Posted on 03/03/2019 10:33:41 AM PST by ETL
John Vernon totally rocked as the @$$#01e white villain.
...and no, they just don't make 'em like that no more... people be too angry these days... for some reason...
Did you get all the groceries? - I didn’t get everything.
I got the mangos and the fruit.
They didn’t have no coconuts and them almonds.
Listen, what these friends of yours got, a pet monkey? No.
Well, I got as much of the stuff as I could.
I don’t know what there is.
I was gonna ask you to make fresh fruit salad, but I don’t think we have time.
- Did you get the sodas? - Yeah.
What kind of friends do you got that you goin’ through all this trouble for? Oyamo and Olaiya.
Your mama and who? Oyamo and Olaiya.
Well, is that a man and woman, or two men or Oyamo is the brother and Olaiya is the Nigerian sister I told you about.
Now, you know Oyamo.
I don’t know.
All the people I know got ordinary names.
Like Bubba, and Leroy and Skillet.
Here’s (supposedly) the full transcript of the episode...
Lamont Goes African
I wouldn’t say that there was an attempt to make the
white cop appear to be an idiot. It looked to me like
the character was an ignoramus with positive intentions
which was/is a characteristic of many liberals.
That’s pretty good.
Darn near every black character on the show was made to look like an idiot too. What about the Honeymooners, and Abbott & Costello?
The funniest part is the guy sitting next to him telling him not to take a demeaning role, then when he perks up when he hears his name called.
Reminds me of the Sam Kinison routine on rappers having to continually grab their crotches because they can't play any instruments.
You know what was weird, Redd Foxx was in his 40s when he did that show!
...actually, in his 50s.
He was born 1922. Show ran from 1972 to 77.
It’s all good stuff.
Names of some actual Africans (I guess these are “slave” names too):
Julius Nyerere
Nelson and Winifred Mandela
Robert and Grace Mugabe
Paul and Jeannette Kagame
Milton Obote
Patrice Lumumba
Desmond Tutu
And 20 years before Sanford And Son, there was Amos & Andy (the TV version), the first all-black TV show.
If you ignore its black-face roots in radio, the TV version was not as racist as liberals and race hustlers (specifically the NAACP) would have you believe. There was really only one main character that was a stereotypical black, and that was the janitor called Lightning.
Amos was an honest, Christian family man.
Sure, Andy was a dumb womanizer, but how many whites are exactly the same? Same with The Kingfish...a con artist conniver. Kingfish’s wife Saphire, a good wife who tried to keep her husband in line, and her mother, the typical battleaxe mother-in-law. And last but not least, there was Calhoun, the crooked lawyer.
But with the exception of Lightning, every one of those characters could have been white. It was a show about human failings, and that is universal.
Every episode is on YouTube.
Here’s few of the better ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofl95KtNnlw Kingfish Sells a Lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZzJ0qcF9w The Rare Coin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-V98qGdpsE Income Tax Time
Thanks for posting that. Hilarious!!!
Damn good show. PERIOD!
None of those were as good as Amos and Andy.
“All in the family - too racist, sexist and white male to make today”
Quite to the contrary. Norman Lear was the Devil’s spawn, All in the Family was Engineered to brainwash americans on the “evils” of the typical hard working, uneducated, WWII veteran, white male. That was NO comedy, that was carefully engineered mass brainwashing. If you can’t see this 50 years later, than just forget it.
All in the Family, as you say, was written to parody the American middle class. But the viewers identified with and watched for Archie. This pissed Norman off to no end.
Similarly, Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is good” in Wall Street, rather than alienate viewers from capitalistic over-reach, found so much positive reaction of viewers that it irritates Mike Douglas to this day. People come up to him telling how they identified with Gekko and not Charlie Sheen’s character.
Was it written to “parody”, or to vilify?
It was written, according to Lear, to expose American bigotry. But...
“A funny thing happened on the way to TV immortality: audiences liked Archie,” Austerlitz writes. “Not in an ironic way, not in a so-racist-he’s-funny way; Archie was TV royalty because fans saw him as one of their own.”
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