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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Michaela Watkins

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Actress and comedian Michaela Watkins talks with Andy Richter about a hereditary love of math, her first stage role as a British maid, how to stay invested in the material, bidding farewell to Portland for a career in LA, and the boom of female-led projects in Hollywood. Plus, Michaela discusses what she’s learned about the fine line of nuance in comedy. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (www.betterhelp.com/threequestions code: THREEQUESTIONS)

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0:00.0

Well, hey, everybody. We might as well get a little start this now. Hi, everyone. This

0:16.7

is the three questions with Andy Richter. And that's Mikhail Watkins talking on the other

0:22.2

end of the pod here. We have two cups, one string.

0:27.6

Yeah, we have a pod between us, which is the name of my memoir. Well, I'm glad to have you

0:36.2

here. Oh, I'm so happy to be here. I'm I don't know you very well, but we know a ton of

0:41.8

people in common. And I do, but I you're also like one of those people that I feel like I

0:46.5

do know you. I know what you mean. Yeah, it's true. And you're like kind of like you're

0:53.8

like me like there's nothing to precious that you I mean, there's things I probably wouldn't

0:58.4

tell everybody in the world. But like for the most part, pretty open book. I don't know,

1:03.3

you seem very familiar to me. Yeah, well, I especially for what I do for a living, the

1:11.3

the the people that are that you get the sense like, Oh, I'm talking to who this person is

1:17.8

all the time is is it is it's not necessarily rare, but it is a distinct thing. And I think

1:23.8

it is in the minority of show business holes. And and I you've seemed to be like you're

1:32.8

a, you know, a whizzy wig person. What you see is what you get. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:38.4

Yeah. Yeah. And you know, now I don't feel like I know you at all. Nobody I know whatever

1:42.6

say that is where you would. Well, I'm a big techie. That's why, you know, garbage in garbage

1:47.6

out. Oh, and I'm just the star. Well, we and we have a bunch of friends in common too.

1:58.6

We know a bunch of people in common. That's true. Some of your your Chicago contingency,

2:03.0

which I've never spent any substantial time there other than to shoot one thing one week

2:08.0

one time. Yeah. And yeah. But I like it. And I'm from Syracuse. So New York, which is like

2:15.8

Chicago adjacent. I mean, it's, it's more Midwest than it is. He's coast. I, I, yeah, I can

2:22.0

see that. Yeah. Yeah. When I first moved to New York, I was surprised at how country

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