Marvin Sparks

For anyone new to FlashBack Friday , it is a time to draw for the archives in my brain in hope of bringing a smile to your face as we reminisce *cue "Awwwww"'s*. Out here for my 90s kids (term "80's baby" gets political). Black History Month, so what better way than dedicate today to a time when we had good black comdey shows written by black people. I don't know which wise-guy let black people write comedies back then because in the 00's that isn't the case. To all my non-black's I hope you can appreciate this post without thinking it's racist or not for you. 'Racist' seems to be any easy word to throw around when a race is stated (eg. MO B O, B ET...), but I never coined the term, black comedies was named by the broadcasters. It wasn't only for black people to watch, the same way something like Kumars At No. 42/Goodness Gracious Me or Men Behaving Badly/Absolutely Fabulous weren't created for the specific race it written...

From that Jason Lewis comedian breh, still. He's the breh who made the Black Boys ting. Won't say anything about that. For the record, I have no problem at all with good weave. Bad weave is like someone who doesn't take care of the hair so it isn't so much the weave I don't like in that instance, more the care of said weave. Comprendez?

Thanks to Man Like Kojo and lovely lady like Afryea. When I remembered October is the month we celebrate ‘Black History Month’ my initial thought was to write a profile on some guy who is dead and doesn’t have much significance on today. I then came to my senses and though forget celebrating the past whilst complaining "They don’t make ‘em like they used to," when there are plenty of good role models out there that aren’t rated as role models. I went back to the drawing board, put Bashy’s ’Black Boys’ on repeat for inspiration and came up with a shortlist consisting of people who I thought should be classed as modern day role models. To narrow down what was quite a long list of people whom I could get into contact with I decided to discard everyone involved directly in music, but still kept those who are in the business of entertainment. Many know the name or have seen the face. You may be able to match the name to the face and recite one of his famous jokes but hardly anyon...