Before becoming well-known as the creator of many popular TV shows, Chuck Lorre was a songwriter.

 

In the late 1980s, Lorre co-wrote the theme song for the animated TV series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." One of the creators of the series was Fred Wolf who earlier had created animation for Harry Nilsson The Point!.

 

Around the same time, Lorre visited Harry Nilsson's house intending to drop off a box of his recordings. Nilsson turned him away, threatening to kill the future producer of 'The Big Bang Theory" if he ever returned to the Nilsson home. [1]

 

Charles Michael Lorre ( LOR-ee; né Levine; born October 18, 1952) is an American television producer, writer, director, and composer. Nicknamed the "King of Sitcoms", Lorre has created/co-created and produced many sitcoms including Cybill (1995–1998), Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), Two and a Half Men (2003–2015), The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and its spinoff Young Sheldon (2017–2024), and Mom (2013–2021). He also served as an executive producer of Roseanne. Lorre won three Golden Globe Awards for his work on Roseanne, Cybill, and The Kominsky Method.

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