-Our first guest tonight
is an Emmy, a Tony, and Golden Globe-winning actor
you know from shows like "Cheers" and "Frasier."
He stars in the film "Like Father,"
which is streaming on Netflix.
Let's take a look.
-How'd you guys meet? -Yeah, what's your story?
-How'd you catch the silver fox? -Ooh.
-[ Sighs ]
-Hi.
I'm Harry, actually -- Rachel's dad.
Rachel and Owen decided not to get married,
so she invited me to come.
You see, I left her when she was 5 years old.
It's unforgivable. I know.
So I showed up at their wedding a few days ago,
and that's when Owen decided to be a little bitch
and leave Rachel at the altar.
So I took Rachel out and got her good and drunk
and, uh, we're here.
-Please welcome back to the show
Kelsey Grammer, everyone.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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Welcome back. -Thank you, Seth.
-I'm so happy to have you here.
I want to say this, and I mean this genuinely.
I've been doing this show for a while now.
There's never been a better clip to explain the movie
than the clip we just showed. -That's pretty much it.
That's the movie in a nutshell.
-Not only was it really funny,
but it let you know who the actors were,
and your character basically explained the plot.
-Exactly what's going to happen. That's exactly it.
And the movie is very, very heartwarming and heartfelt
and very emotional in places.
There's kind of an undercurrent story
about Alzheimer's in it,
which is not particularly funny, of course,
but it gives it a kind of gravitas
and an emotional foundation
that's actually -- it's a great movie.
-It's really fun.
I know a ton of people are watching it already, which is --
-It's a big hit apparently. -That's very exciting.
You actually -- So you shot on a cruise ship.
-Mm-hmm.
-We had Seth Rogen here this week talking about that.
But I didn't realize there was a hurricane
in the lead up to getting onto the ship.
-Right. Hurricane Irma was sort of
playing tag with us the whole time.
And so the first week of the cruise was cut in half
because the ship wouldn't leave the dock.
Oh, no, it had to go out into the middle of the sea
and dodge the hurricane...
-I see. So that's probably safer --
-...without passengers. -Right.
-Apparently, it is.
You know, hurricanes are not such a big deal at sea.
-Right.
-They're more of a problem when they hit land.
-Right, as a giant boat,
you don't want to be right next to land.
-You sure don't because then it ends up on the land.
-Right. Yeah. -That sort of thing.
-[ Chuckles ] -Tilted.
But it was a fun experience.
I've always lived on boats myself.
I grew up on boats. I used to own a boat.
It's one of the great passions of my life, so --
-What -- I always am curious when people own boats.
What was the name of your boat?
-Oh, this is -- this has been the subject
of some ridicule in the past.
-Oh. Well, I apologize in advance for asking.
-It's okay.
My boat,
my first boat that I actually bought myself,
I didn't buy it until I was about 32 years old.
It had been my dream ever since I was a young man.
And I finally got enough money to buy this sailboat,
a 37-foot Baltic sloop.
And I could single-hand it.
I practically lived on it for a few years.
But in order to remind myself
that I shouldn't take myself too seriously,
it was called The BIOYAK,
which is an acronym for "Blow it out your ass, Kels."
-Oh. [ Laughter ]
That's great.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I think that's really nice.
Because I feel like a lot of other people,
when they get their boats, they name it the other direction.
They -- Like "The Winner."
-Well -- [ Laughing ] No, no.
I think that's pretentious and horrible.
-Well, that's nice.
And do you still have The BIOYAK?
-No, I had to sell it.
Now, this is a kind of a remarkable situation.
I had just fallen in love with Kayte, who is my wife now,
and we have three children
and we've been married for almost eight years.
But I also spoke to her --
When we first met, we lived in New York.
I was doing a play on Broadway,
and we spent most of our time here.
The first opportunity we had to go to California, I said,
"I've got to get you on the boat.
You have to come down to the boat,
and you're going to love it."
So I took her to the boat, and she boarded the boat.
She's standing in the cockpit, I throw open the hatch,
went down the ladder,
and I'm looking inside down below decks.
And behind me comes this voice that says,
"Have you ever had sex on this boat?"
[ Laughter ]
[ Audience oohs ]
So I spent about probably what felt like an eternity
was probably 30 seconds
trying to run through every scenario
that would be convincing
that I hadn't had sex on a boat I'd owned for 25 years.
So I thought, "Oh [bleep] I'm just going to have to tell her."
Sorry. [ Laughs ]
I turned around, and I said, "Yes."
And she said, "Well, then I'm not going out on it."
-Wow! She drew the line. -Absolutely, so --
-So you had to sell the boat? -I sold the boat.
-Did you get -- -I actually donated the boat.
-You donated it. -To charity.
-Well, right.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-But I thought what she was saying was fair.
She said I could get another boat if I wanted to,
but, you know.
-When you donated it to the charity,
did you let them know how much sex you'd had on it, or...?
-Uh, I did not.
-You did not. -I gave it a good cleaning.
[ Laughter ]
-So I want to ask because you actually
shot this on a functional cruise ship.
-A functional cruise ship.
It's the largest ship on the world.
And because I'd run boats all my life,
when I met the captain of the ship --
because it's called a ship.
You know, it's the largest thing that moves made by man.
It's an extraordinary vessel.
And he is -- this Captain may be
out of a hundred guys in the world
qualified to do this job.
-Sure. -He is the king of it.
He sits at the pinnacle of his trade.
And I thought, that is a truly admirable quality.
And he's a terrific guy.
And he looks after 7,000 souls on every trip.
It's an extraordinary thing.
-Did you get to go into -- is it a cockpit?
What do you call where he -- -Oh, no, I never --
The wheelhouse or the bridge. I never went there.
But I did go below.
I went below decks a few times to the kitchen,
which is as big as 30 Rock, practically.
-[ Chuckling ] I can imagine. -I mean, it's just unbelievable.
They serve something like 22,000 buns every morning.
-That's a lot of buns.
The last time there were that many buns
was your old boat. -Exactly.
[ Laughter ] Just down on the old BIOYAK.
-The BIOYAK.
[ Applause ]
You also -- You shot inside a waterfall.
You have a scene inside a waterfall.
-Well, it's like a big -- it's a waterfall in Jamaica.
Getting to it was somewhat treacherous.
And it's funny, I'm shooting a film right now
where there was some water stuff we did, as well,
and the same guy was my stunt double
on the film I'm doing now.
And so I asked him, I said, "How dangerous was that jump?"
Because they wouldn't let me do it.
I said, "I'll give it a shot."
And he said, "I almost killed myself."
-Oh, wow.
-So, I thought, "Okay, that's good."
[ Laughter ]
"It's better you almost killed yourself than me."
But I did have other scenes I had to shoot,
and he wouldn't have, so if we'd lost him,
it would have been a noble -- noble burial.
[ Laughter ]