James Burroughs

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437 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Fresh Air · Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

How did it go?

What sticks out in your mind?

Oh, my God.

Well, we read the script.

It was a show where Lou Grant moves into Rhoda's apartment.

So he's living above Mary, which means that they work together and they live together, which wasn't good for the relationship.

And so we read the script around the table, and it was a D minus.

It was awful.

And I said to Grant, I said, in the sea of Danish, I get a bagel.

And it was literally just a – the show was awful.

I mean, the initial reading, they made it better because you would rewrite – the writers would rewrite all the time.

And so I had to go down.

Back in those days, you rehearsed immediately after you read.

You just went down and started running scenes.

And so I was dealing with a cast who hated the script, too.

And yet I had to run these scenes.

And so I would do it.

And I can't tell you.

I invoked Chekhov.

I invoked Strindberg.

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