It s so tasty too. You fell in love with these characters. What you talkin about, willis? we need to laugh at ourselves. You hide me clothes, i ll wear everything you own. Laughter opens you up. Things that we might be afraid to talk about, some people that were supposed to protect us didn t do the right thing. Like racism. The cops are the bad guys? yes. No. Class wars. I m a millionaire. And gender diversity. Dad? hi, girls. You can reach in and really touch people s hearts. I hate you. Are you as turned on as i am? more. Whether it s a family living under the same roof. Dineomite! that s what i want to hear. That s a glue stick. All the great sitcoms are about family. So wonderful. It s one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. What have we always said is the motion impost important thi? breakfast. Family. Family, right. Family is key to the sitcom. It s something we all can relate to. You re in these people s homes for years. You re a part of the family. One good thing a
Pivot! shut up, shut up, shut up! i feel like we get to know these sitcom characters. They re your friends. I don t think it s gonna pivot anymore. You think? they were purely selfish and purely immature. Are you still master of your domain? you hope that you ll have those kinds of relationships in your life. Tonight is about celebrating our enduring bond as friends. Family. Good to see you too, girl. Where you going? carnival? your friends. Sometimes that s more family than the people that you are related to. Something s bothering you. I ve never been happier. Trying to make your way in the world. And having a safe harbor, you know, where everybody knows your name. Afternoon, everybody. I m out. What? yeah, i m out. I m out of the contest. Ugly, naked guy is having thanksgiving dinner with ugly, naked gal. Friends or seinfeld? you want me to choose? i can t answer that. So subjective. Challenge accepted. Contest? a contest? seinfeld will win, i think. Seinfeld was smart. Seinfeld is a
Laughter as 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 frickin gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. That s what helped me escape being poor. Every 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 pressure, new products, everything being new, this brave new world. Everything s about the future and modernizing. Yes, it s all bright and shiny, you get cars that look like spaceships. But then it s a scary thing. What does the future hold? flint steins was a modern stone age family, if you recall. Celebrated the modern family in a stone age setting. It was like time travel fantasy for us watching
Live from cnn world h headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world. I m brynn kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. Fresh fighting was reported saturday in afghanistan s panjshir value i why, the only territory the taliban haven t captured. Panjshir is home to the national resistant front which has been opposing the taliban for decades. The fighting intensifies. In the capital the company s fragile economy got a small boost saturday when the largest currency exchange market opened for the first time in three weeks. Ordinary afghans have been starved for cash because banks are limiting withdrawals. Journalist ben farmer is in kabul and joins us by phone with the latest from there. Let s start with the fighting in the panjshir. What is the latest on the conflict there? it looks as though we may have lost ben. We might try and reach him again later on. Now earlier, i spoke with ben and so we re going to play a little tape of that
Electricity. And tensions are rising. Less than ten miles from where we are right now, police say a man was shot and killed, who was trying to get gasoline. A texas judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state s largest antiabortion group. The most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system. It just seems i know this sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican. Hi, everyone. Thanks for being with me. I m amara walker in atlanta in for pamela brown. You are in the cnn newsroom. East coast, west coast, gulf coast. The nation reels from a devastating week of extreme weather and the reality of a climate in crisis. The death toll has climbed to at least 50 in the northeast from ida s record rainfall. New york officials blame illegal basement apartments for most of the city s inhome deaths. In new jersey, searchers are looking for two college students who were swept away into a storm drain. Receding floodwaters left their empty car hanging above