tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post4569297197839850053..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Am I related to Chuck Lorre?By Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29417085605793098252009-12-12T11:43:01.492-08:002009-12-12T11:43:01.492-08:00Did you ever get a note that a character, joke or ...<i>Did you ever get a note that a character, joke or show was "too Jewish"?</i><br /><br /> you remind me of one of my favorite Cheers lines that always gets cut out of syndicated showings, when Frasier and Lilith explain to Woody and Kelly how their inter-faith marriage works: ("Yes, dear.")<br /><br />IIRC: "The family celebrates Channukah, Frederick delights in his dreidl, and lighting the minorah. Meanwhile, Christmas passes with out so much as a tree. 'ooh, look everyone! A fir tree! Five thousand year old religion and Frasier Crane's gonna bring it down with some tinsel and a plastic star!"<br /><br />KG's delivery, building from syrupy sentiment to angry sarcasm is fantastic. I always wonder if it was cut out for time or being "controversial".Jim, Cheers fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34878249785578326842009-12-11T17:09:30.542-08:002009-12-11T17:09:30.542-08:00Hey, Ken, here's a seasonal-related question:
...Hey, Ken, here's a seasonal-related question:<br /><br />Did you ever get a note that a character, joke or show was "too Jewish"?<br /><br />Conversely, did you ever encounter a network exec worrying that something would be offensive to Jews?BigTednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-4364546427053148542009-12-11T14:57:41.183-08:002009-12-11T14:57:41.183-08:00I have discovered Cheers for the very first time t...I have discovered Cheers for the very first time through DVDs, and I am currently watching Season 11. Seeing Frasier's marriage to Lilith break down, I wanted to ask: Do you remember if the writers decided to break the characters up just because by that point you all knew that Kelsey would be doing the 'Frasier' spin-off and that Bebe would not be a regular on the show?Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10071959018952980986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-4294981190079600142009-12-11T13:04:40.810-08:002009-12-11T13:04:40.810-08:00Ken, you may have covered this at some point, but ...Ken, you may have covered this at some point, but how did you and David become partners and what was your first project together?Francine just ate her footnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-20457353275446734872009-12-11T12:47:05.321-08:002009-12-11T12:47:05.321-08:00Ken: That Dharma & Greg ep you directed and ha...Ken: That <b>Dharma & Greg</b> ep you directed and had on the site made frequent references to the then-upcoming final episode of <i>Seinfeld</i>. IIRC, D&G was an ABC show, and this episode was actually first shown the same week as the last Seinfeld. Were there any complaints from the network that you were practically providing a half-hour ad for a show on a different network?<br /><br />WV: wrome - when there, do as the wromans.Rock Golfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04945235295808697884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-43649083893279704442009-12-11T07:46:25.496-08:002009-12-11T07:46:25.496-08:00I can't imagine that you haven't addressed...I can't imagine that you haven't addressed this question before, but I don't seem to find it anywhere when searching the blog (love the blog, by the way).<br /><br />You've been both a writer and director. Are there any key points that you learned from one of those roles that really helped you in the other, that you feel you wouldn't have gotten any other way?<br /><br />Hopefully I phrased that clearly enough. Obviously, I'm not a writer myself!<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />Richard C - Milwaukee, WIRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795654664958201549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-35738166184046298682009-12-11T06:58:47.442-08:002009-12-11T06:58:47.442-08:00Thanks to Anonymous, I now understand why Ken pref...Thanks to Anonymous, I now understand why Ken prefers his commenters to be nonymous.scooternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-47765735421683261482009-12-11T03:41:12.662-08:002009-12-11T03:41:12.662-08:00Now that we know that Kim Il-sung, the man who rul...<i>Now that we know that Kim Il-sung, the man who ruled North Korea at the time, was of almost Hitler-level evil, do you regret this?</i><br /><br />Written as if the person's only perspective of war, or anything else, was gained from the view from mommy's basement.DJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-38571753209208815152009-12-11T03:25:31.151-08:002009-12-11T03:25:31.151-08:00Now that we know that Kim Il-sung, the man who rul...<i>Now that we know that Kim Il-sung, the man who ruled North Korea at the time, was of almost Hitler-level evil, do you regret this?</i><br /><br />If I might take the gross liberty of replying on Ken's behalf: "almost".blogwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07362291687463326731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-64973038516067607242009-12-11T03:19:31.439-08:002009-12-11T03:19:31.439-08:00Much obliged, Ken. You're a mensch above most ...Much obliged, Ken. You're a mensch above most mensches.Rory L. Aronskyhttp://scrapsofliteracy.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-72512125323675207002009-12-11T01:27:27.389-08:002009-12-11T01:27:27.389-08:00@Anonymous: Wait. What? Didn't M*A*S*H take pl...@Anonymous: Wait. What? Didn't M*A*S*H take place in [i]South[/i] Korea? And the North Korean (and Chinese) communists were the bad guys in the show?<br /><br />Or am I totally misremembering/didn't follow what was going on correctly as a kid?<br /><br />Dude. Now I gotta go look it up....charlottehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlotte-Fullerton/166226831178?v=wallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-43090553029268368092009-12-10T21:34:11.564-08:002009-12-10T21:34:11.564-08:00Hey, Ken. Missing you guys! What do you think of R...Hey, Ken. Missing you guys! What do you think of Randy heading for Milwaukee and Nick's "demotion"? It certainly was not the latter's fault that the team folded at the end there. Why doesn't management simply demote MANNY? Andy Ross, Stanley Ralph's son.awespishushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05483011994265760375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-36419131598126305862009-12-10T20:16:10.019-08:002009-12-10T20:16:10.019-08:00MASH presented a sort of moral equivalence between...MASH presented a sort of moral equivalence between North Korea and the U.S. Now that we know that Kim Il-sung, the man who ruled North Korea at the time, was of almost Hitler-level evil, do you regret this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com