laughter is a wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. we re going to the good place in a freaking gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. that s what helped me escape being poor. [ applause ] everything single one of you is a good person. when i m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. you re in the good place! the beautiful thing about the sitcom, is that it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north v
were on a cruise escaping your life. entertainment has changed. everything has changed, but human beings are still human beings. people want happy endings. they need happy endings. bye. bye. and we gave it to them every saturday. in 1977, abc was pure escapism. it was a formula that really ensured success. aw, come on. don t take it so seriously. abc was flying high with happy days , laverne & shirley , the six million dollar man , the bionic woman. abc could do no wrong. and eight is enough was part of that era. there s a madging in the early