Pioneers of Television — S04E01 — Standup to Sitcom

00:00:08 In comedy, we try to get laughs because that's how we survive.

00:02:49 I want him to do this and invite me over to his desk.

00:05:15 I had a different image of it in my mind.

00:07:23 My act? What does that have to do with anything?

00:09:33 watching them try and be smart is going to be funny.

00:11:51 yadda, yadda, yadda... I never heard from him again.

00:14:01 "You want the butter or the salt?"

00:16:02 Still, to this day, he's still there,

00:18:03 And that took me, I go, "Whoa, what's happening?"

00:20:25 Tim Allen built a career drawing humor

00:22:51 Have you ever noticed that fat people

00:25:01 saying something feminist or something pro-woman

00:27:06 You're not writing this down at all, are you?

00:29:14 In the basement of his local church,

00:31:33 Four years later, still no sitcom.

00:33:53 Do you know that the fruit keeps coming month after month?

00:36:09 Jumbled 'em.

00:38:34 They laugh at all intelligent women.

00:40:56 I've never played in a night club."

00:43:25 where Bob becomes a father.

00:46:00 How ya doin'?

00:48:23 More than a decade later, he'd try again,

00:50:40 who made the show

00:55:02 visit pbs.org.