I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
Norman LearWe all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.
Norman LearI guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
Norman Lear