Tim Herlihy

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Writer and comedian Tim Herlihy, who wrote or co-wrote many of Adam Sandler’s biggest films, including "Billy Madison," "Happy Gilmore," and "The Wedding Singer," joins Andy Richter to discuss meeting Sandler on their first day of college, pivoting from accounting to comedy, working on "Saturday Night Live," and his work on the long-awaited "Happy Gilmore" sequel (out July 25th on Netflix)! Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story - 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. I'm your host, Andy Richter. And today I'm talking to
0:05.1	Tim Hurleyhy. Tim is a very well-established, well-known writer and comedian. He formerly was on
0:13.2	Saturday Night Live as a writer, and he's written or co-written many of Adam Sandler's films,
0:18.2	including Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer,
0:21.1	the Waterboy, Grown Ups 2, and Hubey Halloween.
0:24.6	I spoke with Tim while he was in town doing the final edit of Happy Gilmore 2,
0:29.1	which he co-wrote and produced with Adam Sandler.
0:32.0	The film will be available to stream on Netflix starting July 25th.
0:36.3	Here's my conversation with Tim Hurley.
0:50.3	Well, Tim, I'm so glad you're here.
0:53.1	You're, this is, you know, you, a shoe L.A. at every turn.
0:57.8	You're, uh, you look down your nose at this town.
1:00.8	Uh, yeah, keep going.
1:02.2	It's not all true so far.
1:04.9	No, I mean, do you, how do you, I mean, you have never lived here.
1:08.3	I've never lived here.
1:09.1	You've obviously worked here a bunch.
1:11.4	You know what?
1:11.7	I think that was the issue, is that I associate it with work.
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:15.4	And it's never a leisure out here.
1:16.9	But then my daughter went to UCLA.
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