James Burroughs
speaker
437 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
James Burroughs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's because of you.
Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Are you saying that I'm too dumb to date smart women?
After Taxi, you left with a couple of the creators of Taxi, Glenn Charles and Les Charles, and started Cheers.
And on Cheers and on Taxi, you had a chance to direct characters from the very start and therefore to shape them, to help shape them through your direction as opposed to inheriting characters on an already existing series.
Can you talk a little bit about what it's like to actually create a character from scratch, a character that you hope will endure for years in a series?
Well, the first thing that has to happen, it has to be on the page.
So I am very careful when I select scripts.
And when we talked about, Glenn Less and I talked about doing Cheers, we spent two months talking about these characters.
And then the boys went off and wrote the script.
And when...
A month later when I read it, it was – I said to the boys, you have brought radio back to television, which is what they did.
They wrote a really smart show that literally could have been a radio show because there wasn't that much movement.
It was all about attitudes and all about intonations and nuances and stuff like that.
And –
Can I just stop you?
That would be a terrible insult to a lot of people.
If you said to them, you've just produced this brilliant radio show, you've just written a brilliant radio show, they would think that was a terrible insult because they're working on television.
And sometimes when you say radio to television people, it's like saying you don't know what you're doing.
You're blind.
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