>> death is always hanging around this hospital. >> morning. >> "m-a-s-h" was obviously an influence on me because i was drawn to comedy that somehow was still about something. >> his isn't really what i expected, you know? most of my patients are checked out, mentally. >> pumpkin, that's modern medicine -- advances that keep people alive who should have died a long time ago, back when they lost what made them people. for the love of god! what? >> do you think we should be talking about it in front of her? >> her? she's dead. >> then in the early 2000s, there was this hunger to reinvent the network sitcom, and nbc decided to take a chance on a uk hit called "the office." >> there's good news and bad news. the bad news is some of you will lose your jobs, yeah.