Like Norm, Wendt too loved his beer. Post-Cheers, Wendt served as pitchman for Miller Lite and Meister Brau.He even wrote a book about beer. “I’m a simple man, I don’t ask for much. Give me ...

George Wendt, the Beer-Loving Norm on ‘Cheers,’ Dies at 76. Jason Sudeikis' uncle earned Emmy nominations six years running after getting started on Second City in his hometown of Chicago.

While the beer the cast drank on set was nonalcoholic, Wendt and other “Cheers” cast members have admitted they were tipsy on May 20, 1993, when they watched the show’s final episode then ...