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and i found that fascinating that they will point for their folks who will point at a bill cosby, for example, and say bill cosby's not really black because of what it is he's done and achieved and accomplished. however, you know, if bill cosby were standing on a street corner selling cla ining crack they mi other things about him but they would never say he's not black and i find that to be bizarre. what is it about success that is somehow a betrayal of your culture? i don't get it. >> this show is told, much of it, through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, you, living in san leandro back in the early '70s and it has some of the most difficult themes: domestic violence, your father knocking your mother against the wall, your attempted suicide. and yet it's very much interwoven with all that is humor. talk about that juxtaposition. >> when i first started to write this show i knew the rhythms i wanted. i wanted the rhythms that norman lear had in those great sitcoms from the '70s. because as a kid my mother would -- we's 'd sit on the floor and we'd watch "all in the family" and maud
and i found that fascinating that they will point for their folks who will point at a bill cosby, for example, and say bill cosby's not really black because of what it is he's done and achieved and accomplished. however, you know, if bill cosby were standing on a street corner selling cla ining crack they mi other things about him but they would never say he's not black and i find that to be bizarre. what is it about success that is somehow a betrayal of your culture? i don't get it. >>...
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they must've thought he was bill cosby the way their roaring anat him. check out the new"my kid has got game set"section we are trying out. if you have barest son or daughter in sports send us the clubs have of them. we ask you don't send us a fight between the kids but if you have something that is wholesome and fund please send that to our web site. 11. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news at kron 4 dot com. or download one of our we'll see you tomorrow morning! and get latest news at kron 4 dot com. or download one of our we'll see you tomorrow morning! wirethey're big. fast. andome. dependable. and at net10 wireless, we let you tweet, text, talk and surf... on those amazing nationwide networks... without getting locked into a pricey phone contract. america's best 4g lte networks for half the cost. that's wireless your way. unlimited* talk, text, and data starts at just $40 a month. and now android smartphones start at under 50. net10 wireless. hey. hey. [doorbell rings] what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch l
they must've thought he was bill cosby the way their roaring anat him. check out the new"my kid has got game set"section we are trying out. if you have barest son or daughter in sports send us the clubs have of them. we ask you don't send us a fight between the kids but if you have something that is wholesome and fund please send that to our web site. 11. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news at kron 4 dot com. or download one of our we'll see you tomorrow morning! and get...
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i was blessed to have parents who loved jerry seinfeld, bill cosby, george carlin. i just -- i really feel this is -- this will make me sound 1000 years old, but this could only happen in america and i am weirdly patriotic because my parents are immigrants and i feel so unbelievably lucky. it just came from grit. you probably don't hear many 34-year-old women talking about their own grit, but -- my mother, who is an ob/gyn, worked backbreakingly hard to have a career here. i never saw either of my parents growing up because of how hard they worked. i applied that to entertainment and it worked. it makes me feel good about the country because i could not have done this in india. >> what is the vision for "the mindy project?" >> i love romantic comedies. what is silly and wonderful about them. recently, the focus is on romance and not comedy at all. now it is about romance and silliness and girls wearing fancy dresses and falling into cakes. i came up from "the office" and a group of very hard comedy writers -- >> which you are one. >> i believe in hard joke writing.
i was blessed to have parents who loved jerry seinfeld, bill cosby, george carlin. i just -- i really feel this is -- this will make me sound 1000 years old, but this could only happen in america and i am weirdly patriotic because my parents are immigrants and i feel so unbelievably lucky. it just came from grit. you probably don't hear many 34-year-old women talking about their own grit, but -- my mother, who is an ob/gyn, worked backbreakingly hard to have a career here. i never saw either of...
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assassinated and seeing where things are going now, i think i can get some verifications like from bill cosbyround the clock more than one time about this. and this song came about. and i said, wait a minute, you're showing all this good stuff and what happened and what he left -- the legacy that he left. but now you have now slipped back to where he didn't -- it doesn't belong. that's why i was so happy. >> you were, of course, part of one of the most successful soul music duos in the history. sam & dave. you were also a major part of the stacks record success as well, located in memphis, tennessee. how did memphis change? how did the music change with the assassination of dr. king? >> if you want to, you can actually put in the middle of all that because everything was okay, then you had the beatle thing coming about. and then after that, you had everything -- disco and whatnot. it never got a chance to reverb itself, to come back and sing and dance and enjoy going to a concert, feeling bad and leaving there better than you felt when you went in. that doesn't happen anymore. the change was
assassinated and seeing where things are going now, i think i can get some verifications like from bill cosbyround the clock more than one time about this. and this song came about. and i said, wait a minute, you're showing all this good stuff and what happened and what he left -- the legacy that he left. but now you have now slipped back to where he didn't -- it doesn't belong. that's why i was so happy. >> you were, of course, part of one of the most successful soul music duos in the...
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observations is how did we get here but that's observations of kindness than jerry seinfeld's doesn't bill cosby's you know they come from aha moments but mine comes from this is the pain that got me here i'm one of those kind of people the book is out it is dirty daddy the chronicles of a family man turn for the comedian is out physically published today what is it about jokes that's always been part of the why you fascinated with the honest you said the words jokes and fourteen people were smiling. you know what it all stems from the pants i think you know when the comedians on stage are comedienne is on stage you do check them out but it's nothing to do with my theory but how did let me bruce get arrested me very well and he was a great friend of mine and let me told me they've arrested me today and they'll be doing this on television on the broadway stage within ten years and this is all about obscenity yeah for the word you used before. lenny went to jail. insane and what happens in jail that. you and jokes that's not funny here is as funny was the gravest of dirty joke ever told you know i n
observations is how did we get here but that's observations of kindness than jerry seinfeld's doesn't bill cosby's you know they come from aha moments but mine comes from this is the pain that got me here i'm one of those kind of people the book is out it is dirty daddy the chronicles of a family man turn for the comedian is out physically published today what is it about jokes that's always been part of the why you fascinated with the honest you said the words jokes and fourteen people were...
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nine eleven world which i think is a great refreshing healing thing to see when people are excited bill cosby in a most fitting yeah exactly yeah you're post-traumatic stress syndrome yeah that's one thing that's not a funny part of the show definitely not the funny part of the show and that was important to cabin in mike the show runners and myself. we were trying to. do our best to protect ray a soldier with p.t.s.d. in a way that they really are it's not i think when we first heard a lot about p.t.s.d. all everybody is kind of lumped into one category and sort of you are that we've realized is that everybody is affected differently by it. and it's not just you know oftentimes i think in part of the reason the military is nervous about television film is because they're often portrayed inaccurately like if you have p.t.s.d. you're just violent and that's not necessarily the case a friend of yeah yeah actually my best friend have been his best man twice. he he's four tours and suffers from p.t.s.d. he's a person i talked to about this and actually after one of the episodes we first started d
nine eleven world which i think is a great refreshing healing thing to see when people are excited bill cosby in a most fitting yeah exactly yeah you're post-traumatic stress syndrome yeah that's one thing that's not a funny part of the show definitely not the funny part of the show and that was important to cabin in mike the show runners and myself. we were trying to. do our best to protect ray a soldier with p.t.s.d. in a way that they really are it's not i think when we first heard a lot...
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. >> that's kind of like bill cosby and mushmouth. you go right to a convenience store with that.hank you very much, sir. thank you. >>> up next on trending, a little controversy over a magazine cover, golf magazine cover with colina gretzky on it. >> and then bob saget will be here talking to you about the "full house" days and sharing a bed with john stamos. >> wow. >>> not a bad word about this. we've brought out the trampolines as we get set for this morning's guinness world record attempt, but first these messages. you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. and then there's juicy chicken. the difference is best foods. best foods is the secret to making parmesan crusted chicken so juicy and so delicious. you can make dinner disappear. best foods. bring out the best. how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show
. >> that's kind of like bill cosby and mushmouth. you go right to a convenience store with that.hank you very much, sir. thank you. >>> up next on trending, a little controversy over a magazine cover, golf magazine cover with colina gretzky on it. >> and then bob saget will be here talking to you about the "full house" days and sharing a bed with john stamos. >> wow. >>> not a bad word about this. we've brought out the trampolines as we get set for...