Amos 'n' Andy Televison Cast Introduction

This is a pretty remarkable video. It shows Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll, who played Amos and Andy on the radio program, introducing (for the first time) the cast they have hired for the television program, which is just beginning production. (How Spencer Williams, who plays Andy, can be called a "boy" is amazing, but those were clearly very different times!) Enjoy.

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Entertainment

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• Amos
• Andy
• Comedy
• Television
• Black
• Gosden
• Correll

[vkorchnoifan]

Amos and Andy Show was a comedy. They made me laugh when I was kid. They still do. The NAACP was wrong to persude CBS to take it off. No show can represent one race. But one show can represent a part of humanity that we can laught at. I still love to watch The Amos and Andy Show.

[CAU98]

This is one of the best shows of all time. Every member of the cast deserves to be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They were awesome!

[SLBenzo]

Bring em back to T.V. They were soooo....far ahead of their time. Great actors and cast members.

[victrolaman]

I used to watch this long ago when I was a kid, and loved it. As far as the cast is concerned they were all professional and so well cast, that you can stack them up against any other Comedy series and they would win hands down. Tim Moore, who portrayed the King Fish, possessed the most unbelievable sense of comic timing you will ever see anywhere.

[bigmarty56]

Here's the deal. This show---a clone of The Honeymooners, or was it the other way around---is the same as Jackie Gleason's show, it's the same as The Flintstones, ---except it's funnier. It has better direction than JG's show, it has better sets, it has more cameras. It is far superior both technically and comedy-wise. Is it Racist? In today's world, I guess so. Is it funny--Yeah! Does that make me a Racist? NO! PCness has deprived all of us of the best.

[1etetetet1]

Amos And Andy lived next door with people like George Burns, Jack Benny, ect and were brilliant geniuses. I recognized this as a white child in the 60s seeing them in reruns. Loved them then. Too bad that they were lost due to the 60s civil rights movement. They should have been upheld for their achievements during that time. Now revel at their greatness! ps weren't they also in some sort of cartoon?

[lnefouse]

Many people thought this show was detremental to African Americans..but as a young boy it taught me that there were Black Judges, lawyers, doctors and pharmacists to name a few professions that Blacks in this country were more than just entertainers..It was a comedy, it was supposed to make peoplke laugh...and it did...

[theoriginalbadbob]

1. This was the funniest show EVER on TV.

2.  There was absolutely nothing racist about the show.

3. The "stereotypes" weren't based on race, they were based on ordinary human beings.

4. All of the actors, with the exception of the guy who played Amos, were great.

5. I consider the actor who played the "Kingfish" to be as great as George C. Scott.

[BCoriginal1]

As a young black comedic actor I owe All the so called "bad stereotype" actors and actresses a Huge debt,because had it not been for them paving the road for me and so many others to walk on,I know for a fact that I wouldn't be here. Thank you everyone. Hattie McDaniel,Lincoln Perry,Eddie Rochester,Willie Best,Louise Beavers,Ethel Waters. God bless you all!

[mdw188lga]

Long live Amos And Andy...an all time classic...an everlasting credit to the cast, writers, and production crew.