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>> its so tasty too. >> you fell in love with these characters. >> what you talkin about, willis? >> we need to laugh at ourselves. >> you hide me clothes, ill wear everything you own. >> laughter opens you up. >> things that we might be afraid to talk about, some people that were supposed to protect us didnt do the right thing. >> like racism. >> the cops are the bad guys? >> yes. >> no. >> class wars. >> im a millionaire. >> and gender diversity. >> dad? >> hi, girls. >> you can reach in and r...

Hey, pops. how come you never gave me the talk? >> i most certainly did. what do you think that box of condoms i left in your bedroom was about? >> that was it? >> oh, you wanted a hug too? >> the american people are collectively a little bit conservative when it comes to issues of sex. >> dont get all caught up in this having open dialogue with your kids hoopla. its not natural. show me one place in the bible where a kid talks. >> we wanted to be able to laugh about sex for the same reason we w...

Subjects like sex because its disarming and people just want to laugh. >> i want to go home to my own room to sleep in my own bed. i dont want another beer. >> would you like another beer? >> oh, yeah. >> but its always been from like the straight white mans point of view. >> i remember early sitcoms. i saw a mother, a wife in a cocktail dress all day long. and wed sit there going, who the hell are these people? it was a denial of reality. >> ethel, were going to have a baby. >> we got to see a ...

>> the ross and rachel relationship made it like, oh, i have to tune in this week because i want to see are they getting together? >> i cant believe i dont get to go to my own prom. so harsh. >> the one with the prom video where rachel realizes that ross has always loved her. >> oh, dear. >> i cant believe you did that. >> yeah. well -- >> all the most memorable moments in the sitcoms are the ones where they touched on something beyond the comedy. >> and it made for really great television that ...

>> "insecure" centers in on the characters, the identity and the culture that shows like "sex and the city" and "girls" had nothing to do with. >> what that do? >> do or dont do? >> it do. it definitely do. >> for the first time maybe a lot of white people are learning that like theres a lot of different ways to be a black woman, theres a lot of different ways to be a millennial black woman. >> there are a lot of different ways to be. >> this is my favorite bit. >> playback was just a revelation...

80s, absolute, total paranoia. >> name that handicap. >> when the aids outbreak started, i was terrified of people finding out that im gay. there was no way i could be openly gay at that time. it would have been career suicide. >> i think being gay was admitting to someone that you could have aids. >> ultimately we didnt see very many lgbtq characters in sitcoms in the 80s. for most lgbtq communities, it was a very dark time. >> seems you had a transfusion while you were there. the hospital thin...

>> in the nooipts we saw a lot of sitcoms geared towards whole family viewing and they shied away from the more political nature of the 1970s. >> carefully selected this lap, the chair by e-mails. >> because social class is a part of identity, its a way that sitcoms can reach the broadest audience. >> martin crane. >> oh, in here. wait a minute. >> it was about a father who had been alienated from his sons because they were so up like him. >> wheres the tv? >> its in the credenza. >> it was grea...

Im a pretty open-minded guy, so why dont you stop at the shop sometime? >> okay. >> lgbtq representation in sitcoms is important because were all in this together. you cant leave that out anymore. >> id like to begin with a fact, a simple yet shocking fact. it is this. homosexuals, lesbians are threatening to pervert an entire generation of our american children. >> the history of lgbtq characters in sitcoms is actually very similar to the history of lgbtq people in america. they were always the...

Laughter as wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. >> sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. >> were going to the good place. in a frickin gold balloon! >> shotgun! >> thats what we had. thats what helped me escape being poor. >> every single one of you is a good person. >> when im feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember, lifes not that bad. >> youre in the good p...

Resurrected the sitcom and because of that, ushered in a lot of great storytelling. >> when "the cosby show" went off the air, we did have other black family sitcoms to fill that void. and one of them was "the fresh prince" which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. >> i dont know so many brothers living in this neighborhood. were doing all right, huh? >> fox was one of the first networks that really took risks with black sitcoms that had minority people, that were very much ...