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James Burrows is the most iconic director in television, so iconic that NBC is going to honor him February 21st with An All-Star Tribute to celebrate a huge milestone he recently accomplished. He has directed 1,000 episodes and casts from several of the shows he worked on will be there to honor him. Shows like Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and the upcoming Crowded (where he reached that milestone) to name a few of the many many many great shows we have all watched at some point that are showing him their love.
There will be a lot of reunions during his special, but what does he think are the chances of Cheers and/or Friends ever having a reunion of their own? I was a conference call with him earlier in the week and he answered that question. Before he went into specifics, he said, “I don’t think you should ever go back. I firmly believe in that.” Then he talked about the most famous show about a bar, “You know I created Cheers along with the Charles Brothers. We’re co-creators. They were gracious enough to give me that credit. They’ve talked to us about a Cheers reunion for years. And we don’t want to do one. It’s just, we did that show. That was that show.”
Does he have a rosier outlook for Friends, a show he did not create? His feelings are, “I don’t think they’ll ever want to do a reunion again. It’s what it was. And it was a treasure in the history of television. And I don’t think you want to revisit that.”
I understand what he is saying, but I like reunions. Although, now that I think about it, most of them kind of stink. Can you ever think of one that was worth it? So maybe he is right.
Several casts of past and current shows got together yesterday to celebrate James Burrows’ major milestone. The milestone the director hit, is that he has directed 1,000 episodes throughout his career including episodes from Taxi, Cheers, Will & Grace and Two and a Half Men. But two of his biggest shows on his resume are Friends and The Big Bang Theory and almost all of the leads from both top rated sitcoms were there to honor him. Well someone thought it would be a smart idea to have the casts of two of the biggest shows from the ’90s and today pose for a photo together and this is what we got. Instead of saying who was there, the photo would be better if Matthew Perry and Kunal Nayyar were standing alongside them, but still this is pretty cool.
Maybe we can get a TBBT episode where Penny (Kaley Cuoco) dreams she is on Friends and Burrows directs it. Wouldn’t that be a dream scenario?
Matthew Perry was on The Graham Norton Show on Friday and the host asked him about the Friends pornodies. The actor told him that there is one he is familiar with and it is called Fiends. In that one, he says that all of them are having sex except for Chandler who is in the corner playing with his Bing. I’d like to watch that one, but I can’t find it online. The one I can find, is the one that was mentioned on the show called Friends: A XXX Parody. Which is why I want to watch the first one!
Hey, if we are not going to get a reunion with the 6 of them, then this the next best thing. Right?
Tonight during the Emmys, while Jimmy Kimmel was presenting Best Actor in a Comedy, he ate the winner’s name so we don’t know who really won the award. He claims it was Jefrey Tambor for Transparent, but there was nominee who wasn’t happy with the results. That nom is Joey Tribbiani, I mean Matt Le Blanc, who was nominated for playing himself on Episodes. So much so, he gave Kimmel a finger, the middle one.
I don’t know why the Friends star thought he won because barely anyone else thought he had a shot, did you?
I don’t know about you, but watching the last few seasons of Friends was a horror. Well, World Wide Interweb turned the beloved sitcom into a horror movie and now it is a real horror. They did such a good job with it, I would pay to see Ross, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Rachel and Joey murdered. Wouldn’t you?
