Amos and Andy TV Show
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In a modern update
In a modern update
Andy successfully sues Kingfisher(who was legally represented by Calhoun) for fraud, gets awarded millions.
Kingfisher after losing everything including Saphire, hires Lightening to
extract revenge...
Remember watching the show with my parents...lots of laffs:0002
In a modern update
Andy successfully sues Kingfisher(who was legally represented by Calhoun) for fraud, gets awarded millions.
Kingfisher after losing everything including Saphire, hires Lightening to
extract revenge...
Remember watching the show with my parents...lots of laffs:0002
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_'n'_Andy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043175/
http://www.tvparty.com/myskingf.html
I watched this great show as a child..
if you want to know more at least read from the above ..
especially tvparty
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Anyway, if we put aside the color and look at the characters, for every negative attribute there has been a corresponding white male who has been portrayed the same. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Amos - an owner of his own business - Herbert T. Gillis on "Dobie Gillis" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
"Andy - an unemployed male - Lou Costello on "Abbot and Costello" and Freddie on "My Little Margie" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Kingfish - the crafty con man - Ralph Kramden on "The Honeymooners" and Eddie Haskell on "Leave it to Beaver" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Lighting - the dumb/slow/fool - Lumpy on Leave it to Beaver and Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
"A.J. Calhoun - shyster lawyer - Angel (comic relief) on the Rockford Files (and a felon to boot!) [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"And could you get much more foolish and condescending than the Beverly Hillbillies and their horrendous spin-offs? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"These characters were (are) funny because to characterization not white, black or otherwise. In fact those comedy shows thereafter that tried to show "race" in a positive light, don't hold up over time (Chico and the Man, even Sanford and Son). [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"I agree with many of the other commentators. Amos 'n' Andy was a chance to see real middle class blacks in a cross section of a working class neighborhood. My parents were both born and raised in Manhattan, in fact my father was from what is now Spanish Harlem. He reminded us that although we rarely came in contact with people of color in lily-white suburbia, that his life in a working class section of Irish, Hispanic, Italian and African-Americans was lived pretty much the same as the Harlem of Amos 'n' Andy because they were all in the same economic situation. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Still, I can understand the feelings of blacks at the time. But what passes for comedy now makes one yearn for the scripts of Amos 'n' Andy." [/FONT]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043175/
http://www.tvparty.com/myskingf.html
I watched this great show as a child..
if you want to know more at least read from the above ..
especially tvparty
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Anyway, if we put aside the color and look at the characters, for every negative attribute there has been a corresponding white male who has been portrayed the same. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Amos - an owner of his own business - Herbert T. Gillis on "Dobie Gillis" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Kingfish - the crafty con man - Ralph Kramden on "The Honeymooners" and Eddie Haskell on "Leave it to Beaver" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Lighting - the dumb/slow/fool - Lumpy on Leave it to Beaver and Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island" [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"And could you get much more foolish and condescending than the Beverly Hillbillies and their horrendous spin-offs? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"These characters were (are) funny because to characterization not white, black or otherwise. In fact those comedy shows thereafter that tried to show "race" in a positive light, don't hold up over time (Chico and the Man, even Sanford and Son). [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"I agree with many of the other commentators. Amos 'n' Andy was a chance to see real middle class blacks in a cross section of a working class neighborhood. My parents were both born and raised in Manhattan, in fact my father was from what is now Spanish Harlem. He reminded us that although we rarely came in contact with people of color in lily-white suburbia, that his life in a working class section of Irish, Hispanic, Italian and African-Americans was lived pretty much the same as the Harlem of Amos 'n' Andy because they were all in the same economic situation. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Still, I can understand the feelings of blacks at the time. But what passes for comedy now makes one yearn for the scripts of Amos 'n' Andy." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] - Chris Wood[/FONT]
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