James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’ dies at 85

James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’ dies at 85 LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as director of more than a thousand episodes of such classic television comedies as “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Friends” and “Will and Grace,”…