https://www.hbo.com/a-black-lady-sketch-show

But that first episode was not great.

Takes awhile for sketch shows to really get going and I love all the people involved. I hope it takes off.

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And co-sign that it takes a little while for sketch shows to get going. So I'm definitely giving this one a chance.

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it was almost there a few times but the corniness was too strong.

Maybe it’s not for us tho. I wonder how women felt about it.

I can’t front, it kinda reminded me of early K&P

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but yeah, the rest
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...i'd pretend to laugh in mixed company.

Not sure about the framing device and the sketches tended to run too long but I'll give it a few more episodes.

This shit terrible.

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Issa Rae and Robin Thede failed.

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This episode was painfully bad.

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It's still early.

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I can’t believe they are still running that end of the world skit every week. Let that go.

Just feels like some of these skits needed to be shelved but they are going to run them all season. That spy shit def needs to go.

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I agree that spy sketch is not working. They should replace that and End of the World with something else, use that time to try out more stuff.

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somebody said it last week that there was something special about ol girl doing the dancing at the beginning of ep 3. she gotta be top 3 funniest dancers right now and shes not 3. i dont know who else is in the category i just wanted to say that cuz i hear it a lot. anyway i agree, but you can see that level of talent in all of em (the managing gangster in the monster commercial, thede as standup, etc.)

227 was great. i was never really heavy on it, but this was well done. i like how it was super meta but still true to the show (227 and the sketch).

Happy black women got the opportunity to have the full global weight of HBO behind them but this nah this is quite the miss.

Ep 1: Mitsubishi Commercial, Popcopy, Nat King Cole, Home Stenographer, Frontline: Clayton Bigsby

Ep 2: Pretty White Girl Sings Dave's Thoughts, HBO: Real Sex Street Interview, Dave's Educated Guess Line, Wrap It Up, Tyrone Biggums Classroom Visit

Ep 3: QVC, Roots outtakes, Zapped, It's a Wonderful Chest

Ep 4: iMac commercial, Dave on Donahue, New York Boobs, Reparations 2003

EP 5: Roca Pads, Redman Potty Fresh, Great Moments in Hookup History, Ask a Black Dude, Inside Chappelle's Show Studio, Redman's Potty Fresh reprise

EP 6: Third World Girls Gone Wild, The Dave Chappelle Story, Ask a Gay Guy, The Mad Real World


Six episodes into the show and between reparations, Clayton Bigsby, and The Mad Real World everything else is forgettable (Addendum Great Moments in Hookup HIstory).

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in 2004/2005, that shit was groundbreaking and anyone saying they didn't laugh is lying.

yes, some of them shits didn't hold up over time, but that goes for LOTS of things.

The riff on it's a wonderful life with boobs? The great new york boobs? The white lady singing opera?
Or was it Redman in a toilet on a jet ski, or was it Dame Dash pushing tampons?
Maybe it was the "zapped" Ashton Kutcher knock off?

By 2000 Dave had already given us Killing Em Softly. Sprinkle some crack on em was magnitudes better than Tyrone Biggums
His "I didn't know I couldn't do that" was better than "zapped" and "nat king cole" in reference to Black White relations
Etc

He could've taken that entire special and made multiple skits out of it and it would've hit harder than those first six episodes

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Don't even need a grain of salt, just gotta take what he saying and throw it clean out the window.

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But just in case you felt this was memorable, please watch it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-emlb2_jdI
He finishes the skit by saying "that's a wrap"

I think yall are conflating his overall body of work with who his humor evolved to after Chappelle show. He was always Half Baked (legit funny). But his show came after "Killing Em Softly". He tried to dip back into the stoner/def jam humor. And THOSE skits that you love simply didn't hit at the time.

Chappelle's show season one DVD has collected dust in my house since 2007. There's a reason "I'm Rick James Bitch" is the most memorable part of that entire season and that white folks still do Tyrone Biggums impressions.

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Wasn’t hilarious but I laughed when it came out.

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during the wrap it up scene, the rest of that sketch was nothing to write home about

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

People were saying "Wrap it up, b" with that skit as a reference.
But you say it was forgettable. That's the complete opposite of forgettable.
Keep the agendas alive tho.

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Controversial!!

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At the time tho, no one was saying these skits were forgettable.

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https://ew.com/article/2005/06/01/new-chappelle-dvd-fastest-selling-tv-disc-ever/amp

A couple million people disagree with you.

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You said...other than a handful of sketches...the first 6 eps were forgettable

Why would people buy it after airing if it was forgettable?

...and in record numbers...

Hint, Rick James bitch was S2...but I know youre smarter than that.

I think it's some sucker shit to try revisionist history with the chapelle show...because most of the initial reactions to the black lady sketch show are not positive

After ep1 of chapelle show = dedicated viewer

After ep1 of black lady sketch show = I'd have to force myself to watch another ep

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Here’s an example of a show that wasn’t that hitting even three episodes in that became great
Him: it wasn’t that great? It sold millions!!!
Me- what does that have to do with the first three episodes
Him - the dvd of the full 12 episode sold millions!!!

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Muthafukka, the DVD's went on sale AFTER the season was syndicated.

What can we glean from that?

We can glean that a respectable portion of those consumers(50+ percent) were individuals that watched the syndicated season.

Meat, is that some complex shit for yo simple azz to understand or is you just plain dumbin-out on some fuckery?

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oL'goofy azz ninja.....

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"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

The Chappell’s show is an all time great show.
It wasn’t after three episodes
That’s it. That’s the entirety of my point.

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Im refraining from giving my thoughts on A Black Lady Sketch Show, but people have the free will to opt out of anything that doesnt strike them, they don't have to even sit through a whole episode

There are only so many comedies that I would scoff at people for not laughing at (Martin, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development)

everything else is on a scale based off of sensibilities. I know some people who don't get Seinfeld, and I've seen people laugh at Amanda Seales, which is unfathomable to me

so yeah A Black Lady Sketch Show will touch whoever it's meant to, and no one is obligated to support/like it just because it's us on screen

It may not be folks’ brand of humor AT ALL
But to say that it’s whack whack overall as opposed to those episodes being weak is just goofy.

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I think 3 tries of anything (food, sex or dates with a person, a show) is more than a fair enough litmus test to decide whether your interest will be maintained

Preference and “this shit is huff and a failure”
For example ... insecure is not for me, that doesn’t make it trash. There are elements in it that are critically lauded.
And what makes this whole thread feel like the upside down is that two years ago I was criticizing black art/content for how much we praise mediocrity and this site dot com came for my NECK

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but at some point when there's an overwhelming consensus on something being (not) good, you could look strange for dissing or praising it

But Im not making an argument for is it good or bad. I’m saying that it’s entirely too early to say if it’s good or bad. Which is entirely different from “I’m enjoying it” or “this isn’t for me”

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I remember being struck that it was something different from when he showed the behind the scenes and the woman's boob popped out. That was not just something you would see in a sketch comedy show. Having known hood celebrities pop up in sketches, that was new.

mOST sketch comedy doesn't age that well. The best ones have their finger on the pulse of what's going on THAT week and isn't that timeless. Shit the first sketch on Chappelle Show is making fun of a commercial no one remembers now. In Living Color is pretty much unwatchable now.

I can see it not seeming like a big deal if you were young at the time or watching it now, but to watch it as a grown up and knowing all the shows that came before it, Chappelle Show was the shit from day one.



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

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of great sketches, some very funny and a couple of duds.


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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"

Nothing else in stand up was that funny or fresh when it dropped.

That’s why I think to odd for y’all to say it wasn’t that good

At the time? That shit was hilarious and the reason he got his show.

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I don’t think you’re actually reading what I typed because that’s legit the opposite.

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DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW small THIS SITE IS ON THIS PHONE?!? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I GO THROUGH TO ARGUE WITH YALL??!!
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and then call up as many of my friends as i could between the commercials and get them to watch it. that shit was instant pop culture.

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First two episodes featured two of the most famous sketches out of the history of the show.

Black Lady is 0/3 in terms of memorable and amazing sketches.

You’re comparing two albums with 1 mega hit each versus three albums of absolute duds.

Bad comparison from the jump.

kinda chuckle worthy but most of it was not funny. his standup is hilarious tho

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

should we really be expecting perfection out the gate?

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She is Amanda Seales unfunny. In fact I get the two confused often.

I put them both in the light skin attractive girls who think they are funnier than they actually are because guys laugh at them even attempting humor. Also see Tyra Banks.

Qunita is funny AF though.



The hate is strong in this post but yeah. It will get reviews like "I am glad it exists" or so it can survive my hating.





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her Herterp skit is funny as hell...

But maybe that’s why it’s not that good of a show.

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Yeah she is funny in it. Didn't seem so much like a sketch though but a character from a movie or TV show. That's not her fault though.


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

don't know much about Thedes, but not really encouraged by the little I know of her.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

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I think it is brilliant. Even though it isn't funny, it offers some strange social commentary and I like to see different looking black women on screen. Not because of their weaves, size of their butts, athleticism or ability to sing.

There was no shucking and jiving for white audiences.

Brave and outside of the box comedy.

I am here for it

Rise & Shine
Thrive & Grind
Heart & Mind

https://twitter.com/blackladysketch/status/1165685269162389505?s=21

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I'm actually looking forward to it getting better. All they need are some more top-notch writers. I think the cast is pretty good and they can do some great stuff with better writing.

A whole lotta room.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1fNTu6gzg8

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went a little too long but it was definitely there highlight of the last show.

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https://twitter.com/blackladysketch/status/1166490681298305027?s=21

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Some of these sketches are so flawed in their conception/writing that I think they're going to need to bring in some new people to the writer's room. Long sketches with abrupt endings is the norm for the first season so far.

https://ak7.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/198007/thumb/4.jpg


My lady enjoys it tho.