Ted Danson Doesn’t Want A Cheers Reboot

Ted Danson was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, where he revealed that he wants no part of a possible Cheers reboot series. He spoke about playing Sam Malone in the hit NBC sitcom and how he actually did research for the role. Here are highlights (via Uproxx):

On doing research to play Sam Malone: “Playing Sam Malone was an anathema to me for the longest time. I went to bartender school and worked my little butt off to learn how to make drinks, and for the first month of shooting I was making Manhattans and Grasshoppers and all sorts of weird drinks. They didn’t give a sh*t. They want their jokes said well and on time, and they’re shooting you above your hand.”

On a revival of the show: “It’d be a bunch of people in their 70s in a bar going, ‘What? What? A horse walked into a what?’”

On Bill Cosby and the Cosby Show: “The reason why Cheers became a top-10 show was because of The Cosby Show. It was a great show and it’s a horrible thing that he did — not my place to vote on that. But the show had other actors and it was an amazing show. I think it’s okay to say that. You know, it’s not at the top of the list of the price that’s been paid by the awful things that he did, but it is strange that this thing now will be forever tarnished.”