Andy Richter did not want to do the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, NPR 2007

NPR interview with Andy Richter from 2007.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9040471

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[eliizme]

I like him & Conan & all,but he was asked 2 leave by Lorne Michaels back then.Also i bet he didn't "decide" not to take his % of Coco's severance package!

[danamon5000]

@eliizme asked to leave by Lorne Michaels? where do you get that information? just curious

[gherch]

who picked the screenshot for this anyway?

[danamon5000]

@gherch twas i

[imbatman505]

@DungaroosRFun2

Did you even listen to the clip? The interviewer DOES ask Andy if/when Conan takes over the Tonight Show, would Andy consider going back to join him. Andy flat-out says "No."

[JohnKulo]

@KaiserJames Yup

[jawnmayer]

I'm so glad he came back. It's not Conan without Andy

[KaiserJames]

Well Andy moved on with Conan to be on the new TBS show, but what happened to their drummer Max Weinberg? Did he decide to stay with Bruce Springsteen?

[SuperToughnut]

Plan B.

[soccerhopeful143]

Maybe it would be different if I was in his shoes but I can't understand how someone goes from an a struggling actor just looking to support themselves to Someone whose unhappy with a great gig like late night with Conan O Brien. To call himself Ed McMahon is really selling himself short.

[smurfornge]

Jimmy Kimmel spying on his competition in the front row.

[msdemos]

It seemed (to me anyway) that it took a while for Andy to get back into the 'groove' as being the Andy (i.e., Conan's "sidekick") we all know and love on the new TBS show.....but it's clear he's now back, and in GREAT form again.

I get the impression that people don't fully appreciate how difficult a job it is to constantly be funny, when you're only able to interject a thought here and there, when stuck down at the far end of the couch.

Kind of like being a good pinch-hitter in baseball...

[beatles0072]

Drink it already!! I'm thirsty now...

[AfterFauve001]

I never saw it as just Conan - but a comedic duo - Andy and Conan, and most fans will tell you its Andy that gets to have his name come first. When the word slipped out Andy was coming back, I remember fans going ape $h!7. Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Beavis and Butthead, Andy and Conan.

they are going to be a part of entertainment history, that future comedians will admire and pay homage to.

[maxmison1]

This interview makes me sad that Andy feels this way and then after 'Andy Richter Controls The Universe' went back to Conan as his fall back. Andy makes me laugh more than anyone else on Conan and he does it with only snippets. He shouldn't see himself as the sidekick but as a part of the show. and for the record I love andy's laugh!