Richard Kind Is Glad He's Not That Famous

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing. You must understand — it's anarchy," he says of the show. He spoke with Terry Gross about having ego but no confidence, working with Sondheim, and working in his father's jewelry store as a teen.

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0:00.0	This is Eric Glass.
0:01.8	In Lily's family, there's a story everybody knows by heart.
0:05.2	If this story had never happened...
0:06.8	All of us wouldn't be here right now.
0:08.6	Sammy wouldn't be here?
0:09.7	She'd Anna wouldn't be here.
0:10.8	Wally wouldn't be here.
0:12.3	Anyone that we know wouldn't be here.
0:14.9	So what happens when Lily's mom tells her, this story is not true?
0:20.0	This American life, surprising stories, every week.
0:24.3	This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:26.7	Terry has today's interview.
0:28.6	Live around the world from the corner of Sunset and Gower in Los Angeles.
0:35.2	It's everybody's live with John Mullady. And now here's your heart, John
0:40.7	Malaney. That's my guest actor Richard Kind in his current role on the Netflix show Everybody's
0:49.9	Live with John Malaney as the announcer and Malaney's sidekick. He does sketches, too.
0:55.9	The show conforms to the late-night format in the sense that there's an opening monologue,
1:00.9	but then it becomes a panel discussion on a specific subject like funerals, loaning people money,
1:06.4	and getting fired, with guests like Pete Davidson, Michael Keaton, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Henry Winkler,
1:12.4	John Waters, and Wanda Sykes. Everybody's Live is live on Netflix, Wednesday nights,
1:18.7	and streams after that. Richard Kind has been in hundreds of movies and TV shows. In the series,
1:25.0	Only Murders in the Building, he was the neighbor Vince Fish,
	...

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