Pioneers of Television — S04E03 — Breaking Barriers

00:00:07 Come on, let's get some black people in here!

00:02:26 You can't do comedy, there's no Asians in comedy.

00:04:49 But, Dad, I told Christine I was getting a Gordon Gartrell.

00:07:06 with it all day."

00:09:26 and "The Electric Company."

00:11:37 with your mom

00:13:34 and you don't have make-up for every skin

00:15:44 But for Asians, the image of Asians,

00:18:14 by their government as "enemy non-aliens."

00:20:44 I've been looking all around.

00:23:06 as a vehicle for comedian Margaret Cho.

00:25:13 on an Asian American family.

00:27:35 And the only person allowed to make jokes

00:29:51 and now he's stuck, because he wasn't expecting that.

00:31:58 Thank you very much.

00:34:08 From its beginnings in the late 1940s,

00:36:43 And rightfully so...

00:38:58 We know they're heroic crime fighters.

00:40:59 My mother said, "Amos 'n' Andy is coming on, you go outside.

00:43:35 of carbonaceous opaque material.

00:45:48 You know, I loved that,

00:47:47 Ballpoint pens are not for writing.

00:50:16 Let's hear it for Black Death!

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