I am a 73 year old White guy. I listened to Amos & Andy on the radio and I loved them. I didn't have a TV until I was in my twenties so I never saw them on TV. I did love this episode and I will be looking forward to more of them.
The plot in this one is similar to an episode of "Sanford and Son", both were hilarious. How could anyone give this excellent show a thumbs down?. Brilliant writing and acting.
I use to look forward each and every week when I was a kid to watch this show and laugh like crazy, extremely talented actors and writers, there was nothing wrong with this show, it made millions of people laugh, which was excellent for the human brain.
It would be AWESOME if they used the technology they have available to them today and reproduce these episodes in color that gave millions of people laughter and enjoyment years ago, it would be one of the best if not the best comedy show ever produced for television, once again there was nothing wrong with these comedies, just brilliant actors and brilliant writers that made people feel good laughing and enjoying these episodes, why they took these episodes off the air I'll never understand.
Andy who played a slow witted chap on the show, was actually a highly intelligent person . Served in WW1 attained rank of Sargent Major, and was bugler for Gen. Pershing at one time.. a very intelligent person died in 1969..in his 70s....R.I.P. Mr. Willians
Richard Landis I’m 65 my family did to enjoying our treat mom made sure ice cream an coke,or coke an dips ,popcorn,we all gathered and laughing out loud at a show we loved the actors and they were excellent comedians and stars ashamed it couldn’t have gone on because of idiots!
Loved this show growing up. Loved "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" too. All of these shows were hilarious Then someone decided it was racist and it disappered. My family is white and we never thought "Let's watch the black show". Everyone liked "Amos and Andy". I'm happy I can watch it again. It's funny as hell. A sitcom like any other about everyday life and the situations that arise. Love this show and feel the players didn't get the recognition they deserved. They were great!!!
Amos and Andy would not have any problems today because Blacks have been portrayed in a variety of roles. Does anyone think that Blacks were portrayed better on Sanford and Son than on Amos and Andy?
Robert Barrett thanks, same here: only a 72 year Old White( actually Lightish Pink Skin ......Anyways, good talented to , & Play off each/ set ups........ Interestingly I had a Census Worker ask a question off of *Archaic / Old Form: “What Race am I? “.. ( Had to,assume the Form meant Skin Color I assign myself to: !!! Only one Human Race that I have seen, so far... My Dad was a Brown Medium Skin, etc.)....
Bookum Danno my white uncle adopted 3 african american kids from chicago. When nobody else wanted them. They are adults now one fought in afganastan, another is a social worker working with the poor and another is a fashion designer. In ww2 at the battle of okinawa a black sailor named s1c jimmy wade from east texas saved my dads life from a japanese suicide plane attack! If your going to cry racism the look in the mirror! If americans cant get it together then the country will fall from within and the world falls under a dictatorship! Question: what are you doing?🗽
This may be racist to some- but they're nuts- this is hilarious, well written, and the actors are perfect! I used to watch this when I was a little kid, in the early 50's. I loved this show then, and still do.
Tim Moore (Kingfish) and Spencer Williams (Andy) were great. I watched this show when I was about eight years old.and I loved it. It compared to other slapstick shows like Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca and I did not look at it as racist and insulting. It was a funny show. No sexual suggestiveness and foul language, just good clean humor. Let's stop judging the past by today's standards.
I just love these ladies and gentlemen that were apart of this show. It was because of political correctness that it was taken off the air. What a shame to break the heart of a little fella. that got so much enjoyment with this comedy This is where I learned that black people were real and funny. This show could have been about some white people, as well, only it would not have been as funny. Thank you for bringing them back.
I remember that, at one time, it was nye near impossible to find these old shows. I was told that it was because they were considered offensive. When I watched then, I saw no racism in them. I thought, and I still think, that they were/are hilarious and that these folks were/are great comedians. (Yes, I can see where someone could find a problem with them but, I say, "It's in the eye of the beholder". These shows are [still] cute and funny. 😊
The actor who portrayed, "Lightnin' ", the custodian, was involved with the establishment of the old Ebony Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles on Washington Blvd. It's no longer there but it was replaced by another performance venue.
oh my gosh !!😍 love these guys .. a classic show with african american's in lead roles not to mention they also had a radio show .. i'm white and 62 years of age AND i think of good clean funny as the greatest thing these two african americans gave to comedy .. they top any of king's 👑 of comedy to date ..
I love Amos and Andy and the King Fish. They were hilarious, cute, wonderful sitcom, you just loved them. Sweet. I guess the words are innocent and true comedy." It does not take any talent to be profane, going to one's baser self. America loved them.
Yes, there was stereotyping, most comedy depends on stereotyping: making fun of different nationalities, etc. But these actors were funny and talented. A shame their work is disparaged today. Lighten up America!
This show was hilarious. I have always been angry that certain blacks made sure it was banished. These great comedians never got their rightful recognition. Instead, other comedians stole their material and got rich. I love the Kingfish and Andy. A great comedy team.
You realize that the original Amos and Andy radio series was white guys portraying black men. They continued producing the TV show, reusing old radio scripts, now portrayed by black actors. They got super rich, Charles Correll and Freeman Godsen have stars on Hollywood's walk of fame. They got their due all right.
@juana washington have to get some dvds I have da whole set of Amos/Andy Luv diff ppl White. Ppl were only 1s i hated growing up Livin in Detroit suburb... They started it, Correct?? L0L
AMEN! Am surprised the dumbed-down, politically correct younger black generation and NAACP haven't yet gotten Sanford and Son banned. Foxx knew how to make people laugh - of ALL colors.
@@robertemanuel7664 I've seen all the greatest in person in Vegas at one time or another from Rickles to Newhart to Hackett to Dangerfield ...but I walked out on Red Foxx. He was so incredibly filthy he made Eddie Murphy's early performances (such as "Delirious") seem fit for a Sunday school audience!
@museack Ok I heard A & A was on radio actors were white... Guess Im not really sure what you're saying, sorry. I got entire DVD set on Ebay years ago.... Wondering what to say here Wish more TV comedy shows could be funny... new ones arent very funny at least not as funny as the shows You've mentioned
I am a Black woman who loved this show, how come it is not back on tv? This other mess on tv is not that funny! I miss the Amos and Andy show!! Some people says it is racist, but yet they allow this crap on national tv This THUG Sh_t that makes black people look really bad!!!!!
Yep. Several fine comedic actors and actresses lost their jobs because of triggered PC police. The NAACP should have targeted their efforts at getting these people competitive salaries.
I think this is beautiful comedy...I laughed at All in the Family too...we should all be able to appreciate our likenesses and differences....that's comedy.
"Hockability." I learned a new word. Hilarious show. I watched this a lot 60 years ago. [Why the NAACP banned this (and for heavens sakes Chimp Channel too) I'll never figure out.]
Thank you Mary I did to whatever happen to common decency allowing people to give an opinion about a subject and then leave it be you aren’t attacking them they act as if the people they are on a video or whatever as if the person is there mom and they will scream at you over someone who certainly doesn’t know you not really does the defenders . I really should cut that kind of negative behavior out of my day I don’t hurt anyone I’m 65 years old and I don’t believe in this behavior and most likely aren’t either so you have a very wonderful Holidays with your family and I’m going to enjoy my beautiful family and the day the lord gives us to be kind happy and healthy and we loved the program on our old worn zenith tv 📺 which I’m not sure if you remember or not not everyone had a tv my families aunts and members couldn’t afford that they were old an on pensions so as a large fam does momma would always cook something wonderful and relatives would come for a visit an if something was special on they would visit eat snacks an watch the snowy screen 📺 until something happened and a program would come on to entertain us for a bit and then we turned it off and we all went to the screened in front porch my uncles an aunts would tell family stories and now an then ghost stories and it was wonderful I wouldn’t trade a moment of my childhood for we had love friends kindness and if we needed to be corrected as children any single or uncle a adult family would correct you and you were always feeling very uncomfortable with them watching over . I believe people have forgotten about what matters and it family friends respect love life and my goodness never behave like these folks do on TH-cam. Today I was disgusted at that man attacking the other over that ancient innocent show those folks were actors an it was there job but that man was sickening and disrespectful immoral behavior women were on there but he did not care. I decided not me I’m going . Take care please excuse my reasoning for the way I feel about today . You have Very Merry Christmas and May God Bless you mam I m sorry I’ve kept you so long Thank you 🙏
I happen to be white --- and I was in an all black bar on Chicago's south side back in the 70's, and we were talking about TV -- and I mentioned that I missed Amos and Andy since the reruns had been taken off the air. You'd have thought I just said the "n" word ...dead silence! I looked around. Everyone had heard me and they were staring at me. I said, "What? ...What did I say? Something wrong? ..." One guy gave me a look of disgust and went back to his conversation. Another rolled his eyes. The guy I had been talking to said, "Not cool, man." I was really taken aback and tried to explain that I surely meant nothing wrong. It was a comedy, wasn't it? Yeah, they were black and the Kingfish and Andy were portrayed as a couple of dumbbells, but surely no worse than Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton ...Right? Finally, the guy explained the problem. It went like this: Yeah, Kramden and Norton were dummies, but that was ONE program out of a hundred. Andy and the Kingfish were dummies too, BUT it was the ONLY black TV program on the air ! Well, I got the message -- loud and clear.
this show is the greatest TV program I have ever seen I never saw a TV show that made me laugh so much I enjoyed them all I heard years ago that Michael Jackson had this .
Amos and Andy “The Gun” 23 August 1951: Alvin Childress as Amos, Spencer Williams (Jr.) as Andy, Tim Moore as Kingfish, Ernestine Wade as Sapphire, Johnny Lee as Calhoun, Amanda Randolph as Mama, Nick Stewart (Nick O'Demus )as Lightnin', James Adamson as the Bailiff, Morris Ankrum as the Judge, John Doucette as Crook That Puts Gun in Handbag, Roy Glenn as the District Attorney, and Charles Perry as Courtroom Spectator.
i used to really enjoy this show back when, not sure how it would play today but it was sure funny back then. george the kingfish was always getting in a jam.
What? Nobody bellyaching about how "racist and wrong" this comedy is? I'm amazed!! Too bad they can't rerun this stuff because it was funny. We used to come home from school and watch it in the late 50's. Never have been able to see the difference between A&A or Sanford and Son, Beverly Hillbillies or All in the Family.
This is one of the really good Amos n andy tv episodes .for those who are familiar with the original radio episodes lightnin was absolutely hilarious everytime he appeared in radio but the TV lightnin was presented as an idiot or fool ,also I beleave the TV king fish andy and Amos were perfect in a select few tv episodes of which this is one where they were realy compatible with the original radio show
You realize the radio show was white men portraying black men. The TV show was produced by the creators and actors of the radio show, the actors for TV had to be black. The writers were all white, and often just reused old radio scripts adapted for TV (common practice for many shows brought to TV from radio, see jack benny, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, etc.)
@@mwilliams1330 yea but the radio had some episodes that were so hilarious I new this guy who always spoke of Amos n andy radio show as racist I got him to listen to a couple of my favorite episodes he had me down load them to his phone
so many great broken slang words makes u think of the honeymooners, ..me an amos went up to the grand canyon for vacation & it was clooosed, ..amos & i invested in a pumpkin farm, .. then they caaalled off halloweeeen
HOLY MACRA ANDY !!!....Lol hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha....priceless great entertainment !!!!!! Shame on the naacp and their lack of judgement then and now.
This was such a beyond genius show. Everyone on it was utterly brilliant and eternally memorable....., in my blood. I miss it so much.
I am a 73 year old White guy. I listened to Amos & Andy on the radio and I loved them. I didn't have a TV until I was in my twenties so I never saw them on TV. I did love this episode and I will be looking forward to more of them.
WOW, Jerry, thank you for posting this.
Growing up I tried not to miss a show!
The plot in this one is similar to an episode of "Sanford and Son", both were hilarious. How could anyone give this excellent show a thumbs down?. Brilliant writing and acting.
Wow I haven't seen this show since I was little. Thank you for the wonderful memories.
I use to look forward each and every week when I was a kid to watch this show and laugh like crazy, extremely talented actors and writers, there was nothing wrong with this show, it made millions of people laugh, which was excellent for the human brain.
It would be AWESOME if they used the technology they have available to them today and reproduce these episodes in color that gave millions of people laughter and enjoyment years ago, it would be one of the best if not the best comedy show ever produced for television, once again there was nothing wrong with these comedies, just brilliant actors and brilliant writers that made people feel good laughing and enjoying these episodes, why they took these episodes off the air I'll never understand.
My daddy watched this show when I was a little girl because Kingfish was sooo funny. Good, clean comedy.
Comedy at its finest... Good clean humor from yester-year❕ 👶🗓️
Andy who played a slow witted chap on the show, was actually a highly intelligent person . Served in WW1 attained rank of Sargent Major, and was bugler for Gen. Pershing at one time.. a very intelligent person died in 1969..in his 70s....R.I.P. Mr. Willians
I'm a 69 year old white guy, and this was always one of my favorite shows. Our family used to watch it every week.
Richard Landis I’m 65 my family did to enjoying our treat mom made sure ice cream an coke,or coke an dips ,popcorn,we all gathered and laughing out loud at a show we loved the actors and they were excellent comedians and stars ashamed it couldn’t have gone on because of idiots!
What a great show! We used to listen to Amos 'n Andy on the radio before TV. My Dad was a lawyer and he loved it when Calhoun was on. Hahahaha.
👍👍👍👍
@Goth Mog The most famous Kingfish line for me was , "Ooooh Andy. . . . what is I gonna do?"
You mean thsoe blackface white actors
Jack benny was good. Red skelton was humorist but nobody could make u laugh and appreciate great comendy like amos and andy
@@ernestconley5327 From that era Abbott and Costello were good and Burns and Allen were awesome.
Loved this show growing up. Loved "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" too. All of these shows were hilarious Then someone decided it was racist and it disappered. My family is white and we never thought "Let's watch the black show". Everyone liked "Amos and Andy". I'm happy I can watch it again. It's funny as hell. A sitcom like any other about everyday life and the situations that arise. Love this show and feel the players didn't get the recognition they deserved. They were great!!!
Amos and Andy would not have any problems today because Blacks have been portrayed in a variety of roles. Does anyone think that Blacks were portrayed better on Sanford and Son than on Amos and Andy?
Now that is funny stuff. Wish sitcoms had such good writing today.
I loved these guys. I remember my Father laughing laughing laughing. I'm an 82 yr old white guy and I just don't give a shit about things today
Robert Barrett thanks, same here: only a 72 year Old White( actually Lightish Pink Skin ......Anyways, good talented to , & Play off each/ set ups........ Interestingly I had a Census Worker ask a question off of *Archaic / Old Form: “What Race am I? “.. ( Had to,assume the Form meant Skin Color I assign myself to: !!! Only one Human Race that I have seen, so far... My Dad was a Brown Medium Skin, etc.)....
I am with you old timer!!!
I use to watch this when i was 5. Good clean comedy for the family. Tv is in the toilet now in 2019
^^^@David Scott .. Television sucks, Stopped watching 6yrs ago it's utter Garbage a Total Mind and Time Waste Chur! :T] .v ..
Bookum Danno my white uncle adopted 3 african american kids from chicago. When nobody else wanted them. They are adults now one fought in afganastan, another is a social worker working with the poor and another is a fashion designer. In ww2 at the battle of okinawa a black sailor named s1c jimmy wade from east texas saved my dads life from a japanese suicide plane attack! If your going to cry racism the look in the mirror! If americans cant get it together then the country will fall from within and the world falls under a dictatorship! Question: what are you doing?🗽
@Bookum Danno Remember, stereotypes are usually true.
@Bookum Danno Shame on both of you. Potty mouthing each other is solving nothing. You can be better than that. Please stop.
David Scott, you are so right. I watched the same at the same age. Better time and happier time.
I loved this show 60 years ago, and still do.
I had heard about Amos and Andy, never realized how funny it is.
This may be racist to some- but they're nuts- this is hilarious, well written, and the actors are perfect! I used to watch this when I was a little kid, in the early 50's. I loved this show then, and still do.
Tim Moore (Kingfish) and Spencer Williams (Andy) were great. I watched this show when I was about eight years old.and I loved it. It compared to other slapstick shows like Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca and I did not look at it as racist and insulting. It was a funny show. No sexual suggestiveness and foul language, just good clean humor. Let's stop judging the past by today's standards.
I just love these ladies and gentlemen that were apart of this show. It was because of political correctness that it was taken off the air. What a shame to break the heart of a little fella. that got so much enjoyment with this comedy This is where I learned that black people were real and funny. This show could have been about some white people, as well, only it would not have been as funny.
Thank you for bringing them back.
Interestingly, we never thought about skin colors much, etc... Anyways, good performances...actually Great: & the Kingfish!,
I remember that, at one time, it was nye near impossible to find these old shows. I was told that it was because they were considered offensive. When I watched then, I saw no racism in them. I thought, and I still think, that they were/are hilarious and that these folks were/are great comedians. (Yes, I can see where someone could find a problem with them but, I say, "It's in the eye of the beholder". These shows are [still] cute and funny. 😊
Calhoun is my favorite character on this show.
I used to hear My Mom and Grandma talk about this show. I finally decided to look it up. Glad I did! Fuuuunnny!
The guy who played King fish was a very talented and funny man
His name was Tim Moore
Google Andy and see how Intelligent he was, amazing.....
Watched this show when we were small.Loved this show.Good clean shows and they take them off tv.
They were funny then and, they're still funny today. Even without the profanity!! Trail blazers!!.
The NAACP were too upper crusted for this its still my people on the real sides
How i miss wonderful shows like this. Truly hilarious and such wonderful actors. Just dont have the talent in tv land anymore.
Will Smith and Chris Rock should reprise these roles.
I use to watch that when I was very young. I loved that . It was so funny 😂
Good stories, good acting. Bring it back!
The Kingfish....what wouldn’t I give to hear a wooden door slamming again!
The actor who portrayed, "Lightnin' ", the custodian, was involved with the establishment of the old Ebony Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles on Washington Blvd. It's no longer there but it was replaced by another performance venue.
Andy is the Grampa of "Bunk" from The Wire TV series.
When we were kids we had a blast impersonating Kingfish.
oh my gosh !!😍 love these guys .. a classic show with african american's in lead roles not to mention they also had a radio show .. i'm white and 62 years of age AND i think of good clean funny as the greatest thing these two african americans gave to comedy .. they top any of king's 👑 of comedy to date ..
I love Amos and Andy and the King Fish. They were hilarious, cute, wonderful sitcom, you just loved them. Sweet. I guess the words are innocent and true comedy." It does not take any talent to be profane, going to one's baser self. America loved them.
From a better time when everyone didn't get their feelings hurt with every thing that happened.
Amos and Andy were Hilarious.
Yes, there was stereotyping, most comedy depends on stereotyping: making fun of different nationalities, etc. But these actors were funny and talented. A shame their work is disparaged today. Lighten up America!
My Grandfather loved this show. He would listen to the audio cassette tapes at night till he feel asleep.
This show was hilarious. I have always been angry that certain blacks made sure it was banished. These great comedians never got their rightful recognition. Instead, other comedians stole their material and got rich. I love the Kingfish and Andy. A great comedy team.
You realize that the original Amos and Andy radio series was white guys portraying black men. They continued producing the TV show, reusing old radio scripts, now portrayed by black actors. They got super rich, Charles Correll and Freeman Godsen have stars on Hollywood's walk of fame. They got their due all right.
Funniest show was when kingfish convinced Andy to get his pilots license
"Carrying on like Tallulah Bulkhead". Used to watch this show all the time as a kid.
Thanks to the NAACP they have this show banned but this show is no different from Sanford and Son which is just like Amos and Andy.
I bought entire series on E bay years ago...
Watched them as a kid b4...
Hilarious comedy, as You say just like Sanford & Son..."you dummy"!!
@juana washington have to get some dvds
I have da whole set of Amos/Andy
Luv diff ppl
White. Ppl were only 1s i hated growing up
Livin in Detroit suburb...
They started it, Correct??
L0L
AMEN! Am surprised the dumbed-down, politically correct younger black generation and NAACP haven't yet gotten Sanford and Son banned. Foxx knew how to make people laugh - of ALL colors.
@@robertemanuel7664 I've seen all the greatest in person in Vegas at one time or another from Rickles to Newhart to Hackett to Dangerfield ...but I walked out on Red Foxx. He was so incredibly filthy he made Eddie Murphy's early performances (such as "Delirious") seem fit for a Sunday school audience!
@museack Ok
I heard A & A was on radio actors were white...
Guess Im not really sure what you're saying, sorry.
I got entire DVD set on Ebay years ago....
Wondering what to say here Wish more TV comedy shows could be funny... new ones arent very funny at least not as funny as the shows You've mentioned
I am a Black woman who loved this show, how come it is not back on tv? This other mess on tv is not that funny! I miss the Amos and Andy show!! Some people says it is racist, but yet they allow this crap on national tv This THUG Sh_t that makes black people look really bad!!!!!
Marcus Cerdan well said
This and I Married Joan were my favorite shows when I was a child
I also loved Our Miss Brooks, My Little Margie, Sargent Bilko, George and Gracie Allen, I Love Lucy, Imogene Koka, loved them all.
Simone Gad You are most probably older than I am; I loved these shows as well.
good fun clean show, well worth watching
Amos
Andy
Kingfish
Lighten
Sapphire
Momma
Calhoun
Still funny after all these years
@Karl G Ah. I knew it was some variation of "Lightning" but was unsure of the spelling. After all, it has been over 60 years!🤔
Karl G And Algonquin J. Calhoun.
Thanks to the ignorant actions of the NAACP we lost one of the funniest programs that was ever on TV.
Yep. Several fine comedic actors and actresses lost their jobs because of triggered PC police. The NAACP should have targeted their efforts at getting these people competitive salaries.
The naacp's actions were not ignorant. They were necessary at the time
Phillip Chetta yep, then allow other silly shows on
I think this is beautiful comedy...I laughed at All in the Family too...we should all be able to appreciate our likenesses and differences....that's comedy.
Timmothy Ward one of the best actors ever. Died poor, Red Fox paid for grave stone for his grave.
Pawn it in New Jersey 😆 😆 😆
Great answer. As long as I'm not standing in front of the judge next.
I'm 691/2.....from Detroit/ Holey Mack'ell dere, Sapphire !!
"Hockability." I learned a new word. Hilarious show. I watched this a lot 60 years ago. [Why the NAACP banned this (and for heavens sakes Chimp Channel too) I'll never figure out.]
Funniest tv show of all time.shame on the naacp
Thank you Mary I did to whatever happen to common decency allowing people to give an opinion about a subject and then leave it be you aren’t attacking them they act as if the people they are on a video or whatever as if the person is there mom and they will scream at you over someone who certainly doesn’t know you not really does the defenders . I really should cut that kind of negative behavior out of my day I don’t hurt anyone I’m 65 years old and I don’t believe in this behavior and most likely aren’t either so you have a very wonderful Holidays with your family and I’m going to enjoy my beautiful family and the day the lord gives us to be kind happy and healthy and we loved the program on our old worn zenith tv 📺 which I’m not sure if you remember or not not everyone had a tv my families aunts and members couldn’t afford that they were old an on pensions so as a large fam does momma would always cook something wonderful and relatives would come for a visit an if something was special on they would visit eat snacks an watch the snowy screen 📺 until something happened and a program would come on to entertain us for a bit and then we turned it off and we all went to the screened in front porch my uncles an aunts would tell family stories and now an then ghost stories and it was wonderful I wouldn’t trade a moment of my childhood for we had love friends kindness and if we needed to be corrected as children any single or uncle a adult family would correct you and you were always feeling very uncomfortable with them watching over . I believe people have forgotten about what matters and it family friends respect love life and my goodness never behave like these folks do on TH-cam. Today I was disgusted at that man attacking the other over that ancient innocent show those folks were actors an it was there job but that man was sickening and disrespectful immoral behavior women were on there but he did not care. I decided not me I’m going . Take care please excuse my reasoning for the way I feel about today . You have Very Merry Christmas and May God Bless you mam I m sorry I’ve kept you so long Thank you 🙏
Well, uhh, well lookieheahhh.... LOL THE BLACK FOGHORN LEGHORN 😅
Hi-larious, laugh out loud funny.
Oohhh!!! the lovely Sapphire
Learned a new word/term this evening: "hockability".....
Amos N Andy and Bowery Boys. Kingfish=Slip Mahoney.
Always enjoyed Amos and Andy, as a kid, funny!!
I happen to be white --- and I was in an all black bar on Chicago's south side back in the 70's, and we were talking about TV -- and I mentioned that I missed Amos and Andy since the reruns had been taken off the air. You'd have thought I just said the "n" word ...dead silence! I looked around. Everyone had heard me and they were staring at me. I said, "What? ...What did I say? Something wrong? ..." One guy gave me a look of disgust and went back to his conversation. Another rolled his eyes. The guy I had been talking to said, "Not cool, man." I was really taken aback and tried to explain that I surely meant nothing wrong. It was a comedy, wasn't it? Yeah, they were black and the Kingfish and Andy were portrayed as a couple of dumbbells, but surely no worse than Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton ...Right? Finally, the guy explained the problem. It went like this:
Yeah, Kramden and Norton were dummies, but that was ONE program out of a hundred. Andy and the Kingfish were dummies too, BUT it was the ONLY black TV program on the air !
Well, I got the message -- loud and clear.
this show is the greatest TV program I have ever seen I never saw a TV show that made me laugh so much I enjoyed them all I heard years ago that Michael Jackson had this .
6:55 "The hock ability of this thing is unlimited' LOL!
Back then 6.00 was a lot of money, almost a days pay as Minimum wage was about 1.30
i thought i had seen all of them, but missed this one. lol sanitary confinement
if you watch I love Lucy you see story lines from Amos A Andy , she was always getting herself into crazy perdiments.
Amos and Andy “The Gun” 23 August 1951: Alvin Childress as Amos, Spencer Williams (Jr.) as Andy, Tim Moore as Kingfish, Ernestine Wade as Sapphire, Johnny Lee as Calhoun, Amanda Randolph as Mama, Nick Stewart (Nick O'Demus )as Lightnin', James Adamson as the Bailiff, Morris Ankrum as the Judge, John Doucette as Crook That Puts Gun in Handbag, Roy Glenn as the District Attorney, and Charles Perry as Courtroom Spectator.
Sapphire is pretty hot!
And she can cook too..
The criminal is played John Doucette.
i used to really enjoy this show back when, not sure how it would play today but it was sure funny back then. george the kingfish was always getting in a jam.
What? Nobody bellyaching about how "racist and wrong" this comedy is? I'm amazed!! Too bad they can't rerun this stuff because it was funny. We used to come home from school and watch it in the late 50's. Never have been able to see the difference between A&A or Sanford and Son, Beverly Hillbillies or All in the Family.
Yes don't forget Al Bundy.
@Shaun Eljah White racism on whites is nonsensical paranoia.
@Shaun Eljah Not " racist put down of white males " but "put down of racist white males"
Thank you from Manhattan ©2024
This is one of the really good Amos n andy tv episodes .for those who are familiar with the original radio episodes lightnin was absolutely hilarious everytime he appeared in radio but the TV lightnin was presented as an idiot or fool ,also I beleave the TV king fish andy and Amos were perfect in a select few tv episodes of which this is one where they were realy compatible with the original radio show
You realize the radio show was white men portraying black men. The TV show was produced by the creators and actors of the radio show, the actors for TV had to be black. The writers were all white, and often just reused old radio scripts adapted for TV (common practice for many shows brought to TV from radio, see jack benny, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, etc.)
@@mwilliams1330 yea but the radio had some episodes that were so hilarious I new this guy who always spoke of Amos n andy radio show as racist I got him to listen to a couple of my favorite episodes he had me down load them to his phone
Great show.
So funny this pp are so great actors
Tim Moore, who played the character of Kingfish, should have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Too bad that will never happen.
Sanitary confinement lololol
I always thought it was just really funny, not racist or derogatory, just really funny. Good clean family fun......
The NAACP had it taken off the air, and put all of those actors out of work. Nice.
The naacp's actions were necessary at the time
Great television show. I believe they had to put darker makeup on Alvin Childress who portrayed Amos.
maybe my anxiety is fired up, but it's hard to watch.
thanks for the history.
This year I may go as high as 6$
I recognize the lawyer for the prosecution when young but can’t place him.
The cat fell in the washing machine what a line again
This is funny as hell. 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Funny Clean Humor with 💘 n truths that's understandable today from way back then.
I watched these back in the 1950s with my dad.
Me too:-)
famous black folks
i love it
wow! been a long time since I saw these ... thank you!
so many great broken slang words makes u think of the honeymooners, ..me an amos went up to the grand canyon for vacation & it was clooosed, ..amos & i invested in a pumpkin farm, .. then they caaalled off halloweeeen
If you ain’t eating wham, you ain’t eating ham!
Hilarious!
"stimulated Alligator" and i'm a 103 year old orange person.
HOLY MACRA ANDY !!!....Lol hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha....priceless great entertainment !!!!!! Shame on the naacp and their lack of judgement then and now.
A Black D.A.?
Oh my
I was great TV.. the actors were funny and talented....shame the idiots took it off.
The black folk were dummying down or the audience....
Much funnier then I love Lucy.
new jersey
COCO wants to make a new show called Amos and NANDY.