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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Ongoing History Introduces you to: "History of the 90's"
Description: In the 1990s there was a massive flood of stand-up comedians making the leap to television to star in their own stand-up sitcoms thanks in part to the success of the Cosby Show and Roseanne.
Those shows were followed by other massive hits like Seinfeld, Home Improvement, Martin, Ellen and The Drew Carey Show.  All of them featured a previously established stand-up comic who had been scouted from the comedy club circuit.Â
But there were lots of other shows starring comics that had high expectations but went down in flames like Grace Under Fire starring Bre...