For 11 years, fans watched George Wendt saunter onto the screen and into Cheers bar as his friends and its patrons shouted out “Norm!” to which he always responded with a sarcastic one-liner that had ...

With the passing of George Wendt, America lost more than a sitcom star. We lost our everyman, our barstool bard, the guy who could walk into a room and get a standing ovation just for showing up. Any ...

Who was Norm Peterson? You’re aging yourself if you know the answer to the question. More realistically, you aged yourself by clicking on an opinion piece with “Norm Peterson” in the title. About what ...

One word can have such an impact. “Cheers” star George Wendt, who died May 20 at the age of 76, left behind a legacy in the annals of TV comedy that is hard to equal, thanks to one word: Norm. Norm ...

Wendt got his start in Chicago's The Second City improv comedy troupe. He went on to earn six Primetime Emmy nominations for his role as a lovable... George Wendt, who played Norm on 'Cheers,' has ...

When I was in high school, I would try to complete all of my homework before 9:00 p.m. so that I could sit down with my Dad to watch Cheers on Thursday nights. Many of the characters on the show ...

After actor George Wendt died in May, his “Cheers” role as affable beer drinker Norm Peterson was in the news. And belatedly, a connection between the TV sitcom and the Inland Empire surfaced. Isn’t ...

A joke is a very simple thing. It has only two moving parts: the setup and the punchline. And if you write jokes for a living, as I have done for 35 years, you learn that the basic rule of comedy is ...

Kelsey Grammer is reflecting on his longtime pal George Wendt. The actor, 70, starred alongside the actor, who died at age 76 on Tuesday, on the NBC sitcom “Cheers” for eight seasons from 1984 to 1993 ...

"Cheers" actor George Wendt's cause of death has been revealed. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health listed Wendt's immediate cause of death as cardiac arrest with congestive heart ...