Comedy Central struck a vein of pure delicious hot cocoa with the latest from David Alan Grier and his new satirical series, “Chocolate News”
"Chocolate News" star David Alan Grier - new show on Comedy Central... The Highlands - Hollywood, CA, USA © Lee Roth / RothStock / PR Photos
"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..."
Other Grier absurdist reports during the series' inaugural season include: unmasking the shocking news that the super group KISS was originally black; "Fat Black Momma Syndrome," an investigation into the recent trend in Hollywood films of excessive "fat black mama" characters; "Vitahood," a report on Thelonias, founder of the "Jackie Robinson Empowerment Agency" who has devised a way to get drug addicts healthy by mixing vitamins in their illegal drugs; and "Tranny Wreck," a report on Candelabra, a cross-dressing transsexual who was once an aspiring NBA player but now spends his time competing in transgender beauty pageants.
“Chocolate News” airs every Wednesday at 10:30 pm on Comedy Central.
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