By all rights, David Letterman should have taken over for Johnny Carson, but his agent took a very, very aggressive stand. Were going to really control all of late night. Its going to cost you a fortune. And they put our backs to the wall. I can only tell you its been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you. And i hope when i find something listen to it. I want to do and i think you oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, will like and come back, that goodbye to the 80s. You will be as gracious inviting me into your home as you have been. I bid you a very heartfelt good ten, nine, eight eight, night. The tonight show without Johnny Carson as the regular eight, eight oh, will this horrible year never end . When the 90s began, we started to see a lot of host made its debut last night. Jay leno emerged from behind the experimentation. Curtain, stepping into the big shoes that were filled for 30 years by johnny. Cbs came to us and made a very attractive offer. Here we go, number ten. Head cbs, tails cbs. Number nine and the simpsons i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of letterman did place a call to television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which Johnny Carson asking for his television was talking to us. Advice and johnny said, if it tv respects me. Was me, i would leave. It laughs with me. And i think that advice was really the linchpin. Not at me. Letterman always took johnnys advice. The latenight wars are about youre stupid. To begin in earnest on american television. David letterman is now headed doh for cbs. I think the sitcoms of the cbs had lured him over with a 80s were such a warm, safe, humor. Salary more than four times that i love you guys. Of leno and given him what he really wanted, the 11 30 time the kids, they listen to the slot. Rap music, which gives them the now as dave and jay prepare to brain damage. Go head to head, one thing is clear latenight tv will and i think there was a real never be quite the same. Yearning for another type of all of a sudden, theres a talk show war. Humor. We were able to spoof start up your remote controls. The latenight race is about to fatherhood what a bad father. Begin. On monday, David Lettermans which at the time, and i new show debuts here on cbs. Stress at the time, was bill followed a week later by chevy cosby as the shining example. Chase on fox and a week after that by conan obrien on nbc. Did you ever know that youre my hero these combatants join the the stuff they got away with tonight show with jay leno, because its a cartoon. Arsenio, and nightline. The father strangling the child. Why you little it became a crowded space and we are going to keep on the competition became that much more difficult. Trying to strengthen the American Family to make American Families a lot more like the in the third corner, his waltons and a lot less like the ratings fading rapidly, arsenio simpsons. Hall. Some tv writers think arsenio could be the big loser in this we go to a completely bizarre freeforall. When letterman came in, it essentially diluted arsenios period of time in 1992 when a brand because there were so many sitting president is raging against a sitcom. They have dealt with politics. They have dealt with popular culture. Alternatives. Theyve dealt with all kinds of im sad to see you go because issues of racism, of sexism. America is going to have a big dont ask me, im just a chunk missing out of its existence. Losing arsenio, yeah, it was bad. Girl. Right on, say it, sister. He was the lone voice, gone. Its not funny, bart. Millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. They have found a way to talk about everything thats going on David Letterman had the suits at nbc pausing for a moment. In our lives through the filter did we make the right choice . Of the simpsons. Them immigrants. Because he came out gangbusters they want all the benefits to living in springfield, but they aint even bothered to learn themselves the language. And he was beating jay leno in yeah, those are exactly my the ratings. Theres some people who say, sentimonies. You blew it, that by picking leno to replace carson over letterman, that that was a big programming mistake. It was a shaky start. I think one of the governing things thats happening with a really, really shaky first season start. Its true confessions time the simpsons is a distrust of anyone who tells us we should trust them and doesnt earn that trust. For actor hugh grant who is trying hard to put his recent encounter with a hollywood prostitute behind him. When hugh grant was arrested, ill take that statue of justice too. It was big, Live Action News and sold. When they make fun of how fox hugh grant was supposed to do works you are watching fox. The tonight show that night. What the hell were you thinking . We are watching fox. They are telling you dont trust us either. Eat my shorts. All right. Ill eat eat your shorts . [ drum sting ] [ cheers and applause ] it all came together in that moment and everyone saw it and thats it. The simpsons is like we were never number two again. Hey, hey for us it was the fun shakespeare in the sense that we experience. We got our own theater, an quote the simpsons all the time, very often without knowing it. Excellent i wish i could create unlimited budget, weve got something that culturally access to every star in the indelible. Its unlike anything else tv has ever run. Twin peaks showed up out of nowhere at the beginning of the decade. Business who wants to do the show. Somebody bring me the jaws of life the pilot episode of that was so, i think going to cbs was heavensent. It really was. One of the strangest and most good night, everybody exciting things i have ever seen. paul im going to keep this short and sweet. Im at the twin peaks county morgue. With the body of the victim. Whats her name . [ screaming ] it was incredible. Now you can switch to sprint and get both just how slowly in the beginning an unlimited plan and the Samsung Galaxy s10 plus the news spread around this included for just 35 a month. Little town that this young, yup. Short and sweet. Beautiful girl had died and that haunting music was so dark and for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com. So beautiful. Ive got good news. The gum you like is going to come back in style. What on earth is essentially a art film doing in prime Time Television . American Network Television quitting smoking is freaking hard. St, has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. Like quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So, try making it smaller. So it was with some trepidation and youll be surprised at how easily starting small. Can lead to something big. That the abc Network Recently start stopping with nicorette launched a new series that was none of those things. Theres room for more than just the business you came for. Twin peaks is already described by one critic as the whether thats keeping up with what you always do. Series that will change tv. Its directed by david lynch. Or training for something youve never done before. David lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the thats room for possibility. Eccentric and memorable. The idea that he would do [ alarm b ng ] Network Television in the 90s was crazy. Do you watch much of it . I like the idea of television, but im too busy to see very much of it. What do you think of that which you do see . Some of it i really enjoy. Are you being diplomatic . Sort of. [ screaming ] what if once in a blue moon happened more than once in a blue moon . The beautiful thing about reach for the moon. Television ihe initial attentio got allowed all the other networks to say, lets do something different. What was interesting about northern exposure it was an odd sort of universe that this guy was dropped into. The days coming. It aint going to be long when you aint going to have to leave your living room. No more schools, no more tabernacles. No more cineplexes, all right . Youre going to snuggle up to your fiberoptics and bliss out. What are you doing back there, junior . Since were obviously lost, im rescheduling my Xfinity Customer Service appointment. Ah, relax. I got this. You also had experimentation that set the stage for a lot of what came later. Which gps are you using anyway . Its kind of hard to pin down a Little Something called instinct. Been using it for years. What exactly the x files is. Yeah, thats what im afraid of. He knows exactly where were going. I mean, on the surface, its a my whole body is a compass. Oh boy. Show about investigating paranormal activities. Unidentified flying objects. The my account app makes todays i think that fits the description pretty well. Xfinity Customer Service simple, easy, awesome. Tell me im crazy. Not my thing. Mulder, youre crazy. That dynamic, that dramatic tension of believer versus skeptic is one of the engines of the show. You were always seeing it from a specific point of view. Theyre equals . Yeah, absolutely. They are equals in a way they have kind of switched gender stereotypes because the character i play, mulder is the intuitive one. And scully is the rationalist, the doctor. A lot of folks who enjoyed the x files who otherwise didnt watch tv might have been drawn to the show by its, for lack of a better way to put it, stick it to the man ethos. Dont trust the government or big business or anybody but yourself and your friends and family, i guess. In the mid1990s if you took a look at the list of the 50 mostwatched shows on cable, at its a message thats somewhat dark and cynical, but was kind of a breath of fresh air in the early 90s. The 90s was a time of the top would be nickelodeon. Rug rats, blues clues. Conspiracies. And the internet was starting to dont you know cartoons will ruin your mind . Spread beyond just like ren and stimpy had some hardcore computer users. So you could have Message Boards and use net news groups. And everybody wanted to talk about the black oil and the bees and mulders sister and what the cigarette smoking man was up to. Very surreal, highconcept humor to it. This is the beginning of the splintering of the Television Audience and splintering of the i would go to alt. Tv xfiles. Family audience, really, because with families having three or four tvs in the house you had a and people were so nuts for this kid watching nickelodeon, the dad watching espn sports, the show. Its just pure science mom watching lifetime. Fiction. Thats probably what i like most you know, they were in their own about it. The xfiles changed the way separate universes watching television. By the time of the 90s, mtv wasnt merely a music channel. People watched television. They were having Great Success you could sense the successful creators trying to see how they could do things different five or ten years ago. In terms of creating shows that sometimes that led to really challenging Network Television that was cool and fun to watch. And sometimes it seemed to Fall Incorporated music but that also off the edge a little bit. Were shows and programs that lets be careful out there stood on their own. At the time, Steven Bochco was a very successful producer yes huh huh huh of hour dramas and wanted to try huh huh huh huh huh huh something brandnew. Were the police we have a warrant for your arrest. So his idea was to combine a that was cool gritty cop show with a broadway musical. Beavis and butthead i saw one in which a bunch of established what mtv could be because the shows were about gang bangers were in jail. Making fun of music videos just they began to sing. Like people in the audience were doing. Whoa, check out his neck. Life in the hood aint no pizza yeah. Theres like all these bones and pie, everybody die when the stitches moving around. Yeah. My manager would call me, like, hey, you got this big bump bullets fly. Because you were on beavis and life in the hood aint no butthead last night. I sit there like a doughnut pizza pie, people die when watching these guys. Bullets fly and i said wait a minute. I thought this is it. This is great. This is going to be as innovative as anything i have and i find them endlessly entertaining because i know and ever done. You know and the world knows, these guys are always, will be, he is guilty, he is guilty, judge, you can see it in his and cannot be anything but eyes he did the crime and now hes idiots. Thats right. Mtv has a detrimental, got to pay it circled the drain. Damaging, developmental effect on the sexuality, on the morality, on the spirituality, maybe even the physical development of our young people. I will give credit to anybody who goes outside the box and swings really hard for the fences. Now we hit the 90s and once i worked real hard and i got you can go for an audience of 5 million and have a successful my education im creatively proud of it. Show, you can say, i dont care still. If the parents dont like this. Can i tell you something, miss ellen . Of course, wendy. Dont [ bleep ] with me what . Im very glad we tried it. I dont think id want to do it you heard me. Stay away from my man, bitch, or ill whoop your sorry little ass back to last year trey parker and matt stone again. Were two of the funniest people i ever met. And their Success Story is proof that if you just stay true to vo in every trip, theres room for more yourself, you dont have to do than just the business you came for. Anything else. People think, oh, you came and did the show and now youre big sellouts. Whether thats getting a taste of where you are, the truth is, we were sellouts to begin with. Perhaps there is no stopping the corporate machine. Or bringing some of that flavor back home. I mean, we were sleeping at friends houses, had no money, and then one fox executive had thats room for possibility. Seen a cartoon we had made in college and he said, make me lets get to living another christmas video i can send out as a christmas card. He gave us like 700 bucks. We went and made this fiveminute short. I come seeking retribution. Hes come to kill you because youre jewish, kyle. Oh [ bleep ]. It went around the tv Community Like wildfire. I mean, it it was the funniest thing youd ever seen in your life. Go, santa somebody showed me the short. Go, jesus i thought it was hysterical. I called and said get them in here right away. Oh, my god they killed kenny. You bastards ew keurig kduo brewer makes any occasion the perfect coffee occasion. South park was able to be topical. Family brunch just add Ground Coffee for a carafe, or pop in a pod for a freshly brewed cup. Good strong coffee. Our french roast. It was a decaf for you, yes . South park really, really detests hypocrites. Christians and republicans in your favorite mug. There we go. And nazis, oh, my well, okay, mrs. Cartman, ill legalize 40th trimester abortions for you. Could you imagine back then that these people would ever get on Network Television or any kind of television . Howdy ho its a miracle. South park is a miracle. The early 90s the hbo shows start to kind of come into their own. You have a brother in [the second battalion . And then have i always had yes sir. These breasts . Theyre walking into a trap. Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrows attack. A lot of people want freedom. If you fail we will lose sixteen hundred men. They dont want to go back to the networks, which are saying your brother among them. You can come to us where youll make more money but youll also have content restricted. You could go to cable and have we need to keep moving. Come on theres only one way this war ends. Last man standing. No restrictions. paul do you get confused byi dont blame you. Claims . The most reliable. The most awarded. Not make as much money but have the best, the fastest, freedom of expression, which almost everybody who works in the best and the fastest. These mediums wants. Its too much. Some of the content truly sprints doing things differently. Was, you cant get this anywhere theyre offering a 100 total satisfaction guarantee. Else. Youre a fantasy maker, the only limit on the kinds of fantasies is peoples i mean i think Sprints Network and savings are great. Imagination. Hbo turned to people who but dont just take my word for it. Try out the network and see the savings for yourself. Said, i cant do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. Switch and get both an unlimited plan and the Samsung Galaxy s10 plus included, white people dont trust black people. For just 35 a month. For people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com. Thats why they wont vote for no black president. Like a black brother will [ bleep ] up the white house. Like the grass wont be cut. Dishes piled up. Cousins running through the white house. Cookouts. Basketball going in the back. In the late 80s hbo was just sort of gaining ground for series. By the 90s hbo had started to begin its explosion. When we started doing dream on one of the things hbo said to us was, its got to be something that couldnt be on network tv. Because hbo was driven by subscribers and not by commercials and selling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. What they were looking for was generation x, the 20 critical acclaim. Somethings, boomerangers, youve watched letterman, youve watched leno, but what about larry . Baby busters, whatever the 46 million young souls are called are turning out Larry Sanders, that is. To be a hard sell. Hes the tv alter ego of comedian Garry Shandling. In the 90s, what we realized Garry Shandling wanted to do is advertisers would pay premiums for College Educated young adults 18 to 49. We started reinventing nbc and a show that deconstructed the trying to speak to that audience. Where is someone . Im starving. Kind of show the tonight show was. This is him right here. Just pretend like youre talking to me till were off the air so it wont seem weird. Okay. Bla