Cast reunions
Danny DeVito hosted an episode of
Saturday Night Live soon after
Taxi was canceled after the fourth season. During the opening monologue, DeVito read a letter supposedly from his mother asking God to forgive ABC for cancelling the show, adding that "but I'll understand if you don't." A filmed bit had him driving around New York looking morose until inspiration strikes, and he blows up the ABC building. In addition, the
Taxi cast members were given an opportunity for
closure, which up to that point had been denied them due to the abrupt cancellation. The actors took their "final" bows during DeVito's opening monologue, only to have NBC (which aired
SNL) pick up the show.
Decades later, most of the cast returned to play their younger selves and briefly re-enact scenes for the Kaufman
biopic Man on the Moon. Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Jeff Conaway, Carol Kane, Randall Carver, J. Alan Thomas and Christopher Lloyd all reprised their roles. The only two living members of the cast who did not were Danny DeVito, who produced and co-starred in the film as Kaufman's manager George Shapiro, and Tony Danza, who at the time of filming was performing in
A View from the Bridge on Broadway.
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Several of the cast members (along with cast members from other Judd Hirsch and
Bob Newhart vehicles) reunited in different roles for an episode of the Judd Hirsch/Bob Newhart series
George & Leo.
In January 2009, Danny DeVito mentioned wanting to make a
Taxi reunion movie
