He was 76."I spoke to his family yesterday and just told them how much I liked him and, you know, choked up a little bit," Grammer, who went on to star in the spinoff series Frasier, said.Grammar also recalled how "hysterical" Wendt was as Norm on Cheers,

"America waited for him to walk into a bar every Thursday night and say something funny," Grammer said of his late castmate, who died this week. "And they just knew he wouldn't disappoint."