Lorrie Chuck - master of sitcoms

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

Situational comedies are one of the most popular genres of modern TV series. Behind many of the most popular of them, for example, behind the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" or "Two and a Half Men", there is one person - director, screenwriter and composer Lorri Chuck.

Biography

The real name of the director and screenwriter is Charles Michael Levin, he was born in Texas in 1952 in Houston. The future director and producer spent his early years in New York State.

Lorrie Chuck's childhood passed in a difficult financial situation. My father owned a cafe, but it never became successful. This was the cause of his mother's depression and heartbreak of his father, who died in 1976, 6 years after closing his life's work.

In 1970, Chuck Lorre went to study at the State University of New York in Potsdam. After a while, he dropped out of school for the sake of music. He did this from 1972 to 1986. Then he changed his occupation and went to work on television. At first he wrote for animated series, and then he began creating scripts for situational comedies.

Musicalactivities

After dropping out of university, Lorry Chuck traveled the country for 10 years working as a hired musician at live shows because he was good at playing the guitar.

In the late 80s he quit touring life and began to write music for the animated series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" of the 90s. During the same period, Chuck Lorre wrote the radio hit French Kissin in the USA for Debbie Harry's solo album.

Master sitcom creator

The most famous and popular works were "The Big Bang Theory", "Two and a Half Men" and "Mike and Molly".

Also, Lorrie Chuck became the creator of the following series: "Mommy", "Darma and Greg", "Grace on Fire", "Young Sheldon", "The Skewed" and "The Kominsky Method".

In his series, he avoids political topics and focuses exclusively on good humor. Many shows are filmed in the studio in front of live audiences, which gives the filming process some theatrics and liveliness.

Chuck Lorre's calling card, whose photo is presented in this publication, is the "vanity cards" that he inserts at the end of the episodes of the series "The Big Bang Theory", "Two and a Half Men" and "Darma and Greg". This is a picture with text that tells some case from the life, thought or observation of the screenwriter. They last only a couple of seconds, all "vanity cards" can be read in a personalChuck Lorre's blog.

The author doesn't see humor as a way to change the world. He treats it like a part of life. Chuck Lorre says if humor was a weapon, it would be "banana vs. tank".

Sitcoms have become an integral part of life. A good comedy helps to relax and unwind. The Chuck Lorrie series is not only laughter, but also a sometimes not stupid drama that makes you empathize with the characters, feel them and "make friends" with them. The characters of this talented person are living people, in whose "liveness" you do not doubt a minute of screen time. His series stretch for dozens of seasons, but do not lose relevance and continue to keep viewers at the screens. He treats his creations with care and responsibility, which is noticeable immediately, from the first minute of the first episode.