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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Jimmy Pardo

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and podcaster Jimmy Pardo talks with Andy Richter about (un)healthy family boundaries, first theatrical roles, preempting the comedy podcast boom with Never Not Funny, and discovering his own unscripted stand-up persona. Plus, Jimmy shares the only note he ever received as the warm-up comic on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

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0:00.0

Well, all right, let me turn off three questions. You got your notes. You got your questions for me?

0:18.2

Yeah, I got my fucking question. Let's go. You know, but the Jimmy Parto version of this is just one

0:24.0

question. What's your fucking deal? And that covers all of it. All right, let's go. I'm gonna sit

0:30.2

here and I'm gonna be quiet. I don't know. Look at you with judgment in my eyes. All right. So

0:36.1

status quo. What's your fucking deal, Jimmy Parto? Are you asking me? Who am I looking at? I don't know.

0:44.1

I don't know. I mean, I know I got a lot of these ideas. This time, look at the way you start your

0:47.7

program. It's it's been started. When we were talking about my tax troubles. That's going right

0:54.4

into that. That's going right into that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I open with that.

0:57.6

That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Sure. People I want to get the audience on my side. Yeah, they will.

1:02.0

Like, no, basically, they won't because I'm not. Oh, anyway, let's put, let's put down the charade and

1:10.6

let me say, I love you. I'm so happy that you're here. This is going to possibly be the easiest one.

1:17.7

Of these to do. Maybe the most difficult at the same time. Why? Because of your love and admiration.

1:22.1

No, no, no, it'll be easy. Well, we'll find out if you tear it my heartstrings, you know,

1:27.8

even if you do a sweetie on Marin on me, you don't know what that was. Is that Julia Swini? No, no,

1:34.5

no, Mike. Swini. Mike Swini went on Mark Marin went on Mark Marin and talked about his childhood.

1:39.4

Oh, which is not. It's a draw dropper. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine yours was a little less rough.

1:46.4

My childhood. Yeah. Yeah. A lot less rough. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can't be as well put together as you

1:52.5

without having come from a pretty solid background of love and support. Well, I don't know if that's

1:58.3

100% true either. I think I'm an average guy. Yeah. We're in an average suit going to an average job.

2:05.2

What song is that? I'm just an average guy. Is it a Billy Joel song? No, but it sure sounds like

2:09.6

when it sure does. Does an average guy go into an average something going an average job? Is that

2:14.4

that talking heads? Is that what I'm pulling? No. No, I can't think of that. I'm an average guy,

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