Ted Danson
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first heard Sep 2024
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SmartLess · Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Talk to Will Arnett About Imposter Syndrome · 25 Sep 2024
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Yes.
Really?
Not only do I belong, but these fucking people are the worst. They're so untalented. I can't believe how lucky all these motherfuckers are. This person can barely read. This person can barely speak.
You're like, I own this room. I fucking kill it. No, you do have those things. I mean, I've gone through very, again, I think that it's one of the benefits of getting older that, that I just put less value on shit like that. And, and,
There was a time coming off Arrested Development, if I'm being totally honest, where I thought that I was going to have – where I had a lot of opportunity and I felt like I squandered it, which reminds me I've got to fire my manager today. And I've had those moments where I was like I could have had this or I could have had that and I didn't. And I always remind myself that I'm on my path –
the universe is always taking care of me. Yeah. So whatever that's going to be. And I don't know what is coming for me, but it's fucking great. And it is right around the corner. And you know how I know that? Cause it always has been. So I just got to bank on that. It's the only thing that's kind of the only faith I really have.
Sam Mayday Malone. You guys with this format should somehow find a way to have a camera on the guests while you're doing your thing. As you nod off and keep catching yourself. I'm doing spit takes. I'm putting my hand over my mouth. You are so fucking funny. So stupid.
Trust me, that's very good.
I'm sorry. I barely heard what you were saying because I loved watching the first question of a podcast as you're trying to formulate how do we get him talking. Sorry. You're very good at it, Will. No, thank you. You're very good.
So just recap.
Wow. I was doing a last-second replacement on Taxi. Wow. And I was there, and Jimmy and Les and Glenn had an office down the way at Paramount, and they were working on Cheers. And Jimmy had... remembered me from... Was it Best of the West? Do you remember that Western sitcom? Yeah. Anyway, I auditioned for it, didn't get it, and he remembered me and called me down and...
I guess we had a conversation before I got the script and then read it. And then I auditioned two or three times and they said to me, okay, don't take another job without letting us know. And I went, oh, so you're saying it's my part? No, just don't take another job. Yeah.
And I went out the back door and literally up the front door, coming up the stairs to the front door of the office was like every actor in L.A. I think I got cheers because of Shelley Long because she just, she really nailed that part right out of the bat. Yeah, brilliant. She was amazing. And we got teamed up together when we auditioned. We had to audition as couples.
Chemistry.
I mean, I am always, always the worst. My first reaction to Shelley while we were auditioning was, oh, no, no, that's a bad, bad idea. Oh, really? Horrible? Yes, horrible. Why? Why? I just, I don't know. We're so different. Our styles, our approach, our everything is really different, which is why I think it worked because it was like this fair fight.
You know, it was hard for us sometimes to be in the room together, but when we started working, it was just fantastic, because you'd smack her, and she'd smack you back harder. She was just brilliant.
No. I didn't think about it until Stanford and then I discovered acting and I was just, life made sense. I was not an academic. I came from like scientific people in my family, my father, my sister was incredibly bright and I just faked my way through school. I just was
No, you could back then. Really? And I was geographically interesting. I came from Arizona, Flagstaff. All my friends were Hopi and Navajo kids and ranchers, sons and daughters, and galloping here and there. And then went to a private school in Connecticut, Kent School for Boys. Yeah. And I think I got there for that reason. And then that's kind of interesting.
And then truly, I was a horrible student. The first two weeks at Stanford, I was sitting in an English class. And it's going to sound weird. It was an advanced placement English class because I lucked into it because I'm not very bright. I test wonderfully because I don't give a shit. You know, I just kind of wing it and make it a game and have fun.
But I was sitting there going, not only do I not understand what the professor just said in response to this question, this girl sitting next to me said that I have no, and I just pretty much dropped out. Wanted to play basketball. nowhere near talented enough. So all my dreams kind of fizzled.
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