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Jim colucci: the cosby show had proven that the family sitcom was a viable genre again. [audience laughter] lynn: im mr. belevedere! gerrad hall: by the late 80s family sitcoms were very popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows ...

Popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows like silver spoons and growing pains and all that. its constant hugging and learning, right? [audience clapping] ethan alter: with the family sitcom at the height of its popularity, fox s...

Its absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think its important that we dont forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that youve done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - its a great tim...

(audience laughing) - flip wilson was really huge. who didnt know geraldine? say, geraldine, "is it true that blondes have more fun?" - not in my neighborhood. (audience laughing) - and flip played the character so well that you thought geraldine really existed. - when that character came out, baby, the audience just went up. so before there was nutty professor, before there was shanaynay, there was geraldine, baby. - and one of flips writers was a young richard pryor. and when he found his voic...

(audience cheering) people dont know that i wasnt one of the original queens of comedy. they had taken it out a couple times, and then i got the call. we were, and still are, the highest grossing female comedy tour in history. - now you cant talk about black female comedians and not talk about wanda sykes. - being gay is not a choice. its not a choice. (audience cheering) - wanda gets on stage completely unapologetic. "i am a black woman who is a lesbian." - and if you believe that its a choice,...

Its not a choice. (audience cheering) - wanda gets on stage completely unapologetic. "i am a black woman who is a lesbian." - and if you believe that its a choice, then youre saying that straight people are straight because they chose not to be gay. right? (audience clapping) and im sure a lot of straight guys in here, you know, im talking about em. sure theres, on several occasions, you know, you probably think, "you know, i think im gonna suck a (beep) today." (audience laughing) - shes like, ...

When you go into training, what do you give up? (audience laughing) - flip wilson was really huge. who didnt know geraldine? say, geraldine, "is it true that blondes have more fun?" - not in my neighborhood. (audience laughing) - and flip played the character so well that you thought geraldine really existed. - when that character came out, baby, the audience just went up. so before there was nutty professor, before there was shanaynay, there was geraldine, baby. - and one of flips writers was a...

The highest grossing female comedy tour in history. - now you cant talk about black female comedians and not talk about wanda sykes. - being gay is not a choice. its not a choice. (audience cheering) - wanda gets on stage completely unapologetic. "i am a black woman who is a lesbian." - and if you believe that its a choice, then youre saying that straight people are straight because they chose not to be gay. right? (audience clapping) and im sure a lot of straight guys in here, you know, im talk...

About the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that youve done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - its a great time to be a black comedian right now, because when you think about our past and where weve come from. (audience clapping) the moms mabley, dick, gregory,...

Look at the ratings. thats 60 million people. its absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think its important that we dont forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that youve done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my under...