James Burrows on 'Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More'

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Larry weighs in on his acting role in the upcoming movie 'Jerry and Marge Go Large', guns, and the January 6th hearings. He's then joined by Emmy-award winning director James Burrows to talk about his new memoir 'Directed by James Burrows'. They begin their conversation by discussing James's early life growing up in show business, his legendary father, and how a stint in regional theatre prepared him for and open doors to directing in television.(16:51) Burrows then shares some amazing anecdotes from his time working on some of the most important shows in TV history, including 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show',(32:58) 'Taxi',(42:14) 'Cheers',(57:32) and 'Will & Grace'(1:09:31). After James and Larry praise the genius of the great Andy Kaufman (44:29) they end the podcast by examining the technical aspects of creating a sitcom pilot and giving advice to people who aspire to be television directors.(1:14:34) Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: James Burrows Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up guys Rachel Lindsay here and I am teaming up with your favorite
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0:10.3	It's the show about all things Bravo from the house wise to summer house and everything in between.
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0:32.2	Everybody welcome back it's Larry Wilmore and you are listening to Black on the air.
0:37.2	Thanks for choosing this podcast. It's always fun to hang out with you guys whether you're
0:45.2	working out or you're driving somewhere sitting around in your house whatever it is.
0:52.0	Choose me to hang out with shooting the shit you know that kind of thing.
0:57.7	It's a lot of fun by the way I really enjoy meeting you guys out in the world
1:01.2	to the people that um listen to the podcast and enjoy it and that type of thing.
1:05.6	It really is a lot of fun to see to see how much people really enjoy it.
1:10.4	You know podcasters such an interesting animal you know it's a whole different show based thing.
1:15.9	It kind of has the intimacy that radio had in the early days with fireside chats that kind of thing.
1:24.4	You know coming into people's homes and that kind of feel podcast is kind of cozy like that right.
1:28.9	Don't you feel kind of cozy right now? Yeah it is. It's get cozy.
1:33.7	Um so today I get to speak with Mr. James Burrows the famous and quite accomplished director
1:44.1	of television co-created cheers you know he did taxi I mean Frazier friends well and grace I mean
1:54.2	he has directed more episodes of quality television than probably any director in the history of television.
2:00.5	Uh it's crazy how much not just TV but great TV he's been responsible for.
2:09.5	So and I worked with him once I got a chance to work with him.
2:12.1	Uh almost 20 years ago something like that we did a pilot it was a lot of fun we talk a little
2:17.6	bit about it I spoke to him a couple of days ago I hope you guys enjoy that I'll bring you know
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