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Andy Richter of “Conan” reflects on the success of his “Real Live Brady Bunch” co-star Jane Lynch

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q4ggTMQcLgY/S78lowAlIFI/AAAAAAAAF94/eE-L5X_ANAk/s1600/jane+lynch+glee_photo.jpgParade Magazine has chosen Jane Lynch as one of its Personalities of the Year and asked Conan O’Brien’s sidekick Andy Richter to write about her.

I had no idea that before they became TV stars, they both appeared in the hilarious stage show The Real Live Brady Bunch. Jane was Carol Brady and Andy was Mike Brady. Jane talked about the experience last summer at Outfest and I recall seeing the show in Westwood in 1992.

Anyway, here is Andy’s well-written piece on Jane:

“I would describe what’s happening to Jane Lynch right now as justice. Occasionally in life—and really occasionally in show business—there’s somebody you want to go out in the street and wave a big flag for, because you’re so happy for them.

“I met her in the early ’90s doing a stage show called The Real Live Brady Bunch. I was the dad, Mike Brady, in a $20 wig stretched to its limit over my big head. Jane was the mom, Carol. I was struck by her poise, by what a good anchor she was in a fairly thankless role. Over the years, she’s been a wonderful, positive presence. Not a Pollyanna, just a great person. She let me borrow her car once, and I got some parking tickets I let slide until they started billing her. I did pay for them. But she brought it up on The Tonight Show last year, and I thought, She’s still annoyed at me, 20 years later! Sorry, Jane. I was broke.

“Lately it’s, Wow! There’s Jane on a magazine cover. There’s Jane hosting Saturday Night Live and guesting on Two and a Half Men. And of course, there’s Jane as coach Sue Sylvester on Glee. To me, Sue is hilarious because even surrounded by children, she’s always the smallest, pettiest person in the room. It’s cool to see Jane enjoying this kind of success, because she doesn’t pin a lot of neurotic energy on ‘making it.’ She’s just steadily done amazing, smart, honest work, and people are suddenly paying a lot of attention. I’m sure she’s humble about it. But I think there’s part of her that feels, Well, yeah. This sounds about right.”

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