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Say they were very welcomed, although there were certainly exceptions. >> i interviewed for the carson show and i called my agent and i said, i think it went really well. and he said, i'm sorry, honey, but they just called and they said they would not feel comfortable with a woman in the room. >> being a comedy writer is not the most macho profession, so i think there is a certain defensiveness and overcompensation. >> i like that inside track of getting to hear how men talk if women weren't around. because it was almost like you weren't around. >> it was filthy! the language was disgusting! i...

He was 91 years old. >> the playwright and screenwriter will long be remembered for his popular comedies including "the odd couple," "barefoot in the park" and "the sunshine boys." cnn's sara sidner has more on simon's memorable contributions to the stage. >> reporter: it didn't really matter who the stars were. if neil simon wrote it, people wanted to see it. "time" magazine wants once called him the patron saint of laughter. a native new yorker, simon learned his craft in the early days of television, writing for comedian sid caesar. >> we didn't know how to write. we would just string old j...

>> a comedy writer? why? you really want to be like me, like val, like ira, like any of us? >> more than anything else in the world! >> helen, you know us. we're disgusting. >> reporter: many of simon's plays were part autobiography. his 1961 broadway debut "come blow your horn" was based on simon's relationship with his older brother danny. simon later remembered how worried he was when that first play opened. >> if that play failed, then i go to hollywood and write some sitcom for the rest of my life. >> reporter: "come blow your horn" did not fail. it ran 677 performances and later became a...

>> take him out. >> check it out. it's a john f. kennedy pez dispenser. good thing i still have my bobby kennedy pez dispenser. >> seth macfarlane pushes the envelope more than i've ever seen anyone else do. >> screw this. i just came up here to buy some fireworks. >> it's a little bit hateful, a little bit hurtful because, my god, it's so [ bleep ] funny. >> sorry, wonder woman. i got three kings. now let's see your pair. all right. robin, what are you looking at me for? look at her. >> animation allows you to do whatever you want. it's probably the freest form of your manning nation there is...

Ever lived. all they did was look at society and skew it a little bit. you laughed at yourself being ridiculous. >> i want to sing a song for you. it's on the other side of our hit record. this side is selling more than the other side. >> the show of shows had comedy geniuses gathered together almost like a manhattan project for comedy. you had carl reiner moving back and forth between acting and writing at this time, and sid caesar who would do all the roles and all the accents. the audience fell in love with the people doing that show. >> name the dates of the following battles. battle of ha...