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Andy Richter to star in Conan O’Brien’s detective comedy, Andy Barker P.I.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Late Night sidekick Andy Richter will get to hog the spotlight in an NBC pilot, thanks to former partner Conan O’Brien.
Richter, O’Brien’s easygoing foil for seven years until leaving the NBC talker in 2000, will star in Andy Barker P.I., a detective comedy.
O’Brien co-wrote and is executive producing the show, Late Night spokesman Marc Liepis said Tuesday.
Richter, 39, will play an accountant who rents an office previously used by a private investigator and then becomes a reluctant sleuth when his accounting business goes dry, Liepis said.
O’Brien had Richter in mind from the start for the project, being produced by his Conaco Productions and NBC Universal. He wrote the pilot with Jonathan Groff, former head writer of Late Night, Liepis said.
Richter starred in two Fox sitcoms that were cancelled after only one season — Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Quintuplets.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

This is what, his third show after two failed ones on Fox? I think there was one with him in an office, and another with him as the father of a family. And I'm pretty sure I saw him in the preview for some new Julia Louis-Dreyfus show.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

In what movie did he play the boyfriend of a single mom with anger management problems?

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. T & the Women?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Mike H. - reading (the initial post) IS fundamental.

Richter starred in two Fox sitcoms that were cancelled after only one season — Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Quintuplets.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, Huk. Looks like it was Seeing Other People.

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of this show-

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196712/

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I was just guessing. I've seen very few of Andy Richter's cinematic turns. Outside of Pootie Tang and that one with the Olsen Twinz.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Interesting trivia re: Deborah Richter: Ex-stepmother of her ex-husband, Charles Haid,'s two daughters.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of this show-
"If the police were to share these nuggets with their honorary crimestoppers..."

― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I finally found Lookwell online and watched it...it wasn't nearly as funny as I hoped.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Andy Richter Controls The Universe was a great show (which ran for two seasons, AP fact-checkers). Quintuplets, not so much. I'm hopeful about this one, as Andy and Conan together are an unstoppable force of nature. I still love the ARCTU episode where Conan guested as the crazy CEO. "At least she died doing what she loved most...committing suicide."

― reddening (reddening), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

i keep reading the title of this thread as "Andy Richter, RIP"

― mitya is really tired of making up names, Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

omg, excited about this.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0775349/

TONY HALE!!! (Arrested Development's Buster)!!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Conan was a big fan of Arrested Development, no?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

cant wait for this

― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

well?

― marmotwolof, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't laugh once. I giggled once or twice. And I was inclined to like it...I like Richter, huge fan of Buster...many Chinatown references. But it just wasn't very funny.

― dan selzer, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, same here. I liked the premise. There was one line I thought I liked enough to quote here but I've forgotten it. I miss 30 Rock already.

― marmotwolof, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

The moment I saw his wife was played by that annoying girl from Ellen, I knew it wasn't going to be very good. 30 minutes later I found I was proven right.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

It will get funny if it doesn't get cancelled midway through next week

― A B C, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

The moment I saw his wife was played by that annoying girl from Ellen

I had to look her up to remember who the hell she was.
Old fart from Fargo was the best thing about it, hope he's a regular. I laughed a bit when he started going off about the Russians.

Oh, the line was the one about how Buster had to go because there was a plump goth chick browsing the Horror section, and "Hey sunshine!"

― marmotwolof, Friday, 16 March 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

the sandra bullock doll was funny.

― akm, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

It would've been funnier if it didn't reappear later in the show as a critical plot point.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:45 (eighteen years ago)

family guy has ruined comedy

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 16 March 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahahaha wtf people???

― HI DERE, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this was a funny show , it was only the first episode. Are you all "haters" like this for everything ?

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

also I kinda like the annoying girl from ellen

― akm, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

the first 6 episodes are all streaming on the NBC website: http://www.nbc.com/Andy_Barker_PI/full_episodes/

from what I've watched so far, the pilot isn't nearly as funny as the other episodes, so I wouldn't judge it on just what you saw this week. but then, debuting a show in March doesn't really bode well for it getting renewed for the fall season, so I don't expect it to last.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I had completely forgotten about Andy being on Conan's show.

― nickalicious, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

i keep forgetting that he isn't, because it's been years since I've been able to stay awake that late.

― akm, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Umm yeah there really wasn't any humor in the pilot: I suppose it has to get funnier, but I still bet I'd be more amused AND plot-entertained by an episode of Monk than any given moment of this.

― nabisco, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Including the episode of Monk with Andy Richter, which was totally sweet. (Richter seriously playing evil/creepy = gold.)

― nabisco, Friday, 16 March 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

There's a sequence in the 2nd or 3rd episode that I couldn't stop laughing at, it's like everything funny about Andy Richter distilled in two moments: the earnest way he asks a suspect, "hey...did you murder so-and-so?" and then in the next scene, being all hangdog as he tells his wife "I accused some people of murder today and it didn't go so well." I think if they'd worked that into the pilot it would've done a much better job of establishing both the premise and how much comedy potential it has.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

For some reason I watched Cabin Boy last night and was delighted when reminded that Andy Richter existed.
I didn't even know until seeing this thread he had a new show!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Adult Swim and Arrested Development have made an entire generation of Americans unable to recognize simple humor, wow.

The entire sequence with Andy giving the dude tax advice in the middle of a high-speed case was funny.
The confrontation between Andy and the records clerk was funny.
Andy's interaction with his wife was funny.
Dude who played Buster was funny.
Crusty old PI was funny.
Andy's bewlidered acceptance of the egregious noir cliches into which he had fallen was funny.
Dude getting chased by the Indian mafia was funny.

Was it OMG THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN funny? No. Neither was the first episode of "30 Rock". Generally speaking, pilots aren't.

― HI DERE, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Adult Swim and Arrested Development have made an entire generation of Americans unable to recognize simple humor, wow.

Eh? I don't even like Arrested Development, but it's a pretty traditional sitcom.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Dan OTM. about the rarity of good comedy pilots and about the destructive qualities of people overloading on quirky/squirmy akwardness masquerading as comedy.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Eh? I don't even like Arrested Development, but it's a pretty traditional sitcom.

Daniel_Rf on Friday, March 16, 2007 2:50 PM (4 minutes ago)

Really? How so?

― Mr. Que, Friday, 16 March 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

"Including the episode of Monk with Andy Richter, which was totally sweet."

andy had a funny/creepy role on the new adventures of old christine. old christine couldn't stop seeing him cuz he was so good at oral sex. and he was obsessed with japan. the country, not the band. i'll miss him on that show. i haven't seen the new show yet. i'll probably watch all of them on nbc.com. other than 30 rock, the only sitcoms i never miss are how i met yer mother, old christine, and 2 & a half men.

― scott seward, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

funny/creepy semi-regular role, i should have said. he was on a bunch of episodes.

― scott seward, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

WE'RE SORRY BUT THE CLIP YOU SELECTED IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCATION

Dammit

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Dan totally off the money in high-handed assumption that someone not sufficiently amused by this MUST just be totally brain-rotted on Family Guy episodes.

Alternate scenario: peeps just not finding shit particularly amusing.

― nabisco, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I thought this was a funny show , it was only the first episode. Are you all "haters" like this for everything ?

Um, I don't think anyone was "hating". It goes without saying that it could only get funnier from the pilot. I have every intention of watching the show every week to see if it does!

Dude who played Buster was funny.
Crusty old PI was funny.

I agree that those things were funny and mentioned them. The other things I recognized as jokes. That doesn't mean they made me laugh.

Was it OMG THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN funny? No. Neither was the first episode of "30 Rock".

I AM A JEDI! I AM A JEDI!

― marmotwolof, Friday, 16 March 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha Nabisco, I'm like the biggest Captain-Save-A-Family-Guy on ILX but I still recognize other forms of humor! Apparently you don't.

― HI DERE, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but going all "YOU DON'T DESERVE COLE PORTER!" over the new Andy Richter show is a bit much. I already like this better than Family Guy, fwiw.

― marmotwolof, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Er, who's doing that???

― HI DERE, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

YOU ARE, ya big dick -- serious, WTF with the assumption that anyone who's just (gasp) not into this must ONLY be into broad manatee jokes? Hopefully the episodes really do get a lot better from here, but the tone of the thing is still kinda like a show someone would have made in 1988 and we'd all make fun of in retrospect.

― nabisco, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

(P.S. part of why I mentioned Monk is that it has some of the same low-key, situational, and kinda quaint/charming humor this show seems to be going for, with one difference being that I really like Monk and am fairly skeptical about whether or not I'll start to care about this one.)

― nabisco, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

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Sorry to go back on topic but Harve Presnell completely owns Andy Barker, P.I.
"Here's your permission slip!"

― marmotwolof, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I love Scrubs but agree - it's kind of getting old at this point. If they ended it now, the only one I'd really miss would be Dr. Jan Itor. I love him!
Also, I can't remember this Hooch guy! Who is Hooch?!

― ENBB, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

I still haven't seen last night's Andy Barker (DVR'ed it). Harve is top notch, though.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

scrubs used to make me cringe yet still laugh. now it just makes me cringe. i can't get through an episode without ffwding. braff's face has also gotten more and more annoying to me.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, no, he was in multiple episodes. Some freak on youtube who is TOTALLY NOT ME appears to have made a "fan video."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lLyhiXzDQ

― nabisco, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Like nabisco said, Hooch was just a bit role for some guy so they could stretch out a joke (2 episodes worth, I think).

I wouldn't cry if Scrubs ended, even though I do love it (I've even been buying the dvd seasons). I just want them to wrap up several things neatly and not start anything new that may not get resolved.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

whereas andy richter's face is all funny all the time

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to myself as per

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

R - you are totally OTM regarding Braff's face. I used to think he was adorable and now he's just really odd and irritating looking. Gross.

― ENBB, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Aww, so the poor guy's arc was like

15-25 = freaky
25-28 = adorable
28-?? = gross

(Oh god wait, I think that's going to be my arc too)

― nabisco, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

I still like him but his face has definitely changed in the past couple of years and not for the better! "Gross" may have been a bit harsh.

― ENBB, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know whether he got annoying looking or I just watched Garden State

― A B C, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly, I haven't found him as charming as I did before seeing Garden State. Whether or not he's gotten uglier I'm unsure.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

the funny has gone from his eyes

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Janitor should get a spin-off show.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah one of the best things about Scrubs is stuff like Hooch, where they'll invent a character for a simple one-off gag, and then end up bringing them back and using them as an actual character (see also: the guy with the hook hand, and Dr. Mickhead). It's kind of like if Family Guy actually incorporated any of the random cutaways into the plot.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

P.S. I object to describing Hooch as "a bit role for some guy." It was a bit role for that guy where I always laugh when I see him in like anything.

― nabisco, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

(Unless he was in Schindler's List or something, then I take that back.)

― nabisco, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, why do I not remember ANY of those hooch bits? He is one funny dude

― Will M., Friday, 30 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

so wait scrubs has a character named 'the todd'? this alone might almost redeem that shitty show.

― deeznuts, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! Also, it's not shitty. For years I thought it was shitty and avoided. In fact, the first time I ever saw an episode was last fall when my husband and I downloaded the entire series. We watched all the episodes in around a month and I realized I'd been wrong and missing out all this time.

― ENBB, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

RONG

― and what, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Scrubs is like if the RAs who did bawdy orientation week skits at my college got a sitcom deal

― A B C, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it's definitely shitty! ive actually seen it a couple times over the past couple months cuz it comes on between two of the four shows i always try to watch & i was with ppl who, unlike me, do not have a compulsion to change the channel whenever braff's face shows up on the screen. i think i kindve liked the grumpy old doctor guy though? other than that it was pretty much shit as i recall.

― deeznuts, Friday, 30 March 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but dude, "a couple times over the past couple months" is like dipping into final-season tapped-out territory -- you'd have a much better chance of liking it through the 2nd or 3rd season, or whenever it was really working.

― nabisco, Friday, 30 March 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, Scrubs is BRILLIANT. You just have to watch it over and over again and give yourself in to it. Then the stupid stuff becomes kinda funny and the really smart stuff shines through. Please trust me on this, I don't like silly sitcoms easily, but I base my life around Scrubs now. It's on Comedy Central at 7 and 7:30. That's a good time to catch it.

― dan selzer, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

but that fucking music at the end of every episode and the miserably poorly donw "moral" wrap ups... argh. i would be happy to watch the first 13 minutes of each ep. and then the last 45 seconds.

― Will M., Friday, 30 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

why is this a thread about scrubs?

― Dr. Superman, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

I derailed it!

Most of the Andy content is above and contained within the thread cut.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

"if i know andy barky, he'll find a way in. for willy"
"it's wally"
"yeah well, he should change that - he's in america now"

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

also, the fake mustaches

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

(uh, barkER, not barky, obv. haha but that's funny)

― rrrobyn, Friday, 30 March 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

OMG it's The Complete Hooch compilation OK now I have to go out

― nabisco, Saturday, 31 March 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

"blast me some speed metal 5.1 surround sound heavy on the bass"
ah hooch

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 31 March 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

ffs there is a scrubs thread
(I don't care really, carry on)

― marmotwolof, Saturday, 31 March 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Andy Barker"'s been cancelled. Last two episodes to run on Saturday.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

sigh

― rrrobyn, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Memo to Rickey: Don't get attached to TV shows.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Andy Richter, RIP

― M.V., Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Have you guys seen Conan and Robert Smigel's failed cop comedy Lookwell starring Adam West? Pretty funny.

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

I bet that's great. Smigel's hilarious.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

"...Talkin' to a cat named Vida Blue."

RIP you good show you.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

From IMDB news:

On Saturday, the final two episodes of the NBC sitcom Andy Barker, P.I. (Netflix) attracted only 3.2 million viewers, one of the lowest ratings for any network television show during a regular season in history.

Ouch :(

At least 30 Rock is still on, though.

― musically, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

ergh. i'm still gonna say it's b/c it was available on the website - but also, it appeared that A LOT of people were downloading it.

ugh, i knew it'd be cancelled but i didn't think it'd be so soon. those last two eps were pretty brilliant. at least we got six highly produced episodes!
it's not always lol funny but it's doing something with comedy that i love. i remember being sad when 'andy richter controls the universe' was cancelled even though i saw that coming too. andy et al should just take all this to speciality channels or the internet 100% screw the networks at this point.

also, amy sedaris, haha

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, she was a riot in this.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

Andy Richter Controls the Universe = the greatest!! At least that lasted longer than 6 eps.

― musically, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

there was pretty much never a doubt in my mind that this show would get cancelled, and quickly. I mean, mid-season replacements already have an uphill battle ahead of them as far as building enough of an audience to get renewed for the fall lineup, but they didn't even start showing this until March. oh well. maybe Talladega Nights will point the way toward Andy's career taking off in movie comedy ensembles.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Andy Richter Controls the Universe is such a piece of shit. There's not a single character in there that's even half-developed

― goldblapp (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 05:16 (fifteen years ago)

is that really your major complaint with the show, because that seems like a weird thing to complain about if you found it at all funny

― Al Gore invented the internet to house the bitterness of humanity (reddening), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 07:38 (fifteen years ago)

like i've been rending my garments for years and years over this show's cancellation, but now that i stop and think about it yeah, the characters aren't very well developed. who cares, it's funny.

― Al Gore invented the internet to house the bitterness of humanity (reddening), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 07:41 (fifteen years ago)

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