Sean Hayes

Tom, would you agree that the routine of a sitcom actor is the best job in show business?

Do you miss it still to this day?

Is that kind of like the... Yeah, that second one shoots Tuesday, yes.

You start on Wednesday.

Unless you're working with Jimmy Burroughs, and then you can take the first day off of rehearsal and it really becomes a four-day work week, and it's only three weeks a month, so it's 12 working days a month.

What are you doing?

Why are you blowing on...

One of the great shows.

You have no idea.

They just said.

But you were playing the lead and you were incredibly charismatic and you were compelling on screen.

Like you were carrying things right out of the gate.

Had you always had the confidence and the sort of –

The leadership qualities growing up?

No, I was just trying to remember the words.

Right, right, right.

Didn't happen back in the day.

But once Philadelphia happened, I would imagine some of the scripts that were coming to you started to confuse things for you and your team a bit.

That's a great impersonation.

Richard Lovett.