‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer
“Not that he wasn’t difficult to deal with, but he was funny as hell and that made everything possible,” creator Norman Lear says of star Redd Foxx When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up…