Actually this format started with "All In The Family". Rosanne Barr is playing Archie Bunker.The media are hyperventilating that the new Roseanne show has her as an open Trump supporter......they fail to realize that on the show, Last Man Standing, Tim Allen was a vocal Trump supporter, and his show was canceled...
Can Roseanne Save America? | Roger L. Simon
Similar but not the same.
Archie Bunker's character was actually a biting satire on the right wing- he himself was very liberal.
Roseanne is actually fairly conservative.
The similarity between the two shows is that at the basis of all of the insults hurled at each other is the deep love everyone has for their family- the scene with Roseanne and her grandson Mark was really the counterpoint that makes the show work.