RIP Norman Lear

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I think it's safe to call him a pioneer in sitcom television.

Died at 101...Here's to a life well lived.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

 

[Driftwood]

Great pull from USA Today.

The entertainment industry is prone to hyperbole, but it's no exaggeration to say that the writer/producer had a profound influence on television and social attitudes with a series of entertaining, challenging and controversial TV series starting in the early 1970s.

RIP

 

[Songbird]

His Vermont home is a few miles from here.

 

[garrow]

RIP. My favorite work of his was "Fernwood 2 Night."

 

[Azrael]

A sweet giant, who in the 1970s hauled network television out of the 1950s and into the 1990s. Rest.

 

[nietsroob17]

Norman Lear outlived the lead writer who penned his NYT obit.

Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101

 

[BTExpress]

"Norman Lear, noted television producer behind such 197os bombs as "Hot L Baltimore," "The Dumplings" and "The Nancy Walker Show," has died. . . .

 

[maumann]

He put a touch of reality into situation comedy, something that nobody before or since has been able to pull off without being a weak imitation of the form. His characters were still caricatures but they seemed to be self aware and evolving.

RIP, good sir. You took the "vast wasteland" and make it worth the effort to watch.

 

[Driftwood]

The crazy thing is the other day when I realized Archie Bunker/O'Connor was several years younger than me.

 

[Songbird]

He put a touch of reality into situation comedy, something that nobody before or since has been able to pull off without being a weak imitation of the form.

CK is the modern Lear.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The crazy thing is the other day when I realized Archie Bunker/O'Connor was several years younger than me.

I had that realization a few years ago. I suddenly felt really old.

My grandmother enjoyed watching All In The Family. I was too young to understand the show, but when I see it on reruns now, I always feel a little nostalgic for my grandmother.

RIP, Mr. Lear.

 

[DanOregon]

Legend. Glad I shared a few spins around the sun with him.

 

[BTExpress]

I never understood why we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

 

[playthrough]

Norman Lear outlived the lead writer who penned his NYT obit.

Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101

And the second writer's name sounds like an AI creation.

 

[ChrisLong]

RIP to a legend.

 

[Neutral Corner]

A truly influential artist and a fighter for Democracy in several ways. Well earned rest.

 

[nietsroob17]

And the second writer's name sounds like an AI creation.

Amazingly, he might not even be the most famous Keepnews in his family. His late dad -- a music producer -- has his own Wikipedia page. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Keepnews)

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

The crazy thing is the other day when I realized Archie Bunker/O'Connor was several years younger than me.

Ha ha man you must be ancient, drive faster old man, it's almost 6 PM and then the senior citizen discount expires at Denny's!

*Googles Carroll O'Connor's birth year and the year All In The Family debuted*

Goddamnit.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Great pull from USA Today.

The entertainment industry is prone to hyperbole, but it's no exaggeration to say that the writer/producer had a profound influence on television and social attitudes with a series of entertaining, challenging and controversial TV series starting in the early 1970s.

RIP

I would hold back a little on changing social attitudes. Whites didn't stop moving out of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx because Archie Bunker changed their view on race relations.