successful spin-off, at least in the history of sitcoms. and the emmy goes to. frasier. frasier. frasier ! we were lightning hot, and it was critical for us to be leading the way, not just following. friends is about that time in your life when your friends are your family. ow! ow! ow! ow! what s going on? when david crane and i lived in new york, we were part of a group of six people. we were all attached at the hip, and we went everywhere together and celebrated everything together. oh, let s open it! and there s that period where you re looking to be out there on your own and the people you rely on are the ones who live down the hall. here we go. pivot. pivot. pivot! pivot!
audience increase, like, five times. the success of cnn was not lost on other people, and so there were competing forces coming into play. how delighted i am that we ve now reached this moment when we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. unfortunately, with cable news, and the ability, or the need, to be on the air 24/7, where you try to get as many eyeballs as possible at one time, to gravitate towards those stories that are sensational, you know, it brought us the ability to go too far. is the jonbenet ramsey murder investigation turning into a media circus? yes, it s tabloid, but on the other hand, it s a tabloid era, and here s the point, here s where the fear comes in to it, i think, larry. it s the fear that says, gosh, if we don t cover it big time, our competition is, and when they cover it big time, they re going to get a big jump in the
to go through their process and they would learn and, um, ultimately they knew better than we did. my mother caught me. caught you? doing what? you know. i was alone. the turning point for seinfeld from like nice show that all the cool people kind of know about but that s it, to massive hit was the episode called the contest where they try to abstain from self-pleasure for as long as possible. 6:30, time for your bath. george, i m hungry! hang on, ma, hang on. once you do 30 minutes on masturbation, you could pretty much get away with anything. i guess you ll be going back to that hospital. well, my mother, jerry.
broadway musical. i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail and they began to sing, life in the hood ain t no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. life in the hood ain t no pizza pie, anybody could die when the bullets fly. and i m, wait a minute, hold on, wait a minute. i thought, well, this is it. this is gonna be great. this is gonna be as innovative as anything i ve ever done. he s guilty, judge, he s guilty. you could see it in his eyes, he did the crime and now he s gotta pay. merp. i mean, it just it circled the drain. i will give credit to anybody who goes outside the box and swings really hard for the fences. i worked real hard and i got my education. i m creatively proud of it, still, you know. i m very glad we tried it.
american family to make american families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. huh? we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. they have dealt with politics, they ve dealt with popular culture, they ve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. don t ask me. i m just a girl. ha ha ha ha ha. right on, say it, sister. it s not funny bart, millions of girls will grow up thinking that this is the right way to act. they have found a way to talk about everything that s going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. them immigrants. they want all the benefits of living in springfield, but they ain t even bothered to learn themselves the language. yeah, those are exactly my sentimonies. think one of the governing