Taran Killam

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Taran Killam joins Andy Richter to discuss joining "MAD TV" at nineteen, how that brief stint prepared him for "Saturday Night Live," performing on Broadway at the same time as his wife, his new NBC sitcom "Stumble," the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, and much more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story (about anything!) - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the three questions.
0:02.3	I'm your host, Andy Richter, and today I'm talking to Terran Killam.
0:06.0	He's an actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
0:09.0	You've seen him on Saturday Night Live, Hamilton on Broadway, the TV show Single Parents, and much more.
0:14.6	You can see him now on the new NBC sitcom Stumble and the second season of high potential on ABC.
0:20.7	Here's my conversation with Taryn Killem.
0:36.0	I love your shirt, by the way.
0:37.5	We made a donation when they switched to the new spot. I love your shirt, by the way. Oh, thank you.
0:41.7	We made a donation when they switched to the new spot.
0:47.1	Yeah, my kids, they've been going to see their shows for a million years. It's such a great, such a great institution.
0:49.3	I love, I'm like, do not update a single fucking thing.
0:53.5	No.
0:53.8	You know.
0:54.4	The older and weirder, the marionette, the better.
0:56.5	If you ever, if I go like to the Christmas show and I don't hear three happy chappies and snappy serappies.
1:05.6	I'm going to be so mad.
1:07.6	The 25th of the 12th.
1:09.7	No, exactly right.
1:10.7	Or the hat I got for Christmas is too big. It's just marionette theater. It's perfect. And everything is 70 years old. Yes. And the puppets, but the puppets are amazing. The marionettes are amazing. But they're like, you know, they keep those up. But like the musical numbers. And there's like. But the staff, too, is quite youthful. Yes. Like the staff, like the puppeteers. Like they're constantly. It's a really cool. Yeah. Really cool institution. But they have like, you know, like sexy fan dancer poodles. Yes. You know, like, oh, those poodles are hot. Yeah. It's very hot poodles. Well, Taryn, how are you? I'm good, my friend. I'm happy to see you. Life is good. Yeah, very little, very few complaints from me right now. Yeah. I just got into town. I'm working in New York right now. Oh, really? Yeah. What are you doing over there? Doing a new NBC show called Stumble. Okay. About college cheerleading, which is super fun. Thus far, a dream. Is it kind of like a mockumentary kind of thing? It exactly is. It's nearly directly inspired by the Netflix documentary cheer, which was a big deal in the pandemic.
2:18.7	Yeah.
2:19.6	And Monica Aldama, who is the coach that that documentary focused on, is a producer on this show.
2:27.3	So all of the cheerleading is done at like the highest level.
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