Jonathan Groff

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

“Late Night with Conan O’Brien” head writer and showrunner of “Andy Barker, P.I.,” Jonathan Groff joins Andy Richter to discuss their many collaborations, Andy’s home-runs at Yankee Stadium, their first interaction (before Jonathan even worked on “Late Night!”), what being a good head writer means, how he became one of Disney’s go-to sitcom consultants, and much more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story (about anything!) or ask a question - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host, Andy Richter, and today I'm talking to my friend Jonathan Groff. Not that Jonathan Groff, the other Jonathan Groff. This one is a writer, producer, director, and actor. He was the head writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the showrunner for my show, Andy Barker, P.I. He also worked on sitcoms like Blackish, How I Met Your Mother, and Happy Endings.
0:24.1	And he played Jerome Sinfeld in the Netflix series Black A.F.
0:28.3	Here's my conversation with Jonathan Groff. Okay, you were saying you know the exact date when you were out.
0:46.1	I don't know the exact date, but I can pretty closely pinpoint it because your show,
0:50.3	Late Night with Conan O'Brien, premiered September.
0:52.4	My show.
0:53.3	Yep.
0:53.6	13th. Late night with Conan O'Briened September My show 13th.
0:54.3	Late Night
0:54.6	with Conard Brian.
0:55.3	I was pretty generous to let them call it his put his name on it. It was confusing because everybody knew it was late in the name. It was weird, yeah. And I didn't get a desk. No. No. Well, they wanted to see more of you. They wanted to see as I always called it,
1:10.7	belly and balls.
1:12.3	Oh,
1:12.6	like you think, to see more of you. They wanted to see, as I always called it, belly and balls.
1:12.1	Oh, God.
1:14.3	Like the skinny guy gets the desk to hide behind.
1:17.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:18.6	And then, but the guy that's got everything compacting into dress slacks.
1:24.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:25.2	And also, we're talking there.
1:33.0	90s, early 90s, there was some, you know, like sport coats and slacks,
1:34.7	outfits that probably didn't help.
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