Greg Behrendt

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer Greg Behrendt joins Andy Richter to discuss the 90’s alt-comedy scene, co-writing "He's Just Not That Into You,” the X-rated writer’s room question that led to his consulting job on on “Sex and the City,” his life-changing appearance on “Oprah,” taking his dog’s medication, his battles with addiction and cancer, and his new book on the Everand platform. Want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out the Google Form in episode description.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome back to the three questions I'm your host Andy Richter and this week I'm talking to writer and comedian Greg Barrett
0:07.0	He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller. He's just not that into you and he worked as a consultant on Sex in the City and he's been performing stand-up
0:16.7	Comedy since the early days of the 90s alternative comedy scene his new book which is a doozy, see you on the way down, catch
0:26.0	you on the way back up, is available now on the Everran platform. We had a great conversation. This man has had quite the life. Here's my talk with Greg Barrett. Well, Greg, it's been a long time since we've seen each other, I think, yeah, yeah.
0:54.5	And I just read your book,
0:57.3	see you on the way down, it's a digital book,
1:00.0	and it's on the Everand platform.
1:02.2	Yes. And I read it, wow you have been through a lot.
1:06.2	Yeah, yeah, you have been through a lot the last, since the last time I saw you.
1:10.4	Yeah, well my manager was taking a meeting with this particular book
1:14.0	company and they were talking about other people and for some reason they got on the
1:18.3	topic of failure and he said oh my god if you want failure. This story will blow your mind.
1:25.0	What a pal!
1:26.0	This story will blow your mind.
1:28.0	Oh yeah, cancer twice, opiates twice,
1:30.0	you had his hip her place.
1:32.0	He's just a day, He was once very famous and they're not famous at all.
1:36.0	Yeah. This is a great story for you. So, yeah. So, so then he pitched it and then I was like, yeah, guess if you want and I'll write about the last 10 or so years of my life.
1:47.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:48.0	So that was it.
1:49.0	Yeah.
1:50.0	There was no sort of, did you, oh I should say, was there like embarrassment that you had to get over?
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