Eric Monte deserves back compensation from Norman Lears’s estate, for all the royalties and residuals he was cheated out of! Norman Lear’s children’s children are still benefiting from Eric Monte’s creations that made Norman Lear extremely wealthy! How do you think Norman Lear made it all the way to the ripe old age of 101?! Eric Monte probably won’t live anywhere near that age!

JUSTICE? LOL.

@@cpman1987 they owe him more than just back residuals, they owe him the keys to every studio in Hollywood. Every single one. Especially Columbia Pictures, who has been profiting off the fruits of their labor since 1985 when Coca-Cola, founded by an ex-Confederate soldier in an unsuccessful attempt to cure a war-era addiction, bought Embassy and Tandem. Even though they only owned it for four years before they dumped everything on Sony, it was still Lear (and Jerry Parenchio, without whom Lear could never have bought Avco Embassy) they made the deal with. George Jefferson’s dream will become a reality. I’ll see to that personally. #JusticeForEricMonte #JusticeForJJ #JusticeForGaryColeman

norman was another greedy jew

​@@cpman1987And the lawyers, mgrs., agents & everybody who aided Lear.

I want reparations for absolutely everything Norman Lear ever did, especially giving T0n¥ D@nz@ work after *Taxi* was cancelled. That thug should have gone to jail for assaulting a security guard. Instead, we paid for his crimes with one of the worst sitcoms ever, a ripoff of the mutually exclusive parts of *Gimme A Break!* and *Cheers.* They forfeited the right to throw shade at *Webster* for doing to *Diff’rent Strokes* what that show already did to *The Brady Bunch* first. And while we are on the subject, Emmanuel Lewis should get reparations for Paramount’s gatekeeping of the syndicated seasons of *Webster.* He owns a piece of seasons 4-6. To date, only seasons 1-4 (the ABC years) are on DVD. And everybody on that show should get reparations for being pushed off ABC for *Full House.* Especially Chad Allen even though he was on another show by that point. You’d have to be openly racist and homophobic to prefer that show. And Robert Iger was there every step of the way.

Yes. Norman Lear also stole the story plot of "Good Times" from the original actor who played Lionel on the Jefferson's. That show was his creation and not Norman Lear.

Mike Evans was a writer on Good Times for many years. That’s why he left Jefferson’s. No one doubts that was his creation.

He was and is a total fraud in addition to being a buckbreaker. He isn’t funny. Nothing he has ever said himself is funny. His biography is barely readable. All of his writers did better work without him. Bud Yorkin came up with the idea to do *Diff’rent Strokes* but got none of the credit for it. Meanwhile, Lear treated his studio like an afterthought while launching a smear campaign against the American right and pushing a tr-nscult agenda even at the expense of Gays. He is no ally. He is the gravedigger of every civil rights and social reform movement in this country.

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!

Sounds like Beyonce who people worship

@@sunflowerpwr.8821 and all the top rappers of today .. but lear had him blackballed after he sued for royalties

And that's a shame😘❤️🖤💚🙏🏽❤️🖤💚

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!

Poor negotiating skills and lack of understanding of entertainment business. It is highly common to see multiple producer companies involved on show or movie. That's why you see so many production company logos at the start of movies and at the end of tv shows.

and jews fanageling practices...@@PhilMoskowitz

The tribe gets together and wins

EVEN IN MUSIC THESE SAME KIND OF NAZI EUROPEANS DO THIS

That happened even in historic empires. The conquerors would always take that which was good from the conquered, and apply it to their own culture, and try and take the credit for it.

@@MrCJ-qz9dl You’re right I guess if he was an astute businessman He wouldn’t have been a creative genius

In order to do that you have to name the small group of people who control Show Business and the media

If you think for two seconds black attorneys are somehow more pious you’re missing the mark. Unfortunately your own kind takes advantage of this and will double cross you the same. You need an attorney of good character. Period. If he gets me my money I don’t give an F about the rest.

You sound as misguided as Michael Evans.

​@@JM-st6ut No We Need More Good Black Attorneys & Doctors & Farmers & Engineers in this Evil Kkkountry of AmeriKka!!

@@vegasmitch1472 looking black doesn’t make you black. Hustlers play fools like you all the time bc you’re gullible

As if the color of their skin makes them different from other lawyers looking for that $$$$$ and will turn a blind eye to you if your case isn’t something that will bring in the $$$$$.

Not sure about Redd Foxx. He died penniless. Even Demond Wilson didn’t help him in the end. John Amos was sore because Jimmie Walker’s character took over the show.

Not so much sore,he just thought that JJ's character should be a little more serious and not so baffonish. @@DJ-bj8ku

@@rogereverett9599 Growing up, I loved JJ and I thought his buffoonish character was a good counterpoint to John Amos’ serious character.

@@DJ-bj8ku Mr. Foxx lost his money because of a tax issue So Mr. Eddie Murphy cast in a movie and he was on a T.V. show and was back in Vegas when he passed.

@@DJ-bj8ku Mr. Amos wanted a more positive role on T.V. for the black community and that's where the riff came from. They loved the fact that they could use J.J. to accomplish their goals.

Was he the father??

Of course. He has been saying this for years. He is just one of the many blacks that have been "screwed" by Norman Lear.

he probably thought he was doing Good, I think he was sincere.

I DIDN'T WATCH ANY..

Hope Mr. Monte writes a good book. 👍 Need to share more about how things really worked.

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!

On the contrary, they already know that they will not enter into God's kingdom. So their sole goal in life is to make sure that you also, do not enter.

He, Bob Saget, and Matthew Perry are in Hell right now, burning in agony as punishment for making us suffer through their crappy and degenerate television shows.

It wasn't white privilege it's Semitic privilege. Until people realize the two distinctions are total opposites, they'll continue to pawn their scandalous deeds on white folks. Research the learned elders of zion if you wanna know what these cretins think about us goys.

Exactly, if they wanted it they strong armed u and took it, then made u look bad so no one would want to work with u

@@brianwaloweek6770Jerry Perenchio wasn’t Jewish.

@@Attmay Who is Perenchio? He wasn't mentioned. But I think all the others mentioned - Lear, Eisner, Weintraub, Orenstein, Turteltaub, Yorkin - were jewish.

@@jgrantsf now you see the bigger picture

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! He kept trying to make Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah?!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!! Something else I noticed that wasn't quite right, why did that idiot interviewing Demond Wilson tell him Muhuumad Ali and Norman Lear were his 2 heroes growing up?!?! Did that man ever see 1 episode of "Sandford &Son?!" And if Norman Lear had almost nothing to do with a show that was never created by Norman Lear or his late partner Bud Yorkin, but a show that was copied from another TV show from the United Kingdom called "Steptoe & Son!" Norman Lear was a brilliant, prolific TV show producer/writer. But also cheated a struggling writer (Eric Monte) out of his share of the lucrative profits of "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" TV shows!!! So I don't blame Eric Monte for his "brutal" honesty! This was the best authentic interview I've ever seen!!

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!

I swear the CIA invented crack cocaine just to target him specifically. It was “discovered” just as *Good Times* premiered on CBS.

Why does the media portray Norman Lear like he was Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.?! Why does everyone seem to forget who actually created "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons?!" Stop worshiping Norman Lear's old crooked ass like he was the "Masiah!" Norman Lear got very wealthy off of monetizing African-American people living in poverty and in a way made a joke out of Sherman Helmsley acting like a minstrel show caricature living in a penthouse! Don't get me wrong, I grew up watching "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons" back in the 1970s!! But I was like 10 years old and wasn't aware of racism or black people being portrayed as criminals, buffoons, or inferior to white people back then, all I knew was it made me laugh. Norman Lear "robbed" Eric Monte's brilliant ideas and Norman Lear used his extensive wealth to blacklist Eric Monte in Hollywood!! bare in mind, that Eric Monte came from abject poverty in Chicago's notorious housing project "Cabrini Green!" Eric Monte became homeless and was unable to obtain or afford food, water, or shelter easily after Norman Lear "froze" him out of ever securing Another writing job in Hollywood! Norman Lear cheated Eric Monte out of potential tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in syndication profits from Eric Monte's ideal that later became "Good Times", "The Jefferson's" and later "What Happening!" TV shows!!

THIS IS A HATE CRIME AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS... NO OTHER RACE WOULD ALLOW THIS.. WOULD EUROPEAN JEWS ALLOW RACIST STEREOTYPES MADE INTO A NETFLIX SERIES... I THINK NOT. The New Good Times animated series on Netflix is a glorified stereotypical show that has damaged the image of the original Good Times family show that started in 1974 through 1979. The goal of the original Good Times show was to disrupt the flow of negative stereotypes about black families. This New series promotes violence, culture destruction of the Black community and alcohol abuse. This glorifies the degenerate, destructive behavior that some in MOST community's engage in, but this series aims to promote this as a normal behavior in the black community. It’s time to put a stop to this ANTI-BLACK Propaganda Racist Hate Crime By Netflix. This will lead to bad outcomes towards black people period. It will promote more hate, police brutalities as it reinforces the DEHUMANIZATION of a whole people like they did during the Jim Crow Era which lead to mass killings of innocent black Americans. BOYCOTT THIS TRASH. NETFLIX NEEDS TO BE CHARGED WITH PROMOTING A GENOCIDE.

Well that's most of Hollywood lol.

How much money are these shows generating per year and where is the money going? Probably paying for Sony‘s middle management. I imagine *Seinfeld* still makes more in reruns just for being more recent.

Well as a publishing agent. You did agree to it but you may have missed it in your contract. Just a thought. I wrote many contract amendments in my day and each victim did agree to things they complained about. In court they loose every time. James Earl Jones taught me this when I was in college. Understanding the nature of support and payment is important.

I had no contract, I was very young and I didn't know about the music business.Thank you for your comments.

@@BlindMellowJellyInc 😂😂 I love your username

ONE WORD ~ GREED !

yupp....Thank you . And in the end I still have my talents and no longer have to deal with scum who have to take what they didn't create. @@brucebeamon5460

Tell that to Ricky Schroder and his glorified pimp of a mother. I seriously wish they had taken *Silver Spoons* to another production company just because seeing a cast that good wasted on a buckbreaking grifter like Lear breaks my heart to this day. They could have carried a show from any production company. I honestly wish they had taken the show to Alan Landsburg. His company made *Gimme A Break!* and *Kate & Allie,* and those are on DVD in their entireties, so maybe that show would be, too. Instead, it is stuck with Sony and they are gatekeeping the Franklyn Seales and Alfonso Ribiero episodes because they do not want to see any role models for Black MEN, especially not Gay Black MEN. They are also gatekeeping *227* (a Black father who lives at home, can support a whole family on a single income, and isn’t a bigot or a bully? Can’t have that, now can we?) and *Benson,* particularly the episodes where he is no longer the butler and actually has a political position. Never mind the last episode where he runs for governor. And do not throw the “poor sales“ excuse in my face. Tell that to my copies of all these shows on DVD.

He tried they had it fixed so no lawyer would take his case.

​I heard monte say that before they thought monte was stupid but he was art.@@sunflowerpwr.8821

So you didn't watch the video 😂😂

What’s even worse is that people still believe the narrative once it has been discredited. They even give Lear credit for shows he had nothing to do with. I still have to point out to KZfaq video documentarians how many shows were made by his collaborators without him. Frankly, those hold up better.

And they wonder why people don’t like them

Exactly.

Norman Lear’s partner in TAT Communications was of a different tribe. The one that makes offers you can’t refuse.

Men...Two eyes ..Two legs...what? Smart ? I'm waiting race baiter

The movie got a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition, and everybody from it who was still alive was invited to participate in the creation of extras. Everyone, that is, except for Eric Monte. When Columbia released the TV show to DVD, they invited no surviving cast members to participate in extras.

George Jefferson was one of the greatest TV characters ever. He deserved MTM Enterprises-level writing, not to be stuck being shamed with gaslighting “you’re no better” false equivalences at a glorified grindhouse like Embassy, whose only hits after 1977 didn’t even credit Norman Lear at all. *Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons, 227,* and especially *Married with Children* make me question whether Norman Lear was integral to the success of anything his name was actually attached to. He wasn’t credited on any of them, but every TV show that actually had his name in the credits concurrent with those five shows was a bomb. Notice how virtually nobody remembers *Palmerstown USA, aka Pablo,* or *Sunday Dinner,* and how at the twilight of his life, nobody in Hollywood wanted anything from him but rehashes of the same old same old when the OGs are still in reruns and mostly on DVD and have had the unfair advantage of never having to compete with *Amos ‘n’ Andy* in syndication or on anything remotely resembling a level playing field.

That makes the character wanting to be a screenwriter all the more ironic. What if Roger had gotten what he wanted and sold a script to a major studio? Would he have been chewed up and spit out just like Eric Monte was?

@@Attmay Roger was smart enough to hide his money from his own father so I think he would have protected himself more aggressively from the sharks in Hollywood.

So he wrote one script for the show and he thinks he deserves credit for the entire show? Something ain't right here.

@@theotheleo6830 You clearly have no idea who Eric Monte is.... There would be no Jefferson's, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Cooley High, What's Happening without Eric Monte. Cooley High is based on his life story growing up in Cabrini Green. He deserves more than some damn credit...

@@theotheleo6830 When you write _the first_ script for a show which serves as the basis for _the entire_ show, you deserve credit and consideration for the lifetime of that show. Would I call Norman Lear a racist? Not based on what was described here. The first person I would lash out against is Bernie Weintraub. Speaking as Mr. Monte, Weintraub's supposed to be _my_ agent, but he's also representing Turteltaub and Orenstein. Weintraub threw Monte under the bus by signing the rights to the production company formed by Turteltaub, Orenstein, Yorkin, and Lear knowing full well Monte didn't want to do business with Lear after the Jeffersons deal. Everything after that happens as a result of Weintraub's original agency violation. Normal Lear couldn't have stolen the idea if Weintraub didn't steal it first by conspiring to sell out Monte.

@@NeilTruick He didn't write the first script for the Jeffersons. He wrote one script for All In The Family, which introduced the Jeffersons characters. He didn't create the show.

@@theotheleo6830The spinoff supporting characters were the product of Nicholl, Ross, and West, the same people who left to work for Don Taffner on *Three’s Company.* Taffner was also the first to syndicate *The Benny Hill Show* in the US, and the money from the UK-adapted ABC sitcom made that possible. No wonder NBC was willing to gamble on *Gimme A Break!* It wasn’t based on a British show and it wasn’t produced by Norman Lear, just the producers who took over AitF (Mort Lachman) and *The Jeffersons* (Sy Rosen) after NRW left Lear for Taffner. But they showed Lear was nothing without his collaborators and business partners. Could he have run Tandem without Bud Yorkin? The name of the company is literally “a bicycle built for two,” just like HAL sang in *2001: A Space Odyssey* but without Kubrick’s mastery of the technical aspects of filmmaking, or even film! He certainly couldn’t have bought out Embassy without the assistance Jerry Perenchio. Just as Karl Marx is the weak link in Marxism (seriously, lefties, ditch him for Theodore Herzl), Norman Lear is the weak link in every Norman Lear show.

Yeah not to say racism didn't Exist back then, but people Nowadays use that to explain Everything, it makes it hard To take people seriously.

@Maas did you listen to the video? Lmfao

I agree 100%! they control Hollywood so the house always wins!

always on code. that's why its so upsetting when we are not.

@@troym1023 Thank You!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Very Sad Unfortunately 🤷🏾‍♀️

.....if anyone believes Norman made Cooley High...a movie about inner city Chicago....they're a fool. They robbed this man BLIND to the tune of hundreds of millions or billions. Evil. Absolutely evil.

#thenoticing

It’s hilarious in hindsight to see how so many post-Amos ‘n’ Andy; pre-Cosby sitcoms with Black actors were pretty much systematically denounced as racist in the lead-up to *The Cosby Show* and how that was held up as the gold standard while he was engaged in sexual violence against women of all races, religions, and sexual orientation behind the scenes.

Oscar Hammerstein II has left the building.

You're saying this years after the fact. That's like saying artist from the 80s and 90s should have never recorded hip hop music because they weren't prepared for being taken advantage of by the music industry.

Monique fulfilled all her obligations she was hired to do. The issue was when the movie (PRECIOUS) took off they wanted her to do more press and promotion and she wanted compensation for it and they said no so she refused to do it, and everything went down hill from there.

It's not evil, it's the product of the times.

people nowadays use racism as a excuse for everything bad Happening to them, it really annoys Me.

Likewise in the music industry. Don't you dare sign that contract without reviewing it with a microscope.

We tried that already , several times and each time the( folks) never wanted us to be successful. So many jewels inside of the culture for sure that never makes it all the way to the top. But we shine whether they like it or not. In the light or in the dark.

Yes! Absolutely!

Back then racism did happen But its different now.

He is how so??

Because race doesn't always have To do with everything.

The original pilot is on IMDB, Roger's character was Preach. The network thought the content was too deep and dramatic and retooled it into the comedy sitcom and renamed/ re-casted the show.

And big liar

@youtubeSOFTashell yea its kinda obvious

Lear wouldn’t do that to a member of his tribe

@youtubeSOFTashellColumbia pushed Bud Yorkin (aka Mr. Cynthia Sikes) out of *What’s Happening Now!!* just as Eric Monte got muscled out of the OG.

I heard it too.

I think we can take a stand against racism without injecting antisemitism.

@@mapleva Where was antisemitism injected?

I once knew a Black woman married a white MAN, and that’s exactly what she called him.

​Lol was it because of his actions Or his skin color??