Be sure and see the excitng part lll of this series, in which the mayor fight wit' her po po to take a computer home, then gets beat down on the street like a mangy dog, and finally shows up the next day in a "I-just-got-rear-ended" neckbrace. http://podblanc.com/index.php?q=node/16639 Look like a meeting of the the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge. I used to love to watch Amos N' Andy constant reruns in 1958 through about 1961. My maternal grandmother said I would laugh and laugh. Maybe it was cause I had a negro nanny and could "get" the jokes.
Amos was naïve but honest, hard-working and (after his 1935 marriage to Ruby Taylor) a dedicated family man. Andy was more blustering, with overinflated self-confidence. Andy, being a dreamer, tended to let Amos do most of the work. Their lodge leader, the Kingfish, was always trying to lure the two into get-rich-quick schemes. Other characters included John Augustus "Brother" Crawford, an industrious but long-suffering family man; Henry Van Porter, a social-climbing real estate and insurance salesman; Frederick Montgomery Gwindell, a hard-charging newspaperman; William Lewis Taylor, the well-spoken, college-educated father of Amos's fiancee; and "Lightning", a slow-moving Stepin Fetchit-type character. The Kingfish's catch phrase "Holy mackerel!" soon entered the American lexicon. The story arc of Andy's romance (and subsequent problems) with the Harlem beautician Madame Queen entranced...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_'n'_Andy