Ratings Translate Into Corporations, Corporations That Need

We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.

That's The Heart Of It: My Shows Were Not That Controversial With The American People. They Were Controversial With The People Who Think For The American People.

I 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.

We Mocked That Concept ['movies Are Better Than Ever'] By Doing A Sketch That Was About A Theater Trying To Get One Customer To Come In...and That Customer Was Jerry Lewis. It Generated So Much Controversy That Dean [martin] And Jerry [lewis] Had To Apologize In A Full Page Ad In Variety.

As A Matter Of Fact, When People Ask Where My 'point Of View' Comes From, It Was There In One Of The First Sketches We Wrote For [dean] Martin And [jerry] Lewis.