and cannot be anything but i had yots. mtv has a detrimental damaging developmental effective on tsex wallet, morality and maybe spish yalt on our young people. now we hit the 90s and once you can go for an audience of 5 million and have a successful show you can say, i don t care if the parents don t like this. can i tell you something miss mcallen? yes, emily. don t [ bleep ] with me. you hear me. stay away from my man i ll whip your [ bleep ] to next year. their success story is proof that if you just stay true to yourself you don t have to do anything else. people think, oh you came and
on one of the things hbo said to us it s got to be somebody that couldn t be on network t.v. because hb ork was driven by subscribers and not but commercials and telling advertising time, they had a different way of looking at success or failure. what they recall looking for is critical acclaim. you ve watched letterman, leno but what about larry? larry sanders that is? gary wanted to do a show that deconstructed the kind of show the tonight show was. just pretend like you re talking to me. okay. blah blah blah blah blah. the larry sander show was sort of cla that is rightic. in the world of that show there was a network. up me to [ bleep ] with your budget is that what you want me to do. it s became this fun house
did the show now you re big sell outs. the truth is we were sell outs to begin with. perhaps there is no stopping the corporate machine. we were sleeping at friends houses, had no money, and one fox executive has seen the cartoon we made in college and he said make me another christmas video i can sent out as a christmas card. he gave us 700 bucks and we made this 5 minute short. i come seeking retribution. le come to kill you because you re jewish kyle [ bleep ]. it went around the community like wild fire. it was the funniest thing you ve ever seen in your life. go jesus. somebody showed me the short i thought it was hysterical. so i called and i was like get them in here right away. oh my god, they killed kenny.
shows that was like a benchmark. it changed a lot of things for everybody. throw out the handbook. tony soprano, the lead actor in a drama, he killed a man. we watched him. he took his daughter on a college tour. pretty, huh? yeah. it was just a melding of a guy and a world [ bleep ] you doing? and a behavior that promoted all the feelings that you would have for a guy that you love in a guy that you hate. you know? sopranos came on tv and it really showed us the future whether we realized that was going to be the future of television or not. this husband of yours, carmella, how much we love him. he s the best. like a father to me. just make sure nothing happens to him.
restrictions, not make as much money but have freedom of expression. which almost everybody who works in these mediums want. some of the content truly was, you can t get this anywhere else. your fantasy makers are the only limits on the fancies is people s imagination. hbo turned to people who said i can t do that on television, but you can do it on hbo. white people don t versus black people. that s why they won t vote for no black president. like a black brother will bleep up the white house. like the grass won t be cut. cousins running through the white house, cook outs, basketball goals in the back. in the late 80s hbo was just gaining ground for series. by the 90s hbo has started to began its explosion. when we started doing dream