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well, i think we just decided we were meant to be very close friends. very close friends, that s right. i ve had some very close friends. yeah, me too. it s cost me a lot of money. the apprentice has its lasting effect even today. donald trump becomes a star. you re fired. 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. and then there s just this explosion. are 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. like, there s literally a reality show for everyone now. networks would be out of business without reality tv. if you have to fill 40 hours of television with scripted shows,
understand, tony. what does she have that i don t have? suddenly, here s this tv show that everyone s talking about, but you have to pay to watch it. you know, that s how good the sopranos was. people were paying just to see that show. the sopranos came along and completely reestablished what the bar was. i honestly couldn t quite believe 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, and almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverge. i know what i must do, but i m afraid to do it. movies became much more
is there any taboo that you wouldn t break? no, not if it was a funny idea. it s all about funny. yeah. so this is the magic trick, huh? illusion, michael. a trick is something a whore does from money. arrested development was absolutely firing on all cylinders from the first episode to the last. don t you judge me? you re the selfish one. you re the one who charged his own brother for a bluth frozen banana. i mean, it s one banana, michael. what could it cost, $10. you ve never actually set foot in the supermarket, have you? if you got it, it was the funniest thing you ever saw. because it assumed its audience was as smart as its writers. when you got there, don t be afraid to make a i m not gonna 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 perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development. hey, that s the name of the show. it was real
you and me, okay? all right, this is it. this is it. unless we re on a break. 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 played 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 for camera show. we write it, direct it and perform it and rehearse it like a play in front of a studio