damn! - damn, gina is said to me 100 times a day. - [unison] aw, damn! - i loved martin and gina s romance, particularly because it was the first time i saw a young black couple in love on television. - grab my ears? (audience laughs) (upbeat funky music) - we didn t think that we were gonna make the impact that we made. - girl, your hair is so nappy, wilson couldn t pick it. - recently, me, tichina, and martin had gone to lunch, and we were all like, can you believe this? it s like brady bunch. people are still watching this show, and we re in shock. and i was like, martin, can you believe they call us icons? and he was like, i know! we re living ooh single hey - living single is about six upwardly mobile 20 somethings who figure out life, and we figure it out together. - we had never seen a show
single hey - living single is about six upwardly mobile 20 somethings who figure out life, and we figure it out together. - we had never seen a show with such unapologetically black, smart, sexy, fun women on television before. - damn, he fine! (audience laughs) - oh, and good technique. - and big feet. (audience laughs) - they were friends before there was the sitcom friends. - living single came first. there was an interview with warren littlefield who, at the time, was running nbc. they asked him, was there any show that you wish you had bought this year? and he said, i wish i had bought living single. - living single was the archetype. you get a group of quirky women living across from quirky men, two dudes. (upbeat jazzy music) - [male reporter] later today on oprah, lonely women who waste their lives watching television. - there was a big twitter beef a little while ago
that we made. - girl, your hair is so nappy, wilson couldn t pick it. - recently, me, tichina, and martin had gone to lunch, and we were all like, can you believe this? it s like brady bunch. people are still watching this show, and we re in shock. and i was like, martin, can you believe they call us icons? and he was like, i know! we re living ooh single hey - living single is about six upwardly mobile 20 somethings who figure out life, and we figure it out together. - we had never seen a show with such unapologetically black, smart, sexy, fun women on television before. - damn, he fine! (audience laughs) - oh, and good technique. - and big feet. (audience laughs) - they were friends before there was the sitcom friends. - living single came first. there was an interview with warren littlefield who,