DANIEL LEVY & NORMAN LEAR

Daniel Levy: I can’t tell you how much of a thrill this is for me.

Norman Lear: I appreciate that, but it is for me too.

DL: Wow.

NL: Here’s a fact in my life: It has taken every split second of the time I’ve been alive to get to this moment. Undeniable, isn’t it?

DL: And now here we are in the present talking! There’s been such a resurgence in “kind comedy”—comedy that celebrates human flaws and celebrates all the good and the bad—and I really feel like you started that wave.

NL: “Kind comedy.” I like that.

I started making and didn’t know necessarily that people would respond in the way they have, but I did know that we were doing something