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The Adam Ferrara Podcast

EP 173 Legendary TV Director James Burrows

The Adam Ferrara Podcast

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Adam flipped out driving through the everglades.

Legendary Director James Burrows, of so many classic TV shows like Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, 3rd Rock from the Sun and The Big Bang Theory, stops by and tells us about Andy Kaufman's demands for firing Andy's alter ego, Tony Clifton from Taxi. Flying the Friends cast to Vegas for their last night of anonymity and riding in a motorcycle side car driven by Bruce Springsteen. 

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0:00.0

Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar?

0:11.0

Adam Ferrar is an American actor and comedian known for playing the roles of Chief Needles Nelson on Rescue Me.

0:17.0

Sergeant Frank Vilelli opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie.

0:21.2

He was a co-host on the U.S.

0:22.7

version of Top Gear, and his current

0:24.8

stand-up special is called,

0:26.6

It's Scary in Here, it's available for

0:28.7

you free on YouTube. Adam's

0:30.7

new podcast is a big hit and available

0:32.7

everywhere. Sounds like it could be funny.

0:36.9

Sounds to me like 30 minutes.

0:38.5

You'll never get that.

0:50.0

All right.

0:51.0

Now we're all here.

0:52.1

We can start the show for you this week. My guest in the ADD interview, I am very excited about this man. He is a legendary television director. Just some of the shows he did was Taxi, Cheers, Friends, Will & Grace, the Big Bang Theory. It is James Burroughs. Oh, yeah. Well, we're not messing around. As a matter of fact, you're underdressed for this show, okay? I definitely am. Those are only like, I don't know, the greatest TV shows of all time. Absolutely. And we want to welcome everyone from our talk to be Tuesday family. That's our conversation. We have every week, 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. Go to our website, click the link, join the conversation. And our superfan

1:31.7

shout out is for Sophia. Say hi to Sophia. Hey, Sophia. Sophia. Sophia. Phil sends his best,

1:39.5

and I'm looking forward to seeing you. She sent me a nice email. She's coming to see me at Gotham Comedy Club in

1:45.0

New York City. I will be there in September. And I want to thank everybody who came out to Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples. I had a great time this weekend. It was a last minute thing. And I was so pleased to go back and see all my friends over there. It was a lot of fun. So I had to fly last minute.

2:01.0

So I had to get an airline ticket.

2:02.5

So I want to thank JetBlue for driving the plane in the price right up my ass.

2:06.6

That was nice.

2:09.2

In your Kulu.

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