Summary
Court is almost back in session as the newboot ofNBCsitcomNight Courtreturns for its third season.
They are also joined byNyambi NyambiandLacretta.
Plus, Larroquette previews whatWendie Malickwill bring now thatshe is joining the series as a regular.
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In Season 3, Julianne is hired by Abby to become the new night court prosecutor.
How are you feeling as we are getting closer to the premiere?
JOHN LARROQUETTE: I’m feeling fine.
I think that we’ve done some good shows this season.
That’s good comedy fodder.
We’re now settled as it were.
Now we just have to continue to write funny shows that people want to come and watch.
What makes her a great scene partner for you to bounce back and forth with?
The fact that she’s attractive and funny and yet dangerous.
I think that Fielding has sort of moved into that okay.
At first, he was very reluctant “What are you nuts, to have her around here?”
I think that as the shows go on, we’ll learn more about their characters.
With your character’s history with her, there definitely have been some sparks in the past.
LARROQUETTE: Yes, there has.I think that those sparks should remainand maybe investigated once in a while.
If you would consummate something like that or go further, then what?
So you’ve got to keep everybody at a bit of a distance but always hinting at a possibility.
I think actually cementing that is, it’s the death of comedy.
I know that you’re a producer of the show.
It’s notMurphy Brownby any stretch of the imagination.
We don’t really care about what’s happening in the real world.
Thatwe are presenting the audience with 22 minutes of jokes, basically, is what I wanna do.
So I never wanna get mundane or morose.
That’s the only criteria I have for these episodes.
Why do you think people like him as a character?
I can’t help it."
That he had a good heart, even though he was obnoxious and egotistical and misanthropic a lot.
I’m 35 years older than I was then.
But that sort of misanthropic thread that he’s still not crazy about humanity.
So he can sometimes talk to the audience in the world about, you know, we’re crazy.
We’re all crazy and people really are sometimes idiots, stupid people, aren’t they?
He can say that, and the audience can go, “Yeah, you know?”
I’ll give a shot to be better next time."
His surrogate father emotions are very strong with her and that helps him be in this world again.
What can you share about how we see their relationship grow?
Is it challenged at all throughout the season?
LARROQUETTE: Yeah, I think challenged, temporarily.
He thinks, “You’re so naive.
You don’t understand how the real world works.
There will betimes when they are partners; there will be times when they are accomplices.
He doesn’t like that at all when somebody tries to do that.
I’ve got time for one more question for you.
This is kind of a broader question.
What excites you about where sitcoms stand in the current landscape of television?
LARROQUETTE: Well, it depends on what kind of television we’re talking about.
The idea of doing that kind of comedy is very exciting.
I had a friend who was on that recently, that kind of stuff.
I think that the best ones still do that.
So, I think there’s a lot of that out there both on internet and streaming.
Thank you so much John for chatting with me.
Night Courtreturns to NBC on November 19.
Watch on Peacock
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