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i did pitch it to robert townsend. he didn't wanna do it.n into fox, and we pitched a very bare bones idea, just a black sketch comedy show. we gave him a pilot. - [both] welcome to the homeboy shopping network. - everything past the idea is keenan's thing. - sometimes those little fellas don't like to come out. - well hell, can you blame 'em? i wish i could move back. (audience laughing) - it was an immediate hit out of the box, huge. you know, the younger audience ate it up. they were able to sort of merge the suburban white crowd with the black crowd and they all just started watching that show religiously. - yeah, keenan ivory wayans and he had his family. we had never seen that before. he had all the wayanses, you had the fly girls and they would come out and it was so much hip hop and it was dancing. you had to be in front of the tv because you never know what sketch was gonna come out. - now i'd like to talk about a film i've been anxiously awaiting to see, "great balls of fire." (audience laughing) - "in living color" was so breakthr
i did pitch it to robert townsend. he didn't wanna do it.n into fox, and we pitched a very bare bones idea, just a black sketch comedy show. we gave him a pilot. - [both] welcome to the homeboy shopping network. - everything past the idea is keenan's thing. - sometimes those little fellas don't like to come out. - well hell, can you blame 'em? i wish i could move back. (audience laughing) - it was an immediate hit out of the box, huge. you know, the younger audience ate it up. they were able to...
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townsend. well, you had a whole range of of operatives, people involved with this scandal, people like robert mcfarland, who had been the national security adviser, who was deeply involved in these orchestrated efforts to channel well, to go to the iranians to try to secure the release of hostages in exchange for the sale of these weapons systems. and then the money being channeled and used to support the contras. so mcfarland was a very, very important part of the of the the proceeding. fine. paul who was the assistant to oliver north who helped him destroy documents? she was, you know, a young woman who was kind of got lot of attention because she was she was attractive and the whole thing sort of played to the media's feeding frenzy on this overall situation. so, you know, there were many people who who appeared before this these proceedings who became quite prominent and gave important and ultimately the iran contra hearings and investigation revealed a great deal about the way the executiv
townsend. well, you had a whole range of of operatives, people involved with this scandal, people like robert mcfarland, who had been the national security adviser, who was deeply involved in these orchestrated efforts to channel well, to go to the iranians to try to secure the release of hostages in exchange for the sale of these weapons systems. and then the money being channeled and used to support the contras. so mcfarland was a very, very important part of the of the the proceeding. fine....
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townsend. well, you had a whole range of of operatives, people involved with this scandal, people like robert mcfarland, who had been the national security adviser, who was deeply involved in these orchestrated efforts to channel well, to go to the iranians to try to secure the release of hostages in exchange for the sale of these weapons systems. and then the money being channeled and used to support the contras. so mcfarland was a very, very important part of the of the the proceeding. fine. paul who was the assistant to oliver north who helped him destroy documents? she was, you know, a young woman who was kind of got lot of attention because she was she was attractive and the whole thing sort of played to the media's feeding frenzy on this overall situation. so, you know, there were many people who who appeared before this these proceedings who became quite prominent and gave important and ultimately the iran contra hearings and investigation revealed a great deal about the way the executiv
townsend. well, you had a whole range of of operatives, people involved with this scandal, people like robert mcfarland, who had been the national security adviser, who was deeply involved in these orchestrated efforts to channel well, to go to the iranians to try to secure the release of hostages in exchange for the sale of these weapons systems. and then the money being channeled and used to support the contras. so mcfarland was a very, very important part of the of the the proceeding. fine....
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with the mccarthy hearings lasting a little over a year, jim townsend. how many hearings were held? were they closed? were they open to the press, etc.? well, there are hundreds and hundreds of hearings, something like 690 hearings. incredible number of hearings were held during this period. they were a mix of of close and open hearings. early on, a lot of the hearings were held in private and the significance of this is that this allowed senator mccarthy see to after the conclusion of a hearing on a given day, to go out and hold a press conference and characterize what evidence was was given. he would often mischaracterize and exaggerate the findings that they had come up with in the hearing. but there was nobody really standing up and and opposing and contradicting him. and because the media and the public were not watching, it gave him a platform to continue essentially deceiving the american people and suggesting that he had found a lot of evidence of communists infiltrate fashion when in fact, he had not. well, toward the end of the first series of mccarthy hearings, edward r m
with the mccarthy hearings lasting a little over a year, jim townsend. how many hearings were held? were they closed? were they open to the press, etc.? well, there are hundreds and hundreds of hearings, something like 690 hearings. incredible number of hearings were held during this period. they were a mix of of close and open hearings. early on, a lot of the hearings were held in private and the significance of this is that this allowed senator mccarthy see to after the conclusion of a...