Lives. Tomorrow is about celebrating us, family. Good to see you, too, girl. Where are you going . Carnival . Sometimes your friends have more of a family than the people youre related to. Somethings bothering you. Ive never been happier. Having a Safe Harbor where everybody knows your game. Im out. What . Im out of 2 contest. Ugly naked guy is having Thanksgiving Turn with ugly naked gal. Friends of Sign Sign fell. Sign fell was smart. He was a brilliant halfhour. Seinfeld. You come to expect their dickishness. So i said, oh, my gosh. Stein fell is my favorite. Whoo friends. Friends. Friends. I really appreciated friends. One of the top alltime sitcoms, seinfeld, yeah. Are we finished . Done. At the core of every sitcom, you do have a family, whether it is a Blood Family or a found family. In the case of friends or seinfeld. As new generations emerge from Baby Boomers to Gen X to millennials to gwen jen c, we see that reflected in the sitcom. It happens as we hit the 70s. We seem to be going downhill in lifes most important issue. Marriage. Dont you compare everybody to your wife . Sure ir do. And compared to everybody else, she looks good. Exploring the breakup of the family on television. Most men share an apartment without driving Each Other crazy. The perfect opening to a sitcom was, of course the Odd Couple and set it up in a beautiful way. Flicks unger was asked to leave his place of residence. It came to division in 1970, thanks to garry marshall. Will you do me a favor . For my birthday, let me clean up in here. The finickiness is because arthur was finicky. Owned scar was the complete opposite. Odd couple is so seminal, it defines a whole category. In the first episode of two and a half men, i thought are we making allen a neat freak . If not, were just going Odd Couple. What are you doing . Working their way into the nap of the carpet. They go on password and the password is bird. Doesnt get it. Then the other team gets it. No more greek clues. Thats ridiculous. The Pass W0rd is ridiculous. Now. Ridiculous. You got it as much as they got on Each Others nerves, they had Each Others back. Looks like your ex wife. Looks like laurie . Yeah. A commonplace that shows that diverted from Family Life in the 70s really reflected what was happening in reality in america. As a Latch Key Kid i came home from school, Lockeding The Door behind me and then you could watch an hour of tv. Latch key kids desperately search for something relatable on television. I talked to my folks. I told them i dropped out of my school and my father said to my mother. See, i told you we shouldnt have had him. Welcome back cotter, its in my bones, in my dna. That slow, sexy, Welcome Back your dreams were your ticket out welcome to that same old place that you laughed about all four Marks Bros. A collection of guys with a Special Relationship with what their teacher. They were brothers and kids. Up your nose with a rubber hose. Barb reno. 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Is that what that smell is . I thought it was sour milk. Hes probably just fuel pump, you know. But not a lot of people were watching abc. They were a dbt third place. Remember, in the early 70s abc made a Big Mistake in not picking up all in the family. Then abc decided to reinvent themselves. Fred Silver Man said lets go after the young people. Under Fred Silver man its decided that phenomenally need to be elevated. The fonz took it up a new level. Were looking for someone tall and tough and they got short and soft. So ive changed my voice and i changed the tilt of my body. I just started talking like this. Whoa. So i spoke volumes with just the sound, he. You aint nothing but a Hound Dog Miriam always called the fonz arthur, because she wanted to treat him with such good respect. A good night. Thanks, mrs. Krnks. And i think she had a crush on him, a little bit, you know. When the fonz took over, the dynamic changed. We venture into teenage american extra feety style comedy. Lets see it. Doesnt look like a hickey. That show ends up going from 22nd place to first place and becomes the Number One show in the country. There would be traffic, people getting home to watch Happy Days. It was a revolution. Networks targeted 18 to 29 year olds with friend sitcoms. Lavern and shirley, whoa. Garry marshall said we got this part. It was a double date with fonzie and richey. Yall look nice. If its showing its blowing. They were incredibly individually foib. Is anybody upstairs going to run down and call me a nasty name . He got the idea to spin the morph into chair own show. My jesus and my beatles was lavern and shirley. Everybody identified with them because we were Best Friends and just the opening theme. We loved that. Were going to do it give us any chance well take it snepd. Lavern and shirley is about two Working Class Girls who struggle to make ends meet working at a brewery, going out at night and really so nice to see two women at the center of a sitcom. Lavern and shirley through the lens of the Eighth 50s were saying a lot an what women were trying to accomplish in the 70s. They want to go out and work and not get married. Unemployment. A neat guy. An employed guy. Its the quintessential girl who wants to get married, have the white picket fence. What if we go and you meet this wonderful guy. Is he going to marry you . Stranger things have happened. Lavern just wanted to have a good time. He did not wear fish net stockings. Thats why he didnt get any action. They were physical comed comediennes, the likes of which hasnt been seen since lucy. What she figured out to do with making a bed. There you go. Its way beyond my pay grade. Oh. Lavern and shirley was Number One for i dont know how many seasons. It just went off the charts ridiculous and it felt like it was for us. Dreams come true for Me And You President Ford Today proclaimed february to be national black history month. In light of the success of the Friends Sitcoms like Happy Days and lavern and shirley, they decided they wanted to create a story about black teenagers. Here was these kids in watts hanging around at the diner, like teenagers in the 1950s, like the white boys going. Whats happening . Opened the entire world to black teeners who are Best Friends. And shes out of town, so you know its fog on the a party of the year. Its based around friendships of rerun. Rerun can dance. Duane with the big fro. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, whats happening. The sister was like my sister. Youre always broke and you cant hold down a steady job. His mother was like my moms. She beat him all of it. With you mama. I wouldnt say but, if i were you. It might give me an idea, dear. The other thing thats happening is friendship. Kids drive on that. Without friendship, we have nothing. The irony of whats happening is you go to the yacht graph signing, its all white. People dont care about the color when you make it live. Tion to their medical appointments. Thats why i started medhaul. Citi launched the Impact Fund to invest in both women and entrepreneurs of color like me, so i can realize my vision and give everything ive got to my company, and my community. I got you. For the love of people. For the love of community. For the love of progress. Citi. Among my patients i often see them have Teeth Sensitivity as well as gum issues. Does it worry me . Absolutely. Sensodyne Sensitivity And Gum gives us a dual Action Effect that really takes Care Of both our Teeth Sensitivity as well as our gum issues. Theres no question its something that i would recommend. Not all 5g Networks are created equal. Tmobile americas largest, fastest, most reliable 5g network. I never think my Best Friend is white. I just know my Best Friend is natalie. When you look at tooty and natalie, youre looking at friendship and love, that supersedes race. The norman Leer Show may have been teaching us lessons but it wasnt so overt. Im looking for blare warner. You must be her Cousin Jerry. Yes. The only time i ever saw a child with a Disability On Television was on a telethon. Norman leer cast me as her cousin. What does this mean . It says i dont have cerebral palsy, im drunk. It was risky. How was the Bus Ride . I dont know. I drove. A car . No. I email ln. When Facts Of Life aired, i was so used to kids bullying me and calling me names, that was in my head when i saw this kid, and the one kid, there were about four of them. Are you Cousin Jerry from Facts Of Life . It was a real incredible feeling to be liked by kids. I mean, youre not going to make fun of me or call me names . Wow. Facts of life was won by a younger demographic. Eventually those kids would grow up. What stories do you tell them . 1980s were a radical transformeration. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name i dont know if i can tell you why cheers was so popular manying the 80s but i know the song was brilliant. You want to go where everybody knows your name jend jend. As was coming to The End of its run they were trying to think what their next project would be. We were a desperate network. I thought my future at nbc was on the line, and it was a remarkable remarkably simple pitch. We want them to come into the bar, share their life stories. I like the challenges. Dogs, kids, hard to find mailboxes. You think accountings boring, right . I miss one dijd. The whole company goes which the toilet. In Year Run cheers was the lowest rated show in primetime on any network. What a pathetic display. It was a Shame God made me a man. I dont think gods doing a lot of bragging about it, either. We loved it. We believed we just got hang in on this. Someone said lets not cancel cheers. Not many people are watching it but lets keep it. On behalf of the intelligent women around the world may i just say whew the critics were watching and they liked what it saw. It took that first year for people to find the show. Audiences love the character so much. A family of lovable losers who were trying to find their way. The things they think theyre masking theyre not doing a great job at it. So its funny. Sam, the ex relief pitcher, reformed alcoholic, who took his pitching coach, Nick Callasanto started this bar. His regulars, george went, norm, who its stupid for me to try to describe these iconic characters that everyone knows better than me. The relationship between Sam And Diane was magical. Im sorry i was late. Is there anything i can do to make it up to you . Yeah. But you wouldnt. A story telling trope, will they, wont they. You disgust me. I hate you. Are you as turned on as i am. More cheers was explicitly saying these people are going to sleep together and its going to be a disaster. Ive never been better in my entire life. Youve been boozing it all since diane walked out. Im dr. Frazier kocrane. I thought i can play this guy. No. He moved on after the fifth season. In came kirstie alley. She was like this Biker Chick from hell. She blew the roof off of it. Then came woody harrelson. You get behind a bar and right away strangers are your Best Friends. Friends was that place where you actually belong. This is your secondary family. We lost nick, the coach, after the third year. We didnt realizes How Sicknick was. He started writing all his lines down wherever he could. We saw one of them. After he passed away. The line was it says if hes still with us now. And we used to touch that. Every night when wed perform, wed touch that and give it a little pat. Im off. The last episode, i remember thinking i got to be part of that history of comedy. I am the luckiest son of a bitch, truly. All dennys pancakes are made to order with fresh buttermilk. 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A lot of it had to do with the Baby Boomers as they got older. Because tvs always seeking a younger demographic youve got an area that is rife with story possibilities that No One Else is bothering to explore. Brandon tartikoff and Warren Littlefield wanted to do a show about older women living together. And i said, i think Susan Harris is the greatest Comedy Writer perhaps of all time and i worshiped the innovative quality of soap. I pitched her the idea. Her question was, networks just want shows about young people. You know, are you going to put this on the air . Thank you for being a Friend Travel down the road and back again your heart is true youre a pal and a confidant as a kid, thats right, sitting there on a Saturday Night with my parents watching Golden Girls. This is the timeless foursome. Sophia is the matriarch. Ma. Whats the matter . Everyone is fine. No one died. The home burnt down. Ma, estelle getty, she just would call Rue Mcclanahan a slut in so many great ways. Ive just discovered a great new way to meet more men. More men . Youre going to need a turnstile in your bedroom. Gosh, the true heart of that show was dorothy, the Bea Arthur character. Honey, beware of anyone who says no calories, absolutely no charge, and lets just lie down on the Bed And Watch television. And then of course Roses Character is the clown. I mean, i was the one who thought up big squeaky toys for cows. The Golden Girls talked about edgy stuff. It was in my first script, Roses Husband died while having sex with her. Although i did think it was strange when he started yelling rose, im going, im going. Thats an edgy joke. Young adult audiences went crazy for it. Viewers and apparently network censors would allow older women to a say things that other characters couldnt get away with. Complete this famous saying. Better late than. Blanche. Pregnant. One of the biggest laughs of the show it ever got, the girls are going on a cruise. They realize they should pick up some condoms. They are being very coy. Enema bag . To the right. Condoms, rose condoms, condoms the laughs were massive because it was such normbreaking behavior. Streaming opened up a whole new avenue to find continued viewership with people who were not even necessarily alive when the show ended in 1992. This show was built to last. How about some whipped cream . Mm. Mm. I think we still have a can. Ill get it. Its in my bedroom. Never mind, blanche. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time. But we can make it better. Leading up to the 80s, there had been a number of shows about people hanging out with Each Other. Seinfeld really busts this wide open. Its hard to believe at times, but No One forced them to hang out with Each Other all of the time. You know what your problem is . Your standards are too high. I went out with you. Thats because my standards are too low. Whats so unique about the seinfeld episode The Pitch is that we see the Origin Story of a sitcom played out on the show. So youre saying i go into nbc and tell them i got this idea for a show about nothing. We go into nbc. Since when are you a writer . What writer . Were talking about a sitcom. Jerry had an observational humor. Do you know what this is all about . Do you know why were here . To be out. This is out. A gentleman named Rick Ludwin at nbc who was in charge of late night he approaches jerry seinfeld. So if you had an idea for like a Tv Show for yourself, wed just love to talk about it. Jerry said Larry David and i, were just going to write about like our friends. What kind of stories . Oh, no. No stories. No stories . Well, why am i watching it . Because its on tv. Not yet. It was completely nontraditional. We decided to make a pilot. The second button literally makes or breaks the shirt. Look at it. Its too high. And then the research came in. Weak. But Rick Ludwin really believed in it. He said i could give you the money from the budget and you could do i dont know, four episodes more of seinfeld. The biggest change was elaine was added to the show. Get out and you know what . That feels like we have something. So what do you think about the new sometime slot . 9 00 on thursday, 8 00 central. Name one famous Nbc Show that aired in that time slot. Cheers. Its a dangerous slot because theyre handing you the biggest audience there is. If that audience starts watching you and goes i hate this and they go oh, wait, youre dead. My mother caught me. Caught you . Doing what . You know. The episode that is super important in the trajectory of seinfeld is the contest. I am never doing that again. It was predicated on a real contest that Larry David had been part of. Seeing who could go the longest without masturbating. But are you still master of your domain . I am king of the county. But what also should be noted, elaine is in the contest. John f. Kennedy jr. And that i think was a bold statement at that time. Hang on. Hang on. Jerry was dating marla, the virgin. Lets go in the bedroom. Really . That was an episode that doubled its audience while it was airing because people were clearly getting on the phone and going turn it over to channel 4, youve got to see what theyre doing and thats where i think the ultimate success of the show was born. Its over . Youre out . Oh, my god, the queen is dead. In the 90s The World is literally changing overnight. And here are these four people grounded in their adolescence. You mean shrinkage . Yes. Theyre not trying to be good people. And everybody recognized some part of themselves in them and went, i think i love these guys. George is getting upset seinfeld. That was a game changer. No soup for you. Seinfeld just had a tone. You were making out during Schindlers List . 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Did you ever stop to think what the world would be like without men . A bunch of fat happy women and no crime. In the 90s it was celebrated that you wanted to build your career first. Living single in a 90s Kind of world, im glad i got my girls. Keep your head up. What . But we didnt have any young black women who were really being featured on television at that time. Why does this keep happening to me . Because you keep looking for someone to carry you. Whats wrong with that . They keep dropping your ass. So the characters on the show were based on me and my Closeknit Group of friends. Check it out, people. Khadijah is living in brooklyn, wanting to really start her magazine. The next issue of flava will kind contain a free scratch and sniff poster of Laurence Fishburne as othello. Her Best Friend maxine shaw, attorney at law. I left that man with nothing but a Lip Balm and half a tic tac. I played synclaire james, a lovable fun super naive girl. I havent been this nervous since i lost my Tube Top at the Deep End of randy johnsons pool. Well, im sure No One noticed. Regine was very in touch with herself and her femininity. If you go after a man too aggressively youre only going to scare him off. What are you making . A man trap. The importance of having a black woman who is the Show Runner means living single is this like behindthescenes look of what black women are like when theyre not around white people. I dont know. The Club Scene is tired. Its nothing but a bunch of brothers there with beepers and gold teeth talking about id like to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit. Kudos to Yvette Lee Bowser to create something so amazing and so real. A year later friends was on the air. Yes, we were for all intents and purposes the model, the template. It was really difficult to watch because we were getting less publicity. We were on fox. They were on nbc. Would the narrative and the conversations about our success or the degree of our success be different if we were on, lets say, nbc . Of course. I never watched friends because they could not possibly find a way to Add Anybody of color. It was to a certain extent a product of the time period. And of my own ignorance. There were black shows and there were white shows. There werent a lot of shows that were interracial. I guess at the time i was thinking this is what i know. This is what i know. Okay. I hear you. We can talk about that. Friends is not based on living single. Friends is based on Marta Kaufman and david Cranes Life experiences. Marta and i spent our 20s living in new york. We were part of a group of six, and we all glommed on to Each Other. Ive spent a ton of time analyzing, you know, friends and what its about. That time in your life where your friends are your family. Im very thankful that all of your thanksgivings sucked. The biggest surprise to me was matthew perry. He put accents on certain syllables that you go thats i would never have read that joke that way. Could we be more White Trash . When i watched friends i didnt want monica to not be a control freak. You want to push the caps until you hear them click. Matt made joey funny. Look at me. Im chandler. Could i be wearing any more clothes . They were all rooting for Each Other. Now we need the semen of a righteous man. I think phoebe is appealing because shes different. And so it gives people permission, yeah, you dont have to fit in, you can still like yourself and its okay. Smelly cat smelly cat what are they feeding you i dont know why people love smelly cat. But to me there were other songs that were also very, very funny. Down in the meadow goes the farmer thats funny. Well, maybe i dont need your money. Wait, i said maybe. Rachel green being sort of a spoiled character off the top of the show and about humbling that character and making her independent. Like Sam And Diane on cheers. We knew that Ross And Rachel from the pilot were going to be a thing. I just want to be married again. The Ross And Rachel relationship made it like oh, i have to tune in this week because i want to see are they getting together. I cant believe i dont get to go to my own prom. Its so harsh. The one with the Prom Video where rachel realizes that ross has always loved her. Bye. Oh, dear. I cant believe you did that. Yeah, well. All the most memorable moments in the sitcoms are the ones where they touched on something beyond the comedy. [ cheers and applause ] and it made for a really great television that a lot of people wanted to watch. Literally everyone in america. I ross. Take thee emily. Take thee rachel. Weve really been on a ride with Ross And Rachel. Our goal in writing the finale was to really make you believe that they might not get together. I have to get on the plane. No you dont. Yes i do. No, you dont. Theyre waiting for me, ross. I watched the final episode and im crying as an audience member. I was there in the audience, and you could feel the energy. I remember it being very secretive. We had a big flat across part of the stage so that people couldnt see. Isnt there any way you can just let me off the no no oh, my god, did she get off the plane . Did she get off the plane . [ rewinding ] i got off the plane. [ cheers and applause ] look, i also wonder why this show endures the way it does. I do feel like it is the marriage between the writing and the chemistry of the cast. We genuinely loved and love Each Other. Everyone just did a really good job. Thats not a good way to end it. But i mean, i think yeah. E delicious sandwiches from jimmys johns . They got Summer Wraps theyre new. This ones chicken caesar. Got croutons too, boss freakin jimmys johns new Summer Wraps. For a limited time only. Washed your hands a Lot Today . Probably like 40 times. Hands feel dry . Like sandpaper. 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A lot of our friend groups, theyre borderline toxic, Becaus Costanza was based on Larry David, curb your enthusiasm was actually a continuation of seinfeld in spirit. Your last name is black. Yeah. Thats like if My Last Name was jew, like larry jew. Larry david the character, hes one of my Best Friends. You had sex with a mental patient. Shes not a mental patient. Shes not a mental patient. I love as much as an [ bleep ] he is. [ bleep ] holes dont go out with the disables, okay . I think i like the [ bleep ] holes, you know . I like the jerks. Could you just move your legs . What are you doing . Are you looking at my breasts . He will a tick late things that a person might think but you dont say that. You wear that dress because you want people to look at your shoes, right . There was no thought, what will people think . If you werent my Best Friend, i would take my bare hands and pop your head off your neck. Curb your enthusiasm came about at a time when sitcoms of the 90s had somewhat worn out their welcome because there had been a glut of them. In the wake of friends ending, this juggernaut for nbc networks obviously had to find some way to make it new. Kids, im going to tell you an incredible story. The premise of How I Met Your Mother, is a grown man telling his children the story of how he met their mother. It was way back in 2005. I was 27, just starting to make the show wasnt your sort of traditional sitcom. Had to do with the flashback element. Is this going to take a while . Yes. 25 years ago, before i was dad, i had this whole other life. So you guys absolutely dont think i should call her . Ted, no. Okay. Okay. Fine. I wont. Interesting piece of trivia, i called her. What are you doing . It was this Ideal World where youve got your really good buddies that will always have your back. Yes, kids are not my favorite thing in the world, but i like them. You dont want to have them. I like sports cars, but it doesnt mean i want to push a ferrari through my vagina. But How I Met Your Mother fell into the traps that friends did. Its just like were affable white people living in new york. But as we entered the 21st century, its important to take node that these Friends Sitcoms started to reflect more cultural diversity. When You Guys First came in, we were as wholesome as the family in the brady bunch, and now were as dysfunctional as the cast of the brady bunch. Their Study Room is like the bar in cheers. Hey jeff winger, played by joel mchale, sort of our leader, hes this disgraced lawyer who comes back to community college. Im a student. Well, that will be an inspiring journey. He creates the Study Group because he wants to get in the pants of britta. Jeff and i do not have sexual tension. We just argue all the time. Oh, just like Sam And Diane. Chevy chase, who plays pierce hawthorn. His entire character exists to be racist and sexist. All right. You know know brittles. Britta. Abed, the arab. Is that inappropriate . Sure. Community is really creative, and i think it stood out at the time. Community ended up as this Insane Wild Ride through dan harmons mind. But what was different about New Girl, it wasnt meta. It wasnt community. It wasnt trying to make fun of the genre. Schmidt. New girl is about a woman who has been with the same guy for a long time. She comes home early from a trip and she finds him with another woman. Its just thats why i need a new apartment. Im sorry. What was the question again . Do you have any pets . And the only place she can find is an apartment with three guys and theyre kind of like her polar opposites. Whatcha doin . Were just chillin, just chillin. That discomfort, the girls and the guys being in the same space and theyre not together like partners, theyre together like friends, that felt unusual and fresh. I accidentally saw Nicks Peepee. What did she say . I accidentally saw Nicks Peepee and his bubbles. It was really important to me that all the characters on New Girl were racially diverse men, women. Not just like a cast of white people, which is like not that interesting. The fact of the matter is i live in a loft with three people who happen to be white. But believe you me, there is so much more that i find annoying about you that i havent even gotten to race. Thats why i do feel like New Girl was the sitcom for the millennial generation. Most of these dudes are not looking for a relationship. Yeah, this is a lot. You got to [ bleep ] a lot of frogs to get a good frog. Thats not the saying or any saying. The next step is showing these authentic portrayals, layered portrayals. Because, yes, we gravitate toward people who are like us, but they dont have to be exactly like us in order to create these really profound friendships and communities. Whered you get those . The machine. You want one . You come loam, turn on that television. I dont want i. What do you want . You want comedy. Stop it. And boom, there you go. A situation comedy. Bazinga. 23 minutes of magic. Le. Its so tasty, too. You fell in love with these car. What you talking about, willing is . Willis . Laughter opens you up. Ok, ready . Things that wmi