Because it didn't take long for Bill Maher and fellow guest Walter Kirn (America This Week) to turn what I'm guessing was supposed to be a tribute to the late, great TV pioneer Norman Lear into another edition of "Old White Guys Yell at Clouds." When the topic turned to Lear's All in the Family, Maher[...]
Archie Bunker Archives
For the bulk of 20th-century television, generations revered the blue-collar figures of counter-culture from Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) in The Honeymooners, Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) in All in the Family, Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) in Married with Children, and Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) in Sanford and Son.
Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners[...]
Kimmel and Lear hosted the event, which was directed by 10-time Emmy winner James Burrows.
● First up, leave it to Jamie Foxx to handle a live-on-air flub with the improv skills of a true pro:
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To be a part of this is a dream come true for me and for everyone involved."
– Jimmy Kimmel
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' includes Woody Harrelson (Archie Bunker), Marisa Tomei (Edith Bunker), Jamie Foxx (George Jefferson), Wanda Sykes (Louise Jefferson), Ellie Kemper (Gloria Stivic),[...]