Colin Hanks

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Colin Hanks joins Andy Richter to discuss his new film "John Candy: I Like Me," his unexpected and rewarding journey into documentary filmmaking, growing up in Sacramento, the acting advice he received from his father, Tom Hanks, and much more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story (about anything!) - 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	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. This is your under-the-weather host, Andy Richter.
0:05.8	And today I'm talking to Colin Hanks. He's an actor and a filmmaker. You've seen him on TV shows like Fargo, The Offer, and Dexter, as well as films like King Kong, Nobody 2, and the Jumangi series.
0:18.4	He's the director of the documentary films All Things Must Pass,
0:21.9	The Rise and Fall of Tower Records,
0:24.1	Eagles of Death Metal,
0:25.3	Nosomee, Our Friends,
0:27.1	and this year's John Candy,
0:28.7	I Like Me.
0:29.9	Here's my great conversation
0:31.3	with Colin Hanks.
0:32.4	Thank you. Hi, Colin Hanks. How are you? I'm good, Andy Richter. How are you? Good. I'm glad to have you here. And I'm excited because you're here about this documentary. You're a documentarian now.
0:56.1	As a side hustle, yes. Really? That's not your main thing? Well, I don't know which is the
1:00.7	classy. I don't know which is the side hustle now. Yeah. Because originally it was the docs were the
1:05.7	side hustle. Right. Now kind of wearing makeup and pretending to be other people is taking up less and less of my time. Yeah, yeah. But it pays a little bit better. Sure, it does. So I don't know which is which. Right. So I'm just, I go both ways. Yeah, CDC. Nobody goes into, like, I'm going to get rich by being a documentarian. God, no. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. I didn't. Yeah, that's definitely not why I got into it.
1:29.2	Well, tell me, tell me about the John Candy I like me. Yeah, so.
1:33.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, so it's basically, you know, a documentary about the beloved John Candy,
1:40.9	who left us a little over 30 years ago. Canadian icon, treasure, national treasure, comedian,
1:48.4	generally one of the most delightful human beings of all time. Yeah, he has a pretty sterling reputation.
1:57.1	Yeah. Just as like, I mean, evidently funny, but, but also just nobody's ever had an unkind word to say about him. No, never. And so, yeah, I mean, a few years ago, Ryan Reynolds, I don't know if you've heard of him. I have. He's very tall. He's a very tall man, also very funny, also Canadian.
2:19.1	He called me and said, like,
2:21.0	there should be a John Candy documentary.
2:23.8	And he's like such a super fan of Johns
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