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>> thats no longer a problem. >> something is wrong with your lights. if you look at the precincts. >> oh well, what are you doing here? >> real cops dealing with funny situations. >> get out of my way. i am going to kill everybody if you dont get out of here. >> boy, do i hate to start a day like this. >> how lyndon is basically the bob newhart of that office. surrounded by all the craziness. >> lenny is my other personality. >> you go t the same address? >> the workplace comedy is great becaus...

>> if you look at the 12th precinct, it was such a decrepit place. >> well, well, well, the same old melting pot. >> okelly, what are you doing here? >> how do you like narcotics? >> you havent helped them a bit. >> real cops dealing with funny situations. >> get out of way. im going to kill everybody in the precinct if i dont get out of here. >> boy, do i hate to start a day like this. >> hal linden is basically the bob newhart of that office. surrounded by all the craziness. >> lenny is my oth...

Do you have any idea what time well get out of here? >> this is michael scott, scranton. well, we dont want to work. its not fair to these people! these people are my friends and i care about them! >> from the 1990s, were definitely working more than ever before, and as a result of that, you start to see more workplace settings than might have been possible previously. >> were a superstar short. did we have any luck on jim carrey? >> we never let him plug "ace ventura". >> in 1992, larry sanders...

>> in 1986, linda bloodworth-thomason went to cbs and she said, i just want to say what all women are really about, opinionated and successful when given opportunities. >> linda bloodworth-thomason wrote for "m.a.s.h.," "rhoda," then created an all-female version of the workplace comedy that we had not seen before. ♪ >> im going to do what i always wanted to do, start my own decorating business. and no matter how many overwrought, tight-fisted bankers wail and gnash their teeth, i have no inte...

Good-looking. >> i go into my office, and there is a ventriloquist. >> well, doctor, frank here wants to break up the act and go out on his own. >> "the bob newhart show" is kind of a model for how to do a workplace comedy or family comedy. you bring together all these eccentric types, and it worked so brilliantly because of bob newharts voice. >> hey, bob, theyre flipping the coin. youre going to miss the whole thing here. >> right. honey, i know you put a lot of thought and effort and energy i...

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>> get out of way. i swear im going to kill everybody in the precinct if i dont get out of here. >> boy, do i hate to start a day like this. >> hal linden is basically the bob newhart of that office. surrounded by all the craziness. >> lenny is my other personality. >> does he have the same address? >> the workplace comedy is great because all the characters come in and theyre not related, so they dont have something in common. >> turned out to be a diverse cast which was i guess different in th...

Definitely working more than ever before and as a result of that you start to see more workplace settings than might have been possible previously. >> were a superstar short. did we have any luck on jim carrey? >> we never let him plug "ace ventura". >> in 1992, larry sanders on hbo broke the rules in terms of workplace comedy. >> hey, i think thats warren beatty in the parking lot. >> the larry sanders show is probably the most realistic show ever written about television. >> listen, how would ...

Version of the workplace comedy that we had not seen before. ♪ >> im going to do what i always wanted to do, start my own decorating business. and no matter how many overwrought tight-fisted bankers wail and gnash their teeth i have no intention of going under. >> it was a great cast and great writing. >> i cant seem to find any of my alimony chokes. i think you misplaced them. >> well, excuse me. but theyre right here where they always are in order of alphabetical husbands. >> i loved the out...

Workplace comedy or family comedy. you bring together all these eccentric types, and it worked so brilliantly because of bob newharts voice. >> hey, bob, theyre flipping the coin. youre going to miss the whole thing here. >> right. honey, i know you put a lot of thought and effort and energy into this. >> bob, are you going to ask me if you can eat in front of the television set? >> eventually, i was going to ask you. >> i think it was the beginning of a really smart sophisticated ensemble kind ...