James Burroughs
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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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And so it was my job to shape this cast.
You cast them.
You cast these people individually, but you don't know what you have until you put them together.
So I always in pilots, I always will begin by sitting around a big table.
And in fact, on Cheers, we sat around the bar and we talked about where everybody came from, their characters.
You know, I carried a conversation on with Sam and Diane and
norm and cliff and everybody like that and we talked and it's not only good for me it's good for the actors because um they're going to want to talk anyway and if i can do it now and and get them to talk and get them they'll only grow into the to the roles more so we spent you know we spent half a day just sitting around probably a day sitting around talking and then i went to work on it and uh
It was, you know, I did 240 out of like 275 shows and I had a great time.
I love that show.
That's that to me, that's my baby.
And I was there from the beginning for the cast and I was there at the end and they trusted me.
And we, you know, we after a while we knew what worked and what didn't work.
We didn't have to spend a lot of time on stuff that didn't work.
And we, you know, we could make the stuff work that worked really quickly.
Cheers are shot in front of a live audience.
Do the laughs help the actors?
And does it ever work against the show?
In other words, because the actors can't pick up and say the next line until the laughs fade.
And of course, the audience at home isn't in the studio audience.
So do you think the timing when you're watching at home is any different than the timing when you're in the theater?
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