Quote Originally Posted by jimmyscoular View Post
Chatted for about 20 minutes with John Ratzenberger before he gave a presentation on the importance of encouraging kids to enter the trades. He told me that long before he won fame on 'Cheers,' he performed in the working men's clubs in the South Wales valleys as a standup comic. Happy memories of good people, he said.
I used to love Cheers and Cliff Clavin was one of my favourite characters. Apparently John R approached the producers and asked them if they had a know-all character in the script. They thought it was a great idea and the rest us history.