- okay. it's you and me, all right? this is it. - this is it. unless we're on a break. [audience laughter] don't make jokes now. - by the time "frasier" and "friends" went off the air, there was a feeling among the networks that the multi-camera format filmed in front of a live studio audience... - so i guess this is it. - was getting kind of tired and getting kind of stale. - you guys play the most important part: the live studio audience! - now, there is no form of television that makes as much money for the networks as multi-camera tv shows. - oh, raymond! - mom, mom, mom, mom-- - oh, my sweet raymond! - [wailing] mom! - we write a four-camera show, we write it, direct it, and perform it and rehearse it like a play in front of a studio audience.