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Sewers of Paris: Your Secret Would be Out (Ep 530 - Planet of the Apes/Bill)
🕑 Added 2025-07-31 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
You are almost certainly acquainted with my guest on this week’s episode of The Sewers of Paris podcast — through the episodes he wrote of Will & Grace, Cybil, Frasier, and the show he helped create, The Chris Isaak Show. Bill was a theater guy who get his foot in the door of TV thanks to a few lucky breaks and some colleagues who recognized how funny he was, and he went on to play an important role in shaping TV comedy in the 90s. And now, after a break to raise two kids, he’s picking up where he left off.
Comments
Jim
Thanks! That was interesting! He certainly has written many scripts that have touched our lives. It was fun to hear that William had written The Chris Isaak Show, since I liked that little off beat gem. Of course I started watching it because I always thought Chris Isaak was so adorkably cute and the show indeed was an extension of that!
Matt Baume
Haha at around fifty minutes in you can year my voice shift briefly into "thanks so much for coming/where can folks find you" mode, but then the stories kept coming and I couldn't bring myself to end the conversation!
JiSo
Always staying for the croissant 😄 This was a long one indeed, but was really fascinating to hear.
