'Cops' Creator Honored with Star on the Walk of Fame

Bad boys, bad boys. Watcha gonna do when they honor you?

John Langley, the creator and producer of the TV show Cops, was given a star on the Walk of Fame on Friday afternoon.

Among those in attendance to both roast and congratulate Langley were K-Earth 101 DJ Gary Bryan, comedian Paul Rodriguez, and Greg Meidel, president of Twentieth Television.

Bryan asked the crowd of about 100 people whether any of them had ever been arrested, resulting in a dozen or so raised hands. "John Langley thanks you," he quipped, raising his own hand in the air. "He's made a lot of money off of people like us."

He also credited Langley with creating the wave of reality programming that now dominates television, telling him, "without you, the Kardashian sisters would be waiting tables at Ihop."

Rodriguez noted the number of police officers on hand to honor him with a certificate of presentation from the city of Los Angeles. "This is the only star celebration I know of that had more cops than people," he said.

Meidel took the occasion to tell the audience that Cops has aired more than 800 episodes in its 23-year run.

Leron Gubler, CEO and president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, presented the star to Langley. He noted the star's location in front of Musso & Frank Grill for its historical significance, calling it, "the last of the original hangouts of the stars."

Moments before receiving his star, Langley shared a story that he believed contained a nugget of advice for anyone seeking a career in showbiz.

"A couple kids" he'd hired as production assistants on an aerobics video he was producing were tasked with cleaning the trash off the beach where they were shooting. One of the kids asked Langley what he needed to do to be successful.

"If you want to be a writer, write," Langley said. "If you want to be a director, direct. If you want to be a producer, produce."

The kid thanked him, but at the end of the day, he quit. The kid was Roger Avary, writer of Pulp Fiction, and his fellow trash picker-upper was Quentin Tarantino.

Langley's star is located at 6667 Hollywood Blvd.