Andy Richter
Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richteris an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS. He is also known for his voice work as Mort in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Andy Barker, P.I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth28 October 1966
CityGrand Rapids, MI
CountryUnited States of America
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.
Well, I refer to 'Celebrity Jeopardy ' as the short-bus 'Jeopardy,' because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.
I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.
One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.