Even on a show full of oddballs, Nate Nickerson stands out. A late-series addition to the warehouse, he's the kind of guy who prints his resume on the back of chili recipes. Sometimes, he's Dwight's hapless henchman. Sometimes, he's just a guy offering his opinions on modern gum, which he maintains has gotten "too minty." Through it all, however, one truth emerges. Whatever the situation, Nate will find a way to make it weird.
As it turns out, that's pretty much his actor's specialty. Mark Proksch is an auteur of awkwardness. Since The Office ended, he's popped up on all sorts of big and small screen productions. A four-episode stint on Better Call Saul as Daniel "Pryce" Wormald is one of his most high-profile roles, though What We Do in the Shadows, where he stars as Colin Robinson, a lethally dull energy vampire, might just overtake it.
Proksch's true home, however, is the beautifully bizarre field of Adult Swim. Dream Corp LLC, a surreal comedy set in a disreputable dream therapy clinic, stars Proksch as a technician. On Cinema, which went from podcast to web show to Adult Swim series, features Proksch playing a pitiful, thinly fictionalized version of himself. But wait, it gets weirder. Decker, a spinoff series, features Proksch as Abdul Sharif, a villain role that the fictional Proksch struggles to pull off. Nate might be strange, but his actor is infinitely (and delightfully) stranger still.
