The Black & White Minstrel Show

[TheDaddyO44]

The White Minstrel Show. Infact they couldn't be whiter.....

[OldMrMemories]

This is great! I wish we still had this. Too bad everyone has to be afraid to enjoy great stuff. I could not stop laughing at these funny negroes dancing around

[SilverHammerMax1]

Oddly entertaining

[RollaArtis]

The Black and White Minstrels only went off the air when colour television came along and they couldn't call themselves the Coloured Minstrels.

[liarsclub75]

ಠ_ಠ 

[riotgearhead]

Thank you for posting.

[splambert]

I never could figure out why none of the women didn't put on blackface. Seems like it's only the guys doing the minstrel shows. Was there ever a female minstrel performer?

[aptsarchive]

As far as I am aware women didn't put on blackface only the men.

[romanticrecluse]

Yes there was a Music Hall blackface performer called May Henderson.  She was very popular in her day.

[housepate1]

LOL The internet the last refuge for the cowardly American racist. You blokes are what is wrong with your country and you make us ashamed of being White.

[mf57]

was that jay-z at 1:04?!

[JosRidesAgain]

Nice to see brothas having a good sing song..R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

[aifammafiaaifam]

isnt it nice to see black and white people dancing together.....singing confederate songs and having a jolly old time ....i have a dream.........................­....

[eric5906]

@aifammafiaaifam: wonderful. Me too. They were happier in the antibellum times.

[kemosabi0109]

Back in 1969 I was guest at POW Theatre in London to see the B & W Minsterls Show. On later reading a newspaper the show was also on in other parts of England. As long as one of the TV B&W stars were appearing they could claim it was the TV B&W M Show. Did not detract as it was very good. During the interval I popped upstairs where an army of ladies were pressing the costumes for the next day's performance.

[andyg564]

You know if idiots like you actually pulled your retarded heads out of your retarded assholes and looked a bit outside the PATHETIC little square you live in, then you might get an inkling of what the show was about. Fine entertainment, beautifully sung and superbly performed, a very happy part of my childhood television memories. Its dickheads like you and your bullshit PC opinions that finally got the show canned. Long live the B&W Minstrels and thanks for sharing this. AWESOME!!

[SD67AH]

Awesome! Brings back good memories of a time when one could laugh at the human condition.

[Beet1ejuice]

I think this was Beet1e's favorite show growing up, enjoying it as he ate iceberg lettuce, right prior to the global warming scam that began 20 years later.

[gumbogray]

I had to suffer this as a kid, im sure it left a mental scar (sigh).

[bert10111]

I had the same experience. It was the most hateful hour of TV ever. All the old uns loved it but for me it was profoundly tedious.

[azusaka110]

And here I am, merely 19, watching it by choice.

Funny how that works.

[nickladey]

i remeber this as a kid on saterday nights brill stuff part of my chidhood telivision

[b48964]

Shut up! All of you, this is great stuff.

[xorberates]

Well, I also agree with that opinion! and much better & funnier than the revolting,sorry and sad stuff we have to put up with on TV today. Pity the BBC can't bring it out on DVD 'cause the P.C. would 'ave 'em for it.

[Shuna1001]

FANTASTIC!

[123FreShPrinceSS]

uum i don't find this funny...

p.s. i wouldn't go as far as saying this should b made the solution 4 gun&knife crime... as a younga myself i think this kind of ignorance only has the potential 2 anger us 'youths' more... rap ain't the most powerful or intellectual form of entertainment admitedly but in my opinion this... this is neitha intellectual or entertaining. at least certainly not suitable 4 this decade.

[JACKtheRIPP3R189]

Lol funny shit.

[b48964]

I thought i heard a chicken sneeze. Umm er dems the kind of happenings we likes

[juanski11]

white women loved black guys back then too? : )

[SuperHeroMan411]

that so right look at the all the mixed race kids white women love some black tan lol

[tonysinger]

it was never ment to be offensive, there is no drug dealers or minstrals carrying guns are there...l

[klokwurx]

Bring back the old minstrel songs, and the ethnic youth wont go around stabbing each other like they do when they listen to rap music.

[276bs]

Oh. My. God.

On air until 1978? How the hell?

[eileengoth]

love the song

[DChambers1981]

I wouldnt go as far as callous maybe just small minded and a little bit stupid!!!!!

[vertigo501]

people who don't find this offensive are callous

[mattferrett]

How the hell was this on the air until 1978?

[sendtothefunnyfarm]

its not really racist people who find it offensive are too easily offended

[Tabachoy89]

The history behind is actually pretty bad..and early minstrelsy was far more different than the later on minstrelsy which is where the more pernicious stereotypes of black people have become mainstream. the stereotypes are just unfortunately so entertwined in our lifetime that most people don't even know where they come from anymore and that they're innaccurate. So you really shouldn't be so disrespectful.

[curioz29]

doodah doodah

[JayAntoinette]

@sendtothefunnyfarm You're kidding right? I'm not easily offended but I was when I saw this.

[bambizzoozled]

Awesome.