The Importance of Character Comps in Television

The best situation comedies are really character comps and you think of something like cheers Those people in that bar all they have to do is open their mouth about anything and someone's going to have an imposing opinion. That's a good example Sam Malone a lovely woman walks into his bar and he turns and looks at her Everyone starts laughing because they know he's the ultimate womanizer, right? So you're you're setting up worldview point of view and again it goes back to what are you trying to say about the human condition? Um, I want to shift gears a little bit and just I'm curious to hear about working in half-hour television in the you know mid 80s to