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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Brett Gelman

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Brett Gelman joins Andy Richter to talk about doing both comedy and drama, being an anxious child, being a Dead Head, and more.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. I'm Andy Richter. You're listening to the three questions. And I've got

0:16.6

Brick Elman on today. How about that? Isn't that exciting? I, uh, you, you are soaking

0:26.3

up all the work. You were in everything these days. Oh my God. I'm glad to hear you say

0:32.6

that. You know, why it doesn't feel, yeah, it never feels like that does it. No, no, no,

0:36.8

not at all. I mean, I feel very grateful and I intellectually know that. But I, yeah,

0:41.4

yeah, the trauma of not having worked for so long and the fear of never working again.

0:48.8

Oh, yes. As always creeping in. Yeah. Yeah. No, for me, the, the big turning point was that

0:55.6

it was like some Tom Clancy movie on cable at where you play like a terrorist. And I was

1:02.3

so happy to see you. And like, because it's like, there's no comedy in that movie whatsoever,

1:08.6

you know, and because usually, you know, like you're in things where it's kind of fun,

1:13.6

you know, like you, you've been in some great stuff. We're just for drama. But mostly

1:18.6

people get you because you're, I, would you say you're essentially a comedian? I mean,

1:23.7

because I feel I would say that, yeah, I mean, that's my roots, you know, I'm trained in

1:31.4

all, you know, in all things theater and acting. And I definitely, I strive to do more and

1:39.8

more drama. But I mean, I can't, I can't do. You're either funny or you're not. And so,

1:49.0

and so if you're funny, it's really ridiculous not to utilize that and to abandon that completely.

1:57.4

But like, I do, I do love to do drama. And I love that I'm getting the chance to do more of that.

2:04.3

And I want to do more of that. But I never want to abandon comedy. And up to this point,

2:09.6

even things that I've done for the most part that have drama in them, like lemon or

2:15.8

flea bag, there's still a lot of, there's still comedies. Oh, yeah. I mean, like flea bag, I feel,

2:22.1

that's a comedy. Like that whole thing is it, you know, I mean, it's, it's meant to be,

2:29.7

I mean, there's absurdist comedy that isn't full of jokes, you know, that it's just about the

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