Jay Z released moonlight video with ISSA RAE

[J-MIL]

Dope video

Love me some Tiff Haddish

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

An all-black version of F.R.I.E.N.D.S

 

[DontEemTry]

im not sayin all white comedies suck

Im a fan of

Its sunny
King of queens
Married with children
Malcolm in the middle

but these shows werent total cacwashed, yeah they had majority white cast, but the comedy is not the unfunny white type of comedy that Friends had.

Infact I would say there comedy wasnt white type its universal type, hence why people from different races like it, if that makes sense

except for Its Sunny, but that shyts funny as hell

I loved King Of Queens. Doug was my nikka.

And Leah Remini lil thick ass back then

 

[gogogubari]

My favorite so far. Shout out LaKeith. And Issa. And Jerrod... shyt and Lil Rel and Tessa and Tiffany, too.

 

[Uncle Hotep]

An all-black version of F.R.I.E.N.D.S

culture appropriation...

 

[Black Lightning]

An all-black version of F.R.I.E.N.D.S

 

[beenz]

Man, I want Legacy or Marcy Me.

Hov is playing with us and dropping the dope stuff last.

that's what I'm sayin!

 

[ridedolo]

Damn queen latifah is beautiful. Has always been

 

[ridedolo]

Man, I want Legacy or Marcy Me.

Hov is playing with us and dropping the dope stuff last.

Legacys beat is incredible. Marcy me is nostalgic. The whole album is perfect tbh

 

[Lord Beasley]

This just reminded me how unfunny as fukk Friends was

Cac humor is awful

I would rather listen to Japanese comedy than cac humor

overboard with the militant shyt. Friends was a good show for what it was.

You're p poppin for daps tho

 

[Cadillac]

overboard with the militant shyt. Friends was a good show for what it was.

You're p poppin for daps tho

Aint nothing militant to point out the unfunny comedy of Friends nikka.

but hey get your "go against the grain" daps tho.

 

[Lord Beasley]

Aint nothing militant to point out the unfunny comedy of Friends nikka.

but hey get your go against the grain daps tho.

nah breh, dudes like you come in threads on that rah rah shyt fishing. Also see you felt the applause for moonlight was half-assed. the video didn't show that, despite your agenda...

 

[JerseyBoy23]

We need Jay to bring back The Carmichael Show for the culture.

 

[Cadillac]

nah breh, dudes like you come in threads on that rah rah shyt fishing. Also see you felt the applause for moonlight was half-assed. the video didn't show that, despite your agenda...

and dudes like you like posting how it was funny just so you can be different

two can play this game pal

 

[Perfectson]

4:44 video has no meaning lol. Jay fired and MISSED with that one


Moonlight video is about the "awakening" of black consciousness when it comes to how we are portrayed in mainstream media and entertainment. There was a VERY good HBO movie that dropped in the mid 2000's called Dancing In September starring Nicole Ari Parker and Isiah Washington that went deeper into the concept.

Basically Hollywood has mostly portrayed Blacks in a negative light or HIGHLY c00nism or buffoonish. Think about Good Times, when the Producers pushed JJ's goofy ass over the family dynamic. Or something like Homeboys In Outer Space or countless examples I can name of. Whereas most the historically "prestige" sitcoms about white daily life have been met with unanimous praise and reviews while depicting multi-Faceted characters with arcs and growth.

So you have a generation of black actors/comedians/creatives WISHING that they could be apart of a black "Friends" or "Seinfeld". But what they don't realize is that that type of humor is white by nature, targeted towards whites, about white experiences. So when the black entertainers try to mimic that format it comes off corny and not at all what they envisioned.

Issa Rae and Jerrod Carmichael in REAL LIFE represent the rejection of the notion that you have to follow the white blueprint to attain success. Both Carmichael Show and Insecure are unabashedly "black" in the DNA of their storytelling.

That's why the basis for Jerrod "walking away" from his sitcom is a larger symptom of deep seated racism within the industry. The network only gave his show a 6 episode first season. It outperformed expectations. Then they only gave him a 13 episode 2nd season (when most sitcoms get 22) and the show STILL outperformed expectations. THEN they only gave him 13 episodes for a third, and he had to battle with them every step of the way to tell the story in an authentic way. The network put minimal marketing muscle behind it. And finally he said "fukk it" and walked away.

"Even when we win we gonna lose" is basically the Carmichael Show's ironic fate. It outperformed, was a critical success, but that still wasn't enough to give Carmichael the creative freedom to do as he chose.

here comes the over analysis. Talking about baffoons and c00ns.

Blacks can't have fun ever without some tight ass going out of the way to overa analyze...this is why we can't have black shows that have "white" humor. People like you keep us down, miserable, and destructive.