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- when i think about the hihistory of black television, i think about when black folks watch,h, we watch to zero in on us. - instead of making us celebrate your holidays, why don t you celebrate some of ours? what about tupac s birthday? - and when you have so little, it means everything. all of those shows, they all matter so much. - it feels like there s been more of an ebb and flow and an evolution. - it is so important for us to have true authenticity. - why we always the only black people here? - that s why representation matters, black stories told by black people. - i m trying to tell you something. - [man] we set the pace for sit comedy. - you hear that, elizabeth? i m coming to join ya, honey? - from sanford and son to the other black shows. - what is this? - loved the jeffersons. - monogrammed shirt, brand new silk tie. - is that a tie? i thought your tongue was hanging out. - good times is one of my favorite sitcoms because you could not tell me that these people were n ....
- by season two of good times, john amos was complaining about how his character was not being written in a very authentic way. - so they said, tell you what. why don t we kill him off, and we ll all get on with our lives. - killed in an auto. - my god! - so that taught me a lesson that i wasn t as important as i thought i was to the show or to norman lear s plans. (glass shatters) - damn, damn, damn! - as good as good times was, it still did not resonate with everyone as to how this was a characterization of black america. you had organizations like the black panthers pressuring norman lear who had helped create good times to give us something different, and with that, he came up with the jeffersons. - i wear the pants in this family. - and when you zip them up, include your mouth. (audience laughs and applauds) ....
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 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 about how his character was not being written in a very authentic way. - so they said, tell you what. why don ....
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