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>> tony soprano. >> i loved it. >> i started watching the sopranos at a time when a situation comedy i had done for abc had been canceled. when it got canceled i thought, i hate television. television sucks. you can't do anything in television. then i started watching the sopranos which sort of kind o changed my idea along with a lot of people, i believe, in terms of what television could be. >> the original joke was -- >> mr. soprano? >> yeah. >> there was so much selfishness and me first in america that it was making a mobster sick, a guy who invented me first. it was too much for him. >> an...

Anything to mine for the show. >> the only thing that felt unreal was the fact that we were sleeping in twin beds. >> good night. >> good night. >> if you are in the same bed, at least one foot has to be on the floor. >> they gave me every reason i the world. people don't make love. people don't screw. maybe they don't. anyway, there was no winning that. i couldn't win that. >> we couldn't say pregnant. i got in the habit of writing something really obnoxious into the script, a red herring, and fight them to the death over it. finally, give in and then whatever we wanted to slip through we got...

>> "leave it to beaver" was situation comedy. there were no families like that. all families had trauma, they had problems dealing with each other. >> people say, candy coated, it's not real. but it speaks to something in human beings. >> the united states is taking initial steps tonight to neutralize cuba as a -- >> switch the course of nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouths. neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. >> you think about what this country was going through in terms of the cold war, the cuban missile crisis. >> tony...

The humor was more daring and more satirical and it was political. >> you still have 50 seconds left, mr. president. >> let me just sum up, on track, stay the course. a thousand points of light. stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i can't believe i'm losing to this guy. >> it is "the garry shandling show." >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied that, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you comin...

More satirical and more political. >> you still have 50 seconds left, mr. vice president. >> let me just sum up, on track, stay the course. a thousand points of light. stay the course. >> governor dukakis, rebuttal? >> i can't believe i'm losing to this guy. >> it is "the garry shandling show." >> people were taking the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows and we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied that, we got it instantly. >> i appreciate you coming in under these conditions...