Andy Dick Bounces Back Quite Nicely

Andy Dick's association with actors who have each met with an untimely demise might be enough to scare away would-be friends, but he has found himself a new girlfriend in sexy 19-year-old Ashley Anderson and has also signed on with MTV for at least six episodes of his own show, thanks in part to famous friends Ben Stiller and Tori Spelling.
Among Dick's friends who have met with trouble are Phil and Brynn Hartman, David Strickland, who killed himself on the evening of a party he had attended with Dick, and Chris Farley.

Now, however, Dick has kicked drugs and will soon begin in earnest with "The Andy Dick Show" for MTV. Says Dick of the show: "It's like a bunch of nicely produced short films that I write and I get to direct. It's kind of like the things I've done for the awards shows. I do original characters, parodies of characters, things like that." The show's pilot features the aforementioned stars Stiller and Spelling.

The show will reportedly feature one celebrity each week, but Dick says, "that's just a small part of it. That's just the little fleshy worm dangling to draw the monster in, but really it's all about the comedy."

Dick was recently seen at a Christmas party where he was, as reported, entirely sober. At the party, he noted that, "I don't really have that craving anymore. But I still love to watch people make asses out of themselves and know that used to be me and that it's not me anymore."