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At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.
Andy Richter
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Andy Richter
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 28
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Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.
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I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.
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I'm not that professional.
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Aside from accidentally by my kids, like wrestling around with my kids, no one has ever punched me in the face.
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I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.
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The people on Quintuplets were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
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There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
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It is rare, with people who are on television or celebrities or actors - it's rare to go to their house for a party and find they cooked. That's rare. Usually people don't cook for their own parties, and they don't buy their own gifts. There are people that do that, and that is a special thing. Those kind of little human touches are nice.
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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
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I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.
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My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.
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Well, I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as the short-bus Jeopardy, because it is a lot easier. Like, there was a whole column basically naming stores in New York.
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I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
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I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.
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Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.
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The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-i important, versus something that's going to do well.
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I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.
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If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
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I have a wife and child, and I guess that would constitute a family, and sometimes I watch shows where the people aren't related. And I don't get nervous, get the sweats, and have to run out of the room. I mean, I can handle it.
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