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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Michael McKean

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian, and musician Michael McKean joins Andy Richter to talk about earliest childhood memories, performing radio sketches with comedy team The Credibility Gap, featuring on Laverne & Shirley and SNL, and finding ways to love his most repugnant characters. Plus, Michael shares what’s next with the upcoming projects he’s most excited for.

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0:00.0

Well, you've done it again. You've tuned into the three questions with Andy Richter. I, again, am Andy Richter, continue to be much to my chagrin.

0:22.0

And I am very excited today because I have one of my favorite performers in the world. He just made a jerk-up gesture.

0:32.0

I did not.

0:35.0

He did, and it made me, it's thrilling. It's Michael McKean.

0:40.0

Hi. How are you? I'm good. Thank you.

0:42.0

Good. I'm so glad you're here. Well, I'm glad to be here. It actually makes me worried for you. You should have better things to do than be here.

0:48.0

I have nothing, there's nothing better to do than this. Oh, that's good. Come on.

0:53.0

Now, we have, was it the first time we met at Jeopardy? Or had we met before? No, because, let's see, that was, that was Oh 9.

1:03.0

So we must, we must have met in Oh 1 maybe. We did, shoot. Maybe in the same year, but I know it was right around that time.

1:15.0

And yeah, because we were on the same episode of Jeopardy, which we weren't, we didn't play, or the same day.

1:22.0

Yes, same day. Yeah, yeah.

1:23.0

Three of them, I think. Yeah.

1:25.0

Were you on with Wolf Blitzer? I was on with Wolf Blitzer and Dana Delaney.

1:32.0

Oh, yeah. She's great. She was great. I like her. And I really, yeah. And I, and Wolf did poorly. Yeah, he did poorly.

1:40.0

He needed some buzzer help, I think. Yeah, it is amazing how it is an athletic contest, but just with your thumb.

1:48.0

Yes. Well, listen, two thumbs and you got the entire history of gaming.

1:52.0

And so, you know, we all started as a one thumb game. Right, right.

1:57.0

It's like that joke that Gary Marshall used to do at shootings. And that's when someone would come in to, when it to a retake, coming with the clapperboard, you know, with the sticks.

2:04.0

We got to bring the sticks in. Yeah. Gary would say to the audience, those are called the sticks. And when you do that, of course, this guy has been around for a long time.

2:12.0

He started in silent pictures with one stick.

2:15.0

Really good joke.

2:17.0

Yeah.

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