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Did not give me a show runner. they let me write my show and run my show. - what's this about, man? - don't fucking play stupid. you know what this is about. it's payback time. - there is the equation of 50 being someone who lived the life. so, you already set up the streets validating it first and foremost. the streets will tell you, if something is righteous. authenticity is everything. i mean, it's why we do this. - my whole career, i've been answering questions like, "well, would they really? is that really?" yeah, it is. let me say that again. yeah, it is, motherfucker. yeah, it is. part ...

- 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, 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 ...

- 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, 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 ov...

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...

Up. i love it even more now that they have rebooted it and set it in montgomery, alabama, because it reminded me of my childhood. >> lee daniels acquired the rights to the original wonder years because he wanted to tell a story about the black middle class experienced during the late 60s. >> i didn't want to direct it. i didn't want to write it. i just didn't want to mess it up, so i found a great show runner, writer, who had a good take on it. >> i came on board. >> not just the tragedy and the pain and the trauma, because we've carried that for so long and we continue to, but trying to build...