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Wonderful setting for so many comedies, because it's a refuge. you know, you get away from the kids, you get away from your wife. >> the moon is high -- and so am i. >> and you're in this little environment with people that you get to know probably a little closer than you should know. and out of that is going to come conflicts. >> i don't take dictation. >> i don't know how jennifer ended up as a receptionist. >> why don't you get coffee for all the guys here? >> i don't get coffee, mr. carlson, we agreed. >> my mother was a '50s house wife, so she was not in a workplace. >> will there be any...

Know if i say i have it covered and i don't, you cover me. >> i think we love work place sitcoms because we identify with these unlikable people and world. >> every generation gets the political satire it deserves, and veep is ours. >> nevada is my state. i'm going to be president. >> but it's tough to compete with reality. you know, the trump administration. >> lovely inauguration. billy joel is going to sing. so you guy versus to stop the recount. >> any show about a work place or a group of people, they eventually migrate into well, who's the dad, who's the mom, who's the crazy uncle? they ...

On out on his own. >> "the bob newhart show" is kind of a model for how to do a workplace comedy or family comedy. you bring together all these eccentric types, and it worked so brilliantly because of bob newhart's voice. >> hey, bob. they're flipping the coin. you're going to miss the whole thing here. >> right. honey, i know you put a lot of thought and effort and energy into this dinner tonight. >> bob, are you going to ask me if you can eat in front of the television set? >> eventually, i was going to ask you, yeah. >> i think it was the beginning of a really smart, sophisticated ensemble ...

>> i want to correct something right now, i don't hate spunk. i love spunk. >> it was a total shift in gender roles. she's a single working woman, you know, living in a building with other single women. >> how would you both like to help abolish capital punishment? >> uh, phyllis, there's no capital punishment in this state. >> well, that was easy. >> and you have this kind of shift in the workplace. there's more men and women working together. it's creating this uncomfortable dynamic. >> i was right, huh? >> yes, ted, you were right. >> you were wrong. >> yes, ted, i was wrong. >> ted baxter,...

Look at me. >> that's what i love about workplace comedies. people that would never in a million years have spoken become connected anyway and have to live with humor on a day to day, second to second basis to get through it. >> chuckles the clown is dead. >> the funeral of chuckles the clown is one of the great moments in comedy. >> he went to the parade dressed as peter peanut, and a rogue elephant tried to shell him. >> and everybody is making fun of it other than mary. >> i wonder which ones are the other clowns. >> they're all going to jump out of a little hearse. >> oh. >> at the end of ...