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Speaker 1: Our day's going to get even better now because we

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Speaker 1: got this man on the show. You can catch the

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Speaker 1: final season of Will and Grace on Stand new episodes

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Speaker 1: every Friday night. And the man who plays Will, Eric McCormack,

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Speaker 1: How are you, buddy?

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm great. How are you going?

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Speaker 3: We're good, mate, We're really well. This is exciting. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we're big Will and Grace fans here, and you know

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Speaker 3: that the following in Australia is massive. The times that

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Speaker 3: you've toured right now, it's incredible, the times that you've

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Speaker 2: Okay, I know you're baby me because I haven't there.

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Speaker 3: We got him, got him.

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Speaker 2: We have so sucked because we did know.

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Speaker 4: I mean when we first started in the middle twenty

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Speaker 4: years ago, we didn't think outside the box. Literally, we

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Speaker 4: just thought about ratings here and I think maybe Brazil,

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Speaker 4: but other than that, it was like Australia was the

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Speaker 4: first place that really embraced the show, long.

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Speaker 2: Before the UK. So we love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you come out and do because you guys

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Speaker 1: are like the last show to still record in front

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Speaker 1: of a live audience.

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you come down and doing it here?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's I mean at the time, even just get

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Speaker 4: a big deal. We only did that twice in eight years,

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Speaker 4: and so we did.

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Speaker 2: When we saw like.

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Speaker 4: The Friends cast go to London, we start pitching ideas,

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Speaker 4: but it never got off to never got off the table.

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Speaker 4: So but we would love to and I still want

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Speaker 4: to get there. I'm so sorry I haven't. It's uh,

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Speaker 4: it's it's on my bucket list.

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Speaker 1: You'll get there. Can I ask? Because I mean in

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Speaker 1: Does it do you just get too much for you

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Speaker 1: sometimes when you're rocking up to the same set every night?

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Speaker 1: Or do you still love it as much as when

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Speaker 4: What's actually great about it is that we only shoot

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Speaker 4: the show for four hours a week. We do it

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Speaker 4: once like for a couple of texts. So that's something

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Speaker 4: I look forward to every week, whereas you know, I'm

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Speaker 4: from the theater that that's tiring. It shows a week

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Speaker 4: that we're not saying the same thing every week, but

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Speaker 4: rather that character is living a new life whatever. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I get a surprise by the scripts as Will does.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going to happen in his life.

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Speaker 4: So for me, plus the audience being excited because there

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Speaker 4: tickets soever, it's a I love it. It's it's it's

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Speaker 3: And Eric do you find I mean, how long had

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Speaker 3: the conversation been going on for about bringing back Will

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Speaker 3: and Grice? I mean ever since it finished? There was

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Speaker 3: When did the when did the conversations become serious?

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Speaker 4: The honest truth, there was never conversations because nobody rebooted

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Speaker 4: I mean, it just it seemed like a crazy I thought,

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Speaker 4: Video for for Hillary Clinton that was just supposed to

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Speaker 4: And it was only when everybody saw that and saw

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Speaker 1: Wow, are you happy with the ending? Eric? Are you

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Speaker 1: really happy with the why that this one finishes? Well?

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Speaker 2: I've only been given hints, but I do know we shot.

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Speaker 4: A secret scene already, as I'm going to say, well, OK,

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Speaker 1: I just before you go as well, Eric, this is interesting,

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Speaker 1: yeas Alec Boldwin, You've had Chelsea Handler, David Swimmers may

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Speaker 1: very close to getting the role of Ross on Friends.

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Speaker 1: Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Well, here's here's the stories. So I did like three auditions.

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Speaker 4: were wasting your time.

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Speaker 3: I found you found your time.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you are a superstar on this show.

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Speaker 1: Will and Gryce on stand new episodes every Friday. This

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Speaker 1: is an id episode, final season. Cannot white to say

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Speaker 1: how it finishes. Well, don mate, and thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for having a chat. Eric.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, and I'll do it live with it when

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Speaker 2: I finally get there.

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Speaker 4: I promise.

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