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Special about that setting, those characters that i never got tired of writing that show. >> sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences. all of those help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. 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. >> quick, ill give him that. >> all television and, oh, maybe sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took....

>> my pleasure. >> when "laverne & shirley" made a guest appearance, one of the cameramen said, look at this two shot. thats a series. >> shamele, shamozle -- hossenfere incorporated. >> 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 se...

This is laverne dafazio. shes mine. this is shirley feeney. shes yours. as you can see. >> nice to meet you, ritchie. >> my pleasure. >> when "laverne & shirley" made a guest appearance, one of the cameramen said, look at this two shot. thats a series. >> shamele, shamozle -- hossenfere incorporated. >> 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 th...

Wont quite get there in d.c. its rare to be this hot up and down the east coast this time of year, especially for this long. usually in may its one day. >> someone just flipped a switch. one more for you here. robert mueller i proving sop of the most -- if you loved the 90s and missed the sitcoms of the early 2000s theyre back and in full force. netflix announced the return of "arrested development" with entire original cast. the 90s hit "roseanne" is making an eight episode revival on abc aft...

But even i tire of it. its everything, not just the award shows. sitcoms, dramas, you try to watch an hour-long drama and they hit you with the political message. >> its baked into everything, i dont know if you can pull it out. specifically with sports ive been kind of disturbed with the defense department giving money to the nfl so though kind of promote this militaristic kind of mindset, a lot of weird things with that. i think it strange that in the nfl, which is a completely male lead, most...

Was he serious, i cant decide, its hard to tell in the translation. if it was, he was firing a shot. >> if he wasnt, why was he using such a high voice? i think its a little bit like in school when the little kid gets set up with a huge kid, if you keep doing that ill beat you up. i dont think they recognize that theyre dealing with a country that already doesnt care about anything they think. >> tom: jimmy, what do you think about the european union? >> we can still game shows and sitcoms that ...

Stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i cant believe im losing to this guy. >> ill get it. >> it is gary shandling show. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and turn them into something new. we spent years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and we knew them by heart, if somebody played on that and parodied that, we got it. >> i appreciate you coming in under these conditions. you want to hold the credits. we were going to roll the credits and you screwed that ...

>> sophisticated surveys, telephonic samplings, test audiences. all of those help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. 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. >> quick, ill give him that. >> all television and, oh, maybe 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 that pic...

The possibility that those russians didnt land here by mistake. >> if moscow ever finds out we sat on the hagans, were finished. >> youre a hero to soviet union. >> im not a hero. >> my officers and i request asylum from the united states of america. >> time to teach these tchaikovskies a thing or two about free press. >> the russians are trying to show the world they can do whatever they want, wherever they want and were powerless to stop them. >> gratifying to know there is still some bad left...

This guy. >> ill get it. >> isle ill get. >> it is gary shandling show. >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and turn them into something new. we spent years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and we knew them by heart, if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you coming in under these conditions. i really do. you want to hold the credits? okay. we were going to roll the credits and you screwed that up because youre late. >> the gary ...