Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

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I'm Terry Gross. Happy New Year's Eve. Today we continue our retrospective featuring some of our favorite interviews from 2025. Though he's not often cast in leading roles, you'd likely recognize Richard Kind and his distinctive voice from his appearances in hundreds of movies and TV shows. Last month he was celebrated at the New York Comedy Festival benefit, appropriately titled Richard Kind Everywhere All at Once.

In the series only murders in the building, he was the neighbor Vince Fish, aka Stink Eye Joe, with the highly contagious case of Pink Eye. He played Larry David's cousin in Curb Your Enthusiasm, co starred in Mad About You, was in the Michael J. Fox show Spin City, and earlier in his career was a cast member of the Carol Burnett show, Carolyn Company. In the Cohn Brothers film, A Serious Man, he was the deeply troubled brother.

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