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With the new sitcom, for better or for worse, the O’Keefes once again face the possibility of turning their often painfully unconventional childhood into a national phenomenon...
Lopez is the first major-network sitcom in years to feature a Latino family, even as Hispanics have grown to about an eighth of the U.S. population. The show subtly represents the variety of Latin culture--for instance, George is Mexican and his wife Angie (Constance Marie) is Cuban. But it also brings a different kind of diversity to TV. Few sitcoms since Roseanne have taken a raw, personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez...
Rashad also acted alongside Bill Cosby in the CBS sitcom “Cosby” and has appeared in a number of films and on- and off-Broadway productions...
...MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS Beatnik Bob Denver, pre-Gilligan, gave the teen sitcom a cool cachet that the square movie lacked...
What Vardalos probably means by "no jokes" is none of the insult comedy that sitcoms often fall back on. Making fun of someone's baklava may be cruel inside the Greek community, but it's not one of the cutting, hate-tinged riffs so many sitcom characters display. "The challenge is being funny without being cheap," she says. "We all genuinely like each other and don't want to be funny at each other's expense." It's difficult not to rely on sitcom conventions when CBS pushed the premiere date forward a few weeks to get the show...