he was right. We're both really pretty square, which is why we think this is such an uncomfortably funny area. If we were orgy guys, this would ” [4] have been a hyper-realistic drama.

Casting With the new plot direction, the pair revisited the casting of the lead role, Eric. Huyck eventually saw Sudeikis singing karaoke at aSaturday Night Liveafter party and felt he would fit the role. At the time, Sudeikis was only a writer forSaturday Night Liveand it was felt that his playing the film's lead would require a leap of faith. After Gregory saw Sudeikis acting on the comedy show30 Rockhowever, he was also convinced that Sudeikis would be perfect for the role. While interviewing casting directors, Susie Farris stated her first choice for the role would also [4] be Sudeikis, resulting in her being hired.

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