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Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Running Scared ft. Wyatt Cenac

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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This week Jon and James are joined by special guest Wyatt Cenac to review the 1986 film “Running Scared.” The film follows two Chicago cops as they chase down a drug dealer. “Running Scared” stars Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal, and is directed by Peter Hyams. Produced by Melisa D. Monts Executive produced by Brett Boham, Joe Cilio, and Alex Ramsey Listen to Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood] Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD]: https://twitter.com/blackmenpodcast https://www.instagram.com/blackmenpodcast BUY BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/black-men-can-t-jump-in-hollywood SUPPORT BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BMCJ BLACK MEN CAN'T JUMP [IN HOLLYWOOD] IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/black-men-cant-jump-in-hollywood/exclusive-content Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Forever. I wanted to talk about 80s comedies because they're just such a certain it's just it's just a

0:17.1

it's just a such a unique brand of comedy that every time I watch it it's like it feels familiar and then it's also I think

0:25.2

probably the most problematic decade of of comedy move just in general like as a

0:31.7

as a genre of, you know, there's like certain people who are allowed to make comedies and movies and they made the same movie.

0:40.0

Yeah, I mean I would also say the era of blackface was right.

0:45.0

Nope, no, no, no, no.

0:47.0

No, okay.

0:48.0

80 comedy, then minstrel's then the original birth of an nation.

0:57.0

Okay, all right, well, we know where Bray stands in terms of,

1:04.7

but you know, where the line is for Bray.

1:06.8

It's funny though because there is an 80s black-based comedy.

1:10.3

That's how, that shows you where the 80s were at the time where they were still like right they were doing everything

1:15.2

That's for us to make a but they have that movie that movie soul man which people have asked us to review

1:20.8

Even though it starts white man, but it is about a white man who is a black face

1:25.8

so that he could get into college. He literally, yeah, it's like, I guess when people really started

1:31.4

to zone in on affirmative action and how that wasn't unfair to white people.

1:36.5

Well, and it was also, I feel like, very loosely based on that book Black Like Me, where the white

1:48.4

anthropologist goes and like takes some like skin darkening products

1:53.4

so he could go live as a black person in like the 50s or something like that.

1:58.4

Wait, I don't know about this book.

2:00.8

Yeah, what? It's, it's, I'm looking this up, right?

2:06.0

It's a non-fic, this is a person did this.

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