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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

H. Jon Benjamin

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

H. Jon Benjamin (Bob's Burgers, Archer) joins Andy Richter to discuss his winding path to comedy, messing with execs, why he stopped doing bits on Late Night, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm in the very soft.

0:18.4

As George Burns said, like,

0:22.0

Shoveon and Oyster and a coin slot saw. That's so descriptive and perfect and like,

0:30.0

oh man, thanks George Burns, thanks Carl Reiner. Anyway, hi, I'm so happy to be talking to

0:37.6

H. John Benjamin. No, I heard that the H is because Laura Silverman was

0:46.0

fucking with you. Is that true? Yes. Well, this is my name. I do have a first name, Harry.

0:52.0

Right. Harry. Not Harold Harry. Just Harry. Yeah. Wow. I have two nicknames for names.

0:58.1

My parents were very casual. Yeah. Too lazy to finish it. Yeah.

1:04.8

Easier on the form. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. So Harry. Harry's my grandfather's name.

1:11.0

But they called you John, right? They call me John. I don't know what happened with the

1:16.0

grandfather. Well, you know, I'm Paul Andrew. Okay. That's my. And so I've been Andy my whole life.

1:22.4

So you should, why did do what I do? Just to pee because I, you know, there was no other Andy

1:27.9

Richter because it's such a, like, it just kind of reeks of generations of dairy abuse. So there's

1:34.9

like no one would ever try that name. Andy Richter. I don't know. It sounds like a brand of corn meal.

1:43.2

Although Paul Richter, I don't know. Maybe that's better. Well, why did they decide to drop?

1:48.7

I asked my mom once and she's and now she says that she never said this, but I know she said this.

1:54.4

She said, I like the way Paul Andrew sounded. But you're named after my Uncle Paul. And I don't

2:00.2

lie. I don't really like my Uncle Paul. So I didn't want to call you Paul and be reminded of it.

2:05.6

I think that's probably a similar situation. Although my, yeah, I think it was my mom and dad

2:11.8

probably arguing over. Yeah, yeah. Although Harry is a pretty cute little, a good name for a cute name

2:16.9

for a kid, you know, yeah, a little kid named Harry. Yeah, that's me. No. That was so cute.

2:24.9

I was so cute. Laura did it. Maybe not as a joke. I think she just put H John Benjamin. I don't

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