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Quinta Brunson blasts Friends for having no black characters

posted a year ago by leader (1959)
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Saturday Night Live host Quinta Brunson decided to call out the lack of black characters in Friends during her opening monologue on the show.

During her opening monologue the Abbott Elementary creator explained what her show was like, drawing some parallels with that famous sitcom Friends, only with one rather clear difference.

She said: "It's a network sitcom like, say, Friends, except instead of being about a group of friends, it's about a group of teachers.

"Instead of New York, it's in Philadelphia, and instead of not having black people, it does!"

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Do you find her criticism valid?

[–] ccr1633 (1523) a year ago

Black actors instead should be thankful that they had little to do with this unfunny show about boring yuppies blubbering about their mundane, first-world problems.

[–] jk90us (7142) 5 months ago

You mean the most successful sitcom ever made?

Any actor would have killed to be part of it.

[–] ccr1633 (1523) 4 months ago

Is it? I mean the sitcom featuring an insufferable array of whiney yuppie asswipes named Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe, and Ross. Asswipes who, admittedly, much of the USA apparently aspires to be. We must be talking about different shows because at first glance you don't appear to be a moron.

[–] ChipDouglas (1607) a year ago

Since Quinta is a comedian first, I think she was just trying to make a joke that is somewhat relevant. (people were bitching about diversity in Friends about a year ago)

I don't know her as a person so I can't say for sure, but she created a pretty smart show completely different from Friends.

[–] davodikum (6197) a year ago

Retroactive fake outrage is pointless. So is adding black characters for the sake of. Diversity is not a quota.

[–] jk90us (7142) 5 months ago

Tell that to studios these days.

They are pushing race/gender/sexuality like it is a quota, to the extent that they are telling their teams to not hire or promote straight white men.

This has been proven in news reports and leaks.

A Disney exec was recently fired for admitting on undercover camera that white men aren’t being promoted.

The WGA has released documents to their members promoting the hiring of diverse and gay writers, as well as mandatory inclusion of gay and diverse characters in all projects.

[–] ccr1633 (1523) 4 months ago

I agree. Now why would an obviously perceptive, intelligent fellow such as yourself be a fan of a show like Friends? The characters in the show are exactly the types who would presently be pushing diversity agendas from their lofts in Manhattan and Los Angeles.

[–] Tam87 (1179) 5 months ago

I've noticed a lot of black people tend to have a problem with the show Friends. They target this show more than other ones, I see it on social media a lot. I think they don't like it because it showcases the type of white people they don't relate to or particularly like - preppie, upper middle class types.

The rules in the 70s-90s seemed to be for blacks and whites to have their own shows. It made more sense. Stuff like Fresh Prince and Cosby and Hanging With Mr Cooper. Does this retard not know this?

I feel sorry for the makers of Friends who are basically being accused of being racist. It's unfair to slander people like that. Quintana should be asking why a black producer never created their own shitty version of Friends (which imo was a mediocre show).

[–] leader (1959) 5 months ago

> Quintana should be asking why a black producer never created their own shitty version of Friends (which imo was a mediocre show).

They tried it just flopped.

[–] Tam87 (1179) 5 months ago

Well, the onus is on them to create their own films and tv shows if they're upset about a lack of diversity.

You can't get angry when white men create something and don't include you in it. I saw a recent video of an 80 year old George Lucas at a screening, and he was visibly upset because the wokesters there were slandering him on stage about a lack of diversity in the original star wars film from 1977. That is tragic.

If you don't create your own stories or shows or films, then you don't get to dictate to the people who do about a lack of representation of your race.

[–] Guitar King (4890) 5 months ago

The black version of Friends was called Living Single. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106056/

[–] Tam87 (1179) 3 months ago

Was it as shit as it sounds?

[–] jk90us (7142) 5 months ago

> I've noticed a lot of black people tend to have a problem with the show Friends.

Jealousy that they haven’t been able to create a show with the mass appeal of Friends that has a black lead.

Closest they got was The Cosby Show, but even it didn’t come near the success of Friends.

And remind me again what happened with the star of that show?

[–] Tam87 (1179) 4 months ago

I don't think it's jealousy, there's plenty of all black sitcoms that have done well. It makes no sense to target Friends when you've had Cheers, Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will & Grace, Two and a Half Men - the list goes on and on of huge sitcoms with all white casts, and I've never seen the same level of scrutiny put on those shows for not being diverse.

Like I said, I'd guess they target Friends because they don't like certain types of white people and Friends is what I'd call a typical upper middle class preppie sitcom. All the popular preppie types in my all-white high school loved Friends. It's the same reason why Taylor Swift gets a lot of bashing as well. It's not something they relate to, so they attack it.

[–] distroy (274) 5 months ago

She sounds like the typical black racist.

[–] Sparky (2587) 5 months ago

The human tendency toward tribalism can only exist outside the white race. Don't forget it.

It's almost as if since they expect whites to not contain human traits that they see us as superhuman eh? At least according to their definitions and experiences.

[–] Megan254 (304) 5 months ago

I haven't read all these responses, but I forget her name, but what about the actress who plays Charlie? Or Gabrielle Union?

[–] jk90us (7142) 5 months ago

They were guests. Brunson is babbling about not having a regular black character.

Yet I notice she’s fine with them not having a regular Asian, Indian, Hispanic, Arab or other character.

Putting her race above others is kind of racist.

[–] jk90us (7142) 5 months ago

Who cares?

Friends is one of the most successful sitcoms ever.

Maybe being all white is one reason why.

Did any show on BET surpass Friends? No.

Has Abbott Elementary? Hell no.

[–] blue1981 (7740) 4 months ago

I wonder what pisses black people off so much about white people on Friends but give a pass to Seinfeld.