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We had no f ****** experience at all. And there were guys in radio who had been working 18, 20 years, and they were well-known comedy writers. But we were television comedy writers because we had written a television show for two weeks, that's the way America works. Suddenly, we were more valuable than we could possibly have been had we been writing for seven years in radio.

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Norman Lear

Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American television writer and producer who produced such popular sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude

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