I can't believe what a great career they ended up having ...

Ron Jeremy. He's lasted a couple decades more than Johnny Wadd and he looks like Stan Van Gundy.

 

SNL (cast) Sandler (seriously), and Al Franken. Sandler went from being "fired" from SNL to more than a billion in movie grosses.

 

Harrelson doesn't really surprise me all that much. However, going back in time to watching the third-season premiere of "Cheers," if you had told me that one of the actors/characters would be spun off into another series and that series would have lasted 10 years past the end of "Cheers," I would have said, "OK, that's plausible." Then if you had told me it would be the psychiatrist who suddenly shows up to help Sam with his drinking problem, I would have said you were absolutely nuts.

 

Didn't he originally show up as Diane's boyfriend, or was this first?

 

Just based on all the circumstances surrounding it, "Frazier" should've been a disaster of a show. That it was great was quite an accomplishment.

 

What do you mean by circumstances? Grammer addictions, his character being somewhat cold?

 

Adam Sandler sucks. Period.

Seriously, can't stand that guy and his brand of "humor."

 

No. Not at all.

It's a spinoff of a wildly successful show. So expectations are really high. The characters are two snooty rich guys from Seattle. It just seemed to me an unlikely show to be as good as it was. The margin for error was really low and they walked that tightrope perfectly.

 

To combine two elements of this thread, there was a great SNL sketch during the Paris and Nicky Hilton heyday about the Ramada sisters, the Jersey/Long Island version. One of the great parties they were going to was the grand opening of Wayne Chrebet's car dealership.

 

Three other presidents who belong in this category: Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Truman had a high-school education and owned a men's clothing store that went bankrupt a few years before he turned 40. Carter was a farmer who didn't enter politics until his late 30s. Reagan was a washed-up actor and shill for General Electric in the early '60s.

 

Hell, that Lincoln dude lost damn near every election in which he ran before he became president. That worked out OK.

 

Hiram Simpson Grant.

Jimmy Buffett