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Like you, man. know i drink juice. >> i can bring wry you a check. >> i'll derrick. >> the question is atlanta a great sitcom? >> willie, you coming out? >> wait. >> or has it so pushed the boundaries of what a sitcom can be that we need to coin a new genre term altogether to describe it? >> turn your head round. >> i think everything changes when you give a voice to a community that hasn't had one. ♪ romy could not have happened before streaming. >> in two decades, people being terrified of muslims. all of the sudden there is a sitcom and people are laughing. >> i have actually been seeing ...

It's part of my exhibit, from mammy to modern times. >> we needed a show that was about color-ism and how it has divided us over hundreds of years. >> i'm not going to learn anything about myself by looking at this. >> that's right. >> in order to neutralize the stereotype we have to reclaim it. >> the sitcom affords us something where we can be funny if something deep happens. >> you know what i want to say to whitley, it's easy for you. sisters look like me or you. >> this what you think you look like? >> there's something deep's going on and something funny happens. [ screaming ] >> and tha...

Important permit i carried in my cab today? >> that's important discussing these things in a sitcom. you're not defensive. you're able to kind of take in new ideas. >> give you another hint. bongo bongo bongo. well, he's either dezzy a naz or, knowing you, he's probably black. >> they were doing something no one has ever done. >> mr. bunker. >> a black man coming to his house. >> you saved my daughter gloria standing over there. >> hello, gloria. >> and mike. >> hello, mike. >> it was electrifying. >> i was ting bling the whole time. one, two, three. sammy kissed him on the cheek and he's goin...

Together wrong, but the blowback from the public was far buried by the excitement and the applause. >> i don't like that. >> you don't like what? >> you calling me boy. i'm not a boy. i'm a man. >> if you look at archie bunker, he's a racist guy, but we loved him. sitcom, say look at us. look what we're afraid of. i'm a man, too. i don't go around making a point of it. >> you never had to make a point of it. >> in the '70s with all in the family, we're starting to have a conversation about race in ways that the conversations had not been had. >> there was a huge rise of the black middle class....

Because i was so intimidated by the process. >> my mother put you up to this, didn't she? >> the network thought i was too overweight to play the role of myself. >> mother, i've told you about these fix-ups. >> i lost an incredible amount of weight in a short period of time. it affected my weight in a damaging way. i couldn't think about whether or not anything was funny. mom, don't wait up for me. >> i haven't ever seen an asian american family on a sitcom, so in a lot of ways, we learned lessons of how to tell a story about people who are traditionally underrepresented. >> i'm very, very pro...