Christopher Lloyd reunites with Tony Danza, Judd Hirsch and Carol Kane in NYC

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PUBLISHED: 19:26 EDT, 8 May 2023 | UPDATED: 20:00 EDT, 8 May 2023



Nearly 30 years after the show went off the air, Taxi stars Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza, Judd Hirsch and Carol Kane reunited n New York City.

Lloyd, 84, took to Instagram to share snaps of his reunion with Danza, 72, Hirsch, 88, and Kane, 70, at an outdoor restaurant patio in the Big Apple on Monday.

Lloyd - who reunited with his Back to the Future co-stars Michael. J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson in February - also stopped by Danza's new show at the Carlyle Cafe on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

'What the hell is going on here?' Lloyd captioned the snap, adding the hashtag #taxi to the post.

Lloyd opted for a black turtleneck under a black suit coat and blue jeans for the afternoon outing.

Danza opted for a grey long-sleeved shirt and grey pants for the lunch outing in the Big Apple.

Hirsch stepped out in a white dress shirt with grey pants and purple-tinted John Lennon-style sunglasses.

Finally Kane opted for a black blouse and a pink skirt for the outdoor lunch meeting on Monday afternoon.

Lloyd also shared a wider shot of all four actors at the outdoor table and another of Hirsch leaning over the table during their conversation.

While Hirsch and Kane aren't on social media, Danza also shared the first snap Lloyd posted, adding in the caption, 'Love this crew of old friends so much! #OldFriends #Taxi.'

Lloyd also showed up a day earlier to support Danza during his ongoing show at the Carlyle Cafe.

'My man @tonydanza brought the house down last night at the @cafecarlyle - so happy to see you. We always share a laugh or two!' Lloyd said in the caption.

Taxi followed the employees of a New York City taxi cab company in the late 1970s and early 1980s which helped launch all of the actors into stardom.

Hirsch played Alex Reiger, the level-headed cabbie who everyone in the Sunshine Cab Company turns to, who is also the only driver who considers it his career, not just a temporary job like most others.

Danza played boxer and Vietnam veteran Tony Banta, who started working at Sunshine Cab after losing his boxing license.

Lloyd played Reverend Jim Ignatowski, who was a guest star in the first season and upgraded to a main cast member throughout the rest of the show's five season run.

He won two back-to-back Emmy Awards for playing the character in 1982 and 1983, and is considered one of the greatest TV characters of all time.

Kane played Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, who dated and ultimately married Latka (Andy Kaufman) on the show.

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Taxi (1978)

Here's how much people still adore Taxi: Lloyd very nearly broke the internet when he posted a photo with himself and three of his co-stars — Tony Danza, Judd Hirsch and Carol Kane — on the 40th anniversary of the beloved show's series finale. (Danny DeVito and Marilu Henner must have been held up at the garage.)

But there's one cast member who sadly can't participate in any impromptu reunions. Comedian Andy Kaufman rocketed to mainstream fame thanks to his typically immersive performance as Latka Gravas, an eccentric mechanic hailing from parts unknown. Kaufman died in 1984, but he still looms large in the pop culture consciousness due to the way he blurred the boundaries between his life and his art.

And Lloyd had a front-row seat to his co-star's flights of fancy. "We were at rehearsal one day, and during a a break the conversation went into levitation," he recalls. "People were talking about levitation, and Andy just sort of casually says, 'I could do that.' He sat down in front of the crew, crossed his legs and just sat there. We're all standing around and he's sitting there quietly. Finally, the [director] says, 'We gotta get back to work.' Andy stood up and that if he had 40 more seconds, he would have done it! It was mesmerizing and so gutsy."

Lloyd says the also blurred real life and performance in his audition to play his Taxi driver, spacey hippie "Reverend Jim" Ignatowski. "I had a friend of mine who lived in Laurel Canyon in a real kind of bohemian mecca. He was cleaning out the brush, and he found that jacket I wear in the show. I put that on and I had a pair of old jeans and old sneakers from an ex-father in law. I put it all together and went into [audition], and they said, 'Bring that all back on Monday!'"