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I am very sorry i trouble you, you little runt. >> early sitcoms were just about home life. i used to make the joke all the time, and "ozzie and harriet", what did ozzie do for a living? van was the first time you saw his home life and work life. e. i asked myself, what piece of ground do i stand on that nobody else stands on? well, i worked as an actor/writer >> somebody asked me to do a situation comedy after i finished being on the show of shows. because the situation comedies were not very g...

We were the foundation for all the sitcoms for the next 25, 30 years. - it just led the way to other sitcoms like "good times." ♪ good times ♪ anytime you need - breakfast is ready if you hungry! - "good times" is one of my favorite sitcoms because i didnt realize i was watching a sitcom. - give me one good reason why you married me. - you was pregnant. - that aint nothing to joke about. suppose one of the kids that heard you said they was born outta wedlock. - wouldnt bother me none. (audie...

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Write words, and we, the characters, will say those words the way black people say those words. - who you calling ugly, sucka? (audience laughs) (upbeat music) - we shot the pilot in september of 71, and it just went through the ceiling. we didnt just usher in black shows. we were the foundation for all the sitcoms for the next 25, 30 years. - it just led the way to other sitcoms like "good times." ♪ good times ♪ anytime you need - breakfast is ready if you hungry! - "good times" is one of m...

The naacp came out against amos and andy and it went off television. >> whenever you see someone who makes the idea of using blackface as a costume, that was fermented with shows like amos and andy. >> you realize this is incredibly offensive and you realize the blackface makeup reignites racial stereotypes that black people have worked for centuries to overcome? >> the idea people in color becomes less palatable both in front of and behind the scenes for people writing the checks. >> television...

>> on the radio, amos and andy was one of the most popular sitcoms, but the performers who played them on the radio were white. the original pilot for the show was done in blackface and the sponsor said i dont know if this is going to go over well. so they cast it with some very funny black comedians. >> what do you think? >> this is the same house! >> at times it was hysterically funny, but the stereotypes left a negative taste in a lot of mouths. >> the central characters are all just differen...

- redd and i said, "you know what? we need to have some black writers." - what you doing combing your hair? - why does anybody come their hair? to look neat. - but you just going to a job. - pop, just because i work in junk dont mean i have to look like it. - when we had white writers, they would write, "im gwan," g-w-a-n. we gwan hit it over der," and redd said, "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. you dont need to do that. write words, and we, the characters, will say those words the way black people say...

Cruel woman. >> they did not think i would last four weeks. you want to look at the history of sitcoms, dessie arnaz was in a show called i love lucy. i am george lopez and i was in a show called george lopez. so there. blendjet 2 is portable, which means you can blend up nutritious smoothies, protein shakes, or frozen treats, just about anywhere! recharge quickly via usb-c. it even cleans itself. order yours now from blendjet.com and bring a little disney into your life. heres how tommy lost 30...

Funny recalling of both chris rocks childhood in 1980s brooklyn. >> my father always knew whatever the cost! >> that is $1.90 in the trash! >> with an all-black show in the home and chris getting busted to an all-white school. >> was it really that bad? much like rock n roll, school shootings were also invented by blacks and stolen by the white man. >> in 2006, upn merged with the wb to become what we now know as the cw. >> it just decided not to do sitcoms anymore, and that cut out all the blac...

Malcolm venable: the mid -90s was a golden era for black sitcoms. michael schneider: as fox went with predominantly new ne check tworks in thit out! >> the mid-90s was a golden era for black sitcoms. >> as fox went with a predominantly african-american cast you had new networks in the wb and upn that took that playbook and went with it. >> dad? mom? that girl has my face! >> sister sister was on wb. the wayans brothers. >> when the black sitcom was emerging on upn and wb, you were so joyful an...