Hello, and welcome to the three questions I'm Andy Richter, the host of the three questions.

And I am talking today to a very funny, very talented, a man who has conquered multiple

mediums, Paul Sheer, who had known for a long time from early UCB days.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about this the other day. I remember one of my first memories of you.

Obviously, you are a successful person. You are hilarious. I've seen you on stage, but the one thing

I remember, I don't know why this is so clear to me, was that you were practicing for Jeopardy

on a video game of Jeopardy. Do you remember that you had a video game version of Jeopardy

that you were practicing on? I don't know why that came into my head.

Yeah, I can't remember exactly, but yes, I was. That was the first time I went on Jeopardy, which was

like probably like 95 I'm thinking or something. It must have been later than that.

I graduated college after that. I just remember going, here's somebody who is super funny, incredibly

successful and you're smart. And you were like, yeah, yeah. So I was like, I feel like whenever you go

on Jeopardy, it's a flex. It is a flex ultimately to be like, you a have enough confidence in yourself

that you will do well. And when you do do well, it's like it's bragging rights for life.

It's fun. It is fun. It is terrifying. And I did well. And when you saw me practicing, that was also

we were do I did a remote for the Conan show, you know, because ever in those days,

if you went to the fucking dentist, you're like, well, let's take a camera crew. And it'll be a

remote about going to the dentist. So I was doing that. And it's, you know, it's just such a

high profile thing that and our head writer at the time Jonathan Groff had been a Jeopardy champion

and back back before when they just limited you to five days, he was a five day champion.

And so he, you know, he helped me. He tutored me on it. And there was a point too in the,

in the preliminary day. And when we got there where I just said to the writer from Conan, like,

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