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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Joel Kim Booster

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Joel Kim Booster sits down with Andy Richter to talk about controversial theater school productions, having his parents discover he was gay by reading his diary, and how he used live theater to launchpad into stand-up comedy. Plus, Joel shares the most helpful piece of advice he’s learned as well as the goalposts he’s building towards. This episode is sponsored by Service on Celluloid podcast, Mack Weldon (www.mackweldon.com code: THREEQUESTIONS), and U-Turn Audio (www.uturnaudio.com code: RICHTER).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Hello, podcast world, internet. I don't know. Whatever. People listening to this.

0:20.0

People with some time on their hands, basically. I'm Andy Richter and this is the three questions.

0:25.0

For those of you who don't know, those three questions are where do you come from? Where are you going?

0:30.0

And what have you learned?

0:32.0

And today I get to ask them of one of the funniest people I know and just an all around sweetheart, Joel Kim Booster.

0:40.0

Oh my God. Hello, Andy. How are you? I'm good. I'm good.

0:44.0

I famously walked in a few minutes late. Right, right. Sure. I used to coffee in hand, which is an additional slap in the ice.

0:52.0

Yeah, I know. But you let your guys walk to the room. You let your cape fall.

0:57.0

It's very dramatic. It really tells a story when you do that. Sure.

1:01.0

It's like you really, and I will say it wasn't the ice coffee that made me late.

1:06.0

I'm not worried about it. It was the breakfast sandwich.

1:09.0

He should have been eating that. That would be good.

1:14.0

Yeah, that would be a all manner of things like holding dry cleaning.

1:19.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, drinking a coffee. I am so anal about being late.

1:24.0

Is my least favorite thing in the world being late? I usually walk in drenched and sweat.

1:29.0

Yeah, yeah. Apologizing profusely. But I don't respect you.

1:35.0

I don't blame it. I'm kidding. No. This podcast hasn't been on the air yet.

1:39.0

So you don't know whether you should. I had no idea. I will say I went and I was in theater school.

1:43.0

They would lock the doors when the, when it, if your class was at nine at night,

1:48.0

right? It would turn 8.59 to nine. They would lock the door. I had some teachers.

1:51.0

You wouldn't be allowed. But it wasn't it wasn't there. I only took, I only really took one theater class.

1:55.0

And that was at the University of Illinois. And then I decided I don't what this is.

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