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Ones. dotting every eye. >> youve got to pay attention to somebody urinating on the streets. if may be a minor thing, it may be a serious thing, you cannot ignore it, you have to deal with it. it is against the law to urinate in public. >> his cingular focus on minor offenses became a seinfeld bit. >> theyre starting the press conference. >> mayor giuliani will do everything possible to cleanse the city of this falsified nonfat yogurt. system, crime did decline. when the republican convention ne...

They said were committing to four episodes. >> yes, yeah, right. four episodes. >> normally its 13 or eight or something. >> yes, at least. >> we really didnt think they had too much confidence in the show. >> we didnt think it would work, but we thought they had to go through their process and they would learn and ultimately they knew better than we did. >> my mother caught me. >> caught you? doing what? >> you know. i was alone. >> the turning point for "seinfeld" from like nice show that all ...

>> hang on, ma. hang on. >> once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you can pretty much get away with anything. >> i guess youll be going back to that hospital. >> my mother, jerry. >> but are you still master of your domain? >> i am king of the county. >> the week after that aired, people were talking about that in the workplace the entire week. they still are talking about it. 52 seconds and two of the greatest words in sitcom history. >> im out. >> one of the shorthand descriptions of "seinfe...

[ applause ] >> we certainly associate nbc in the 90s with having extremely successful sitcoms. but they werent the only network that found their way to having some success. >> t.g.i.f. was on abc on friday and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need that cake. [ laughter ] >> it was not sophisticated television, but these were shows that people adored. >> oh. >> cbs. cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s. they h...

>> in the 90s, what we realized is advertisers would pay premiums for college educated young adults 18 to 49. we started reinventing nbc and trying to speak to that audience. >> where is someone? im starving. >> this is him right here. >> is there a table ready? >> the chinese restaurant was one of the very, very early episodes of "seinfeld." and truly nothing happened in the episode. they were waiting for a table. >> i feel like just walking over there and taking some food off of somebodys plat...

Noticed -- kaboom, it explodes. and in that moment we all connect. which is an amazing charge, really. its kind of an adrenaline rush to connect on that kind of a level. >> we have to fight these battles, were all alone in the bathroom. alone. whatever goes wrong, you have to handle it. ever flush a toilet in big party and water starts coming up? this is the most frightening moment in the life of a human being. >> its illumination on something that was right in front of you. it was right there, ...

>> whats the thing with the post office with the wanted posters on the walls? my main question with the wanted posters on the wall, why didnt they hang onto this guy when they took his picture? >> seinfeld was the master of the minutia of life, the more specific he can be, the better. a miniature craftsman. like the guy who can butt a boat inside a bottle. who has the time? >> light, cereal, that was a balsy name, i always thought. life. squaries, its much bigger than that. this is life, i tell ...

To the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy. >> seinfeld, gaffigan, regan, they inspire others to try it as a challenge. funny without talking about anything that would offend their mother. >> freedom, freedom is great, but i dont pop up alone in bed in the middle of the night going i can do whatever i want. im not rolling around in bed, look at the freedom. i have so much freedom. freedom. >> comics dont get credit for high degr...

Thats not a word. that, to me is a wonderful example of going around the thing you cant say, not only was it funnier, it was ten times funnier. >> figuring out how to get around the rules is sometimes even better comedy. like seinfeld to me was the ultimate getting around the sensors and pointed jokes, terms for things that were sexual, you know, shrinkage. >> i think that you think that a certain something is not all that it could be. when, in fact, it is all that it should be and more. >> sein...

And yesterday as they celebrated their 3rd anniversary its currently a mess like Cloudy and $56.00 at Lindbergh Field and $768.00 talking breaking news now as Armstrong. To the Wall Street Journal the Boy Scouts of America are considering filing for bankruptcy Meanwhile the Girl Scouts are planning to buy a house in the Hamptons with all that cookie money. There you go. How do you do and were hoping to have a reporter I dont know if thats going to happen or not on this new go into space on a pl...