Kelsey Grammer

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dr. Frasier Crane! Beast from X-Men! Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons! Our guest needs no introduction: it's Kelsey Grammer. He's an incredibly talented actor and a fascinating, complicated person. He gets into his time working on Cheers while struggling with substance abuse – and how he learned to forgive himself. Don't worry there's plenty of time for some laughs, too. He talks about the inspiration for the voice of Sideshow Bob and embraces the viral clip of him falling from a few years back.

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0:00.0	Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.
0:08.0	How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered.
0:12.2	We generated tens of images, and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.
0:18.2	Ideas about the future of memory.
0:20.6	That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.
0:25.3	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:34.9	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:36.6	Ask anyone who's ever taken the leap into being a professional artist. It's scary.
0:42.0	Will anyone actually like what you do? Will you make enough to pay rent? Will your family get behind you?
0:48.8	Kelsey Grammer, when he decided to become a professional actor, went through all of that stuff.
0:54.1	In fact, one member of his family in particular
0:56.2	had very serious reservations
0:58.2	about the whole thing.
0:59.5	My grandmother was a little bit iffy about it.
1:03.0	She wanted me to be a football player
1:04.4	and thought that the whole thing was a little ridiculous.
1:07.4	From Maximumfund.org and NPR, it's bullseye.
1:13.6	This week, Kelsey Grammer, not a football player.
1:18.2	We'll talk to him about acting, about his harrowing upbringing,
1:21.8	and about that sound that he makes every time side show Bob steps on a rake.
1:29.2	That's all coming up on Bullseye.
1:32.5	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Kelsey Grammer is my guest this week. He is, of course,
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