Ted Danson Apologizes to Kelsey Grammer for Arguing During ‘Cheers’

Ted Danson apologizes Kelsey Grammer for an argument they had on the set of Cheers.

Danson, 76, issued his mea culpa during the Wednesday, Oct. 23 episode of his SiriusXM podcast “Where everyone knows your name,” on which Grammer, 69, appeared.

“I feel like I was kind of stuck with you during the Cheers years,” Danson told Grammer. “I remember getting mad at you once.”

“Yes, you came to tell me that one day,” Grammer replied.

“And it’s stuck in both of our memories,” Danson said. ‘But I feel like: f…, I don’t know. I’ve missed the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer and I feel like it’s my fault, my fault, and I almost feel like apologizing to you.

Danson added: “I apologize.”

Grammer then recalled a time when Danson said “something wonderful” to him, which he has since quoted to other people.

“When I turned 40, you came up and said, ‘You know what it means, don’t you? Now that you’re 40, it means you’re finally worth having a conversation with,” the actor quoted Danson as telling him on the set of the beloved sitcom.

“That was bloody brilliant,” he told Danson. “I’ve always loved that. …And I repeated it. And my love for you has always been as simple as the day. You know, as simple as the sunrise.

Cheers aired on NBC from 1983 to 1993, with Danson playing bartender Sam Malone and Grammer stealing scenes as Frasier Crane, a psychiatrist and regular at Malone’s bar in Boston. Danson won two Emmy Awards for his role and went on to star in TV movies Injury And The right place.

When Cheers ended, Grammer reprized his character on NBC’s Frasierearning four Emmys during the show’s eleven-year run. Last year he came back to life Frasier on Paramount’s streaming service. Season two premiered in September.

“You can go in different directions, you can have different lives,” Grammer mused, “but that bond, that love of making something really funny and really good and pushing each other and going through life and still appear – you know. , like [Cheers] director Jimmy [Burrows] said, “I don’t care what you crazy people do during the week. Just show up on shoot night and be funny. ”

Danson called Burrows, 83, “like my father in show business. Actually, probably all of us to some extent.”

In August, Grammer dropped his long-running alter ego while sharing 25 personal facts about themselves of We weekly.

“One thing I learned about myself from playing Dr. Frasier Crane is that I’m not as weird as he is,” he said. Uswhere one fact is listed.

Another: “My favorite scene in Cheers was when Frasier had been arrested for being too loud at a hockey game, and I walked in and said, “To hell with a high school because I said so, but I had a good time.”