BOB ODENKIRK interviews ANDY KINDLER with his famous "5 QUESTIONS"tm
1. How are you?
Don't get me started. You don't want to know. And if you do want to know, still don't get me started. On the other hand, don't have me stopped either. Does that not answer your question, or what?

2. Do you notice a growth in your audience from your steady Letterman gigs? (an emotional growth)
More people show up wearing ascots and sunglasses, if that helps, and I assume it doesn't. Does that mean my audience is affected? Or are they addicted.....to my comedy! I notice my audience is getting taller. Or maybe I'm slumping more.

3. Andy, you began your showbiz career in the music end of the biz...right? Tell me a little about that.
I was in the music end but not the biz part. I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist, which was quite an angle. It sure gave me a leg up. Once in a rowdy bar when I was spritzing with the crowd between songs, the club owner handed me a note that said: "Cut the chatter." I headed right for the Laugh Factory and never looked back.

4. Seriously, you don't dislike Jay Leno as a person, do you? You just act like you don't like his act for act's sake...right?
It's just a shtick, like Jack Benny being cheap. In "real life" we are close friends, bonded by our shared love for classic cars. I have a 2003 Toyota Camry, which he really digs.

5. Skewer Andy Rooney.
Andy Rooney is a commentator of some sort, right? He's a curmudgeon at the very least. Things seem to get under his skin. He seems to get easily bothered, and responds verbally, yet refuses to say anything funny. That's one of his rules. Maybe he should add a studio audience, or do something with green screen. Anything to take our mind off of whatever it is he's doing.