At ‘Will & Grace’ event, bug was a ‘pod’ of it

As part of the Tribeca Film Festival, cast members of “Will & Grace” premiered their new podcast, “Just Jack & Will,” with a live recording at the SVA Theatre on W. 23rd Street on June 12.

But before the stars graced the red carpet — a beetle horned in on the action. Festival staffers tried to scoop up the critter with their passes, Sean Hayes’s name card, anything they could find. Eric McCormack then grabbed his co-star’s name card and had some fun with it, cracking everyone up. Also joining them was, of course, Debra Messing.

The show, which ran from 1998 to 2006 on NBC, followed the relationship of Will Truman (McCormack), a gay lawyer, and his friend, Grace Adler (Messing), who owns an interior design firm. Joe Biden, when he was vice president, remarked that “Will & Grace” “probably did more to educate the American public [about L.G.B.T. issues] than almost anything anybody has ever done so far.”