Holland Taylor Has Stories, Timing and Zero Interest in Wasting a Word
Legendary actress Holland Taylor is the newest shining star to pull up a chair on Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes). And yes, the conversation moves through television, Broadway, film, aging, craft and the kind of career wisdom you only get after actually doing the work for decades.
Taylor talks with Danson about what she considers the greatest work of her life: Ann, her one-woman play about former Texas governor Ann Richards. They also get into her famously fiery work on The Practice, her acting training, and her new Apple TV series Brothers with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
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But First, We Need to Speak the Name Dean Susan McMann
Before all of that, however, we have our own extremely specific Holland Taylor memory. Because around here, one does not simply discuss Holland Taylor without also remembering Dean Susan McMann on Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
Yes, the spin-off was short-lived. Yes, Taylor only arrived near the end of its single-season run in 1994. And yes, that somehow makes the memory even more specific to the people who were actually there watching Zack, Kelly, Slater and Screech attempt college life in real time.
We were coming of age, television was still appointment viewing, and Taylor’s Dean McMann showed up with exactly the sort of crisp authority and bone-dry timing that would become part of why she is so instantly recognizable. Nonethless, we speak your name Holland Taylor!
That tiny stop in her résumé is obviously nowhere near the whole story. Taylor’s career stretches from early television and Broadway to The Practice, The Truman Show, Legally Blonde, Two and a Half Men and the stage work that she still talks about with the deepest personal attachment.
What makes this episode work is that Taylor does not simply run through the greatest hits. She talks about craft, age, ambition and the peculiar business of becoming more yourself the longer you work. At 58 minutes, the conversation has room to wander without feeling padded — which is exactly how a great actor interview should move.
Watch Holland Taylor on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The September 9, 2026 episode finds Holland Taylor joining Ted Danson for a full conversation about her career, Ann, The Practice and her new series Brothers.
Sources: Team Coco; Apple Podcasts.
