Joel and Andy's roomate, is cynical, self-absorbed, and narcissistic, as well as pathologically lazy. Nick has no real job, though he claims to be "working on my dissertation", and tends to just mooch money off of Joel. The theme of Nick's rambling dissertation is essentially to prove that modern popular culture is all just a rip-off of things Cavemen already did, and appears to have no real merit. Nick doesn't even spend much time actually writing his dissertation, and "tends to just sit around watching TV and editing wikipedia" (sic). Nick has very effete and cultured tastes, believing himself to be intellectually superior to most people he meets, and overlooks the fact that he is simply lazy and doesn't believe in doing real work. Typically, Nick will blame his own failures (which are due to his innate laziness) on Caveman-based prejudice. (wikipedia.org)