people. >> i don't know the club scene is tired, there's nothing but a bunch of brothers with beepers and gold teeth talking about baby i'd like to chop you up. >> so they create something to amazing and real. >> a year later, friends was on air. yes, we were, for all intents and purposes the model, template. >> it was difficult to watch because we were getting less publicity, we were on fox, they were on nbc. would the narrative and the conversations about our success or the degree of our success be different if we were on, let's say, nbc? of course. >> i never watched friends because they could not possibly find way to add anybody of color. it was to a certainly extent, a product of the time period, and of my own ignorance. there were black shows and there were white show, there weren't a