Name: 安迪-裡希特回憶他與柯南的第一次見面 | 人人都知道你的名字 (Andy Richter Remembers His First Meeting With Conan | Where Everybody Knows Your Name)
Uploaded: 2025-07-20T17:20:46.000Z
Duration: 15 min 3 s

過去簡單式

Why did Conan even pass you in a hallway?

為什麼柯南會在走廊上經過你？

過去進行式

Where were you and why did you get there?

你去了哪裡，為什麼要去那裡？

Honestly, the first time we met or that we were around each other, as far as we can tell, was at Bob Odenkirk's house here in Los Angeles.

老實說，我們第一次見面，或者說我們第一次在一起，據我們所知，是在洛杉磯鮑勃-奧登科克（Bob Odenkirk）的家裡。

He was engaged to a woman with whom I had been on an improv team back in Chicago.

他和一個女人訂婚了，在芝加哥的時候，我曾和她一起參加過一個即興表演團隊。

He had a party at his house and my old friend, Kate Flannery, who's been on The Office and who I did my first improv class with, she brought me to Bob's.

他在家裡開了個派對，我的老朋友凱特-弗蘭納裡（Kate Flannery）帶我到鮑勃家，她演過《辦公室》，我的第一堂即興表演課就是和她一起上的。

And I had met Bob because I had been on the improv team with his fiance.

我認識鮑勃是因為我曾和他的未婚夫一起參加過即興表演隊。

And it was years later that Conan and I figured out we were at this same yard party together with about 20 people total, but just hadn't either clocked each other or talked to each other because we didn't know each other, but we had plenty of people overlapping, which is how we met in the first place.

多年後，柯南和我才發現，我們曾一起參加過這個院子裡的聚會，總共有 20 多人，但因為互不相識，所以既沒有打卡，也沒有交談過，但我們有很多人重疊在一起，這就是我們最初相遇的原因。

I did improv in Chicago, was in New York doing a live show.

我在芝加哥做過即興表演，在紐約做過現場表演。

A couple of friends of mine had been on SNL and through them, I met Robert Smigel.

我的幾個朋友曾參加過 SNL，通過他們，我認識了羅伯特-斯米格爾（Robert Smigel）。

And Robert and I hit it off, but just in like a social sort of way.

羅伯特和我一見如故，但只是在社交方面。

Then I was in LA because this show had moved from New York to LA.

後來我去了洛杉磯，因為這個節目從紐約搬到了洛杉磯。

And in the summertime off of SNL, where Robert was writing, he came out here to work on the ill-fated Hans and Franz movie and was working on that.

夏天的時候，羅伯特從SNL編劇的工作中解脫出來，來到這裡，參與了《漢斯和弗蘭茨》這部命運多舛的電影的製作。

And he and I hung out together and would just sort of socialize and hang out and got to know each other.

他和我一起出去玩，只是社交和閒逛，互相認識。

I was doing the movie Cabin Boy, which I had auditioned for before I left LA.

我當時正在拍攝電影《小屋男孩》，在離開洛杉磯之前，我已經參加了這部電影的試鏡。

And then I got the part and was back here.

然後我得到了那個角色，回到了這裡。

And I got a call from Robert out of the blue and he said, and I had heard about this guy, Conan O'Brien, that was gonna replace David Letterman.

我突然接到羅伯特的電話 他說 我聽說過一個叫柯南-奧布萊恩的人 要取代大衛-萊特曼的位置

And in fact, with Kate Flannery, we had gone to see Jeff Garland tape a pilot, a multi-camera show that he was taping a pilot.

事實上，和凱特-弗蘭納裡一起，我們去看了傑夫-加蘭錄製試播節目，一個多機位的節目，他正在錄製試播節目。

And I sat in front of Bob Odenkirk and Carol Leifer, who I am interviewing later today, small world.

我坐在鮑勃-奧登科克和卡羅爾-萊弗前面，今天晚些時候我要採訪他們，世界真小。

And I heard, I just eavesdropped on them talk about Conan O'Brien and how he got the job.

我偷聽到他們談論柯南-奧布萊恩 以及他是如何得到這份工作的

And because Bob had been part, was friends with Conan and had been part of that process.

因為鮑勃是柯南的朋友，也是這個過程的一部分。

所以我腦子裡已經有了這個想法。

He said, and Robert calls and says, yeah, I'm gonna be writing this show with Conan.

他說，羅伯特打電話來說 是的，我要和柯南一起寫這個節目

Do you wanna meet him and maybe be a writer on the show?

你想見見他，然後成為節目的編劇嗎？

So we're gonna hire writers who also perform.

所以，我們要僱用同時也會表演的編劇。

So we met at Junior's Deli and had lunch and hit it off immediately.

於是我們在 Junior's Deli 吃了午飯，一見如故。

And I immediately knew, like, I just, you know, you just, it's, you know, it's like in comedy and it would happen a lot on the Conan show where there's somebody, especially if you know their work and they sit down and you can just, you know, like with my wife, I can just be myself and I can just say the dumbest, the dumbest, stupidest, most, you know, the sort of thing that would off-put any civilian.

我馬上就明白了，就像，我只是，你知道，你只是，你知道，這就像在喜劇中，這在柯南節目中會經常發生，有一個人，特別是如果你知道他們的工作，他們坐下來，你就可以，你知道，就像和我的妻子在一起，我可以做我自己，我可以說最愚蠢的，最愚蠢的，最愚蠢的，你知道，最愚蠢的，你知道，那種會讓任何平民反感的事情。

But with a comedy person, it's like, hey, do you speak the code of dumbness?

但對於喜劇演員來說，這就像，嘿，你會說啞語嗎？

We just, we hit it off right away and we just were silly and funny together the way we have been for 30 plus years.

我們一拍即合，就像 30 多年來一樣，在一起又傻又有趣。

And apparently he called Robert right afterwards and said, hire him, hire him, hire him.

顯然，他事後馬上打電話給羅伯特，說，僱他吧，僱他吧，僱他吧。

And Robert said, well, let's see, you know, let him write a packet first.

羅伯特說，好吧，讓我們看看，你知道的，讓他先寫一個數據包。

So I sat down and wrote a packet of, which I had a packet of ideas.

於是，我坐下來寫了一包，我有一包想法。

Like, okay, we're doing a late night show.

比如，好吧，我們要做一個深夜節目。

So here's some jokes, some monologue jokes.

所以這裡有一些笑話，一些獨白笑話。

I was given, do monologue jokes, desk bit, character bits, just, you know, whatever you think you would see in it.

我被要求表演獨白笑話、桌面段子、角色段子，你知道的，任何你認為你會在其中看到的東西。

And, you know, and they don't teach that in school.

而且，你知道，學校並不教這些。

You just kind of, being a David Letterman fan, think like, well, okay, I want to do some stuff.

作為大衛-萊特曼（David Letterman）的粉絲，你會想，好吧，我想做一些事情。

But also with the caveat of it not being too Letterman-y, that was one of our main directives was that we were-

但同時也要注意不要太萊特曼風格 這是我們的一個主要目標

What word would that be to use to describe that?

I, well, you know what, it would be sort of, oh, a word that I would use to describe that?

我，好吧，你知道嗎，我會用一個詞來形容它，哦？

Yeah, you know, or also too, like anything with a sort of a Larry Bud Melman, sort of a non-performer performer sort of thing.

是啊，你知道的，或者也可以說，像任何有拉里-巴德-梅爾曼（Larry Bud Melman）風格的東西，那種非表演者的表演者的東西。

You know, it was, we had a better idea of it.

你知道，我們對它有了更好的認識。

And honestly, you wouldn't know it until you saw it.

老實說，不親眼看到你是不會知道的。

We would come up with bits in the early days of the show and go, oh, that sounds really Letterman-y.

在節目初期，我們會想出一些段子，然後說，哦，這聽起來真像萊特曼的風格。

And we'd be like, yeah, you know what, it does.

我們就會說，是啊，你知道嗎，確實如此。

And in fact, going out into the field and doing remote bits, which is what it's called when you go out and do something on the field,

事實上，到野外去做遠程工作，也就是所謂的到野外去做一些事情、

I was the first one to do those because we were so afraid of Conan going out and doing them and it seeming like-

我是第一個做這些的人 因為我們很害怕柯南出去做這些 看起來就像--

Yeah, like an approximation of Dave going out into the field and giving gift baskets to RCA executives or whatever.

是啊，就像戴夫走到田間地頭，給 RCA 高管送禮物籃之類的近似做法。

So I would go out and do it because I was like one step removed from being Letterman-y.

所以我會去做，因為我離萊特曼就差一步了。

I don't even really remember much, but it was good enough.

我甚至都記不太清了，但已經很不錯了。

And I was living in a furnished apartment in Westwood at the time.

當時我住在韋斯特伍德一套帶傢俱的公寓裡。

And I packed up what belongings I had into my Toyota pickup, but I drove them up to my fiance who was living in San Francisco and left her with my truck and all the stuff.

我把僅有的東西裝進豐田皮卡，開到住在舊金山的未婚妻那裡，把卡車和所有東西留給她。

It got passed on to a bunch of different deadbeat friends.

Lost all my LPs, all my records just scattered to the winds and moved to New York and started on the Conan show.

我丟掉了所有的唱片，所有的唱片都隨風飄散，然後搬到了紐約，開始做柯南的節目。

And it was a big empty floor, the ninth floor, nine West on Rockefeller Center.

那是一個很大的空樓層，第九層，洛克菲勒中心西側九層。

And he had a corner office and Jeff Ross had a corner office.

他有一間角落辦公室，傑夫-羅斯也有一間角落辦公室。

There were three corners and Robert had another one.

有三個角，羅伯特還有一個角。

I mean, probably 30 empty offices, pick one.

我是說，大概有 30 個空蕩蕩的辦公室，選一個吧。

And I just, I went in and I took the one that was next to Conan.

我就進去，拿了柯南旁邊那張。

是啊，這就是我來這裡的原因。

And it's feels lonely, you know, and it overlooked sixth Avenue.

這讓人感覺很孤獨，你知道的，它俯視著第六大道。

And I shared it with a guy named Marsh McCall for probably the first, I don't know, three or four years that I was there.

我和一個叫馬什-麥考爾（Marsh McCall）的人一起工作，大概有三四年吧。

You know, I didn't, and then when he got another, well, he became the head writer.

你知道，我沒有，後來他有了另一個，他就成了首席編劇。

And when he was, he was a head writer for about a year.

他擔任首席編劇的時間大約有一年。

And then I got to keep my office, just my office.

然後我就可以保留我的辦公室，只有我的辦公室。

And I got a couch instead of a different desk.

我買了一張沙發，而不是另一張桌子。

And this is before you were up and running?

I got there in, I think, gosh, it might've been June and the show wasn't on until September.

我到那裡的時候，我想，天哪，可能是六月份，演出要到九月份才開始。

So, and then my first job was to go through a stack and it was probably about 18 inches high of packets of material of the same thing that I had submitted and to help winnow through, through these, you know, trying to find a writer.

所以，我的第一份工作就是翻看一摞大概有 18 英寸高的材料包，這些材料都是我投過稿的，然後幫助篩選，你知道，通過這些材料，試圖找到一位作家。

And I was given the directive to have high standards, which I did anyway, and which I had no right to, but I did sort of, I, again, I had pretty good taste.

我得到的訓示是要有很高的標準，反正我也是這麼做的，而且我也沒有權利這麼做，但我確實有點，我，再說一遍，我的品味相當不錯。

我知道我想讓這個節目成為什麼樣子。

And if I saw stuff that I found to be boring or sort of derivative of other things that I had seen before, I chucked it.

如果我看到一些無聊的東西，或者是我以前看過的其他東西的衍生品，我就會把它扔掉。

And I think of that stack, I think I came out with two.

我想，這一疊，我想我出來了兩個。