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SMALL CRAFT WARNING Offerman, with co-host Poehler, says of the show: “It’s good, emotional human stories for a dark time when people have forgotten how to mind their manners.”
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NICK OFFERMAN IS A NOTED gentleman and something of a soft touch. On each episode of Making It, the NBC crafting competition show that he co-hosts with Amy Poehler, he dreads the inevitable moment of elimination, when contestants are voted off. “It’s heartbreaking and teary”, says the actor. “From the get-go, Amy said, ‘Isn’t there some way we can do this without anyone ever having to be cut?’ It was a running joke, but coming from a serious emotional place.”