Yes, Dear

This episode is with Billy Gardell.

You know Billy Gardell from 26 episodes of Yes, Dear, all 13 episodes of Lucky, 12 episodes of My Name is Earl, the host and the executive producer of Monopoly Millionaire's Club, over 100 episodes of Funny You Should Ask, and the title character in both Mike and Molly, as well as Bob Hart's Abishola, and He happens to be the season-ending love interest, question mark, for season two of the Netflix sitcom Leigh-Anne, starring Leigh-Anne Morgan.

Billy has been a stand-up comedian since 1987.

And he's on tour right now.

What was given to you, you must give away.

And it feels like you paid the bill and you're even, and that feels comfortable.

26 episodes of Yes, Dear.

All 13 episodes of Lucky.

Sometimes I'm watching football on two screens instead of six.

If we were to reverse this movie list and try to figure out what the most, like that TV list that you talked about a few weeks ago, as much as you wanted Yes Dear or whatever it was to be super high up on the list.

I didn't mention that show, but I actually like that

show.

Oh man, I miss Ryan in Charleston.

He says, "Dave, there was a sitcom back in the early '90s, uh, or the early aughts called Yes, Dear.

Lasted only two to three seasons and has virtually disappeared off the planet.

It was great.

It was a true 2000s sitcom.

In the heyday of Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, oh, and Yes, Dear.

The show Mike O'Malley landed after the Mike O'Malley show didn't go, which stayed on the air for six years.

Still Standing would be Arnett's third CBS pilot, fourth pilot overall.

It...

I would rather rewatch episodes of Yes, Dear.

Oh my God.

I was actually, as we were going through the, um, like, the, the scale ratings, like, um, standby, economy, economy plus, business class, first class, I was like, "What did I rate, uh, Yes, Dear? What did I rate Yes, Dear? What did I rate?" I couldn't remember, so I just, like, I said economy plus.

But yeah, no, the, I was on the same page there.

Like, I very much think that this is the same pace, this is the same kind of cinematography, this is the same general direction of that show.

Definitely a bigger audience.

[laughs] Definitely.

Familiar

... one called Yes, Dear, and, uh, something called The Guest Book and Sprung and-

No kidding.

Yeah, yeah.

Right.

So then you pitch your original ideas.

The first one I did was Yes, Dear, which was, uh, about raising kids-

Yeah