Writer-producer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with daring and wildly popular early 1970s series like “All in the Family” and “Sanford & Son,” died Tuesday at age 101, it has been confirmed Variety magazine quoted by Variety magazine. News.ro.

Lear established himself as a leading comedy writer and received an Oscar nomination in 1968 for his screenplay Divorce in the American way.

He created a new sitcom based on the popular British show about a conservative worker with an intolerant and outspoken attitude and his conflicted family in Queens. All in the family it was an instant hit, it seemed, with audiences of all political persuasions.

Lear’s productions were the first to touch on the serious political, cultural and social issues of the time – racism, abortion, homosexuality, the Vietnam War – by introducing new ideas into the standard comedy formula.

No Subject Was Taboo: Two 1977 Episodes All in the family tells about the attempted rape of Edith, the wife of the main character Archie Banker. The series spawned at least six spin-offs.

All in the family she was also awarded four Emmys from 1971-73 and a Peabody Award in 1977 for Lear, “for giving us comedy with a public conscience.” In 2016, he received his second Peabody Award for career achievement.

Lear was a television visionary in America

One of Lear’s other creations was One fine day at that time (1975-84), featuring a single mother with two young daughters, a novel idea for a sitcom. The same Different strokes (1978-86) observed the difficulties of raising two black children adopted by a wealthy white businessman.

Other series developed by Lear were considered “meta” before the term even existed. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976-77) satirized the distorted dramas of soap operas; Although the series failed to make it to the network, it became a hugely popular syndicated game.

Hartman had its own division Fernwood 2 night, a parody talk show set in a small town in Ohio; it was later recast as America 2-Night, with the action moved to Los Angeles.

Lear always claimed that the basic formula of his comedies always boils down to the main thing: “Make them laugh.”