Ted Danson
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5 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 12 Feb
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And then a little while after that, trying to take some young lady out and have a cup of coffee, and she told me about five minutes in, because I don't think she was enjoying it, I have an audition I have to go to. And I said, can I come along? And off I went. And to stay in the room, it was like a Bertolt Brecht performance. And to stay in the room, they said, well, just do something.
And I got up and I heard people laugh. And it was like, oh, wait a minute. It's this drug. Yeah, I took my first acting class and was in some productions. And I pulled my station wagon with a sleeping bag in the back and never left. the theater until somebody said you should really go back east and study. So off I went to Carnegie. But there you are. Wow. Hey, let me take over.
Let me take over for a minute. Yeah, you go. Will Arnett, thank you so much for being our first guest. You really did us a good turn and we did you well in the ratings and all of that. That's so great. Thank you. Thank you. Really appreciate it.
You worked with Jimmy a lot, Sean. Jimmy Burroughs is great. Yeah, every single episode of Will & Grace. Every?
About 20 of them went elsewhere, but yeah, he did tons of them. But his sense of physical comedy is insane.
Did you all do three weeks on, one week off? Yeah. We did, yeah. I mean, that's amazing. It's the fucking, it's the greatest. It's unbelievable. Yeah.
I like Tuesday nights. I like Tuesday nights because I could... soak up the lines over the weekend. Oh. Are lines a tough thing for you to remember? Yeah? I'll have to say, I mean, I started off with a slow, dumb joke, which is, you know, a great living. Sam Malone's, you know, it's the funniest, easiest way for the laugh. And you're not doing...
Frasier or Diane, fast, you know, brilliant, you know, complicated. And I've moved on to having some of the most difficult lines to say with Mike Shore in The Good Place.
You know, it was so elevated. But it... It's not hard for me to learn them. It's hard for me to retain them. So this year, I had the best time with my youngest daughter, Katrina. She would come to work with me. And I never had to worry about lines because she was there kind of jamming them into my brain.
Because literally, if the camera's turning around and there's that 15, 20-minute pause or whatever, I need to make sure I reload the lines. So I don't have to worry about them.
Yeah, constantly. She's really good at it. We had a great time.
Netflix. You know what? I think the name is changing as we speak. Okay. But it came from a documentary out of Chile, out of Santiago, Chile. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, they're very funny.
Sorry, are you guys not on camera as far as what people get to see? No, this is all audio. YouTube? No. Well, you guys are idiots. You are so fucking funny. People want to see this. I hear it.
I have to put my shoes on. No, you don't. You know what I mean? All right, let me take over again. What are you directing, Jason? Why are you so exhausted? What are you working on? A Netflix thingy. He's acting and directing.
moody dark people die kind of things that um is it eight episodes ten it's eight eight eight and done eight now right yeah isn't that isn't that slightly disturbing because we all did 22 24 episodes and now they say you have eight you go well they must hate us right or what am i going to do with the rest of the year i have no faith in us yeah yeah
Yeah, I think there was a point at Carnegie which I loved. It was the only acting I knew. So a lot of other people had come having acted before or studied before, and they had their judgments about Carnegie. I just was lapping it up because it was the first and only time I've ever done it. So it didn't matter to me. Then I went to New York, and I was terrified.
And, you know, when you come out of Carnegie, you're supposed to go into the repertory system. And there's, I think they're called TCGs, where you go and you audition for all the companies around the country. And none of us got in at all. We went, well, shit. All right, we'll all go to New York. And that's what we did. But it terrified me so much that I went to John Houseman.
at Juilliard and said, I want to enroll. Having just graduated from Carnegie, I wanted to be back in a system to protect me in New York somehow.
Yeah, but at least it was like you were cocooned. And he very sweetly said, well, if you still feel that way a year from now, come back. So off I went. And then I studied – I did study – Names, neighborhood playhouse, famous, famous... Sandy Meisner. Sandy Meisner, thank you. I did two years of a Sandy Meisner student teaching a version of that, which really is what I think...
propelled me out the door acting-wise as far as technique, because it stopped being about showing your technique or demonstrating how good you are, and it got me out of my head and started focusing on the other person, which is kind of the whole point of acting.
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