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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 pick what we see. its a safe guess that whatever gets hot for a season or two, the men and women who create good television co...

Initial idea was larry david and jerry had idea of two guys hanging out and talking about stuff. >> marcy comes over and tells me 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, comedy dynamite. >> what do you think did it? can you take a step back, say this made this show? >> i think the style of the writing was fresh and the stre...

Felt more like my family than the myth of the black family. >> how are you going to get into college with gradelike thi >> no problem. >> huh? >> im not going to college. >> damn right. >> "cosby show," "family ties," the seavers, saying were all basically the same. >> more conservative era, you had upper middle class households that arent worried about money and balancing careers and kids and in comes "roseanne." >> what do you want me to do? throw myself off a bridge? >> yeah. and take your br...

>> perhaps youll get another station. >> my first offering this evening -- stop that now! go back and sit down! >> when i was growing up, i was an "i love lucy" freak. could lip sync it. i love that i can turn on something thats over 60 years old now and go, you cant beat these jokes and you cant beat these characters. >> i took the -- ♪ ♪ >> this is a woman in a time where comedy was completely dominated by men. not only does this show become the comedy show, they then create the modern mod...

About him and everyone laughs at him -- >> is that decaf? >> no regular. >> -- suddenly you go from being his victim to captor. the joke is refiguring the 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 living? and van dyke the first time saw home life and work life. >> i...

Could lip sync it. i love that i can turn on something thats over 60 years old now and go, you cant beat these jokes and you cant beat these characters. >> i took the -- ♪ >> this is a woman in a time where comedy was completely dominated by men. not only does this show become the comedy show, they then create the modern model for all 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 ...

Writers room, and you had two women who worked at separate times, the first with lucille callen and the second was selma diamond. >> its always great to have the womens viewpoint and who better than woman to say, women will laugh at that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyke show, i said, we need the womens viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rose marie. >> its a beautiful piece of writing, but if he doesnt get a laugh every ten seconds, he calls the cops a...

Rome where it just isnt safe for a woman. >> where? where? where? >> when you get to your show of shows, thats a very famous writers room, and you had two women who worked at separate times, the first with lucille callen and the second was selma diamond. >> its always great to have the womens viewpoint and who better than women to say, women will laugh at that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyke show, i said, we need the womens viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediat...

>> 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 living? and van dyke the first time saw home life and work life. >> is this the comedy spot? >> no this. >> rob. >> buddy. >> sally. >> mel. >> rob. >> sally. >> buddy. >> its your turn. say rob. >> wonderful. >> somebody asked me to do a situ...

Stuff. >> marcy comes over and tells me 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, comedy dynamite. >> what do you think did it? can you take a step back, say this made this show? >> i think the style of the writing was fresh and the strength of the cast. the cast is very, very strong. and the writing had a different sound to ...