--- title: Conan: Andy Richter Breaks the Couch description: While Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls/Parenthood was the guest canonical: https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-24T11:28:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:26.071Z og:title: Watch Andy Richter Break the Couch on 'Conan' og:description: Lauren Graham prompted the comedian to show off his 'Jeopardy!' buzzer technique og:url: https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b6fb058de68a677/6988581f428a9e468accddea/lnh1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LNH1280X720 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Andy Richter Break the Couch on 'Conan' twitter:description: Lauren Graham prompted the comedian to show off his 'Jeopardy!' buzzer technique twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b6fb058de68a677/6988581f428a9e468accddea/lnh1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Andy Richter Break the Couch on _Conan_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 24, 2015 11:28 AM UTC   by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 24, 2015 11:28 AM UTC Whoever buys the furniture for the set of _Conan_ has some explaining to do. On Tuesday night Conan O’Brien sidekick Andy Richter broke the couch—and not for the first time, apparently. “What kind of sh-tty show is this?” O’Brien joked after the couch leg snapped off while Richter was enthusiastically demonstrating his _Celebrity Jeopardy!_ buzzer technique. Lauren Graham of _Gilmore Girls_ and _Parenthood_ fame had stopped by the show and was thanking Richter for his buzzer advice, which she put to good use when she came in second during her appearance on the gameshow. See how it all went down below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/"},"headline":"Watch Andy Richter Break the Couch on Conan","datePublished":"2015-06-24T11:28:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:26.071Z","description":"Lauren Graham prompted the comedian to show off his Jeopardy! buzzer technique","url":"https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Viral video","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b6fb058de68a677/6988581f428a9e468accddea/lnh1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5b6fb058de68a677/6988581f428a9e468accddea/lnh1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LNH1280X720","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3933546/conan-andy-richter-breaks-couch-lauren-graham/","name":"Watch Andy Richter Break the Couch on Conan"}}]}] ```