Taxi, the ground-breaking US sitcom that launched the careers of some of America’s finest character actors, celebrates its 40th anniversary this week.
“I’m so proud of Taxi, the way it tackled difficult subjects and yet still made people laugh,” DeVito recalled.
The latter show might not exist without the former, nor might Seinfeld, with which Taxi shared a preoccupation with the petty frustrations of everyday life.
The actor was brought in by DeVito after the pair had appeared as inmates together in Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).