President Obama hit all the right notes during his routine Saturday at the White House correspondents’ dinner, hitting on political critics, current events, the media, and his own administration.
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4/22/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (or simply Don’t Be a Menace) The film spoofs a number of black, coming-of-age, hood films such as Juice, Jungle Fever, South Central, Higher Learning, Do the Right Thing, Poetic Justice, New Jack City, Dead Presidents, Friday, and most prominently Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society. Continue reading
4/15/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Family Guy- Baby Got Black
Baby Got Black is the eighteenth episode of the twelfth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and the 228th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on April 27, 2014, and is written by Kevin Biggins and Travis Bowe and directed by Brian Iles. In the episode, Chris falls in love with Jerome’s daughter, Pam, much to her father’s chagrin. When the two kids run away, Peter and Jerome team up to look for them. Continue reading
4/8/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: The Longest Yard Funny Moments
The Longest Yard 2005 remake of the 1974 sports comedy film of the same name stars Adam Sandler as Paul Crewe; a disgraced Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback. He is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards. Continue reading
4/1/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah is a South African political satirist, writer, producer, DJ, television host, actor, media critic, and comedian. In March 2015, Comedy Central announced that Noah would become the host of The Daily Show, following the departure of Jon Stewart. Continue reading
3/25/15 Wildin Out Wednesday: Three Looks At Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was a comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities and profanity, as well as racial epithets. O&A NYC Magazine takes a look at three different points in Pryor’s groundbreaking career. Continue reading
3/11/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: SNL 40- spoofs Empire, Gentrifying Bushwick and Jay Z
SNL 40: 3 skits that spoofs Empire, Gentrifying Bushwick with Kevin Hart and Jay Z . Continue reading
3/11/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: SNL 40- spoofs Empire, Gentrifying Bushwick and Jay Z .
SNL 40: 3 skits that spoofs Empire, Gentrifying Bushwick with Kevin Hart and Jay Z . Continue reading
3/4/15 Wildin Out Wednesday: The Little Rascals (Readin and Writin)
Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach’s Rascals) is a series of comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. In addition, Our Gang notably put boys, girls, whites and blacks together as equals. That had never been done before in cinema, and the series broke new ground. Continue reading
(Repost) 11/16/20 O&A HOLLYWOOD MONDAY: Cotton Comes To Harlem- Iris, Officer Jerema and the Paper Bag
Cotton Comes to Harlem was the beginning of short period in American film that featured black actors in leading roles and the themes dealt with issues from the African-American microcosm. With a screenplay by Arnold Perl and Ossie Davis, and directed by Davis this action drama represents the black prospective. Much of the film’s humor is urban black comedy, which was groundbreaking in 1970.
