The videos have been up for a few months and all have hundreds of thousands of views, including one with Carolina Panthers defensive end Jared Allen that has over a million views. Once you get comfortable with them, they are so cool and so game for all of it. I just told them to let me look like the idiot. I told them to treat it like it was a real interview. We got to go to the hotel guests and make them happy,” says Schwartz, who also said working with athletes was easier than expected.
It also didn’t hurt that he’s a huge NFL fan.
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And if you write yourself some stuff then you take care of the acting part as well.”īefore hitting it big with House of Lies and Parks and Recreation, Schwartz gained popularity with internet sketches on FunnyOrDie and CollegeHumor, specifically on the series “Jake and Amir.” So it was no surprise that Schwartz jumped at the opportunity Courtyard Hotels presented him to write, direct, edit, and star in a series of sketches promoting their partnership with the NFL. Writing is something you can always be doing. If you audition and you don’t get the job, you don’t get it. “With acting you don’t get to make your own destiny. “I’ve sold four or five movies now so I write those, and if I’m not working on something I’ve sold then I’m working on something I’m hoping to sell,” says Schwartz. Writing, says Schwartz, helps him to create his own future instead of depending on casting directors. When he isn’t acting he tries to write something every single day. Schwartz, a Bronx native, learned the value of hard work from his school teacher mother and his businessman father. He even won an Emmy for co-writing Hugh Jackman’s opening number at the Academy Awards in 2009. He’s written for Robot Chicken, SNL’s “Weekend Update”, and The Late Show with David Letterman. It’s easy to see his natural ebullience and easygoing character and think that he just coasts by on making things up as he goes, but Schwartz is actually a writer first. I was really a fan of his stuff,” says Schwartz. “I loved Ferguson’s show, it’s the only one where nothing is talked about in the pre-interview. One just has to watch any of his appearances on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to see how easy it is for him to make anything funny. Schwartz, an Upright Citizen’s Brigade alum, is a natural improviser. The most exciting part of a career is when you are a nobody and you get your first show that crushes.” I know really talented people who haven’t had their break yet.
“You need some talent, hard work, and some luck. In my head I thought if I worked harder than everyone else that I would get something back and be rewarded,” says Schwartz. I grinded for a long time making no money. “There’s a definite type of reward to putting in your work.
The man who is probably best known for playing the irrepressible, energetic, wildly irresponsible, and somehow lovable Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on NBC’s Parks and Recreation can currently be seen starring in the critically acclaimed film The Walk, the fourth season of Showtime’s House of Lies, and, perhaps the nearest and dearest project to Schwartz’s heart, a series of videos sponsored by Courtyard Hotels featuring NFL players DeMarco Murray, Jared Allen, and Victor Cruz that Schwartz wrote, directed, edited, and starred in. After years of hard behind-the-scenes work, grinding away, and even winning an Emmy for his writing, Ben Schwartz is finally having his moment as a star.Īnd, assuming these jobs pay well, you could say he’s “flushhhhed with cassshh.”
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