The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Alan Tudyk

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

Actor Alan Tudyk joins Andy Richter to discuss working on “Moana” and “Rogue One,” accidentally ending up in Los Angeles, why he wants to move back to New York City, doing his own home renovation, the new season of “Resident Alien,” his role in the new “Superman” film, and much more.Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Tell us your favorite dinner party story - leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

Hi everybody, welcome back to The Three Questions. I'm your host Andy Richter and today I am talking to Alan Tudyk. Alan is an actor. You've seen him in films like 28 Days, Dodgeball, iRobot, 310 to Yuma, Trumbo and much more. He's also a prolific voice actor and has voiced characters in Disney animation films since 2012. He currently stars in the very very funny sci-fi show Resident Alien and he's gonna be in Superman. Here's my conversation with the wonderful Alan Tudyk. Oh, hello everybody. Today I'm talking to Alan Tudyk, who we've known each other. We used to see each other in the 1990s. We would see each other fairly frequently.

New York City. Yeah, New York City, but it's been a long, long time. But I really enjoyed just seeing, you know, all the different really cool, enviable things that you've gotten to do. Thanks, man. Really nice. Thank you. And also, I was just telling my producer, Sean, like, just the voice work is enough. Yeah. Like in terms of like having a good living. Yeah. And the voice work is so much fun and you do do such, you get to do such like, I didn't even know that you're the fucking chicken in Moana.

Yeah. Holy, you know, I've got a kid, so I've seen Moana nine million times, which it could be a lot worse. Moana is really a good movie. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I like, I like that crab. I like, uh, Tomah Toa.

This, the songs in the first one You're they're fucking great. Yep, you know I also when I was thinking about you coming in to I realized and then especially when I saw that you were raised in Texas right how often you must have heard two dicks. Oh, yeah must be nice. Yeah dicks which one's bigger Yeah, you know. Yeah, that was kind of my nickname. That was the easy nickname. Right, right. Hey, Tudix.

Tudix is here. Yeah, yeah. But it is. That's like an anime thing. You know? That's a very specific view porn search. Yeah, right. One is a octopus limb.

Well, you're here to promote Resident Alien, correct? Yes, yes. Which is a very funny show that is on Netflix and Peacock and... Sci-fi! Somewhere else. Yeah, sci-fi. It started at sci-fi. Now does that mean the budget gets better?

No. When, oh, isn't that amazing? It goes to the other director. Oh my God, that's so hilarious. So we started Syfy and went to USA. They're the actual producers or they're the studio? Right. No, they're the producers.

Right. I don't know. Whatever, the studio. Yeah, the broadcast, but it's broadcast television. So broadcast television, the start of the show coincided with the downturn of broadcast television, money being made there. Lucky you. Yeah.

So we got to ride it through. Although it was a good job as far as we had a job during the pandemic. We had stopped and had to pick it back up. And then during the strike as well. So during all of those times of insecurity, the cast of Resonating, we were all sort of going, oh, we got a new season coming up.

Oh, wow. So during the strike, were you guys shooting, or you just happened to not be shooting and you were just waiting for the strike to be over? We were just waiting for the strike to be over. I see. Laughing and spending money. Bought in boats. Yeah. For your family.

Must suck for you guys. No, that's, I, you know, that with pandemic for me, the Conan show was still on the air. So I was still for a long time. And even they would send me bits and I would shoot bits by myself, like on an iPad, on a tripod. Oh, wow.

Yeah, in my house. Like I'd go buy props and stuff and then like do little bits in my house and then email them in. It was really fun. Yeah. And then and I and I so I did get that I was very lucky to have the begin like the first big chunk of the lockdown at least have money coming in because it would have been pretty terrifying. Yeah scary. Otherwise and because also once it was done, it wasn't like things still aren't back, you know? No, they're going the wrong direction.

Yeah, yeah. They sure are. Um, now you, we were talking about you, you were living up in Vancouver half the year. Yes. Uh, and then coming, but you stayed here. You and your wife and your wife, what's your wife doing? She's a choreographer. Oh, choreographer.

You'd love that. She's a choreographer. Oh, choreographer. You'd love that. She's the choreographer they bring into productions to go, all right, here actors, time to learn to dance. And put you guys to, put everybody to work. She did, she mainly does theater, and she was a contemporary dancer for a long time, and she's done different stuff like that. But she did Peacemaker, the dance that was

at the beginning of Peacemaker. Oh, wow. Oh, cool. Yeah, so that was her, that was sort of her big thing for the people know her from. Yeah. But yeah, we actually knew each other back in New York. We go way back at Juilliard, back at school. She was there.

Oh, really? Yeah, she was there when I was there. She was dating somebody else. I was dating somebody else, but we were friends. We were like, when we get high, you know, the group of people that all got high together, some people were like, we got to stay inside. And some people would be like, let's cook something. And some people would be like, listen to my poetry.

And her and I, I would always be like, I figured out how to steal a boat from Central Park. And she'd be the only person who was like, I am in. Let's go. Yeah, so we did a lot of- Oh, that's great. Yeah, we did crazy stuff together back in school, but we were just- Did you know that, like, did you know that the vibe was there?

I, it was coming from me. She was a little more, she was really the best. I think I'm, but she was like, one of the best dancers at school then. Oh, I see. And so she was really the best. I think I'm, but she was like one of the best dancers at school then. Oh, I see. And so she was out of my league. Right.

But whatever. The dancers are notoriously dumb. Can't this, isn't that, I mean, she must be an anomaly. There are, I don't know, I wouldn't. I know many dancers. Having a wife that's a- I'm sorry dancers, I'm having fun. I know many dancers. Having a wife that's a... I'm sorry, dancers. I'm having fun. Come on, dancers.

I'm of the dancers are one of their magical people. They really are. They are, they... And so much of what I've done in my, well, some of what I've done in my career has been, like all the robot, all my robot work, has been physical. Right, right. And telling a story physically,

because who knows what's just gonna end up being at the end of the day. And like, you know, definitely Rogue One, K2SO only has, he has fixed eyes and fixed mouth. And not, I don't even think he has a mouth. So it becomes telling a story with your body. And that's what dancers do. Did you, like, did the arms movement,

was that sort of keyed on you too? All of that. I did have, I did have for some scenes, especially like spaceship stuff, they had these fake arms that I would put on and they puppeted. So whenever I moved my fingers, I moved my fingers. Oh wow.

So it was like punching buttons and stuff. Yeah, yeah. But I couldn't hold things for too long, and they made a, like, these are amazing. We're like, wow, look at these. They brought them out, and they're like, okay, now turn them on. Bzzz! LAUGHS

Sound guy's like, I think we've got a problem. There's going to be a small problem with these. So we didn't use them all the time, but they were cheaper instead of doing the VFX. Yeah, all the video effects. Yeah, cause that's, I just actually just finished Andor. And then I read- Did you like it?

I did, I did. I like, and I'm not a big Star Wars person. And Andor is the one that's like sort of rises above it. Yeah. And I get picked on, well picked on. I mean, I'm a bitch and so I bitch and then people just have difficulty with my bitching and then I feel picked on.

But no, I just, the world building sometimes gets to me where it's like every planet's gotta, like they have their own like gestures of affection and stuff and it's got a, like, they have their own gestures of affection and stuff. And it's just like, can't they just fucking kiss? You know? Because then I just think about, it just makes me, and this is also my curse of having worked in television forever, I just see all the seams in the garment. And I just think about how things get put together.

So when I'm sitting here and supposed to be carried away by a story, I'm like, oh, they thought up like a clever phrase. I can just, and I can just picture that room and how delighted they were when they came up with, you know, we are the gore or whatever the fuck. Yes. And I mean, and that's not even a bad one. That one's good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they did a whole, I mean, they went so far though. They did those things where I remember clocking the gestures of the Gormons. But it's when I'm trying to pin down that language, like, is that French? Yes. Is it German? Yes. Did they make up a whole damn language?

I know, I know. They did. I know. And then they hired a bunch of French actors who, because they spoke French, could, they used their inflection, French inflection on the made-up language. But it is a written-out language that I'm sure that a bunch of very studious nerds are gonna be able to speak. Right, right, exactly.

Oh yeah, yeah. No, they have to learn it. And they probably hired some linguist that is now probably making a good side living, making up languages for sidefipings. You know, because it's like with the Vulcan, that was all, you know, right, right. All and, you know, followed like some very studied linguistic trail, you know. That's nerding at the best. Yes, it is. That's high-end nerding.

And I, yeah, and I, as much as I would love to be in something like that, because it would be so much fun, like if I had to learn a fake language, that would suck. I couldn't do it. It would suck so bad. I did a job where they said, I had to speak Hungarian. Oh, I can't remember. It was only one. I had to speak Hungarian. Oh, I can't remember. It was only one. I just did one episode of, I was like a cop. Who's that Hungarian?

And there was like a Hungarian killer who comes to town. And there were like these lines in Hungarian. And I showed up and they're like, okay, now you're gonna say the, do the Hungarian lines. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, you really, how do we do that? They're like, you just do it. Oh no, I don't speak Hungarian. Did'm sorry, you really, how do we do that? Like you just do it. Oh no, I don't speak Hungarian.

Did no one tell you? I said, I thought I would just say the words or something else. And they're like, no, you're gonna have to do Hungarian. So there was a guy who spoke Hungarian who was just off camera. And it was like piecing it together word by word. Parrot it back and forth.

Yeah, yeah, all right. I I could do that I didn't even try that's how much I thought it was a no people don't do this Come on. Yeah, you're gonna have a stunt mouth. Yeah Just be on the back of my head. Yeah, and I'll say the actual words in English and they can respond to that As I mentioned you grew up in Texas. Yeah, how How do you get from Texas, from Plano, to showbiz? Yeah. I was always doing something acting wise. I realized not too long ago that just the other day, somebody was talking about cheerleaders and oh it was my trainer he

was talking about how when he was a kid he liked he always liked girls saying how is did you just to let you know just to let you know yeah get your hands off my waist why are you spotting me I'm not lifting as he's like saying you know measuring your inseam yeah I do like girls he said I like the girls who would do cheerleading on, like in elementary school. I remember they would, they weren't even cheerleaders. They would just practice cheerleading. And I remembered when I was a kid in elementary school, I had me and I got together three buddies and we did the cheers that the girls did, but I changed the words.

And we would do a little set. We'd do a little set of cheers. and I still remember some of the cheers. Like it was a... Well, okay. You want to hear? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Cranking up jalopy, hitting down the street because they said kicking down the street.

Right. We got the team that can be beat. All set? Not yet. I betcha crackers. This doesn't make any sense. Crackers? I betcha booze. I betcha crackers, this doesn't make any sense. Crackers, I betcha booze, I betcha dollars we'll lose. Yay. That was one of them.

Thank you. And when would you do this? Like in the playground or? Yeah, recess, at recess. And were the girls that did the original cheers, were they annoyed or did they think it was kind of cute? I think they thought it was cute. Oh yeah.

But I didn't follow up. I mean, I was too busy loving coming up with the lyrics. Right, right, right. Next move. Yeah, you don't want to actually do this straight cheers. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And not, it wasn't about getting girls. It was about the work.

Right, right, of course, of course. The girls, you know, the girls love that. Oh, do they? Oh, anyway, I was thinking about changing We've Got Spirit into something else. Yeah, exactly. Rewriting, working on that one. So what did your folks do? What kind of house did you grow up in? My dad had a business that he started when we were little selling o-rings, little hydraulic rings. Yeah.

Those sort of like cases, they keep pressure in hydraulic things. And that's what he did. And he did well at it. It's those little businesses. My ex-brother-in-law's family business over two generations now is buying screws. And then like if you buy a Weber grill, they take whatever screws will be in your Weber grill, put it in a plastic bag, and then send them to Weber. And it is an incredibly lucrative business. They just sort out the screws that you will get

in something that you have to assemble yourself. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, who, you, you know. I know, I know, exactly. Or O-rings, like, you know, and also just, I mean, it is the kind of, I don't know how you, but like just to be like, yeah, O-rings, like that's so foreign to me.

But like, that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah, spend all day. I'm gonna be a distributor for all of these German and, and he was, he was cool. I mean, he didn't eat things I know, he would dye O-rings, red and blue, different ones, that they looked the same, but they were made of two different materials.

So he dyed some red and some blue. So you would know immediately. Yeah, so he had like his biggest, Texas Hydraulics was one of his biggest buyers, that they liked that red and blue. And so he was beating out his other competitors by coming up with something special. So I appreciated that.

Yeah, yeah. But it was nothing I wanted to do. Right, right. My father wanted me to do it. I did not. When you were, like, is there work for you as a kid? Yeah. Cause that, I mean, I worked for my parents.

Yeah, I counted O-rings before you, before, and then there was the advent of the scale. Like it existed before, but they were able to go, if one weighs that, how many are those? So they would be, oh, that's 57. I see, I see. As opposed to as a kid. Having to count them all out.

And then his, I can't imagine the people who were buying them from him, especially in the early days of business, there'd be a card that you'd put inside that'd be like, this is the piece number, and then this is how many pieces are in it. And it's written in little kid. My dad scrutinized him like,

can't that just make them a little more slanted, make them slant your letters. Yeah. And use a pen, not this crayon. I worked for my stepfather's plumbing business. Oh, wow. And people would, he sold parts and people would bring in faucet stems and they'd be like, I need a new faucet stem. And then I would go to like, I would, and at the time I could, I started to be able

to tell, well, this is an Elgin or this is a American standard. Yeah. So I would get a big ring leaf folder that had the profile, the outline of all different and they were, I still to this day don't know why there needed to be so many different kinds of faucet stems, which by the way, for people, it's just, it's the part, it's a brass part inside the faucet that when you turn the handle, it lifts a rubber gasket off to let the water pass. And now it's a totally different, it's like a cartridge thing, but it's a very mechanical,

it's basically like a screw that lifts off a hole and lets water pass. And I would have to hold it up to the, like other ones in the book, and then go back into the voluminous, to the other ones in the book, and then go back into the voluminous, like huge warehouse and find like, oh, here we go. Here's the American standard C9648.

And then go sell it to people. Can you do any plumbing now? Yes. That's such a good skill. Yeah, yeah. I can count rings. That's my only skill. Well, and I actually, I live in a house that was built in 1907. Oh wow.

And we haven't remodeled one bathroom yet. And I have had to buy faucet stems, which do not exist anywhere, except for like, there is luckily there's still enough old homes in Pasadena and San Marino and right that there is one company that still sells them so like I replaced the stems in our bathroom that were like literally 80 90 years old Wow so now we're not getting leaks you know Wow that's great yeah yeah that's cool yeah it's not, you know. Wow, that's great. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. Yeah. It's not bad, you know what I mean?

I can do some stuff. Electricity I'm afraid of. Yeah, me too. Like I'm not gonna get killed by water, but I might, you know. I feel like I'm gonna burn my house down. Whenever I do anything, I'm like, it's just a matter of time.

Do you just hire people to do stuff? Now I do. Yeah, yeah. I used to do it all. Yeah. We're selling our house right now. The LA house? The LA house. Yeah. And there's a whole room that I built inside the house that's like one of those non-permitted rooms. That is, I have a friend who is a better builder than me, but we built it together. We built a full room in the house. So as an addition or?

I'm on a hillside. So it's, there's, if you go to these hillside homes where there, like the stilt homes that people have seen, I was on stilts. There's, I basically have one of those except that there's walls where the stilts are. So that whole cavity underneath is just an empty space. Oh, wow. So there was this big empty space and I was like, why don't we just put a room right here?

And we did it, man. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah, I got all the tools. I got all the tools. But I mean, but you're afraid then when you go to sell the house that it's gonna... It is an issue. It is? Yeah.

Well, nobody... There's going to be a point. We just started the selling process. There's going to be a point where somebody goes, yes, we want your house. And then there's going to be a city guy who comes in who goes, the hell did you do, man? Yeah, yeah. I did have one guy come in.

I earthquake proofed the house, which they had to put up all these sheer walls and stuff underneath. Yeah, yeah. And he, I said, hey, would you look at this room? Just tell me what you think. Just looking at it. Just cause you could, where we were under the house,

you could look under the room and how we put it up. And I said, my friend Billy and I built it. And he looked in there and he goes, well, I wish I had a friend like Billy. So I took that as good. Yeah. Like that's a damn good room. Right, right.

But I don't know. Maybe the floor goes, when you walk on it. I don't know. The only thing, it just depends on what the ground underneath it, the earthquake stuff. Right. Is that going to just slide down the hill or? No. It's just is depends on what the ground underneath it, you know, the earthquake stuff, right? You know, is it gonna is that how is that gonna just slide down the hill or no? Are you? No, it's not. Are you on firm enough stuff? We're on firm stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're firm

Yeah, and you get to add an extra room you get to call it. Yeah an extra bedroom. Yeah Yeah, we ask you don't charge as much as you would if it was legal. Right, sure. It's a room-ish. It's room-ish, yeah. It's the extra room that you would be like, yeah, okay, this is where I play video games. Yeah.

Why are you leaving LA? Why? I didn't mean to live here. I lived in New York. I moved to LA early in my career. Yeah. And was like, I had a, Bernie Brillstein was my first manager. Oh, wow.

Bernie Brillstein, he's like a classic. Yeah, yeah. And he had produced the first play I did and he was like, kid, you want to work together? And you're getting laid? That's what he said. Get laid, kid. That was kind of awesome. Yeah.

My manager worked for him. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So I had lunch with him a couple times, and it really was like one of those things where like, I just didn't say much. Yeah. I just like, you go, like just that Bernie Brillstein machine that you brought to lunch, let it go.

I want to hear it make its noises, you know. Yeah, he was incredible. Yeah. A big character. And he said, you got to Yeah, he was incredible. Yeah. He was a big character. And he said, you got to move to LA, kid. So I rented an apartment in LA. When was this? This was 1999.

Yeah. And I moved in to a one bedroom place and then came back to New York to do a play. And the first rehearsals of the play, it was 9-11. Oh wow. And we still did the play, comedy, hilarious. Hilarious. Yeah, actually Amy Sedaris was in the play too. Oh wow.

I did a lot of plays with her back in the day. And I had a girlfriend back in LA and I was talking to her and she said, everybody's stealing each other's flags here. I said, what? And she said, we're out of flags. You can't buy them anymore. And so people are stealing from each other's yards so that they're showing how patriotic they are.

And I said, that's great, thank you. And I hung up the phone and called a moving company and said, could you go to this address? You can get the key from my next door neighbor. Everything that's in there, bring it to this address in New York. And I moved back to New York and was like, screw that stupid, silly place.

Yeah, yeah. And in my memory, I feel like I was hanging the last picture. So I had two apartments worth of crap in my one-bedroom New York apartment. And I got a call and they're like, yes, Firefly wants to hire you and you need to come shoot in LA. And I left everything in New York, told all my friends, I'll be right back. And that was 20 years ago.

Wow. Yeah, 20 years ago, 21. Did you keep the apartment in New York or? Kept it until my friend got a divorce. The person I had gotten it from, it was an illegal sublet. I was paying at 1.300 and something dollars a month for a one bedroom on 58th between ninth and 10th.

Wow. Yeah, it was great. And then she got- Pretty close to all the hospitals too, that's good. It was right across the street, yeah. So yeah, and in that neighborhood, you need them. Absolutely. At that time, it's very possible.

And she got divorced, moved back in and then married someone else and he moved in there. Then they're like, you need to get your stuff out of here. Yeah. We have a different style and taste than you do. So then I moved. We've been wearing your clothes. Yeah. He's a cop.

It was all mid-century modern and he's like, I don't sit on this. They got one of those, God bless them, Century Modern and he's like, I don't sit on this. They got one of those, God bless them, but they did get one of the, it was like, I want to guess like a couch made out of lazy boy loungers with cup holders built in. I think there was a version, I don't think the cup holders were there, but okay, because they may have been out. But it was the table in front of the couch that then would lift up and become like dinner.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like had like the same type of like foldy couch type of innards that would come up and they could just eat right there. See, and that's something that like, I would never buy such a thing, but I sure could use it. Yep. You know what I mean? Like it's not like, like it's,

it would be very functional in my life. There's plenty of times where we're one of those families that's like, let's just go on, come on. Yeah. Yeah. Let's just go watch in front of the TV. I love eating and watching TV. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to talk to anybody.

It covers up the sound of chewing. yeah. You don't have to talk to anybody. It covers up the sound of chewing. Right. I don't need that. It's like, you know, you know these kids, when they get older, they're not going to want to talk to you, so we might as well practice that now. Not speaking to each other. Can't you tell my love's a crook?

Well, wait, let's go back to Texas. So I left Texas because the cheerleading work had really dried up. Well you started college in Texas, right? I did, I did. Two years in East Texas. And it was drama. I wasn't going to be an actor, I was going to be a hotel manager and I had a drama teacher, I was doing speech. It wasn't, I didn't like the drama side of things.

The plays, I liked doing speech contests where they did improv and stuff like that. I was on speech team in high school. Oh, I love that stuff. I did prose. Oh, okay. I read short stories, yeah. That was a good one.

I liked that one. Yeah, yeah. I did humorous and turp. Yeah. Where you did all Humorous and Terp, where you did all the characters of a scene, just picking different focal points in the room. It's not good practice. I mean, it teaches you to be competitive,

which I think is good, but to just, you learn to act with yourself, which is a really bad habit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also really cheap stuff, like doing accents and stuff and like, going for- What's wrong with that? Cheap, I think, that's-

Yeah. No, but you know what I mean. Yeah. You know? Like, they rewarded kind of cliches of performance. Oh, yeah. So like in performer, for some people, performer's choices, you know, there's like, you're presented with a line and you think, how would Jackie Gleason say this? If you did that, they'd go, yeah, that's great. That's what, but if you have pride in yourself and consider yourself an artist, you're going to try and say

it in a way that will surprise the listener. Yeah, bring your own. Yeah, yeah, your own thing to it. So, yeah, but yeah, but I know I was in speech team and I really, it was kind of, it was for me too, the beginning of like real performing. Because our plays in our high school was just dumb. They were like rejected. We're Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin scripts. Okay, again. Really. What's wrong with that? I don't know. The last play I did I think was called Boys and Ghouls Together. Okay, again, what's wrong with that? I don't know. The last play I did, I think, was called Boys and Ghouls Together.

Okay, that's... Because it was in the fall, so it was Halloween-y. I see. My brother played a mummy because he was six foot five. Uh... Ours was, we had a big drama department at Plano Senior High. Oh, really? It was like, it won a lot.

Well, Plano's a pretty big town, right? Yeah, it is, was, they now have so many high schools, evidently, it's really screwed up the football. Oh damn. They got all, if you pulled from each one of those teams, you'd have the best damn team in Texas, but it spread out. Oh boy. And the same thing for drama,

but at the time there's less schools, there was just two. And there was a teacher who remained unnamed. At the time, I had worked with him one summer when I was 12. He had a summer program that I did as a kid that my mom had signed me up for. And he was mean. He yelled at all the adults and they cried. And so when I got to the senior year, I was like, I don't want to work with that guy. He's an asshole. So all my friends worked with him. And it turns out later, he ended up, he was in the middle of the one act play contest

and he just walked off his job. And they're like, well, what? What do you mean he just walked off? He lives and dies for this. This is his whole thing. Turns out he was caught up in a sting operation at some mall where they had undercover young looking cops giving out handies in a mall bathroom.

Oh wow. Yeah, so- Wait, the cops were actually doing handies? You know, they wouldn't do it for me, but I heard for others. Cause that's entrapment. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

That's not gonna stand up in court. No, but it stood up in the bathroom and that's why he left. So, I didn't do that, but I was with this woman. Luckily, I was with this speech teacher named Charlotte English and she said, I hear you're going to become a hotel manager. I said, yeah, I love it. I was working at Taco Bueno and I loved restaurant management.

I thought I was really good at it. And I was like, this is what I'm gonna do. She said, you don't wanna be an actor? And I said, no, I don't wanna be poor. And I know that you have to be poor to be an actor. And she said, let's take a walk. And she walked me around the theater building and convinced me to be an actor.

Wow. And then I changed there that day. I was like, I'm an actor. That's great. She's like, you can do it. Yeah, you can do it. I was like, I don't win trophies. All my friends, they win trophies when we go.

And she's like, yeah, you're better than them. Yeah, yeah. She just told me, she just filled me full of just belief in myself. And so I went to this little Texas college, which wasn't one time really great. When I was there, it was on its last legs. Terrible acting teacher there.

He slept with my girlfriend, whatever! Come on! Not just mine. Was that an entrapment? Was she trying to lure him in a sting operation or? Hmm. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Where does the stinger go?

Is that? It's very Animal House, you know? It's very like, you know, Brooke Adams and Donald Sutherland. Remember that subplot? I don't. Oh, in Animal House, like, uh. He was, he was like using his... Yeah, one of the main guys, his girlfriend is Brooke Adams, and she, and he finds her

fucking the Professor Donald Sutherland, who's the guy that like, you know, turns him onto weed and stuff. Yeah, that's what he was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This guy. Yeah. He was really a dick. And I moved with him, and I became very good friends before. I didn't know any of this at the time.

I moved to Dallas with him. Afterwards, he quit teaching. Like, he and I were close friends. And we got into an improv troupe together. Wait. The teacher. Did he, was he sleeping with your girlfriend while you were at school?

Uh-huh. Oh, wow. And so you didn't know any about this. And then you went and you were living with this. Yes. Creep. This creep that stabbed you in the back. And I you didn't know any about this, and then you went, and you were living with this... Yes. Creep. This creep that stabbed you in the back.

And I think he wanted to sleep with me because he slept with another one of my girlfriends. I mean, isn't that what that means, when he sleeps with two of your girlfriends? Probably. He's like... Yeah, yeah. This is as close as I can get.

So not only is he untrustworthy, he's a chicken. Yes. Yeah, he could have just... He could have had you. I was easy back then. Back then. He just shares weed. I don't have the standards like I do now. Give me some of that Donald Sutherland weed.

But I was doing, I did improv. I did, I was in an improv troupe with a really good guy named Sean Petrello. He was so funny and he taught me a lot. I realized I was a bad actor. I was doing some Dallas plays and I was like, oh, I'm not really that good. I don't know what I'm doing. Yes. I had learned from this jackass who keeps

sleeping with my girlfriend. I heard Juilliard was good. So I just went up and auditioned. Wow. I just got in. But I got in because of my improv. I think there's an improv section and I was so comfortable improv-ing.

Right, right. And I made them all laugh and I think I got it in the room. I was like, oh, I think I just nailed it. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, cause that's very difficult. Like it's hard and you know.

It is. And it's very hoity-toity I think, you know. It is, but it's also kind of, it's just like any audition where it's a crap shoot. Sometimes they see something and they're like, OK. Yeah, you. And some of the people in my class were, one guy killed somebody after he left.

Like, there were people who had no business being playing trustful. Yeah. Alan, Fall back into Nathan's arms fall back into the BTK killers. Yeah has weapons on him He was dangerous. Yeah, he killed somebody in a in a road rage situation, but he's out. Oh, so good How's it going, bud? Good. Good. Hope the great wealth great country. We got Well, so when you get there, are you doing comedy?

No. Because that's the other thing too. I think if you can make people laugh, that's a magical thing. Yes. I was so excited to do comedy and nobody in my class was very interested in it. Wow.

And you need them to be interested so you have someone else to play with. Yes. Yeah. And a faculty to respond to our needs, which everybody else's needs was like, let's, can we do more drama? Ugh. We had a, we had a comedy slot in our second year that they changed to Greek drama. When we got there.

Jesus Christ. But it, luckily, I went to the head of the drama department, Michael Kahn, and was very dramatic, especially back then. And I was like, I'm dying. I'm dying here. I can't, we have to do something. We have to do a comedy. And he said, you know, I'm gonna bring in some clowns.

I was like, what the hell? That is not what I want. Yeah. to bring in some clowns. I was like, what the hell? You, that is not what I want. Yeah. But he brought in clowns and one guy juggled and was teaching us to juggle. And I went up to his office like, no, what the hell is that? And then another guy came in and he taught us kind of scene work. And I said, no. And then he brought in this guy named Christopher Bayes and it was, I, he saved

my life because it was very dramatic at the time. He saved my life there. He was very dramatic at the time. He saved my life there. He came in and drew a line across the floor. He's like, okay, this is the end of a diving board. One, two, three, four, five, you five get up and the rest of you sit there and come one at a time to the end of this diving board, say hello.

Just say hello, say nothing else, say hello. Make everyone laugh. And if you don't make everyone laugh, you didn't do it, right? You need to go to the back of the line And it was like what yeah way to what how do we do that? Yeah, and it became about Not putting anything on finding something true, but also funny to say hello Anyway, it went from there. I and he ended up becoming a faculty He now teaches it. Oh, he's from there. And he ended up becoming a faculty. He now teaches at- And was he dressed as a clown the entire time?

No, no, no. I know he wasn't, but I just wanted to imagine- He drank a lot, so his nose was red. My big shoes, comes in with a chalk. Little fake cigar. Cigar. Yeah, yeah. No, he was, we always called him angry clown,

because he had Doc Martens, he always had a leather jacket on, and he was just kind of like, hey. Yeah, yeah. All right, here's what we're going to do. He's a funny guy. Now he teaches at Yale, and he taught, my friend, it was in class beneath me, who now teaches at Juilliard, but I did a a clowning,

I did a clown, a show with him off, off Broadway at La Mama. We did that once, which was really great. I wanna do that. I wanna now move back to New York and do a clown show. I know you're gonna say, Alan, how good is your magic? It's not good. And in my 50s now, my physical work is a little crunchy.

Right, right. But I think with Orlando Pobotoy, who's now like, he's just as good as Chris Bay. Sorry, Chris! He is. He's a natural. Yeah. He can do anything. Just physical, like, theater humor. So we were making this play called, for La MaMa for their anniversary, their 50 year anniversary or something like that.

And he, it was called That Beautiful Laugh. And at the end of the play, we had to go out into the audience and find people's laughs. Like people would laugh and we'd mimic their laugh and it was all, it worked in the show. I was the third person to do it. And I was like, Orlando, I'm the third person doing this.

Nobody's gonna laugh. He's like, yeah, I know. I think maybe they won't. I'm interested to see if they don't. I said, fuck what? Yeah, yeah. I've gotta be there with egg on my face and nobody laughing.

He said, well, we're not just here to make people laugh. We're here to inspire joy, Alan. I was like, could you lower the bar? What is that crap? And. Yeah, I'm just trying not to look like a dick. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And he said, laughter is easy.

It's everywhere. And he said, it's here. And we were tired. We were like cramming this all into like a two week rehearsal period of creating it and then rehearsing it. And it involved like dancing on stilts and shit like that. And, uh, and he's like, there's laughter right here.

And he stood there, he didn't move. And it was like, he turned on something inside of him, this like mischief in his eyes. And he just leaned a little bit here and leaned a little bit there. And the entire room was laughing within just a few minutes. He just has this muscle that he can make people laugh. It was, yeah, he's magic. Yeah. He's magic.

No, there, I mean, you know, I've gotten to be around like Will Farrell early, early on in my career and his career, you know, arguably, you know, like he was doing movies before I was doing movies, but there was a couple things where it seemed like I might get a part in this and then Will Ferrell gets it. And twice that happened. And both times I'm like, oh yeah, no, they made the right fucking choice because Jesus Christ, I can't do what he does, you know.

And I've seen him do so many things that are just like, when you step back and think, anybody else doing that, it's just nothing, you know? And then he, I saw him once at like some benefit thing and he came out, it was a live show, it was a benefit show and it was like different people, like Dave Kroll sang and it was, you know, and it was like different people, like Dave Kroll sang, and it was, you know, lots of different people came out. I did something, and he came out and

just for the first, like, I would say three or four minutes, said, let's hear it for us, and made everybody like, come on, let's hear it for us. What we're doing here. Come on. Like, and made everybody cheer. And it just, and it didn't die. He just kept building it and building it and building it. And there's nothing to it. That's great. And then, and then when it's like at its peak, he goes like, all right, we need one minute of room tone.

Which for people that don't know, that's like when you're done shooting a scene, sound sometimes, for editing, like they'll sometimes they'll need to put in silence, like between people talking they'll need what that room sounds like when nobody's talking. So and he made us sit there and like scolded it and I think even like started over, like somebody made noise 20, he's like, fine, we got to do it again. And he made everybody sit there and be quiet for 60 seconds.

Wow. The other, the other one, the other, I just have to say this, because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. Andy Daly, who's a friend of mine, do you know Andy Daly? I'm sure he's very, yeah, yeah.

I just listened to his Bonanza for Bananas for Bananas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Loved it. He did a bit where he was, I saw him do and he comes out and he's a memory expert. Like he's a guy that like has an amazing memory and he can memorize everything. And he says, I'm going to memorize the names of everyone in this crowd. And he goes through and he gets everyone's name goes through every single person in the audience and gets their name and is, you know, joking with them and stuff.

And then he comes back to the front and he goes like, all right, here we go. Brenda, shit. And then has to go through, he goes through the rest of the crowd and he goes like, big ears, fuck. Tony, no. Like, big ears, fuck, Tony, no. Like yellow shirt, fuck.

It was just the funniest fucking thing. It was like on number two, Brenda, shit. How cool to be around that, man. To get to see those. I know, absolutely, absolutely. That's some of the best stuff. Yeah, yeah. I got, okay, so, because I mentioned Amy Sayers, this is one of the those. I know, absolutely, absolutely. That's some of the best stuff. Yeah, yeah. I got, okay, so, because I mentioned Amy Starris,

this is one of the funniest things I've, Which is how you and I knew each other, because we were friends, she was the mutual friend that we had, yeah, yeah. Yes, you did Strangers with Candy twice. Yes, I did. You sold her steroids and gave it to her in her ass, in the steroids, and they had those weird her ass. I think, that's right.

And they had those weird, those beards that were so very funny. And then you also did- And I was a wizard of some kind. It was the thing, like they were always borrowing. I think it's something that she had in North Carolina where they would teach you by bringing these mobile units to school. Like a bookmobile.

Yeah, like a bookmobile. And you were teaching her about something. I don't remember what that was, but you were a wizard. Yeah you were teaching her about something. I don't remember that. But you were a wizard. Yeah, I was a wizard, but I don't remember what it was. Maybe drugs. But I mean, I don't know. Maybe I did two drug thing. I think it was maybe on that show three times.

Yeah, yeah. That's yeah. I did two because I had a a second one. Yeah. Very well. My ex-wife was a yes. All right. Recurring on there. She was Coach Wolfe. She was Coach Wolfe. And honestly, I was I was a bigger fan of that show.

Maybe it's just because I didn't have to make it. I didn't have to get in a passenger van at 5.30 AM to go sit at a school, a defunct parochial school in New Jersey. I got a piano from that school. Oh, did you really? Because they tore it down and Amy called me? She's like do you want a piano? It's like yeah. Yeah, sure sad PAs had to drag it all the way

Drop it off at my apartment in New York Wow nice. Yeah, so but anyway you're say yeah Oh, so we did a play is when I first met Amy doing a play up in Long Wharf theater it was a Douglas Carter Bean play and it was called Country Club. And it was all took place at this Country Club in the, in the cub room and it was all these kids who were coming back when they were 30. Yeah. And you'd see them at events at the Country Club. So the first event is New Year's and then it went to Valentine's Day and then 4th of July,

and you see how their lives have progressed. The first time you see Amy's character, she says, somebody's looking for a light for a cigarette, and she's like, Froggy, do you have a light? And she goes, no, me and Bri quit. And she goes, can I lift up my shirt sleeve and say, me and Bri quit and I'll have a patch on and I'll like wink.

And the director's like, absolutely fucking not. No, no, that is not the humor of this play. She said, it'll be funny. I'm sure, but not the humor of the play. One matinee, oh my God. She says, me and Bri quit. And she lifts up her arm and she's got a patch on and it gets a big laugh.

Better than anything that the show had that day. And then we're in Valentine's Day, she's wearing an evening gown. She comes out, she turns and reveals the center of her back is a patch. (*Bri laughs*) Fourth of July, she's got these shorts on, it's in the middle of her thigh.

She's got a patch in every, she reveals it in every scene of the play. And then the final scene, she's chain smoking. None of it was in the play. She didn't have any smoking blocking. So she was just all over the stage trying to find ashtrays and making a mess of everything. It was so great. And the stage trying to find ashtrays and making a mess of everything. It was so great.

And the stage manager called the director and she got told, never do that again. But for one performance, it was damn good. Oh yeah. I love those that you just getting to be around people who are so funny and see them do their thing. Yeah, yeah. Well, with Amy too,

I did a number of things with her, but like, the most professional thing I did with her was, well, was the movie Elf. Like, you know, we're an elf together, she plays James Bond's assistant. And the thing that I would, that was so fucking, to me it was thrilling is that, you know, for people that don't know, you do, you know,

they, the way they shoot things is they shoot one, usually start with a wide angle and you go through it a few times in a wide angle and then they shoot the individual singles, double or double shots. And if they're filming the person that you're talking to, you sit off camera and do your lines, and so you give them an eye line and you give them the same, so they can perform

on the same energy, and she would fuck with you when she was off camera. She would like roll her eyes at my line, like when I would say something, she'd be like, no, no, no, like, and I think there was some stuff I was improvising and she would go like, like make a face like, ew, that wasn't good. And it was all just to like, try and make you break. And I was, and I just fucking, it was so thrilling to me.

Cause also too, it was like, it was almost like a chat, like, fuck you, I'm not going to break. Go ahead and be, be Amy Sidara's off camera and be fucking hilarious, but no way you're not going to throw me, you know. I found it really like amazing. Other people did not. And she was like at one point told, she was at one point told, stop fucking around. And I probably wasn't the best idea I said and I knew I would be I was like why would they why would they hire you if they don't want you to fuck around? Oh no. Like you're the queen of fucking around. Yeah. Like what the fuck? Yeah. Yeah yeah she's she doesn't need much to encourage her. Yeah

no kidding so. Yeah. But also too it's like when you tell her to stop fucking around you when that happened you could tell like oh, she's heard that a lot Yeah, like she's heard that in lots and lots of situations from a child from being very small all the way up She's and she enjoys pushing that boundary. Yeah, she when they did Country Club that show I didn't do it off-broadway when it came to town, I was doing a different show on Broadway. Oh. Yeah. Ooh la la. And, but it didn't do as well as-

Lady Ness? No, it was a bad show called- Miss Saigon? No, it's called Epic Proportion. Oh! Yeah. The porno show. With Kristin Chenoweth and-

Oh, wow. Jeremy Davidson and Ruth Williamson and a bunch of people. Anyway, it didn't go well. It didn't go well. But I went to go see Country Club and there was a great monologue that this other actor had who played her boyfriend husband in the show and she was just meant to sit still. She turned into a monkey. She would turn into a monkey and in low light,

she would slowly start to transform her body into a monkey. She would turn into a monkey and in low light, she would slowly start to transform her body into a monkey. She would put her tongue in her top lip, she'd pick bugs out of her hair. She full-on went monkey and took the director a lot of performances to notice it before. I remember her telling me, I can't do the monkey anymore. God, so awesome. I just love chaos like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And just, and you know, she's amazing. Yeah. She's wonderful. So you're going back to New York. Yeah. I imagine to like to do more theater work. I want to do theater work.

I want to do, I do want to work with Orlando. Is it your preference? No. I mean, it used to be, I think every time I've done it, I go, wow, I forgot how hard this was. Yeah. But I want to make something with Orlando. Yeah.

I want to workshop something. I just want to do readings of new plays. I want to enjoy it again. I enjoyed acting a lot and then there's a section in the middle there where I was just doing work because my managers were telling me to do what I I've have some jobs that were I'd always get convinced to do a job not for the job but for what the job could

possibly get me on the other side of the job even if the job wasn't that great they would say but we can hype up this job right for the year before this comes out yeah yeah we can tell everybody you're gonna be an Abraham Lincoln We can hype up this job for the year before this comes out. We can tell everybody, you're going to be an Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter. Do you know how many doors that's going to open? Alan, that is the master key. And so I found, and I don't know, I'm just at a point in my life now when I'm on a set and I'm not, I don't want to be there, I have

no interest. I can't even fake it. I'm just like, what do you want? And they'll, I'll jump through any hoop just to get out of the door. And I can't do that. I don't want to do that. So now that Resident Alien season four is hitting the screen, I directed a couple of episodes. Oh, nice. Yeah. Nice. Did they let you, or did you just do it? I had some compromat.

I had some compromat. Yeah, yeah. I, I, it was the fourth season. I directed before in this little thing that I made called Con Man. And I learned so much, oddly, from Strangers with Candy because I was around Amy during that time. And I would read the scripts, I'd watch the dailies,

I would see them put together their show, I'm watching her and Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello. And then they had an assistant that also wrote, and that was it. And Amy kind of wrote, but she would just go, what if I did this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's even a character in Con Man that is Jerry Blank. I wrote, there's this awful woman who wants to sleep with everybody and steals your money

and this terrible human being. But I really enjoyed that and making that. I crowdfunded it and it was a first sci-fi people's about cons, comic cons, and fans gave me three million dollars. Wow. They gave me three million dollars. Wow. They were like, yeah, here, have this.

Wow. So I made that show and then I made a comic book and I made a game for your phone. That explains your solid gold hat. I guess I didn't put any of it in the show. It just all went into this hat. And the upkeep. There's a lot of upkeep on this hat. Is that somewhere where we can see it? Is it on sci-fi?

It is not. Dude, sci-fi ran it. Sci-fi was like, hey, can we, we want to run this show. And then they edited it. So I was watching it and it was suddenly, I'm like, why is this going so fast? This isn't that fast. And they had sped up the time

because we made it for the internet. So there were no commercial breaks and stuff. So we didn't care about it, but they would speed it up. And then they'd like, there'd be the setup of a joke, and then it would cut to a commercial, and they'd never pay off the joke. Like, what the? Wow. The fact that I work for them again

says a lot about myself as a person. Exactly. I've grown or become grown desperate or something. Crawling back. Yeah. Hey, that was real cool when you screwed over my thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Because you sci-fi guys are so good with comedy. You guys understand funny so well. and you screwed over my thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because you sci-fi guys are so good with comedy. You guys understand funny so well. You can get it on like, you can get it on Amazon. It's somebody who wrote for the first time, who directed for the first time, and who produced for the first time, making a show about things with his friends.

So it has some really funny moments, and then other moments you're like, I don't think you can say that. And then there's other moments that get you to the next moment. Is it hard for you to watch it? I don't watch it, yeah, I can't. I'll watch certain things.

I know there's one called a voiceover that is about doing a voiceover for a video game, which was actually something that happened to me with Nathan Fillion, who's in the show. that is about doing a voiceover for a video game, which was actually something that happened to me with Nathan Fillion, who's in the show. And Nathan was in Firefly and he's one of my close friends and we both did Halo, we voiced Halo. And when I was in New York when I did it, he was in LA.

When we met back up in LA, I said, hey, whoa, my God, because we played it all the time. I was like, what was that like? He's like, oh, you know, it was great. It was the sort of thing that you're used to doing, you know. Follow me this way, man. We got them on the run. Look out!

Yeah. Yeah. And mine were, ow, that hurts. They're using real bullets. And we were all, I was all non-player guys who would run by you going, retreat, retreat. I would try to butcher it up and they're like, get it back in the higher part of your voice, Alan.

Yeah. It's basically that idea was with Milo Ventimiglia and this great guy named Nolan North, who's a big voiceover actor and Gina Torres is in it. It's me doing a video game where they're like, no, you're going gonna play this other character. You're the coward. You're Marion.

Yeah, Marion. That's a man? I'm a, it's Marion's a man's name? Yeah. Oh, I guess it is. Yeah. Okay. That was John Wayne's name, so yeah.

Yes, it was. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. So I got to do that a long time ago and I really, and Resident Evil, they've been really nice about letting me, I mean, really nice. They don't pay me to write,

but when it comes to writing certain scenes with my character, especially, Chris Sheridan has given me a lot of leeway. A lot of leeway. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, this is, I like the setup, but what about this? How about, then I'll just hand him a page, and he'll take a lot of it.

Well, you're going back to New York. Yeah. I guess you're excited about that. Very. Yeah. I've gotten over the scared part. There's that song from Rosemary Clooney, Do You Miss New York?

Do you know that song? I don't. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, yeah. It's about a time in LA. It's sung by a woman in LA who's singing with her friends saying, hey, do you miss New York?

You know, do you think you could still hack it there? If you had to, could you? Did you trade it all for this, for parking spaces, which we don't have anymore. But at the time, I guess you did have parking space. And at the end, there's this great little thing at the end where she's like, do you miss New York? Me too.

She just speaks the last one. But you get the sense that she's never going back. And I'm going back. And I'm, but, you know, I'm, I'm, I, when I think of New York, it was so very hard, but I think part of the part that was so very hard was I was broke as fuck. And I'm not as broke as fuck now.

And I imagine work for your wife is probably more accessible in New York than here. Yeah, because she had a whole, she had a dance program that she was running before the pandemic, which was the coolest thing. All these young dancers that she was introducing to professional people, and you would watch these dancers,

there'd be like 50 of them a year. I would teach them acting, but you'd see all these young, like 20 something young people come in. I'd teach them masks. Dude, that was fun. I want to do that again. I want to teach young people and watch their careers go pew pew pew pew, because they have. I have like, they're on Broadway and they're,

and like you introduce them to, she would introduce them to choreographers and they'd give them jobs and they'd be touring Going from you're not having a job to having a job because of chris. Oh, yeah, that was me. It's pretty cool. Yeah, so Yeah, I think it's gonna be better. Is that is that where you see like do you have any sort of unfulfilled? Things yeah, it just is it just is it teaching and doing the show with your friend Orlando? Is that kind of where you're going? That's it. Yeah. And I want to write. I'm writing a thing right now that I have some people who want to make it. It wouldn't be a big money thing. It's going to be...

I could probably say it because I'm in charge of it. So it's going to be a podcast. It's going to be, but not like this. It's going to be a fictional podcast. And I don't want to say much more about it, but it's going to be a podcast. It's going to be, but not like this. It's going to be a fictional podcast. And I don't want to say much more about it, but it's going to be funny and it's not going to be... I can't listen to fictional podcasts because they bother me. You know, like where you're...

Like you're listening to people like, oh, welcome to our town! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's interesting here. I know. I can take them for a certain amount, but they always go off and they get really silly and some of them are very smart writing But they it gets silly and it's not gonna be like that. Yeah, so hopefully it works

If not, you'll be like when they're down. I never saw that podcast. It's cuz it didn't But right now it's working right as far as the the writing of yeah. Yeah, no fictional pocket I mean they're basically like to call it like a fiction, and I've done a couple of them, but it's like to call it, to me it's like, why not just call it a radio play? It's a radio play. Exactly.

You know, and I actually am a total dork, and one of the things that I really enjoy is old radio. And like on SiriusXM, there's an old radio channel, and there's like places where you can go. When I was a kid in Chicago, every night at I believe 10 30, there was the CBS radio mystery theater. Oh yeah. Do you remember that? No.

Oh, okay. But it was on... You got a Foley artist. E.G. Marshall, yeah, would host it and it was every, and it was all like spooky stuff, you know. And I still just absolutely, I would listen to it on a clock radio as a kid, like in the dark. On a clock radio. Yeah, yeah. And I would, and I still, like those are available online. And I listened and I, like I had a script, I had an idea for a script that took place in a, like a, because, and one of the things that's interesting to me

about it is that like, there were syndicated shows that were like from Milwaukee, you know? And so there was this kind of regional stuff. And like, and I had this idea for a show that takes place in the middle of the country. And it's like, and it's all centered on a group of people doing a radio drama in Oklahoma City or somewhere. And I took everybody that I took it to,

they're like, nobody gives a shit about radio. No, you can't center something on a fucking old-time radio show. No, it just won't work. And I'm just like, all right. You were ahead of your time, man. I don't know. I mean, but I still really enjoy. But I know what you mean.

Like, I'll listen, because sometimes on the serious XM one, there are like more modern ones. Uh-huh. You know, like sort of like, there's a whole series of Sherlock Holmes that, I don't know, they're 2000, what, 25 or something. Not good. Oh, sorry folks. Sorry, folks.

Yeah, the melodrama is part of it. What are you doing? Yeah. Put that down. Yeah. That's fun. All the foley, all the door-rollers, steps and all that. Eric Idle made a radio play called,

What About Dick that came out? You can get it online now. It's got some funny, Billy Connelly is the funniest. Oh, okay. It's got music. He's got a lot of cool people. Yeah. Anyway, I like him too.

Nice. We'll see if this is something, but I wanna go back to New York and enjoy the theater. Yeah. Go see theater, go see Orlando. Make, we've already got, I wanna workshop one thing. He has two other things he wants to workshop. So we'll just get into a space,

but he's also got Juilliard as a space. He's like, let's go. Last time I was there, I was like, hey, has Richard the Third, I was like, what about this take on Richard the Third? And he's like, what are you doing right now? It's like nothing. He's like, great, do you know it? What, Richard the Third?

He's like, yeah, He's like, great. Do you know it? What, Richard III? He's like, yeah, no. Oh, well, learn it. That's Orlando. So that's who I want to be around. Wow. I don't have that now. Yeah, yeah. That doesn't, that's not here.

What do you think you've learned? Like, what do you think you've learned from your years doing this? And like I say, very enviable. You have a wonderful career, you know? And I imagine, I mean, I imagine you get recognized, but not in any kind of like burdensome way, you know? Right, right, right.

I mean, because I always feel like if people recognize me, they like me, you know what I mean? Like they're like people, I haven't been shoved down people's throats to the point where they're like, oh, that asshole, you know? At least, you know, that's people that's people that know me, are more that way. They are the ones who've come to that conclusion.

Right, right. I think I've learned, or I'm learning still, to do things that I want to do only. Yeah. I can get caught up still in the same, it's whatever started me on this path where you're like, I have to work, I have to work, I have to work. I can talk myself into any job.

Well, I like this moment or I like that or I haven't done a horror film. Even though the script isn't good, wow, I'll be the lead and it'll be done in two months and I don't need to do that. Yeah. The script isn't good, don't do it. Yeah. I'll take my time hanging out with my dogs and my wife. Yeah.

And not in that order. In my life and then my dog. I heard that. She would, our dogs are great. Yeah. But yeah, I think it's just do something that you enjoy, that you want to do. Yeah, if you have the luxury of, you know,

being able to do that. Right, which I think, according to the scientists, we don't have much time. And this is, although that is a bad thing to think, I find it soothing. According to scientists, yeah, there's not much time left. So just enjoy yourself. That's always my attitude.

It's like, I mean, one of the problems I've had with physical fitness, like you need to work out, my thing has always been like, why? So I can have more of this? Like this thing I'm very ambivalent about, you know? You can learn to swim. That's gonna be important. Swimming is gonna become very important in the next decade.

Yeah. No, but I mean, but I actually, my life is very good now. So I'm very happy now. Yeah, you're married two years. I'm married just eight, almost nine years. Oh, nice. So it's new. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's actually the years. I'm married just eight, almost nine years. Oh nice. So it's new. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's actually the last time I saw you. I was on Conan once. It was right as Rogue One came out and I remember I kept playing with my ring because my ring didn't fit yet because I had just gotten married. Oh wow. Because we got married

and we couldn't go on our honeymoon for a little while. And you lost a bunch of weight for this wedding photo. I did. Oh, wow. Because we got married and we couldn't go on our honeymoon for a little while. And you lost a bunch of weight for this wedding photo. I did. Yeah, yeah. I wish I could get back there. I'll just need that special shot that people are taking to get there. Because I look at pictures of me now, and I'm like,

what the hell? The chin to chest line that happens with the neck girth. I don't know. You're, first of all, you're crazy. Well, I'll show you some pictures. No, you're a very... Can I show you some pictures of myself? You're a very...

Look at this. No, you're very fit. And also too, the thing that like, the thing that it's like, yeah, you know, it's called getting old. It's getting old, yeah. It's getting old. And it's like, you just like,

and some people do it more than others, but you just thicken up. You know, like even the, like, like I know people who are fit and just as they've gotten older, yeah, you just, the face gets thicker, the neck gets thicker. You just, you know. The head seems to get bigger. Yeah. The nose and the ears.

It's you're adding layers when they, you know, when they, rings, when they cut you open, those are the extra rings for your later years. So I plan to move to New York and just put on some more rings. Nice. Yeah. Nice. Some sweet, sweet East Coast rings. Well, Alan, it's really been fun talking to you. Yeah, man, you too.

Everybody check out Resident Alien. Very funny, very weird show. And unusual. An unusual, very weird show. And unusual. An unusual comedy for these days. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is. And then you're playing Superman Robot 4.

Yeah, man. In the upcoming Superman. It sounds, it doesn't sound as good as it is. Robot number four. I was trying to get a name in there. Yeah, yeah. I don't, I haven't seen the final cut if I got it. Fourbot.

I kept trying to give him a name. Is it a voice thing? I was there. I was there. I did it with motion capture. And it was great. It was so very cool because I was in the fortress of solitude. That's where the robots are.

There's a few. Yeah. And I'm the lead robot, even though I'm number four. It took him four to get right. Right, right. And... Yeah, that's like pancakes. You're going to ruin the first few.

Yeah. Just before the griddle gets right. Yes. Yeah, yeah. But David Cornsweat, who's the new Superman, super cool. And he was like, man, it's great to see you and thank you so much for doing this movie. I'm a big fan of yours. I was like, could you please stop?

You're fucking Superman. You're Superman. And he's standing there with the cape and the whole thing. I can't handle. And the jaw. Yeah, I can't handle any of this. All this is just amplified by your Superman-ness. But it was a great time and I'm that Superman.

And you're doing voices in the animated comedy Grinsburg. Oh, yeah. Yeah with John Hamm nice Yeah, we just got picked up for season 3 awesome. You never know and creature commandos also on What's it called? Yeah, max HBO max nice All right. Yeah. Well, good luck in New York. Thank you I hope you sell the house and I hope you don't get into too much trouble with your, you know, illegal room. I know. Your dirty room. I know. Me too. I hope that room was at least for murdering.

I mean, yeah. Yeah. I can say that right. Yeah. My murder room. That's my murder room. That ain't no bedroom. That's a murder room. Yeah. Yeah. That's where I room. That ain't no bedroom, that's a murder room. Yeah. Yeah. That's where I kept my pets. But thank you so much for coming in, Alan.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. And I'll see you around. And thank you all for listening. I'll be back with more Three Questions next week. God willing. The Three Questions with Andy Richter is a Team Cocoa production. It is produced by Sean Doherty and engineered by Rich Garcia.

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