This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week, as part of our ongoing series of episodes with 2023 Emmy nominees, we are revisiting my conversation with perhaps the hardest working man in comedy, Sam Richardson.

You can currently see Sam in the new seasons of I Think You Should Leave on Netflix

and The After Party on Apple TV, both of which we discussed at length when we talked back

in February of 2022.

It was also that year that he scored what ended up being the first of two consecutive Emmy

nominations for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his role that year that he scored what ended up being the first of two consecutive Emmy nominations

for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his role as the unhinged Ghanaian billionaire

Edwin Afuko on Ted Lassau. Considering how huge he is quickly becoming in the comedy world,

Sam remains super down to earth and talking with him, you can just tell how much

he truly cares about making people laugh. This one was a delight, so please enjoy my conversation

with Sam Richardson. I want to start with the after-party, because I got to watch most of it

and really, really enjoyed the series

so far. And I know it's still kind of rolling out week to week. So, yeah, I mean, I feel like for me,

you know, just seeing it, seeing it advertised for the first time, it was the cast was really

what grabbed me. It's a ridiculous cast on this show. Is that part of what appealed to you? Or were you kind of signed on before all of that?

Or how did that all happen for you?

I was signed on pretty early, but I knew there was going to be, there was a lot of like, and

these people are talking about it was like, oh, that sounds great.

And then just hearing the concept alone, like a murder mystery high school reunion,

who done it.

I was like, that sounds great.

And then it was like, oh, but then every perspective, every, every person's perspective

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