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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Retta

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actress Retta talks with Andy Richter about switching careers from chemistry to stand-up, cementing herself as a series regular on Parks & Rec, and achieving her dream of heading her own sitcom with Good Girls.

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0:00.0

Hello podcast world, it's Andy Richter, you're listening to the three questions.

0:16.6

And I'm very excited to have the very, very funny and talented and lovely and kind and

0:24.4

active and important Reda.

0:26.4

You're an active and important, I do feel.

0:32.0

I mean, because you do a lot of kind of political stuff, you come from a political family.

0:37.7

Well, I've never been, I've never been, I mean, I saw that you are related to a former

0:47.1

president of Lyme Area.

0:51.8

How are you related to this one?

0:54.3

And the first African female head state.

0:58.0

Yes, she was married to my dad's cousin.

1:03.3

I see.

1:04.9

So but and honestly, on that side of the family, I feel like they've always been pretty political

1:12.9

and you know, involved in some way.

1:17.8

But I never lived.

1:19.1

I mean, I was in my bureau when I was little, but I never lived there.

1:22.3

I didn't grow up there.

1:23.6

Right.

1:24.6

So, so you don't really, you're not soaked in it.

1:27.4

No, so politics really wasn't, you know, something that was a part of my childhood or

1:34.2

what have you.

1:35.6

You know, my dad would make comments every once in a while.

1:39.2

And then, you know, when the friends and family gathered for different things, the adults

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