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Traditional ball drop, but a smaller crowd than originally planned. we start tonight where we must-- with the death of an american tv icon, betty white. white died today at her home in los angeles days before her 100th birthday. earlier this week, white tweeted about her upcoming "people" magazine cover, celebrating her centennial, writing, "im so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age." fans have already begun placing flowers on her star on hollywoods walk of fame. cbs bil...

Shell be ready for a ball in no time. >> leave it to you to put the pig back in pygmalion. >> kelsey grammer played pom posity like nobody youve ever seen and got huge laughs. >> dont consider a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece. >> whats taking so long? >> but i am analyzing my options. unlike your wing-it approach i like to plan a strategy, like a general leading his troops into battle. >> checkmate, schwarzkopf. >> i think "frasier" stands as the single most successful s...

>> hey, hey, theyre running. >> see? this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running, run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. i have one seat in first class and one in coach. >> oh. well -- >> uh -- >> ill take the first class. >> class has always played a role in the history of sitcoms. >> bon voyage, lady. >> class is fascinating to us as a culture. >> i never check my bags. i cant stand to wait in the baggage area. >> its good to laugh at it, to g...

John stamos says im gutted. in complete shock. i will never have another friend like him. thats a continuous theme that you hear from all of his friends and people writing about him. jason alexander the comedian says the loss hits deep. he was kind and dear and cared about people deeply. and, brian, i know you dabbled in comedy before. you were just at the concert hall where his last performance was on saturday. but whats interesting, too. i remember when i was a child watching him and thinking ...

And what he did on stage in standup was so different than what he did, you know, in sitcoms. what a great actor he was and it shows such great versatility but youre right, the tributes have come pouring in from friends and colleagues praising bob saget. not just for his talent but for his incredible kindness, his incredible generosity. tell me about your friendship with him. when did you two first meet? >> oh, i met bob in the 80s. go way back. the great thing about him, i did feel like he start...

Dares to go head-on between abcs "happy days" and "laverne & shirley." >> "laverne & shirley" was one of the few sitcoms that ever debuted at 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 tryi...

>> dont consider a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece. >> whats taking so long? >> i am analyzing my options. unlike your wing-it approach i like to plan a strategy, like a general leading his troops into battle. >> checkmate, schwarzkopf. >> i think "frasier" stands as the single most successful spinoff, at least in the history of sitcoms. >> and the emmy goes to "frasier." >> "frasier." >> "frasier." >> thursday nights on nbc, 75 million americans watched thursday night. t...

What he did, you know, in sitcoms. what a great actor he was and it shows such great versatility but youre right, the tributes have come pouring in from friends and colleagues praising bob saget. not just for his talent but for his incredible kindness, his incredible generosity. tell me about your friendship with him. when did you two first meet? >> oh, i met bob in the 80s. go way back. the great thing about him, i did feel like he started as a standup comic. i ran into him at the comedy store ...

All of those things help to separate winners from losers and make midcourse corrections. but 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. >> hes quick. ill give him that. >> all of television said, oh, well, maybe the 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 who pick what we see. but its a very safe g...

>> we always assumed the audience was smarter than most other people did. and we played to that. >> just unschooled like liza doolittle. find the right henry higgins, shell be ready for a ball in no time. >> leave it to you to put the pig back in pygmalion. >> kelsey grammer played pomposity like nobody youve ever seen and got huge laughs. >> dont consider a move until my fingers have completely cleared the piece. >> whats taking so long? >> but i am analyzing my options. unlike your wing-it app...