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Track, stay the course, a thousand points of light. stay the course. governor dukakis, rebuttal? i can t believe i m losing to this guy. i ll get it. it s garry shandling s show. people were taking all the old principles of comedy and trying to turn them into something new. we spent years and years watching sitcoms and dramas and talk shows by then. we knew them by heart, that if somebody played on that and parodied it, we got it instantly. yeah, i appreciate you coming in under these conditions, lewis, i really do. you want to hold the credits? okay, now, see, we were gonna show the credits, and you screwed that, up, okay, cause you re late. the garry shandling show was aware of the fact that it was a situation comedy. it highlighted the cliches in funny ways. are you looking into the camera? no. no, i didn t. don t look into the camera. i didn t. don t. you don t come in here and look in the camera. i didn t. i ll bop you. i will. if i see a tape of thi ....
And it was great. and then you realize you re part of people s lives. the 70s was the era where a certain artistry developed. m.a.s.h. really changed many people s perception of what the sitcom can be. the sitcom can be cinematic. m.a.s.h. was shot like a movie. and m.a.s.h. was maybe the single most unique situation comedy ever. i have a headache. a tremendous headache. it goes all the way down to my waist. the television series m.a.s.h. had one thing the movie in my estimation did not, which was heart. there are certain rules about a war. rule number one is young men die. rule number two is doctors can t change rule number one. it was about korea but we were talking about and doing things that had to do with vietnam and everybody knew it. rolling. action. war isn t hell. war is war and hell is hell and of the two war is a lot worse. we had 30 million people a week watching m.a.s.h. ....