00:00For a long time people have been asking me to write an autobiography and I've always said have
00:07somebody else write it and then they explained to me that would not be an autobiography so
00:11that was a dead end. You know back when television was black and white when everything felt just a
00:19little too tidy, too polite, there was one man who looked at all of it and thought why not shake
00:27things up. That man was George Schlatter. Hi, I'm George Schlatter. I called him God. I think his
00:34masterful tool was humor. Before hashtags and likes there was laughing and from those early days till
00:44now George helped shape how we see television, how we see each other. He didn't just influence TV,
00:52he was the original influencer. The genius of George was to take people who weren't really funny
01:00and put them in the middle of the madness. George didn't just make television, he reimagined it
01:06with color and chaos and a whole lot of laughter. With Rowan and Martin's laughing, George took a
01:15simple idea, simple idea, a comedy show and turned it into a movement. Fast cuts, wild sketches,
01:23punchlines flying like confetti. It was unpredictable, outrageous and somehow it all made perfect sense.
01:33He took chances when others played it safe. He gave voices to the unheard, faces to the unseen and built
01:41a
01:41revolution. One catchphrase at a time. He didn't even say suck it to me.
01:47Suck it to me?
01:49George, like Charlton Hesed and Moses, parted the Red Sea and so George was named the Pope of Comedy.
01:56George believed that laughter could do what politics couldn't, bring people together. He gave us
02:03permission to laugh at ourselves. And somehow, in the middle of all that beautiful madness,
02:10he found one funny blonde who couldn't stop giggling. Yes, that was me. And I think that's why George was
02:20so amazing. He wanted people to laugh out loud. That was George's magic. He saw things in people they
02:28didn't even see in themselves. He didn't just break the rules. He rewrote them. At a time when the world
02:36felt divided, George built bridges made of laughter. He showed us that comedy wasn't just about jokes.
02:45It was about connection, about really seeing one another. And over the next six decades, George never
02:53stopped. From laughing to real people. From Hollywood to the White House. He kept asking the same question.
03:02Why not laugh a little louder? George isn't just a producer. He's a dreamer. He's a rebel. He's the guru
03:12of joy. He didn't just make America laugh. He made us think. He made us feel. He reminded us that
03:21laughter
03:21might just be what keeps us human. Because when George said, suck it to me,
03:29he wasn't just making a joke. He was making history.
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