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>> where? 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 woman to say, women will laugh for that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyk show, i said, we need the womens viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rosemary. >> its a beautif...

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 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...

Laugh for that. so when i put together the characters for the van dyk show, i said, we need the womens viewpoint. and when i told my agent, he immediately said rosemary. >> its a beautiful piece of writing, but if he doesnt get a laugh every ten seconds, he calls the cops and has the audience arrested. >> rosemary on "the dick van dyke show" was great for women who might aspire to being in the writers room, because that was the first glimpse we got that maybe that was possible. >> its not like t...

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 seemingly harmless but essentially brainless exerci...

[ applause ] welcome back to "the messy truth." were here with bill maher. its safe to say you took the election results really, really hard. here you are after the election. >> its tempting to want to divide america in the middle right now. ive been in the bad roommate situation where you literally got white tape and made a line through the middle of the apartment. its something theyve tried on many, many sitcoms over the years, starting with "i love lucy." lucy on one side, the sp spanish-sp...

People of different races, they didnt realize they didnt have it. thats whats happening in the country right now. the divide is incredible. donald trump is not going to go on "saturday night," its not going to happen. but comedy is a very left wing thing and obviously the right wing is in right now and its never going to really change until the other side gets in. >> i was just going to say, maybe we need some more conservative comedians. >> theres not going to be anymore. it doesnt work. >> im ...

Again. dont leave me hanging. >> we were worried with the new cast. but everybody loves us. >> you guys have been so nice to us during our stay. >> isnt that special. >> we just want to pump, you up. >> a lot of things they could do on "saturday night live" they couldnt do on a sitcom. the humor was more daring and more satirical and it was political. >> 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. >...

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 of television said oh, well, maybe sitcoms are alive again. and thats all that it took. it took one success. >> a few years from now, so...

And then, you know, had a variety of careers after raising her children. she was devoted to edith bunker. a long time, i couldnt figure it out! but edith bunker spoke to her. so these were very important figures and television was so important. there were three networks. >> right. >> that was was it. >> the sitcoms were our lives and also the westerners! i just have to say that mary tyler moore, that ensemble cast and the fact, i think, that she was in minneapolis. she was a midwestern 30-year-o...

She had a great sense of it. of course her show was historic. one of the best sitcoms ever. she started first with tidick vandyke. they were occasional lovers through the years. they both admitted that on our show and that was a great show and then she went on -- i think "the mary tyler moore show" will go down in history, ed asner was the head of the department. crazy people of the network. betty white was incredible. i think you ought to call betty. she turned 95, she would be wonderful to tal...