Man this Comedy Central's southside is the funniest black ish I have seen in a long time. Only 2 episodes in, but if it can keep up at this pace, it will be very worthy competition for Atlanta.

To be fair, they are very different shows. Atlanta is more high end, slower pace and artsy, but Southside got joke on top of joke and really seems it was written for us by us.


Come on man, this ish right here:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1158426817998360581


When the dude said, "I am a 50-year-old black man, you know I only got like 10 years left". The joke cut so deep.

If you don't know you heard it here first.


And yes, sadly an effective way to put people on to something new is to compare it favorably to something older.



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This is how I know I've been watching too much DJ Vlad.

Glad you dig it

I'm happy to be involved with a cool ass show regardless.

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I like the Chicago-isms.

And yeah, the jokes are low-key but keep coming.

"Go get that d*ck officer"
"I think I just got #metoo'd"

I dig it.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I’ve been hearing clips on the radio and it sounded like it might be funny

Reader listed him 15th in the under 13 South of 22nd street.

Yooooo!! Lmao. Watching this tonight.

So happy to see his come up. He used to be a writer on Jimmy Fallon. Dude is hella smart. Last time I saw him, we were kids, I thought he was going to be a doctor or lawyer....cut to... he is doing skits on The Tonight Show. I think he has another show coming out too on another network...IFC, I think.

But yeah, like ATL, it feels homegrown and the writers know the city and its people well. The punchlines/jokes don't stop....it keeps hittin' you back to back.

It trips me out because at one point Bashir, Kanye, and I were all on the same bus as kids. Seeing them do there thing at different points makes me proud and the talent that continue to rise out the city is amazing. Despite some of the negative 'statistics', I am hella proud of this city and look forward to seeing more of my experiences/stomping grounds getting put out there for the world to view.

I haven't seen that one, I don't have IFC, but they're both on Wednesday nights.

>I haven't seen that one, I don't have IFC, but they're both
>on Wednesday nights.

I stumbled into this over the weekend. It is wonderfully absurd.

Charade and Time Loop should be enough to earn it a 2nd season. I was laughing out loud but for real. And yeah, it's aging/old black people stuff. I had a blast.

I was disappointed CC cancelled Detroiters, but this is equally as funny.
Incomparable to Atlanta though.

But I already loved it after the first episode.

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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

They are both location based/themed comedies with black casts.

Boom I just compared the two shows.

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It had a lot going for it. I will say that the show did seem a bit, underdeveloped. Leads were awesome but they weren't great at developing the motley crew of other characters (epsecially women characters) and b storylines were weak. I think given more time all that would have developed.

Compare that to Southside which out the gate has baller mom and crooked hood chick cop which are two of the funniest black women characters in comedy I've seen in a minute.




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Then I remembered after watching last night's episode.
Then I come check and there's already a post.
Absolutely love this show. I don't see Comedy Central giving them another season... Black doesn't play well for their audience.

>I don't see Comedy Central giving
>them another season... Black doesn't play well for their
>audience.
>

after he slid her a hundred I cried.

out for a grand.


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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

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homegirl is authentic af.

these baller moms be really out there just. like. that.


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that line was funny but he went to Thornwood. Woulda been funnier but that shit still had me DYING.

b/c i be getting all them wild ass lists emailed to me.

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from last week was the hardest I've laughed in a long ass time.

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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

This show is awesome.

Blackish kinda started being "important" but not funny a couple seasons ago


Is fake reality TV the only other black comedy shows that are out now?
What am I missing? Netflix?

the apotheosis of his life is gonna give us a new way of saying 'W'.

this is the most hoodest shit evar.


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They run the show but all them cats funny.

Turner is the star to me. Man when she showed up to the police roll call with a gotdamn bonnet on her head i lost it.

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I've never seen the Ratchet Corrupt Lady Cop before. And she plays it in type a way you pull for her.

Even the Tom Black Cop is kind of interesting once you see his homelife. Never seen before a black character who was a Tom not necessarily out of malice, but because they trying to hard to be color-blind (like his wife). It's funny because I know those types of Toms.



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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

She is bout it like a mofo and keeps me laughing on there.

Kinda. She was in my home girls web series. Hard to tell but she is actually a light bright in real life.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfUytHMjLPV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link


I mean check her out here:

https://youtu.be/B3GsZUIQbRs?t=51



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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

plot twist like a muhfcka

https://giphy.com/gifs/stacey-dash-rLoXN1NtkDVNm

I laughed so hard at that at the end of episode 1.

- i swear, they say some shit within the first five minutes every damn episode that make me holler out loud.


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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

I *might* laugh once an episode. Would like to see less RTO and more of a regular day. It has potential. Atlanta was great out the gate tho

fam they killin it every week

Man, this just fucking fire every week.
When Zenobia and Shaw were playing spades with those two elders, and the civil rights icon was talking about Z's zoot suit, i fuckin lost it.
Then when they were getting Simon's stepping outfit together.
Bruh.

references make me miss home

and ole boy told him he was takin one for the team.

Lots of laughs but it is kind of falling into a typical sitcom formula of an A nd B storyline that's resolved in 30 minutes.

The Drug Dealer Dude is starting to sound a lot like Darius from Atlanta.

Still a big fan of the show though and enjoy it but would love to see an ongoing season-long storyline that is pushed a little further every episode.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

a keeper line.


>Lots of laughs but it is kind of falling into a typical
>sitcom formula of an A nd B storyline that's resolved in 30
>minutes.
>
>The Drug Dealer Dude is starting to sound a lot like Darius
>from Atlanta.

yeah. he is kinda veering off into darius territory. and there's only one darius. i still like the character, though.

>
>Still a big fan of the show though and enjoy it but would love
>to see an ongoing season-long storyline that is pushed a
>little further every episode.
>

i think that's where the ATL comparison breaks down. i think Southside is what it is and at it's best its a 30 minute excuse to fire off mad jokes and crazy inside cultural references. i'm more than good w/ that.


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the future.


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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

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not having much to show for it. (c) mad

I first heard of him because his Lightskinned Feelings comedy album was on a bunch of best of year list.

Took a while to connect him as an actor on Insecure and this show.

Dude is funny AF, a good writer and nice looking enough to see him doing big things.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"