our first guest re recently cleaned up at the Emmys oh man that's right this guy won
like five Emmys his program Frasier won outstanding lead actor and four others
I got to start pre-reading some of this stuff ladies and Gentlemen please welcome America's
favorite TV psychiatrist Kelsey Grammar thank you very much for being here thank
you welcome to the show Boy congratulations congratulations on the awards Now you won
for best leading actor what were the other Awards you won we got best show writing best
show best writing best editing Best Director wow yeah that must have made you feel pretty
good when when you when you this is like your third year that you're on the air this
is our second second year when you work on a successful program like this I'm thinking
that it must be like a 24-hour day commitment for you give us an idea what your schedule is
what time do you get up what do you do when you get to work and take it from there well
having had the opportunity of working on Cheers for 11 years years before this show
started it was a good show I I used to do the weather in Indianapolis thank
you uh you have an opportunity to work all the Kinks out and so um
I go into work uh well well like what you talking about 9 8 9 about about 10:
about 10: in the morning all right well that's good
then well on Wednesday we'll read the new script week right
so that's a long day is what you're say and no you do that you kind of go
home so you go in a 10 you read the script and you go home well sometimes we go in 11:
for that and leave by noon we get it at 10 we leave at 11: you're kidding cuz we hear horror
stories about you got to be there at 6:00 to be in makeup and then you're shooting till 11:00 at
night and then right back the next day doing the same thing because of the nature of the Beast you
have to have a live audience like you do of course but you do it every night um do I ever
yes it's like it sounded like one of those idiot bumper stickers you know like plumbers do it with
their gloves on better in the Bahamas yeah that kind of stuff uh well anyway we have a very short
lived a short uh rehearsal process we uh rehears for 4 days a week we probably put in maybe 15
hours of rehearsal in those four days and then we shoot the show and that's uh that's a that is
about an 8 hour day so you're you're working maybe like a 22-hour week is what you say yeah you know
I shouldn't tell anybody this stuff no you you should be arrested US give back the money I know
this is what we call paying dues oh my God I paid my dues already now I get my little little Coast
now what was the deal I read where the network that I used to work for NBC had recently given
you like a very expensive sports car like one of those vipers now what was the deal on that why
did they give you a Viper uh well uh basically it was it was a gesture that uh that for all
your hard work honored exactly more than just my hard work uh we had an engagement party my fiance
Tammy and I and uh it was ostensibly a gift for that event but oh man it also came twinned with
the move to Tuesday night so I think there was a little bit of a a blow soft you were threatening
throw a little star fit weren't you you were going to throw a little star tantrum you didn't get your
way so they gave you a big car yeah I understand I I don't do those you know one of the features
on the shows are these uh the the call-ins are famous people ly Tomlin uh Carl Riner uh Jimmy
Carter Mel Brooks Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter no no I didn't we missed Jimmy I guess you weren't
there that day no um it it must be a lot of fun to have these famous people it is yeah you know
we rarely get to see them but uh Sydney poot came into the studio the other day director did Tootsie
Out of Africa pretty funny he he did he did one for us he did a voice look forward to that one
Henry manini did a voice for us last year who's going to know has a memorable voice all right all
right we have it we have one of those uh a clip of one of those Callins you're taking calls and
this is a a famous person has called in and I think playing Rita from Seattle right you know
what I'm talking about roll it h if you're still down there so Ros who's our first caller we have
Rita on line 4 she's feeling a little overwhelmed at home hello Rita I'm listening yes hello doctor
I'm I'm Rita from Seattle uh doctor I'm afraid no one will ever love me uh I'm a I'm a nice
person um I'm I'm a responsible young woman uh but the the problem is I I look like Secretary
of State Warren Christopher and and even when I go out to people say how do you do Mr secretary
nice to see you will no one ever love me please please help me have you considered getting a
puppy adorable wait a
minute hang on a second I have to I have to do a little U business we haven't done this before
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unless it's big ass ham now in that little uh bit of your television show you mentioned puppies and
on that episode the dog on the show had had puppies and you were trying to get rid of the
puppies is that what that was tell me a little bit about the dog it's like the big star now the
dog the dog is on the cover of magaz two covers of TV Guide two separate TV guides there here's
some entertainment magazine there's the Dog Life Magazine now here is the dog right there yeah what
kind of dog is that that's a he's a rough um what is it I think Jack Russell Jack Russ I think Ruff
is the sound he makes Kelsey well it's cuz he's not smooth he's got long hair that dog is a bark
bark he's uh he's good at his job do you get along well with the animal it's not that you
really get along with him it's it's not it's like you're working together so you know but
do you do you like to have a good relationship with the animal you does not have you don't have
a relationship with him really well he's kind of you know but the dog of undeniably is very
very popular very popular and I understand the dog is with you now I have brought our friend
there he [Applause] is [Applause] hey hey hey you want some ham all we have [Music] is what
what do we call the dog uh his real name is moose moose have everybody there you go moose
hey babe how are you how old is Moose I think he's four years old these These are great dogs
they origin to go into like tunnels and hunt out animals and you could reach down in there
grab them out by the tail is does moose do any tricks for you we have a little trick that we
wanted to show you moose do you think you can do this thing you just stand right there David
all right come around here moose okay there you go you need any help Anton maybe what is
Moose going to do right wait a minute what no no no stand up there you go okay go ahead you have
an amazing rapport with the animal good boy good hold it hold it hold it he hey hey hold
it good boy little weasel why you wait till I get you back to the hotel I thought that was
pretty good now is there is there one more you have like a a goodbye a little send off kind of
thing what a handsome doggy what a handsome doggy get H oh look at yeah there she is
[Music] oh all right really this is what it's like certainly certainly a flattering shot
isn't [Music] it well it was certainly fun meeting you Kelsey congratulations
continued success with the show Kelsey Grammar ladies and gentlemen and moose [Music] yeah