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Nick Kroll on rejected characters and getting Mel Brooks to laugh : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Nick Kroll is a brilliant comedian and one of the minds behind Big Mouth and History of the World, Part II. We Rick Roll Nick Kroll, that is, ask him questions about roles played by actors named Rick.

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Nick Kroll on rejected characters and getting Mel Brooks to laugh

Nick Kroll on rejected characters and getting Mel Brooks to laugh

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Nick Kroll spent years playing characters that were anything other than Nick Kroll, before playing a fictionalized version of his middle-school self in Big Mouth. He's now one of the creative minds behind the sequel to Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I, which is called, shockingly, History of the World, Part II.