Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers by Mike Sacks

Author:Mike Sacks [Sacks, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

Is it true that Bill Cosby was once up for the role of Sam Malone?

In the beginning, the network called us about Bill Cosby playing the lead character. We were Cosby fans but we took a vow, a blood oath, before we started the show, that we would never have a “name” in the title of the show, whether it be an actor or a character. Bill Cosby was a star. We wanted to avoid Bill Cosby in Cheers. Because if you ever lose that star, the show is over. So that was the main reason we didn’t use Cosby and I’m happy that we didn’t. I’m sure he’s happy, too. Two or three years later he came along with one of the most successful sitcoms in history.

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