Andy Richter Doesn't Know Your Name

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Andy Richter says he’s not an outgoing ‘Norm from Cheers’ kind of guy
CHICAGO (AP) — If you spot Andy Richter at a bar, think twice about asking him over to share a beer.
“I think people think I’m more of an outgoing kind of Norm from Cheers guy than I actually am,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times in Sunday’s editions.
“I’m polite and I’m friendly, but I don’t like being the centre of attention. And I certainly don’t wanna drink with just anybody.”
More than 11 years since joining NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien — first as a writer, then as a sidekick — Richter is enjoying his second career as an actor.
Upon quitting Conan in May 2000, he starred in the short-lived Andy Richter Controls the Universe and now leads Quintuplets, his current gig on Fox.
“I went to Los Angeles, and having been a comedic actor and feeling like everyone realized that, the first sort of reaction I got from most of the network and studio people who were paying me was, ‘Wow, you can act!’ And it’s like, ‘Well, yeah, that was sort of the point of all this.’ But people see you doing one thing, and that’s what they think you can do.”

Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

that quintuplets show is the most bewilderingly bad show with a great lead on network television.

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Fox should have given Andy Richter Controls the Universe more of a shot instead of foisting Quintuplets upon an unsuspecting public.

Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago)

it has that mini-douche from punk'd on it. thumbs down.

still bevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

it is unbearable but I always watch it when I run across it on television. I don't know why. How could they kill Andy Richeter Controls the Universe? It had Paget Brewster on it!

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Paget Brewster is the biggest TV crush I've ever had.

poor poor andy.

Kenan (kenan), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

At least Fox seems to be putting a little more effort into Arrested Development.

Was PB the boss or the secretary (they were both hottttttttt)

Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

she was the boss. she used to be a bartender in san francisco and then finagled her own talk show on cable access. I keep waiting for her to reach superstardom. when will it happen?

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Did she ever write anything? Like in a magazine maybe? Shit. THis is ringing a big fat bell...

Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

She was on "Friends" as a woman that left Joey for Chandler.

Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.comedyontap.com/film/dbns/images/pagetbw1.JPG

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Why I can't see this pic from my work PC:

Blocked by Web$en$e Category: Tasteless

WHAT THE HELL?!?!??

David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

your work firewall wouldn't know taste if it came up and kicked it in the ass!

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

it's the masturbating bear.
xpost

Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

After licking the screen repeatedly, I can confirm that the yummy-looking picture posted above is indeed tasteless.

briania (briania), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Starting this Sunday, Paget Brewster will be in a new Showtime series called Huff, with Hank Azaria. I don't get Showtime and am therefore sad.

I remember that she wrote some humorous articles for some magazine, but I can't remember which one it was. The articles used to be available online but I can't find them. Google seems to think it was Femme Fatales.

brooke edel (brookedel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I ever read Femme Fatales.

Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Just moved on the wires:
Hank Azaria plays introspective shrink in new U.S. cable series Huff
By Bridget Byrne

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Huff, his wife and his dog are sleeping peacefully. Then the dog stirs, a security alarm goes off and Huff and Beth are suddenly wide awake, confronting the latest crisis in their lives.
This scene on a soundstage for Showtime’s new series Huff seems an apt metaphor — it’s all about waking up psychologically and emotionally.
Premiering Sunday night on the Movie Network and Movie Central (check local listings), the show stars Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig (Huff) Huffstodt, a psychiatrist who gets a new perspective on life after a gay teenage patient commits suicide in front on him.
Believe it or not, the show’s a comedy, albeit an existential one.
“I got the concept somewhere from my own personal shrink. Yes, I admit I’m in therapy,” says Bob Lowry, the creator and executive producer. “The suicide in Act 1 is Huff’s wake-up call, if you will, which triggers him to not only be reflective and examine his life, but to make every attempt to embrace everything that is put before him on a daily basis.”
“We don’t flinch,” Azaria says between scenes. “We don’t look away. We explore mental illness, from the severe to the slight.”
Azaria, too, is open about being in therapy, “on and off for 15 years.” It’s helped him through difficult times, including his divorce from Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, star of the sitcom Mad About You in which he had a recurring role as Nat, the dog walker.
Paget Brewster, last seen in the short-lived Fox sitcom Andy Richter Controls the Universe, plays Huff’s wife, Beth. Blythe Danner is his manipulative mother, Izzy. Oliver Platt plays his charming but substance-abusing best friend, and Andy Comeau his brother, an institutionalized schizophrenic.
The Bob Newhart Show from the 1970s notwithstanding, there’s always been a bias against developing TV shows about mental health professionals, says Robert Greenblatt, Showtime’s president of entertainment.
“The feeling was that people outside New York and L.A. really don’t go to shrinks, and if they do, there’s a stigma and they don’t want to admit they go,” Greenblatt says.
But he thinks now “there is much more openness in the rest of the country to these kind of ideas about getting help and putting yourself on the right track as opposed to ignoring problems.”
In 2002 Azaria starred in Imagine That as a comedy writer whose fantasies and marriage counselling sessions inspired his work, but NBC cancelled the sitcom after just two episodes.
Lowry thinks Azaria is ideal for Huff because he’s both funny and “has great emotional depth . . . someone who doesn’t miss any of the subtleties.”
While on hiatus between seasons of Huff (Showtime has already ordered a second year) Azaria will star in the stage musical Monty Python’s Spamalot, a spoof on the Camelot legend adapted from the British comedy troupe’s 1975 movie Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
Set to open on Broadway in March, the production is directed by Mike Nichols, who helmed the movie The Birdcage in which Azaria played houseboy to a gay couple.
As a kid, the New York-born Azaria memorized the script of The Holy Grail. Acting out all the characters was an early example of his chameleon-like vocal skills, now famous because of his numerous voice portrayals on The Simpsons.
Azaria won three Emmys for his work on the animated series and another for the 2000 ABC-TV movie Tuesdays with Morrie, co-starring the late Jack Lemmon.
He recently wrote, directed and starred in the short movie Nobody’s Perfect, about a man in possession of magic glasses that make him able to see how a relationship will end.
It’s a concept he says was prompted by an “older and wiser” attitude to dating again after his divorce.

Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago)

While on hiatus between seasons of Huff (Showtime has already ordered a second year) Azaria will star in the stage musical Monty Python’s Spamalot, a spoof on the Camelot legend adapted from the British comedy troupe’s 1975 movie Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

OMG this is the WORST IDEA EVER

kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago)

The article mentions half of this, but it's probably worth pointing out that Showtime ordered a second year of Huff before they'd even sent out review copies of the pilot, much less shown it to the public. That's not as remarkable as it would be if we were talking about Fox or ABC instead of a pay cable net that hasn't yet earned HBO's reputation as a DVD boxed set manufacturer, but still. I'm looking forward to it.

Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Ways in which Huff is similar to Monk:

1) Name of the show is lead characters' surname or variation thereof, which has developed into a monosyllabic nickname.

2) Psychiatry: Huff is a psychiatrist; Monk regularly visits one for his OCD.

3) New outlook on life triggered by someone's death: Huff's patient, Monk's wife.

4) Azaria and Shalhoub both settling into leading role after years of playing various vaguely "ethnic" (usually Hispanic/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern) supporting characters.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)

It's a way to be white and not white at the same time.

Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm watching Huff right now. Seems pretty good so far.

From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago)

The pilot came on DVD with the New Entertainment Weekly. I guess I'll have to watch it.

Kenan (kenan), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

I like how I turned this thread into a Paget Brewster thread! You can pay me back later, Paget!

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 8 November 2004 03:40 (twenty years ago)

God knows my name, though.

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago)

This show should have been called "Andy Richter Doesn't Even Know Who You Are."

n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 8 November 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/tvpilot/images/2004/fall/quintuplets.jpg

I had almost forgotten that this really happened.

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

We've been watching "AR Controls the Universe" on DVD and it's just as funny as I remembered. The music reminds me of going to the Warped Tour in the late '90s, but other than that, it's aged well.

lindseykai, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

Andy Richter will destroy you at Jeopardy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdF5SAy4CM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs-MFOQWQ

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 September 2009 08:28 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ wolf blitzer

iatee, Friday, 18 September 2009 09:04 (fifteen years ago)

I wonder if it hurts to get pwned as bad as Wolf Blitzer just was

mh, Friday, 18 September 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

Go Andy!! Also, Dana Delany is one of the most attractive people to ever live.

Spencer Chow, Friday, 18 September 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago)

haha we were talking about this on the Jeopardy thread too, I posted a great screencap there: Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

bitches love me on friendster (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago)


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