John Larroquette

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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John Larroquette is an actor with almost 50 years of experience. The trajectory of his career is an especially interesting one. His first acting gig was narrating the intro to a very famous horror film by the name of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But, acting was not a viable career choice for Larroquette until he hit it big on the NBC sitcom Night Court. His performance as the prosecutor Dan Fielding earned him four consecutive Emmy awards and propelled his success as an actor. The original show aired its last episode in 1992. But this year, Night Court is back on NBC. John Larroquette joins us on Bullseye to chat about his return as Dan Fielding and what it's like to revisit such an iconic role after almost 30 years. Plus, his early ventures as a radio DJ and his journey to sobriety.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:22.3	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:24.5	My first guest this week is John Lerick Hat.
0:27.3	John is in, you probably already know this, the Emmy award winning star of Knight Court,
0:32.3	hits it come from NBC.
0:34.3	He's also the Tony award winning Broadway star of 2016's How to Seek Seed in Business
0:39.8	without really trying.
0:41.5	He played Carl Sack on Boston Legal, co-created and starred on the John Lerick Hat show.
0:47.7	He did the opening narration for several, yes several, Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies,
0:55.1	and now he's back in Knight Court.
0:57.6	On the old Knight Court, Lerick Hat's character Dan Fielding was a horny prosecutor.
1:03.2	On the new show he's a grain public defender, and the judge is Abbey Stone, the daughter
1:09.2	of Harry Stone from the original show.
1:12.1	The new Knight Court is silly and funny and weird, just like the original show was.
1:17.4	It also has heart, real emotional stakes.
1:20.8	In this clip, Lerick Hat's character, Dan Fielding shares why he decided to come back.
1:26.5	Say a lifetime ago, you work with a guy, right?
1:30.1	Head your ups and downs, but on the whole, like each other, respected even.
1:35.8	The job ends, you go your separate ways.
1:39.3	Life happens and you live and you love, and you lose big time.
1:45.9	So you close off your heart, then one day the child of that almost forgotten guy comes
1:54.5	to you and asks for your help.
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