Ted Danson apologizes to Kelsey Grammer for arguing during 'Cheers'

Ted Danson is apologizing to Kelsey Grammer because of an argument they had on the set of Health.

Danson, 76, issued his mea culpa during the Wednesday, Oct. 23 episode of his SiriusXM podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” which featured Grammer, 69.

“I feel like I got a little stuck with you during the Health years,” Danson told Grammer. “I have a memory of getting angry with you once.”

“Yeah, you came and told me that one day,” Grammer responded.

“And it's etched in both of our memories,” Danson said. “But I feel like, damn, I don't know. “I missed the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer and I feel like it's my fault, and I almost feel like apologizing to you.”

Danson added: “I really apologize.”

Grammer then recalled an occasion when Danson “said something wonderful to him” that he has since quoted to others.

“When I turned 40, you came and said, 'You know what it means, right?' Now that you're 40, it means you're finally worth having a conversation,'” the actor quoted Danson as telling him on the set of the beloved comedy.

“That was fucking brilliant,” he told Danson. “I always loved that. …And I have repeated it. And my love for you has always been as easy as day. You know, as easy as dawn.”

Health It aired on NBC from 1983 to 1993, with Danson playing bartender Sam Malone and Grammer stealing scenes as Frasier Crane, a psychiatrist and regular at Malone's bar in Boston. Danson won two Emmy Awards for her role and went on to star in television shows. Damages and The good place.

When Health ended, Grammer reprized his character on NBC's frasierwinning four Emmy Awards during the show's 11-year run. Last year it revived frasier on Paramount's streaming service. The second season premiered in September.

“You can go in different directions, you can have different lives,” Grammer reflected, “but that bond, that love of doing something really fun and really good, laughing at each other and living life and still showing up, you know. , as [Cheers] director Jimmy [Burrows] He said, 'I don't care what you crazy people do during the week.' Just show up on shoot night and be fun.'”

Danson called Burrows, 83, “like my dad in show business. Actually, probably all of ours to some extent.”

In August, Grammer mentioned his former alter ego while sharing 25 personal facts about yourself with Us weekly.

“One thing I've learned about myself from playing Dr. Frasier Crane is that I'm not as weird as him,” he said. Uslisting a fact.

Another: “My favorite scene in Health It was when Frasier was arrested for being too rowdy at a hockey game, and I walked in and said, 'Damn a college for saying that, but I was having fun.'”