Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cliff Huxtable (The Cosby Show); obstetrician...
...Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show); small-town sheriff...
Thus, until recently, my only experience with TV writing was a meeting at UPN several years ago to pitch my one brilliant sitcom idea: "It's about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley...
...last February a producer, apparently taken by the testosterone in my articles, asked if I'd like to try to write for a new series premiering this week on Comedy Central called The Man Show. Three weeks later I was on a plane to L.A. for a week-long writing gig and the chance to create that extra-sleazy me I had long fantasized about. I called him Shane...
...sure if all TV offices are like this, or if it was just because this program was called The Man Show, but there was pornography everywhere. And everyone played mean jokes on each other. For a week co-host Adam Carolla, who had gone to the Grammys with one of the Dixie Chicks, believed she was sending him gifts. These gifts included flowers and a 6-ft. sub with a note that said, "I will not be ignored!" TV hosts, I learned, aren't the smartest people on staff...