If you're under 45, it's hard to remember a time when Andy Richter wasn't a TV fixture. Rising to prominence in 1993 as part of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Richter has seemed an omnipresent affable Everyman ever since, both on the talk-show circuit and in his own work, such as the criminally underrated sitcoms Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Andy Barker, P.I.
Adler transitioned to acting in the late 1970s, with his first television credit at age 62 in a guest spot on the coming-of-age comedy Brooklyn Bridge in 1991. He went on to appear in episodes of Quantum Leap, New York Undercover, and Northern Exposure, among other shows. before landing his first regularly scheduled role in the one-season Tony Danza comedy Hudson Street.