Woody Boyd in "Frasier"; he states at the beginning of the season 6 episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up" that he is still tending bar at Cheers. Woody Boyd Woodrow Huckleberry Tiberius "Woody" Boyd is a character on the American television show "Cheers", portrayed by Woody Harrelson. Woody came to Cheers at the beginning of the fourth season of "Cheers" in 1985 in the episode "Birth, Death, Love and Rice". Woody appeared in 200 episodes of "Cheers" between 1985 and 1993. He also made a guest appearance on "Frasier" in the episode "The Show Where Woody Shows Up". He is portrayed
Television comedy 1980s when a new generation of stand-ups challenged what they saw as racist and sexist humour and revolutionised the form under the banner alternative comedy. In the US, stand-up comedy programs became popular on many cable television channels beginning in the mid-1980s, as such "brick wall" shows (nicknamed for the stereotypical use of a fake brick wall as a backdrop) were cheap to produce and air. Stand-up humour later had mixed fortunes on the small screen, often shunted away to the small hours or as part of a larger entertainment extravaganza. Improvisational comedy has recently been popular with television audiences