“At 98, he’s still making television and still making trouble,” actor-comedian Wanda Sykes said in her narration of the Globes' filmed tribute to Lear. Those 1950s series launched the career that included the hit comedies “Maude,” “Good Times," “The Jeffersons” and “One Day at a Time." The latter was rebooted in 2017 by Lear and a new team of producers, this time with the focus on a Latino family. The first partnership, with Ed Simmons, led to working for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on “The Colgate Comedy Hour." They would also work on “The Martha Raye Show.'” “I've had a lifetime of partners, performers, associations and creative talents for which I am eternally grateful,” Lear said, adding there would be “an entirely different Norman Lear here with you tonight” without them. He looked dignified in a suit, but with his trademark white boat hat adding an impish touch. “I am convinced that laughter adds time to one’s life, and nobody has made me laugh harder, nobody I owe more time to, than Carol Burnett,” he said, speaking by video from a living room armchair. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Norman Lear made TV relevant with “All in the Family” and more 20th-century sitcoms, and he's accomplished the same for himself as a working producer who's nearing his 99th birthday.īut Lear was modest as he accepted the Carol Burnett Award for his decades of achievement - and the decades themselves - at Sunday's virtual Golden Globes ceremony.
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