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For a job. >> you want to call a cop? >> women were standing up and saying i must be heard. sitcoms used to be about the wives at home and doing dishes. it was sort of liberating. >> you got spunk. >> and i wait a beautiful moment -- >> i hate spunk. >> i want to kcorrect something right now. i dont hate spunk, i love spunk. >> it was a total shift in jackie gender role. shes a single working woman living in a building with other women. >> how would you help abolish cap cap capital punishment. >...

Households in their numbers so of course you dont get sitcoms that show their lives because they didnt care if you were watching or not. >> there wasnt one black person in 203 shows. we have one ethnic person, the gardener. >> oh, buenos dias. >> they had a housekeeper who was asian. >> eddie, if there is anything you need. >> were relatively invisible but used as kind of like a conti condiment. ♪ ♪ >> in the 60s, there was segregation in tv just like we were seeing in real life. >> but your...

Episodes of "i love lucy" are when she gets a job occupant side the home the rest unravels. >> when sitcoms started, they were family sitcoms and for years, thats all there was. >> and then we move into the 1960s, we start to see more people working in an office than on a factory line. >> for the first time in the history of our nation, a majority of all workers are in white collar jobs. >> you were spending time getting to know your colleagues. >> you ready? im ready. >> i got those -- >> "the ...

Stereo types. when it is a misrepresentation on the screen, it is done on many levels great harm. >> on the radio, "amis and andy" were popular sitcoms but who played them were right. >> the original pilot for the show was done in blackface and the sponsor said i dont know if this is going to go over well, so they casted it with some very funny black comedians. [ laughter ] >> what do you think, lightning? >> this sure is a thin house. >> it was, at times, hysterically funny but the stereo types...

Division, which meant it was the perfect time for a show like "veep." >> i cannot [ bleep ] believe how terrible you are at your job. what are you, running on a platform of higher taxes and episiotomies? >> if a bomb went off in that white house, i wouldnt care. those are the worst people on earth. >> where were you, by the way? where were you? >> you said you had it covered. >> no, i didnt have it covered. its your job to know if i say i have it covered, i dont have it covered and you cover me....

>> did you get tickets? >> to what? >> the gun show. >> you know theyre put at a desk next to another kid who they may or may not like, thats what they may identify with. >> i manage my department and i have been doing that for several years now. g gosh, i have learned a lot of life lessons along the way. >> your department is just you, right? >> yes, jim, i am not easy to manage. >> nbc really sold on these quirky sitcoms. >> with "30 rock," the first version i pitch was set in a news environme...

Invented by blacks and stolen by the white man. >> of course, in 2006, upn merged with the wb to become what we know as the cw. >> the cw, it just decides not to do sitcoms anymore and that cuts black programming. >> its something fox did earlier. you start your network based on black sitcoms and then when you get enough viewers, you make the pivot to the quote unquote more main stream white audiences, which of course, also gets you better advertisers. >> you have this major people of color exce...

All ♪ >> moves to minnesota to start work at wj mtv. >> what religion am i? >> mr. grant, i dont quite know how to say this but youre not allowed to ask that when someone is applying for a job. >> want to call a cop? [ laughter ] >> it did represent what women were going through in the 70s. they were standing up saying i must be heard. >> sitcoms used to be about the wife was at home doing the dishes and then this woman sprang on to a screen to have a job and often the smartest person there. i...

Trying to raise them in an all-male household. everyone had to do something. everyone had to pitch in. we did dishes. you know, we were darning socks. these are things that you never saw in the "ozzie and harriet" show, or "donna reid," or "leave to it beaver." >> hey, thats mine, i got it! >> when you watch a show based on losing someone, that adds a deep-rooted truth to the hardness of life. and then it gives comedy even more of a reason to go as crazy as you want to go. >> i think that shirts...

Void. and one of them was the "fresh prince," which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. >> i didnt know there were so many brothers living in this neighborhood. we doing all right, huh? >> fox was one of the first networks that really took risk with black sitcoms that had minority people that were very much part of the writing and the creation of it. >> i think its vital that people of color write their own stories, because thats where the authenticity comes from. >> hes pro...