If one looks up "Chuck Lorre" on Wikipedia (please see Creative Commons), one finds a photo of "Chuck Lorre", below.
Lorre at PaleyFest 2013
The entry starts, as follows:
Charles Michael "Chuck" Lorre (/ˈlɔːri/;[1] born October 18, 1952)[2][3] is an American television director, writer, producer, composer, and actor.
Called the "King of Sitcoms" during the 2010s,[4][5][6][7][8] he has created and produced sitcoms including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, Mom, Young Sheldon, The Kominsky Method, Disjointed, Bob Hearts Abishola, B Positive, and United States of Al. He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. He won Golden Globe Awards for Roseanne (1993) and Cybill (1996),[9] and won the 2019 Golden Globe Award for The Kominsky Method.
Other than Young Sheldon, The Kominsky Method, and Disjointed, I have seen and enjoyed (some to a greater, some to a lesser extent) Lorre's sitcoms. I still watch re-runs of The Big Bang Theory though I can recite the dialogue - without having the TV audio engaged - in most of the episodes. (I admit to deliberately avoiding several episodes that I find annoying - usually because of writing that presents characters Sheldon and Wolowitz in truly obnoxious ways. They are obnoxious enough without the extra effort that someone seems to think is required.) In addition, because of conflicts with my schedule or the TV schedule I missed most first-run presentations of Mom, I am now catching up on those presentations, in re-runs.
My complaints about Lorre's writing is his reliance upon cheap sexual innuendos that are most unfunny and his insistence upon keeping characters infantile beyond their years. That said, for the most part, Lorre's writing is still above the standards set by others in sitcoms that see the air on our major networks. I am a fan. Or, perhaps I am merely jealous of anyone who has discernible eyebrows?
I like his humour, it is delivered in Lorre-loads ;-)
Posted by: Ole Phat Stu | June 29, 2021 at 03:00 AM
*Groan*
Posted by: Cop Car | June 29, 2021 at 11:50 PM
The Kominsky Method is great! A couple of old men grumbling. It's fab.
Posted by: Liz Hinds | July 02, 2021 at 07:22 AM
That vanity card, IMO, is right on the nose.
I have only watched a couple of those sit-coms. I've probably seen every BBT a couple of times. Two and a half Men I've seen a lot of, but certainly not every episode (I really dislike the Rose episodes, so purposefully have missed those). Mom was hit or miss since it never seemed to have a permanent home and I don't care enough to go searching for it. I've seen a few of Young Sheldon. Roseanne, I saw a lot of and enjoyed. The rest I may have seen parts of episodes, but they did not spark my interest and I'm sure I've never seen a full episode of those.
I also find the same issues with some of his humor that you mention.
Posted by: bogie | July 04, 2021 at 05:22 AM
Liz--"Kominsky Method" may have been offered, here; but, somehow, I missed it. OTOH: I hear enough grumbling old men in real life. I don't really need to seek them out. *smiling*
Bogie--I was charmed by Lorre's use of sarcasm in his last phrase in the vanity card.
Rose was a bit woo-woo in "Two and a Half Men" (a program more to your dad's taste than mine) and Charlie Sheen's character could be a bit much. The writing for Sheen's replacement was tortured.
"Rosanne" was good and started the run of using Johnny Galecki, Sara Gilbert, and Laurie Metcalf (as far as I had seen, at least) and used George Clooney or Shelley Winters for several episodes (both were enjoyable watches for me.) John Goodman was good, but I've not seen him much, since.
I enjoyed "Cybill" and it introduced the delightful, to me, Christine Baranski who has been in several of the later Lorre productions (notably BBT, along with Galecki, Gilbert, and Metcalf).
Posted by: Cop Car | July 05, 2021 at 09:16 AM