Comments on: Somebodies: A Show About (Black) Nothing

By: Deen

Deen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:21:00 +0000

Allow me to respectfully disagree with your blog please.

I think anyone with two eyes can recognize the stereotype characters, i.e. the Black Power dude with the Mohawk, the Loud Next Door Neighbor (which is true by the way, maybe not for you but for many of us), and others.

But you also notice how the brothers are combating the stereotypes and confronting them head on.

Very much in a "hey we're regular everyday people who work and bull@#!% like everybody" and not an all black people can fit into a certain category type of way.

The show has been cracking me up like crazy anyway, I hope you can find a way to enjoy it. Who would you rather support, bland tasteless tyler perry or some fresh thoughtful everyman comedy from a young upstart?

By: POH

POH — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:17:00 +0000

I liked the second ep more than the 1st. Thembi you are dead on with the stereotype characters. I hope they get more into stories of his college friends and those kind of hi jinx.

His girlfriend cracks me up. I just saw her in Family That Preys.

There has got to be more development in the characters beyond stand up comedy one liners. I always give a new show 4 times to be funny; so far they are 1-1

By: Hampton06

Hampton06 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:13:00 +0000

i saw the film the show is based on and it killed at the afi film festival. it was just a slice of life comedy. we don’t get many of those. i was impressed.

i did not watch the show and now i am scared.

By: Reginald Dorsey

Reginald Dorsey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:33:00 +0000

I actually liked it. The first episode was guffaw-funnier than the second. I think the southerness of it was very, very apparent, and that makes it sort of unique in terms of the history of black sitcoms. Black southern humor tends to be more emotional and raw than black northern humor, which I find somewhat more subtle and kind of urbane.

Interestingly, Hadji's comedic acting is more in line with the latter, while pretty much everyone else on the show is in the camp of the former.

My guess is that the first couple of episodes are basically going to be retellings of the funniest moments he experienced while in school in Georgia. Then after that he'll have to start trying to flip things (the tired comico-criticsims of the benighted masses) and come up with new ideas.