Amos 'N' Andy Kingfish Becomes A Press Agent (1955)

Andy and Calhoun assist the Kingfish in scamming an upscale hotel into contracting his services as a press agent.
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[@charlesyoung9980]

As a white man, let me just say, I love Amos 'N' Andy. If something is funny, it's funny. Period!

[@williammcginn4286]

(Holy Macarull) I've been saying this for years usually in a Bar under the influence of alotta beers then trading up to some Absolutly Red, not knowing where, what and when but drunk as pewpew so thanx to the Tube I've been Etucadium and the classroom is hilarious tanks these guys. The black face comedians are trying their best but are blown away goshdarnnit!

[@dorisbrown3622]

Q

[@phylis3917]

Only dumb people considers TV real. 😅

[@johnshaffter4093]

I am white and I have watched this series ever since the fifth grade and I am 75. It always was thebest

[@leonardsmall3783]

You got me by a year. Amos n Andy was the show that my brother and I would watch every day after school. They pulled up their pants, no smoking and drinking, no hanging out on the corner etc, they were suits. Compare it to the sitcoms ontv ow. The remake of Good Times should be taken off Netflix like Amos n Andy was taken of by the NAACP and I was a lifetime meet.

[@HERBYWALLACE3]

My favorite show wish they would do shows like this today. The best

[@aarondigby5054]

Kingfish's response to Sapphire's complaining , " some of these wrestlers look better than your momma." Too damn hilarious.

[@lynnfisher3037]

Yeah that would cause riots in the streets. Great idea

[@deloresboudreaux2755]

A great talented group of Actor’s.

[@par2go737]

A SUPERB CAST OF CHARACTERS UNMATCHED BY THE SIT COMS THAT FOLLOWED

[@hatednyc]

I don’t recall this episode - lemme watch… “some of them wrasslers is easier to look at than yo momma!” Hahaaa! I have seen it but I’m definitely WATCHIN IT AGAIN! Thank you!

[@kimberlygray699]

Never saw this episode and I just cracked up on that line

[@twistnloc3247]

Now that was funny

[@aarondigby5054]

@@kimberlygray699 how can you not get tickled to death over that shade he threw at Sapphire's momma.

[@williamneumyer7147]

I like "lower your voice to a war cry."

[@aarondigby5054]

They had the funniest one liners.

[@cengland8941]

I can't think of a situation comedy that comes close to these. I remember them from childhood.

[@aarondigby5054]

My great grandmother would bumrush us kids out of the grocry/shopping store to get home in plenty of time to roast salted peanuts and the 61/2 Oz bottled Coca-Cola would be chilled cold from refrigeration the day prior, what fun enjoying this show with the entire family.

[@roberttreadwell3252]

I love these great actors.. This is real comedy at it's best.. Watching these always puts me in a great mood.. God bless them all

[@aarondigby5054]

They didn't find the Beverly Hillbillies offensive?

[@audreyfreeman4208]

My dad was a no-nonsense man but whenever he saw Amos and Andy he would get so tickled. I would enjoy seeing him be so happy. God bless him. He's gone but he really enjoyed Amos and Andy to the fullest❤ My dad was a no-nonsense man

[@jeromesmith5788]

Really bring back good memories

[@chucklangworthy4118]

This episode was the most sweetest, beautiful and innocent as well as funny that you could ever want to watch. Compared to the filth garbage on TV today. It’s nice to see a wonderful program. God bless theses actors and all that were involved with making the show.

[@briang.7206]

As a kid years ago watched this show on tv. Later on it was banned.

[@vinvader1651]

Good stuff!

[@dennispasch9538]

While growing up I enjoyed watching Kingfish always trying try to swindle Andy, but as usual he digging himself a deeper hole.

[@terryscott2007]

These are hilarious 🤣

[@briang.7206]

Funny but I can see why the black community kicked up a fuss about it.

[@coobay4786]

​@brian g. It was the NCAA, not the community.

[@gregoryevans8179]

I watched these shows as a kid and vaguely remember some of the episodes. I know a lot of black folks think they cast blacks in a bad light, but I as a black person I don’t see why. It was a funny show and that’s all it was.

[@bcj842]

It’s pretty much just that. Showing characters in a black community being who they are in a sitcom setting, sort of like the Beverly Hillbillies being unapologetically themselves even in hoity-toity Beverly Hills. You’ll never find an Ozarks or Appalachian dweller offended or disgusted at that TV show. Quite the contrary. People from my part of the country ADORE the Clampetts and would take to the streets if a group of people tried to take THEIR people off the air. I should think it would be the same with Amos ‘N’ Andy, but for some peculiar reason, it’s not.

[@aarondigby5054]

@@bcj842 that's the price we paid for this so called equal rights, many black professionals lost their careers to unfair competition.

[@windstorm1000]

Agreed. NAACP have done many great things but canceling this show was a mistake

[@aarondigby5054]

​​@@windstorm1000the boulies(uppity negroes)of the naacp. Roy Wilkins was a boulie, he was overheard at the '64 Democratic convention saying "that big woman need to go sit down somewhere" when she was scheduled to speak, Ms Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper and was to express the injustices she'd suffered. Fukk boulie House Negro Roy Boy

[@kevinmadden1645]

Calhoun is almost as devious as Kingfish .

[@kingstonagainstcorruption2268]

Funny how kingfish is from Calhoun GA and got a buddy in New York named Calhoun!

[@kevinmadden1645]

@@kingstonagainstcorruption2268 Kingfish and Andy were from Marietta,Georgia not Calhoun, Georgia.

[@kingstonagainstcorruption2268]

@@kevinmadden1645 that's right but that's only 30 min apart so I was close.

[@nealfry2230]

" Sweet Dreams Hayden Panettiere "

[@Drakemiser]

Spencer Williams. A great artist, comedian, director. He made a response to _A Birth Of A Nation_ that is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. He played Andy on this show.

[@roygardner2444]

5ee3tw

[@roygardner2444]

cccc

[@cengland8941]

I didn't know about S Williams but I had noted his perfection as an actot.

[@lynnfisher3037]

So what was this response to The Birth of A Nation you speak of?

[@Drakemiser]

@@lynnfisher3037 It's a film he made that has since been lost except for a few scenes. It, apparently satirized 'Birth Of A Nation". A rejoinder if you will. ; )

[@DudePositive]

I share your channel/videos, hoping it sparks a Google search.

[@gus2600]

As a white kid watching this show with my grandfather , I learned that black people were just like us . My grandfather was quick to point this out when he said that his mother-in-law was a " battle lack " , just like the Kingfish's mother-in-law . Of course , he told me not to tell my grandmother what he had said .

[@lisawalls1007]

BLESSED EVENING STAY SAFE

[@Ronald-hx6zn]

Comedy at it's best.Not a single curse word.

[@kriseley4974]

Love y'all 😂😂😂

[@Foureyesvideo]

? I have a friend in the music business Reverend Isaac Douglas we met a few times and talked and he passed this information on to me maybe someone else will verify it but I take it to be true He was known as the fifth Beatle he was involved in recording with this group this group for over 20 years world famous musician Billy Preston his mother played Sapphire on Amos and Andy I was a regular at the time and there's a lot of trivia that has come up in conversations this was one of them I also believe back-in-the-day the NAACP had a lot to do with Amos and Andy being cancelled because of the images that they projected I'm not sure why because today's movies look the same

[@aarondigby5054]

The uppity naacp was the reason this great television show was canceled.

[@Foureyesvideo]

@@aarondigby5054 what have they done since? Gatekeepers

[@stevecline5102]

How many of you good folks out there in KZbin land recognized the bellboy? None other than Greg Morris, from the 1960s television show, Mission Impossible?

[@NoBullsh_t]

15:35 Goldies mother...

[@josefinamoran5143]

Me

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[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

❤

[@BradsTrashIsTyronesTreasure91]

#boycottfakeblack #boycottAmosnAndy

[@xp8969]

Thank you for all the work you put in helping this channel to grow and gain more viewers, every single time you comment you bump the channel up in the KZbin algorithm, and the best part is that even if you delete them you can't undo th engagement, played yerself hater

[@kingstonagainstcorruption2268]

They sure look black to me ! Except Amos is a bit on the high side ...

[@arthurwatt4144]

These guys were very funny and talented.too bad they played such racist stereotypes. Not right.

[@aarondigby5054]

How was this racists, all the supporting cast members were professionals, the guest supporting cast members were doctors, lawyers, hotel clerks, secretaries, there were white guest cast members, it was a classic knee jerk reaction like this cancel culture bull crap were going through today.

[@coobay4786]

Arthur sounds like you're the racist.

[@windstorm1000]

Is it racist. Many black folk.commentimh here say no. I'm white so I'm withholding my comment

[@darrylevans4401]

The NAACP got this show off the air because they said it stereotyped us black folks.

[@lynnfisher3037]

Well didn't it?

[@windstorm1000]

Many black folks say no to that.