of swedish experience in insidperfecting the rich,ars never bitter taste of gevalia. we do it all for this very experience. [woman] that s good. i know right? gevalia. back talking about the 90s and how we re still feeling them today. we re talking the murphy brown episode. the cultural context, if you want to make it political, this is a democratic party worried about culturally conservative voters. this was where republicans saw an opportunity to make democrats the party of murphy brown. we have culturally come a long
episode itself. the 92 campaign, i remember bill clinton on the donohue show. that was a pivot point where this merger of the media world and political world, that s when it happened. that s exactly right, the 92 campaign. bill clinton was using again alternative media any way he could get to connect with people. saying it now, it sounds foreign, possibly common sense, right? you re a candidate and want to get out where the people were. at the time this was really unusual. bill clinton was out there. he did talk shows. he did the kinds of programs by the way, the kinds of programs that women watched, 1992 was in many ways the year of the woman. a lot of women got elected. a lot of women voted. the second piece, and i was thinking about this, it is the year in which we saw relationships other than married people. whether it is seinfeld or murphy brown or a whole series afterwards, not everybody comes two by two. the world is not know s arc.
there was basically cnn. fox came in october and msnbc came about a month after we launched. the evening landscape was crazy magazine shows. it was like, your mattress, what you don t know might kill you. any time there was a swing going back, it was constantly faking and scaring us. when we launched, i said to comedy central, it s not enough to just cover the politics and the politicians. it s really about becoming what the media has become? for me that was a big part of it. joe, to bring you into this, i think everybody remembers murphy brown. it ran from 88 to 98 on cbs, a ten-year run, back in 1992, it became one of the major issues in a presidential election and what kicked it off was a television news woman, single
way from that. have we? what happens is, that happens and cut to now where an outspoken single woman who is on twitter or on the internet is now, not only has the vitriol of dan quayle or who has access to somebody with an opinion. for me it looks like we ve moved backwards with more information and more media. now, the more you put something out there that s alternative lifestyle oriented you re slammed for it. a lot easier to hear from angry people, people who hate you i guess the thing when i say things have changed and we ve 3406d on, i m thinking politically, i the democratic party of bill clinton, there was the fear of people said whether it was don t ask don t tell in 93 or defense of marriage act in 96. hey, don t want to go too far on the cultural issues because there will be a backlash. now in the wake of hobby lobby, it s embracing this is our coalition, this is the future,
woman, she became pregnant by the jerry gold character. she was not going to marry him, raise the child on her own. dan quayle, vice president at the time gave this speech. it doesn t help matters when prime time tv has murphy brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today s highly intelligent political woman, mocking the importance of factors and calling it just another lifestyle choice. if you could, take us back to that moment. do you remember where you were when you first heard about that speech? i don t remember exactly where i was, i knew it was a storm, i ll tell you. it was so big. we didn t there we were just trying to do our comedy show, get a couple of laughs. all of a sudden he comes out with this speech. it put a tremendous amount of pressure on this show because we had to red spond to that. everybody was waiting. we ended up that next season