Andy Richter

Robert Smigel on Andy Richter and how the role of a sidekick for Conan came about; on how Richter was originally hired as a writer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien; on why it clicked between Conan and Andy; on how Stephen Colbert was also considered as Conan’s sidekick; on how NBC hated Andy as a sidekick initially; on what made a good sidekick for a personality like Conan’s