Amos & Andy Show-The Rare Coin-Part 1

[mikebgoode005]

Your'e right landondeel but writers don't let facts get in the way of a funny plot

[ridgerunner721601]

ROFL....This is really funny. And I don't know what all these black race card holders and white libfools are complaining about. The Amos and Andy characters have a lot higher IQs than all those black idiots nowadays who are running around in oversized clothes and spouting off bad poetry aka crap music.

[gonzomoya420]

I got a loose liver!

[shantelltaylorful]

Smdh can u say racist this just like a minstrel show smdh

[perryvann]

It's 8:30pm on a Thursday evening 6/25/51 and we're tuned into CBS-TV for the debut of this very funny series Amos-N-Andy that ran on radio since 1928. Back from the day of innocuous humor without cause of thought further than it was funny!

[yalehd]

GREAT, GREAT, CLEAN COMEDY THE LIKES OF WHICH WILL NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN.

[specialk68]

There's Rolly from "Amen". ( Jester Hairston )

[LandondeeL]

I haven't read all the comments, so forgive me if someone else had noticed this: Why did Andy write to the dealer using his lodge's address instead of his home address? Kingfish would've never have known about the rare coin.

[star4evr9]

We are all One human family and we better start living that way now! Peace and love.

[boomboom48]

Great show and episode......this is not racist TV....it's exceptional classic comedy.

Love the bleeding hearts on this show......stick your racial epithets up your black and white asses!!!

[MrMegaFredzeppelin]

@boomboom48 THERE IS GOOD AND BAD IN "ALL" RACES, WE ARE "ALL" JUST HUMAN BEINGS AS WELL THIS IS FUNNY STUFF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rudeboyspinebreaker]

This was a great show !! OH BOO HOO ! To all the whining cry babies !! It is good fun entertainment ! Not the Crap like on MTV ! Sit back ? shut the ---- up and enjoy life and loosen up a bit !!

[gtc1961]

The "optimistic nerve"!!!!  LMFAO!

[DrakeGrad]

@gtc1961 How bout disturbing... This stereotype, the dialect etc is bad. I worked at the studios where the A&A radio show was produced..there were two white guys talking like this. Maybe that makes this even more disturbing to me I don't know

[DrakeGrad]

I really don't know what to say about this..wow

[gtc1961]

@DrakeGrad How about "Funny"?

[ringtalk3]

The best TV show ever? I bring this show up at times and people look at me like I farted. What a cast! The Seinfeld show, Larry David in particular, was a Amos & Andy nut and borrowed some ideas.

[LatrellHassell]

I don't find this show in no way funny, I mean how can you dehumanize another culture and call it comedy? These actors had to do this considering the time zone. Sure you'll laugh at it now, but if they were to bring this show back out lets just see the controversy it stirs up. Although I don't agree with you all, I will indeed not pass judgement and allow you to indulge in your ignorant ways

[gtc1961]

@LatrellHassell Waht do you mean that the actors "had to do this"? Forced at gunpopint? It's hysterical, not because they;re black, but because they're FUNNY. This is just like the Honeymooners, so is that show racist towards white people or New Yorkers? Stuff like this isn't shown now bewcasue everyone is offended by almost everything. Political correctness have made us afraid of everything.

[LatrellHassell]

@gtc1961 When I said had to do this I meant if they wanted to follow their dreams and act, this is how they fed themselves and their family (if they had one) either act like this, or don't act at all! and if you take the honeymooners offensive to you then yes it is, its my personal opinion and you have yours! Not everyone agrees with me, but that doesn't mean that I would hate you because you like this show, you might not like the simpsons and I do, you feel me?

[MrLorraine210]

this is priceless comedy as good as anything then or now

[gtc1961]

@MrLorraine210 Better than anything on today....too bad they only made 74 episodes. Check out the old radio shows too, just as funny! hundreds of them too!

[parisel313]

this show was ahead of its time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drousell01]

These actors did what they had to do to earn a living, if it were not for them we probably would not have Bill Cosby and a host of other comics today.

They were in my opinion trail blazers. And it is pretty funny.

[aesthetigeek]

I saw these shows as a child. Like a lot of people, I have no desire to return to a racist past. But I don't want to erase stuff like this from memory either. If we don't remember where we came from, we're more likely to wander back there.

[secordgoon]

No different than that House of Payne and Big Momma's house garbage and awful movies like Soul Plane, Friday etc.  And those are written by blacks! So stop whinning and enjoy....

[blkchk]

@secordgoon I agree. And I'm black.

[djkaneck1]

Malapropism at it's best. Kingfish a muthfucka! That's my nigga!

[tubeindividual]

In those days if you called a dark skinned person "black" you risked your life. Today you are required to do it. Very hard to keep up with the current modes. EVen the great baritone Paul Robeson r efused to sign Old Black Joe, changint eh lyric to Poor Old Joe. Also, in old days if you wore a baseball cap turned backward, as Lightnin' did, that was a sign of imbecility. Today, it's THE fashion.

[peterlive]

oh shut up...i think it is funny,I am black and think it needs to be brought back to prime time...oh when the honeymooners or andy griffith was on..nobody said anything...

[cmsdude2222]

@peterlive I think it needs brought back also. It is the best show ever in my opinion and I'm white.

[IPRANKTheFool]

i can see what u mean but itz not like we wanted them to play stupid roles. comedy was just big back then just getting itz start but yes after watch a couple of episodes it show how stupid they had to act but look at bonaaza they were very against racism. a whole lot of there episodes were showing how bad it was. But yes i can see how people could look at this and see it as racism. but u have to admit it was funny as well as how the three stooges was funny.

[IPRANKTheFool]

and they say that the reason so many black people are in jail is because the government is raciest. i mean come on if so many black people didnt do bad things then there wouldnt be so many of them in jail, not to say that there are more blacks in jail than there are whites. i mean look at all the whites in jail for worse stuff and we dont say the government is raciest i mean seriously give it a break.

[IPRANKTheFool]

i find that they are always pulling out the raciest card and i now see it and im only 15. like if you didnt vote for obama then you must be raciest

[IPRANKTheFool]

i dont now wy black people think its raciest just cause there two black guys that act stupid i mean look at the three stooges there all white and theres not two but three of them and we white people dont call it raciest. i mean this show helped start african americans on tv this was big for them.

[skdodd06]

I'm black and speaking from a black point of view: It's seems to be racist because of the time period that this tv show was in. A lot of great black actors had to play "dumb and stupid" roles during this time because it is what appealed to most white people and it is how they could get money for their profession. However, you are right when you said that it helped bring black people to tv so I guess it's like a catch 22...

[RoyFive]

I just can't see any reason why this show had to be taken off the air.

[fromthesidelines]

Even though this was the first episode of the TV series produced (in late 1950), it wasn't the first shown ["Kingfish Gets Drafted" was]. This episode (adapted from a January 1949 radio script) was first telecast in July 1951.

[rockjockcanada]

How is Kingfish any different from Bookman or Carlton? They're all antagonists and just meant to be exaggerated characters.

[EGMAG]

@rockjockcanada

or Laurel Hardy, Sanford and son,  Abbot Costello etc

[vkorchnoifan]

This show and its characters bought me joy when I was kid. NAACP was wrong to persuade CBS to take it off. Take a look at the video "Amos and Andy, Anatomy of a Controversy".

[takomaguy]

It must be nice to live in a world all about you.

[autophyte]

I don't think this show demeans black people. The plots and actions of the characters resemble the antics of Sgt. Bilko and his colleagues in" The Phil Silvers Show". We laugh at human foibles and greed, which occur in all races.

Dammit, It was funny!

[LanceShirley]

Henry here is Rollo on "Amen"

[dcollegeboy]

Forget racism this is comedy.....it's no different from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air....I'm only 19 but I watched this with my grandparents....This show is funny!

[RayPointer]

There is no comparison to FRESH PRINCE. AMOS N' ANDY on television was a closer portrayal of Black society with a combination of working and middle class, which existed then and still does.

Its appeal was that it was a comedic reflection of real life. There were people very much like this.

FRESH PRINCE was a good show, but rather artificial. I doubt that black audiences related as directly, although the definition of "related" had changed due to the presence of Will Smith.

[dcollegeboy]

Right I see your point, 'cause not that many black people live in Bel-Air lol....I just meant that both shows made me laugh, that's what I was saying

[samdon815]

Inflagration of the optimistic nerve.

[GUITARARENA]

ya know ! the show actually helped bridge the gap between races,  im white and i loved this show , the Kingfish .. Andy all the players on the show were truly funny and made akk of us feel good .. i use to watch this all the time .. many people loved this wonderful cast. when it was taken off for racism i hurt the connection beetween the races. look at the exrteme stuff on Tv now !!

you got to laugh its all in fun anyway

so shut your face with the race crap

[mumbleora]

Lets see guitar, you're 44 and you used to watch it all the time. The show was taken off in about 1961. That makes it about 4 years before you were born. Nice try.

[HymnTimeGospelSongs]

The show was droped by CBS and off the air in rerun in 1966.

[RetroToledo]

@HymnTimeGospelSongs Syndication at least helped it a little up to the 60's (my dad probably watched it then since I don't know if his folks had a TV set in the early 50's when it was still on the network).

[mrstrings65]

Theycalled this show racist... that's nonsense .Just because they were bumbling dummies... well so were Laurel and Hardy AND ABOTT in abott and costello, and nobody called those shows racist..LIGHTEN UP EVERYBODY !!!

[mumbleora]

mrstring, yes there was laurel and hardy, but vast majority of white shows were serious, heroic white men and women. Superman, wyatt earp , leave it to beaver with Ward Cleaver. The only image of black people was this continuation of the images of "Birth of a Nation" image of black men and women. You can't speak for black people. You have the nerve. When Nat "King" Cole had his show, he was boycotted. That was not the image whites were comfortable with.

[mrstrings65]

mumble...you have made a lot of good points (except that one about my nerve) but I think this show was presented in good humor,not in a put down of the black race...we've come a long way since the wrongfull boycott of the great nat King Cole's show.The only steriotype on the Amos an Andy show was lightnin..I still stand by my conparison of Laurel and Hardy, and I believe I'm right...

[a4b6c10]

Mumbleora, I'm getting so tired of all this PC shit. The show was funny! If it had been racist, it wouldn't have been funny, so why don't you drop the phony racial sensivity and get a sense of humor.

[mumbleora]

I have already spoken...

[billh891]

shame that they can never be aired again---brilliant material that gave black actors jobs and was not malicious---better than The Jeffersons.

Who was the actor who played the coin dealer---he looks very familiar

[marseilletarot]

OMG ! Too funny! Adults getting into completely childish situations and schemes!

[ladyvolsfans]

funny,,funny,,,, I think Green Acres tried to steal some of their hi-jinks,,,, but they were not successful! Thanks for the down-load!

[triangletheorytrey]

LSD is a wonderful drug.

[sandymane]

LMAO

[gwilli24]

@triangletheorytrey

amen

[WESTCRSON]

THX FOR THE D'LOAD