Team Coco & Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson
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Famous friends, softer truths.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name is a loose, affectionate interview show built around famous guests and unusually personal detours. Conversations move from acting, comedy, and old sets into shame, recovery, service, aging, and the strange work of becoming more honest.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name is a celebrity conversation show that keeps drifting, productively, away from celebrity. The guest list is full of actors, comedians, public figures, and longtime friends, but the show is most alive when a career story opens onto something less rehearsed. It likes memory. It likes kitchens, old sets, prom-night stories, spouses, medical oddities, and the names people keep bringing up because they still matter. The rhythm is casual and sometimes unruly. A joke about a belly button can sit beside a serious question about loneliness. A riff on acting can become a conversation about shame. Jason Ritter’s episode turns sobriety into a story about staying present when confrontation feels unbearable. Senator Cory Booker’s visit moves through mental health, men’s groups, Newark, loss, basketball, and service. Drew Carey and Marc Vahanian talk about incarceration, reintegration, survivors, and the hard work of forgiving oneself. Richard Kind’s conversation uses psoriasis, vitiligo, nerves, stage work, and creative doubt to get at why confidence never fully settles. Christa Miller brings television, music supervision, and changing ideas about acting into view. Don Cheadle’s episode has the pleasure of pure actor-to-actor admiration, with room for Broadway, film work, and goofy language play. Rosanna Arquette’s appearance folds family, service, location, and friendship into the usual loose sprawl. The show suits listeners who enjoy famous people being funny, but prefer when the funny part is only the doorway. Its intimacy comes from the way it lets admiration become curiosity. It is not especially tidy. That is part of the appeal.
Made for: Best for listeners who like celebrity interviews that linger on craft, friendship, recovery, family, and emotional history. It especially suits fans of actorly banter that can turn serious without becoming stiff.
What sets it apart: The show uses entertainment-world familiarity as a shortcut to trust, then spends that trust on unusually candid conversations about fear, forgiveness, sobriety, service, and creative insecurity. Its looseness feels less like format and more like friendship overheard.
Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are total opposites with an unbreakable bond since meeting on the hit sitcom “Cheers.” But after that show wrapped, life took them in different directions. This podcast is a chance to reconnect, both with each other and the amazing friends they’ve each met over the decades—that is, when Ted can get a hold of Woody! Join them as they dig beyond the career highlights and into the stuff of life that makes us who we are. Like the title says, this is a place to be known. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new e...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · July 2026
Familiar comic actors get pulled off the press tour into candid talk, rooted in real friendship, about the harder personal material behind their careers.
"Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)" is an interview show, but it trades on personal closeness rather than press-tour novelty. The host usually knows his guests going in.
You want famous people to get past charming and accidentally become useful.
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A rough-edged conversation about service, strain, and the pressure of trying to do right by a community.
The conversation stays close to the speaker's own experience, moving through mental health strain, a men's group grounded in virtue and faith, and the frustration of trying to serve Newark while feeling like he has let people down.
A warm catch-up that turns into a frank look at confrontation and sobriety.
This episode plays more like a relaxed catch-up than a formal interview, with Ted Danson leaning into old connections and the easy family warmth around Jason Ritter.
Braff keeps the focus on small on-set discoveries and how they quietly reshape the work.
Zach Braff comes through here as someone thinking out loud about craft, with Ted Danson keeping the talk grounded in what actually changes a performance.
A loose, humane conversation about forgiveness and the hard work of re-entry.
Mark Vahanian and Drew Carey keep coming back to forgiveness, and the conversation works best when it stays close to the practical question underneath it: what does it take to let someone return after harm, and why is it often harder to extend that grace to yourself?
A funny, bruised conversation about late bloom, nerves, and keeping the work alive.
Ted Danson sounds like a real admirer, and the talk settles into an easy groove around success, nerves, and the kind of self-doubt that never really leaves.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Shankar Vedantam unpacks the psychology behind relationships, careers, and money through researcher interviews.
David McRaney interviews researchers on cognitive bias, motivated reasoning, and why minds change.
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Russ Roberts interviews authors and economists on ideas from classical liberalism to AI.
A man talks about the cost of serving Newark and trying to stay whole.
Ted Danson welcomes Jason Ritter as a longtime friend of the family, and the conversation starts with shared history and easy teasing.
This episode features an interview with actress Christa Miller, discussing her career from shows like Drew Carey Show and Scrubs to her current role in Shrinkage on Apple TV, along with her work as a music supervisor.
This episode features an interview with acclaimed actor Don Cheadle, discussing his career highlights and his upcoming Broadway debut in the play Proof.
This episode features an interview with actress Rosanna Arquette discussing her personal life, family, and new movie.
Ted Danson welcomes Zach Brath and frames him as a creative force as a director, writer, and actor.
Ted Danson welcomes Drew Carey with clear admiration.
Ted starts by saying he was early for once and makes clear he has a lot of respect for Richard Kind.
This episode features an interview with comedian and author Chelsea Handler, discussing her career and work.
This episode features an interview with Judd Apatow discussing his career, the 20th anniversary of '40 Year Old Virgin', and his new book 'Comedy Nerd'.
This episode features an interview with Emmy-winning actor Kristen Johnston, discussing her career, memorable roles like in Bored to Death, and her upcoming Netflix sitcom Leanne.
This episode features an interview with acclaimed actor Helen Hunt, discussing her career and a personal anecdote about her dancing at a Paul Simon and Sting concert.
This episode features an interview with comedian John Mulaney discussing his new Netflix live show, his sobriety journey, and his career.