{"id":199310,"date":"2026-04-16T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:43:08","slug":"4-stars-you-completely-forgot-were-on-the-king-of-queens-including-one-comedy-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199310\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Stars You Completely Forgot Were on ‘The King of Queens,’ Including One Comedy Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout its nine seasons on the air, The King of Queens featured a variety of guest performers<\/a>. Some of them, like Bryan Cranston and Jane Lynch, were still on their way to the top and would end up doing big things on their own afterward. But the hit CBS sitcom also managed to snag a few major stars who\u2019d already established themselves prior to their appearances on the show. Let\u2019s take a look at a few that you might\u2019ve missed.<\/p>\n

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1. ADAM WEST<\/p>\n

In the Season 8 episode \u201cShear Torture,\u201d Spence (Patton Oswalt) is planning on attending Fantasy Expo 2005 with Lou Ferrigno of Incredible Hulk fame. That all changes when he runs into Batman star Adam West in the subway and invites him to come along in Ferrigno\u2019s place. On the way to the event, West tells Spence that he heard about him ditching Ferrigno and gets him to admit that he\u2019d do the same to West if he\u2019d crossed paths with William Shatner that morning. West then leaves Spence on the side of the highway and heads to the expo by himself.<\/p>\n

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2. BEN STILLER<\/p>\n

Season 4\u2019s finale, \u201cShrink Wrap,\u201d finds Arthur (Jerry Stiller) being taken to a therapist to get to the root of why he constantly yells and flies off the handle. Through a flashback sequence, we learn that Arthur was neglected by his father as a child, who was much warmer toward his older brother, Skitch. As a result, Arthur developed a tendency to scream when he felt that he wasn\u2019t being heard. The father was played by Jerry Stiller\u2019s real-life son, Ben Stiller, who still intimidates the now-elderly Arthur many years later.<\/p>\n

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3. ADAM SANDLER<\/p>\n

Doug (Kevin James) links up with an old classmate at his high school reunion in Season 9\u2019s \u201cMild Bunch.\u201d Jeff \u201cThe Beast\u201d Sussman, as played by Adam Sandler, was the craziest kid in the school, according to Doug, but somehow ended up becoming the vice principal. Together, Doug and Jeff plot revenge on their old principal by egging his car. The excitement causes Jeff to revert to his wild ways, and he brings Doug along with him while he breaks into a convenience store.<\/p>\n

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4. BURT REYNOLDS\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Smokey and the Bandit star Burt Reynolds showed up as Doug\u2019s former high school football coach in the Season 7 episode \u201cHi, School.\u201d Doug reunites with Reynolds\u2019s character after delivering a package to him, and the two begin reminiscing about their glory days. From there, Doug starts making regular appearances at the school against Carrie\u2019s wishes. The coach later reprimands Doug for pulling his pants down at the pep rally, just as he did when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout its nine seasons on the air, The King of Queens featured a variety of guest performers. Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[31451,79277,10095,79278,8615,1483,8619,9,24,63,8620,122,124,123,1868],"class_list":{"0":"post-199310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-adam-sandler","9":"tag-adam-west","10":"tag-ben-stiller","11":"tag-burt-reynolds","12":"tag-jerry-stiller","13":"tag-kevin-james","14":"tag-lou-ferrigno","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-patton-oswalt","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-the-king-of-queens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}