Brian Stack

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Longtime Conan writer Brian Stack worked with Andy on all three of Conan's late-night shows and played fan-favorite characters like Artie Kendall the Ghost Crooner, the Interrupter, Hannigan the Traveling Salesman, one of the Slipnutz, and more. The comedian, who now works as a writer for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," joins Andy Richter this week to discuss memories from the writer’s room, twenty-seven years in late-night television, the creation of Amy Poehler’s Andy’s Little Sister character, the contrast between his upbeat demeanor and dark sense of humor, and much more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host Andy Richter and this week I am talking to my friend Brian Stack
0:07.4	My favorite shows the ones where I get to talk to people I actually know and love
0:12.4	Brian worked on all three of our late night shows from
0:16.0	late night with Conan O'Brien to Conan on TBS and I have known him since the late 80s.
0:23.4	We did improv in Chicago together.
0:26.0	He's partially responsible for many of your favorite ridiculous characters from those shows,
0:31.7	including Ardy Kendall, the Ghost Krooner the Interruptor
0:34.8	Fantastic Guy Hanigan the traveling salesman wiki Bear and slipnuts he's currently a staff
0:42.2	writer on the late show with Stephen Colbert. They're lucky to have him. Here's my conversation with Brian Stack. All right. Hello everybody. This is the three questions. Sometimes it feels like cheating. I just get to talk to my old friends sometimes and reminisce and that's what we're doing today
1:16.4	because I'm talking to Brian Stack.
1:20.3	Andy great thanks for having me on I've been a big fan of this podcast for a long time and it's always great to talk to you.
1:26.0	Well, how are you?
1:27.0	We're talking to you from home, right?
1:29.0	You're in New York?
1:30.0	Yeah, here at home and you're home too?
1:33.0	Yeah, I'm in my wife's office too.
1:35.0	I normally don't do these from home because there's dogs barking and children yelling.
1:42.0	Yeah, the dog just, Don Q, started barking. But yeah, it's a Friday, you know. Do you go into, well, I guess I should just say, I mean, you have been a comedy writer on late night since like 90, I mean in the late night television world since like 97 is it? Yeah, exactly 97 is when I got hired at Conan yeah yeah and
2:06.7	and pretty continuous right I mean it hasn't stopped. Yeah I feel really
2:11.9	grateful about that and I don't know if you remember but my job at Kona was originally supposed to be for 13 weeks.
2:17.0	I was filling in for Tommy Blatcha who broke his leg really badly and you guys were nice enough to recommend me to send in a packet and they liked it enough to bring me out for what I thought was going to be a 13 week filling job for Tommy and then luckily they liked the stuff I was doing and figured out a way to keep me on after Tommy came
2:33.4	back which was especially great and then it turned into 18 years and which is
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