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Rosenthal: when i was 13, this show from england came on pbs, which before that was only the realm of my parents. ugh! what do you mean, ugh? i don't like spam! and suddenly they're doing the most outlandish, racy, non sequitur type of humor... [ squawk! ] ...and killing me, the 13-year-old. it's extraordinary what you can't do on american television. i think you can do it on pbs, and that's why i hope you all watch it. come at me with that banana! come on, attack me with it! come on! aaah! [ gunshot ] and so you have this generation of comedy nerds who don't even know that they're comedy nerd...