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'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is known for tackling hot-button issues. In its sights: ICE

LOS ANGELES - Dan Goor, the co-creator of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," is ready to find the funny.

It's mid-October on the CBS Studios lot in Studio City. Goor is in the throes of production on the show's seventh season when he takes a brief interlude for a photo shoot in his office - now brightly decorated after superstitiously working in more austere surroundings in the show's early years. He's ad-libbing for the camera, placing his hands on his face to look exhausted and curling into the fetal position on his couch.

"None of this is gonna be funny," he deadpans. At least he knows how to keep a devoted fan base amused in his day job.

"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" - starring Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Andre Braugher, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller as a ragtag group of NYPD officers - returns for its seventh season with an hourlong premiere on Feb. 6. The season

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