[CrosscutSaw]

One of Jackie Gleason’s last TV appearances was on the Today Show where he explained how Amos n Andy gave him the inspiration for the Honeymooners. Similar plot, but with a couple of White working stiffs from, as Norton called it “the Garden spot of the woild, Brooklyn, USA”😀😀

Amos and Andy was another funny show. Better than any sitcom on TV today.

[Impala64ssa]

There’s a very good documentary, Amos n Andy, Anatomy of a Controversy narrated by George Kirby. Jesse Jackson, of all people said he never had a problem with that show because it opened doors for Sidney Potier, Sammy Davis Jr, Diahann Caroll and other Black entertainers. He also stated the characters in that show reminded him of some of the people he grew up around in Chicago.