Lucille Ball on sitcoms (1978)

Lucille Ball asked about the then-current sitcoms in 1978

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[MikeRia]

Great clip, thanks for posting it. Do you have the entire prgram?

[RealAgentOfSHIELD]

Yeah, I have to check for another clip to post

[VintageTelevision863]

@mthivier Same thing with the Dick Van Dyke Show; Carl Reiner the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show wanted the show to be timeless so he never allowed the writers to use 60's slang or bring in issues because he wanted the show to last. Which it did. But AITF is still very important but for different reasons.

[VintageTelevision863]

@mthivier The problem with bringing issues into a show is that their 9 times out of 10 the issues of that time. When you do that you take away the timeless factor of the program. I love "AITF" and "Lucy" but Lucy definitely takes the cake for timeless.

[defundthewar]

@mthivier You're right, and I never realized some of the overall similarities between "Family" and "Lucy." But you know something-- I watched "AITF" when it first came out, and it was startling, groundbreaking. It was broadcast Saturday night, and was in its day the same kind of #1 blockbuster that Lucy was. However, reruns of "AITF" have been shown on various channels over the past decades, and I've tried watching them, tried recapturing the fun. Not there. But Lucy... it's still there.

[tapthatt2012]

@RealAgentOfSHIELD please, please, post the whole show!! i love lucy!! ; )

[Beautifulmusiclistnr]

@mthivier Well, if you put it like that, then all shows have characters that interact with each other including "My Mother the Car", but "All in the Family" had a character that was a bigot, and nobody was a bigot on "I Love Lucy". Lucy, as the Queen of Comedy, should know humor, and she did, God rest her soul. She made comedy, but she didn't make comedy out of issues. Everything today is issues. That's the beauty of "I Love Lucy", I don't have to think about issues when watching her show.

[mthivier]

Lucy never "got" the humour of "All in the Family", "Maude", et al. She never realized how similar, in many ways "I Love Lucy" and "All in the Family" really were. Both shows were about characters interacting with one-another. Both shows centered around two couples -- one older and one younger -- and how the couples related to one-another, and both shows were incredibly human, and featured genius comedy. "All in the Family" did it with topical humour, and "Lucy" did it with slapstick.

[WoohoooXD]

I want more ! ;D Thanks for posting :)

[glidergirl8612]

POST IT ALL

IM DYING

[jason75]

I remember being it advertised this show with lucille

[chalastay51]

wonderful to see Lucy talking like that. thks for posting, only thing would love to see more,then it'll be 5stars from me, lol