Coming To America 2 w/ Eddie Murphy is coming according to John Amos | Sway's Universe

children all right you did the wrong thing look blood I'm running this house and I'm not gonna have our kids talking to me that way Jenny as long as you live in under my roof you ain't gonna do but one thing and that's Oh baby who says they gotta live in the euro Jenny Oh what you're trying to say jr. I'm saying maybe I ought to leave son it's rough out there you'd be back home for your suitcase stop Rocking oh man oh man that to me that one of the most classic most important most impactful most enlightening empathetic Scholz ever created absolutely was good times and the player is the cast of good times will forever be etched in our hearts I didn't get a chance to go up with my father but in many ways I grew up with a father because of James have been senior played by the legendary John Amos who's here with us today John Amos is here yeah my name is Wade Calloway I just want to say my name so I can say I said it to you so let me say it one time sweet I never met anybody named sway so I'll support I did well I did well I hated that you went to work on that pipeline and I never got a chance to see I always wondered when you left that show good times was it to do roots or what what why did you leave what I left because I was told my services were no longer needed okay because I had become a quote disruptive element and they didn't in other words when I I didn't have the diploma sit I'd like to think I've cultivated over the last 10 to 15 years yeah and being born in Newark raised in East arms Jersey stand up voicing my differences with the script that weren't acceptable to the creative staff I mean the writers got tired having the lives threatened over jokes but what kind of discrepancies because we thought oh no the truth of it was when the show first started we had no african-american writers on the show okay and some of the attitudes that they had written as per my character and frankly for some of the other characters as well caused me to say we can't do this you can't do that and they said what do you and they'd go on about their credits and all the rest of them and I just look at each and every one unless it won't even black uh-huh that just doesn't happen in the community you don't think that way we don't we don't act that way we don't let our children do that so I was laying down what I thought were good rules to make this show stronger and better they didn't agree with me and after a few confrontations not physical confrontations initially though I did offer I'll go if they want to go that way no no Jersey Jersey nor boys I was younger and stronger at that time you know yeah anyway we had our differences so Norman said he called me one day and said John I think is I share two things with you the good news is the show's been picked up for another 24 episodes which was a given because we were in the top 10 and the bad news is you won't be with us I chose the long long pause nor could you still there and I said yeah Norma I'm still here but I wasn't still there uh-huh I wasn't no longer with the show so in time everything smoothed out and I got other jobs I thought everybody was saying man that's the end of your career and I said well it's in my career anyway if I got to do something I don't like to do I don't want to do it uh-huh so it's all right it's all right but it all worked out can you explain to us then how television works because it was our understanding that the original Lionel from The Jeffersons Michael Evans created that show he helped he was one of the creators of good times so then how is it that you create this show and then you're not a writer because you said there weren't any black writers on the show actually there was Eric he created the show with another fine writer Eric Monty yeah and if you if you see the credits I think they ultimately gave him a credit but Hollywood is infamous for that where you write something and unless you know your way around the block and you've got a good legal team behind you you can get ripped to shreds and get paid off and here take take a ham sandwich into coke and disappear meanwhile hundreds of millions of dollars are being made by wiser people and so I learned my way around the block and I decided early on let's say about 20 years ago to write my own project and tour with it a one-man show I said no I don't have to split the money you know he said me and my alter egos it worked out pretty well the show's called up what is the show called Joe that's my sister over there hi Joe how you doing Joe I'm Joe a mess over there ladies educator prominence I might have national prominence so whenever I think I've got something that's gonna be appeal to kids I've run it by her to get the litmus test and she says yeah that'll work oh don't forget it don't do that you know I don't or I do okay so the one the name of the one-man show Halley's Comet so named because it's a retrospective of a 76 year old man's life actually 86 when I wrote the show I said wouldn't it be fascinating to write a show and to appear in a one-man show who the show is directly tied to the appearance of Halley's Comet he's born and he sets on his father's shoulders the first time he sees the comet at the age of 10 76 years later he's now 86 about to make his way up to a mountaintop where he first viewed the comet on his dad shoulders years ago so the show is really a retro spectrum of his life the children he's had the the three sons he's lost in various world conflicts including Korea Vietnam and the second world war and I become each of those sons during those conflicts but he also addresses all the issues that have become commonplace now for us it miss what century is just 21st century 21st century yeah bananas and as we all live and get older we realize history repeats itself so we're seeing a lot of the same things that this old man in fiction and it is a real human being have witnessed since my birth happening again does the name Trump ring a bell yeah nuff said nuff said that's it you drop the mic yeah just having a Ms lady to jump hey can you do me one of the greatest lines you ever delivered I got a rough idea okay behold oh are you going genetic um I thought you wanted to learn from good times behold the only thing greater than yourself referring to of course the moon and the stars as Kunta Kinte said to his his his infant child as he held it aloft yeah that's what I wanted to know was it a reference to God or was it a reference to the moves a reference to to to God and his works uh-huh yeah Wow and that is the only thing greater than man greater than yourself good times roots coming to America West Wing Wesley die hard to we're in die hard but these shows kind of - I might want to work with Bruce again drop zoom a job boom but let me know let me know where I can drop it your work man has just been revolutionary innocence Thank You chef you know is very extremely enlightening you showed the world what it's like to be in a black household we all related to this I was little Michael my brother was JJ my sister was Thelma you know our mother was Esther Rolle you know was that when you pit rolls was that or are you cognizant to that or you just were you just taking the job no I I was cognizant of the responsibility I had portray a father figure like my father yeah Johnny I'm a senior and it's ironic but I wasn't raised by my dad we didn't really get to know each other until I was about 19 years old when I started college but I had the last time I had seen him prior to that I was 2 years old so I have vague memories but he was he was strong yeah he was strong mentally physically in every other way imaginable and I fashioned myself after him and the way he approached his problems the way he confronted people who wanted to belittle him for any reason he'd be diplomatic to a point but if he wanted to go outside no problem cuz he hit box too and he did much better than I did as a fighter uh-huh so I fashioned myself after him and I wanted to I wanted to present a figure on television with so many impressionable young people watching the show that I would be proud that they would try to emulate you know as opposed to another thug type would his underwear showing and the rest of it so yeah yeah that's that's where James Evans he came out of the truth yep my mom my grandfather Clive Waters like I knew you were real because he was just like that too you helped him in many ways govern our family because we felt yeah in many ways he was a man just like that you know coming to America became such a cult classic did you did you look that experienced that's it I'm sure it keeps reliving itself for you right well they're talking about the sequel yeah I'm talking about coming to America too and I'm hopeful that I get a chance to work with for my money one two great comedic icons of our generation and maybe of all time and with Eddie Murphy uh-huh it's a joy when you go to work you get up and you're looking forward to getting to the studio because you know you're gonna spend the day no matter what I mean it could be a funeral scene but you're gonna laugh anyway Eddie's got that kind of a gift I mean his timing is impeccable and that's the whole thing with comedy is timing and I've never seen anybody and I've worked with some I've worked with some pretty formidable comedic stars but never worked with anybody with the time in their dated Murphy has he's the word genius is thrown around so much it has no meaning anymore for my money but he is a true comedic genius and I'm just hopeful that I get a chance to work with him again in anything I'd do a Yellow Pages commercial with them if he asked Wow you have a gifted music mogul producer creator on that you walked in his room with somebody we all idolize and look up to who's worked with legends from a notorious b.i.g to the RZA the most death - I mean - Diddy - Jessa the list goes on easy mode we're going somewhere here after this oh you know I ain't trying to overdid this is this Josh oh I understand but what's this connection oh man we know each other Pauly my boy who lives upstate close to me manages John so whenever John comes up we connect even if we don't do nothing just like get together go get something to eat uh-huh you know like after this we leave here we go to Jersey so just I want this this is his show I just came in the corner sit oh I'm gonna man sitting next to the man Adam and I got you on camera it's cool but of all of the shows that you could have came and got on John is it's so important for you to do sways show very very important show so you it's one of the most important places you could have been this morning and the bay with you with suede that doubles the pleasure that was a fun 45 no I'm trying to hang out with y'all next time John I'm tacking a long brother book so what's the name of the book let's face it I mean our our planet or at least the United States has been confronted with racial divisiveness the likes of which we haven't seen since the 40s maybe I mean and another generation coming along not knowing the history of our country and not knowing what's being lost with this divisiveness is unacceptable to me so I said why I always aspired to be a cartoonist long before I became a writer if you look at my high school yearbook it says New York school for cartoonists and illustrators that you know underneath your picture it tells you which is what you aspire to do and that's what my yearbook says and now after all these years and the business is so comfortable circle for me I'm back I didn't draw the pictures but I inspired some of the pictures and it addresses a fictitious child in a fictitious town called Blake's Ville and everything is gray and drab and lyric yeah until he through his interaction with other characters that are introduced in the course of the book begins to bring color into their lives so there's a there's a subtle message but it's not all that subtle I mean you have to pretty much be a goose to nothing to not get the message this book out now not only out but in your studio yeah a world without color man get this for your kids I wanna mention gusted Warburton and Lenny Kaye who were also very responsible for the production of this book as writers and consultants we got like 32 million subscribers mr. animals in whoo al listen from all over the world all over the country I know that and the phones have lit up so if you don't mind I like to give them a chance to say hi to you it's your Sherman man and you hear that he said it's myself all right hold on one second man we got a Booker from Delaware on the line Booker what up man hey what's up family what's up sway hey what's up are you doing Oh chillin chillin man I'm about to walk into work but I had to say what's up to my og pops man John Amos I Love You Man the matter hey as a matter of fact a couple weeks ago I was with my pops and we're doing something illegal but we was watching you I'm with rockin good times and we're like damn man I want him as a matter of fact I I started knowing my pop 13 because he was locked up and ever since then we had this tight tight bond bond kind of like you want good times okay no just good times it's just like dang hey Booker thank you so much man you made bail he was doing something illegal while you was watching good times all right Ryan and Indiana go ahead man good morning good morning Amos how you doing you are a legend Sir su out of the TV dad you the realest the most fearful I had this conversation with my peers all the time like I want mess man yeah you know I just wanted to know and you probably had this discussion I understand the behind-the-scenes with your you had a issue with the direction of the show necessarily the characterization of JJ how did you find out that they were exiting John I mean not John but James from the script it was very unceremoniously from the show I got a call we were on hiatus that is a break in production and I got a call from Norman Lear and normally got on the phone said Big John how you doing I said I'm fine Norman what's up he said well they got some good news and some bad news what do you want first I said it's your dime he said well the bad the good news is that we've been picked up for another season which was a foregone conclusion he so was in the top ten the bad news is you won't be with us so I let I played it out for the dramatic pause that I knew would affect or anybody else that was on the phone and after about 35 or 40 seconds he said you're still there I said yeah I'm still here he said no you aren't no nobody said John we've just we've decided that you've become too disruptive a factor and we can't have that the writers are intimidated Wow employed missed a Mo's but I didn't want Keith I didn't want penny I didn't want nobody it was just we like peridot well the whole burn in it was too much so do you stay in touch with Bernadette and uh and um Jimmy Walker and the truth of it is we do touch base yeah that is particularly burned because she was the only girl in the family there's my baby my baby girl I have a daughter in real life and I have a son in real life and I love both my children and you work with somebody eight nine hours a day sometimes 1012 hours a day three four years they become your family you eat together you know if one of you get sick you get concerned this one of you has issues you get you try and counsel each other or whatever and so we work close not as close as we would we were portrayed on TV but we were close John Amos any time you in New York City you want to come hang out with us at we this won't don't already sway in the morning would be John in the morning yeah John Amos ladies a drummer world without color something else you want to say Coakley yeah good this book numbing in French that's created by Charles wise he plays with Loretta Devine and Angie stone there are the children's animation that was it go get it nothing in French I've been in friends okay that's how now it's coming out we're pitching it coming out Loretta Divine's and Angie stone eg daily offered a soul and Charles West as the creator yeah yeah thank you man what's your name man Paul you can't just be talking about introduce yourself all right good man congratulations you get an opportunity to work with film vice versa and do great be great Thank You mr. analyst I appreciate you John Shea 45 [Music] [Music]

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Length: 21min 40sec (1300 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2017