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Brutal to numb my sensibilities and blast me into sweet oblivion. >> how about a boilermaker? >> make it a mimosa. >> we had the luck to be able to rotate cast, and every time we put somebody in, there were explosions. >> buh! >> there was something very special about that setting, those characters, that i never got tired of writing that show. >> sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences. all of those things help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. b...

Full house. thats the father from full house. we should take the kids. first of all, the kids wont get in. youll just shoot yourself right at the table. what have i done? >> people saw bob, they were like -- >> i walk out and i start talking. i see peoples faces. a lot of nice ladies in the audience, you just keep your mouth like that. ill be right there. >> he loved that they were thrown off. >> you can suck my $100 million -- >> thats the perfect world. you get to have a tv show and make some ...

>> thats why we laugh. thats why the family sitcom has always prevailed. >> oh, i could just crawl into a hole and die. >> second hole shes crawled into today. >> in the 50s, you get these sitcoms that, frankly, arent really trying to be that funny. >> nobody can make pancakes like mom. >> nobody can eat them like pop. >> these shows are presented by soap sellers, car sellers. they wanted their product to be nice, with no sharp edges, so, it couldnt be that daring. >> very sort of white bread po...

In a way that was super important. that felt more like my family than what i heard the myth of the black family was. >> how are you going to get into college with grades like this? >> no problem. >> huh? >> im not going to college. >> damn right. >> we had "cosby show," "family ties," and those families were saying, were all basically the same. >> it was a more conservative era, so, you had these upper middle class households who dont worry about money, are able to balance their careers and thei...

Scales of justice. >> when you were dismissing some of the staff, did you intend to fire me, too? especially me? im very sorry i troubled you. you little runt! >> early sitcoms just about home life. i used to make the joke all the time in "ozzy and harriet," what did he do for a living? and van dyke the first time saw home life and work life. >> is this the comedy spot? >> no, this is the comedy spot. >> rob. >> buddy. >> sally. >> mel. >> rob. >> sally. >> buddy. >> its your turn. say rob. >> r...

Called it. the initial idea was larry david and jerry had an idea of two guys hangs out and talking about stuff. >> listen to this. marcy comes over and she tells me that her ex-boyfriend was over late last night and yadda, yadda, yadda, im really tired today. >> what do you think she was tired from? >> obviously the yadda, yadda. >> larry david and jerry seinfeld, those two minds together, you know, thats just comedy dynamite. >> what do you think did it? can you take a step back and say, this ...

Go. [ laughter ] >> oh my gosh. netflix recently announced it has cut a deal to acquire digital rights for the iconic sitcom seinfeld. video.co video coms lot of the right to two other sitcoms that aired on nbc, friends and the office. thats a big one. joining us now, cofounder and the first ceo of netflix, mark randolph. hes the author of the new book entitled that will never work. the birth of netflix and the amazing life of an idea. is this book, mark, welcome, a memoir? >> it is actually. in...

>> tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot, death to any program that dares to go head-on between abcs "happy days" and "laverne & shirley." >> "laverne & shirley" was one of the few sitcoms that debuted as number one. >> the absolute top number one show this season is "laverne & shirley." a seemingly harmless but essentially brainless exercise in adolescent silliness. >> you have to go all the way back to "i love lucy" to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy. ...

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 that 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 exe...

>> i am analyzing my options. unlike your wing-it approach i like to plan a strategy, like a general leading his troops into battle. >> checkmate, schwarzkopf. >> i think "frasier" probably stands as the single most successful spinoff, at least in the history of sitcoms. >> and the emmy goes to "frasier." >> "frasier." >> "frasier"! >> we were lightning hot and it was critical for us to be leading the way, not just following. ♪ >> "friends" is about that time in your life when your friends are...