The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Chris Pratt on Parks and Recollection

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

Hey Three Questions listeners, today we’re giving you a taste of a very special episode of Parks and Recollection featuring Chris Pratt! On this episode Chris opens up about his audition for Parks and Rec, working with Mouse Rat song writer Mark Rivers, adapting the character of Andy to a lovable loser, and so much more! If you liked this clip, then spread your wings and fly on over to Parks and Recollection to hear the whole episode!

Hello listeners, this week our newest Team Coco podcast, Parks and Recollection, it's about Parks and Recreation but they're remembering it so it's a funny pun thingy. Parks and Recollection has an exciting episode featuring Chris Pratt. In Parks and Recollection, hosts Alan Yang and Rob Lowe revisit Pawnee, Indiana by watching every episode of Parks and Recreation. This week they've made it to the season one finale, Rock Show, and I wanted to share a clip of Rob, Alan, and Chris reminiscing about Chris's take on the hilarious character of Andy Dwyer. Do you remember your audition?

Yeah. Oh, I do. I remember my audition was at CBS Radford. I remember walking up to, you you know i was supposed to play this guy who's like a loser boyfriend rock and roll guy who's kind of a scum you know he's the you know impetus for and getting into the parks department but then kind of disappears and everybody knew that when they pitched it to me they're like it's six episodes you'll be done it's a six episodes of tv special extras great so i like this i made i was very intentional about staying up almost the whole night before to just really come in and be like a wreck because i thought

that would be helpful and then so i went in and i remember there was an actor that i had worked with i won't say who it was but that i had worked with before who was auditioning for something and he was like jesus man what's wrong with you like you look terrible i was like yeah i kind of stayed up i was like kind of trying to do you know haha trying to do this method thing staying up he's like method more like meth head and i was like what a dick like it was like one of those moments like i went into i was like oh it doesn, it doesn't be a mistake. I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have stayed up. Now I look like I'm a method. And then I walked into the lobby and there was everyone there, including, you know, people that I recognize that were comedic stars.

It's like, oh man, here we go. The nerves were kicking in and I went into the audition. And for the audition, they, we started talking and i remember at the time i was playing a lot of grand theft auto and i had my friend curtis's house and a big funny thing that we would do in grand theft auto is they gave us cheat codes and you could use a cheat code to spawn a boat and then take the boat around but if you spawn the boat in the middle of the city a boat could just fall into the road so we should walk around we were a little stone and we walk around and just drop boats.

We thought that was hilarious. And I thought that would be a really funny thing for Andy to be doing. So in the audition, I just immediately started improv-ing and pretended like when she came home from work that I was playing Grand Theft Auto, dropping boats.

And I was getting a big laugh. I remember watching your audition. I remember watching your tape. And it was like, oh, this guy. You know, we watched a few tapes. It's like, yeah, I mean, this guy's so naturally funny. And again, it was probably like, this guy's a little bit too likable, but let's just cast him and see what happens. And then we just rewrote the character entirely. It's like, why not? Right. It's like, let's just, I mean, comparing this to like that version of Andy to obviously later in the run. It's so funny, man, because he just becomes the most likable character. He's just an idiot who always has good intentions. Incompetent and confident. The best.

That is that combination. Supremely confident, yeah. That's a great combination. You can't go wrong comedically with that. No, you're right. The irony is built in. Every time he smiles, it's funny because you're like, you have no reason to be laughing. Idiot. If you like this clip, then please subscribe to Parks and Recollection. every time he smiles it's funny because you're like you have no reason to be so happy idiot

if you like this clip then please subscribe to parks and recollection rob and alan have so much more in store and already have a huge backlog with other guests like casting director allison jones and parks writer and brooklyn 99 creator dan gore so grab some waffles and treat yourself to parks and recollection