didn t care. he wanted his thumbprint out there, and that s the most important thing. it s time for small-town news. paul excuse me, paul? do you have any accompanying music here for small-town news? paul shaffer, ladies and gentlemen. the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside-out that way was something kind of new. i mean, don t we look like guys you d see hanging around together? absolutely. would you like to hang around with me? nope. i ll say it again, this is the stupidest show i thought that i would never want to do this show with you. now why? because you thought i was a [ bleep ]? there is one rule i keep trying to abide by, and unfortunately, i only get to it about 12% of the time. and that is, it s only television. we re not doing cancer research. if the 40-year-odd history of commercial broadcasting has taught us one thing, there s nothing sacred about television. all right, steven is
on track, stay the course, a thousand points of light, stay the course. governor dukakis, rebuttal? i can t believe i m losing to this guy. [ phone rings ] i ll get it. it s the garry shandling show. people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows by then, we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. i appreciate you coming in under these conditions, lewis, i really do. you want to hold the credits? okay. now see, we were going to show the credits and you screwed that up, okay, because you re late. “the garry shandling show” was aware of the fact that it was a situation comedy. it highlighted the cliches in funny ways. are you looking into the camera? yeah. no, i didn t don t look into the camera. i didn t. don t. you don t come in here and look into the camera. i didn t.
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the show. i am gumby, dammit! you don t talk to me that way! after awhile, the show regained its status and its clout and became even more of an institution than it had been. hey, bob. hey, peters. looks great today. listen, if you re unhappy with my work, tell me now! you re through, you hear me, through! you ll never work in this town again! don t leave me hanging by a thread. let me know where i stand! we were a little worried at first because we had a new cast. but everyone loves us. you guys have been so nice to us during our stay. isn t that special. i am hans. and i am franz. and we just want to pump you up. a lot of things they could do on saturday night live they couldn t do on a sitcom. the humor was more daring and more satirical, and it was political. you still have 50 seconds left, mr. president. let me just sum up.
in tv by the 80s. your opportunity for watching stuff is increasingly vast. nbc presents real people. my name s michael lee wilson. this dawned on me, that the application of a small motor on a pair of roller skates might really be a great thing. somebody once said that each one of us will be a star for 15 minutes, and i think that that s probably going to happen. american culture used to be a culture that celebrated privacy. in the 1980s as we re watching celebrities sort of play out on stage, hey, i want to join too. all the world becomes a stage. you start seeing shows like real people or the people s court. the people s court. where reality television is taken one step further. to see more tv, producers had to come up with new and different ways to give them television. don t be stupid! get over here! i told you not to be stupid. what cops did was, it took