of work to do and this bench needs to go over there. but we just moved it over here. don t question my authority, thanks! we talk about race and culture in serious ways. that is important. discussing these things in a sitcom, you are not offensive. you are able to take in new ideas. the family was doing something that nobody had ever done. we are talking about having one of the biggest bigots in america and having a black man coming to his house. you see my daughter gloria standing over there and her husband mike? it was electrifying! i was tangling the whole time. he is sitting there going you are watching kind of a master class in reflecting humanity. it was revolutionary in a lot of ways. all in the family change the way we think about society. that s the picture of sammy davis. to archie bunker, the whitest guy i know. you realize that norman lear is taking us into a whole new realm of comedy. my father used to tell my mother, jeanette, it
Because i was a backward kid. george lopez: and then it s just over and he s gone. he committed suicide in january of 1977. jim mckaines: he dies at age 22 with the world literally at his feet. patrick gomez: it was heartbreaking for the latinx community, and i think we ve realized you can t put that pressure on one person to represent an entire minority group. george lopez: to see somebody that. that changes you; that gives you a purpose. i wanted to be a comedian because of him. ed: i ll miss you. chico: you ll miss me? ed: but i won t miss you with this if you don t get back to work.. emily vanderwerff: the american sitcom had gotten a disruption in the early 1970s with all in the family, mary tyler moore beretta: you go from lear s, we gonna hit race.
Anything was funny. margaret: mom, don t wait up for me. randall park: i hadn t ever seen an asian-american family on a sitcom so in a lot of ways, we learned lessons of how to tell a story about people who are traditionally underrepresented. margaret: i m very, very proud that it broke ground and it gave an amazing push to a generation experiencing this great success now. jessica: if you try to suspend our son because of this, we will sue everyone in this school. eddie: hey, it s the american way right. jessica: you know about that.
daniel fienberg: atlanta is part of this new wave of auteur driven comedy. man: where your ancestors from? congo? ivory coast. earn: i don t know, this spooky thing called slavery happened and my entire ethnic identity was erased. troy patterson: the premise is that earn, played by donald glover, has dropped out of princeton university and is back home in atlanta trying to manage his cousin to rap stardom. earn: i just don t scare people like you man. niggas know i drink juice and shit. alfred: fuck that! earn: dammmn! man: i can write you a cheque. alfred: nigga, do i look like a bank? i don t take fucking cheques! troy patterson: the question is, is atlanta a great sitcom. cop 1: willie! you coming out? cop 2: wait! troy patterson: or has it so pushed the boundaries of what a sitcom can be that we need to coin a new genre term altogether to describe it?
[soul music] isabella gomez: i think everything changes when you give a voice to a community that hasn t had one. lorraine ali: ramy could not have happened, before streaming. we had two decades, people being terrified of muslims. all of a sudden, there s a sitcom and people are laughing. ramy: i don t have to find a muslim girl. i ve actually been seeing this girl chloe for a little bit, and its going- friend: no, are you out of your mind? white girls suck, bro. you can t keep dating them. one they are always walking around barefoot. daniel fienberg: so much of what happens in that show is sitcom 101. steve: without this job, i don t have health care. ramy: i know, man. daniel fienberg: but it s what happens if sitcom 101 is told by someone who was never given the opportunity to tell their story before. i always appreciate the diverse perspective that you two brought to this company. ramy with your mediterranean flair, and steve.