Dean Quote by Norman Lear

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so…

— Norman Lear

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to…

— Dan Harmon

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

— Norman Lear

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show.…

— Norman Lear

[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was…

— Ice Cube

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing…

— Randy West

Our shows were not actually written, but they were precisely thought out. But the greatest thing about the show, and I think the reason…

— Soupy Sales

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

— Norman Lear

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even…

— Joe Shuster

I'd never done a sitcom until the 'Michael J. Fox Show.' I'd never even guest starred in one until then. So it was definitely…

— Betsy Brandt

Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks,…

— Barry Diller