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The history of sitcoms. >> and the emmy goes to -- >> "frazier." >> we were lightning hot and it was critical for us to be leading the way, not just following. "friends" is about that time many your life when your friends are your family. when david crane and i lived in new york, we were part of a group of six people. we were all attached at the help and we went everybody together and celebrated everything together. there's that period where you're looking to be out there on your own and the people you rely on are the ones who live down the hall. >> here we go. pivot. pivot. pivot. pivot.

Job. you have to try and get a sense of what is the audience going to make an attachment to. >> in the '90s cable was coming on strong, so we when to examine who are we going to be? well, we wanted to be smart, sophisticated comedy. >> six months ago i was living in boston. my wife had left me, which was very painful. then she came back to me, which was excruciating. >> well, i thought frazier was dead with "cheers." we thought we got a built-in audience and great potential for building out the character to another place. >> "frazier" was kind of like one-act plays. >> mother and i moved here ...

I kept the pain of that loss buried deal within me like a serpent coiled within a damp cave. okay. that's it. >> we always assumed the audience was smarter than most other people did. we played to that. >> she's just unschooled like liza doolittle. >> leave it to you. >> kelsey grahammer played pompous like nobody you've ever seen and got huge laughs. >> what's taking so long? >> i am analyzing my options. i like to plan the strategy like a general leading his troops into battle. >> checkmate. >> i think "frazier" probably stands as the single most successful spinoff, at least in

A five-run fourth inning gave pitcher Michael Kopech all the support he needed in a standout start, and the Chicago White Sox avoided a divisional sweep with th