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I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.
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Dumb
Specifically
Tv Show
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I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
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Immense
Tv Shows
Change Believe I Believe
Episode
Pilot
Tenth
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I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
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Business Model
Cliff
Network
Network Television
The Problem With
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My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a domesticated guy with 3 kids.
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East
East Coast
Hollywood
Assume
Domesticated
Parties
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I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
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Tv
Anybody
Based
Works
Entirely
Sell
Executed
Feature
Feature Films
Films
Poorly
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To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.
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Disaster
Mass
Phenomenon
Retrospect
Amazing Me Know
Anymore
Appeal
Cultural
Ratings
Seinfeld
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The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
Bill Lawrence /
American Idol
Landscape
Odds
Outlets
Appeal
Human Being
Idol
Nowadays
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I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you don't believe any of these characters care for each other. I used to fight with my friends who wrote on 'Seinfeld,' because they had such great pride in saying it was a show about nothing.
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Pride
Great Pride
Seinfeld
Tossing
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I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they don't like them to be serialized: 'We want this one to be funny for someone who's never watched it and will never watch again.' And I go 'Why would anyone want to do it like that?'
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Episodes
Self Contained
Watched
Network
Pushes
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