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Ted Danson is apologizing to Kelsey Grammer for an argument that they had on the set of Cheers.
Danson, 76, issued his mea culpa through the Wednesday, October 23, episode of his SiriusXM podcast “The place Everyone Is aware of Your Title,” on which Grammer, 69, appeared.
“I really feel like I bought caught somewhat bit with you through the Cheers years,” Danson informed Grammer. “I’ve a reminiscence of getting indignant at you as soon as.”
“Yeah, you got here and informed me that someday,” Grammer replied.
“And it’s caught in each of our reminiscences,” Danson mentioned. “However I really feel like, f—, I don’t know. I missed out on the final 30 years of Kelsey Grammer and I really feel prefer it’s my unhealthy, my doing, and I nearly really feel like apologizing to you.”
Danson added, “I actually do apologize.”
Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson on the set of “Cheers.” Cowl Photos
Grammer then recalled a time that Danson “mentioned one thing fantastic” to him that he has since quoted to different individuals.
“After I turned 40, you got here up and also you mentioned, ‘You understand what it means, don’t you? Now that you just’re 40, it means you’re lastly price having a dialog with,’” the actor quoted Danson as telling him on the set of the beloved sitcom.
“That was f—ing good,” he informed Danson. “I all the time liked that. … And I’ve repeated it. And my love for you has all the time been as straightforward because the day. You understand, as straightforward because the dawn.”
Cheers aired on NBC from 1983 to 1993, with Danson taking part in bartender Sam Malone and Grammer stealing scenes as Frasier Crane, a psychiatrist and common at Malone’s bar in Boston. Danson received two Emmy Awards for his function after which went on to star in TV’s Damages and The Good Place.
When Cheers ended, Grammer reprised his character in NBC’s Frasier, incomes 4 Emmys through the present’s 11-year run. Final yr, he revived Frasier on Paramount’s streaming service. Season two premiered in September.
“You possibly can go off in numerous instructions, you may have totally different lives,” Grammer mused, “however that bond, that love of constructing one thing actually humorous and actually good and cracking one another up and going by way of life and nonetheless displaying up — you recognize, like [Cheers] director Jimmy [Burrows] mentioned, ‘I don’t care what you loopy individuals do through the week. Simply present up on shoot evening and be humorous.’”
Danson referred to as Burrows, 83, “like my daddy in present enterprise. Actually, most likely all of ours to some extent.”
In August, Grammer name-dropped his long-running alter ego whereas sharing 25 private details about himself with Us Weekly.
“One factor I’ve realized about myself from portraying Dr. Frasier Crane is that I’m not as bizarre as he’s,” he informed Us, itemizing one truth.
One other: “My favourite scene in Cheers was when Frasier had been arrested for being too rowdy at a hockey recreation, and I walked in and mentioned, ‘Rattling me to a junior school for saying it, however I used to be having fun with myself.’”
