Norman Lear on Sitcom Science | StarTalk

so while you’re doing all of this coming
out of the 1960s
into the early 1970s we are going to the
moon are you are you thinking about that
at all because that I don’t notice any
science in your storytelling but it’s in
the news
so did it did you reflect on that in any
way privately or God that is such a good
question that is such a good question
here’s as close as I’ve come I’ve had in
mind for a good many years that happens
character in mind he’s 11 years old and
he knows everything about climate change
pain in the ass everybody cuz he can’t
but he knows it all called funny as hell
and I hope I might be doing it myself
in a show because I haven’t been able to
convince anybody else to put it in their
show I was giving away the idea and it
changed kid I like I like the
appellation the climate change climate
rate so that would be a person who is
everyone’s conscience I guess who shows
up yeah boys you just lean you want to
just count him because he’s a kid but
you know you can’t because he’s really
does homework on this right and because
he said something that suddenly I never
I’ve heard it but I’ve never really
heard that but you coming it’s like an
intravenous in that way you know you’re
laughing in your laughing but it’s
leaving something behind that can do a
lot of good okay so this is this is the
modern Norman Lear thinking of issues in
our culture today that people need to
deal with mm-hmm and you’re thinking up
a show for that scraps so we need you to
come back
you keep the door open keep waving