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"Chocolate News" tackles all the stereotypical nonsense with an African-American perspective and the un-PC show takes it all on: Everything and everyone is fair game.
The series stars David Alan Grier as the acerbic, all-knowing, in-studio host, who also portray multiple characters within the series' "investigative" reports, which are presented by a cast of three correspondents.
The critically lauded show featured a story on platinum-selling rap artist Fat Man (portrayed by Grier) with a hilarious, politically incorrect music video PSA promoting the "No Child Left Behind" act and a report on Poet Laureate Maya Angelou (also played by Grier) reciting a poem she has composed to celebrate Obama's nomination. The poem begins innocently enough and then takes a decidedly "Chocolate News" twist with lines such as, "You have a mocha choke hold on the American Dream..."
TV information
| Showing: | 2008 |
| Channel/Network: | N/A |
Cast
| David Alan Grier |
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