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The 90s with having extremely successful sitcoms but they werent the only network that found their way to having some success. tgif was on abc on friday, and it was their block of family-oriented comedies. >> i cant take it. i need the cake. >> it was not sophisticated television. but these were shows that people adored. [ laughing and snorting ] >> cbs. >> cbs was in a really bad spot. they had just fallen apart over the early part of the 90s and had gone through a couple different network exec...

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Senator Mike Crapo was named the US Senator with the funniest name. List of ten senators with funny names. Not the list you want to be at the top of

To be a hard sell. >> 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 of...

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 of the cool people kind of know about but thats it to massive hit was an episode called "the contest" where the...

>> 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 "seinfeld" is no hugs, no lesson...

>> its too big. >> do something, shes coming up! >> i think "curb" in many ways is the ultimate descendant of "seinfeld," its in a much more real, truthful place where morality is a gray area. >> wheres the [ bleep ] head? >> and everybodys redefining it all the time. >> the kid is home, hysterical, because her doll judy has been decapitated, because you two sickos took the head for god knows what reason, some voodoo [ bleep ] youre doing. >> larry and i would play a game of worst case scenario....

This sounds like something out of Seinfeld, but it was reality.

This sounds like something out of Seinfeld, but it was reality.

Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story has an absolutely SWEET cast (get it?)