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Even more reason to see him. He'll be overjoyed with your success.
C'mon, Mommy. Daddy hasn't been impressed with anything I've ever done. From winning my fifth grade Spelling Bee to the present.
Peerless, last time, go see your father.
I'm doing okay. Been reading about your show, it's all over everywhere. I watched it's all over everywhere. I watched it once. I thought you said there would be no buffoonery.
You going to attack me too. The show is a hit. Aren't you happy for me?
Of course I'm happy for you. You've worked very hard for your success.
Yes I have, very hard. Has Daddy called?
No.
Not at all?
You know how your Daddy is.
If and when he calls, please don't forget to ask him if he's seen Mantan.
I won't forget. When are you coming up here to see your mother?
Soon.
I'm happy for all of us. It's just we have a great responsibility now. The pressure is on.
Pressure? DeLa, you don't know what the hell real pressure is. SHEEETT!!! This is lightstuff. Now when you scramblin' out on the street in da January winter and the hawk is talkin' to you with NO money and NO prospects of money anytime soon, now that there is some pressure.
I didn't mean it to sound like that.
That's the way it came out. Let me ask you one question. Have you ever been in want, in need your entire privileged life?
Now I'm privileged?! Why? Because I didn't grow up on food stamps and welfare? Because I didn't call home a cardboard box? No, I never ever went to bed hungry and I'm proud of it, too. Whoever told you that living in poverty earns you somekind of badge of honor flat out lied to you.
The point I'm trying to make is that this is a blessing. It's going to be fun doing this show and we should all look at it that way.
Can I kiss you too?
Naw. I'll take the zero.
You feel good, not nervous?
I feel fine.
Not nervous? Relaxed?
Sloan, will you take your boss out of here so I can get ready.
So they can be on TV.
You sound like the media.
This is nothing. It will blow over by tomorrow.
Same thing Giuliani said.
Tomorrow it will be all about cruelty to animals or some sex scandal. Besides, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
No joke. Serious.
Hope the same thing doesn't happen to me. That's some big shoes to fill.
In time.
What are you? A man or a mouse? Are you a punk? Punking out on me?
No.
You getting scared because some people don't like what you are doing?
Yo, DeLa, they tried to lynch my black ass up in dat piece.
You've made it from the guttermost to the uppermost. Don't you know you should never let them see you sweat. Y'knowwhatI'msayin'?
Yeah.
And now is definitely not the time to bitch up.
You shouldn't even be mad at me over Sloan.
What you did is dead wrong.
Oh, is it? Buddy boy, in this business if people don't produce, they get fired.
Sloan is the hardest working person I've ever met.
Let me ask you a question, if I may. How do you think she got the job in the first place? I don't mean to burst your bubble, Mantan the Marvelous, but Sloan is an opportunity.
I don't believe it.
Do I have to spell it out for you? In fact, go ask Sloan yourself.
Mantan, we got a show to tape.
My name is Manray, goddamnit.
Kook and the Gang, it's Manray. Let's do the taping. You go back to your dressing room, get dressed and blacken up.
Yes, your name?
He, I'm Mona.
Hi, Mona.
I perfectly understand where you're coming from. As a minority I can relate to your struggle also. But I think you should give us all a chance. We want this pilot to be successful just as much as you. Please don't be so quick to judge us based only on our whiteness.
Oh, is that what I'm doing?
This thing was rigged, the deck was stacked, the fix was in. Could Don King be near? Good thing Sloan had my back. She's my rock. This was going to be a whole lot of work.
David, I appreciate your comments. Anybody got an ideas? Everybody just talk out loud.
I've always liked the format of Rowan and Martin's "LAUGHIN."
How was it?
Why didn't you tell me about this staff meeting?
Nobody told me anything.
What good are you if you don't tell me stuff like this?
It wasn't my fault. If I would have known, I would have known.
Manray!
Manray!
How did you know?
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
How can this be? You and me at the same time, the exact same thought. It's scary.
The idea was out there in the universe. Now what?
Manray was under our nose the whole time.
Do you know how you will use him?
Not yet, but this thing will never get made.
You lost me.
Dunwitty wants a Coon show. And that's what I'm going to give him, it's going to be so racist, so negative, he won't have the balls to put it on the air. Hence I'll prove my point.
What point is that?
The point being that him, the networks don't want Black people on television unless they are buffoons.
Sounds risky to me.
You getting cold feet?
I'm in till the end.
Good. I'm going to need your support.
Can't you just quit? Walk away?
And lose out on my money? The only way I get paid is if I get fired. And that's what I intend to do.
Maybe something happened to them. Maybe they're lying in an alley bleed to death.
Manray better not be bleeding to death. I need him. After we're done he can do whatever he wants to do, until then, he's ours.
Hello.
This is Cheeba.
You okay?
I feel like somebody hit me upside da head with a sledgehammer.
What is your problem?
My problem is MANTAN THE NEW MILLENIUM MINSTREL SHOW.
Why did you even come up with that shit if you didn't want it made?
It was the principle. Dunwitty had to be enlightened. I was making a point. I take pride in my work. Plus, I already told you I wasn't gonna walk away from my money.
Fuck da money. Why do through all this effort? Why? Are you looking for love from Dunwitty? For respect? Dunwitty and his likes don't give a goddamn about you. So now what are you gonna do?
Even if money wasn't an issue, Dunwitty will still go ahead without me and that could be more dangerous.
What's the chances of MANTAN being picked up?
I wouldn't bet against it. My Negroidal ass is stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Like I said, all this for some twisted, distorted sense of principal. Dunwitty, he just tolerates your Negroidal ass, he doesn't respect it.
Good morning, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Pierre Delacroix. I'm running things and this here is my assistant Sloan Hopkins.
Hello.
I've never worked with any of you and you've never worked with me so we'll be starting from scratch. I'm a fair person, a straight shooter and I don't hold my tongue. Everybody up in here should know I had nothing to do with you being hired.