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Spotify says its cutting 6% of global workforce to reduce cost. the 600 employees difficult but necessary. the layoffs come after spotify more than tripled its workforce in recent years while expanding into new markets and launching exclusive content such as podcasts. long line of tech firms shedding jobs as the industry braces for a probable recession. if you have ever wondered what it would be like to immerse yourself in one of your favorites sitcoms. here is your chance. a couple from cincinn...

& 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 exercise in adolescent silliness. >> you have to go all the way back to "i love lucy" to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy. >> we never thought about its importance except that, you know, it was two girls trying and the value of friendship. it must have something going for ...

Adam Rich, who grew to fame playing the youngest child of the Bradford family–Nicholas–on the ABC sitcom Eight Is Enough, passed away on Saturday.

The reasons we love romance arcs written by Michael Schur.

>> i hate you. >> are you as turned on as i am? >> more! >> whether its a family living under the same roof -- >> dynomight! >> now thats the kind of talk i like to hear. >> or gathered together in a workplace. >> thats a glue stick. >> all the great sitcoms are about family. >> so wonderful! >> its one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. ♪ ♪ >> what have we always said was the most important thing? >> breakfast. >> family. >> family, right. >> family is key to the sitcom. >> mam...

As you want to go. >> i think that shirts done. >> my shirt! >> well, youll just have to wear your pants higher. >> in the 60s, you see the sitcom move away from telling stories that are solely focused on the nuclear suburban family. >> divorce, of course, had become more prevalent in the 60s, had become more part of normal american life. but it took awhile to be reflected in sitcoms. ♪ the brady bunch ♪ ♪ the brady bunch ♪ >> "the brady bunch" is the story of two separate families being...

Why is this happening to me? i mean, this isnt supposed to happen to people like me. you must have gone to bed with hundreds of men. >> and blanche says a line that i think america needed to hear, which is. >> aids is not a bad persons disease, rose. it is not god punishing people for their sins. >> youre right, blanche. >> well, youre damn straight im right. >> it was something that in 1990, so many people needed to hear and "the golden girls" were able to deliver that message because of who th...

>> we saw black family sitcoms like "martin." like "the bernie mack show." those sitcoms showed parenting to be difficult. >> uncle bernie is too old to play with dolls. can we play something else? >> which was not something you saw on a show like "the cosby show." >> chris! get in the bathroom and wipe the pee off the toilet seat. disgusting. >> fox network had come on and did really well with brack sitcoms. so then the wb and upn at the time were coming on, and they started to diversify and gr...

>> we want you to feel that you can come to me or to your mother with any problem, and well understand. >> in the 1950s, sitcoms were really giving us an idealistic version of america. >> but as we get into the 60s, well see different types of family sitcoms. >> im sure ill be able to handle a little washing and cooking the occasional meal. ♪ what will you do? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new? ♪

>> lets talk about earning a living. >> yeah. >> have you ever done it? >> no, but i could. >> ha! >> lucille ball with the chocolates, always funny. >> if one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped, youre fired. >> all the writers needed to say was lucy and a conveyor belt, youre good. >> some of the most memorable episodes of "i love lucy" are when she gets a job outside of the home, but it always unravels. >> youre doing splendidly. speed it up! >> when sitcoms start...