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Opening. can i ask you about this movie, you were in an extra in a movie called "white noise". lets watch a clip of it. >> lets watch a sitcom or something. >> no. >> theyre calling it the airborne toxic event. >> the plot is a train crash in ohio leaves to the release of deadly toxins, the main character and his family have to evacuate, how long after the crash on the third did you think of "white noise"? you were an extra in movie. >> probably the 4th. more than a fire and train derailment, th...

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Hit for abc, but ellen wanted to tell her truth and have the character also do so. >> ellen, are you coming out or not? >> yeah, ellen, quit jerking us around and come out already! come on! >> what is the big deal? ive got a whole hour. >> i dont think you can overstate what was at stake for ellen degeneres in terms of coming out. shed had a fantastic career as a stand-up. she was having not just a tv, but film career at the time. >> this pressure cooker had been just mounting and her show reall...

Are you looking at my breasts? >> he will articulate the things that people might think, but their internal editor goes, dont say that. >> you wear that dress because you want people to look at your shoes, right? >> there was no thought, what will people think? >> if you werent my best friend, i would take my bare hands and pop your head off your neck. >> its not the best friend. >> "curb your enthusiasm" came about at a time when sitcoms of the 90s had somewhat worn out their welcome because th...

>> well, then you should be dragging around a persian rug. >> weve all had parents who, despite our best efforts, reject all of our kindness. and it backfires. >> i dont understand why you would use bleach on these towels. >> they just seemed a little yellow. >> yes, they are yellow towels. >> we all come into a family. we need a family, love them or hate them. thats who, you know, we were given. >> the success of "cosby" resurrected the sitcom. and because of that ushered in a lot of other grea...

>> there was a very natural chemistry between cliff huxtable and clair and their children that wasnt cliched black poverty. >> son, your mother asked me to come up here and kill you. how do you expect to get into college with grades like this? >> no problem. >> theres a much more conservative paradigm that is driving "the cosby show." >> instead of acting disappointed because im not like you, maybe you can just accept who i am and love me anyway. >> you know, in any other sitcom, that would be t...

>> my jesus and beetles was laverne and shirley everyone identified with laverne and shirley because we were best friends and the opening song shleel, shmaz el, >> were going to do it. give us any chance well take it. ♪. >> laverne and shirley is about two working class girls who struggle to make ends meet working at a brewery, going out at night >> and so nice to see two women at the center of a sitcom. >> laverne and shirley through the lens of the 50s were able to say what lot of what with ...

>> michael was just wonderful. he was young and energetic. and he had such good timing. >> who did this? >> we started rather slowly. nbc was moving us around a little bit, trying to find the right place for us. >> "family ties" pumped a little bit of life into the family sitcom. but the sitcom in general had been pronounced dead. there were very few on the air. and then all of a sudden comes "the cosby show" in 84. >> dad, can i have an advance on my allowance? >> son, youre already backed up t...

>> fox was new, building their network. they were one of the last majors to build a network. >> they decided they were going to use the family sitcom to do that and compete against the big three. >> al, look at our little girl. we dont really have to go to a recital, do we? >> they wound up going in a completely opposite direction, sort of the anti in a way, anti-family sitcom. >> bud, apologize to your sister. >> no. >> okay. >> "married with children" is full of trash people that do horrible t...

To our ex-wife. >> sure i do and compared to blanch everybody looks good >> the odd couple was one of the first shows that began to explore the break-up of the family on television of >> can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy >> the perfect opening to a sitcom was of course, the odd couple opening, which told all the back story and set it up in this beautiful way. >> felix was asked to remove him from his place of residence, that came from his wife. >> it was or...