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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But you'll use the first take of that joke because the laughter was so big.
So do you ever use the laughter from one take and roll it for a second take?
Yeah.
When you cross takes, you'll take the laughter from the first take and play it over the reaction in the second take.
Right, right.
You have to do that.
Otherwise, you couldn't make sense of the show or people saying lines into laughs.
You have to hear every line.
So we didn't do that a lot.
Back in the Cheers days, we only ran the scene twice.
I would back up occasionally if somebody said something and laughed, but we didn't run the scene twice like we do now.
We ran the Cheers scenes only once, and then I would go back if we missed something or we wanted to change one joke, I would go back and just shoot a piece of the scene again.
On Will & Grace, we do every scene twice, and in between each scene, the writers rewrite some jokes.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the audience gets to see two different versions of the scene.
Yes.
If you're going to do a scene twice, it really helps to change the jokes.
Is that typical that the writers are on the set?
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