I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. |
I've earned it. The character's earned it. The show's earned it. |
I've gone to NBC every year and said, 'If you're going to move us, could you tell people?' But I think NBC took a laissez-faire attitude. |
If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood. |
It just didn't happen. The next thing you know, the gay of the show is allowed to have its own life. It was not something we had to hide or play up too much. |
It's just as well. You know how hard it is to get a sitter? |
Mostly, I think, it's actually really joyful, ... It was a decision that we made, and we made it together. And so we're going into this thing knowing that we're not going to overstay our welcome and we're going to take it out in a big way. |
NBC just pumped them out, |
Some television critics don't like us anymore, |
Some television critics don't like us anymore, ... Well, maybe you don't, but our peers do! |
Television fame makes people say, ' That's who that guy is. That's the way he is,' ... Now I have to say, 'Look, I'm lots of other guys, too.' |
That's what TV does today. |
The four of us wanted to make sure that the show went out properly, with a bang and not a whimper. If you stay around one year too long, that's obviously what happens. We just wanted to protect these characters and protect the legacy. |
The freshness must be strictly internal, how we do little things. The big picture is not going to change that much. |
The number of people in the Midwest that now watch a show with two gay characters, I think, is remarkable. |