Woody Harrelson Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, where Harrelson attended college. In 1999, Harrelson guest-starred in the "Cheers" spin-off success "Frasier", in which he reprised the role of "Woody Boyd." He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for this performance. He appeared in several 2001 episodes of "Will & Grace" as Grace's new boyfriend Nathan. On the November 12, 2009 episode of the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report", Harrelson was interviewed by "Stephen Colbert", to promote his movie "The Messenger". In response to Colbert's questioning of his support for the troops, Harrelson agreed
Home Is the Sailor (Cheers) promises nothing of the sort will occur again and is provisionally re-hired on the understanding that this is his last chance as Rebecca uses a seductive baseball metaphor-pun about having two outs, two strikes and "no balls". The producers intended "Cheers" to be a comedy about a comedy itself set in the Boston bar, but, as Burrows claimed, the "Sam and Diane" story arc predominated the show for five years and, as he hypothesized, would have made the bar more of a minor role and more irrelevant if Shelley Long had not left the show as Diane Chambers in 1987.