David Alan Grier Adds a Different Flavor To Comedy Central With “Chocolate News”
Posted by admin on July 15th 2008 in Generate Press
Completely Biased Comedy To Blow The Lid Off The Urban Experience In Modern America
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Beverly Hills, CA, July 9, 2008 — David Alan Grier’s outrageous and character-driven comedy hits primetime with “Chocolate News,” COMEDY CENTRAL‘s new sketch magazine series. “In Living Color” alum and Tony® Award-nominee David Alan Grier is the creator, executive producer and host of “Chocolate News,” a hilarious take on pop culture events that makes no apologies for its biased approach. The series premiere of “Chocolate News” is Wednesday, October 15 at 10:30 p.m.
Presented in the format of a magazine show, “Chocolate News” will take on a variety of contemporary topics from a decidedly African-American perspective and everyone and everything is fair game. The series stars David Alan Grier who, in addition to serving as the acerbic, all-knowing, in-studio host, will also portray multiple characters within the series’ investigative reports, which will be presented by a cast of three correspondents.
The surprising and revealing reports scheduled to be presented by Grier include: unmasking the shocking news that the super group KISS was originally black; how a school principal has adopted a decidedly different approach to sex education titled, “Just Do It!”; and the disturbing phenomenon of black child dumping in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, a troubling trend as Hollywood celebrities get rid of the African babies they’ve adopted once they’ve grown up. In addition, each episode of “Chocolate News” will also include the recurring segment, “Can I Flow?” in which Grier presents a topical comedic editorial/rant on subjects such as the Oprah/Obama relationship and what Mrs. Obama thinks of it.
Trained in Shakespeare at Yale, Grier began his professional career on Broadway as Jackie Robinson in “The First.” He joined the cast of “Dreamgirls” and went on to star opposite Denzel Washington in “A Soldier’s Story,” in both the play and film versions. Grier starred on Broadway in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and has also performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival in productions of “Richard III” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor” in Central Park. Grier’s network television credits include “Life With Bonnie” opposite Bonnie Hunt, “DAG” as the title character, “In Living Color,” “Damon,” opposite Damon Wayans and in the miniseries “The 60′s” and “King of Texas” for cable television.
In addition, Grier has gained recognition for his numerous feature film roles, including “BADASSS!”, “The Woodsman” opposite Kevin Bacon and Mos Def, “15 Minutes,” “Boomerang,” “Bewitched,” “Jumanji” and Robert Altman’s “Streamers.”
“Chocolate News” is executive produced by David Alan Grier, Robert Morton (“Mind of Mencia“), Fax Bahr and Adam Small (“MADtv”) and independent production and management studio Generate‘s Peter Aronson and Jordan Levin. Gary Mann is the executive in charge of production for COMEDY CENTRAL.
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL’s Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL’s press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.
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