ever, joke wise. no, no high-def. 30 rock was a critical success from minute one. a desirable audience watching it from a advertiser standpoint. but it was not a highly rated show. television on. pornography. but critical success was a marker for, we re doing something right there. all of my summer replacement shows were big hits. america s top pirate, are you stronger than a dog, melf island. melf island? didn t one of those women turnout to be a prostitute? that doesn t mean she s not a wonderful caring milf.
get in the car. curb came because larry wanted to do a special. it was his but he would only make it with the stipulation that if he didn t like it, he could buy it back. lucky for us, he liked it. are you trying to act like you re not with me? i m not fryitrike to act likm not with you. don t you dare do that. the actors wouldn t get an outline for the show. they wouldn t even read what the scene was about. judy! judy! judy. oh, my god. by the way that s correct shelf coming down was not planned. that shelf really did come down, and larry and jeff just acted their way through it. what do i do? sit here. jeffrey! it s too big. do something. she s coming up. i think curb in many ways is the ultimate descend ant of
this is about just a couple trying to actually be in a marriage and make it work instead of just like we always see on television. and then i felt a very strong, deep desire to not just have her be the sidelined supporting wife. it looks to me like on your little sojourn, tim, you missed two biology exams and what looks like a pretty important term paper in your english lit class. so let s start there. i don t know what a sojourn is, mom. a sojourn is what s going to keep you back a year if you don t get it together. that s right. change your attitude. that s what a sojourn is. the rest of it you can look up. glee was a really interesting show because it was about a high school. and they take pop songs that are already out there and make them part of the story. i m dancing with myself
two people talking is the essence of four-camera sitcom. [ laughter ] lighting is not really an issue. there s no music that s going to help the material. check mate. there s no special effects. again? hopefully good words with good actors. must be humbling to suck on so many different levels. [laughter] big bang had this weird hurdle, it seemed, of not only you fighting the natural fight that every show does about getting an audience trying to stay on the air and keep your job, yada yada. the fastest man alive. oh, no. this is why i wanted to have a costume meeting. but then there was also this weird wave of energy coming, like you re in a genre that s pase. we don t want to see this any more. and the emmy goes to
moments in cinema. you look at the year that american beauty won the oscar, which is also the year that the sopranos debuted, and almost immediately after that, the two mediums difficult verged. you know what i must do? i m afraid to do it. movies became much more focused on big tent things that can bring as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium started going smaller more interior, all right, we want to tell stories for grown ups that maybe don t get the biggest audience but get a passionate one. i ll be home for christmas i had an idea of doing a show about death. are you smoking? no. yes, you are. i heard you. no, i m not. look, forget you ll give