Series

Chocolate News

2008 · 1 season · 10 episodes · Ended · Comedy Central

Comedy

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Chocolate News is a satirical news show hosted and head written by David Alan Grier with an emphasis on African American culture. The show aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 PM on Comedy Central as a lead-in to their other news satire programs, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. The show also aired in Canada on The Comedy Network. On March 10, 2009 a Comedy Central representative confirmed that Chocolate News would not be renewed for a second season.

Episodes

  • S01E01Episode 12008-10-1530m

    David Alan Grier talks about the death of hip-hop and how it lost its mind; Maya Angelou talks about the poems she would read if either Barack Obama or John McCain would be elected; Chocolate News mourns the death of one of their, Roger Dunn, one of their investigative reporters and only white correspondent; the N-Word Peace Treaty breaks out into violence; and Chocolate News looks back at Luscious Trenton Johnson, the first black man to run for President.

  • S01E02Episode 22008-10-2230m

    David Alan Grier gives a message to white America about electing a black president; thugs in the hood deal with the national gas shortage; boosting black participation in professional sports; racist voting machine.

  • S01E03Episode 32008-10-2930m

    David tells famous black people what to do, until November 5th, to help get Barack Obama elected; a look into the Denegrofication Institue, where white family members can send their black acting family members; Donald Mayfield is profiled, the first African-American to appear in interracial adult films; Chocolate News investigates the phenomenon of "Fat Black Momma Syndrome"; and David hosts a roundtable discussion on who is more qualified to be President.

  • S01E04Episode 42008-11-0530m

    David talks about Barack Obama being elected President and what he can do so he doesn't mess up for future black candidates; the story of Peanut Wiggins, a volunteer poll worker in Florida; the Ku Klux Klan talks about why they voted for Barack Obama; jazz musician Poots Walker, who can play the trumpet with his backside, is profiled; and minorities debate which is now the most oppressed.

  • S01E05Episode 52008-11-1230m

    Thelonius Brown talks about how he's helping crack addicts become healthier; the shocking trend of African-American children disappearing, form the celebrities who adopted them, is investigated; Harland Mathers is profiled, a death row inmate who's last meal was an all you can eat buffet, that has lasted for over two years; and a look into how hockey has quadrupled it's African-American viewer ship.

  • S01E06Episode 62008-11-1930m

    Johnny Tapp, the principal of a high school, explains why he suspended the abstinence only program for a program that encourages the students to have sex; David Alan Grier learns the shocking truth about his family tree; Terry Slater is interviewed, a man who does reenactments of a slavery uprising; Laron and Dan Wainscott-Merkeson are profiled, conjoined twins, one Caucasian and the other African American.

  • S01E07Episode 72008-11-2630m

    Controversial rapper Fat Man is profiled, as he starts production on his Nickelodeon series; Darnell Royce, the creator of Ghetto Beat Down is interviewed, to talk about how he his being pushed out of the street fight video business; Thelonius Brown talks about his newest venture, exporting water from Africa; and a round-table discussion is held about why there isn't more retarded roles for African American actors.

  • S01E08Episode 82008-12-0330m
  • S01E09Episode 92008-12-1030m
  • S01E10Episode 102008-12-1730m

    LeRon Watkins is interviewed about how he'll turn around the prestigious African-American magazine Jet; James Green, a member of the Barack Obama transition team, tells how American people can get a job in the Obama Administration; a round table discussion is held about what the biggest story of 2008 is.

Cast