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[ applause ] how can you be this cool if the central thing you do is not that cool? i have tigers blood. an adonis dna. normal brains cant process me. you play uncle sleazy on bringing up chunky. write your network executives and congressman. if we dont have a ninth season of "two and a half men" art will die. >> how funny is that? >> that was the truth. >> its tough. >> hes on "two and a half men." >> that was seering. >> hes acting like he was in the beelts and he broke them up. >> i saw it fo...

>> lets talk about charlie sheen. he called in to dan patricks radio show, apparently. he had advice, for any actors who plan on showing up to their sitcoms without having slept. heres what he said. >> were you drunk on the set during the set? >> never been drunk, never been high on the set once. would show up not having slept much. i would ask to move my mark a little bit so i could be next to a piece of furniture or a table. so i wouldnt fall over. >> hes calling in to dan patrick every day, s...

>> i watched a lot of steve irwin and its sad to see that hes gone but his legacy lives on with his daughter and him and billy mays was another favorite of mine. you know, if you got the $10, well get two of these for you. but, you know, i mean, these are two great talents and i paid attention to the animal shows. i like real life stories as opposed to sitcoms and so forth, you know. >> so you grabbed it by the back of his neck. >> he always showed that. he showed that. he showed that many -- in...

Classic. >> lets move to the 80s, bill cosby one of them. >> he brought back tv comedy and family comedy. there was a time when sitcoms were thought dead in the early 80s. you go through cycles on that sort of thing. he exploded on the scene. nobody expected that much from the simple little family comedy. it was a knockout. and it revived nbcs fortunes, began like decades of must-see tv on thursday night. >> and clearly jerry seinfeld picked up the mantle on that one. >> he is the favorite for t...

Regard that as one of the funniest sitcoms of all time. it showed that the betty white show at "saturday night live," apparently the ratings rivalled the last time they had a big number and that was the night that john mccain and ben afleck were on the show and -- >> sarah palin and tina fey. >> tina fey was doing that as well. it was very, very funny for a change. >> next week, its going to be their finale. heres my thing, dont you think it has a lot to do with the other stars that trotted out....

Things like that. we figured there are a lot of wonderful accomplished jewish people out there. maybe jewish mothers are getting a bad rap. >> whos the stereotypical -- you talk about sitcoms -- stereotypical jewish mother youre trying to fight against? >> like larry davids depiction of suzy eszman. >> we love suzy. >> i love when she says, dont you wish you could scream out loud, bleep, bleep, bleep, at somebody? >> yes, yes. >> seinfelds mother. >> yes. >> seinfelds mother. >> you know, i thin...

>> what happened here? wasnt conan going to fox? >> well, he was going to go to fox if they could make a deal. it was very complicated because of the situation with their stations having bought a lot of syndicated shows and sitcoms theyve spent money on and already sold advertising in. i think negotiations were going on but it became so complex and tbs came up with a very aggressive offer, stepped in and took him away. >> what is the positioning here of this 11:00 start time? hes going to be on ...

Conan is going to be incredible for him. i mean hes enjoyed some press. he is starting this new late night talk show on tbs. but its not getting the press that late night stars are getting. conan got when he left fox. now with conan coming in, there is going to be so much more attention not only on conan but on what george is doing afterwards. i mean its a huge boom for the whole line. >> larry: dont you think fox was aggressive here? >> i think fox was being as gresive as they could be. they we...

It is the basic cable channel that brings you appointment television, provided your appointment was for seven years ago. tbs, reruns of "the king of queens" and "family guy" sitcoms and talk shows. tbs signed conan obrien today. at first, looking like perhaps manny ramirez signing with the northwest arkansas naturals. mr. obrien declaring on twitter, the good news i will be doing a show on tbs in november. the bad news, i will be playing rudy on the all new cosby show. considering mr. obrien had...

It was very complicated because of the situation with their stations having bought a lot of syndicated shows and sitcoms theyve spent money on and already sold advertising in. i think negotiations were going on but it became so complex and tbs came up with a very aggressive offer, stepped in and took him away. >> what is the positioning here of this 11:00 start time? hes going to be on a half hour earlier. does that imply hes not being really sort of set out there to compete with leno and letter...