Obama’s Poet Laureate Maya Angelou on Chocolate News & CBS!
David Alan Grier as Maya Angelou on Chocolate News
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Maya Angelou: ‘I’m So Proud’
Background Articles and Videos
Maya Angelou Introduces Michelle Obama
And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou – A Brave and Startling Truth
David Alan Grier
As Election Nears, a Black Voice Enters Comedy Fray
By FELICIA R. LEE
“…Chocolate News” borrows the fake-news template from two of Comedy Central’s most successful programs, “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report,” but uses the conceit to fill a void of politically charged black-oriented comedy. The first season of this show, also created by Mr. Grier, a comedian and actor, is an equal-opportunity offender, skewering rappers, Maya Angelou, gangbangers and election fraud.
“This is the perfect chance,” Mr. Grier said during an interview on Monday at the Bowery Hotel on the Lower East Side. “I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice. I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.”
The timing could not be better for the 52-year-old Mr. Grier, most famous for such characters as Antoine, a gay film critic, and Loomis Simmons, a crooked infomercial host, on “In Living Color,” the sketch-comedy program on Fox from 1990 to 1994 that made stars out of Keenen Ivory Wayans and his brothers Shawn, Damon and Marlon Wayans, as well as Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey. High ratings this season for shows like “Saturday Night Live” demonstrate that this historic presidential election has whetted a public appetite for political comedy and topical satire. And since Dave Chappelle abruptly and noisily left the popular “Chappelle’s Show” in 2005, Comedy Central has not had a black host of an original sketch-comedy series at a time when race and racial politics are front and center. …”
David Alan Grier
“David Alan Grier (born June 30, 1955) is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color. He currently hosts Chocolate News, a show on Comedy Central. …”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alan_Grier
A preview of Maya Angelou’s inaugural poem for Obama
By Michelle Malkin
“…Poet Maya Angelou’s hyper-stylized prose and diction are almost beyond parody. But the brilliant comedian David Alan Grier pulls it off. This skit of Grier-as-Angelou rehearsing her draft Obama inauguration poem will bring tears to your eyes — and you may even need a change of clothes (language warning at the end). Click to play the video: …”
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/05/a-preview-of-maya-angelous-inaugural-poem-for-obama/
