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I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but i didn't know what else to do.
-William Shatner
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I Didn't Want To Do The Sitcom

William Shatner
I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but i didn't know what else to do.
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You cannot begin to imagine the shock i had when i came down on the floor for the first time. first of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. i didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but i didn't know what else to do. i went slowly. we went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which i'm used to because of my experience in the old days. then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. i had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. i was part minstrel, part actor.
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I think i'm better wired for television. i love variety as far as a project. i'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. i love theater and i think doing a sitcom in front of a live audience is the closest you can get to theater, and it's really the best mix of like standup and theater, is really a sitcom. i started as a standup and i still continue to do that as well, so i think i'm just a tv guy and happy for it. i think my movie career is kind of like my social life, i'm picky and not in demand. so it perhaps is working out.
Thinking Bored Work Out
I always try to use my medium, and if i get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, i'm going to lose.
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In 1977, at age ten, i was cast on the tv sitcom 'good times.' my character was penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. i really didn't want to do the show. i didn't want to be away from my family.
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I'm grateful that i had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who i was, because you have to win them over. i have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle. and then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. that's why they're okay stand-ups, but they're never going to be great, because they don't have that presence. they never built those muscles up.
Grateful Winning Battle
I grew up on m*a*s*h and all in the family and cheers. and then around this time, this would have been '95, '96, i was so into friends and mad about you, the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that i wanted. it was not so much a relief. it was really exciting. it's an amazing thing to be in front of an audience.
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