Amos & Andy Show-Kingfish Sells A Lot Part 3

[hugatag]

This Kingfish is such the scam artist. The joke is on him though because if he kept that lot he could have sold it 20-30 years later for mega % gains. lol.

[NinjaNickFanClub]

yes funny is fun and this is funny at its best good clean fun

[mscaxe]

I like the rare times when Andy ended up getting the better of Kingfish in the end!

[buckeyebaptist43719]

I had a black friend of mine watch these dvds. He love them just as much as I . These shows were classic clean comedy. No vulgar language or filth that is on TV now.

[frankiefalabella]

Great

[laride4333]

love it ...

[onemooners]

Calhoun the man

[early60srcool]

I am a Black woman born in 1951. I remember on Sunday mornings me and my brother would get up and watch

Sonny Fox on Wonderama and Amos and Andy. This show was hilarious. Not all the Blacks were knucleheads. There were characters who played judges, police officers, upper-middle class people etc. Racist? No. Funny? Yes! Some of these current Black shows are more buffoonish then some people claim Amos and Andy to be. And they're not funny! Sanford and Son comes to mind for one example.

[easguitar]

One of the funniest radio shows I ever heard was the episode titled "The Lecture Bureau" on the cd box set Old Time Radio Shows-Amos n Andy. In order to glean material for an upcoming political lecture Andy was bamboozled into delivering to a Ladies group, Kingfish and Andy listen in on a Political Discussion at the barber shop between Shorty the barber and Gabby Gibson the lawyer. Those two hopelessly clueless imposters try to baffle each other with nonsensical phrases to great hilarious effect

[lotatude]

Not racist. Damn funny!

[13lael]

That some funny shit !

[bigd522524]

thanks for sharing :-)

[furtherdefinitions]

Stereotypes eh? This is just great comedy played by brilliant performers. These characters are no more of a stereotype than Sanford&Son, or any of the black sitcoms. Rap artists are probably the worst example of self parody and stereotyping than this show ever was. These shows were real funny. Classic comedy.

[MrAvalon69]

King plays a believable depiction of a black person................duh

[5kidsandme]

love it

[TL250Rider]

This was just plain funny

Kingfish always got it in the end.

Tim Moore you were funny and a great actor.

[logansGT]

It's not like that Texas stuff, it's already refined.....lol

[meanpegreene]

compared to what is on the television theses days looks like Amos and Andy

was a great television show. It also put blacks to work. I believe it is alot better than House of Payne!

[ladyvolsfans]

It is soooo goooood in the few of these where Andy actually gets back at the KingFish.,.,, Thankfully! What a great funny series.

[LkOutMtnMan]

I loved this show when I was a kid, didn't see anything as racial, I saw good vs evil and the taxi cab driver was my favorite "conscience" of the lot! He was the Christian to me of the group. It was just great humor with a message!

[EnemyAce88]

Yeah. Every time they did something dishonest, Amos was right there to call them on it. He was a hard worker and a good family man.

[WALDOZANEY]

Love these guys - When I was a kid before we had TV we used to listen to them on the radio. One of my favorites, along with Jack Benny, The Shadow, - in spanish would like Manolin y Chinliski. Radio was great back then. Then early TV was the best. Good wholesome comedy. No need for the "f" word and sexual innuendos etc.

[starborn03]

Classic, simple, innocent humor. With what's on tv now,....where'd we go wrong?

[namjetfighter]

Great twist at the end! The Kingfish really was the one who got fooled instead of Andy! These actors were superb and were not given the credit that they should of received! Hall Of Famers All!

[Mr76Yearsago]

@namjetfighter That's part of what made this series so funny. There was always some twist ending where the Kingfish got his "just deserts" in the ending. Except in three episodes, where the ending was touching and profound.

[BeeFlannel]

You're right, good ending! Still too funny.  I appreciate the talents of these actors, even though the comedy or the dialect may offend some.

[Oddball1965]

I thought this is the one where Andy buys the land and Kingfishes wife sold it to someone else. There was a house and the other buyer was in bed and Andy climbs into bed with the guy not knowing he was there.

[JAG312]

There should be a sequel to this episode. The Kingfish holds onto this worthless land in New Jersey, and years later someone does buy it for $500,000. He leaves Sapphire, says good-by to Andy, Calhoun, and the others, and gets a 22 year old girlfriend with big boobs. Now, how many people am I going to offend?

[oldtilter]

The Golden Age of Tv comedy lives on in this great show

[tubesteakbooky]

what's with calling a guy a "bitch"? Is this some kind of cool new hip hop rap crap? I hate kids today!

[jimgozz93]

this show was flat out great

[atozandbackagain]

Great conclusion!

5 Stars. They were excellent actors!

[bomsheeta]

BLACK POWER FUCK HOUSE NIGGERS

[sautee01]

Holy Mackerel - this is still funny after all these years.

[ahaberbush]

I liked the ending. Hilarious!

[jennifersman]

Me too, great twist!

[33Keith33]

Am I the only one that thinks that Calhoun looks a lot like David Alan Grier (with glasses, that is).

[bigsaxman]

I agree with the posts which are in a positive tone. As a child I was fascinated by these characters, and it had nothing at all to do with my neighbors, and friends I always played with. This reminds me of someone who disrespected "The Sopranos", because it was a stereotyping of Italians. I say, good drama is just that; and good comedy is like this. Political correctness time and again drains the fun out of life. I loved this show! I can talk like the Kingfish, and I'm proud of it!

[Cameronm55]

This was comedy at it's finest. The characters blazed the trail for black actors to get into television. I think the show and it's very talented actors got a bad rap. I don't think there was actually any problem with stereotype. I mean, if you look at it that way then everyone must have thought that blacks were junkmen in Watts. (Redd Foxx in Sanford and Son).

[lvcarmel]

These were good times for America! This was good content that the whole family could enjoy.

[ill4shorty]

This show made black people, lawyers, taxi cab owners, and barbershop owners. something blacks were not, in those days. It also portrayed them as underhanded con artist who won't work who is always trying to make that easy money. This is what was displayed more to America because of the main character (Kingfish) Andy was displayed as a dummy. The lawer was crooked, and the barber was no good and had a speech impediment. What was white america supposed to think about black people

[12121149]

This was great comedy,you idiot,not real.Comedy is not real.

[nealsmagic]

"You get an axe and I get a saw, and we'll cut off the legs of my mother-in-law."

[Mr76Yearsago]

@nealsmagic You remember it ,too! That little ditty had various words to it that was used in the Radio Series (and was NASTILY used as a slur in the 1936 Presidential campeign as so accurated said by Edward Hermann in the movie "Elanor & Franklin) My brother & I saw it on TV (circa 1962) and use to sing it in unison. Some 30 years later, when my ex'es mother was being a -----

when he came over to dinner, I followed him outside AND spontainously in unison we SANG IT AGAIN !!



[hwbanger]

Based on the few episodes of this I have seen, it should be called KINGFISH & ANDY.

[ill4shorty]

I agree, even if you listen to the radio programs it still is the same. The first few radio programs were just Amos and Andy and they were junk. Once they introduce Kingfish Stevens it was easier to introduce the other characters and it made the show what it is (was)

[curtis3martin]

I don't know how anybody could be upset by this and not upset by the over-the-top "blackness" of Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock or Chris Tucker.

[glennsch1713]

Calhoun reminds me of Eddie Jordan,the N.O. District Attorney

[kejono5]

i think that the show was and remaians funny.What bothers me is how white people are so quick to say what and how black and other races should feel about anything. if u like it ,like it but dont tell us how to feel. after all , u all thought we were happy to be slaves. the comments u make are typical of ur race.and as far as being afraid of offending blacks america was built on offending other races abd cultures.

[poitrenaud]

I appreciate your comment.

This great comedy has nothing to do with race.

If malcontents, both white and black, want to dictate our feelings then they have a problem. I don't.

I am white, of French heritage. My wife is Caribbean French with African heritage.

This is a great show, about human beings making a lot of other human beings laugh. In a world that needs laughter more, I don't care what color it is.

I love these guys and I love this show.

[tienshanpai]

Kejono5, you are dead right. 95% of black programs on TV are comedy, or crime. Whites have a balance as how they are portrayed so they are'nt stereotyped as such. When this movie came out,it only solidified the image of black people that Birth of a Nation" Stephin Fetchit, Mantan Moreland had done.

[STRONGO39]

No blacks are of ashamed of this,why do blacks stay in so much shame dont u relize that these folks are just as funny as i love lucy.

[tienshanpai]

Yes they are funny. Problem is that was (and largley still is) the only image that was shown the world over, along with Tarzan, the scared Africans in King Kong, etc. etc.

You're too young to remember back then and you haven't walked in black peoples shoes. You've no clue.

[TRBabble]

much in agreement with Tienshanpai

[STRONGO39]

Great stuff

[tschaeffer123]

That's some great comedy. Years ahead of its time. It's a shame that we cant see reruns of this on TV because of left wingers afraid of offending black people with stereotypes.

[Strangebright]

S'what I'm sayin'

[1633ruthlor]

Holy mackeral Andy,A classic.