Andy Richter 🇺🇸

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Andy Richter (Conan, The Three Questions with Andy Richter) and Justin talk about his days being Conan O’Brien’s late night wingman, how he learned to think comedically on his feet and the importance of not caring what other people think.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members.
0:01.8	You can listen to Life is Short.
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0:14.0	About 20 years ago, some friends of mine were walking in New York City, and we passed
0:18.5	by a little costume shop that had a Batman suit.
0:21.2	It was like a little kid's Batman suit, and Sam Rockwell was in our crew, a friend of
0:25.6	the show.
0:26.8	And we thought it'd be funny to see Sam in that Batman.
0:30.6	He had a big beard at the time, and we thought, well, it'd be funny to see Sam in that.
0:34.8	We should do a short with Sam as Batman, and I would play Robin.
0:39.0	And that night, our friend, Will Carlo, just wrote like a sketch.
0:42.5	And the next day, we filmed it, and I'm wearing little green, tidy whiteies.
0:47.1	And like a homemade Robin costume, and nothing on my legs.
0:51.0	And I've always been quite self-conscious of my little white, hairy legs.
0:54.3	And it was embarrassing, but I remember thinking, well, that's okay.
0:56.7	It's just going to be shown on a little screen, like a little short for the internet.
1:01.8	Much to our surprise, the writer Will submitted it to Sundance, and it got in in the short film
1:07.9	competition.
1:08.9	So I went to Sundance to see it, and they played it on a massive movie theater screen.
1:15.2	My tiny little white legs were big.
1:17.2	They were big.
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