Amos ‘n’ Andy - Leroy’s Suits (1953)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- LEROY'S SUITS When Andy and The Kingfish mistake a police lieutenant’ apartment for that of Kingfish’s brother-in-law, they find themselves in plenty of trouble with the strong-and this time angry-arm of the law.
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The best comedy of all times. The very,very best
I'm 69 and remember it from the 50's.Outstanding.old school...
This is one of those shows that came up with the perfect cast! It's a shame this show was canceled.
Tragedy against the art's humanities to cancel such great entertainment
Correction: The SHAME, was putting it on in the first place, but then white, entitled racists just can't understand a lot of things, like other people's feelings, and needs. The ONLY reason white people still find this show, funny, is that it's STEREOTYPES. RACIST STEREOTYPES.
Funny then and funny now. So many old comedies fail to play these days, but Amos n Andy remains funny and hilarious at times because the characters are rich and universal. Kingfish is one of the most important characters in all of televised comedy because the writing was brilliant and funny and all the acting is terrific.
@TheBrabon1 These characters were not stereotypes specific to race. They WERE stereotypical of large segments of the working classes in the big cities of the 1950s. The ones where there was always the duper and the duped, the frustrated and the financially struggling.The Life of Riley, The Honeymooners and others (white) tended to stereotype those kinds of Americans and the same goes for the middle-classes. Amos 'n' Andy was an early entrant into TV's stereotypical working-class shows. The joy of watching the series as a kid in the fifties is relived when I watch episodes now. It never assigns race even by inference. It do not see race. The show is funny because wonderfully written and acted and it is human.
@@eddietucker3334 Hello,
Explained and written very well. If everyone could only understand what you have written, I don't think we would be in such trouble times about race as we are now. I think we could all just be a part of the human race.
@@eddietucker3334 This is exactly what I've been writing ✍on these shows. The "White" programs showed the plight of the poor working man and the stuff that went on in the house and family.
"Amos 'n' Andy" was the same, but from a "Black" perspective!
@@peterklutinoty244 The fact that every character was beloved in his or her own way (Momma-in-law-excepted?) was just brilliant writing. Making "good" and "bad" equally enjoyable and funny was an amazing achievement. Race was deep in the background and provided a gentle context to the stories. A great show! For everyone.
I'm a recent follower of Amos 'n' Andy and I think it's one of the funniest comedies that I've ever seen and is far better than the trash we get on TV today in 2020.
It's always been my favorite black sitcom.
Agreed 100%
I'm with you. When I'm down and want to be lifted up, I watch me some Amos and Andy.🤣😂🤣😎🤣😂👍
@@bobbyjones8521 Now wait a minute Kingfish! You always knew something funny was going to follow lol.
This was the best show on tv when I was a kid !
I love Amos n Andy. Keep up the good work. A brilliant idea
I remember watching the reruns of Amos and Andy when I came home from school in the sixties I was only 9 or 10 funny then and still is.
Comedy genius that deserved more credit that it ever got.
All the actors are dead now, but they get their credit posthumously.
Yes I was pretty young back in the fifties and I remember I really did enjoy that
Kingfish facial expressions is all that ....so hilarious 😂😂😂😂
Saphire and her mother are hilarious, too.
@@1940limited lol yes
"Andy, the man's got a handle on his hip!" Amos Reese, who played the detective, was a good actor.
Oh yeah, and easy on the eyes.
@@eddietucker3334 Oh yeah!
Always nice when Amos makes a guest appearance on his own show.
A lot of black Americans liked this show and laughed along with white audiences it was funny with good actors.
Exactly. The black stars of this show, as portrayed, fit right in the Western Culture. There was no political BS and calls of racism. Just good laughs.
So funny! Great performances. Wonderful writing. I am so glad to come across this show.
Top-notch comedy!
Its the best comedy alot better than the bullshit now days and there kinfolks won't let it air thats ashamed im white and there is no better comodey
Amos 'n' Andy is real comedy & talent. No profanity.
You can understand everything they're saying, too.
@@1940limited best actors in history,a whole lot better than the whites back then
If kids laugh, it’s on! Hard to do. Takes real skill.
Those hats that Amanda Randolph wore were totally hilarious and bizarre what a crack of genius. I'm still laughing.
Redd Foxx was a big fan of the show. He stole that idea and incorporated it into his own show. I can't remember the name of that "nasty" character, but she always came in scowling and wearing such hats!
" I am doing so many things that I don't know nothing about"
First time ever watching... HILARIOUS!
Be careful this is more addictive than heroin.
Very funny!Much better than the junk that's on TV today.
I sure as hell dig the hell out of it .try to get that out of today's 30 minute comedy show. GOOD LUCK !
Absolutely!
Best stuff always been vintage to me.
"If he's got a gun, make sure you don't duck, 'cause I'll be right behind you."
One of many, many hilarious lines during the run of that show!
We enjoy watching The Amos & Andy Show
JujuMilo
I also used to enjoy watching The Little Rascals
I used to watch the show in the sixties very funny
This show is so funny I have tears running out my eyes when I watch it. It's great entertainment with great actors putting on a great show. If it was designed to make people laugh, they sure hit the mark!
An antidepressant.
Amos and Andy was a great show. I wish they were still alive today.
Originally telecast on February 19, 1953, and adapted from a radio script.
They were great,I remember
Thank you for sharing Amos n' Andy...Used to watch them with my friends as a kid in Compton, Ca. Before that, they were on the radio. The show was decades ahead of it's time and is still copied by many shows and comedians to this day. Holy mackerel, one could argue the show was the basis for many future hits like Archie Bunker or All in the Family. It's one of the most original and ageless classics ever produced or created on 20th century media in my humble opinion.
I’m crying laughing😂🤣😆
Excellent
Watched Amos and Andy when I was a kid in the early 50s on TV. Always thought it was the funniest sitcom at the time and I believe it’s the funniest sitcom of all time.
The writers and the actor(s) brilliant.
Johnny Lee was a great talented comedian. I had never seen him before this series.
Some of the best ever
I looked it up. There really IS such an address in NY. THIS show It ACTUALLY show black folks in more important positions AND ownership back then.
Was the address in Manhattan??
Nice apartments, nice clottes. Treated with respect by what few whites were on the show. Very well done.
This is one of my favorite episodes of the A&A show. And one of their funniest as well.
My favorite is the one where the Kingfish takes Andy on a vacation around the country while never leaving Central Park. Check it out. It's called "Maine Vacation".
@@coobay978 That's my favorite as well 👍👍👍
The correct title of the following episode mentioned is Vacation Time, season 3, episode 3.
The episode is not called main vacation. That is a mistake.
Sorry,
but I have a spelling error in my previous post....main should be Maine.
Kingfish's Secretary had me in stitches.
The officer played it so cool in this part was beautiful. N Calhoun was brilliant
Didn’t know it was on all these years. A nice cell all you need these days. Thx!
Once again, talented actors.... All of them. Amos Reese and Milton Curtis played professionals as a detective and judge. Both played in several episodes of the series as did Roy Glenn and Vincent Townsend. Horace Stewart who played Lightning started the Ebony Showcase Theater where many Black actors got their start like John Amos from Good Times.
Loved this show when I was a child and even more as an adult.
"Not only do I deny the allegations, but I resent the alligator!"
"We got to get a grip on our 'equal delerium'!"
🤣😁
Sapphire tells George to never let. Her. Catch him messing. Around ! And George reply I promise. You never catch me!
Swamp People's star Gator Hunter, Troy Landry, sounds just like "Kingfish" when he talks.
i can remember watching that show on a tv that had a 13in magnisying clip on screen.What a great comedy.
Hal Roach was a genius with his early comedies using an all black cast in AMOS -N- ANDY that wouldn't be seen again until THE COSBY SHOW and of course the OUR GANG Kids which was ANOTHER classic group of comedies.
Always in love with Sapphire!!
My kinda woman! Actually, I married that kinda woman.
She sure had a shapely figure!
I was always a big fan of this show. Why? Because it was damn funny. It has always irked me that it got pulled out of circulation because some complained that the performance of Kingfish and Andy denigrated Black people. Please explain how Kingfish and Andy were any different than Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in the Honeymooners. All four got in trouble because they thought they were smart, when in reality they were not - then hilarity ensued.
Omg, why she just didnt mentioned to Andy her and moms was grabbing the suits, lol the ending was funny!
Interesting how they often would only show married couples in single beds on TV, not in a double bed. Lol.
Actually it wasn't just tv. It was like that back in the day
Husband always sept in one full size bed in those day
An there was only full size beds. Is that funny how time changes things.
Love this show.then an now.
@TheBrabon1 Actually, I was talking about back in my great grandparents time. That's how shit was. Do some research before making stupid comments!
@@sarahvenson4906 Hello, That is news for me. In my household in that era, we had both full-size beds and single beds. My parents bed was always full size. But not on TV as I remember Lucy and Ricky Ricardo had twin beds. It was not proper or acceptable to show on TV married couples in a full size bed.
I just wonder in what year TV started using full size beds for couples.
@@maldijaili6799 I realize this is coming in late, but I read where the TV series, The Munsters, _may_ have been the first network TV show to have the husband and wife sharing the same bed; so that dates it to the mid-1960s.
I really love laughing at them love the show 😂😂😂❤❤
🤣thanks for sharing
This is way better than Black Jesus, Blackish or any other black garbage that's on today. I wish we still had people like old Kingfish.
I thought it was funny when I was a kid and it's still funny.
I remember seeing these shows when I was a kid so funny
Unfortunately, today the title would be: "Leroy's Law Suits!"
😃😁😇✌🏿😃
Spencer Williams, Jr. (Andy)=Wendell Pierce
Gregory Bishop lol. You noticed that too, huh. Striking resemblance..!!
😂good comedy show I miss it
Great content 👍
Taking Amos & Andy Off the Air Was ' Criminal '.. The Show Was - Working to Well For Some..
Shown Black Folks Has Doctors - Nurses Teachers - Judges - Business Owner's - Etc Etc..
I have 6 dvds of Amos 'n Andy and watch the shows all the time, over and over, and still laugh at the things they do. It is a same that the black community wants us to know about there lives and won't allow the best comedy with black actors in them
This was all Lightning’s fault
We are all 'Lightnin sometimes.
Good Stuff
love it
AMOS AND ANDY was a great show with a cast of seasoned and overachieving performers. It sickened me to see their work trashed by race-obsessed noisemakers.
Sooo offended🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Xlnt!
The fig tree has budded
The NAACP ruined these fine actor's lives.
It says written by Bob Ross. Is that the same Bob Ross who painted??
Dah! No!!
So this was the start of the saggy pants and oversize shirtcoat look.
if you mean Zoot Suits then that was started in the 1930s
Good point , but I ment this modern style . With pants down to the knees and boxer shorts hanging out.
@@wooderdsaunders6801 mind your business why you looking at a mans ass anyway
I don't know how "Amos" got put into the title...he is the least funniest on the show....Kingfish IS the show......
Surprising! I always thought it was about a team! Kingfish is the star!
I though political correctness banned Amos and Andy?
I read the NAACP's had it taken off
@@margaretquick2597 that was part of it but there was much more to it. More people, more groups, more pressure and more influence.
You might also be interested to know who was running the NAACP at that time. It is all on websites if you care to look it up and read about it.
It did for a while, but they'e back. Thank heaven!
What?
Where b da white folk?
Had no idea racist howard stern was impersonating king fish when he was mocking black people. Sounds just like him.
Arthur Watt why is that racist?
Some of the lines from this show were used in All In The Family.
Hilarious
Everybody slow on this show I see
Not actually. I lived next door to Alvin Childress. Remember, they were actors playing a character. Alvin was the cabdriver. He didn't speak like that. He was more himself in the Christmas episode when he was explaining to his daughter about Christmas. His knew his second wife who was an RN. His first wife was Alice Herndon Childress. An American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."
@@lesliebrewster9186 Hello,
How very, very interesting. I enjoyed reading your entire post.
Is there anything else you can tell us about Mr Childress?
May I ask where you were living at the time.?
I read that Tim Moore would ride to the studio with Mr childress on the days they were rehearsing Amos & Andy..
Thank you
Hmm.
I really can't see the racism in this show. I think it's a very funny sitcom. Ohh yeah the black face stuff
I can. For the times it was filmed, very stereotypical characters especially the dumb one.
Use l
Goddamn the kingfish is so damn useless lmao
The rambunctious bank broadly tumble because kiss classically smile since a telling tights. mellow, impossible spain
This is interesting linguistically because you can hear them shifting back and forth between waspy white and blacky black accents. I guess they are all white actors? Or are some mixed race or even gasp black?
I also wonder how this show played in with segregation and integration. I think its wrong to just categorically dismiss and villify it like it never even existed or if you stare at it by the full moon at midnight on a friday the thirteenth you grow a short sporty mustache and and red armband with a weird cross on it
They were African Americans! Research the history of the show. And what is "blacky black" accents?
"or are some mixed race or even gasp black" what are you saying? Are you an American do you know America's history of "black captivity/slavery? Of course many descendant's of the captives were mixed due to the raping of the women by the captors/slave holders.
you can also see episodes of white actors in "blackface" attempting to portray the orginal "black actors. There are interviews with the orginal actors as well
Gloria R what you say is true, but it’s far from the only reason for mixed race people so calm yourself down.
@@reasonrestored9116 Normally and for the most part I do not respond to a reply but I'm making an exception in this instance for two reasons: "but it's far from the only reason for mixed race people" "so calm yourself down". From this person's remarks it appears that she/he is confused/questioning which ethnic group is doing the actual acting " I guess their all white actors" I'm asking the author of the post if he/she an American (basically do you know American history of the captivity of African peoples. I go on to "enlighten the poster" of America's history; in that during the time period lighter skinned people of color were most definitely resulted in the raping of captive women by the captor/slave holder. What I am saying is a historical fact not mine ! And does not pertain to 1960's and beyond when race mixing began to "come out" of the closet" so to speak. I'm suggesting that the writer research the history. I ask the question form a cultural standpoint as to what is "blacky black" accents ( where is this writer from) and inform the writer that caucasian's often performed in "Blackface" during the 19th century to represent a caricature of a black person. I'm not stating my facts I'm stating historical facts in a clear concise manner with no overtone. So what does "calm yourself down" mean?