Jimmy Kimmel Live! was nearly Jon Stewart Live! During a visit to Ted Danson’sWhere Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Jimmy Kimmel revealed how he inadvertently swiped the ABC gig from fellow comic Jon Stewart. In the early 2000s, ABC was on the hunt for someone to host a late-night show, …
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Ted Danson was 34 when Cheers debuted in the fall of 1982, on the younger side for a TV star at the time. That season’s top 10 highest-rated shows included a few other thirtysomething leads in Tom Selleck on Magnum, P.I. and John Ritter in Three’s Company, but for the …
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Award-winning actor Ted Danson will receive another honor: the Carol Burnett Award for Career Achievements at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The news about Danson, who’s following in the footsteps of previous recipients Norman Lear, Ryan Murphy, and Ellen DeGeneres, was announced on Monday. “Ted Danson has entertained audiences for …
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Mike Schur’s The Good Place was a cosmic epic about what happens when the universe is fundamentally broken. But it was also a four-season discussion of the best way to live a good life — for both yourself and the world around you. It just brilliantly inserted these questions of …
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“I’m 76 years old, and I have never learned a lesson in my entire life.” In the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David tells this to a child in an Atlanta hotel lobby who throws a ball at him. The mother wants the child to learn the lesson …
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It’s a running gag in the 12th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that people keep mentioning that Larry David didn’t work on the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but then returned for the finale. Every time, Larry greets the observation with stony silence, because he knows the audience hated that …
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Kirstie Alley’s castmates on the long-running sitcom Cheers fondly remembered their coworker and friend as “brilliant,” “unique and wonderful,” and more following her death from cancer at the age of 71. As People reports, the show’s lead Ted Danson (who played bar owner Sam Malone) noted in a statement that …
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