What was your favorite sitcom growing up?

Cosby Show.

Are you serious?

Uh-huh.

Why?

It was a family like our family.

I didn't understand that it was revolutionary as a kid because of, I mean, you know,

there's a lot of lore with the Cosby show because, I don't have portrayed a black family in this

way. It was a very important show. But I just didn't feel the weight of any of that as a little kid.

I just thought Bill Cosby was funny and the girls were pretty and I could relate to the Theo

character. I was younger than him and I thought Rudy was cute and funny and delightful and it just

seemed like a very familiar thing to me what was going on with that show. And my parents laughed at it

a lot and so we would all watch it when it came on.

We'd all laugh real hard. It was wholesome. So I didn't feel any of the nervousness about like my parents are going to, you know, become concerned or make a consternated face when there's a joke I don't understand. It's just good, clean, fun. I loved it. Always look forward to it. What about you? Do you remember the TGIF stuff that came on at night?

Yeah.

There was like four or five comic. clean fun. I loved it. Always look forward to it. What about you? Do you remember the TGIF stuff that came on at

night? There were like four or five comedies sitcoms in a row. ABC, right? I don't know. So the one I

remember is full house. What else was? There was full house. There was boy, boy meets world. Was that one of

them? Maybe for a while. Home improvement. That was part of it? I don't know. Was perfect strangers part of that? I don't know. I don't know. With Larry and cousin Pauke? They were married. Not married. They were living together. Yeah. Charles in charge was a little before all that. Yeah. That's just not a thing anymore, is it? It doesn't feel like it to me. To me, there are three eras of sitcoms in my life. There's the era that you and I are talking about with the really heavy laugh track, which as a kid didn't bother me at all. Eventually, I reached a certain age,

and I thought, that's stupid. Don't tell me when to laugh or how hard to laugh. Also, how did they all

know to stop laughing at the exact same moment? Right. What is with that? But it was real wholesome.

Now you look back and realize that every single actor was hopped up on cocaine for

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