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Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Andy will be Conan's announcer for the new Tonight Show...

Conan O'Brien's former sidekick, Andy Richter, will be joining The Tonight Show as the show's new announcer once O'Brien begins as host in June!!!

Richter debuted as Conan's sidekick when Late Night premiered in 1993, but decided to leave the show in 2000 to pursue his acting career.

"Andy is one of the funniest people I know, and we've maintained a close friendship since he left Late Night. We have a proven chemistry that will be an incredible asset to The Tonight Show," the giant ginger gushed to reporters about Richter.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/02/a...in_conan_o.php
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Well, that should clear up the Joel Goddard discussion in the other thread.

Poor Andy...
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Sweet!
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Well, Richter does need the work, so good for him.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Fantasic news!

I really hope that Conan is allowed to do at least some of the stuff he has done on Late Night.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

the show is shaping up nicely already

are max and the boys making the trip?
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

"the giant ginger" ????
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

That's awesome!
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Great news.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

While this is great news, what's going to happen to Joel Godard? Is he just going to retire now?
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

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While this is great news, what's going to happen to Joel Godard? Is he just going to retire now?
Joel is a career announcer at NBC in NY, so he can continue there, or he could retire --he's 70 years old!
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

I always thought Richter was one of the better sidekicks around.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

I'll miss Joel because man did he do some funny bits.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

yes! yes! yes!

he just needs to go back to being a sidekick
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Fantastic news. Can't wait to see the two back together again.

I'm actually looking forward to the move. He was on so late and once I started having classes starting at like 7am I just couldn't watch him any longer; it'll be nice to see him on TV rather than on sporadic clips on the computer.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Originally Posted by Count Dooku
Joel is a career announcer at NBC in NY, so he can continue there, or he could retire --he's 70 years old!
Maybe he can take over for Don Pardo, who is 91, as announcer for SNL and then he can take part in some of their skits.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

I would much rather have Joel than Andy. Andy's ok in small doses I guess. I just hope we dont get too much of him.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Originally Posted by mphtrilogy
the show is shaping up nicely already

are max and the boys making the trip?
Yes, Conan announced that on one of the last shows.
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
I would much rather have Joel than Andy. Andy's ok in small doses I guess. I just hope we dont get too much of him.
Two words: staring contests. Those were often some of the funniest skits on the show. Now they can bring them back.
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Two words: staring contests. Those were often some of the funniest skits on the show. Now they can bring them back.
Exactly! Also the In the Year 2000 and Desk Driving are better bits with Andy than some audience member or celbs doing it.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Triumph making a come back?
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

Geez, talk about an epic fail. The guy leaves Conan to become a big TV star, bombs miserably on numerous TV shows and now has to come sniveling back to his old 2nd banana role.

This guy makes David Caruso look like the master of career choices.
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Re: Andy Richter Rejoins Conan O'Brien for Tonight Show

I don't know how you'd say it's an epic fail. Andy Richter ran for two season as did Quints. He also was in several movies, including voices in the Madagascar flicks. It's not like he left thinking he was going to become George Clooney.
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He may also feel that he can better balance being on Conan's show with other opportunities now that Conan will be based in L.A. instead of New York.
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Originally Posted by Deftones
I don't know how you'd say it's an epic fail. Andy Richter ran for two season as did Quints. He also was in several movies, including voices in the Madagascar flicks. It's not like he left thinking he was going to become George Clooney.
Maybe not an "epic" fail, but if he was a huge success he certainly wouldn't be coming back.

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