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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: David Hyde Pierce

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Cbs

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

"Frasier" star David Hyde Pierce, now appearing on Broadway in "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about playing physical comedy; tweaking Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" for today's audience; his early television roles that led to the part of Dr. Niles Crane on "Frasier"; and his relationship with his husband, Brian. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amazon offers employees up to £8,000 for education and training, like Juliet.

0:07.0

She's now a trained technician.

0:10.0

And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come.

0:18.0

In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills.

0:23.6

That's up to £8,000 for education and training at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply.

0:29.6

This is Jane Pauley.

0:41.0

He played psychiatrist Niles Crane on the hit sitcom Frazier for 11 years.

0:46.7

Now David Hyde Pierce is on Broadway in a reimagining of a Gilbert and Sullivan classic

0:54.1

and sharing his thoughts with

0:55.6

Sunday mornings Martha Teichner.

0:59.1

I recognized early on that doing less was funny and also was less common.

1:08.8

But what I've had to then, especially now doing musical theater,

1:13.0

I've been given the opportunity to realize,

1:16.5

oh, there's more.

1:17.8

You don't have to do less.

1:22.5

I'm thinking of Frazier now

1:23.8

of the famous, famous ironing board fire scene.

1:28.3

Was that something you did spontaneously?

1:32.3

Or did you have a comedy model or comedian in the back of your head creating that?

1:39.3

That's very physical comedy, but again, with almost no expression.

1:45.2

Every moment of that virtually was written by the writers in the room who were saying,

1:51.9

all right, what's this? I remember David Lee, one of the creators of the show, was thinking

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