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So I just looked at it as another improv task.ĭefinitely, I was concerned about people saying that. 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.

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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.ĭid you do any preparation, see how other sidekicks had handled the position?

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

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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. 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 attended the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign and Columbia College, where he studied film and video.When did you know that they were eyeing you to be Conan’s sidekick? He was most recently seen on TBS hosting Team Coco Presents: The Conan Writers Live. T and the Women, Scary Movie 2, Elf, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro. His many appearances include such films as Robert Altman's Dr.

Richter has been very active in the feature film world, as well.

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He starred in the Emmy®-nominated Andy Richter Controls the Universe for the Fox network and the series Andy Barker, P.I. I will get to the bottom of this.'Īctor and writer Andy Richter rose to fame on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as O'Brien's sidekick since its premiere on Sept. However, I am mostly looking forward to getting out of the house again.'Ĭonan O'Brien added, 'This decision was made without my authority. Through two late-night franchises and the recently concluded The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour, Richter has been a consistent asset to O'Brien.Īndy Richter stated, 'I'm thrilled to be going back to work with Conan, and very excited to start a whole new venture on TBS.

13, 1993, O'Brien and Richter have developed a comedic chemistry that few performers have achieved. (ET/PT) on TBS.Ī collaboration that began Sept. One of the longest running teams in late-night television will again take the stage together as Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter join forces on Conan, which premieres Monday, Nov. Longtime O'Brien Collaborator Will Join Conan on TBS Beginning Nov. If you're already craving some time with Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter, check out a video of them interviewing each other after the jump along with the press release.