Hey guys, Nicki Novak here for Young Hollywood at San Diego Comic Con in the Nickelodeon suite with Chris Parnell.

Great to see you.

Thanks for coming in.

Thanks for having me.

So, how many times at Comic Con?

This is number six.

Number six.

Yeah.

Six times a charm?

Every time's a charm, Nikki, every time.

Is it?

Yeah.

Rick and Morty, they've done an interesting thing where they, they really haven't done any callbacks to season one.

I think because Dan realized with with community that when they put all these secret things in there that that people were reluctant to start watching at season two because they were missing out on all the references.

So, I think he perhaps wisely in fact, you know, you can come into season two very clean without having without knowing season one.

But we sort of pick up from where we left off at the end of season one where time got frozen by Rick.

Time gets unfrozen, then we see what happens from there.

How do you think it's a fresh take on anything that we've seen before, sort of in that genre?

Wow, I I mean it's so out there in the sense uh from a scientific sort of point of view that Rick can travel to any dimension, you know, any universe and so the possibilities are completely limitless when you sort of set that up as your as your starting point that he has a gun that will open a portal to another universe.

They can really come up with anything and and have it be justified, you know.

So when are you going in time if you're going anywhere?

Any to any time.

Where would I go?

Yeah.

Wow.

I I'd probably go back to, you know, the early eighties or late seventies and try to give myself some advice as a kid.

Oh, what advice would you give yourself?

Just give myself some advice about girls, you know, just just to be more confident.

Do you want to give advice to the Young Hollywood audience that because you have that wisdom now?

Well, you got to, you know, it's important to love yourself and to believe in yourself.

You got to be bold.

You got to, you got to be brave, and you got to be willing to fail.

And this is stuff you've never heard before.

Never.

Nobody's ever said these words.

Well, let me ask you then, is it good to put it out there or do you think it's good to keep it, you know, hold it back, keep the mystery, not give them too much, play a little hard to get?

Well, you know, you've got to take every situation on a case by case basis.

Okay.

Okay.

So if you were dealing with me, Right.

What are you thinking?

Well, I'm not getting a particular vibe from you other than just professional.

So, I would just keep it professional.

That's a really good answer.

I was keeping it in the professional realm.

Clearly.

No, clearly you were.

Yeah.

Clearly clearly you were.

Wife, who might watch at home.

Um, I really wasn't intending it to be that.

No, I get people come on to me all the time, Nikki.

It's cool.

I expect it.

I totally expect it.

It's hard because as a as sort of a sex star, I mean as a as somebody who's who's one of the competitors for for sexiest man alive and those kind of things.

Best looking, all those all those things that I always get, you know, I'm always up there.

You just give it to Ryan Gosling for, you know, charity kind of thing.

You know, it's it's me and Ryan Gosling and Chris Hemsworth and it's It's nice company to be in.

It's tough being a superhero, isn't it?

Well, I'm not a superhero, but you know.

Which one do you most identify with?

Which superhero?

You can be the superhero.

You are the superhero.

This is becoming, yeah.

You are the superhero.

Life lessons with Chris Parnell, chapter one.

Do you have a favorite impression that you've done sort of over the years?

I mean, I'm really not a great impressionist.

I had to kind of learn to do it when I got on SNL.

But the only one that came into the show with was Tom Brokaw.

So that was the audition one that you chose?

Well, you're supposed to do three like original characters and three impressions.

I did four characters and two impressions.

Uh the other was the second one.

It was a is MTV VJ named Jesse back from the middle nineties or something like eighties.

nineties.

Get a cheer from the crowd again on that one.

You got quite an audience over here.

You've got a hecklers.

It was.

The great thing about the audition was you do it on home base, on the stage there where the host does the monologue.

And Lauren and whatever writers and producers were there are seated sort of away in the dark.

And then there's just one camera there.

So, it felt like just doing your own little one-person show.

As opposed to being in a in somebody's office in Burbank, five, you know, three feet away from them.

Everybody out there who's ever auditioned knows exactly what you're talking about right now.

You know.

I want to talk about Archer as well.

It has such a huge cult following.

People who know it obsess with it.

It's like their favorite show.

Strangest fan encounter you've had.

The last Comic Con, we did a thing, our cast did a thing where we met like some people dressed up as our characters and did like a photo op with them.

You know, there's a guy dressed up as Cyril, and and he was there for two years.

Very nice guy.

He had made a sort of a prop of a swan, a foil swan, which was from one of the episodes.

And and gave it to me.

And do you have it on your mantel?

I don't.

Do you treasure it?

No.

No.

I mean, I try not to collect a lot of stuff.

A lot of foil?

Yeah, you know.

And it's better to recycle it anyway.

I mean, I appreciated it.

I photographed it and I honored it.

So, you may have used it, you know, to contain your, you know, leftovers?

You don't know where it's been, Nikki.

It's cool.

I expect it.

I totally expect it.

Being that you're doing a lot of voicing, a lot of voice acting, any tips?

It's hard.

It's you got to do a lot of auditions to start booking things.

And even then, you know, you might do 200 auditions and then book one thing.

I don't know, it helps for me, I find my like my acting background helps that I, you know, I like went to theater school.

And somebody's laughing.

I know, I shouldn't consider myself as an actor.

that.

It's fair.

It's fair.

I'm not.

Most people don't think of me as a great actor, but I do consider myself an actor on whatever level.

You're you're free to laugh.

You're right to laugh.

I take no offense at that.

Um, actor.