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'Frasier' returns to TV but you don't need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokes
After two decades, the character Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” for Paramount+
You could say Joe Cristalli tweeted his role as an executive producer and co-showrunner on the new “ Frasier ” sitcom into existence.
About 10 years ago as a fledgling TV writer and “Frasier” super fan, Cristalli started a Twitter account with “random jokes" about the show and character made famous by Kelsey Grammer in the sitcoms “Cheers” and “Frasier.”
“It was stupid and nobody cared about it. I think I had maybe 3,000 followers at its height," he recalled in a recent interview.
At this point, “Frasier” had been off the air for 10 years, but Cristalli used it as "an outlet to practice writing because I was such a super fan and I just loved the style of joke-telling, so I would work on it.”