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I ended up getting just frustrated with the sameness of it.

I had a sense that I was contributing and doing good work. Did you ever sense that you, personally, were on the chopping block?Ī: I never thought of it that way. Q: “Late Night” struggled for a bit after Conan first took over. I grew up in a rural area and sometimes when they would send a horse in a trailer, especially if it was high-strung, they would put in a dog or a goat, just to keep the horse company so it didn’t freak out on the trip. Q: How would you describe your approach to the role?Ī: I was a supporting player. So I just looked at it as another improv task. He was bringing irony and absurdity to a venue where there was not a lot of either. But David Letterman definitely mattered to Conan and definitely mattered to me. I don’t know if it was because our household wasn’t into Johnny Carson, it just didn’t matter to me. Because I don’t give a about the history of it. Q: Did you do any preparation, see how other sidekicks had handled the position?Ī: No.

#Andy richter movie#

I was really worried that I was going to get that job and people were going to walk out of the theater showing “Cabin Boy” and see the guy from the movie behind the popcorn stand.

And I got to tell them, I’m sorry, I got a job on a late-night talk show. Q: What would you have been doing if you hadn’t gotten the “Late Night” gig?Ī: I was applying to be an assistant manager of a movie theater in Westwood.

#Andy richter tv#

And I went back to my office and right as my butt was hitting my office chair, I thought, who am I kidding? Yes, I’ll be on TV every night. And I said, well, I don’t know - maybe I want to be one of the cast-of-characters people. Devoted fans counted down the days till the duo could return to late night on a different network with the new show, 'Conan' (TBS, 2010- ).A: Robert said to me, hey, would you want to be the sidekick? At the time, we had these very lofty ideas that we were going to eschew topicality and make our own absurd little world that was a hybrid talk show-sketch show with our own cast of characters. Richter remained loyal to his collaborator and friend with whom he shared a sharp and effortless comedic rapport. Though he considered himself a comic actor, he returned to the fold for 'The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien' (NBC, 2009-2010) where he served as announcer and sidekick to his old friend. Richter continued to turn in memorable cameo moments on shows like 'Arrested Development,' (Fox, 2003-06) as quintuplet versions of himself, and in big screen hits like 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby' (2006). But they did, and after Richter left 'Late Night,' he had a loyal fan base follow him to his own shows, 'Andy Richter Controls the Universe' (Fox, 2002-03) and 'Andy Barker: P.I.' (NBC, 2007). With his sly comic timing and subtle line delivery, it took time for viewers to catch on to his particular brand of humor. Not as outlandish as Jim Carrey or Eddie Murphy, Richter simply had a normal everyday persona. A likable, even-tempered yet brilliantly funny comic performer, Andy Richter started off below the radar as the inestimable sidekick on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' (NBC, 1993-2009).