Back in the early 90s there was a popular BBC comedy sketch series called The Real McCoy. Hilarious! At least that’s how I remember it. Kind of a UK version of In Living Color, it poked fun at Caribbean (mainly Jamaican), African (mainly Nigerian) and Asian (mainly Indian) people in Britain in ways that only the young Britons of Caribbean, African and Asian descent who wrote and performed it, were able to. Hilarious, I tell you! Ah, them was the days…
Sadly, despite the show’s success, and the fact that some cast members moved on to other things or went on to launch solo careers, some more successful than others, black programming seemed to go out of the window after The Real McCoy went off the air in 1996. I dare not even spell out name of the BBC’s first Black sitcom that came on less than a...
Sadly, despite the show’s success, and the fact that some cast members moved on to other things or went on to launch solo careers, some more successful than others, black programming seemed to go out of the window after The Real McCoy went off the air in 1996. I dare not even spell out name of the BBC’s first Black sitcom that came on less than a...
- 6/4/2010
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
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