Hi everyone, this is another episode of the three questions with Andy Richter, which is

me.

And my special guest tonight is someone that I have known for a very long time, is practically

family to me at this point. And it's Mike Sweeney, who is a long time head writer on

the Conan show. Now, what is your title now, by the way?

Yeah, what is it? I guess writer producer. Yeah. Well, tell people what the difference

is between what you used to do and what you do now.

Because now is much better. Yes.

Let's just the bad thing has gone away. Well, I said writer for 15 years, which I think

is a sign of a mental illness on my part. I don't think you're supposed to be the head

writer of a late night show that long. It is a sense of indication of competence,

of skill, of people skills, and also something really, really wrong with you.

Very, very wrong. That should be really at the time.

The kind of the kind of codependence that you only find in someone who has made the choice

to become someone's sidekick for the rest of their life. That's another kind of sickness.

Yeah, but you took a big break there. I did. I did. I took some time off and came crawling

back. I'm much more mature. I'm crawling back. So much, so much wiser and more mature

as I can time around. Well, now, but, but it did. It got crazy because you were having to,

when Conan started doing a lot of these road remote kind of specials. Right. I mean,

like weekly, I mean, like shows in different cities. No, I mean, like going to Armenia,

you know, the travel, yeah, the travel shows. Right, right, right. But also to every time

he had an extracurricular thing, like giving out awards at the Kennedy Center office or

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