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Overperformed in middle america in cities like tulsa and kansas city and cincinnati and pittsburgh. these sort of trump-supporting states. >> well, and one of the things people say in some capacity, it is relatable. disney abc president ben sherwood said this, people gather around and see themselves in this family. speaks to people in the country who dont see themselves on television very often. what is the impact of capturing, say, red state middle america? >> yeah, well i think -- yeah, abc de...

Ratings? i said how big were they? he said unbelievable, over 18 million people and it was about us. >> reporter: for roseanne, on screen and off the feelings for trump are mutual. >> trump offended half of america. thats great for sitcoms, we are lucky to have him as president. >> reporter: riding the wave of the actress popularity. sean hannity asking for an interview with barr. since the news came out, she changed her tune a bit, for now. shes using social media to give a positive message. br...

>> nice personal touch on that the president has to reach to people and make the call and connection that is established. it makes you feel good. this is somebody who will continue to do political coverage on the show. kind of nice moment. >> it was also favorable to donald trump. i dont know if he would call if it was a really antitrump show. i wondering like, i have an idea. if sitcoms will be introducing politics into their scripts can it go two ways? can a political show become a sitcom? i h...

Brian: debate in so many households across america. thats what roseanne, the sitcom is trying to capture as they reboot. steve: you know. they are back to their original roots. its about a working class family in the midwest, struggles to pay their light bill. has to take a second job when they have to do that. this is probably a pretty good business decision on the part of abc. when you think about it, there are not too many mainstream sitcoms that actually support as roseannes character does, ...

The first glimpse we got that maybe that was possible. >> its not like there were plenty of career women on tv. women were mainly housewives in the sitcoms or secretaries, they werent writers. >> are you willing to say youll give up your job for us? >> compared to you, im a rat. >> compared to a rat, youre a rat. >> my mother didnt want me to be funny. how was i going to get married and be funny at the same time. but here was rose marie and she was blond and pretty and funny and i kind of liked ...

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

>> "the cosby show" in the 80s normalizes the black experience 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 do you expect to get into college with grades like this? >> no problem. >> huh? >> im not going to college. >> damn right. >> we had "cosby show," "family ties," the seavers, and those families were saying were all basically the same. >> it was a more conservative era. you have these upper middle class household...

The sitcoms to follow. shes an absolute titan of comedy. >> to have a woman be not only a comedian, but a solid businessperson, she broke ground for generations of us. >> you dont see too many beautiful women be clowns like that. and she was, indeed, a beautiful woman. you know, she was a movie star at mgm before -- and nobody ever knew she could be funny. >> mugging and doing pratfalls and doing things that may be nice little girls werent supposed to do at one time. i had never thought of it as...

Do you know that? >> like i dont know that im pathetic. >> "seinfeld," initially called it the show about nothing. i mean, obviously it was not about nothing. but thats what they called it. and the initial idea was larry david and jerry had an idea about just two guys hanging out and talking about stuff. >> marcy comes over and tells me her ex-boyfriends was over late last night and yada yada yada im really tired today. >> what do you think she was tired from? >> obviously the yadda yadda. >> la...

They dont want to talk about it as is kind of uncomfortable. it easily gets into preaching about family values. its not, its really practical. its about the best start children can have in life. >> i blame pop-culture but being 25, i see it everyday. reality television, sitcoms. were seeing it being glorified. a single-parent household be glorified. i think thats part of the problem. thats what we are seeing on social media. this counterculture like you mentioned, you dont need a husband, wife, ...