said, weght me in and are thinking of having a brother and all we know is that frasier freudian and niles will be hjungian. they called me and said, it must've gone well because they offered you the part. it was like a rehash of what i went to new york and my first audition i was on broadway. it close, but -- tavis: this did better than two weeks. [laughter] halfway through the first season i said, does this mean i will never have to work again? he said no, this means i will never have to work again. i learned the difference between producing and acting. tavis: [laughter] this question will sound silly given all that you have done since then. but when the show was in its heyday, were you ever concerned that this might typecast me for the rest of my life? or that this is great work, i loved it. >> i did not think about it with the problem -- as a problem with the show or the role. but in between seasons, i would only do stuff that was not like niles. mainly because nobody was writing better than the writers on "frasier." and i wanted to get away to it -- from it. i decided to get out of to