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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Deon Cole

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian, and screenwriter Deon Cole talks with Andy Richter about getting onstage for the first time (for 50 dollars), his leathermaking side business, and how sticking it out as the first black writer on Conan led him to work on Angie Tribeca and Black-ish. Plus, Deon discusses plans to expand his fanbase.

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0:00.0

Hello, three questioners. I am here today with a dear sweet heart in my life. Mr. Dion Cole,

0:20.0

an old friend, an old comrade road companion. How are you doing? I'm good bro. How you doing?

0:30.6

I'm doing well. Yeah. That's good. I mean, no, no problem. Yeah. You and I got to know each other

0:36.1

on the tour when we, between the tonight show and the and the and the TBS show. Yeah. You came and

0:45.2

did warm up for us. Yeah, we got to travel together. We got the rock, man. Yeah. We did. We hit the road

0:56.8

for how long is that like about? It was like three months. It felt longer. Yeah, two or three

1:01.8

months. It felt longer, but you know, it was great. Yeah. It made me realize like I can't do the road.

1:08.2

You know, like waking up, I like wait. Just so we waking up in a hotel room and in the dark

1:14.8

and being like, where's the fucking bathroom? I don't remember where the back like that's a closet,

1:20.1

you know. It used to be so smashed on that on that on that road because I used to come out. I used

1:27.6

to come the show will go and then towards the end of the show, I would do like 10 men to

1:33.4

stand up. Yeah, yeah. And we're close to show out and then we'd be done. Yeah. Every time right

1:39.7

after I was done, I had to drink my hand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's what I felt too. Like,

1:48.0

if I had to be on the road much, I would, I would eat, you know, I'd be three hundred and fifty

1:54.3

pounds and I'm fucking out of the hall. So be so bad. Because that's also too life on the road. You

2:00.2

can eat healthy. No, you can't. It's really hard because you can't. Everything that you can get

2:04.8

that's quick and easy is garbage. The only way that I die is like, expressing when I come to

2:09.9

doing comedy shows, I will stay in the hotel room until the show. Yeah. And then I'll eat at the show.

2:16.0

Right. I wouldn't eat the rest of the day. Oh, I would just stay in my whole bed. Yeah. Yeah.

2:21.2

Hard, man. Really? Until I get to the show, but then the problem is I got to the show. I ate the

2:26.6

whole left side of the menu. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because I didn't eat all day long. Right.

2:31.2

So it kind of, I mean, the message of what the diet that I was trying to. Right. Right.

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