[...] First is David Allen Grier’s Chocolate News on Comedy Central, basically another skit show that will fail to fill the gap left by Chappelle. Grier (DAG - like RDA, but Black and UN-awesome) was never one of my favorites on In Living Color like Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey or Jamie Foxx. Despite being a homie from Detroit, he’s from East Detroit, the Dominion is West side. Yes, it’s not just something rappers bark about in their songs - there‘s a subtle cultural difference: they wack . His all weather character fallback is what I call the Original recipe Negro, aka Fred Sanford the junk dealer and all his greasy old sidekicks like Grady and Bubba. When not doing heart attack or diabetes jokes in this guise, he’s in chickenhead drag. [...]
[...] First is David Allen Grier’s Chocolate News on Comedy Central, basically another skit show that will fail to fill the gap left by Chappelle. Grier (DAG - like RDA, but Black and UN-awesome) was never one of my favorites on In Living Color like Damon Wayans, Jim Carrey or Jamie Foxx. Despite being a homie from Detroit, he’s from East Detroit, the Dominion is West side. Yes, it’s not just something rappers bark about in their songs - there‘s a subtle cultural difference: they wack . His all weather character fallback is what I call the Original recipe Negro, aka Fred Sanford the junk dealer and all his greasy old sidekicks like Grady and Bubba. When not doing heart attack or diabetes jokes in this guise, he’s in chickenhead drag. [...]