The Show Is Really About Politics. Sort of. During a public speaking class at New York University, Sherwood Schwartz's professor had students compose an unrehearsed sixty-second speech on the subject: If you were stranded on a desert island, what one item would you like to have?

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As a comedy writer Schwartz pitched this question as the premise for a sitcom. "It would serve as a social microcosm and a metaphorical shaming of world politics in the sense that when necessary for survival, yes we can all get along,” Schwartz explained.

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