:24:03
Dela, my man, I'm glad
you got your mind right.
:24:05
Well, it's right, tight,
and ready to delight.
:24:07
I'm with this.
:24:09
Mr. Dunwitty, please sit back...
:24:11
and allow me
to paint a picture.
:24:13
I'm all ears,
and my nose is a close second.
:24:16
Now, I have been doing
a lot of soul-searching.
:24:21
And, once again, you're right.
:24:23
My previous work has been
all surface, superficial.
:24:27
It's a thing of the past.
:24:28
I've never really dug deep
into my pain as a Negro.
:24:32
Hey, those things are
hard to look at sometimes.
:24:34
Yes, yes, yes.
:24:36
And as Mark Twain
so fully understood...
:24:38
satire is the way...
:24:41
if we are ever to live
side by side...
:24:43
in peace and harmony.
:24:45
So, my show
that I am pitching...
:24:47
is about
promoting racial healing.
:24:50
Healing is great.
I like this. Give me more.
:24:54
Now, I know you are
familiar with minstrel shows.
:24:56
They came about in the 1840s.
:25:00
It was a variety show
in which the talent...
:25:02
was singing, dancing,
telling jokes, doing skits...
:25:04
Iike "ln Living Color."
:25:06
Right, that was dope.
:25:07
I ask you,
when was the last time...
:25:10
there was a great variety show
on the air? Carol Burnett?
:25:13
Carol was the bomb, yo.
:25:14
"Hee Haw?" "Kenan and Kel?"
:25:17
Yo, that's
the stupidest shit on TV.
:25:19
So I say
let's take this form...
:25:22
this very American tradition
of entertainment...
:25:25
into the 21st century,
the new millennium.
:25:28
What's the name of this show?
We need something to sell.
:25:32
"Mantan: The New Millennium
Minstrel Show!"
:25:38
"Mantan: The New Millennium..."
:25:41
I really, really like this.
I'm gettin' a boner.
:25:45
The Swanson Johnson
is getting hard.
:25:48
You know what I'm saying?
I'm feelin' this shit.
:25:51
I like this.
No, give me more.
:25:54
It's gonna take a lot
of courage and backbone...
:25:56
on the part of CNS
to get this thing on the air.
:25:59
Don't worry about that.
That's my job.