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Couldnt do on a sitcom. the humor was more daring and it was political. >> you still have 50 seconds left. >> let me just sum up, on track. stay the course. 1,000 points. stay the course. >> >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. >> oh, ill get it. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and talk shows and we knew that if somebody played on that we got it. >> the show was aware of the fact that it ...

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. but you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all you can hope is that every night turns out like thursday. >> yo, angela! >> next. >> how rude. >> quick, ill give him that. >> all television said, oh, maybe sitcoms are alive again. and thats ...

Anymore. >> dana: i hope its not bothering them. i do think, they have school aged children. they can all read. the internet lives forever. im not telling anyone something they dont know. if peter had ever done this to me. thats the thing. peter has never, ever done anything like this to me. i feel for them although i dont know if they really care. i dont know. its the weirdest thing ive ever seen. >> greg: you havent seen peters "i hate jasper" website? >> jesse: this is like a scene from "veep...

After a while, you begin to think that maybe their criticisms arent sincere. maybe their moral puffery is a costume. maybe the whole conversation is an absurd joke. maybe we are falling for it. you hear modern progressives called a puritans. that is a slur on them. they cared about the faith of the human soul into the moral regeneration of their society. those are not topics that interest progressives. they are too busy pushing cross-dressing of fifth-graders and late-term abortion.ng they write...

Make midcourse corrections. but you cant cut all comedies from the same cookie cutters. all you can hope is every night turns out like thursday. >> yo, angela! >> next! >> how rude. >> hes quick, ill give him that. >> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now, something new may tempt the people who pick what we see. but its a very safe guess that whatever gets hot for a season or two, the men and ...

>> let me just sum up. on track, stay the course. a thousand points of light. stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. >> ill get it. >> its garry shandling show. >> people were taking all the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and by then we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you coming ...

>> we certainly associate nbc of the 90s of 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 ...

Positive like nobody youve ever seen and got huge laughs. >> dont consider a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece. >> whats taking so long? >> but 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." >> ...

>> you still have 50 seconds left, mr. president. >> let me just sum up, on track, stay the course. a thousand points of light. stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. [ phone rings ] >> ill get it. >> its the garry shandling show. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows, we knew them by heart that if somebody played on that a...

Life could be. >> theyre here. >> all right. >> laverne and this is shirley. shes yours as you can see. >> nice to meet you richie. >> my pleasure. >> when they made a guest appearance, one of the camera men said look at this two shot. thats a series. ♪ >> tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot. death to my program that dares to go head on against happy days and laverne and shirley. >> its one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted as number one. >> the absolute top number ...