another non-story about the never-ending “breakthrough”
Oh, when will those reactionary liberals acknowledge that America in 2009 is not America in 1959? Probably never.
In the blink of an eye, late-night TV is shifting from a white men’s club to the start of a rainbow coalition.
Wanda Sykes’ weekly Fox comedy show debuts 11 p.m. EST Saturday, followed by George Lopez’s four-night-a-week talk show on TBS, starting 11 p.m. EST Monday. They join “The Mo’Nique Show” on BET.
Lopez is counting on an audience hungry for something different — as in the first Hispanic to host a nighttime talk show on a major network, cable or broadcast.
Sykes is the first black late-night host since the late 1990s, when celebrities Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Keenan Ivory Wayans tried and failed to follow in Arsenio Hall’s successful 1989-94 footsteps.
Wha?! You mean there have been black talk show hosts before? 20 years ago even?
Who knew? I wonder, are there any popular black actors? Singers maybe?