Burrows also spoke about his distaste for reboots despite directing two episode of the new Frasier 'continuation'
Even though James Burrows—the legendary director and creator behind Cheers, Friends, Will & Grace, and many others—has made a career out of making people laugh, he doesn’t think there’s anything funny about the current state of the multi-camera sitcom. When The New York Times asked Burrows how he’d seen sitcoms evolve over the course of his career, the director answered: “The one evolution I’ve seen is that a lot of them aren’t funny anymore.
“I do love a joke a page. Sometimes two jokes. That doesn’t happen often now.” His opinion of the recent sitcom revival boom isn’t much sunnier, despite his involvement with nü Frasier . “I don’t even call it a revival. I call it a continuation, because it’s not really a reboot. It’s a character moving on, and he’s surrounded by a whole new set of characters, so it’s not really a reboot,” he said, with a definitive follow-up of, “I don’t like them.
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