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• Started performing stand-up comedy when he was 16.
• Many of his relatives are Lutheran ministers, including his grandfather, father and brother.
• Was already writing scripts when he was in high school.
• Dropped out of college to pursue an acting career.
• Signing up as an extra for the movie Virginia (2010), which was film in his home state, led to a small role after he approached director Dustin Lance Black to congratulate him on winning the Oscar for Milk (2008).
• Worked in a butcher shop and a bowling alley.
• Didn't had to audition for the role of Richard Jewell in Clint Eastwood's film Richard Jewell (2019).