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Hollywood Has Lost Touch With Their Audience A Long Time Ago.

It Was The Last Generation Of Writers [ The Cheers] That Had Grown Up Reading Books Instead Of Watching Tv. So You Weren't Getting Anything That Was Derivative Of I Love Lucy Or Happy Days. You Were Getting Real Characters [like Those] They Read In P.g. Wodehouse Or Dickens Or Somewhere Along The Line, Because They Had All Grown Up With A Love Of Literature.

Sure, The Comedians Who Swear Or Use Scatological Humor Can Get Laughs, But They're Uncomfortable Laughs.

I Mean, Cheers [from The Star Wars] Was Just A Job While We Were Doing It. All Of Us Were Really Only Hustling To Pay The Rent, Weren't We.

I Don't Want To Go Back To Sitcoms - I'm A Middle-aged, White Guy - The High School Principal Who's A Buffoon. It's Hard Enough Raising Kids Now A Days, And I Don't Want To Be A Part Of A Show That I'll Be Embarrassed Watching Shows Like That With My Kids And My Mother. A Lot Of Shows Feel They Need To Get That For Humor. You've Have To Have Had A Life Experience; Otherwise, It's Toilet Humor. If You've Had A Job Before Or Experienced Something, You Get It. Some Of These People Haven't And They Look For The Cheap Laugh.