(applause) How are you?
Yeah, I'm all right.
Everything good, the family's good?
You got married since I saw you last.
That's right, couple months ago, yeah.
Congratulations. Thank you very much.
You know, it's a good thing.
It is a good thing. To quote Martha Stewart.
(laughs)
You're, I read this thing about your wife.
I don't know if this is true,
but your wife, Mary Steenburgen,
said somewhere that she can't go to sleep
at night unless she watches "Cheers."
Yeah, yeah, first, there's two rules.
One is she goes to sleep first, or else she stays up
and wakes me up and I have to get back up.
So she kind of snuggles in my arm
and I prefer The History Channel, myself.
I like to see bridges being built and things like that.
Constructive things, civilization marching on.
Yeah, I've seen the Golden Gate built
about four times, and that's mine.
But so she watches me on "Cheers"
and kind of cuddles me at the same time.
It's this sense around the whole thing.
I would be, I mean, I would love the idea
of watching myself while someone cuddled me.
That's like the ultimate narcissistic dream.
(laughs)
It is. Did you ever,
I mean, it must be- You caught me.
I was making this her foible, it's really mine.
You're like, wake up, Mary,
I'm on TV. Wake up,
wanna watch "Cheers?" (laughs)
And that's the real story. How about "Becker,"
how about a miniseries, anything, just watch me.
A friend of mine actually once went over to Regis's house
'cause he was gonna visit someone in Regis's family,
and he just wanted to say hi to Regis
and he ducked into the room and it was while "Millionaire"
was on, and Regis was watching "Millionaire,"
and the friend was like "Hi," and he's like, "Quiet, quiet!"
(laughs)
And he was literally like, "I'm over there,
and yet I'm here, I'm there and I'm here."
And he was like, "What?" (laughs)
But he's a wonderful man.
He is a wonderful man.
"Cheers," I mean, I know, people are constantly trying
to come up with a show that was as successful and enduring
as that show, and they seem to come up with maybe one
of those every 15 years or something.
It was just so popular.
What was that like when you first realized
this is becoming a craze, this is becoming a mania?
In the 80s, I was younger.
It was rock and roll, it really was,
for a little while there.
I remember the first time it kind of hit me.
We all got invited back to do something here in New York,
some network shindig thing, and it was a huge building
with a huge party, and elevators and escalators.
And it was my first kind of groupie, Sam Malone groupie,
just thought I was God's gift to man.
And she kind of followed me around and it was
quite charming, quite charming.
Then at one point in the evening
she kind of lost, I lost her, she got lost or something,
and there was these escalators, one going up
and one going down, and "Cheers" group is going up
and, no, we were going down and she was going up,
and as she, she went "Ooh," saw me,
and then as she got a little higher and saw the back
of my head she saw my bald spot
and she went, "Oh, burst my bubble."
(laughs) And she was gone,
I never had another group after that,
that was my one and only groupie.
That's terrible.
Never take an elevator, escalator.
Escalator, yeah, just walk.
There are a lot of fans who probably assume
that you are Sam Malone and that you're that guy,
that you're that jocky, kind of slick character.
Is that a problem for you?
You must have a lot of fans that think that's who you are.
It makes Mary have hysterics,
'cause I am the most unhip man on the planet.
I don't know anything about sports-
No, I beg to differ. (laughs)
We'll have a contest. We'll have this out
later on, the two of us running through a field, see who-
Ministry of Silly Walks.
Yeah, exactly.
But I developed this kind of in self-defense,
'cause I go into a bar, I go past a sports bar
or any kind of drinking festivity and a jock will go,
"Hey, how about those dah dah dah dah?"
Or "Sammy, give me a," and I've developed
this generic kind of response.
It's a sound, but it satisfies everybody.
I just go, "Hey."
(laughs)
That works. It works.
It means that I'm with you, you are so right, my friend.
That thing you just said, that was so right.
Today we got ahold of, we got ahold of a family calendar
that you and your family made up,
and it's a nice idea, you want to make people laugh,
and so you had everyone in your family pose
a different month, doing some kind of interpretive dance.
Now, this is Mary, this is the one who can't go to sleep.
This is Mary, she's the camp counselor.
She gets us to do the crazy, really, you'll see,
insane things, but this year she decided
the world needed to laugh, or our little world.
And so she decided to pose us all as Alvin Ailey wannabes.
And she'd got the little dance book,
"Modern Dance" out, and assigned the poses,
and I am forever known now in my neck of the woods
as Mr. July. (laughs)
Well, let's just take a look at, this is nice.
Look at this photo for July, I thought this,
(laughs) that's pretty impressive.
(cheers) Pretty impressive.
Thank you.
First of all- Hey. Hey.
(laughs)
You're not gonna get those anymore.
Those guys are now gonna be like, ohh.
I couldn't do that, you'd have to saw my leg off
and put it up here for me to do that.
Oh you could do it, you could do it.
No, I mean, how do you, do you yoga, how do you get to be-
No, you do that just once.
Oh, you did that once. Just once-
You heard a snapping sound. And you retire, yes, I mean-
You can literally, so you're up here,
now you're seeing unpleasant things, all right,
I don't wanna do that. Yeah, sorry.