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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Ben Schwartz (Re-Release)

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

(Re-released from January 2022) Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog, Parks and Recreation) joins Andy Richter to talk about getting started in comedy, freelance joke writing for Letterman and Weekend Update, having a strong work ethic and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is another episode of the three questions with Andy Richter.

0:16.1

I continue to be Andy Richter and I am speaking to a very funny, very talented multi-tasking

0:26.4

force of entertainment, Ben Schwartz.

0:30.4

Hi Andy, how are you?

0:32.3

I'm good. I'm good. You're very busy these days. You have like a ton of shit coming

0:36.8

up. You should have talked to people and it's like, I guess, you know, like maybe see me

0:40.9

do stand up or something, but you've got like real projects to push.

0:45.3

But I mean, maybe you can maybe see me do improv. I can still play that angle as well.

0:49.2

You can maybe see me do improv and stuff at Largo when it opens back up or something like that.

0:53.5

Yeah, it's been a very, I have, it's very crazy in that there's a stretch where not a lot

0:59.7

happens and then all of a sudden I have like three big things in three months right after another.

1:04.6

I almost wish I could have spanned them out a little bit wider so it felt like, but now it's like,

1:09.1

you know, it's all happening. While one's going on, the other one's premiering and then

1:12.4

something else is having. So it's, I feel very lucky and also like, oh man, or people are going

1:16.8

to be so annoyed. Just going to be like doing podcasts. I'm going to be like talking like this

1:22.3

and people are like, oh, we get it. He's doing it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it, it's,

1:28.2

it is nice though because the promoting of it is then kind of isolated and not spread out.

1:34.4

I could kind of do it all in like a month and a half or two months. Yeah. Yeah. It's very exciting.

1:38.4

Because people, I mean, it's, you know, like talking to you on a podcast is fun,

1:42.7

but there's a lot of promoting things and it's not anything that we ever set. Like, nobody goes

1:48.2

like, man, I can't wait to promote stuff, you know, when they're a kid. It's as far as it's

1:53.8

drudgery. It's talk shows for me because I was a page at Letterman. So talk shows for me are a big

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