Discover Out Which Shocking Comedy Duo Norman Lear Admires

Norman Lear is aware of a factor or two about good TV.

The man behind such iconic exhibits as All within the Household, Good Occasions, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time is the main target of Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter, a celebration of his profession which airs Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. on ABC.

Lear, who turned 100 years previous in July, has labored with just about each huge identify in Hollywood over the course of his unparalleled profession, so when it got here time for Lear to checklist a few of his largest inspirations in an unique interview with E! Information, the names he gave may come as a little bit of a shock.

“There’s no one in our enterprise I’ve admired extra over a very long time,” Norman revealed, “than [South Park creators] Trey Parker and Matt Stone.”

In 2003, Lear made an look on an episode of South Park because the voice of Benjamin Franklin and even attended a South Park writers’ retreat, with a few of his concepts making it on the Comedy Central present.