6/24/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: All in the Family- Lionel’s Engagement

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 The Jeffersons meet Lionel’s in-laws for the first time. This 1974 uncensored version explores the ongoing discussion of race relations.  Continue reading

5/28/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Betty Bowers – America’s Best Christian

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Betty Bower, America’s Best Christian is an award-winning parody with over 100,000 hits a week. Mrs. Betty Bowers will tell you how many shopping days  until the Apocalypse and offer advise to the biblically uniformed. Continue reading

5/13/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Mulignans

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Brooklyn favorite and budding dramedy maven Shaka King got invited to Park City, Utah’s 2015 Sundance Film Festival with his unruffled humor layered in gutsy slurs. Mulignans borrows from the world of New York gangster flicks to confront unequal portrayals in Hollywood. Director King portrays social roles and race through the comic lens in a shocking, but funny race reversal. Continue reading

5/6/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Men On Film- In Living Color

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Men on… (colloquially known as “Men on Film”) is the umbrella title for a series of comedy sketches that appeared in episodes of the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. The sketch featured two gay cultural critics, Blaine Edwards (Damon Wayans) and Antoine Merriweather (David Alan Grier), commenting on aspects of popular culture, including movies, art and television.  Continue reading

4/22/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

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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