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
these people were there. so dad went home that night, and he wrote the theme song. and then gilligan s island went on the air. you know, they could make a latrine, they could make huts, they could make radio receivers. keep pedaling! they could make a cinema complex. a raft was beyond their capability. the critics hated it. they thought it was the worst show ever. everybody said this is the stupidest plot we ve ever seen. this isn t gonna last five minutes. we ve never been off the air in 50 years. we may have to stay here for a long, long time. i just remember laughing so hard at gilligan and skipper somehow were bald. look at us! our heads look like a couple of cantaloupes. [ laughs ] it just made us laugh. i think i was just happy i knew what a cantaloupe was. you either were a mary ann fan or a ginger fan. i was too into ginger, i gotta be honest with you. i think i m a mary ann guy. mary ann or ginger? i had the hots for the professor. [ laughs ]
long time. i just remember laughing so hard that gill again and scaper were balanced. look at us. it s like a cantaloupe. i knew what a cantaloupe was. neither marianne fan or a ginger fan? marianne. i had the hots for the professor. he s got a point there. i love gilligan s island. it was to me really smart. my dad wanted to create a microcosm of society. he wanted the skipper to be leadership and mr. howell to be cameraism, the professor to be sbe electric actual, ginger to be vanity. does paper keep us afloat? does money keep us afloat? there were no black people on
so dad went home that night and he wrote the theme song. for a three-hour tour then gilligan s island went on the air. you know, they could make a latrine, they could make huts, they could make radio receivers, they could make a cinema complex. a raft was beyond their capability. the critics hated it, thought it was the worst show ever. everybody said, this is the stupidest plot we ve seen, this isn t going to last five minutes. we haven t been off the air for 50 years. we may have to stay here for a long, long time. i remember laughing so hard at gilligan and skipper, somehow were bald? look at us, our heads look like a couple of cantaloupes. i just laughed. i think i was happy i knew what a cantaloupe was. neither a marianne fan nor a ginger fan. i was too into ginger, i ve got to be honest. i think i m a marianne guy. marianne or ginger? i had the hots for the