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We deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, says, "i love that dy-no-mite thing. here's how you do it. dy-no-mite!" i said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walker's character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "good times" was a microcosm of what it is to produce black television. - eric monte and mike evans were forced to partner with a white show...

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 didn't realize i was watching a sitcom. - give me one good reason why you married me. - you was pregnant. - that ain't nothing to joke about. suppose one of the kids that heard you said they was born outta wedlock. - wouldn't bother me none. (audience laughs) i ain't the oldest. (audience laughs) - they were a two-parent black family. you neve...

To these households. "good times" had that. - "good times" made history because it was the first time we had black creators. - all right, come on over here, lionel. - michael evans, who was a guy from "all in the family," he had access to norman lear, and norman lear told him to write something, and he wrote something with eric monte. - just to get that chance to prove yes, we deserve to be here. i think eric monte and mike evans proved that. - dy-no-mite! (upbeat funky music) (audience laughs) dy-no-mite. i know might i did a little tiny dynamite just in rehearsal. john rich, our director, sa...

- give me one good reason why you married me. - you was pregnant. - that ain't nothing to joke about. suppose one of the kids that heard you said they was born outta wedlock. - wouldn't bother me none. (audience laughs) i ain't the oldest. (audience laughs) - they were a two-parent black family. you never had black men who were integral to these households. "good times" had that. - "good times" made history because it was the first time we had black creators. - all right, come on over here, lionel. - michael evans, who was a guy from "all in the family," he had access to norman lear, and norma...

I said, "john, please, people will never go for this." - then jimmy walker's character takes over, and instead of "good times," you end up with the dy-no-mite hour. - "good times" was a microcosm of what it is to produce black television. - eric monte and mike evans were forced to partner with a white show runner. that reflected a dynamic that we see throughout the history of black tv, which is having black creatives needing the co-sign of a white person in order to make their thing, even though it's based in the stories they know. - by season two of "good times," john amos was complaining abo...