Editing Andy Richter (section)

===''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''===
At the same time ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'' was playing in New York, two fellow Annoyance members ([[Beth Cahill]] and [[Melanie Hutsell]], who played Marcia and Jan Brady in the "Real Live Brady Bunch" stage show) were hired as cast members on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. With friends on ''SNL'', Richter attended after-show parties, where he met ''SNL'' writer [[Robert Smigel]]. Two years later, Smigel hired Richter as a writer for a new show he was producing, ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''. Smigel sent Richter to join [[Conan O'Brien]] on stage during a practice run-through when the production staff was testing lighting angles and sound, and noticed the two had a strong rapport. He became O'Brien's [[sidekick]] just weeks before the show began airing in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://traffic.libsyn.com/girlonguy/Richter_mxd_1-2.mp3 |title=Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler 31 with Andy Richter |author=Aisha Tyler |date=January 23, 2012 |access-date=February 4, 2012 |publisher=MyLibsyn |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Richter departed from ''Late Night'' after the show on May 26, 2000. He later said of the decision, "After seven years of being on the show, I got itchy. I have a philosophy that if you enjoy good fortune, rather than sit there and say, "Oh, that's fine, this amount is good enough for me," you should try and push it. You should see how much you can stretch your good fortune. And I was curious."<ref name="LAT0531">{{cite news |last=Sicha |first=Choire |date=May 31, 2009 |title=Andy Richter: 'I got itchy' |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-31-ca-conversation31-story.html |access-date=June 2, 2009}}</ref>