What Happened To This Forgotten 'Slave Sitcom'? - CH News

[@mikween8657]

Never saw or heard of this show, and I thank God for these small favors

[@glw5166]

LOL! You are blessed!

[@biggiethorpe6900]

How the hell they thought this was going to get 5 seasons?!!?

[@chriscangelosi9438]

They would never make a TV show comedy about the holocaust Facts! 😡

[@ComaLies225]

I think in British television one network tried to do a sitcom involving Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun. You can imagine how well that went over. I think it got canceled after the pilot. This wouldn’t have made it in American television

[@cmmochalatte]

Hogans Heroes was about a P.O.W camp in Nazi Germany. It’s in the 60’s snd very popular. Some of the actors won Emmys. 3 Jewish actors actually played the roles of Nazi. One of them was an actual Holocaust survivor. It’s actually a funny show. I was surprised I’d enjoy it.

[@glw5166]

They did make one about it. Hogans Heroes.

[@dinkyboss]

They literally have tried to make sitcoms about the holocaust…

[@MrMush23lee]

Hell nawl they won’t 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@RegalToneT]

Y’all know exactly who thought that this would be funny. But if we made fun of them this wouldn’t have even been up for discussion. I can’t believe it aired for several shows 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ We have power when it comes to this but yet we can’t stop the radio from having us listen to crap all day…

[@goaway3717]

Don't consume it. There is a knob or button on the radio that lets you turn it off. What I do instead of dealing with garbage media on radio or TV is listen to audio books or podcasts that are actually good and not just crap the lib focused media wants to shovel down people's throats.

[@casonbrown6239]

Well said

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

Lmao. Wow. Lol. Incedible. Shocking. I'm just baffled. Accurate. Yeah, we all know.

[@CruzanSlimm]

Maury, Jerry Springer, and anything produced by Mona Scott have displayed Black ppl in far more negative light than this show ever could. Where is all the “outrage” for them?

[@pike8840]

U are not the father cause u Asian 😂😂😂😂

[@TrunxKraft3000]

Never saw or knew about this show! Wow!

[@chriscangelosi9438]

Good thing they pulled it before it aired!

[@pike8840]

​@@chriscangelosi9438It aired

[@edreid7872]

I remember watching it, only because of the controversy.. Chi McBride luckily was able to find work after this mess..

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

Very luckily.

[@diddy2612]

In what world did they think this would be a great idea

[@majormontega]

Of course it was on UPN 😂

[@chriscangelosi9438]

United peons Network

[@charlesqueen7008]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@kingclint3115]

Man if y’all don’t hurry up and give us that Unforgotten on Phil Morris 🤬

[@gregwhite7852]

?

[@isaidwhatIsaid86]

@@gregwhite7852 exactly. That’s why King Clint is asking for an episode on him lol. Google him. You’re on a smart device. He’s one of those actors you seen around in things but never really know about.

[@mr.uncleg5307]

😂😂😂

[@ComaLies225]

I’m seeing a lot of comments about Chi McBride and they’re mostly unfavorable but I don’t think he should be blamed for any of this. He was a working actor. I guess it’s easier to say one should and could walk away from something they don’t agree with but at the same time this was also his livelihood. I’m not trying to change opinions but I think we should see it from the other side too. Not to say this sitcom was right, this sitcom was a TERRIBLE IDEA

[@calicocalthecopperkid7230]

He deserves 50000 lashes - Dr. Umar Johnson voice. ( I'm just talking $#!+. I wouldn't wish that on nobody)

[@glw5166]

He should have seen Hollywood Shuffle.

[@dwmsmay6517]

😢THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT SLAVERY!! Has there ever been a sitcom depicting the holocaust?

[@the44118]

Idk In Living Color did a great job lol

[@cmmochalatte]

Hogans Heroes in the 60’s. It’s actually a great show.

[@illwhodi6462]

Chi McBride I’m disappointed in you low key 😢

[@jdtroup198683]

You are disappointed about Chi McBride but you should be disappointed by the writers

[@spencerlong4753]

@@jdtroup198683 Right, bc work is work, pride be damned.

[@Poppa_bear2k20]

Fr

[@jdtroup198683]

@@spencerlong4753 Yes because those writers were writing those "jokes" but you blame the actor and you should be disappointed with network execs who greenlit this.

[@spencerlong4753]

@@jdtroup198683 Both sides are guilty to me. I remember seeing promos for this coonery and thinking who was ok with this to where it got fed to the public? It should've never been greenlighted and anyone who took the butler role was thirsty. I don't knock the hustle, it's just not my cup of tea. He was Lee Daniels' The Butler before the movie and I know his Hollywood friends, black and otherwise, still clown him for signing up for this stinker 👴🏼

[@cmmochalatte]

For anyone asking if they’d do a sitcom about the Holocaust. There was 60’s Hogans Heroes. Originally it was supposed to be about prison life but it became a P.O.W camp in Nazi Germany. 3 of the Nazis were played by Jewish actors one was an actual Holocaust survivor. So far I haven’t seen scenes involving Jewish interment prisoners because it focuses on the P.O.W’s but you do see lots of Swastika imagery. The cast was Emmy nominated and it’s one of my favorite shows but I’m not Jewish so I can’t attest to how they feel about it. The Nazis are portrayed as clueless, likable idiots so maybe that makes it an easier pill to swallow. That still doesn’t make this slave sitcom ok. Every group or individual needs to set there own standards just because something was done to another doesn’t make it ok to do it again.

[@glw5166]

Hogans Heroes was also the TV version of the William Holden movie Stalag 13. I also read that the Jewish actors only signed on if it was guaranteed that the Germans would be presented as idiots which the show always accomplished. Hogans Heroes was a very successful show but, since blacks are still dealing with the effects of slavery, a sitcom about slavery will never be a hit.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

You can tell that this sitcom was not produced nor having an overhwhelming amount of black folks as leads.

[@jamezcold7387]

But we are in season 30 of Love & Hip Hop

[@Trendsetter5420]

Pastor

[@Trendsetter5420]

It’s okay when we show oppression of ourselves. But we can’t take accountability for it though

[@jamilbelle]

I remember this nonsense 😭🤦🏽‍♂️

[@hassanburton669]

I Remember This. This Sitcom Was DOA Dead 💀 On Arrival. UPN: U Pick A Ni%%a….

[@gregwhite7852]

🤣

[@davidwoodward1256]

Word to Paul Mooney!

[@Fahima90]

I remember this rubnish!🔥

[@anthonygause8082]

I Never Knew About This Show !

[@Trendsetter5420]

Y’all Finna get uncle Chi canceled! Lmao we still healing from him being a kinda shitty dad to Bowwow in roll bounce😂

[@amitypredator9385]

I sort of remember this being advertised. Still, I fail to see how this could have been any worse and more degrading than Flava Flav's short lived fresh prince of Bel Air ripoff

[@RegalToneT]

👍🏾

[@ashleyplunkett8963]

😅😅😅😅

[@suavoman90]

This is worse trust that BUT YOU NOT FAR FROM FLAV... WE ALL TUNED IN TO THAT FUCKERY!!! SMH

[@vashtikelly6837]

DAVE CHAPPELLE OR AARON MCGRUDER ARE THE ONLY ONE'S WHO COULD GET AWAY WITH WRITING A SHOW LIKE THIS......

[@nufunksoul]

I Spoke With Chi McBride Right After This Show Was Canceled... He Understood The Outrage But He Was More Concerned About All The Blacks Who Were Working Behind The Cameras & Scenes... I Worked Security 4 The Studios & In The Late Nineties Black Folks Were Fighting 4 Leverage In The Job Market 4 TV & Films... Everyone Knew The Writers Were On Some B.S. But Chess Moves Were Being Made... In The End The Public Won & Then UPN Had Their Run Of Black Buffoonish Comedies & The Rest is History As They Say... Selected Outrage.

[@stefanambrister3220]

why was this even made?

[@PlatPodMediaCEOSean]

It wasn’t funny, same as homeboys in outer space

[@theemiszalex]

homeboys in outer space was soooo unnecessary lol such a wack show

[@PlatPodMediaCEOSean]

@@theemiszalex godawful lol

[@ivyteacherwilson]

I remember this show and the outrage! I didn't watch any of it. Black people were pissed with Chi McBride.

[@Poppa_bear2k20]

Wait what?!

[@TK.kirkland]

"I got cast for this show but I kept suggesting Lincoln have blacks make the all whites be slaves... now that's a hit show"

[@madameshuggadrosenbloom1111]

I hated this foolishness. There was nothing funny about this show.

[@thebigpat799]

Do one about ‘Homeboys in Outer Space’

[@SeeSetJaeMiirTv]

What’s funny about slavery maybe we should take the family guy approach & make funny sitcom shows about the holocaust 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

[@TheJrockfreak]

lol Slavery isnt funny but im Black and I did laugh when watching the pilot episode but i grew up on South Park and Family guy so I dont mind a little offensive comedy

[@woobiefuntime]

He wasn't a slave . it was more about Abe being foolish . I wish it went longer

[@TheJrockfreak]

@@woobiefuntime Same, I wish it had gone longer also

[@shashaduke8700]

I think it was pronounced "PA fi fer"

[@chrisgarrett5942]

Comedy Hype is so on point with these sort of gems, I didn’t know that such an obvious offensive show aired. I’m deeply, deeply disappointed in Chi McBride.

[@TheJrockfreak]

it was offensive but in the funny kind of way lol

[@chrisgarrett5942]

@@TheJrockfreak the show was and is completely disturbing and offensive - no humor at all. Period.

[@TheJrockfreak]

@@chrisgarrett5942 I can respect your opinion. was it offensive? sure but I still found it funny but I enjoy a little offensive comedy I was raised on South Park and Family guy

[@chrisgarrett5942]

@@TheJrockfreak South Park and Family Guy are based on fictional characters and stories. This show was based on some actual people that existed in American history. The sambo that you have willfully accepted to be is quite sad.

[@TheJrockfreak]

@@chrisgarrett5942 lol Sorry im able to laugh at offensive things, thats just my personality and the way the show was its not like dude was running around picking cotton in it.

[@BaronSemediLive]

🧠I remember seeing commercials for this and thinking how? ??

[@goaway3717]

I generally don't think any subject should be off limits to being used for comedy. If you're stupid enough to pick a subject that the public doesn't want to watch or you do it in a way that isn't funny to most people they'll reward you by letting you fail. You do that enough times and you won't be working that job any longer or at least you shouldn't in any merit based employment, sadly Hollyweird is a place that allows people to fail upward. I like McBride as an actor but even with him starring in it, I wouldn't have watched this even if I'd heard about it.

[@Wilmrbadguy]

Okay this wasn't a Dream, this show did exist YIKES~ Wilmrbadguy

[@ImAiMajor]

Crazy this was offensive but we love to watch roots around Christmas every year smh

[@angelicsoulz]

I never watched that or any other slave movie besides Django. I never understood why anyone would want to. Don't need the horrors of slavery burned into my memory from a movie. I can use my imagination.

[@krazykaye8843]

Who is we? I've never heard of that.

[@befree4052]

Roots never made light of enslavement. Its crazy that you cant understand why this was offensive

[@ImAiMajor]

@@befree4052 I never said it made light but you aren’t offended by Kunte getting beat why be offended by a caricature that basically was based on a free man who worked behind Abe Lincoln

[@jeromejenkins151]

Unlike other "Boule" dependants of slavery I am not ashamed of my heritage and don't mind movies like Roots that show the brutality and seriousness of what my ancestors went through,however no one is allowed to make a joke out of it. Apples and oranges my guy.

[@TheJrockfreak]

I watched the pilot on KZbin, I thought it was pretty funny honestly but I have a dark sense of humor anyway lol

[@chriscangelosi9438]

You might like Cocaine bear 🐻 also billed as a dark comedy

[@TheJrockfreak]

@@chriscangelosi9438 ive seen the trailer and it looks wild so i probably will watch it.

[@Trendsetter5420]

Omg that’s so horrible…😏🧐🤨 I’d like to see it! 😂

[@glw5166]

I remember this show. I couldn't believe it when they actually let this air. They wanted to treat it like Hogans Heroes because the slave was the only smart one but this concept was just ridiculous. I still can't believe that Chi signed on to this crap.

[@suavoman90]

I remember seeing this on UPN at 8yo #1998 Always knew something was off about this show especially NOW knowing the movie Bamboozled is loosely based on JUST the controversy this show grew!!! Think on that🤔

[@ESC70737]

I actually watched this. I kinda saw where they were going

[@bigbadtrapalot.]

lol corey got y’all scrambling

[@thinktank0218]

I remember this show. Bad. Bad this made homeboys in outer space. Like dynasty

[@whh3571]

This show could work, and I feel with the right crew and writers would be hilarious. The only issue America never apologized for slavery so joking about it won't work in most mainstream circles 💯

[@bigbadtrapalot.]

u can’t apologize for that shit lol

[@TickTockIsrael]

He was a black Jacobite from Europe

[@matthewfergusons4318]

Pfeiffer is a black nobleman try to get with clerks by the way Mary Todd Lincoln is pretty funny herself too it's pretty funny even Abraham Lincoln is pretty funny too and one thing I guess using modern slang kind of make them more relatable how many people never read a civil war diary

[@davidnetterwald1846]

I remember hearing about this show and seeing advertisements on UPN about it and I was immediately turned off. I thought to myself Jesus what were they thinking about when they came up with the concept of this show? Any subject matter can be made light of or considered humorous if done well or written with some kind of intelligence but this clearly wasn’t it. It wasn’t done well and there was no intelligence involved. It was all about shock value. The nimrods responsible for this probably thought let’s make a show so devoid of taste and intellect that makes light of an awful period in human history for the hell of it. The fact that this show was even allowed to air is an insult not only to black people but people of all races.

[@deryckaird.7761]

What the ____ were they thinking?!

[@FerdinandCesarano]

The main character Desmond was not a slave.

[@Jayyreason]

I think I remember seeing it on tv once but That was it and that was long time ago

[@chicosworld]

Dam i remember this show lol never watched tho

[@hansolodolo92]

What the absolute f? I’ll never understand the people who agree to do these things. Mfs would have had me f all the way up

[@vg4life]

This is a rerun

[@dtox1283]

I use to love this show..it was funny

[@vaughnettemonroe283]

Thank God I never seen this BS on my tv smh

[@stingray4real]

This was a dreadful adaptation of the UK sitcom Blackadder The Third .

[@macewbee]

WTH

[@ashleywills8761]

I remember bits bout this show it wasn’t funny it I wanted to knw who was the brain behind it? Nd thought this would be funny??

[@victorybeginsinthegarden]

The creators were white

[@woobiefuntime]

They were copying the tv show black adder .

[@ashleywills8761]

@@victorybeginsinthegarden 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@TheJrockfreak]

@@woobiefuntime Thats a classic British Comedy right there

[@TheJrockfreak]

it was kinda funny i gotta admit

[@xelefonte]

A terrible concept and a terrible show.

[@jackazzhole1]

What's so funny about slavery??

[@justteezy91]

What kind of b.s was this?

[@leeleecorbett8421]

I Didn't See 😕 😐 😢 😪 See It Either !

[@mr.uncleg5307]

Damn UPN… as if your reputation for negritic depictions wasn’t questionable enough

[@charlesqueen7008]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@blkpryde2thamaxx]

Shit...it's 10× worse now....

[@lyonahjudah1549]

Sometimes the truth is hard to laugh at.... Sounds a lot like my family's story. We are Moors and Morocco is the true owner of The United States of America!

[@befree4052]

True owners? You do know there were people here before Europeans and Moors

[@lyonahjudah1549]

@@befree4052 those people were also of Hebrew/Moorish decent. America is Egypt.

[@befree4052]

@@lyonahjudah1549 America is Egypt 😐🤔 I think you need to look at a map lol Even when the continents were combined "American" was nowhere near the location of Egypt. People need to get it out of their minds that Egypt was the only country in Africa with a culture and rich history. The so called Hebrews of that time also were not great in number. Their legacy was and still is embellished

[@sumnerfife9363]

That's are problem we could ask for separate living, but talk about other races, but as black people we get butt hurt when talk about us,sad

[@strueskills]

Maury, Jerry Springer, and anything produced by Mona Scott have displayed Black ppl in far more negative light than this show ever could. Where is all the “outrage” for them?