Chat live with Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman
‘Greatest Love Story’ started in the bedroom
Are they Hollywood’s cutest couple or what?
Join USA TODAY on Oct. 1 for a Facebook Live chat with Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman about their new book, “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History” (Dutton, on sale Oct. 2).
#BookmarkThis is a series of live video chats with best-selling authors, and fans can submit questions during the chat and in advance.
In their humorous book (written in bed), the couple have a running, often racy conversation about their lives and marriage.
Offerman, a woodworker, costarred with Amy Poehler hosting this summer’s crafting competition “Making It” on NBC, and Mullally returns this fall as kooky, pill-popping Karen Walker on the second season of NBC’s “Will & Grace” revival.
Mullally, 59, and Offerman, 48, who’ve made guest appearances on each other’s TV series over the years (Mullally showed up on “Parks and Recreation” as Ron Swanson’s ex-wife, Tammy), met in 2000 and married in 2003.
Their saucy live comedy show “The Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” celebrated their sex lives, so that tells you something.
The couple took the stage earlier this year at BookExpo America, the annual gathering of the publishing industry, to give a peek at what’s inside the pages of “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told.”
They began the book (complete with silly photos) by chatting about various topics – lying in bed recording on their smartphones, Mullally said. They planned to have the chats transcribed and write from there.
But Offerman said that when “we started reading the conversations, they’re full of irreverence and hopefully tasty repartee, and we said, ‘ We don’t think we’re going to improve on these conversations.’ ”
Said Mullally: “I think it is quite an accurate reflection of our actual relationship.”
Offerman, who starred as a songwriting dad in the summer movie “Hearts Beat Loud,” has written three other books: “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living,” “Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers” and “Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop.”
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