Chocolate News (2008) DVDRip XviD-almund0

Chocolate News
Airdates: 15th October - 17th December 2008, Comedy Central

Chocolate News was a satirical news show hosted and head written by David Alan Grier in 2008 with an emphasis on African American culture. The show aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 PM on Comedy Central as a lead-in to their other news satire programs, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. The show also aired in Canada on The Comedy Network. On March 10, 2009 a Comedy Central representative confirmed that Chocolate News would not be renewed for a second season.

Chocolate News aired satirical pieces and sketches about current events and news stories. The show satirized these stories with a focus on how Grier thinks typical African Americans view them. In an interview with the New York Times, Grier asked "Are you laughing with me because you get the joke, or am I giving you license to laugh at me in a derogatory, dehumanizing way?" When the series was first pitched to studio executives at NBC, they were initially reluctant to produce and develop a pilot for the show due to the negative racial connotations associated with the term "Chocolate", It was only with the intervention of actors Martin Sheen and William Shatner that the studio decided to proceed with the pilot and eventually to commission the show. Sketches were directed by Rusty Cundieff, who directed most of the sketches on Dave Chappelle's Chappelle's Show.

Cast:
David Alan Grier as Himself
Tangie Ambrose as Alicia Sanders
Alphonso McAuley as Ronnie Tucker
Chris Tallman as Alan Boda
Jordan Peele as Kelvin Melvin

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