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Hey, let's talk about Norman Lear.

Norman Lear was this pioneer super TV producer.

He had a long career.

He died yesterday.

He was 100 and 1 years old.

He was going to work at the age of 100.

And this is happening more and more and more.

Henry Kissinger just died at 100, going to work every day.

In fact, a couple months ago, no, not even that long ago, a month ago, a month and a half ago,

he flew to China on a business trip and flew back, and night after flying back from china spoke at the

al smith dinner i was there so i got to see his final speech uh flew to london a couple months ago

for his birthday party he was just working every day at a hundred a friend of mine is a hundred years

old goes to work every day. There's a picture

on my Instagram from a couple weeks ago. He came into New York. We had lunch. Bob Morgenth

the legend in New York. I remember emceeing his 100th birthday party and he was going to work

every day. Norman Lear still working hard.

So he began in television in the late 40s, early 50s.

Now, you remember this is ancient TV history, but in the early 1950s, you had these incredibly funny shows, Sid Caesar, your show of shows, the Callgate Comedy Hour. If you go back and watch

these old Sid Caesar show of shows things, they were unbelievably funny and very sophisticated.

You would think early television was primitive, but believe it or not, in the early 50s, the comedy writing,

the comedy sketches were far more sophisticated than anything we have today.

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