“Some folks need bracing, as my uncle used to say. “Dave Chappelle gets his message across but doesn’t offend people who don’t need to be offended,” Amos opines.
MICHAEL FROM GOODTIMES MOVIE
The movie also reunited him with his Roots costar, the late Madge Sinclair, who played Bell, the wife of his character, adult Kunta Kinte. Amos worked with Murphy on the 1988 classic Coming to America, in which he played Cleo McDowell, a businessman who owned a fast-food restaurant that too hilariously and closely resembled McDonald’s. He also adds that two of his favorite comedians - Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle - are able to use humor to communicate in a way he wishes he could have at their age. This is not gonna work.’ I just didn’t do it in the most diplomatic terms.”Īmos and Lear have since made amends, and Amos appeared in Lear’s 2019 special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times. So when I was being fed a line that was bulls–t, I wasn’t apprehensive at all about saying, ‘Uh-uh. We have a low bulls–t threshold in New Jersey. It was too often for Norman and the other writers to accept. I had innumerable arguments with the writers on the set in regards to my character’s demeanor, or what he would say in certain given situations. “When you allow other people to perpetuate your imagery, they will do so out of their own perceptions and minds, and it’s not always an accurate view,” he continues. But Good Times corrected that imagery with its crazy teenage kids, a studious son Michael, as portrayed by Ralph Carter, and a beautiful young daughter with unlimited mental potential, as portrayed by BernNadette Stanis as Thelma.” “It was the sort of family white viewers had read about in their own magazines with their slanted perceptions. “America and the world got to see what life could be like within a Black family on Good Times,” Amos shares. In that way, Amos observes, Good Times and Roots had more in common than him.
Roots, inspired by late author Alex Haley’s novel of the same name, drew a record 36.4 million viewers and remains one of the most watched television events of all time. And with Roots, I don’t think any of us involved in the production, particularly the network, were aware audiences would tune in to the extent that they did.” I had the chance to portray a father on a situational comedy that so many Black fathers and men of all races could identify with and appreciate.”Īmos adds that “up until that point, there had never been a complete Black family portrayed on television. “I’ve had a blessed career, and I attribute that to my faith in God and the fact that I was raised right. “The truth of it is, when I started acting, I never thought I would live this long, much less be an actor,” the 82-year-old tells TVLine with a chuckle.
MICHAEL FROM GOODTIMES TV
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