I think it was the worst show that I have seen in a long while. TV Newser
What happens when CNN hires a man with a well documented history of animus towards Black women? Well, right out of the box, he takes his Black woman hatred, degradation and misogyny to a world wide audience. Using the financial crisis to introduce the world to the hilarity that is human sex trafficking by bringing on a Pimp ( Human Sex Trafficker) named Freddie Mack to discuss the mortgage meltdown.
Yes, you just heard someone say “Shut cho mouth b*tches!” on CNN.- You better watch this clip before CNN yanks it down. They aren’t showing it on CNN.com… I wonder why? Y’all will especially enjoy the part where Freddie Mack blames the mortgage meltdown on his sister “Fannie Mae” and he says “Or as I like to call her Fannie Mae or Fannie May Not, depending on how much money you got.” Oh yes, he said this on CNN. Oh y’all sohuld split your sides with laughter when Freddie Mack talks about his business being “Financing Hoes.” Uh huh on CNN. Y’all. C.N.N. Why aren’t the women of CNN raising hell? Where is NOW? Oh yeah… the audience assumes that Freddie Mack’s “Hoes” are Black women… no problems.. keep laughing.
CNN is using DL Hughley as a straw man to carry out their their dirty work. He immunizes them from criticism and that is what they were counting on. The fact that the Black silent majority would give them a pass, because we are supposed to accept whatever garbage gets spewed at us as long as the one spewing the garbage has some melanin. CNN ain’t slick. I tried to tell CNN what Hughley was all about in my post
CNN Gives New Show to Black-Woman-Hating Comic DL Hughley.
I weep for the employees of CNN. I weep for them in sorrow that DL Hughley has been foisted upon them. I weep for its foreign correspondents who have dodged IEDs, bullets, bombs, coups, and cholera, to only have their service to CNN disrespected by being forced to answer questions from a complete and total Buffoon- a modern day minstrel. A man too illiterate to read a teleprompter and properly pronounce your names and your locations. I weep for you CNN employees who were passed over so a man with few talents, a string of television failures, and did I mention an inability to read was given a one hour show on a international cable news outlet.
Folks, there is something called the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” On Saturday night the world got a wonderful demonstration of this bigotry when CNN debuted DL Hughley Makes the News. If you will recall, this blog has chronicled Hughley for well over a year after he made the following comments in the aftermath of Don Imus calling a group of College educated Black women “Nappy headed hoes.”
Now many may say “Isn’t putting up video of his horrific show on your blog helping to promote his wretchedly inferior comedic talent?” Not so my friends. My putting up video of his show demonstrates my confidence that no matter how much CNN promotes this show, DL Hughley’s inability to read and pronounce the names of places like Mumbai, India will doom this show as all of his other television shows have been promptly canceled.
SO here is the first segment called “DL Around the World” somewhere CNN’s foreign correspondents must be wondering how far they have fallen to have to endure being interviewed by someone who can’t even pronounce their names and locations correctly. You have to feel for the Russian Correspondent who has to endure Hughley’s idiot question about the world series. Or when he asked the China correspondent “If McCain ran against Obama in China who would win?” Of how about “Who Would Make a Better Astronaut, McCain or Obama” :
I felt so bad for these correspondents. All their education and experience and risking their lives as foreign correspondents only to be subjected to the insulting experience of being interviewed by a man who cannot read. It’s like they botoxed his corneas- look at his eyes. Dead eyes. The one bright spot was Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Hughley managed to sully that experience by asking Dr. Tyson if he “got some” from girls while talking about an apocalyptic impact from an asteroid. NO I did not make that up.
CNN finally gives a show to an African American, and they don’t go and find a journalist ( I know those are hard to find), the don’t go find a political analyst or an academic, they go get a COMIC. A comic that thinks Black women are “the ugliest [women] he has ever seen in his life.” His first show has been panned by those who watched it. It has been declared one of the WORST shows many have seen in a while.
We are not surprised. This man’s maliciousness and anti-Black woman animus cannot be disguised as humor. He is a mean spirited profane little troll and all the studio lights and makeup in the world cannot not disguise that CNN. I am not surprised that CNN dug into the bottom of the barrel to give a platform to minstrelty. CNN is Bearish on Black people. Remember when they used that Soledad O’Brien documentary Black in America to put a bunch of pathology on display and try to pass that off as telling OUR story? Remember when CNN put up a headline on their website declaring Black women to be “An Endangered Species”? Remember when CNN declared AIDS to be a “Black” disease?
For the record, to the reporters who like to quote this blog without so much as an email or phone call, please don’t say I am “protesting” DL Hughley and CNN. I don’t “protest” or “boycott” — that’s Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Now MY READERS have been known to do those things… 
. If my readers happen to take note of the advertisers that purchased the ads that run at the beginning of the CNN embedded videos of Hughley’s shows, track down their contact information, and loudly protest their financial support of DL Hughley’s platform, then I can take no responsibility for that. They are on their own. I can’t be responsible for any rogue readers who track down the contact information for Proctor and Gamble and ask them why their PUR water brand is helping to subsidize the online video of a show that thinks pimps and calling women hoes and b*tches are funny.
No, I have no desire to cause any type of controversy that might prolong the length of this clearly doomed show. I don’t care WHAT HIS PUBLICIST TELLS YOU. This blog is not mounting a protest! Tell his publicist that they will have to find some other way to make this Titanic of a television show viable. You shall get no help from me!
My only hope is that the CNN employees forced to appear on this debacle will revolt and demand their basic human dignity back from their bosses. I pity that DL Hughley has been thrust upon them by the bigotry of their superiors. To pull a page out of D.L’s Playbook… I’m BLACK and I think he is horrible. So there!
Once last question, would CNN let John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Don Imus come on their station and do a skit calling women b*tches and hoes? Do y’all get how insidious it is that they use this Black man to carry out his anti-woman agenda? IF HE WAS WHITE ( Yeah I said it).. IF. HE. WAS. WHITE, it would not be tolerated on CNN. It is because he is Black that the b*tches and the hoes Freddie Mack is referring to are assumed to be BLACK women that DL and CNN are going to get a ride.
To those who claim I am being bourgeoisie. Oh excuse me BOO-Zhee, for criticizing Hughley. I am not alone.
From Average Bro:
Hughley is not now, nor has he ever been, a sharp political comic. He’s not deep like that. And he ain’t too funny otherwise.
From My Urban Report:
I’m not trying to be a hater, but this is a union that I don’t see continuing for very long. D.L. isn’t breaking the news, it seems the news is broken.
From the Raleigh News & Observer:
I don’t really know what this show is trying to do. Someone needs to take a breath and figure it out.
From Smoke & Passion:
And if Time Warner/CNN really wants to do a better job competing with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, why not choose a comedian who is actually funny?
From Native Son- CNN+Comedy News +DL Hughley=Not Funny
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Boy I’m really glad my hard earned cash is not paying for this garbage. I will check this site to see if anyone posted the sponsors for this program. I will stop buying their products and let them know why. I had quit cable for other reasons but decided not to get it back after hearing all the garbage my dollars would be going for.
After having seen these clips all I have to say is…WOW!
At a risk of sounding uneducated and anti-black, I personally found the Fannie Mae skit funny. The problem is that CNN is the wrong place to do that.
Maybe if DL had a show like Dave Chappelle, Kat Williams, MADTV or SNL it would be more approriate or less offensive. Would it have been less offensive if Freddie Mac had been a white pimp?
It sounds to me like this is a classic “I can say it but you can’t” issue
A black man can say the “N” word but a white man can not. I can talk junk about my momma but you can not. I think it is a matter of perspective.
Have you seen or heard the things Carlos Mencia says?
Some of the comments DL made was inappropriate for anytime but isn’t that the nature of comedy? There are things that can be said by a comic that others can’t say.
I’m not really sure what CNN is trying to do but whatever it is they’re doing right now.
I’m was waiting for this Gina…Thank You !!
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought the show was disgraceful.
Sophia, that is part of the problem, we think PIMPS are funny. I can assure you they are not. Why don’t you watch a few news reports about 8 year olds in Thailand offering to perform oral sex for tourists. Or you don’t have to go that far. As about the women locked in basements in THIS country who thought they were coming to this country for domestic or factory work and end up being sex slaves. Raped, beaten, threatened. Why don’t you think about the fact that an 8 year old has a “shelf life” meaning… its only so long she is going to be worth anything until she contacts a disease or becomes pregnant.
Pimps aren’t funny or loveable. But because they are hiding behind comedy its is okay. Let me assure you that DL hughley won’t be doing any Nazi jokes on CNN. Why? Because even though some people think it might be “funny” there are going to be folks who don’t who will do more than just sit around a say how horrible it is.
Well, DL did call Maryline Blackburn beautiful. The show was not smooth at all and DL apparently admitted this to the audience afterward citing that everything was put together real fast and that he had only met with his writers two days earlier. So the show may improve.
And pimps have been the target of jokes for ages simply because they are jokes.
Hi Gina. One can make the same argument you make with regard to guns and shooting. I love The Beverly Hillbillies and I recall the numerous times Granny gets mad and grabs her shotgun to shoot at someone. It’s comedy, yet in real life, there is nothing funny about shooting people especially if you have witnessed the after effects of someone being shot.
There is nothing funny about war, yet we had Hogun’s Heroes and MASH. Cheech and Chong made comedy based on drug use.
So we live in a world that makes joke of things that are not jokes in reality. DL is unfortunately not unique in this aspect.
@Terri,
Just because thousands of people smoke crack, doesn’t mean I won’t object to Proctor & Gamble handing out pipes and rocks. Just because teens have sex, doesn’t mean I won’t object if McDonald’s starts putting condoms in happy meals. Just because some kids like to huff paint, doesn’t mean I won’t object to Home Depot marketing spray paint as a medicinal agent. Just because some people call Black women bitches and hoes doesn’t mean I have to turn my head because EVERYBODY is doing it.
If everybody jumped off a cliff, I would be the only one standing on the ledge saying “those people were stupid.”
Just because you give a pass to misogyny and the degradation of Black women and think that it is funny and excusable doesn’t mean I have to . In the same way that DL Hughley was able to bring his minstrelsy to national television, I have the right to bring my critique to my blog audience.
But you will be happy to know that your comment just made it into my first book under the chapter heading ‘Obfuscation, Redirection, and Apologists ”
Y’all behave all day while I am away. I just learned how to ban IP addresses so I should be having some fun this afternoon! Toodles!
Wow, that show must have sucked, I couldn’t make it through the clips. I think DL may have been inspired by Chris Rock, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Colbert. His problem is that he does not have the intelligence or talent to pull off poltical humor. His response to things is to say “damn” or laugh or ridicule, he doesn’t even have a follow up jokes. Maybe he will get better, but I doubt it. He just isn’t funny. Maybe he will get a better writing team, but I still don’t think he can pull this format off. A lot of black comedians can’t b/c all most of them do is ridicule people. The only one who I think might be able to do it Sheryl Underwood, under the big mouth and the wig there is an intelligent woman.
I have no idea why he is on television. DL is the only person who finds his jokes humorous.
The only one who I think might be able to do it Sheryl Underwood, under the big mouth and the wig there is an intelligent woman.
This concept was tried with Sheryl Underwood when she was the host of political comedy show “Holla” and it only lasted a hot second.
Just because you give a pass to misogyny and the degradation of Black women and think that it is funny and excusable doesn’t mean I have to .
I didn’t give a pass to anything. I’m talking priorities. Using comical skits to make fun of life’s ridiculousness is quite different from HBO spotlighting Dennis Hof’s business (where a few black women are employed), or ‘Hookers on The Point’ which is one of HBO’s most watched series and spotlight’s the lives of prostitutes and pimps. Those are the real culprits because they attempt to give legitimacy to that lifestyle. Same for “Pimps Up, Hos Down”. Those shows truly degrade women.
No one is laughing at those shows, yet they are watching. People laught at Freddie Mack because of his absurdity.
Thank you for posting on this. You are 100% on point. What is CNN thinking by giving DL Hughley this show?
I never liked his comedic style going all the way back the BET Comedy Show days on up to now.
I did catch that time he came on Leno after the Imus incident too and could not believe he said that about the young ladies.
I agree that the African American Employees that pushed so hard to get the King special aired and the Black In America series aired (though I was not totally happy with it) must be cringing as they walk around the hallways and offices of CNN. “Is this the end result of what we fought for?”
We should start an online campaign to get this show removed from CNN and demand that they issue an apology.
I am looking forward to our own All Black News Channel coming in 2009.
Peace!
LT
Every since I rented the movie “Trade” from Netflix I haven’t found one thing funny about Sex Traffickers. I highly suggest folks rent this movie. I assure you won’t every think about sex trafficking and prostitution as funny. Just my two cents.
In 1986 I went to Thailand for a foreign missions trip. I was in the country for two months. We saw the sex trade first hand one night. We had an equal number of men and women on the trip. I do not remember what town we were in but we saw an American/European male with a gal who was obviously a child. The fellows were heading to beat the man down. We begged them not to do that. We were in the country on a tourist visa and would have gotten in trouble because of the nature of our trip. That was our exposure to the sex trade in Thailand. I’m sure things are a lot worse now with the releasing of the Internet to the general public and the advent of AIDS.
Hello,
This show needs to be cancelled. Sorry.
I really think that the viewers need to make their opinions known at CNN! Let them receive thousands of complaints by phone anf fax about why this type of comedy is not needed at this time in our nation’s healing process!
We are sick of minstrels getting air time that belongs to black intellectuals who will elevate the national dialogue! Let us make that known!
Jonathan Klein
President
CNN
1 CNN Center
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404-827-1700
Fax: 404-827-1099
OR…
Susan Bunda
Executive Vice President of Content Development
OR…
Bart Feder
Senior Vice President of Current Programming
Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
Lisa
I’m not gonna front, I tried to keep an open mind and give the show the benefit of the doubt, despite already knowing that DL Hughley just isn’t funny, among other things.
But I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t get past the 1st 5 minutes. It’s just so UNFUNNY! My Goodness!
Now Michael Baisdens on his National radio show talking about how we must support D.L. because his success is our success, blah blah blah. Talk about another brother who just annoys me sometimes. If it’s not funny or entertaining to me then why should I watch? I don’t care if he’s black, white, purple or green! And he wonders why they try to say we vote based on color. Can’t he just connect the dots and stop contradicting himself all the time.
your link to “average joe” is really undercover black man. is average joe another blogger?
why are you anonymous? why aren’t you writing for a major publication/website somewhere?
your comments are far superior to most journalists.’
I want to watch the clips just to be open-minded, but I don’t want to see more of the same insidious insults and disrespect that already gets shown to women and people of color. This is frightening because it can slip under the radar and be acceptable. Gina makes a good point; it wouldn’t be okay for a White comedian to make the same types of jokes about women. I rarely find Mr. Hughley funny and I don’t think this will be any different. Sometimes being obnoxious and insulting gets confused with being thought-provoking and edgy.
Gina,
It’s not that I didn’t believe y’all but if I hadn’t seen it for myself, I may not have believed it was all that bad. All I could say is Oh my goodness! Seeing Halloween is upon us, how many of our little black boys will be going as PIMPs? http://www.costumecraze.com/PIMP30.html?c=cj,PIMP30
Pimp glorification is real and it didn’t just slip in on us. This is been accepted by us for so long, that the shock factor is almost absent. I call it a Rebirth of Slim syndrome. Thankfully, we can fight this head on with intellect, educating our youngsters and refusal to conform. We don’t have to condone this or support this show’s ratings by watching it. I know CNN (of all places) must be aware of all the negative buzz D.L. is getting in cyberspace. Then again, it could be all the negativity boosting the ratings.
Oh, those reporters probably never thought they would ever be part of such nonsense. It was awkard, but sistah girl was smart and said “Let me get back to ya on that one.”
Im sorry but I dont know what you were watching but it wasnt the same skit I was watching. This had nothing to do with black women it was a shot at the lending institutions and the way they conduct business.
There was no glorifying of pimps, in fact the the comparison made it obvious that the opinion is both pimps and the lending organization are scum.
And how is it when you see a pimp you think black women?
Clnmike of course you don’t see it. You don’t face any risk of being exploited by a PIMP. You aren’t concerned about those who are.
By using a PIMP as a comedic device, you are minimizing the real horror that they inflict on women around the world. The pimp is made as acceptable and “cute” as Big Bird or Winnie the Pooh. A “character.”
But you didn’t come here wanting me to explain my position. You an I disagree. I get it. You don’t and that is okay.
You have a blog, go chortle at pimps over there.
Its part of the mainstreaming of PIMP culture.
Notice y’all he didn’t say a word about “bitch” and “hoe” being bandied about CNN like that was no big deal.
If you think for one moment that I am going to let you come on MY BLOG and be abusive to YOUR HOST… THAT WOULD BE ME- you have another thing coming. I don’t go to your blog acting ignorant, don’t come over here acting ignorant.
You need to decide if this thread is worth everyone of your comments going to the spam folder in perpetuity.
Abusive?
You and I both know what was said.
@JustSaying: “Now Michael Baisdens on his National radio show talking about how we must support D.L. because his success is our success, blah blah blah.”
I’ve had to stop listening to Baisden several months ago because he is too “abusive” in his language about women and girls, IMO. He tries to disguise it as wanting to impart information to the community, but he and that damn George Willborn are NOT funny!
Because you clearly don’t know when to stop and have a controlling personality. I am going to give you one more chance to just walk away and agree to disagree and let the matter drop. You have your opinion and I have mine.
PS. If you have just walked away, nobody would have know who I was talking to.
With all the great Black hosts & news figures WHO CAN’T GET A G.D. SHOW ON A NETWORK LIKE CNN (Ed Gordon, Tavis -although I don’t always agree with him…he’s good at what he does on PBS, Gwen Ifill, the list could go on and on. Hell, even Roland Martin, who I don’t really care for as a host or pundit…but he’s qualified. The list is long)… They decide to fund a show for this clown???? A coon???
This is one of those moments when I feel embarrassed to be Black in America. (a moment that hits me at least twice a day it seems).
I have been in denial for the past few weeks. When I saw the news about this guy getting a show on CNN… I didn’t think much of it… I didn’t even want to believe it at first. But now that it is playing out like this… I’m beyond disgusted.
Is this some sort of sick joke on the part of CNN? As a Black person… i’m offended. This is what I mean when I write about the major media skipping over the best of Black talent (or talent that happens to be Black) and instead choosing the worst examples of our image that they can find. It’s sickening.
I doubt if Andrew Dice Clay will be offered his own show on CNN….or any other idiot White Comedian for that matter. So why is it always o.k. to play these games with Blacks and the Black image?
And this s— is on CNN being beamed around the World!!!???? Hey… I guess they already know us as pimps and whores in Malaysia, in Italy, in Russia, in China…etc, Rap culture made sure that message was sent a decade ago. But when they see it on a network like CNN, it’s like the ultimate official confirmation (at least in the minds of some of those watching abroad who may get their perception of Black Americans primarily through media).
And this network is Headquartered in Atlanta… Shitsville USA…. the defacto Negro capital of the Universe (at least to some)….and the home of MLK…and you mean to tell me Black folks aren’t protesting outside of the CNN studios?
This is why I say…it is not the initial offense (the soiling of the Black image)…it’s the lack of response by Blacks that is even worse to me.. This is often what bothers me more.
AI,
Michael Eric Dyson said we need to be quiet and support DL because he is breaking barriers.
Fine, I’ll leave it alone.
But understand I could care less what your people think of me.
I lied…
I’m embarrassed at least 16, 17 hours a day… not counting when i’m asleep.
But understand I could care less what your people think of me.
Okay, we understand. Now you can go away happy now knowing that we know that you know that we understand that you don’t care what we think about.
Maybe someone wrote it already, but Time-Warner owns CNN. Is Parsons still running this corporation?
Who ever thought this program up and got it on the air needs to be shot. Yeah, I’m joking. Really.
It’s obvious I wasn’t the only one who didn’t think the show worked. What’s strange is that CNN worked so hard to produce the Black In America series, and then this. I think the idea was to mix news/entertainment/satire, but don’t believe this was the best way to go about it.
Is it a result of the “Foxification” of news, or just a poor attempt to push the boundaries? I’m willing to give the show a chance, but the producers need to figure it out.
I’m also wondering if they conducted any focus groups with viewers before deciding to air this program. In any event, I’m sure CNN has heard the voice of the blogosphere.
Gina,
You were so right. D.L Hughley is a d-mn embarrassment! No wonder non-blacks do not take us seriously! We need to get this fool on the TV asap!
I know I focussed on the sexism aspect, that’s my cause, but in general as an African American, you ought to be insulted that they chose to beam this to the world.
This is TEN TIMES WORSE than HOT GHETTO MESS. BET is garbage, we expect trash out of them, but what does it say when the “Most Trusted Name in News” elects to beam images of Black pimps to the world?
Oh My God AI, I had some Taco Bell today for my afternoon nerve calming. One Taco Supreme, one Crispy taco. I’m going to pray for your blood pressure from all of that salt.
Michael Eric Dyson and Michael Baisden don’t want to criticize DL for the same reason many black public figures don’t to criticize BET b/c they want to get on his show. Baisden has raised his national profile off of the backs of Jena 6 and the Obama campaign and Michael Eric Dyson will jump in front of any microphone you give him
No, pimps aren’t funny, as this article at Huffington Post on a busted child prostitution ring shows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/fbi-arrests-600-people-re_n_138369.html
Meena, I am sorry. In my zeal to delete ignorant comments and add folks to the banlist, I accidentally snagged one of yours.
Meena said “I just wrote an email to CNN about the matter, citing enough reasons to take this show off the air. Everyone, please do the same. We have to make our voices heard in every way we can.”
At AI’s request his comment about Michael Eric Dyson and Taco Bell were deleted.
Girl, ever since that cab ride we had in Denver I am amazed at how simpatico we are on things. I just blogged about this myself and it was all the same points that you and several commentators made.
My favorite part of this awful tripe was when the Indian journalist answered jerkoffs question about who the Indian people wanted to win the election. She looked so annoyed to even have gone to school and this nobody gets a show. She looked dead into the camera and said, “they don’t care.”
Brava! That summed up my feelings about this show.
At AI’s request his comment about Michael Eric Dyson and Taco Bell were deleted.
LOL, oh man, I wish it hadn’t been, I bet it was funny.
Anyway, DL Hughley always has been and always will be a check chaser, just like most folks in the entertainment industry. Most of them do not do what they do out of some profound sense of art or even a desire to have a platform to push black issues, whatever those are.
As far as Hughley hating black women, I’m not so sure about that. He does have a black wife that he has been with for ages – more than I can say for other prominent black men that dumped the black woman that held them down and “upgraded” to a non-black woman. Not saying his choice of mate gives him a pass, but if he truly hated black women we would see evidence of that in other areas of his life, right? All I see is a typical black male comedian whose humor is largely based around what a lot of other black people deem to be true and funny.
Before the Duke incident if you polled most black men and women about how they would judge the looks of those female players I bet most would say that they were not attractive. Would they call them “ugly”? Probably not, but they would not say they were attractive. But because D.L.’s comments occurred after the Imus uproar, black women took offense. I doubt anyone would have cared had he just made a random joke about female basketball players not being attractive. Or Black women having nappy hair. And whether you think that’s wrong, that doesn’t change the fact that that is the overwhelming sentiment of most people.
As far as the show goes, CNN obviously feels like they have a “read” on what Black Americans want. Heck, they gave us a whole series on our “problems” with of course, no real solutions. CNN is garbage as is most things on your idiot box. So why should we expect or even ask them to create a balanced news program for people of color? Especially when y’all all know that the majority of black people would rather be entertained than educated. Show me some stellar ratings for educational programming viewed by African-Americans – hell, show me a weekend where a smart black film can actually make some decent money at the box office – and then we can start demanding better programming. I’m sorry but it seems as if you all are turning a blind eye to the fact that the majority of black people think this stuff is funny. Sure a lot of educated, “progressive” blacks can write letters and boycott and may even affect change but there ain’t gonna be no programming devoted solely to this demographic. There just isn’t enough to justify the costs.
So if his show gets cancelled, which it most likely will, then what happens? We sit and wait for a national network to devote a positive black show (or an entire network) for such a small percentage of people. If you all want to see “change” you’re going to have to get your fellow brothers and sisters to change too. Because whether you like it or not, cash rules everything. So cancelling one man’s show will not change the mindset of the majority of black America. CNN knows this, why don’t you?
For every cancelled “Hot Ghetto Mess” and “Uncut” and other tripe, there hasn’t been ONE single “positive” replacement. We can get stuff cancelled but we can’t get stuff made and that is because when you are in that room pitching something positive (and I know this from my husband’s experience) the first thing they tell you is “BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT PROGRAMMING THAT IS NOT AUTHENTICALLY BLACK AND FUNNY”. So that means no black dramas, no black news shows, etc. So D. L. is just making money the only way a black person in entertainment can outside of music – COMEDY.
Don’t like it, get off the internet and talk to a black person not visiting progressive black blogs while sipping tea. Because those are the folks that watch TV and give credence to D. L. and his humor.
Oh man, seems like I missed a good one. Now how did that ever happen? Oh yeah, I forgot. Back in the early 90s I left popular culture after realizing that my constant disappointment over its anti-intellectual posture was my fault, not that of pop-culture’s.
This is the problem ladies and gentlemen, you continue to hold out hope for pop culture and are often disappointed. Many of you are like people who, after trolling the clubs and lounges for a mate, constantly wonder why they cannot find a good man/woman. Its time to kill your television set and toss your radio into the fireplace. Join the REAL counter culture. We only watch CNN and Fox for entertainment, in the same way adult parents watch Teletubbies with their children. When its time to get the real stuff, we troll the scape for primary resources, credible authors, and the occasional established historian.
Why on Earth are you still giving the likes of Dyson and Hughley the time of day in hopes of finding them redeemed? They are merely the latest trinkets that have adorned the neck and fingers of the pop culture whore. I swear, some of you guys act as if DL Hughley is supposed to be Dick Gregory circa 1969 and Dyson to be St. Thomas Aquinas. Let them go and move on to better and more intelligent things. You bear some of the responsibility for your outrage and disappointment. Camille Paglia, McNeil Lehrer, and the Financial Times are begging for more people to check them out. Its time to go to the next level my friends.
@ Al I don’t watch television. when I did, I watched a great deal of PBS. I’ve also read paglia. Why do you always come on here acting like we are all walking around with our knuckles dragging on the ground. while you are sipping on fine box wine?
To the person who said we need to create our own programming… I’m working on that. Did you check out my little PSA? That was done with some freeware in about 30 minutes
“…while you are sipping on fine box wine?”
Are you serious? A man who might be as culturally refined as myself would only sip the most flavorful and luscious vintage of Coors.
I never though Hughly was funny in the least. Why CNN chose him to front a show like this is a mystery. I attempted to watch this mess on Saturday. I couldn’t do it. His interview of Dr. Tyson (a brilliant man) was embarassing. Sheer buffoonery. I will be taking Meena’s advice and sending CNN a nice note.
Where are the really funny yet INTELLIGENT comics? Dave Chappelle – where are you dude?
Dave Chappelle – where are you dude?
Do realize how often pimp skits have been performed on his show and how he routinely used negative stereotypes for humor?
@ Huemanity
I was just about to raise my cup of lemon tea to my lips before I got to your last paragraph
I was laughing so hard it almost spilled…oh my.
Well, I couldn’t agree with your post more…and that’s not because I posted similiar sentiments on the earlier DL Hughley post.
It is because your post is so well worded and ties back into the most important cog in the wheel of progaming…..audience numbers.
DL is a comic who always goes for the safe, easy laugh. I don’t think he has the wits for more penetrating thoughts. It seems he is a bit ahead of putting on the fat lady suit. So he went for the pimp jokes.
Sadly, pimps have been glamorized in our community. Halloween is coming up, maybe a few of you have recieved invitations to dress up for “Players Balls” or the like. I hear young men refer to each other as pimps and players quite often on the streets of New York in an endearing way…not as often as n*****, but enough.
I think in the best of all possible worlds an Aaron McGruder or the like will get to helm a show…meaning a smart black person who appeals to white audiences, therefore IF black people don’t watch the show can survive.
Just tell me what I need to do to help get his show CANCELLED! The image of black people in America is the way it is now because of this kind of trash. You don’t see any other race of people putting themselves down like this on national tv just to make people laugh. Barack Obama has done to much to change the image of black men in this country. For this kind of comedy to be allowed on CNN at this time in our history is a disgrace and DL Hughley and CNN should be ashamed. He could have just showed a rerun of Amos and Andy and got the same effect. CNN should have been more responsible than this.
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Although many comedians use self-deprecating humor to avoid seeming arrogant or pompous, and to help the audience identify with them, it seems to me that this type of comedy is inappropriate when used by African-Americans. In my opinion it often works better when those from priviledged socio-economic backgrounds use it. In other words it is funny to put yourself down and your people down when in reality they are nowhere near that level of suffering but when you make fun out of a situation that is real and current for the majority of your people, who is laughing at who? It is precariously fine line to tread for any comedian
Amen, pioneervalleywoman. I thought the same exact thing when I saw the show. Anything for a laugh and money. DL, Damon Wayans and Chris Rock have just continuosly sold us out.
This type of nonsense has no place on a news network…..
the most notable thing about dl was that he liked to ridicule educated people. He didn’t seem to understand any of the answers he was given to the very questions he asked! He also wanted to bring everyone down a peg, by showing a disregard for their education and/or expertise, hence the ridiculous questions about baseball, etc. His behavior was the worst with Dr Tyson, obviously because hugley expects all black people to be EXACTLY like him, and if they differ, he will bring them back in line (or try, at least) via questions like ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’. He never let Dr Tyson finish a sentence. Disgraceful.
But thank you to the author of this blog, for making me aware that this person has a show on CNN, and of its content.
If I hear one more time that he only has a GED, I will smack him. He’s been using the same tired line for the past 10 years. He used to say this old line in his TV show he had also. I never thought he was funny and his second show was just as bad as the first one.