Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle: 'Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular'

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The IFC comedy series 'Sherman's Showcase' uses a parody of 'Soul Train' as its launch point, because 'Soul Train' packed so much under its tent. Most importantly, the songs exist for them as music pieces first and foremost -- and then, as comedy. 'Sherman' stars and creators, Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, talk about that and more in discussing the upcoming 'Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular' -- in June! on 'The Treatment'.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.4	Welcome to the treatment from my house on a Saturday.
0:17.7	It's Elvis Mitchell.
0:19.0	My guests have brought us the first season of the
0:23.1	Here to Four Unknown Sherman Showcase. It's returning on June 10th, June 19th for the Sherman
0:29.6	Showcase Black History Month spectacular in June. I'm joined by the creators and stars of Sherman
0:36.0	Showcase by Shere Salah Houdin, and Biala Riddle.
0:38.9	Guys, thanks so much for being here. Thanks for doing this.
0:41.2	Thank you so much for having us. This is a real treat, real honor.
0:44.4	I've dreamed of coming on the treatment forever. So this is a dream come true.
0:50.0	Well, we got to get you guys some new dreams.
0:53.0	Elvis, we've had to you guys some new dreams.
0:57.9	Elvis, we've had to change our dreams so many times, man.
0:59.0	We can't change them again.
1:04.3	Well, you turned June into Black History Month, so I think we can't ask any more dream-wise of you than that.
1:10.3	But I guess I want to start this up by asking, did you guys choose doing a take on Soul Train because it's basically, or at one point
1:12.3	it was all things to black people. It was a talk show. It was a game show. It was political.
1:19.1	It dealt with culture and politics. Is that one of the things that made this basically a
1:26.5	fait accompli for you?
1:28.2	Well, I'll say this.
1:29.3	I don't think that that was actually the plan at all.
1:32.5	If anything, this came out of, we had been performing song
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