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Screen showing there were other ways to be black. ♪ it's not unusual to be loved by anyone ♪ >> so when fox comes around and says how can we gain audience? black people. so they initiate a series of shows that target an audience that had not been targeted. >> this increasingly mega popular comedian on the scene. >> i know big bird had a business but -- [ laughter ] >> if you want to just compare "martin" and "the fresh prince ", he hosted a black radio show. he had gina, his live in girlfriend. it was the blending of sketch with traditional narrative sitcom. >> played many, many characters...

Great sitcom? >> wily, you are coming out? >> has it so push the boundaries of what a sitcom can be that we need to coin a new genre term together to describe it? >> i think everybody changes when you give a voice to a community that has not had one. >> romming could not have happened before streaming. >> we had two decades, people terrified of muslims and all of sudden there is a sitcom and people are laughing. >> no, are you out of your mind. >> you can't keep dating them once. they're always walking around barefoot. >> so much of what happens in that show is sitcom 101.

>> to see somebody that changes you, gives you a purpose. i wanted to be a comedian because of him. >> i'll miss you. >> you'll miss me? >> but i won't miss you with this if you don't get back to work. >> i'm going. i'm going. >> the american sitcom had gotten a disruption in the early 1970s with "all in the family, mary tyler moore". >> we going to hit race, class, getter to can we all just get along? ♪ ♪ >> it was a dream, two kids in the ghetto get adopted by a rich white man. >> the white say the narrative in different stokes is the basis of the whole series. >> welcome, gentlemen. >> ...

Didn't she? >> the network thought that i was too overweight to play the role of myself. >> mother, i've told you about this. >> i lost an incredible amount of weight in a very, very short time. and it affected my health in a very damaging way. i couldn't even think about whether or not anything was funny. >> mom, don't wait up for me. >> i hadn'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 proud that it broke ground. it gave an amazing push to a generation e...

>> oh, my -- >> we needed a show that was about colorism 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. >> kimmy, in order to neutralize a stereotype we have to reclaim it. >> the sitcom affords us something where we can be funny and something deep happens. >> you know what i want to say to whitley? it's easy for you. who does this look like, me or you? >> that's what you think you look like? >> or something deep's going on and something funny happens. [ screaming ] and thank god. >> that's wonderful, my si...