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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

George Wendt, 'Cheers' star, dies at 76

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

0:06.7

Casey at, he hit me in the fields yesterday when I saw that George Wint had passed away.

0:13.6

Yeah.

0:14.8

And what was interesting was of all the things going on in our world right now, at least on social media,

0:22.9

that was all that seemed a lot of people wanted to talk about and remember was this wonderful

0:28.4

character that he created on Cheers. Yeah. Best known as Norm Peterson on Cheers. He was 76 years old

0:36.2

and he was remembered as a loving family man. So looking at all

0:39.7

these comments and I get the internet is not real life, but these were real people saying real

0:46.0

things. One of the things that very quickly, I always think about this when people who do things

0:52.3

that bring people such joy,

0:57.4

I always hope they passed knowing.

1:03.6

I wish they could read the obituary or see the comments the day after they died.

1:04.9

I wish all of us could do that, right?

1:08.0

The day after you pass away to read the obituary to see the comments,

1:13.6

because this guy did this thing where it wasn't, you didn't have to be a De Niro or Pacino level of actor this was not Dustin Hoffman to do the norm Peterson character

1:21.3

but it was a character that brought immense joy to millions of people.

1:31.1

It's because he played the part of a regular guy.

1:33.5

Right.

1:33.9

Somebody you could relate to.

1:35.0

He appeared in all 275 episodes of Cheers, which ran from 1982 to 1993.

1:42.5

He earned six consecutive Emmy nominations for his role as Norm. And of course, he had the famous line, afternoon, everybody.

1:52.5

Afternoon, everybody? No!

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