The Best of SBS: Ted Danson
South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard
Meadowlark Media
4.9 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 101 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to South Beach this time. We're in Los Angeles. And Ted Danson is here. And he just described himself correctly as dangerously sexy |
| 0:38.9 | because of the amount that I was sweating, which I may still be sweating. But I'm thrilled to |
| 0:43.7 | have you here. Thank you for making the time. You're welcome. I'm still working on the hearing back |
| 0:48.6 | what I said. Who maybe? Maybe I shouldn't have said that. You didn't think you are dangerously sexy. |
| 0:52.9 | No, you're you are dangerously sexy. I said undercurrent. When I came here, my wife referred to you as a silver fox. Nice. And yes. So you know this about yourself. Sexy guy with arthritis. That's what a silver fox is. Didn't you start in soap operas? I did. Okay, so come on, come on. |
| 1:11.6 | It's not like you don't know you're dangerously sexy. |
| 1:14.6 | No, here, can I just quickly tell you it was Somerset. |
| 1:18.6 | It was a spin-off of another world, and I was hired to be the town, I'm trying to think of another word besides Coxman, but, you know, he was the town outrageous, |
| 1:29.1 | sweep people off. And the first day I sat down opposite this table where I was supposed to be |
| 1:34.3 | seducing this woman who had been on the show for years, and this was my first day. So I was |
| 1:40.5 | beyond anxious. I'd taken Valium the night before, and was, Valium makes me sweat. Like this? Like this? Because I'm just profusive. Give me your handkerchief. You offered me a handkerchief before. This is yours. Thank you. Thank you. Very snappy with your outfit. This is very intimate too. I am using a handkerchief that you have never used before because of the amount that I'm sweating. I'm sorry, I interrupted you. |
| 2:01.7 | No, please. No. So anyway, I was so nervous, speaking of sweat, that this woman who was very |
| 2:06.9 | common had been doing this for years, and this was my first day on Valium, just having an |
| 2:12.2 | anxiety attack. And it was broadcast news sweat. It was just pouring sheets of sweat. |
| 2:18.7 | And the producer went, nah, he's not a leading man. |
| 2:22.9 | We're gonna make him the town sleaze. |
| 2:25.4 | So I turned all my friends into the mafia. |
| 2:28.2 | That was my role. |
| 2:29.0 | But this is difficult first role if you're already nervous about just starting your career |
| 2:33.2 | and they asked you to go sensual right off the bat? Yeah. Horrible. I don't do sensual. I do jokes about sensual. But you started, that's not where you started. You do that now. You've learned how to do that now. No, but even cheers. You think Sam Malone, da-da-da-da. I only make jokes about being sexual. I do good sexy jokes. I don't do |
| 2:53.7 | sexy. How do you do with fear and insecurity? Like when you started your career, like, did you get over that? |
| 3:00.6 | Obviously, I never got over it on the soap opera. It was just a nightmare because you can't be funny. |
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