Posted on 06/26/2022 4:57:20 PM PDT by aimhigh
Creator of Cooley High Eric Monte says television producer Norman Lear is a racist who stole his idea for the 1970s hit television show, The Jeffersons. Monte worked as a writer on Good Times, which he co-created with Mike Evans. During an interview with Annette John-Hall of the Philadelphia Inquirer back in 2006, Monte called Lear a racist who wrote stereotypical dialogue and didn’t think he was racist. Monte recalled the cast of Good Times frequently having issues with the dialogue written by Lear.
“I caught hell because Norman Lear was incredibly racist, but he didn’t think so. And everything they wrote was stereotypic,” he said. “They thought of Black humor as ‘Yassah, boss, I’s wanna go down by da river,’ but I’d fight them tooth and nail. They’d ignore it in the offices. Take that ‘Yassha’ stuff down to the cast.
Monte also revealed that Lear didn’t want the character played by John Amos on Good Times because he didn’t think a strong, Black man on a sitcom would work out. Monte, 78 also said Lear, who is now 99, stole his idea for The Jeffersons and signed a deal with Monte’s agent behind his back.
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What was his hurry? I am sure sure he could still have said something in the next, what, 40 or 50 years....
Didn’t he steal ideas from British sitcoms?
Smearing a man who tried to put “liberal” values into shows just before he turns 100. This is the treatment one can expect for doing the left’s bidding for 100 years.
Lear didn’t actually write the shows he ran. I think he got a writing credit on like 3 episodes of “All in the Family”. He was the CEO of a company with employees including writers.
Didn’t Demond Wilson, who played the son on Sanford & Son threaten Lear with a gun, because he was such a jerk?
Lear turns 100 in a month!
amos didn’t like that JJ was the star of the show. JJ said he didn’t have a good relationship with the people who played his parents
Ideas are easy, execution is hard.
Settling some weird score from 50 years ago? I wish this was our biggest problem.
Totally believable.
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. In my observation, libs are some of the worst racists on the planet.
I remember that show, and I think I stopped watching it after they killed off the father character in the show, played by John Amos. I liked that character and was mad they got rid of him. I guess he didn’t fit in with the stereotypes so they got rid of him.
Amos was fired because he was always berating the writers and producers for the cliched dialogue Monte mentions.
Thats what the old leftist gets for carrying the racialists’ water for all those years.
Sure he did. The fact that he waited 40 years before complaining is perfectly understandable. It was because of systemic racism!
“Amos was fired because he was always berating the writers and producers for the cliched dialogue Monte mentions.”
I can see that happening - I understand he fought against stereotypes.
I imagine he has been talking about this for a long time, and I am sure he has let Lear know how he feels about it. Lear is a Liberal’s Liberal, frankly I can’t watch any of those old shows, I certainly can’t watch Archie Bunker or Maude.
Key to execution of a TV show is casting, and Lear was a genius at that.
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