Brian Damage
03-23-2009, 11:42 PM
Andy Richter Controls The Universe is finally being released on DVD, and it will include five episodes that never aired. Can you tease one of them?
There’s one where Paget Brewster, who played my boss, and I volunteer at a prison. Not really to help anyone -- just to be competitive with each other. We end up [teaching] some prisoners creative writing, and the results of their writing -- it’s a lot of stuff about murder and cocaine. We tell them to really express themselves, and I have a line where I read his poem and I go, “Boy, you really do love cocaine!”
How would you imagine a Universe movie?
I always joked about this with [series creator] Victor Fresco: Andy Richter the character would finally have to come to terms with the fact that he was a s---ty writer. He had all these aspirations of being a writer, but all that he was truly good at was daydreaming. It’s not a very upbeat ending, but I think he’ll find out he has a knack for...I don’t know, maybe he’ll become a sushi chef or something.
What’s the legacy of Universe, a comedy tragically cut down before its time?
I would say it’s somewhere between Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and That Girl. [Pause] I don’t really know what that means, but if you don’t tell them I don’t know what I mean, it’s going to really seem profound.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/03/andy-richter-ta.html
There’s one where Paget Brewster, who played my boss, and I volunteer at a prison. Not really to help anyone -- just to be competitive with each other. We end up [teaching] some prisoners creative writing, and the results of their writing -- it’s a lot of stuff about murder and cocaine. We tell them to really express themselves, and I have a line where I read his poem and I go, “Boy, you really do love cocaine!”
How would you imagine a Universe movie?
I always joked about this with [series creator] Victor Fresco: Andy Richter the character would finally have to come to terms with the fact that he was a s---ty writer. He had all these aspirations of being a writer, but all that he was truly good at was daydreaming. It’s not a very upbeat ending, but I think he’ll find out he has a knack for...I don’t know, maybe he’ll become a sushi chef or something.
What’s the legacy of Universe, a comedy tragically cut down before its time?
I would say it’s somewhere between Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and That Girl. [Pause] I don’t really know what that means, but if you don’t tell them I don’t know what I mean, it’s going to really seem profound.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/03/andy-richter-ta.html