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Some of the best writers that 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 f...

>> no, thank you. >> we have emimah pancakes. >> where is the line for you? is there a line? >> the jfk pez dispenser i wish we had never done. that was over the line. >> check it 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 r...

Writers in television was that in the beginning, i would not 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 wer...

What you're writing about and let's take samantha bee as an example. she's writing about a horrible situation that's happening in our country where children are being torn out of the arms of their parents at the border, an immigration issue, which is a very extreme issue. and a combination of how you feel about that, how you're going to write about that and also your network broadcast standards. how much they're going to let you say about that. so i watched the samantha bee joke, and i watched her audience react to it. she's a comedian, a comedy writer. they carefully choose their jokes. for m...

For the line. you know, the line, the one that kmee comedians sometimes cross. tough week for the line. >> what is the line? can you define the line? is this like potter stewart knowing pornography when he sees it? define it. >> the line is a combination of what you're writing about, and let's take samantha bee as an example. she's writing about a horrible situation that's happening in our country were children are being torn out of the arms of their parents at the border, an immigration issue, which is a very extreme issue. a combination of how you feel about that, how you're going to write...