Hi, everyone. This is Andy Richter, and this is another episode of the three questions. You probably already know that.

And I am talking today to a very, very funny comedian who I've known for a number of years and had the privilege of watching her grow from just a regular old standup to an entertainment mogul at this point to an industry in yourself.

Tidn'a-taro, hi, Tid. Come on. We've got TV shows. You got movies. You got podcasts, podcasts, kids stand up tours. You're making babies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I'm a mogul, but it's nice to hear.

Well, a mogul. A mogul is a weird word. That's like kind of like calling you a Shah. I think it's like an ethnic, Indian ethnic kind of royalty or something.

Uh-huh. Well, that's what I'm known as is an Indian. I'm Indian royalty. Yes. Yes. Well, you're in a hotel room on tour. Yeah. How long is that going for?

Well, I'm really catching up after being home for so long during the pandemic. I wasn't a comedian that did the Zoom shows or the drive in movie shows, which all everything positive to those that did. I just didn't do it.

Yeah. I did like four warm-up shows and then I hit the road and I think I'm, I don't know, almost 30 cities in and I think I have probably 30 more to go. Wow.

But this week I'm finishing the majority of the concentrated tour and then the rest of the year, I'm just going to go out for a weekend or a night here and there. So. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. But it's been good. Feels good to be back out.

Telling people what I think is funny. Yeah. Yeah. Do they think it's funny too? I got a hope. I, you know, I hope. Yeah. I've had really fun shows and I've had also a show along the way where 3000 people were kind of like. Yeah. That's okay. Really? Oh, wow. Yeah. Just one. It was just one of those nights where it's like wow. Okay.

Every other show has been really fun. Yeah. And then tonight you all just feel like. Yeah. That's okay. That's all right.

It has to happen. Yeah. Yeah. It does. It happens. It is such a strange thing. I mean, because I don't do, I mean, I sat in front of an audience for years and years on the Conan show, but I don't do stand up. So.

You know, my the things that I was saying, the things that I would say usually didn't have like a track record, you know, they were just spontaneous things that I was saying once. But there was no it really is weird when you say something and you know it's funny and a whole group of people just stare at you and you're like, no, you're wrong. I know. That's right. That was really funny. You know. Yeah. It's such a weird recipe of like the vibe.

The vibe in the room. What's going on in the world? The vibe that you bring to the stage. I don't know. I mean, and just to give myself a little credit. It's not that it was total crickets. It just was really not the vibe of every other city.

Yes. Wow. Yeah. Oh, well, that's amazing. Yeah. You remember like the first time that you understood like the power of getting laughs as a kid like when you got laughs as a kid. Do you remember a specific point when you realized.

Because for me, it was I one time was imitating Tim Conway, that old man character. He did on.

Carol Burnett that walked really, really slow. Can I hear it? Well, I don't think he even talks so much. It was more of a physical bit where he would like walk. But each step was about like two inches with each foot.

And I was supposed to go to bed and I was doing the Tim Conway bit to go to bed. And my grandmother was howling laughing. And I remembered like, oh, wow, I can get what I want. Like I'm not going to go to bed.

Like I think I, you know, stretching over half hour out of it just from making her laugh. And from the tiny footsteps that you know, that's what I mean. You know, it's all worked together and beautifully.

I mean, I remember a moment that I thought I was so funny. And where it really hit me. And apologies ahead of time for what the joke was.

But I was in elementary school. And, and I gave a friend of mine my bag of Fritos or something or the. Yeah. And then they went to open the bag of Fritos. And it was upside down.

And I made the joke that now all the Fritos are upside down. So you have to open it from the other side. And I thought that was hilarious. Oh my gosh. But as far as other people.

I mean, it's all I guess I don't really have a specific moment. I do remember in in junior high. A teacher. I don't even I'm such a failure dropout in school.

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