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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Typical for you, maybe?
Is it typical for other shows?
Oh, yeah.
Any sitcom, you've got to see what—I mean, if you're not on the set, you don't know whether the show bombs or not.
You've got to be there to see.
It's either euphoria or it's your funeral, but you've got to be there, and you've got to fix what doesn't work because that's going on the air.
You don't want something that's no good going on the air, so you better fix it.
Now, you know, we were talking about Cheers.
And, of course, after Cheers, you worked on the spinoff Frasier.
And you directed lots of episodes of that.
You were there right at the start.
Why was Frasier the character that you all decided to spinoff?
We didn't.
I did not spin them off.
David Angel, Peter Casey, and David Lee, who were the producers of Cheers for years, had talked to Kelsey about doing a spinoff.
So they wrote the script, and they spun them off.
They asked us if they could, and we said, sure.
And they wrote a brilliant script.
Their genius in that script was taking an actor who had this incredible ability, which Kelsey has...
And taking Frazier, making him Sam Malone because he had to be the center and taking David Hyde Pierce as Niles and making him Frazier.
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