i don t want one. no, they re good. i don t want it. what do you want? you want comedy. take one. no, kramer, stop it! and boom, there you go. a situation comedy. there s 23 minutes of magic. it s so tasty, too! you fell in love with these characters. what you talking about, willis? we need to laugh at ourselves. you hide my clothes, i m wearing everything you own. laughter opens you up. okay, ready? no! no! things that we might be afraid to talk about. some people that were supposed to protect us didn t do the right thing. like racism. so cops are the bad guys? yes. no. class wars. and gender diversity. hi, girls. you can reach in and really touch people s hearts. i hate you. are you as turned on as i am? more! whether it s a family living under the same roof dynomight! now that s the kind of talk i like to hear. or gathered together in a workplace. that s a glue stick. all the great sitcoms are about fami
we saw black family sitcoms like martin. like the bernie mack show. those sitcoms showed parenting to be difficult. uncle bernie is too old to play with dolls. can we play something else? which was not something you saw on a show like the cosby show. chris! get in the bathroom and wipe the pee off the toilet seat. disgusting. fox network had come on and did really well with brack sitcoms. so then the wb and upn at the time were coming on, and they started to diversify and grow that audience. they are able to snatch up this audience that the other networks were really ignoring up until that point. and so these shows kind of set the stage for the diversity in the family sitcom that can be seen on television today.