Kelsey Grammer
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586 appearances
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5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Dec
Kelsey Grammer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. But I would never take it away. People said, how could you do that to yourself? You know what? I was still working. Sometimes people were annoyed that I seemed so messed up, but I always showed up for work. Maybe a little tired, maybe a little bleary-eyed.
Yeah, Dan, yeah.
Yeah, there were a couple of moments like that, which were great. I would usually take that to heart and give it my best shot. Sometime in the middle of Frasier, the same kind of thing came up in the show Frasier after Cheers. And I dedicated myself to actually staying clean for quite a while. And I've never gone back to certain things, but I do still enjoy a cocktail now.
But my big one was cocaine. I haven't been near that.
There's a reason you do it. It makes you feel like a god. And you are having fun. And you're having fun with other people. So it has its own allure and its own fascination and appeal. And maybe that's part of the dark thing. I don't know. But always... In the back of my mind was that God thing. I grew up as a kid who believed in Jesus, and it would always come in.
They would say, hey, calm down, relax a little bit. You're okay. We got this. And so it helped.
Yeah, at least that helped. What is it? There's a great poem by Auden's poem. I think it's called Moon Landing. It talks about how although these three are maybe no less brave or braver than Hector, at least Hector was spared the indignity of being covered on television. That's kind of how it is. That's like I found out my sister was raped in a National Enquirer article. Oh, that's horrible.
And that was horrible. And I never would have been there or even have it been written about if I weren't on television.
You sacrifice your privacy once you become famous. Even minimally famous. Getting on Cheers was not making me famous. It's surviving Cheers. Maybe a little famous. I would say so. But staying, getting on, and continuing is what really seals that. But it really hurt. That really hurt that day when I read that.
The ironic connection to, for instance, the man who murdered my dad, his name was Arthur Niles. And then people would say, Niles is your brother on Frasier. I thought, yeah, that is weird. I never even thought about it.
Even strangers. My son, Frasier's son, is called Freddy, the guy that killed my sister's Freddy. So these are... Whatever you call them, circumstances, coincidences that seem to point at something. But you know what? To me, it doesn't have the same value. That name doesn't mean that to me. Niles is my brother, this idiot, Arthur Niles. He got off for being insane.
And about five years later, he tried to kill a judge. So he went back to jail.
He belongs in jail. There was something else going on. Sure. This was so funny. I was talking about when I did the film Jesus Revolution, I was promoting it in England. And I started to talk about faith and why it was still important to me. And it was going really well. And somebody said, oh, we've got to go. We've got to cut. We've got to go to there's some breaking news.
And there was no breaking news.
I was saying something good about faith. And I think they'd freaked out about it.
Interesting. Yeah. So.
Gosh, probably a little less forgiving, honestly. By virtue of surviving as long as I have, I think there's a gentler wash for me now. It's more of a watercolor than a specific digital photograph. But let's face it, you know, somebody gets accused of something that they did 30 years ago and suddenly they're written off. It's insanity what's been going on. Nobody's human?
I might have misstated that.
Oh, and destroyed somebody. Okay. Yeah, it's a funny time. And maybe we should take broader views of things we hear from time to time. We should believe women who are telling the truth. We should believe the possibilities of things, but innocent until proven guilty is really important.
Any thought, yeah. We're in a difficult time that way. I hope we move through that.
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