David Hyde Pierce and Brian Hargrove first met each other in 1982. In a 2022 interview with People, Pierce revealed that they started off as just friends and had no idea that the other person was gay.

Frasier season 2 has the best and easiest way for David Hyde Pierce to return as Niles, and I am begging Kelsey Grammer to make it happen.

All David Hyde Pierce has to do is step out on stage, and he gets applause, even before he launches into the idiotic tongue-twister from "The Pirates of Penzance": I am the very model of a modern ...