we had the opportunity to interview
Norman Lear how am I am NOT going to
interview Norman Lear this guy and I
grew up with all his shows all right now
why should that interest of viewer who
might be half my age for example well
that’s my job as interview her that what
I am interviewer yeah my job is
interviewer to turn that into something
that’s start akhiyan all right can I
invent that word on the fly start
talking and here’s the creator of all in
the family by the way the beginning of
family guy is a take-off on the
beginning of all in the family in case
I’m stuck all in the family with his
multiple spin-offs there was like The
Jeffersons Maude and rota good times and
you look at all of this and you say this
person was not only plugging into the
emergence social and cultural mores of
our day understanding what are important
issues not to speak about at the news
desk but in a sitcom he was merging pop
culture with pop news
and that was without precedent because
before then you had these zany shows on
television like Green Acres and Beverly
Hillbillies and all these things that
made no attempt to concern themselves
with things like the war in Vietnam or
or any sticky issue that might have been
in the headlines of the papers were
ignored until he came along
Norman Lear how am I am NOT going to
interview Norman Lear this guy and I
grew up with all his shows all right now
why should that interest of viewer who
might be half my age for example well
that’s my job as interview her that what
I am interviewer yeah my job is
interviewer to turn that into something
that’s start akhiyan all right can I
invent that word on the fly start
talking and here’s the creator of all in
the family by the way the beginning of
family guy is a take-off on the
beginning of all in the family in case
I’m stuck all in the family with his
multiple spin-offs there was like The
Jeffersons Maude and rota good times and
you look at all of this and you say this
person was not only plugging into the
emergence social and cultural mores of
our day understanding what are important
issues not to speak about at the news
desk but in a sitcom he was merging pop
culture with pop news
and that was without precedent because
before then you had these zany shows on
television like Green Acres and Beverly
Hillbillies and all these things that
made no attempt to concern themselves
with things like the war in Vietnam or
or any sticky issue that might have been
in the headlines of the papers were
ignored until he came along
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