Video: Nick Offerman Counts Down the New Year by Silently Sipping Whisky
If you've ever wanted to hang out with Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman — and who hasn't? — this may be the closest you get. This video features Offerman sitting and silently sipping whisky in front of the Lagavulin distillery, staring directly at us through the camera as a New Year's party happens behind him. You may recall he did something similar last year in front of a fireplace.
I'm fascinated with this as a piece of marketing, because it's nearly impossible to find a company that is content with having someone sit in silence and simply drink the product as a way to try to sell it. I don't know about you, but watching this makes me want to go get a glass of whisky and sip it with him, so the ploy is clearly working. But even if you don't like whisky, you can...I don't know, maybe watch this and pretend you're sitting right there with him and tell him your craziest stories as practice for when you'll be telling them at holiday parties later on.