these sitcom characters. they re your friends. i don t think it s going to pivot anymore. you think? they were purely selfish and purely immature. are you still master of your domain? i m queen of the castle. you hope that you ll have those kinds of relationships in your life. tonight is about celebrating our enduring weekend as friends, nay, family. good to see you too, girl. where you going? carnival? your friends, sometimes that s more family than the people that you re related to. something s bothering you. i ve never been happier. trying to make your way in the world. having a safe harbor, you know, where everybody knows your name. afternoon, norm. norm! i m out. what? yeah, i m out. i m out of the contest. ugly naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly naked gal. friends or seinfeld, you want me to choose? i can t answer that. it s so subjective. challenge accepted. contest. a contest? seinfeld will win, i
ha! i played synclaire james, a loveable, fun, super-naive girl. i haven t been this nervous since i lost my tube top at the deep end of randy johnson s pool. well, i m sure no one noticed. regine was very in touch with herself and her femininity. if you go after a man too aggressively, you re only going to scare him off. what are you making? a man trap. the importance of having a black woman who is the show runner means living single is this like behind-the-scenes look of what black women are like when they re not around white people. i don t know. the club scene is tired. it s nothing but a bunch of brothers there with beepers and gold teeth talking about i d like to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit. kudos to yvette lee bowser to create something so amazing and so real. a year later friends was on the air. yes, we were for all intents
and purposes the model, the template. it was really difficult to watch because we were getting less publicity. we were on fox. they were on nbc. would the narrative and the conversations about our success or the degree of our success be different if we were on, let s say, nbc? of course. i never watched friends because they could not possibly find a way to add anybody of color. it was to a certain extent a product of the time period. and of my own ignorance. there were black shows and there were white shows. there weren t a lot of shows that were interracial. i guess at the time i was thinking, this is what i know. this is what i know. okay. i hear you. we can talk about that. friends is not based on living single. friends is based on marta kaufman and david crane s life experiences.
that you wanted to build your career first. living single in a 90s kind of world i m glad i got my girls most keep your head up what? but we didn t have any young black women who were really being featured on television at that time. why does this keep happening to me? because you keep looking for someone to carry you. what s wrong with that? they keep dropping your ass. so the characters on the show were based on me and my close-knit group of friends. check it out, people. khadijah is living in brooklyn, wanting to really start her magazine. the next issue of flava will continue a free scratch and sniff poster of laurence fishburne as othello. her best friend maxine shaw, attorney at law. i left that man with nothing but a lip balm and half a tic tac.