The first moment I saw David Alan Grier on the premier of In Living Color, I called out: "It's Don No-Soul Simmons!" Everybody in this movie was brilliant.
I love Don 'No Soul' Simmons tapping his foot completely out of time to the music 😂 I don't think I ever noticed that before and I must have seen the movie several hundred times over the last 30 years!
Old white lady here who loved this send up -- even as I love the songs in their white originals that are being sent up. I'm old enough to go back further, to songs like "I Dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," which my mother (named Jean, born over 100 years ago -- I only remember her with dark brown and then grey hair) remembered her father, my Grandpapi, singing it to her when she was little. My mother, raised in the Bronx, also remembered to me (little teen white girl in NJ in the 1960's) trying to sneak into Harlem clubs in the 1930's. Life is sweet, when we remember through music, through shared music, and we follow music's myriad paths. Did I say I love the white originals? Did I say I love this send up? Music leads us to imagine together, or it can. If we welcome its myriad paths.
I haven't wondered for years. I thought Alfonso WAS Don. Until now. I was so much more blissful in my ignorance. Sigh. Damn you Wikipedia for setting me right.
Sadly no the last time they saw Don he was in hot pursuit of women with flat butts and sampling several different varieties of cheese .... Help him Lord!!!
I bust a gut every time I see "Amazon Women", but when Don "No Soul" Simmons"sings "Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee" from Mary Poppins, I run the risk of a heart attack from laughter.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine
I saw this for the first time on TV in the early 90s when I was working late at night at a hotel and this part makes me laugh just as hard as the first time I saw it. It got to the point, after I bought it on VHS, that I only watched this movie for this part.
As an Australian who has loved that movie forever it totally cracks me up that David Hartman is not only a real person but also that HE’S STILL IN POLITICS! 🤣😫
Truly brilliant on so many levels, but his facial expressions are f’n HILARIOUS! Especially for the “Down and Funky” segment. Probably David Allen Grier’s funniest performances IMHO.
The little touches on the album commercial are such great icing on top--pointing while he's "playing"the piano and my favorite, the peak around the candelabra. So so funny.
I think of this whenever I see a Black spokesman/woman for the Republican/Trump party. And I am left with the question, is it an affliction, or is there money in it. I suspect a bit of both most of the time.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a-drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine Singin'... Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me If I were the king of the world Tell you what I'd do I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war Make sweet love to you Sing it now... Joy to the world All the boys and girls Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me
That guy in the blue jacket and white hat "Le Tari" (Dudleys dad on different strokes) died of a heart attack 6 months before this was actually released.
I see now that I was wrong... I think. I was quite unaware of his long career...or even who he was. Uh, IS. The kid in the Michael Jackson commercial is my favorite. Closely followed by his oh so famous "Carlton dance". His performance on Unwrapped 2.0 is his finest hour! It's his Mayfield Banana Split! As president of the Alfonso Ribeiro Fan Club, I just wanted to say how much of a neat guy he is!
Mr. Grier has been in numerous movies and television shows ongoing to the present time, including the recent _Clifford The Big Red Dog_ film. Mainly he's been appearing on the Broadway stage in shows such as _Porgy And Bess, The Wiz_ and _A Soldier's Play._ He got the Tony Best Actor's award last year for that one.
I was BB King's security man at the venue where he performed. He was that cool in real life, folks. Just a regular down to earth guy.
That’s so cool, I heard Ray Charles was like that. Acting on stage how he would off stage
Wow.
One of my favorite guitar players ever
The first moment I saw David Alan Grier on the premier of In Living Color, I called out: "It's Don No-Soul Simmons!" Everybody in this movie was brilliant.
I may or may not have done the same...and still do. :D
I specially liked Ed Begley Jt as Son of the Invisible Man.
😎😎😎
Yup.
@@paulamiles9559 And the botched formula for invisibility causes insanity.
"Amazon Women from the Moon" The entire movie is hilarious! Another John Landis classic!
Got to love the guy talking about a Volvo station wagon in the middle of Detroit with sirens in the background.
Pimps sure know comfort and performance when they see something reliable.
That’s my favorite part on that movie!
Amazon Women on the Moon one of my favorites!!!
BB King will always have soul. RIP.
The crazy thing is that, even though I'm pretty much a metal head, I'd buy Don "No Soul" Simmons' record.
I could watch Don 'no soul' Simmons all day long. Genius comic creation.
I love Don 'No Soul' Simmons tapping his foot completely out of time to the music 😂 I don't think I ever noticed that before and I must have seen the movie several hundred times over the last 30 years!
Tapping intentionally out of time while keeping time actually takes skill, it is impressive.
I sometimes wonder if Carlton Banks was inspired by this.
I sent $ to the address shown. Three months later I received an autographed photo of Lester Holt.
oh hell!
Hahahahahaha!
Funny.
lmaoooo
BWAHAHAHAAA
"So curl up by the fireside, and listen to the NON-THREATENING music of this master showman!"
LMFAO!!!!
"I even met David Hartman once, what a neat guy!"
I'm finished and done lol
I lost it when he started singing "Chim-chimney." LOL.
This satire is like a fine wine. It's more powerful and tastier now than in the 80's. Except nobody knows who Don Simmons is anymore.
Old white lady here who loved this send up -- even as I love the songs in their white originals that are being sent up. I'm old enough to go back further, to songs like "I Dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," which my mother (named Jean, born over 100 years ago -- I only remember her with dark brown and then grey hair) remembered her father, my Grandpapi, singing it to her when she was little. My mother, raised in the Bronx, also remembered to me (little teen white girl in NJ in the 1960's) trying to sneak into Harlem clubs in the 1930's. Life is sweet, when we remember through music, through shared music, and we follow music's myriad paths. Did I say I love the white originals? Did I say I love this send up? Music leads us to imagine together, or it can. If we welcome its myriad paths.
My wife didn't get this and started singing along.
I wonder if they intentionally modeled Carlton Banks on Don "No Soul" Simmons...
Doug Glassman I've wondered this for years.
I haven't wondered for years. I thought Alfonso WAS Don. Until now. I was so much more blissful in my ignorance. Sigh. Damn you Wikipedia for setting me right.
"Just because I pronounce the -ing, it doesn't make me any less black than you."--Carlton Banks
I'd like to hear the full version of his cover of "Joy To The World" (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog) Could be definitive.
I'm more partial to Chim Chim Cher-ee myself. Probably his best work.
I want his whole album
Grier's actually not a bad singer. His enunciation is spot on.
RIP B.B. King. I wonder whether he ever got enough money to save Don Simmons.
elfboi523 hopefully he saved poor No Soul
Sadly no the last time they saw Don he was in hot pursuit of women with flat butts and sampling several different varieties of cheese .... Help him Lord!!!
There ain't enough money on the planet 😪
I bust a gut every time I see "Amazon Women", but when Don "No Soul" Simmons"sings "Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee" from Mary Poppins, I run the risk of a heart attack from laughter.
This is brilliant. It looks like comedy but says so much about the music/fashion/culture industry. hahahha, loved it for years and it's still funny.
I think Don "No Soul" Simmons is pretty talented.
Well, he DID turn a terrible affliction into a successful recording career.
i wonder if the character was the an inspiration for carlton banks in fresh prince of bel air
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
I saw this for the first time on TV in the early 90s when I was working late at night at a hotel and this part makes me laugh just as hard as the first time I saw it. It got to the point, after I bought it on VHS, that I only watched this movie for this part.
I want the down and funky album.
Amazon Women On The Moon.
I know right? His version of "Ballad of the Green Berets" is probably worth the price of the album alone.
Sixteen Tons, love to hear that.
It might be available on 8track tape
"I gotta be me"
I'm President of the David Hartman fan club!....What a neat guy!
As an Australian who has loved that movie forever it totally cracks me up that David Hartman is not only a real person but also that HE’S STILL IN POLITICS! 🤣😫
I can only imagine how many takes David Allen Grier had to do to get through this. I would have been cracking up the whole time!
I can't believe it's not available in any stores!
Been coming here lately to link this video to discussions about Ben Carson
+biffyqueen Absolutely. I just did it as well as the Satire site The National Report just ran a piece about Carson being found "Dead Inside"...lol
why?
Truly brilliant on so many levels, but his facial expressions are f’n HILARIOUS! Especially for the “Down and Funky” segment. Probably David Allen Grier’s funniest performances IMHO.
Watching Al Roker attempting to dance while hosting the Tournament of Roses Parade right now reminded me of this video
ManicNole
His Joy to the World never ceases to crack me up.
The little touches on the album commercial are such great icing on top--pointing while he's "playing"the piano and my favorite, the peak around the candelabra. So so funny.
Grier is a pretty good singer
I loved how they zoomed into his offbeat foot tapping.
Hahaha!! Yeah!
The ballad of the Green Berets ha ha. This movie is hysterical!
Not gonna lie Don “No Soul” Simmons is a pretty damn good singer
Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon, best fucking movies ever.
I remember this from Amazon Women On The Moon....
David Allen Greer! What a hoot!!!
I think of this whenever I see a Black spokesman/woman for the Republican/Trump party. And I am left with the question, is it an affliction, or is there money in it. I suspect a bit of both most of the time.
I love how he makes "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night and turns it into the most awkward sounding performance EVER!
I love that "Down and Funky" includes "The Ballad of the Green Berets."
You forgot his epic performance of "Blame it on the Bossa Nova" in the closing credits!
Never gets old
I WISH I could ever look as clean, crisp and pressed as the...um...Volvo owner. 😎
It takes great skill to be that dorky. David Alan Grier is awesome.
God bless you Don "No Soul" Simmons, you truly are the best of us!
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin'...
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now...
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Amazon Women on the Moon is one of the best comedy movies ever made. Remember video pirates? "Oooo I'm so scared" lol
Who knew that the skit with Rosanna Arquette & Steve Guttenburg was actually predicting the future?
BB King has enough to donate to 100 black men without soul.
Funk'n out on that church organ!! 3:31
i was watching in living color and had to look up this...Grier is a legend!
LMAO!!! Haven't laughed in over a week, I needed that!!
That guy in the blue jacket and white hat "Le Tari" (Dudleys dad on different strokes) died of a heart attack 6 months before this was actually released.
Gotta add herschel walker dancing to this.
What a touching and inspiring story, perhaps Don "Russell" Simmons could do cover of Henry Mancini's "Moon River".
One of the funniest skits ever filmed!!!
It's a skid!
I love Don "No Soul" Simmons
The non-threatning music lmfao.
0:41 Is that lady Lenny Kravitz' mother?
"Helen" from The Jeffersons.
don simmons is the coolest cat on the planet
"We republicans have turned this country around" That's an understatement.
It's all in the details: when they show his feet and he can't tap on time cracks me up everytime
amazon women on the moon may have gotten wrotten tomatoes in reviews but damn it still is worth watching
I have no idea why it would get a rotten review. I love it.
No taste
I'd buy this guy's albums.
RIP B.B King
zymaymyn That's why I'm here.
I'm here because I thought Alfonso Ribeiro from Unwrapped 2.0 was Don.
I see now that I was wrong... I think. I was quite unaware of his long career...or even who he was. Uh, IS. The kid in the Michael Jackson commercial is my favorite. Closely followed by his oh so famous "Carlton dance". His performance on Unwrapped 2.0 is his finest hour! It's his Mayfield Banana Split! As president of the Alfonso Ribeiro Fan Club, I just wanted to say how much of a neat guy he is!
There has been some very exciting stem cell research that has the potential to help those just like Don “no soul” Simmons.
Oh my, he's good.
Don please resume your treatment, you need help!
Your great
DAG, I'll love until the day I die.
Put it on your "Vista" card.
This movie is up there with the classics.
I'd pay real money to hear "McArthur Park" performed by Don Simmons.
Those poor people.
David Allan Grier hasn't aged.
David Alan Grier should be a LOT more famous.
Mr. Grier has been in numerous movies and television shows ongoing to the present time, including the recent _Clifford The Big Red Dog_ film. Mainly he's been appearing on the Broadway stage in shows such as _Porgy And Bess, The Wiz_ and _A Soldier's Play._ He got the Tony Best Actor's award last year for that one.
So funny it actually fucking hurts
I thought he was Carlton 😂
My dad would love Don Simmons.
I didn't realize that the pimp in Blacks without Soul is the actor who played Dudley's father on Diffrent Strokes.
RIP BB King 👑 Legend and Lucile 🎸
I sold my soul to a guy named Louis C. Fir and I been listening to Frank Sinatra and Wayne Newton eversince.
Happy birthday to the late B.B. King.
Still got more soul than me, I'm a white man.
He's so happy. Leave him alone
John Tesh: "I don't get it..."
😂😂😂❤
Too bad... I actually WANT that album.
I just love this guy.
DAG before ILC. Brilliant. And BB King too!
Calton Banks real dad.
They should make a actual album of this
This black fellow sure is neato.
I called to order the album, but it is Amerisave Mortgage instead of Don Simmon's Album :(
Lenny Kravitz's Mama at :38
i wonder if Ward & June are at cpac this weekend (2/26/2022)?? :p
What a great movie
R.I.P BB
Little known fact: Don Simmons is the grandson of Charles Honeydew Wilkins. (The family resemblance is unmistakable.)
Don Simmons is the man!