Eric McCormack

Off The Beat with Brian Baumgartner

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Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Will and Grace star Eric McCormack joins Brian this week to chat about his early days in Canadian theater, his failed Friends’ audition, and the moment Elton John offered him a private home performance. They also discuss their new Hulu show, The Other Black Girl!

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0:00.0	Let's talk about Ross for a second.
0:01.8	How far did you get in that process?
0:03.9	I got to the studio.
0:05.6	OK.
0:06.1	And I guess it had two.
0:08.3	They moved me up quickly to the studio level.
0:10.9	I didn't make it past that.
0:13.3	Years later, when I was working with Jim Burrows on Willing Grays,
0:17.3	I directed the first 12 episodes of Friends.
0:21.6	And I said, you know, Jimmy, I don't know if I never got to meet you,
0:24.6	but I get pretty far along there on the Friends casting.
0:28.8	And he said, oh, honey, you were wasting your time.
0:31.7	They wrote the part for Schwima.
0:34.5	And that was the end of that dream.
0:43.2	Hi, I'm Eric McCormack.
0:46.7	And I am so embarrassed.
0:49.5	Hello, hello, everybody.
0:58.0	And welcome back to Off the Beat.
1:01.6	I am, as always, your host, Brian Baumgartner.
1:04.9	And you just heard from my guest today,
1:08.1	the incredible and incredibly funny looking, Eric McCormack.
1:15.2	You might know him from his tenure playing
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