Cheers To Cheers

May 11, 2017

Cheers To Cheers

Ken Levine, a great writer on shows like Cheers, MASH, and Almost Perfect (among so many others), does a weekly podcast. This week, he talks about the final episode of Cheers, and the surrounding events that night. In particular, he briefly discusses the appearance of the cast live on The Tonight Show.

Listen here.

Here’s Jay Leno teasing the show.

And here’s the segment … by which time, the cast were drunk as hell.

Levine suggests that this was early on in Leno’s tenure on The Tonight Show, and that he was ill-equipped to deal with it. He thinks Letterman would have done a better job, and I think he’s right.

e.phemera, Thought Vomit

<

>

Buy My Books

Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

Follow

Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…