They just can't be happy if they aren't stirring up racism, where it never existed. Thanks to Obumer for that. Divide the U.S.A., and then it can be conquered, was his motto, although he never told Americans that was what his "CHANGE" was for America. Racial Division and Socialistic Communism
This is a wonderful show, way ahead of its time. It's tragic that the show was pulled from the air after some black organizations called it racist. I think it was the first show to show blacks living ordinary lives without introducing racism in every show. I respect these amazing black performers. I am a white guy from canada
They were furst a success in Radio and then om TV. They are part of American culture and I watched most of their shows at the library of the TV and Radio Museum here in New York.
And Sondra, I TRUMPET What YOU AND THE FELLOW FROM CANADA,SAID!!! IT'S JUST EXCELLENT COMEDY AT ITS BEST with the great writers behind it!! This and the BURNS& ALLEN SHOWS!!!! Earl of El Barrio, NYC,NY. 6/4/23
As a child I enjoyed seeing colored people on TV because they looked like me. We were called colored back in the day. Amos and Andy were taken off TV and Black exportation movies made about black gangsters and black drug dealers, doesn't make sense.
Believe it or not..I watched this show on the 50's with my grandparents and great uncle . He had a corner grocery store in a mostly black neighborhood for many many years. I remember saying...Uncle talks just like them ! Unk was a hoot. The people loved him, he gave credit all the time and sold popsickles to the kids at his cost. I used to go and spend time in the store "the stow" . Unk would bring home "poke chops". I can still do the accents today. No one made fun of Amos and Andy nor got "racist" about things. Strange bubble I grew up in ! Not really...plenty of us did.
King Fish, a family man who possessed the mind of an entrepreneur with limited resources. Imagine him after a couple of finance classes. Amos, a self employed business owner. Andy Brown , an eager consumer . Pity they were banished from television only to one day be replaced by the likes of Uriel, House of Payne, Home Boys from Outer Space, That’s my Mama, Different Strokes. and Cops. Too many negative stereotypical, baboonish crapola to name cra
One of the ways my father and I bonded was watching Amos and Andy every day. The characters felt like family. I especially enjoyed the episodes with Mama and Sapphire. Kingfish was my favorite character. My favorite episode was the one about the "Rare Chinchillas."
I was a child of six years old and dad with the help of three big men brought home a 15" round screen tv and Amos and Andy came on that night, loved the show. First tv I had ever saw .
@Cold Rain I see both of your points. Many people have criticized this show for being racist. Personally speaking, there's nothing in it nor about it that I would think of as being prejudiced at all. The strange part seems to me that anyone would dub it as racist in the first place.
My grandparents and I never missed this show. I loved every character. I remember the faces if not the names, when I see them on other shows. Just absolutely a wonderful show.
These shows are so funny and well-made. Clean comedy and a moral/lesson to every episode. This truly great show has a completely undeserved controversy surrounding it,regarding supposed 'racism' . There is nothing remotely 'racist' in Amos and Andy. The comedy, characters,situations and jokes could be seen in many other shows of then (and now),they are comedic tropes and they are undeniably funny. The Honeymooners,I Love Lucy, Abbott and Costello,(to name just a few shows) had similar tropes in many of their episodes over the years. Besides all that,the show has a truly sweet undercurrent to it,the actors and crew are enjoying themselves and giving their best efforts. I have not seen a bad episode yet,and I've seen at least 20. It is a travesty that this show was basically off the air for several decades,as it is a masterpiece. Watch and you will laugh,you won't be able to 'not laugh' I promise.
I'm going on 77 yrs. and my brother and I used to listen to Amos 'n' Andy on the radio at night in our bedroom. Once the TV show started, I don't think we missed a single episode. Thanks for posting this absolutely awesome humor. It is absolutely disgusting that this show was attacked as racist.
I loved this show as a child. Great actors making people laugh. It should still be on t v today. No different than the Beverly hillbillies. Just great acting.
White writers wrote the show... maybe you want black folks to act that way...hmm... your part of that make America great again crowd..as if America was ever great for black people
@@jamesriley9641 Guess they would be better off in Sudan where a civil war is raging or Uganda ,I think it was, where a genocide took place and 800 thousand were murdered.
I loved Amos a Andy it's a blessing to be able to see a show that 's not about killings, sex ETC. I didn't know this was on my phone thanks to whomever bestowed this upon those of us who loved this show.
I'm 74, have been binge watching Amos and Andy for over a month now. What a delight to revisit the superstars of comedy of the early fifties. IMO, Amos and Andy was right up there with the Honeymooners.
Some of these scenes remind me of The Honeymooners with Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton. Especially Kingfish and his zany ideas, lol. The scene with the two women talking about the secret bank account when Kingfish walked in was definitely an Alice and Ralph moment. Classic comedy so simple but so funny. Love it!
First of all..that is absolutely not true... what these shows did was reinforce stereotypes that the whiteman already had in there minds about black people...so knock it off
@Emil Jansson that can't speak properly and decimate the English language and who are convining and shifty...pull your skirt down sir... your racism is showing .
Bulletproof, invisible glass: That's the oldest scam in the book. This may have been the only time that Andy successfully turned the tables on Kingfish. Wow. I really miss these shows!
Blacks are offended by the way Kingfish and Andy talk and pronounce words...For some reason they are embarassed by this.....Everyone else just thinks its a funny TV show.
@@jamesriley9641 ..I watched the TV and listened to the Radio version...and you think I am Racist for that?...I was one of Millions who did...You better think about it yourself....and read some of the comments below.....Why don't you call everybody racist who commented below?....think about it.
@Toni Sumblin If you remember there was a TV show called "All in the Family", who had a character in it named "Archie Bunker"...He was also stereotyped as a uneducated man, who said similar funny phrases, that had the wrong meanings to him, but it struck most people funny...He was a White Man..I am sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings..I was merely describing the Show...I have never thought that only Black people are Criminals, Drug Dealers, Pimps, or the other....There are plenty of White, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and others who fit the same description as you described of Blacks...I do not understand why you would think that I had any thoughts of those when I was thinking of the Amos and Andy Show...I am sorry that this Generation has only those thoughts that all White people are Racist...It is not true...Again, I am sorry....I hope you and yours have a bright future in this World...if that is possible.
This TV show got a lot of flak in the years after its running; but it seems that those critical of this show lost sight that it was a comedy, where it showed the cast of characters living a middle-class existence; all were dressed well and not impoverished; where those other guest supporting characters were working professionals as doctors, attorneys; and business owners. If anything, it showed Harlem in a positive light.
Yes, I watched this show as a kid and NEVER got the feeling it was denigrating Black people - it was just a TV show with a variety of eccentric and funny characters, just like every other sitcom of the period. (One quirky thing about the show sticks in my mind though - a voice on the laugh track very clearly saying "oh my"- they must've used the same laugh track in every episode!)
A seventy year old screen play that is more relevant today then when it was aired. Amos n' Andy is the only sitcom that makes me audibly laugh, The actors were the cream of the crop, in fact the actor who played Andy was a accomplished director in his own right. The writing was a whole lot funny and imaginative then the rubbing today.
I noticed in the closing credits this episode was co-written by Jay Sommers. He had a proliferate career as a writer for TV series, including the Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet; Green Acres; Petticoat Junction; Dennis the Menace, and other credits for episode comedy shows in the 1950s into the '70s.
I grew up watching Amos and Andy and I loved all of their shows. I am so glad that they are on RUclips. These were very talented actors who did a great job week after week.
These shows are now considered "racist" by the PC police. I think it was a good thing to have "negroes" or "African-Americans" on TV during that time when the Civil Rights Movement was just getting started in the fifties. And what the hell is with this comment box that's splitting up my words?
I love it when Amos has more to do than just narrate or "react" to the Kingfish. I get that there were more colorful characters on the show, but he really deserved to have an arc - or at least a couple storylines centered on him.
@@michaellovetere8033 I think it's the greatest, but the way they were canceled is the same bull crap we're going through today with this cancel culture vultures.
@@aarondigby5054 yeah. Who would have thought that there were woke idiots back then. Such a great cast and they all lost their jobs. The actor certainly didn't think the show was racist at all.
I loved this series when I was a kid in the 1950’s and I still do. These actors were really good. Calhoun was my favorite. Tim Moore as the Kingfish was an old vaudevillian comedian. I can understand how people would see this as a bad reflection on the black people. I never thought of it that way. You can’t judge yesterday’s environment by today’s standards. I just enjoyed the entertainment these fine actors portrayed.
Andy and Kingfish aren't depicted as representative of black people. The rest of the characters in the show - ordinary people, from all walks of life - are depicted as representative of black people. If this show disparages black people, then the Flintstones, and Jackie Gleason's the Honeymooners, are two shows that disparage white people.
A&A was a great show with great actors/actresses, the support and guest characters were terrific. When I grew up in the sixties everybody I knew loved this show and were livid when the naacp targeted them to be canceled. The cast were doctors, lawyers, clerks, car salesman, government employees. They should've sued for their rights to earn a living, perform professionally etc,...the worst travesty portrayed against the American entertainment industry.
Thanks so much for posting all these episodes. Up until recently, I had only seen about 8-10 episodes that became available on video cassettes a few decades ago. Being able to see so many more on RUclips is a real treat!!
Loved this show when I was little. The NAACP forced CBS to take it off the air! What a shame!! I wish it was put back on TV! I used to laugh so hard it hurt!!
I don’t know if it was the best but it was up there with Jackie Gleason and for drama, Loretta Young show. My father worked for the electric company and we had the first television in the neighborhood, 10” I think with a huge tube and rabbit ears. My mother bought a large magnifying glass that fit in front of the screen to make it look larger.
@@maxinefowler1186 I'm white, I'm 71, and from N.Y. As a pre teen in the late 50's- early 60's TV shows were great. Jewish people have always been a big part of what we saw then and even into the future. Most of them got rich. (I don't know about now). "Amos and Andy" taught me some 'life lessons' just like other shows did. Some respect is due to all. Everybody is peculiar, some MUCH more than others !!!
@John Loughlin Aunt Melina, etc. America is so messed up you can't tell people that Me a Black person hated that. Blackface, maids are horrific textbook racist images
I don't think I've seen that show in 50 years. I used to love watching it when I was a kid. I loved the one where they bought half a building and had to saw the bathtub into two.
I am only 60 years young and this is before my time, but I did not know Amos and Andy were Black. Is this part of the slavery we hear about so much? They sure dressed well back in those slavery days. Class. I am going to enjoy this show.
These actors and actresses were pioneers of comedy. We watched them and had a good laugh the same as we did watching Red Skelton and others in that period of time.
As a child, what I remember most about this wonderful show was how Amos would teach his daughter life lessons. What a treasure. Also remember thinking Sapphire was very pretty❤
First time in Abilene TX. 1962, Nobody on the street, asked a man in a store "where is everybody?" He said "it's 5 o'clock isn't it?" I said "yeah", he said " Amos and Andy is on". Lol.
Calhoun and the kingfish are hilarious together cuz they're always cooking up some scheme 🤣🤣🤣. I love this show, it brings me a lot of comfort. I watch every day. It just gives me comfort just like "Car 54 Where are You?" Not one police officer is complaining about that show, which featured a bumbling police department. Some Black folx are very hypocritical. Every ethnic group can be made fun of but not them. What makes them so special? Far as I'm concerned everybody has to take a turn in the hot seat 🤣🤣🤣.
So sad, the people were great, but some people just can not laugh at themselves, and they worry about skin color. No one even worried about skin color, their show was comodey. I miss you guys!
King fish always made a complete idiot out of Andy.I love watching this show,I was a young kid,when this show came on,I loved it then and I love it now.
when i was raised in Greenville MS, at ten, adopted by the Chow family, this b/w short fun movie was all we had to entertain our boring life in Deep South. even the black families crowd get a big kick to see blacks have a place in TV world. i missed this and the little rascal. these were the TV entertainment i always look forward to watching daily. now the black civil right leaders use their stupid reason degrade this once great icon because of their liberal misplaced racist mind.
I agree .. l worked with and lived amoung wonderful people that were black in the 60s in Texas . I was 18 a long way fron my parents in SD I never felt discrimanation with any of my black friends .......this show was just fun !
Written by Jay Sommers of "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" fame! No wonder this was good. "Well when I want your opinion, I'll ask for it" *Kingfish* is hysterical. I think if I ever met him, I'd walk away owning the Brooklyn Bridge and some swamp land in FL. Top secret word..... Geronimo. 100 degrees centipede. Ha-ha invisible gas. I'm gonna drop it.
Very funny show. Always made you laugh. The actors were very talented and although the situations were far fetched along with the language, nobody cared, for it was all comic fun and genuinely loved and admired by so many people. My favorite you ask? Well that's a tough one for the whole cast was carefully selected and you can bet those actors could play any role.
@@davidmelton7279 racism, bigotry, classism, basically destroyed these performers career to say the least, that was one of the most sinister act of butchery against our American TV theater and arts.
These guys had so much talent. Truly funny.
Wish we had that kind of talent today
They all had extensive stage experience in Vaudville and Burlesque. Take note how long the scenes are and nobody screws up.
Watch these when I'm miserable. Brings back someJOY!!
When I was growing up I heard this show was racist,but after watching it I see no racism.just comic greatness
Absolutely ! Just good Fun !!!
I agree ,!
You know that some people have to try to drag racism into EVERYTHING, even if it's pure GOLD. 😉
They just can't be happy if they aren't stirring up racism, where it never existed. Thanks to Obumer for that. Divide the U.S.A., and then it can be conquered, was his motto, although he never told Americans that was what his "CHANGE" was for America. Racial Division and Socialistic Communism
It was just more bulls hit from the left.
This is a wonderful show, way ahead of its time. It's tragic that the show was pulled from the air after some black organizations called it racist. I think it was the first show to show blacks living ordinary lives without introducing racism in every show. I respect these amazing black performers. I am a white guy from canada
Absolutely the truth!
They were furst a success in Radio and then om TV. They are part of American culture and I watched most of their shows at the library of the TV and Radio Museum here in New York.
And Sondra, I TRUMPET What YOU AND THE FELLOW FROM CANADA,SAID!!! IT'S JUST EXCELLENT COMEDY AT ITS BEST with the great writers behind it!!
This
and the BURNS& ALLEN SHOWS!!!! Earl of El Barrio, NYC,NY. 6/4/23
As a child I enjoyed seeing colored people on TV because they looked like me. We were called colored back in the day. Amos and Andy were taken off TV and Black exportation movies made about black gangsters and black drug dealers, doesn't make sense.
The Honeymooners was a racist White TV comedy. But did Black USA-Americans complain?
Believe it or not..I watched this show on the 50's with my grandparents and great uncle . He had a corner grocery store in a mostly black neighborhood for many many years. I remember saying...Uncle talks just like them ! Unk was a hoot. The people loved him, he gave credit all the time and sold popsickles to the kids at his cost. I used to go and spend time in the store "the stow" . Unk would bring home "poke chops". I can still do the accents today. No one made fun of Amos and Andy nor got "racist" about things. Strange bubble I grew up in ! Not really...plenty of us did.
King Fish, a family man who possessed the mind of an entrepreneur with limited resources. Imagine him after a couple of finance classes. Amos, a self employed business owner. Andy Brown , an eager consumer .
Pity they were banished from television only to one day be replaced by the likes of Uriel, House of Payne, Home Boys from Outer Space, That’s my Mama, Different Strokes. and Cops. Too many negative stereotypical, baboonish crapola to name
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One of the ways my father and I bonded was watching Amos and Andy every day. The characters felt like family. I especially enjoyed the episodes with Mama and Sapphire. Kingfish was my favorite character. My favorite episode was the one about the "Rare Chinchillas."
I grew up watching Amos N Andy when I was a child in the 50's also. At 73, I still remember them as being funny, true pioneers of television.
They were funny, never mean. Sad they were shut down.
People crave for the old comedies...we all need to laugh and Amos & Andy were the best at making us laugh then...and now. Thank you for posting them.
Sure do
Fabulous show. Best talent in the 50s.
I don't think it was a racist show
There was once a sense of humour.
And it was great.
Amen Brother !
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Thanks for the memories and Thay were the best that is what we need now 😂❤ 25:59
Compared to the garbage that's on television today, the Amos "N" Andy shows are priceless. This is truly classic television comedy! :)
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I was a child of six years old and dad with the help of three big men brought home a 15" round screen tv and Amos and Andy came on that night, loved the show. First tv I had ever saw .
Loved the show. Never thought of them as black, while or green. Just FUNNY.
Wish it was still on.
We didn't see anything but funny in the mid 50s.
Yeah right...please !!!
@Cold Rain I see both of your points. Many people have criticized this show for being racist. Personally speaking, there's nothing in it nor about it that I would think of as being prejudiced at all. The strange part seems to me that anyone would dub it as racist in the first place.
it would be if America was still America and not cowering down to their every whim .
My grandparents and I never missed this show. I loved every character. I remember the faces if not the names, when I see them on other shows. Just absolutely a wonderful show.
Tim Moore. Comedic genius!
I agree 😊
Growing up in the 1950s this was one the the greatest comic shows on TV. We lost there talent because of the selfish NAACP.
Absolutely!
Yes it was a shame. But at that time in the history of America I must say I do understand it. I'm 76 now and watched it as a kid
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is this the real one?
KINGFISH!!!
ANDY HAS THAT "I TALKED TO AMOS" LOOK IN HIS EYE!!
lmfao these guys were brilliant comedians
This is the first time I ever viewed Amos & Andy. Amazing what they were producing back than.
Way Better than today by a Long Shot !!!
So much talent!!
These shows are so funny and well-made. Clean comedy and a moral/lesson to every episode. This truly great show has a completely undeserved controversy surrounding it,regarding supposed 'racism' .
There is nothing remotely 'racist' in Amos and Andy. The comedy, characters,situations
and jokes could be seen in many other shows of then (and now),they are comedic tropes and they are undeniably funny. The Honeymooners,I Love Lucy, Abbott and Costello,(to name just a few shows) had similar tropes in many of their episodes over the years.
Besides all that,the show has a truly sweet undercurrent to it,the actors and crew are enjoying themselves and giving their best efforts.
I have not seen a bad episode yet,and I've seen at least 20. It is a travesty that this show was basically off the air for several decades,as it is a masterpiece.
Watch and you will laugh,you won't be able to 'not laugh' I promise.
I watched this show after school every day.
I watched this show after school every day.
The problem was that for white audiences these characters represented all Black people. There simply weren't any other Blacks on television.
This show is GREAT and should be on tv today.
I agree 100%
I think all of the actors in this are dead now,but if still alive would be in their upper 90's or over 100,too old to work.
Oh my, still so funny after all these years. Priceless and timeless.
I'm going on 77 yrs. and my brother and I used to listen to Amos 'n' Andy on the radio at night in our bedroom. Once the TV show started, I don't think we missed a single episode. Thanks for posting this absolutely awesome humor. It is absolutely disgusting that this show was attacked as racist.
I remember these guys, i watched them when i was a kid. About 60 years ago.
As a retired chemist, I have to say that it's important to always use eye protection when dealing with hydromatic acid and Barium Fitzgerald!
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Yes I always use hydramatic and and it is sooooo dangerous.
Especially when it’s bubbling at 00 degrees centipede
@@chrismiller9740 the centipede has a thousand legs. I was paying attention in science class.
@@chrismiller9740 the puns/and plays on misdefining the meaning of words was utterly ridiculous and hilarious.
I don't care what any organization tries to do. Great comedy is great comedy. Amos and Andy is right up at the top.
I loved this show as a child. Great actors making people laugh. It should still be on t v today. No different than the Beverly hillbillies. Just great acting.
White writers wrote the show... maybe you want black folks to act that way...hmm... your part of that make America great again crowd..as if America was ever great for black people
@@jamesriley9641 Guess they would be better off in Sudan where a civil war is raging or Uganda ,I think it was, where a genocide took place and 800 thousand were murdered.
Such a funny show. A comic masterpiece
I loved Amos a Andy it's a blessing to be able to see a show that 's not about killings, sex ETC. I didn't know this was on my phone thanks to whomever bestowed this upon those of us who loved this show.
I love this show.
In the 50's and 60's all TV shows were discreet on sexual matters and violence wasn't so explicit as now. So this show wasn't any different.
Does anybody notice Kingfish.s devilish grin at 13:09 of the video?
You are so right ! Fun that will make you feel happy all over ! No matter what color you are ! My Daddy loved these guys !
I was a child, and experienced these great performers tell the TRUTH.
Yes, just innocent fun back then. Everything twisted today.
Genius, great comic timing. In my opinion this series can't be beat. Love every episode.
I'm 74, have been binge watching Amos and Andy for over a month now.
What a delight to revisit the superstars of comedy of the early fifties.
IMO, Amos and Andy was right up there with the Honeymooners.
and here it is!
this classic episode remains as one of tv's funniest episodes ever!
Some of these scenes remind me of The Honeymooners with Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton. Especially Kingfish and his zany ideas, lol. The scene with the two women talking about the secret bank account when Kingfish walked in was definitely an Alice and Ralph moment. Classic comedy so simple but so funny. Love it!
A&A was aired on television before the honeymooners so you see episodes of TH parodyinh A&A.
The honeymooners was funny maybe a little too much Ralph screaming and yelling at Alice but Sapphire yelled at George all the time and it was funny.
This is true comedy. I love it. It's so much fun -- just pure fun.
It brought back memories. Great show. very very funny
This show help break the color barrier,these shows are priceless and are true classics
First of all..that is absolutely not true... what these shows did was reinforce stereotypes that the whiteman already had in there minds about black people...so knock it off
@Emil Jansson that can't speak properly and decimate the English language and who are convining and shifty...pull your skirt down sir... your racism is showing .
"Color barrier" with an all-Black cast?
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@@jamesriley9641 Lighten up! It's a comedy.
Bulletproof, invisible glass: That's the oldest scam in the book. This may have been the only time that Andy successfully turned the tables on Kingfish. Wow. I really miss these shows!
I still remember seeing this when it was on tv and falling out of my chair laughing .
No trace of racism on the Amos and Andy tv show ....just wonderfully talented and lovable human beings .
No trace of racism...lol
Blacks are offended by the way Kingfish and Andy talk and pronounce words...For some reason they are embarassed by this.....Everyone else just thinks its a funny TV show.
@@Labaron26 that's because your a racist...think about it
@@jamesriley9641 ..I watched the TV and listened to the Radio version...and you think I am Racist for that?...I was one of Millions who did...You better think about it yourself....and read some of the comments below.....Why don't you call everybody racist who commented below?....think about it.
@Toni Sumblin If you remember there was a TV show called "All in the Family", who had a character in it named "Archie Bunker"...He was also stereotyped as a uneducated man, who said similar funny phrases, that had the wrong meanings to him, but it struck most people funny...He was a White Man..I am sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings..I was merely describing the Show...I have never thought that only Black people are Criminals, Drug Dealers, Pimps, or the other....There are plenty of White, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and others who fit the same description as you described of Blacks...I do not understand why you would think that I had any thoughts of those when I was thinking of the Amos and Andy Show...I am sorry that this Generation has only those thoughts that all White people are Racist...It is not true...Again, I am sorry....I hope you and yours have a bright future in this World...if that is possible.
This TV show got a lot of flak in the years after its running; but it seems that those critical of this show lost sight that it was a comedy, where it showed the cast of characters living a middle-class existence; all were dressed well and not impoverished; where those other guest supporting characters were working professionals as doctors, attorneys; and business owners.
If anything, it showed Harlem in a positive light.
Yes, I watched this show as a kid and NEVER got the feeling it was denigrating Black people - it was just a TV show with a variety of eccentric and funny characters, just like every other sitcom of the period. (One quirky thing about the show sticks in my mind though - a voice on the laugh track very clearly saying "oh my"- they must've used the same laugh track in every episode!)
A seventy year old screen play that is more relevant today then when it was aired. Amos n' Andy is the only sitcom that makes me audibly laugh, The actors were the cream of the crop, in fact the actor who played Andy was a accomplished director in his own right. The writing was a whole lot funny and imaginative then the rubbing today.
@@joestrike8537 I loved that laugh track too!
I noticed in the closing credits this episode was co-written by Jay Sommers. He had a proliferate career as a writer for TV series, including the Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet; Green Acres; Petticoat Junction; Dennis the Menace, and other credits for episode comedy shows in the 1950s into the '70s.
I remember seeing this when I was a kid. Still funny! Classic!
Love it grew up with this show
I grew up watching Amos and Andy and I loved all of their shows. I am so glad that they are on RUclips. These were very talented actors who did a great job week after week.
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These shows are now considered "racist" by the PC police.
I think it was a good thing to have "negroes" or "African-Americans" on TV during that time when the Civil Rights Movement was just getting started in the fifties. And what the hell is with this comment box that's splitting up my words?
I guess the words all comes out good in the wash after I post it. Weird.
Hilarious! Nothing like a good laugh! Thanks for sharing!
My parents use to first listen to this show on the radio, glad it was televised
IIRC the radio show featured white actors doing Black voices - they couldn't pull that one off on TV!
I love it when Amos has more to do than just narrate or "react" to the Kingfish. I get that there were more colorful characters on the show, but he really deserved to have an arc - or at least a couple storylines centered on him.
Amos did the Xmas episode one year and it was great, brings tears to your eyes at least it did my eyes, you can pull that episode up on YT.
That was the greatest time waiting for the shower start. We would talk like kingfish making jokes jokes about Sapphire 😅 great memories!
Oh my goodness I love watching this show as a youngster just enjoy them great memories growing up need back on television that be awesome
I loved watching this show Sunday mornings in NYC in the 50s. What a great show and Kingfish and Andy were hysterical. Thanks
Great writing..great cast..and they loved doing it.
impeccable timing....a true classic of TV history
@@michaellovetere8033 I think it's the greatest, but the way they were canceled is the same bull crap we're going through today with this cancel culture vultures.
@@aarondigby5054 yeah. Who would have thought that there were woke idiots back then. Such a great cast and they all lost their jobs. The actor certainly didn't think the show was racist at all.
This was absolutely amazing. Very professional and talented actors and actresses. A credit to first rate entertainment.
I loved this series when I was a kid in the 1950’s and I still do. These actors were really good. Calhoun was my favorite. Tim Moore as the Kingfish was an old vaudevillian comedian. I can understand how people would see this as a bad reflection on the black people. I never thought of it that way. You can’t judge yesterday’s environment by today’s standards. I just enjoyed the entertainment these fine actors portrayed.
Andy and Kingfish aren't depicted as representative of black people. The rest of the characters in the show - ordinary people, from all walks of life - are depicted as representative of black people.
If this show disparages black people, then the Flintstones, and Jackie Gleason's the Honeymooners, are two shows that disparage white people.
A&A was a great show with great actors/actresses, the support and guest characters were terrific. When I grew up in the sixties everybody I knew loved this show and were livid when the naacp targeted them to be canceled. The cast were doctors, lawyers, clerks, car salesman, government employees. They should've sued for their rights to earn a living, perform professionally etc,...the worst travesty portrayed against the American entertainment industry.
So glad everyone doesn’t think this is racist just because of the time period it was made. Great show!!
I love this show ♥️♥️
Thanks so much for posting all these episodes. Up until recently, I had only seen about 8-10 episodes that became available on video cassettes a few decades ago. Being able to see so many more on RUclips is a real treat!!
CLASSIC STUFF it should be on the AIR TODAY!!!
It SHOULD Be
My mother loved Amos and Andy!! I remember watching them!!
Loved this show when I was little. The NAACP forced CBS to take it off the air! What a shame!! I wish it was put back on TV! I used to laugh so hard it hurt!!
Red Foxx learned his comedy watching the kingfish TIM MOORE at the Apollo, a very funny man
They should be back on TV.
One of the best show on TV. Watched faithfully. Loved Amos & Andy.
The greatest TV show of the 1950's for all audiences.
I don’t know if it was the best but it was up there with Jackie Gleason and for drama, Loretta Young show. My father worked for the electric company and we had the first television in the neighborhood, 10” I think with a huge tube and rabbit ears. My mother bought a large magnifying glass that fit in front of the screen to make it look larger.
thank u for showing amos an andy. show i love them.
Very funny show...still holds up, I remember it from my childhood.
I LOVE ALL THE POSITIVE REACTION !! One of the greatest shows ever !!! Andy gets the best of The Kingfish in this one.
I m Black. Jewish Movie Studios created this Jim Crow series. They got very rich. They are peculiar people, their Museums say to respect them.
Great entertainment. Loved these characters👍🏻
@@maxinefowler1186 I'm white, I'm 71, and from N.Y. As a pre teen in the late 50's- early 60's TV shows were great. Jewish people have always been a big part of what we saw then and even into the future. Most of them got rich. (I don't know about now). "Amos and Andy" taught me some 'life lessons' just like other shows did. Some respect is due to all. Everybody is peculiar, some MUCH more than others !!!
@John Loughlin Aunt Melina, etc. America is so messed up you can't tell people that Me a Black person hated that. Blackface, maids are horrific textbook racist images
I love Amos n Andy since I was a kid back in the 60s hilarious
A hilarious show.PERIOD!!!
When comedy was pure fun.
I don't think I've seen that show in 50 years. I used to love watching it when I was a kid. I loved the one where they bought half a building and had to saw the bathtub into two.
Hilarious
I am only 60 years young and this is before my time, but I did not know Amos and Andy were Black.
Is this part of the slavery we hear about so much? They sure dressed well back in those slavery days. Class.
I am going to enjoy this show.
First time ever seeing this show. Loved it more as every second passed.
I enjoy watching Amos & Andy show it brings back memories
These actors and actresses were pioneers of comedy. We watched them and had a good laugh the same as we did watching Red Skelton and others in that period of time.
A great show loved it as a kid what a classic show
Such a funny show. A comic masterpiece. Oh my, still so funny after all these years. Priceless and timeless..
As a child, what I remember most about this wonderful show was how Amos would teach his daughter life lessons. What a treasure. Also remember thinking Sapphire was very pretty❤
I was 8yrs when I use to watch the reruns of this funny show ,my dad use to love this comedy. Brings back memories 😊
First time in Abilene TX. 1962, Nobody on the street, asked a man in a store "where is everybody?" He said "it's 5 o'clock isn't it?" I said "yeah", he said " Amos and Andy is on". Lol.
Harryd Roseman LOL Good story
We had the same situation except the show was "The Fugitive." Streets would be deserted.
Very funny with great comedic plots. Loved the characters.
It is interesting that Amos and Andy and Abbott and Costello have the same laugh track .
Always enjoy watching Amos and Andy
Beyond greatness.
The show had a cast of fine character actors who were deprived of their residuals when CBS pulled it from syndication.
First job losses.
The Kingfish and Calhoun, what a pair !
Yeah, I like Calhoun.
Calhoun and the kingfish are hilarious together cuz they're always cooking up some scheme 🤣🤣🤣. I love this show, it brings me a lot of comfort. I watch every day. It just gives me comfort just like "Car 54 Where are You?" Not one police officer is complaining about that show, which featured a bumbling police department. Some Black folx are very hypocritical. Every ethnic group can be made fun of but not them. What makes them so special? Far as I'm concerned everybody has to take a turn in the hot seat 🤣🤣🤣.
I used to watch this show with my dad when I was a child. I'd forgotten all about it but watching this brings back happy memories.
One of the best lines from the show: "Kingfish, does you mean to tell me that diamonds is wufless?"
So sad, the people were great, but some people just can not laugh at themselves, and they worry about skin color. No one even worried about skin color, their show was comodey. I miss you guys!
😂😂❤😂😂 I loved these shows when I was little thanks for bringing them back good memories 😅😅❤😅😅
I sure wish they'd play these episodes again. I grew up watching them! One of my favorites ❤
When MY brother and I were small children this was our favorite show. We watched every episode.
Everyone has a kingfish in their family makes me laugh😁😁😀😂😂😂😂
King fish always made a complete idiot out of Andy.I love watching this show,I was a young kid,when this show came on,I loved it then and I love it now.
I don't. Thank god
I have known lots of Kingfisher in my life.
Kingfish has great and funny expressions, :)
when i was raised in Greenville MS, at ten, adopted by the Chow family, this b/w short fun movie was all we had to entertain our boring life in Deep South. even the black families crowd get a big kick to see blacks have a place in TV world. i missed this and the little rascal. these were the TV entertainment i always look forward to watching daily. now the black civil right leaders use their stupid reason degrade this once great icon because of their liberal misplaced racist mind.
Back When People Had Couth and Respect for their Elders....;)
Respect for their elder Rebel with out a cause rock and roll
I used to run home from school to watch them.
Lol I listened to them on the radio,before TV. EVERY ONE SAT AROUND THE RADIO.
I remember Amos and Andy on tv and hearing their old radio shows. 😂
Wonderful actors done perfectly.
Hal roach was very good man for Black Black actors back in Them days
Love the King Fish..
I agree
.. l worked with and lived amoung wonderful people that were black in the 60s in Texas .
I was 18 a long way fron my parents in SD
I never felt discrimanation with any of my black friends .......this show was just fun !
look at the way people are looking at him holding invisible glass. ROTFLMMFAO
Written by Jay Sommers of "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" fame! No wonder this was good.
"Well when I want your opinion, I'll ask for it"
*Kingfish* is hysterical. I think if I ever met him, I'd walk away owning the Brooklyn Bridge and some swamp land in FL.
Top secret word..... Geronimo. 100 degrees centipede. Ha-ha invisible gas. I'm gonna drop it.
Very funny show. Always made you laugh. The actors were very talented and although the situations were far fetched along with the language, nobody cared, for it was all comic fun and genuinely loved and admired by so many people. My favorite you ask? Well that's a tough one for the whole cast was carefully selected and you can bet those actors could play any role.
The show and the cast should have been automatically awarded the Emmy every year.
@@davidmelton7279 racism, bigotry, classism, basically destroyed these performers career to say the least, that was one of the most sinister act of butchery against our American TV theater and arts.
Andy gets the last laugh here. Very enjoyable.