Billy Gardell

Yeah.

At the time, I think it was really the last classic sitcom.

That's why I'm really proud of Mike and Molly.

I think that was the last really classic become one of those dinnertime shows or shows before you go to bed that you would watch.

And Mike and Molly ran in syndication from 2016 to this year.

And so it was an unbelievably historical run.

I don't know that you'll ever see anything do that again.

And then working with that cast, I mean, Melissa McCarthy and Reno Wilson and Robin Reed and Lou Mastillo and Swoozie Kurtz and Katie Mixon and Namby Namby.

I mean, we had this...

wonderful team where there wasn't a weak link on the team.

And then we had Chuck Lorre and his writing staff, which was the best in the business.

We got directed by Jimmy Burrows, who directed Friends and Cheers and Taxi and Mary Tyler Moore.

So we had this historical collaboration of really amazing television people.

And at the time, Peter Roth was running Warner Brothers, just one of the last great television men ever to do it.

So

I got to really be the caboose on the tail end of television, which was pretty amazing.

It was actually after, after the first season, you could feel a change.

Like everywhere I went, I got recognized after the first season, you know, and, and everybody would yell Mike in public, which was funny to me.

And then Bob Hart's Abishola came on, and there was a pocket of people calling me Bob.

So at this point, I'll answer to just about anything.