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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 04:20 |
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| What do you think of this show? Personally I believe it is the best black show since the Cosby's about a black family. Also what are you favourite black comedy shows period ie. Desmonds, the Real Mcoy, the Cosby show.........
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 05:14 |
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I fink that the fresh prince of bel air is also a good black comedy.
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 06:01 |
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@ Canon
"My wife and Kids" is a good positive show. There is a wonderful profile of it and star Damon Wayans in one of the current issues of "Essence" Magazine...I think November's edition.
Here are my personal favs...
"Sanford & Son"....the comedic brilliance of the late Redd Foxx is what makes this a classic ground-breaking series. We've lost many of it's other stars including Whitman Mayo who played Grady his best friend and LaWanda Page who passed about a year or so ago who played perfectly the role of "Aunt Esther"....just watching her and Fred go at it was worth it. It was a highly rated show for NBC...during the 70's.
"Good Times"...aside from the foolishness of the character JJ, this show highlighted a loving family of color with a strong father figure in the amazing John Amos who played James Evans Sr. The late Esther Rolle won an emmy for her wonderful portrayal of matriarch Florida Evans...one of her most memorable performances from this sitcom was after the funeral for her husband James, she broke-down and uttered the infamous line "damn!, damn!, damn! Brings tears to my eyes even to this day.
"The Cosby Show"...it took a concept we hardly saw on television before and worked it all the way to number one...and that concept was two successful parents of color..a doctor and a lawyer who didn't live in the ghetto, raising their kids without the clowning, and the shucking and jiving, etc...that you saw in many of its predecessors. This show made a big statement and had a huge impact in terms of how we are viewed.
"The Jefferson"...This series ran for a very long time on CBS and in its heyday was ranked at or near the top for the network. It was a spin-off of "All In the Family" and featured the equivalent of Archie Bunker...a bigot of Color named George Jefferson played by the wonderful Sherman Hemsley. I chose to see the positiveness in this show because George was a self-made millionaire who at the core loved his family and did what he thought was right to protect it. For those who are not familiar with what we call "the Dozens' here in the states...you got a dose of it each week, when he and his maid Florence played by the talented Marla Gibbs insulted one another on just about every episode. Two memorable episodes stand out for me, the one in which they learned MLK had been assassinated and the fall-out from that and when George learned a painful lesson at a KKK meeting he mistakenly attended when one of the members whose life he saved said he would have preferred to die if he had known that a black man had saved his life. It was a good show because George realized that although he was successful, the perception of him wasn't gonna change in some people's eyes.
There are other favorites but I would be here all day, LOL!
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 11:37 |
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Canon:
I like it because all the women in the show are fine as hell...including the little girl (hold on now....I ain't Michael Jackson).
Brutha Damon sure knows how to pic his co-stars.
I just wish they had a few fine dark sistaz on there to even things out like the Cosby Show used to have. All his women were fine too...especialy Phylicia.
They need to show the FULL specturm of sistaz...na'mean?
But comedian or not, is it me or does Damon Wayans seem to be one mean mutha.....?
Ashanti:
I'm with you...I think Sandford & Son had to be the best sit-com to ever have graced the tube.
 The name is Fred G. Sanford.
The "G" is for gimme gimme gimme...I'm gone!
But my next favorite show would have to be In Living Color (before they let all the white actors in and ruined it).
The funniest was that character Damon used to play with that Kente-cloth hat on.
Remember they used to show him up-close sounding all educated and articulate using big words but making absolutely no sense...then as the camera widens you see him either sitting behind bars in jail or pushing a mop at McDonalds!
I got them on tape!
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 11:54 |
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I often catch Sanford and Son on TV Land/Nick at Night and it is as funny today as it was when it originally ran. Redd Foxx was a genius...he had perfect timing and delivery, you could see his ability to adlib in a scene...this guy was the real deal...how sad and ironic that he would die of a heart attack, the same ailment he would feign on the series.
Like you I loved In Living Color and yes remember quite well that bit Damon used to perform, that was a favorite as well as the gay film critic bit he did with David Allan Grier as well as Homie D. Clown, absolutely hysterical.
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 11:56 |
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THe eldest daughter in my wife and kids used to be dark skinned, then they changed her to the one now.
I LOVED in living colour-was one of my fave shows! Does n e one know if u can buy videos or DVDs of it??
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Posted: Friday August 6th, 2004 22:53 |
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Hey yall, well, if ur a fan of the show, ull be reading this, and you will know who Kady Kyle is....Well, the actress who plays kady kyle (parker mckenna posey) has a 9th birthday coming up, and as a present to her, i am doin her a birthday book with messages from fans in it wishing her happy bday. im gonna mail it to her soon, so if you want to have your message included in the book, leave a lil birthday wish message here ASAP and it will go in the book. she WILL read all of them, so this isnt a con...(hoe do i know this, you say?) because parker is a good friend of mine, so yes, i know her real address and yes, she will definately recieve the book. sooooooooooo get thinkin and leave ya messages so u can make a lil girls birthday as happy as can be!!
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Posted: Monday February 7th, 2005 12:53 |
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I love this show but because Trouble & Living TV never put this on in
any order its leaving me a little fustrated.
I even had a look for the dvd but can't seem to find it !!!
Does anyone know where I can get it ?
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Posted: Tuesday February 8th, 2005 16:16 |
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| my sister was looking for a dvd with episodes too. she only managed to find one on ebay.
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Posted: Wednesday February 9th, 2005 14:23 |
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| its on ebay. Last edited on Wednesday February 9th, 2005 14:34 by NativeTongue
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Posted: Thursday February 10th, 2005 20:42 |
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| i love the show too
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Posted: Thursday February 10th, 2005 21:16 |
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I use to love it@ lady,, but the fringe charcters just arent good enough and teh acting follows too much of a pattern. Junior messes up, michael makes him look stupid x 10. Still makes me laugh and the episode where he renewed his vows was one of the best episodes ever, on any show. I liked it that much, especially when she was crying and saying how she still crazy about him. Beautiful!!!
My Number 1 show is still Fresh Prince though. Love that!!!
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Posted: Thursday February 10th, 2005 21:23 |
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mu uncle is a 50 yrs + ........he cant stand the show and is disgusted. he sees it as coonery. he says he cant take the way michael kyle teks de piss out of his kids and he finds certain black comics not quite there.. alll in all he dont like the show doesnt see whats funny
but yeah fresh price is good... i do like the will and jadas all of us show
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Posted: Friday February 11th, 2005 00:31 |
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| Am I the only one on here who finds this type of programme tediously unfunny?
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Posted: Friday February 11th, 2005 18:18 |
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LadyDay wrote: mu uncle is a 50 yrs + ........he cant stand the show and is disgusted. he sees it as coonery. he says he cant take the way michael kyle teks de piss out of his kids and he finds certain black comics not quite there.. alll in all he dont like the show doesnt see whats funny
but yeah fresh price is good... i do like the will and jadas all of us show
That 'all of us' show. I just don't get it...i have had a couple of laughs, but it hasn't really done it for me!!!...
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Posted: Thursday February 17th, 2005 17:19 |
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| I love BOTH My Wife & Kids and All Of Us. I just watch one and record the OTHER.
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Posted: Thursday February 17th, 2005 21:26 |
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| I like to watch my wife and kids. But I think its a show thats a walking advertisement for the miseducation of the black race. Why? Because its a black show where all three of the kids that aren't portrayed as fools are biracial. and where two black girls have been replace by biracial girls. Example the first Claire was a dark skin black girl, all of sudden she was replaced by a biracial girl. The son's baby mother/girlfriend was ooriginally a black girl she was replaced by a biracial girl. Katy the youngest is biracial. Franklin the talented little pianist that is portrayed as a genius is biracial. The only fully black young person is junior and he is portrayed as stupid, worthless and a fool. It begs the question have we be so media conditioned that we can not show black children in a show as intelligent bright and skilled. Do we always think that using a half white person will mean they come across better. In reverse the show All of Us does use a black child in a positive role. But Wife and Kids is f**ked up and just think it is ony one of a very few number of shows that caters for us.
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Posted: Thursday February 17th, 2005 21:29 |
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mmmm
all of sucks...
big time...
just centred around 2 women being b**chy to one another... and a father and son in the middle....
boring..my wife and kids... is 10 times better as they deal with outside situations... teen dating... pregnancy... old flames... maritial arguments...
and plus damom.. franklin... all of the cast are funny
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that duane martin from all of us... is funny NOT!
actaually no one is funny on that show
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Posted: Thursday February 17th, 2005 22:06 |
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| i luv my wife and kids the first coupe of episodes were funny and now trouble has all of us which i find to be very funny also. i didn't think i would like it so much
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Posted: Thursday February 17th, 2005 22:28 |
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| I do really like 'all of us' now as i have watched it properly!!!
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Posted: Friday February 18th, 2005 06:41 |
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ok ppl lets keep it, Sanford & Son is one of the best shows ever
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Posted: Saturday April 9th, 2005 21:03 |
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| I really do enjoy the shoe..its all good but i prefer one on one..what do u guys think about the show?
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Posted: Saturday April 9th, 2005 22:10 |
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| Yea One on One is heavy, I prefer it more then My Wife and Kids dont get me wrong it is funny but sometimes its just a little too silly for my liking.
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Posted: Sunday April 10th, 2005 19:04 |
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Seabiscuit wrote: Am I the only one on here who finds this type of programme tediously unfunny?
No I'm with you 100%!
Blacklikeme above summed up my opinion on this bull crap!!
I think its disturbing that to my knowledge (US posters please correct me if I'm wrong!) ALL the black/predominantly black US TV shows are comedies.
Sitcoms by nature have a level of foolishness/unreality by the very fact they have to create laughs every few minutes, its worrying the only time you can see many blacks on screen in the US is either being funny or bare chested on COPS.
I dont like seeing Jnr get slapped on the head and belittled and demeaned so much, it grates me.
Fresh Prince, Jeffersons, Hanging with Mr Cooper, My Wife and Kids fell into a clown buffoon trap that Cosby, One on One, all of us avoided.
Why is it that on many black comedies there is a level of unrealistic slapstick/buffonery that you simply dont see on Friends, Fraiser Seinfeld etc.
Dancin in September protrayed this expertly as did Bamboozled.
This is not to say we have it any better in Britain (dont mention the Crouches!!!) but I'd rather see no blacks if this complexionist buffonery is the best thats on offer.
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Posted: Sunday April 10th, 2005 20:45 |
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Seabiscuit wrote: Am I the only one on here who finds this type of programme tediously unfunny?
is it our fault u havent got a sense of humour?
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Posted: Monday April 11th, 2005 01:46 |
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| its all about My Wife & Kids... i luv it
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