don t you judge me. you re the selfish one. you re the one who charged his own brother for a frozen banana. i mean, it s one banana, michael, what could it cost? $10? you ve never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you? if you got it, it s the funniest thing you ever saw. it assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. what do you got there? don t be afraid to make a i m not going to beat myself up over that. it was so clever and more meta than just about any show that s ever been on television. your average american male is in a state of perpetual adolescence, arrested development. that s the name of the show. you could break all these rules and also have a lot of characters on a comedy who were extremely unlikable. there are a lot more important things than jokes in a comedy. jokes aren t the most important thing in a comedy. what s the most important thing? character.
i honestly couldn t quite believe it, that television was communicating something that you might only see in the darkest moments and accurate moments in cinema. you look at the year that american beauty won the oscar, which is also the year that the sopranos debuted. almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. i know what i must do. i m afraid to do it. movies became much more focused on big tentpole things that could bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grownups that maybe don t get the biggest audience but get a really passionate one. i ll be home for christmas i had an idea of doing a show about death.
all of it kind of reality show fake. people who worked on it have come forward and said, you know, we kind of made the whole thing up. and yet it sells. then there s just this explosion. you interested in tattoos? weight loss? plastic surgery? breast augmentation, tummy tuck, facial surgery. hoarders? substance abuse? flipping your house? that s a big one. there s literally a reality show for everyone now. the networks would be out of business without reality tv. if you had to fill 40 hours of television with scripted shows, it would cost you an arm and a leg. you would be out of business because those scripted shows most likely will do no better and probably worse than the reality show did. we also started seeing things aimed at gay viewers and women. and so, you know, you have
don t make jokes now. by the time frazier and friends went off the air, there was a feeling among the networks that the multicamera 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 multicamera tv shows. we write a four-camera show. we write it, direct it, perform it, rehearse it like a play in front of a studio audience. when someone gets a laugh on that stage, they actually hold, as you do not in real life, as you do not in single camera, you are holding for that laugh. it s an abstract. not abstract enough. you ve done an amazing job. it looks like something, though .
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