Posted on 04/19/2019 9:49:20 AM PDT by conservative98
"All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" are coming back to TV, live and for one night only.
Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-creations of episodes from the influential sitcoms born in the 1970s.
Norman Lear, who created "All in the Family" and its spinoff "The Jeffersons," and Jimmy Kimmel are hosting the ABC prime-time special airing next month, the network said Thursday.
Harrelson and Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, with Foxx and Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson. Ellie Kemper, Justina Machado and Will Ferrell also will appear, ABC said, with more stars to be announced.
The original shows starred Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton as the blue-collar Bunkers, and Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as the upwardly mobile Jeffersons.
People say "these two shows were meant for the '70s and would not work today," Lear said in a statement. "We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons,' the timelessness of human nature."
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Archie will be an over the top racist cringe worthy Trump supporter.
UGH. That's not Lionel. This is Lionel.
Only Mike Evans was credible. That replacement guy never had "it".
I have to change the kitty litter that evening.
And “Gee our old LeBaron ran great!”
Bill and Hillary in a spin-off: Meathead and Gloria go to Washington ...
In thought all in the family was just the American version of the BBC sitcom till death do us part?
She was kinda funny...until she went lesbian.
TRUE. The funniest joke Sykes ever told...
Why do women fake orgasms?! It’s called time management.
The way she told it was hysterical.
He’s working hard to make it happen, but you know it ain’t gonna happen. You get a look at the clock. It’s 2. You have to get up at 6.
Oh, Hell NO.
Let the moaning commence.
By today’s standards, these shows are utterly racist and sexist, not to mention homophobic!
Isabel Sanford was iconic in the role.
Cliff Clavin time: Did you know that Weezy was actually 21 years OLDER than George?
Her: 1917. Him: 1938.
I wish they’d bring back “Maude”, just so I could see who they’d get to play the Adrienne Barbeau role?
LOL. Meathead was an insufferable idiot, in my opinion.
It’s funny how Archie became a cultural icon of sorts, when liberal Norman Lear intended for the character to be the butt of the joke .
By today’s standards, these shows are utterly racist and sexist, not to mention homophobic!
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Did someone ever do a count? How many times “nigger” was used on The Jefferson?
Liberal civility doncha know.
Will Ferrell - I’m out.
Weezie and Edith will have a lesbian affair and Archie will wrap a noose around Georges neck and throw bleach on him
Meathead will be the only sane one
Yeah. Sykes is now a humorless lesbian. She hasn’t been funny since her BET days.
I think every sitcom she has been in has failed miserably...
including that one with Julia Louise-Dryfus.
Marisa Tomei as Edith Bunker?
Not picturing it....
BTW shouldn’t all the roles be reversed race now?
And I believe CBS’ ratings really took that kind of a dinging when they did the Rural Purge and also retired “Hogan’s Heroes” and even Ed Sullivan at about the same time.
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Way to ruin good shows!
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