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Richter says Andy is at most "an alternate-universe me"--he considered getting a day job in advertising during his struggling-actor days. So why do they share a name? "The network really wanted my name in the title," he says. "I hadn't expected that. I don't really think of myself as a comedy brand yet." Maybe not, but as Richter now knows: imagine it, and it just may be so.