Don’t stare, Nick will rise to the occasion

HE might look a bit scary, but Nick Offerman is really a barrel of laughs. The actor, writer, comedian and carpenter is best-known for his grumpy, anti-bureaucratic bureaucrat character Ron Swanson on the hit American sitcom Parks and Recreation.

His unsettling stare has been compared to that of the late Grumpy Cat.

Offerman’s role in Parks and

Recreation earned him a Television Critics Association Award in the US for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

He is also a two-time nominee for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Offerman’s first major TV role since Parks and Recreation was as Karl Weathers in the acclaimed series Fargo, for which he also received a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/ Miniseries.

Also an acclaimed stage performer and stand-up comedian, Offerman brings his latest live show, All Rise, to Hobart’s Wrest Point Entertainment Centre tomorrow night.

All Rise is described as an evening of “deliberative talking’’ and “light dance’’.

“My aim in this undertaking is to encourage my fellow homo sapiens to aim higher in life than the channels of consumerism would have us imagine,” Offerman said.

“It’s a proper revival suggesting the existence of a higher power in the land than commerce, one that will cause you to pop, lock and rejoice.

“Come on down and hear the good news that will make you go jingle-jangle in your juice box.” Nick Offerman will make fans All

Rise at the Wrest Point Entertainment Centre tomorrow night.

Doors open at 7.15pm, with the show starting at 8pm.

Tickets are $81.93 plus a handling charge from ticketmaster.com.au