Andy Richter Quotes

• 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.

  Andy Richter

• We’ve been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I’m sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that’s just, you’re trying to show off or something. That’s ridiculous.

  Andy Richter

• There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

  Andy Richter

• The people on ‘Quintuplets’ were great, but I wasn’t a producer on that show, and it wasn’t exactly my taste.

  Andy Richter

• The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I’d been there seven years.

  Andy Richter

• Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she’s real funny, but lately it’s all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain’t funny. No giggles there.

  Andy Richter

• No, I don’t know any Emily Dickinson poems!

  Andy Richter

• It’s funny, because ‘Arrested Development’ is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called ‘Quintuplets’ for a season for Fox, and this was while ‘Arrested Development’ was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  Andy Richter

• It’s a very nice thing to have a baby.

  Andy Richter

• If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you’re already hamstrung because you don’t have any freedom.

  Andy Richter

• I’ve always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

  Andy Richter

• I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

  Andy Richter

• 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.

  Andy Richter

• I mean, I’ll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I’m kind of a prude.

  Andy Richter

• I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

  Andy Richter

• But I don’t read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

  Andy Richter

• Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

  Andy Richter

Andy Richter (17)

Birth:	28th October, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Talk Show Host, Writer

About

Andy Richter  is 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 in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Andy Barker, P.I. After leaving Columbia in 1988 Richter worked as a production assistant on commercial shoots in Chicago. In 1989, he began taking classes at Chicago's Improv Olympic. He went from student to "House Performer" within a year. Richter branched out working with "The Comedy Underground" and the Annoyance Theater. Richter wrote for the short-lived Jonathan Brandmeier television show. Richter left his post at Late Night in 2000 to pursue a career acting in films and television. His first major venture, Fox's Andy Richter Controls the Universe, was canceled after two mid-season runs. His next Fox sitcom, Quintuplets, lasted one season.

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