Name: Andy Richter Reacts to the Swedish-German Joke
Uploaded: 2021-09-17T14:57:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Andy Richter Reacts to the Swedish-German Joke' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Andy Richter Reacts to the Swedish-German Joke' from I'm not Norm on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-17. Transcript available.

He also was really drawn to touchy subjects.
So it's like a brutal murder.
He got pleasure in being dangerous.
Yeah, how many anal rape jokes did we hear?
Including, I must bring it up, the Swedish German.
Andy Richter, the Swedish German.
That became a thing.
Yeah, and actually Conan and I were talking about this yesterday.
I had forgotten about this.
And of course, you said that you sometimes see it online.
I'm like, okay, well, let's hear about that
because, you know me, I'm in the nose cone of the rocket.
Right, right.
I'm at the top of the pyramid.
Right, right.
You're an ivory tower.
There's a lot of clouds underneath your window.
I'm up there counting my gold coins.
I can't be concerned with what you're doing down in the moat.
No, people, I mean, every weekly,
someone will just arbitrarily just call me a Swedish German.
And it was-
Explain what that means.
I know, well, I mean, I know they're Norm fans because Norm would do,
and Norm was also like kind of a traditionalist.
So he did the, you know, talk to the talk show host,
but then there's this guy over here, this one, let's make fun of him.
Yeah, yeah.
And a lot of his jokes, he, like I say,
he was drawn to the things that you're not supposed to say.
So a lot of his jokes were about being queer, gay porno.
This fellow over here, he enjoys the gay porno.
And that became a thing with me.
And at one point, he was talking about your ethnicity, you're Irish, I'm
Scottish, what are you?
And I said, I'm Swedish German.
And for some reason, he was like, really?
And I was like, yeah, why would I make that up?
I'm Scottish.
I'm a Scot, you're Irish.
Yes.
What are you?
Swedish German.
Swedish German, are you really?
Yeah, yeah, really.
Why would I lie about that?
It's not funny.
No, it's very odd.
It's a very strange lie.
I'd put one over on those people.
Yeah, Swedish German.
But that then later became a euphemism for gay.
You know, the old prospector comes to town and wants a prostitute,
but no, there's no prostitutes.
There's just Andy Richter, the Swedish German.
And I've been in that mind for a hell of a long time.
And I'm only flesh and blood.
I need a woman.
Well, a bartender says, hell, there ain't no women in this town.
If you want to do any of that business, all we got is Andy Richter, the Swedish
German.
It's outrageous because it's Norm.
It's outrageous because it's on a talk show.
And it's you.
And it's me.
But like, and I think that some people think that like, I was somehow, and well,
and somebody
else, a friend of mine pointed out, there's nothing, you can't do anything with
that.
Right.
Like, there's nothing to do with that.
When, when Norm Macdonald says this fell over, like any, you know, it would go
to like, hey,
Conan, have you met his wife?
But then you did say, at least I had my dignity and says you were raped.
Yeah, he goes to rape, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
And I had to be all secret.
Nobody.
I say, nobody can know about this.
Bartender says, well, four people will know about it.
How do you figure that?
He says, well, he says, I'll know about it.
He says, you'll know about it.
Andy Richter, the Swedish German, will know about it.
And the fellow that has to hold down, Andy, will know about it.
Well, at least you left me my dignity.
Yeah.
I like the way that story ended.
Yeah, because you weren't good.
Yeah, right, right.
But that's not beside the point.
You were raped.
No, it's more.
It's more that I wasn't prostituting myself.
And I said, but I never was that crazy about that.
Because I would think, you know, I'm sitting there, and we're in a studio, and
we're laughing
about it now.
And it is like, the point of that joke is, this fellow's a queer.
Yeah.
And it's a very, very old-fashioned, retrograde joke that we just don't do
anymore.
Right.
And some jokes that we don't do anymore, we don't do them anymore because they
shouldn't
be done.
Right.
And we shouldn't have been doing them in the first place.
So I was always thinking about the gay people that work on the Conan O'Brien
show.
How do I look them in the face after being there and hardy-harring about the
punchline
being that I'm a gay fella?
And, you know, and we're thinking about the people in my family who are gay.
Like, if they're going to watch that, how are they going to think?
When the real bottom line, what's funny about that is that I was supposedly a
homosexual.
And that I was, which to me, I always was like, it's like, it's like saying,
like, this fellow
over here, he's a, he doesn't want anybody to know it, but he's a secret Jew.
His kitchen's full of matzahs.
You know, it's like, you would go like, what are you talking about?
You know, what is that?
How is that funny?
My kitchen's full of matzahs.
I know, but you're, you're not a secret.
But, but you know what I mean?
I just, it always, it made me uncomfortable, not because I was afraid that
people would think
I was gay, because if I was gay, everybody would know that I was gay.
It made me uncomfortable because there were people out there in the audience
who, whom
I love and care about, who would be left thinking like, what's so terrible
about me that I am
a joke, that I'm a punchline, you know, that how I am and who I am is a punchline
to a joke.
But that was when, when you're the kind of comic that Norm is, and you are
going after any
uncomfortable subject and you're like, oh, let me get in there and, and, you
know, roam
around and really get my elbows, you know, it's, you're gonna, it's gonna, it's
gonna be
ugly sometimes.
Yeah.
And I, it's gonna be uncomfortable.
Yes.
He also really enjoyed being around other comedians.
Like that's where he seemed to really come alive.
I mean, he was a standup, but he also really liked being on, in a, in a, in a,
you know,
a situation with other comedians.
And I've had people say to me, like, did it bother you?
Because he, you know, I, like I said, he would, I would be the butt of the joke
sometime.
And I would say like, no, that's, that's him.
That's like practically like him showing love to me.
Yeah.
Like he would not insult me if he thought that I, you know, was somehow
inferior.
Well, I think it's like being insulted by Rickles.
Yeah.
It's like he, he, I'm, he's inviting me to play when he's making fun of me.