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Article: Andy Richter says goodbye to `Late Night With Conan O'Brien'.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- May 25, 2000
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Earthshaking?Not on Andy's Richter scale.
"It will be a eulogy at which the corpse is present and listening," he says in a telephone interview. "It's a bit of a fuss that sort of makes my Midwestern skin crawl. Don't we have any footage to roll other than of me? But I think it's just going to be a big celebration of Andy."
And something of an Irish wake, too. Chubby, clubby Andy Richter is leaving ``Late Night With Conan O'Brien'' after Friday's show to see whether a 33-year-old second banana can become his own fruit plate. Pardon him for being a bit fatalistic. "I'm the same age as Jesus when he died," he notes.
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