Amos 'N' Andy - Andy Gets a Telegram (1951)
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2021
- The Kingfish winds up on a cattle boat bound for South America when Sapphire plots to separate him from his worthless friends.
Season 1 Episode 26 Air Date: December 27, 1951
Starring: Amanda Randolph, Tim Moore, Spencer Williams Jr., Alvin Childress, Ernestine Wade, Johnny Lee, Nick Stewart
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I remember watching him back in the early 50s I'm 73 n still enjoy the videos
2024
I remember Kingfish leaving a massage saying “” I’ll get back to you at my earliest inconvenience”” LOL
So much better than the comedies of today.
Just when I thought I’d seen every episode, I ran across this one today. This is one of the best yet, and the surprise ending is brilliant!
I was looking up black sitcoms and came across this. This is hilarious 😂😂 we need more black sitcoms, more laughs please
This was the pioneering sitcom of them all.
@@aarondigby5054 And was on Radio before tv. I remember listening to Amos and Andy with my dad in a old Atwater Kent radio.
I was 6 in 1951 it was a big year for my family dad put in a septic tank system and we did away with the outhouse and the chamber pot gone also was the icebox we got a general Electric refrigerator and our first 📺 is was a 17in Admiral and also a 1951 Studebaker champion, pop got a good job at consolidated building the B-36 life was good in the 50s.
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I can definitely relate to the outhouse, chamber pot and so happy for the installation of that huge septic tank. I was 7 years old. Weren't we in the big leagues then!!
@@donnajackson9481 the nice thing about indoor plumbing we had to get rid of the old Sears catalog the pages wouldn't flush.
@Joe Blow 6
I loved the Kingfishs antics, always into something!
My oldest brother and I remembered watching these shows they were hilarious we used to rent them and watch. I still love to watch them today.my brother has passed now but everytime I come across these I always think of him. This was true funny comedy. Kingfish could get into more trouble but he couldn't get away with anything with Sapphire.😂😆
Truly the greatest comedy of all time! I loved these folks! They are a tribute to comedy and truly fine actors. Shame on ANYONE that plays this as racist, it has nothing to do with race, what it DOES have to do with is comedic GENIUS!! I've followed them since their radio days.
I am just going to post some of bell hooks (she asked for her name to not be capitalized) article "The oppositional Gaze" right here for you to read on the female character Sapphire:
"She was even then backdrop, foil. She was...-nag. She was
there to soften images of black men, to make them seem vulnerable, easygoing, funny, and unthreatening to a white audience. She was there as man in drag, as castrating [woman], as someone to be lied to, someone to be tricked, someone the white and black audience could hate. Scapegoated on all sides. She was not us. We laughed with the black men, with the white people. We laughed at this black woman who was not us. And we did not even long to be there on the screen. How could we long to be there when our image, visually constructed, was so ugly. We did not long to
be there. We did not long for her. We did not want our construction to be this hated black female thing-foil, backdrop. Her black female image was not the body of desire. There was nothing to see. She was not us." (words in [] or with ... were changed because of curse words)
That is all. Look it up if you'd like. I recommend reading with help as it is complicated at times.
It was the times.
RADIO BROADCAST WAS RACIST NOT THE TV CAST
Good and funny show! All great actors!
I watched Amos and Andy many years ago
When I came to this Country from France,
It made me laugh so much, I felt less lonely being in new Country
Thank you for posting ,this 83 years old
Grandma appreciate it very much.
Love this show. The best of true comedic genius!
My mom's, use to laugh so hard off of these sitcom 2022 March 🤣😅🤣
Back in 1964, I graduated high school Mother,older brother and I used to stop work and go to the sun porch and watch these folks. We laughed ourselves silly of course, ideas have changed, but this is some of my happiest memories.
I love Amos and Andy. I watched it as a child.
I just love the intensity that Ernestine Wade brought to the Sapphire character.
This is pure genius , great acting , and funny as hell.
I was born in 1975 and I guess you could say I am from generation x which places me at a whole different time from this show. Many years back I discovered this show and fell in love with it! This show got me through some hard times in my life alongside of the Marx brothers. . I would say that it has to be one of the best shows of the 50s next to the honeymooners skit. I love these guys. Little fun observations, Ralph Kramden works as a bus driver and lives in a dump, Kingfish doesnt work at all and has a nice apartment lol Another one is, the show is called Amos and Andy and if you remember the movie Check and double check played by the shows creators, Freemon Gosden and Charles Corell which is based on the radio show, The show centers around Amos and Andy but on this 50s TV version its mostly Kingfish and Andy. I will always love Amos and Andy and thanks for posting these. I actually bought every episode on video tape back in 2002.
You have good taste.
Me too
I clearly remember watching this show when I was quite young.
In those days we used to joke abut mamma being so fat. Compared to half od today's women she's a lightweight.
This has to be one of the best episodes of the series!
I loved the show and the wisdom filled messages Amos had at the end
Outstanding Comedy from Great Actors...Spencer Williams was a Director, Writer & Performer & Tim Moore was so Good at Comedy....All the Characters were Chitlin Circuit Stars that unfortunately didn't get their TV chances until late in their Careers...Glad we have Videos of the Show to Enjoy....Basic Comedy at it's Finest !!!
They so 🤣 whenever I want a laugh I turn it to Amos and Andy. You guaranteed to get a good laugh
Tim Moore, Spencer Wiliams, Ernestine Wade, Amanda Randolf, Nick O'Demus, and Childress, Jester Hairston should all be on the Hollywood WOF.
Loved this show.
Under appreciated comic genius! I remember watching these as a child in the late fifties.
I remember watching this show with my grandmother
These shows are almost 70 years old but still amazingly fun to watch
When you commented this it was already at 70 years old lol
My family and I watched Amis and Andy every week and really enjoyed the entertainment! Always funny with life's experiences! .♥️
I just love Kingfish’d wife Saffire , great actress, pretty lady.
They were wonderful a must listen. I'm almost 82 and I grew up listening to them.
The folks that wrote the scripts were pretty clever!
omg...loved this show when I was a kid.
Lightnin' was my fave.
Me too
I second that emotion.
the whole cast was great!! my favorite comedy show
Mine,too. A program the entire family can watch.
I was a little African American boy just 5 years old when I saw Amos 'n Andy. We didn't have television, but our next store neighbors (Mr. and Mrs. Graham) had one. They'd invite me over every week because I must have real enjoyed it.
Fast forward 70 years later, in 2021, I still think they are funny...a lot funnier that the crap that passes for sit-com Black comedy today. Yes, I know----this show stereotyped Blacks, but you know what, by and large, the "system" still does. I'll take the earliest, and probably the best, Black television efforts. The performers were old war horses in live theatre and they are top-notch!
They had blacks from all ways of life including doctors, judges and lawyers (although a slippery one lol). What about Laurel and Hardy, The 3 Stooges, Abbott and Costello, etc. No lawyers or doctors or judges among them
I was a five year old white kid wishing I had could live with a black family as their kid!! That show made my heart feel real. RIP, A&A, and Sapphire and Mama and Calhoun and Kingfish and every beloved one you!!!
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This show was 100 years ahead of its time. The references and nuances are genius.
@@zora_noamflannery2548 Nora (N-H) you're very correct. No violence; no cursing; no sexual obsessions; no white gaze. These folks were some our neighbors. It's all for laughs at no one's expense. Not much of that anymore.
@@zora_noamflannery2548 Absolute classic and always hysterically funny. I never found Cosby’s show entertaining. I spy was good. Cosby was against Amos and Andy
I grew up watching this show.I like this show...I wish they would put back on tv.
They still air episodes of the Honeymooners a 50's clone of A&A.
Almost forgot: I remember their sponsor being "Cott" sodas. "It's Cott to be good" :-)
Ones of my favorite shows growing up clean comedy 😊
seems like the only thing racist about the show is preventing people seeing these great films from back in the day.
@@mdarrenu Yep!!
More laughs & fun. Great show & series. Thanks for sharing !
This was my deceased father's favorite show. For perspective my father was born in 1927 and i was born in 1979. Seeing this makes me think of him ❤❤❤❤
I love this show! It never gets old.
Amos and Andy is brilliant and funny as hell, and screw anyone who begs to differ. I watch it all the time, and I wish the original master copies of all the episodes would finally be restored and remastered so that everyone can enjoy this excellent show. This is no different than Car 54 and the Honeymooners. Only bigots would take one look at this show, without actually watching it, and call it offensive and racist
Can get the whole collection on d v d's
I listened to these episodes on the radio back in the 1970's till the 1990's....wow cant believe they are on here....
Now that’s wholesome entertainment!
I wss born in '56. Sadly I didn't see this on T.V. growing up in the 60s. And it wasn't till years later that I even became aware of this series and these amazing actors. My father rest his soul, talked about how he and his sisters would listen to the radio show as they were growing up. He never mentioned that they were black. Thanks Reelblack. Now I can enjoy them at my pleasure 👍😊
The original radio show characters were white men portraying black men.
I love the radio shows , but I enjoy watching them . I’m thankful they have these on here . I have all the radio shows and these videos , but when I’m not home I can watch them on the go .
Ernestine Wade was a great actress and lovely woman. I wish she'd had an honest chance in life.
Oh wow...I just flipped out when Kingfish said "excuse me for protruding"...I've been using that line forever and picked it up as a little kid watching 'Amos 'N' Andy'! It must've gone into syndication and played regularly in the later '50s and early '60s because I remember all the episodes so well and I wasn't born until '52...the whole cast felt like family to me!
I remember these, I was born in '56, no certain ones but remember, daddy loving it.
@@bettysmith8956 Ditto. I was born in 1951/
I can’t stop saying “ holy mackerel!!
I’m addicted to saying “ holy mackerel’!
I found old radio shows on cassette back in the mid-80s, and starting tracking down A&A episodes. In the mi-90s, I found a computer bulletin board that had dozens of A&A shows, later they'd become available on Archive ORG. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. That show ran from the late '20s into the '50s. Kingfisher is a lead character in the TV show, and was more supporting in the radio series. Sapphire is hardly brought up in episodes, but she's really a favorite on the TV. The radio vs. TV episodes are almost a non-comparison - there are ?? 600+ ?? radio shows, 70+ on TV.
I was 10yrs old watching this with my dad on a 13inch DuMont tv.I always wondered how King Fish &Andy always had money & never worked.😄
I was watching it at 5. I thought it was hysterical. Still do!
But you are wrong. They did work or have a job from time to time. If and when you watch all the episodes you should realize this. Just one example was the kingfish received a salary from the lodge.
Tim Moore, such a multitalented actor, singer, boxer.
This is so good and so funny! Thank you for uploading this hilarious and important piece of History. My uncle has the boxed set bootleg DVDs, I think there were 14 or 18 DVDs in all. I need to get those back and rip them to my hard drive.
Loved this show as a kid in the NYC area!
I was born in 1949. I remember watching them every afternoon at 4:00. Mother was scrapping carrots/making supper and daddy was on his way home from work. Back in 1955 I was six years old. Now I am 72 brings back so many memories!! Surprisingly watching TV at that age helped build my vocabulary.
@@dancogliano8092 Thanks for your reply. I was born in 1951 and really treasure the memories of those late afternoons with the same things going on! Life was good!
Me too Brooklyn born in 50I love this show
I was born in 47' My parents let my brother and watch this show. We all laughed so hard. I was raised in Queens.
All the actors were great! I liked Sapphire the best. She tried to keep George in line. I remember when she locked him out of the house. I thought that was the funniest thing.
Amos & Andy were clean...funny...and the writers were great. We didn't see skin color like people do today. I remember my Grandmother talking to colored ladies on the subway trains. They talked about their kids and news events just like white people did. I didn't see any difference until years later when the 60's race riots started. It doesn't matter what
color a person is...what counts is the color of a person's heart. Is it red ( full of LoVe or black full of hate?)
I wish it were the the late 60's...1969 was "Woodstock" All colors of kids came together...for LoVe...Peace.. & Music
No one got in a fight...or hurt another person or stole their belongings. 500,000
Youth came together. "Talkin bout Our Generation!" Ours was the best. The next so call Woodstock produced mayhem...fighting...rape...fires and theft.
"Baby Boomers United!"
The last generation who can think for themselves! Playing our records or playing a board game...or hanging out on the street corners and singing Do Wop songs..or going to the local Pizza Shop after school. I could go on...Memories!
@@EllyWoman777 Well said. I totally agree. It all changed when prayer was kicked out of public school.
I find it funny that Sapphire thinks Andy is a bad influence on Kingfish.
I liked this whole series because Sapphire plays a much bigger role than she did in the excellent radio series.
It should be noted Sapphire was actually played by one of the radio actors!
I don't think I've ever seen an episode where Sapphire is not yelling.
Fun fact, the guy who played Andy was named Spencer Williams. He made some of the first and most popular all-Black films made for Black audiences. He directed, wrote, and starred in these films, the most famous one being “The Blood of Jesus”, released in 1941. But none of that was mentioned in his New York Times obituary. He was only mentioned as “Andy from Amos n’ Andy”.
Spencer Williams Jr. had such a great voice ,I just loved this show, these guys are beautiful.Thank's for this reelblack.
Great character work all the way around.
Love it. That was hilarious 😂😂
Yes Virginia, TV use to have some great shows. Thank you for posting this.
Sapphires night cap is a hoot. 😂
Sapphire's night cap kills the buzz everytime.
@@aarondigby5054 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is Truly a Gem. I 've watched this 3 Times
I watched this in the 50s and it’s nice to see it again.
-All of the actors on the show were in my opinion Geniuses in comedy. Especially Kingfish and Brown. I very often cannot control my laughter at the predicaments that kingfish gets into.
I remember the episode where Sapphire ring was lost in the dough.
My son acts just like the kingfish. Always trying to chisel his brother and friends out of their stuff. In fact, I’m going to start calling him kingfish.
Sapphire always blames Andy of being bad influence on Kingfish.
Loved this show..
One of the greatest shows ever to be on tv I watch them over and over
Andy is slower than frozen molasses 😂 😂
So glad to watch Amos ‘n Andy again! I watched reruns of it as a kid with my parents all the time. We all loved the show and were sad when it was removed from circulation. Looking forward to watching more episodes. Thanks, Reelblack!
HA! So funny!
I remember watching this on TV.
Rio Dee Geronimo. I love it. lol.
Amos & ANDY was great comedy. Back in the day when life wasn't overanalyzed , unfortunately it disappeared because some people
Said it was racist . No not racist just a great group of people showing a really comical time .
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So where's Amos?
@@kenlieberman4215 he was the taxi driver
@@kenlieberman4215 He acted like a Greek chorus, coming in from time to time to comment on the story and occasionally interacting with the main characters.
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I loved this show. They had reruns of it some years ago.
Such lovable characters!!
That Kingfish is such a preposterous con man, is he not? Lol.
My uncle love this show he still watching it u til this day an he’s 84
I was born in 1949 and I remember these shows clearly.
My dad and I loved this show.
I like this show.
It's a lot Funnier than these shows today.. and I grew up watching the Cosby Show..
@@johndavis9799 Have you heard about Cosby teachng comedy to Asian models?
No... but I'm going to Check it out.. Thanks..
I've heard of Amos and Andy but this was my first time watching an episode.
I thought it was pretty funny.
One of the greatest TV comedies of all time, genuinely funny, with a fantastic ensemble cast. IMHO, there were many sitcoms in later years that were quite condescending to black people. It's sad that the NAACP only saw racism (that really was not there) instead of a talented cast and great comedy. And doubly sad that these great comic actors were thrown out of steady work when the show was taken off the air.
"that really was not there"??? Really?
Amen
@@Spyder8561 so, are the Three Stooges racist against white people? Laurel and Hardy? The Simpsons? Dumb and Dumber? It's f--king comedy.
@@captainkev10 No but your braincells seem to be racist against you.
@@Spyder8561 what the blank does that sentence mean?
Thanks so much for bringing these classic wonderful shows to UA-cam
was raised in the 40s and 50s and loved Amos and Andy, very funny then and still funny to watch, plain old-fashioned comedy routines
I watched "Amos and Andy" faithfully. It was "Grrrr-ate"
Pure Gold classics
Never thought I’d see this again. I’ve looked for it for what seems like forever. I grew up on the Little Rascals Spanky and our gang Amos and Andy Kingfish~ all of that; and then the liberals deep-sixed it. It wasn’t politically correct. They now tell us what to do how to do it what to eat what what to say what to drive how to raise our kids -or else. So this is like a Renaissance for me~ this is fabulous. My greatest thanks to whoever took it out of the archives (PS~The 50s were heaven compared to today!)
Just an outstanding show!
LOL, I'd love to have seen how Kingfish gets out of this one!!!
Kingfish was full of tricks and lies but damn Sapphire was hell!
All the stuff sapphire was saying about Andy was like she was describing George lmfao
Nahoodaa saphire wese gonna turn da lodge meeting on lumbas day we loved that show the best show on TV n there's still nothing can touch em god rip all of em
Good one. Great video quality, too.
Remember watching this and wishing to hear Radio show. I got to hear the Lum & Abner Pine ridge radio show when in Arkansas.
funny as all hell
Over 70 yrs ago . An average lifetime. So good u can't tell its that old. The amount of things that haven't happened yet ..wow
By the time "Amos 'N' Andy" reached television, it had become a slapstick-laden sitcom revolving around the Kingfish and his weekly schemes to con Andy again and again, a very different concept from the early radio serial, which was more nuanced. The TV show was about as subtle as the Three Stooges, but the great comedic talent of its performers cannot be denied.
Do you know which episode has Andy stating: Kingfish, you done gypped me for the last time...
The Kingfish represents the America of Democracy! Bravo!!
Thank you. Eye 👁️ am from a time when blacks where hardly ever on tv. When they were any one in the house that was not watching was called in too see
Loved Amos and Andy
A remedy for “DEPRESSION”, the Amos and Andy show with Tim Moore and the rest of the cast of this comedy show.
Hilarious as usual...!😉
This had to be recorded on film. I'm surprised. Most television shows at the time were broadcast live and if they were recorded at all, it was done on Kinescope.
"Nearsighted Thompson, M.D." 😂
I grew up watching Amos n Andy and couldn't wait to get home from school to watch the reruns in the afternoon. To me, it was good comedy and I loved all of the characters. What was the difference between this show and Sanford & Son 20 years later? All of these actors were talented. Hattie McDaniel said it best when she told the NAACP it is better to play a maid for $700 a week than be one for $40. The people who played in this show were tops. Roy Glenn played opposite Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? I believe these actors got a raw deal but they got the raw deal by their own and the NAACP.
You sound like an white supremacist 🙄
@@lenisbennett3062 you sound like you have a liberal arts degree from a 2 year college.
@@captainkev10 I majored in confect resolution with a minor in tree hugging 🤗
It's better to keep ur mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than to open it, and be proven a fool. What he wrote was fact
Grad of trump u