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Jim colucci: the cosby show had proven that the family sitcom was a viable genre again. [audience laughter] lynn: i'm mr. belevedere! gerrad hall: by the late 80s family sitcoms were very popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows like silver spoons and growing pains and all that. it's constant hugging and learning, right? [audi...

Popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows like silver spoons and growing pains and all that. it's constant hugging and learning, right? [audience clapping] ethan alter: with the family sitcom at the height of its popularity, fox started moving into the television arena. cedric: fox was new, building their network. they were one...

It's absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think it's important that we don't forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that you've done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - it's a great time to be a black comedian right now, because when you think about our past and where we've come ...

(audience laughing) - flip wilson was really huge. who didn't know geraldine? say, geraldine, "is it true that blondes have more fun?" - not in my neighborhood. (audience laughing) - and flip played the character so well that you thought geraldine really existed. - when that character came out, baby, the audience just went up. so before there was nutty professor, before there was shanaynay, there was geraldine, baby. - and one of flip's writers was a young richard pryor. and when he found his voice, he became the new king of comedy. (richard laughs) (audience laughing) - woo! (audience clappin...

(audience cheering) people don't know that i wasn't one of the original queens of comedy. they had taken it out a couple times, and then i got the call. we were, and still are, the highest grossing female comedy tour in history. - now you can't talk about black female comedians and not talk about wanda sykes. - being gay is not a choice. it's not a choice. (audience cheering) - wanda gets on stage completely unapologetic. "i am a black woman who is a lesbian." - and if you believe that it's a choice, then you're saying that straight people are straight because they chose not to be gay. right? ...