[the Lost World] Was A Learning Experience.

When We Started The Show [lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - Who Had Done The Original Miniseries And Still Owned The Property And Was Turning It Into This Series - She Brought In A Lot Of Old Friends - Diahann Carroll And Billy Dee Williams And Dennis Weaver. And We Had An Interesting Collection Off The Top Of These Old Seasoned Actors. Billy Dee Was Lovely And Iconic.

The Three Main Leads [in Townies] Were Lauren [ Graham] And Jenna [elfman] And Molly [ringwald], And Then Ron Livingston Was On It As Well. There Was A Lot Of People To Write Funny Stuff For.

That Was My Big Break [lonesome Dove]. My First Real Kind Of Adult Role On Something Really Well-written. It Was A Spin-off Of The Miniseries, And I Played Col. Mosby, A Very Dangerous, Southern Colonel In Post-civil War, Wandering The West.

I Think I Was Very Lucky That I Didn't Get Well-known Until My Early Thirties. If It Had Happened When I Was Younger, You Might Have Seen Me Falling Out Of Nightclubs. I Think I Conducted Myself As A Much Better Human Being Because I Was Already Married When All That Came Along (i Got Married Five Months After I Got The Role As Will).

I Had A Couple Of Decent Laughs On Townies, But For The Most Part, Delivering A Joke That You Just Know Is Not Funny Is Hard.