But that's not funny, Frasier.
For his latest return to television, multiple-Emmy winning sitcom star Kelsey Grammer has chosen a new route: drama. He'll star as a ruthless Chicago mayor in the October Starz series Boss, his first starring role in a dramatic TV series.
It's a very different role, and Grammer says he loved playing it. "It was a presumptive joy to go to work every day. He was an exciting character to play … It's almost supernatural for me. I approach the text every day before I go to work as if I've never done this before …It's been probably the greatest time for me, creatively."
In a way, Boss represents a return, Grammer says, to his acting roots. He started in theater playing more serious, tragic roles before switching to comedy -- wildly successfully with Cheers and Frasier, and then unsuccessfully with ABC's fast flop Hank. Which encouraged him to switch back.
"With Hank nobody really liked that and it wasn't really funny, so we thought we'd do something different …. But it has always been in my mind to play a more serious role."
Hank, of course, was in some ways the least of Grammer's problems. In the last few years, he has suffered a heart atack and gone through a very ugly, very public divorce. It was enough, he says, to make him change his life.
"You're all aware of what's gone on in my personal life. Maybe not the details, because I don't talk about them ... I just decided that I didn't want to have that story be my last story, and I decided the time had come to make a change in my personal life and my professional life."
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