Nathan Lane

And he himself is impacted.

He's got a family of eight.

He feels like both Democrats and Republicans knew this problem was coming, and they didn't do anything about it.

And he's gonna use it as political ammunition in his race.

I mean, in terms of a multi-camera show in front of a live audience, I've done a couple in the past that haven't been so successful. So this has been a great pleasure.

I mean, in terms of a multi-camera show in front of a live audience, I've done a couple in the past that haven't been so successful. So this has been a great pleasure.

I mean, in terms of a multi-camera show in front of a live audience, I've done a couple in the past that haven't been so successful. So this has been a great pleasure.

Well, I don't know how much time you have. When I was a kid, I was cast in a show, a situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney and Dana Carvey called One of the Boys. OK. And and that was I knew going into that it was not going to last. Yeah. And Dana still talks about it. He's still traumatized by Mickey Rooney, as we all were.

Well, I don't know how much time you have. When I was a kid, I was cast in a show, a situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney and Dana Carvey called One of the Boys. OK. And and that was I knew going into that it was not going to last. Yeah. And Dana still talks about it. He's still traumatized by Mickey Rooney, as we all were.

Well, I don't know how much time you have. When I was a kid, I was cast in a show, a situation comedy starring Mickey Rooney and Dana Carvey called One of the Boys. OK. And and that was I knew going into that it was not going to last. Yeah. And Dana still talks about it. He's still traumatized by Mickey Rooney, as we all were.

And then I did a show with the creators of Frasier, and I thought that would be a good idea. They had won the Emmy five years in a row.

And then I did a show with the creators of Frasier, and I thought that would be a good idea. They had won the Emmy five years in a row.

And then I did a show with the creators of Frasier, and I thought that would be a good idea. They had won the Emmy five years in a row.

and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER

and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER

and they pitched me an idea I didn't like, and then I pitched them an idea they didn't like, and then they came up with this idea that we wound up doing, in which I was going to play a famous opera singer who lost his voice in a freak accident and had to leave the opera world, and he went to live with his mother and sister at their winery in the Napa Valley. LAUGHTER

By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.

By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.

By the time the premise was, you were finished explaining it, people had left the room. So that didn't go so well.

Yes, and I thought, well, that's kind of redundant, but... LAUGHTER But it was actually Ryan Murphy. I was working for Ryan Murphy doing this miniseries about the Menendez brothers, and he had read this script, and he had never done a situation comedy before, a multi-camera situation comedy. But he thought the script was great, and they had written it, I was told, with me in mind.