Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

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Famous friends, softer truths.

The gist

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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About Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

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.

In their own words

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...

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Candid actor talk, creative craft, and self-deprecating humor meet in conversations willing to follow a joke into more vulnerable territory.

Ted Danson turns actor interviews into candid conversations about how creative lives are actually lived. With Zach Braff and Richard Kind, shop talk about directing, performance, nerves, and career longevity moves easily into teasing and self-deprecation.

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Why you'd press play

Richard Kind and Ted Danson compare psoriasis, then give your work nerves somewhere to sit.

Press play if you want

  • to hear Zach Braff explain how an actor's offhand dance can find its way into a scene
  • Jason Ritter's account of sobriety without a tidy overnight turnaround
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acting craftold show-business friendshipssobriety and recoverymental healthforgivenessfamily storiescreative insecurityservice and reintegration

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Best episodes of Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Senator Cory BookerApr 15, 2026

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.

Jason RitterApr 8, 2026

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.

Zach BraffMar 11, 2026

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.

Drew Carey & Marc VahanianMar 4, 2026

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?

Richard KindFeb 25, 2026

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.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Kyle MacLachlan

    Sep 30, 2026·1h 13m
  2. 2

    Joel McHale

    Sep 23, 2026·1h 19m
  3. 3

    Ike Barinholtz

    Sep 16, 2026·1h 13m
  4. 4

    Introducing: We Got Company with Sebastian Maniscalco

    Sep 11, 2026·6m
  5. 5

    Holland Taylor

    Sep 9, 2026·58m
  6. 6

    Sona Movsesian

    Sep 2, 2026·1h 14m
  7. 7

    Will Forte returns!

    Aug 26, 2026·1h 11m
  8. 8

    D’Arcy Carden is back!

    Aug 19, 2026·1h 12m
  9. 9

    Rob Delaney

    Aug 12, 2026·57m
  10. 10

    Katey Sagal

    Aug 5, 2026·1h 7m
  11. 11

    Tom Selleck (Live in Santa Barbara)

    Jul 29, 2026·1h 19m
  12. 12

    Jake Johnson

    Jul 22, 2026·1h 24m
  13. 13

    Maria Sharapova

    Jul 15, 2026·1h 3m
  14. 14

    Candice Bergen

    Jul 8, 2026·1h 1m
  15. 15

    Alfre Woodard

    Jul 1, 2026·46m
  16. 16

    Edward Norton

    Jun 24, 2026·1h 5m
  17. 17

    Henry Winkler

    Jun 17, 2026·1h 13m
  18. 18

    Timothy Simons

    Jun 10, 2026·1h 8m
  19. 19

    John C. Reilly

    Jun 3, 2026·1h 2m
  20. 20

    Lisa Ann Walter

    May 27, 2026·1h 22m
  21. 21

    Andrew McCarthy

    May 20, 2026·1h 6m
  22. 22

    Harrison Ford

    May 13, 2026·1h 7m
  23. 23

    Valerie Bertinelli

    May 6, 2026·56m
  24. 24

    Adam Scott

    Apr 29, 2026·1h 24m
  25. 25

    Leslie Jones

    Apr 22, 2026·55m
  26. 26

    Senator Cory Booker

    Hidden gem

    A man talks about the cost of serving Newark and trying to stay whole.

    Apr 15, 2026·1h 17m·5 clips
  27. 27

    Jason Ritter

    Ted Danson welcomes Jason Ritter as a longtime friend of the family, and the conversation starts with shared history and easy teasing.

    Apr 8, 2026·57m·3 clips
  28. 28

    Christa Miller

    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.

    Apr 1, 2026·53m
  29. 29

    Don Cheadle

    This episode features an interview with acclaimed actor Don Cheadle, discussing his career highlights and his upcoming Broadway debut in the play Proof.

    Mar 25, 2026·1h 3m
  30. 30

    Rosanna Arquette

    This episode features an interview with actress Rosanna Arquette discussing her personal life, family, and new movie.

    Mar 18, 2026·1h 17m
  31. 31

    Zach Braff

    Hidden gem

    Ted Danson welcomes Zach Brath and frames him as a creative force as a director, writer, and actor.

    Mar 11, 2026·1h 9m·2 clips
  32. 32

    Drew Carey & Marc Vahanian

    Hidden gem

    Ted Danson welcomes Drew Carey with clear admiration.

    Mar 4, 2026·1h 5m·2 clips
  33. 33

    Richard Kind

    Hidden gem

    Ted starts by saying he was early for once and makes clear he has a lot of respect for Richard Kind.

    Feb 25, 2026·49m·3 clips
  34. 34

    Fran Drescher

    Feb 18, 2026·1h 16m
  35. 35

    Judy Greer

    Feb 11, 2026·1h 9m
  36. 36

    Denis Leary

    Feb 4, 2026·1h 22m
  37. 37

    James Van Praagh

    Jan 28, 2026·1h 7m
  38. 38

    Roy Wood Jr.

    Jan 21, 2026·1h 6m
  39. 39

    Andy Garcia

    Jan 14, 2026·1h 14m
  40. 40

    Matthew McConaughey

    Jan 7, 2026·1h 25m
  41. 41

    Jason Mantzoukas

    Dec 31, 2025·1h 26m
  42. 42

    Talking "A Man on the Inside” w/ Mike Schur, Mary Steenburgen, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and Lilah Richcreek Estrada

    Dec 24, 2025·54m
  43. 43

    Tig Notaro

    Dec 17, 2025·1h 20m
  44. 44

    James L. Brooks

    Dec 10, 2025·59m
  45. 45

    Mark Duplass

    Dec 3, 2025·1h 11m
  46. 46

    Carol Burnett

    Nov 26, 2025·52m
  47. 47

    Alex Edelman

    Nov 19, 2025·1h 22m
  48. 48

    Jesse Eisenberg (Live in Austin, TX)

    Nov 12, 2025·57m
  49. 49

    Ken Burns

    Nov 5, 2025·1h 9m
  50. 50

    Kevin Nealon

    Oct 29, 2025·1h 15m
  51. 51

    Jimmy Kimmel

    Oct 22, 2025·1h 9m
  52. 52

    Mark Ruffalo

    Oct 15, 2025·1h 14m
  53. 53

    Kathryn Hahn

    Oct 8, 2025·54m
  54. 54

    Chelsea Handler

    This episode features an interview with comedian and author Chelsea Handler, discussing her career and work.

    Oct 1, 2025·58m
  55. 55

    Howie Mandel

    Sep 24, 2025·1h 15m
  56. 56

    Patton Oswalt

    Sep 17, 2025·48m
  57. 57

    Rob Reiner

    Sep 10, 2025·1h 19m
  58. 58

    Kate Mara

    Sep 3, 2025·1h 5m
  59. 59

    Tony Hale

    Aug 27, 2025·1h 1m
  60. 60

    Charlie Day

    Aug 20, 2025·1h 10m
  61. 61

    Judd Apatow

    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'.

    Aug 13, 2025·1h 6m
  62. 62

    Seth MacFarlane

    Aug 6, 2025·1h 11m
  63. 63

    Greg Kinnear

    Jul 30, 2025·57m
  64. 64

    Introducing: The Sarah Silverman Podcast

    Jul 28, 2025·47m
  65. 65

    Octavia Spencer

    Jul 23, 2025·1h 10m
  66. 66

    Kristen Johnston

    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.

    Jul 16, 2025·45m
  67. 67

    Ed Helms

    Jul 9, 2025·1h 10m
  68. 68

    Helen Hunt

    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.

    Jul 2, 2025·59m
  69. 69

    Fred Armisen

    Jun 25, 2025·1h 1m
  70. 70

    Andy Richter

    Jun 18, 2025·1h 6m
  71. 71

    Brett Goldstein

    Jun 11, 2025·57m
  72. 72

    Stephen Merchant

    Jun 4, 2025·1h 6m
  73. 73

    Sarah Silverman

    May 28, 2025·52m
  74. 74

    John Mulaney

    This episode features an interview with comedian John Mulaney discussing his new Netflix live show, his sobriety journey, and his career.

    May 21, 2025·1h 7m
  75. 75

    Tom Selleck (Re-Release)

    May 14, 2025·1h 20m
  76. 76

    Laura Dern (Re-Release)

    May 7, 2025·49m
  77. 77

    Jane Fonda (Re-Release)

    Apr 30, 2025·1h 2m
  78. 78

    John Ratzenberger (Re-Release)

    Apr 23, 2025·59m
  79. 79

    Kelsey Grammer (Re-Release)

    Apr 16, 2025·1h 9m
  80. 80

    George Wendt (Re-Release)

    Apr 9, 2025·59m
  81. 81

    James Burrows

    Apr 2, 2025·59m
  82. 82

    Marc Maron

    Mar 26, 2025·58m
  83. 83

    Ed Begley Jr.

    Mar 19, 2025·1h 15m
  84. 84

    W. Kamau Bell

    Mar 12, 2025·55m
  85. 85

    Will Forte

    Mar 5, 2025·1h 6m
  86. 86

    Glen and Les Charles

    Feb 26, 2025·58m
  87. 87

    Billy Eichner

    Feb 19, 2025·1h 19m
  88. 88

    David Blaine

    Feb 12, 2025·1h
  89. 89

    Phil Rosenthal

    Feb 5, 2025·1h 7m
  90. 90

    Susie Essman

    Jan 29, 2025·59m
  91. 91

    Dick Van Dyke & Arlene Silver

    Jan 22, 2025·1h 8m
  92. 92

    Vanessa Bayer

    Jan 15, 2025·1h 13m
  93. 93

    John Ratzenberger

    Jan 8, 2025·59m
  94. 94

    Randall Park

    Jan 1, 2025·1h 18m
  95. 95

    Jack and Michael Whitehall

    Dec 25, 2024·1h 7m
  96. 96

    BONUS: René Redzepi

    Dec 20, 2024·1h 4m
  97. 97

    Paul Reiser

    Dec 18, 2024·1h 10m
  98. 98

    JB Smoove

    Dec 11, 2024·1h 29m
  99. 99

    Mike Schur

    Dec 4, 2024·1h 18m
  100. 100

    José Andrés

    Nov 27, 2024·1h 1m
  101. 101

    Mary Steenburgen, Pt. 2

    Nov 22, 2024·1h 14m
  102. 102

    Mary Steenburgen, Pt. 1

    Nov 20, 2024·1h 1m
  103. 103

    Bill Hader

    Nov 13, 2024·1h 34m
  104. 104

    Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

    Nov 6, 2024·1h
  105. 105

    Quinta Brunson

    Oct 30, 2024·1h 15m
  106. 106

    Kelsey Grammer

    Oct 23, 2024·1h 9m
  107. 107

    Uzo Aduba

    Oct 16, 2024·1h 21m
  108. 108

    Simu Liu

    Oct 9, 2024·51m
  109. 109

    D’Arcy Carden

    Oct 2, 2024·1h 14m
  110. 110

    Jeff Bridges

    Sep 25, 2024·1h 9m
  111. 111

    Dax Shepard

    Sep 18, 2024·52m
  112. 112

    Josh Brolin

    Sep 11, 2024·51m
  113. 113

    BONUS: Rick Rubin

    Sep 6, 2024·1h 19m
  114. 114

    Tom Selleck

    Sep 4, 2024·1h 22m
  115. 115

    Rob Lowe

    Aug 28, 2024·55m
  116. 116

    Jeff Goldblum

    Aug 21, 2024·54m
  117. 117

    George Wendt

    Aug 14, 2024·1h 1m
  118. 118

    Flea

    Aug 7, 2024·48m
  119. 119

    Lisa Kudrow

    Jul 31, 2024·1h 10m
  120. 120

    Laura Dern

    Jul 24, 2024·52m
  121. 121

    Eric Andre

    Jul 17, 2024·1h 7m
  122. 122

    Introducing WikiHole — hosted by D’Arcy Carden!

    Jul 15, 2024·4m
  123. 123

    Martin Short

    Jul 10, 2024·1h 7m
  124. 124

    Jane Fonda

    Jul 3, 2024·1h 4m
  125. 125

    Conan O'Brien

    Jun 26, 2024·58m
  126. 126

    Kristen Bell

    Jun 19, 2024·1h 6m
  127. 127

    Will Arnett

    Jun 12, 2024·56m
  128. 128

    Ted Danson leaks a bit of the first episode

    May 29, 2024·3m
  129. 129

    Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Are Back Together!

    May 7, 2024·2m