The first moment I saw David Alan Grier on the premier of In Living Color, I called out: "It's Don No-Soul Simmons!" Everybody in this movie was brilliant.
I love Don 'No Soul' Simmons tapping his foot completely out of time to the music 😂 I don't think I ever noticed that before and I must have seen the movie several hundred times over the last 30 years!
Old white lady here who loved this send up -- even as I love the songs in their white originals that are being sent up. I'm old enough to go back further, to songs like "I Dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," which my mother (named Jean, born over 100 years ago -- I only remember her with dark brown and then grey hair) remembered her father, my Grandpapi, singing it to her when she was little. My mother, raised in the Bronx, also remembered to me (little teen white girl in NJ in the 1960's) trying to sneak into Harlem clubs in the 1930's. Life is sweet, when we remember through music, through shared music, and we follow music's myriad paths. Did I say I love the white originals? Did I say I love this send up? Music leads us to imagine together, or it can. If we welcome its myriad paths.
I bust a gut every time I see "Amazon Women", but when Don "No Soul" Simmons"sings "Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee" from Mary Poppins, I run the risk of a heart attack from laughter.
I saw this for the first time on TV in the early 90s when I was working late at night at a hotel and this part makes me laugh just as hard as the first time I saw it. It got to the point, after I bought it on VHS, that I only watched this movie for this part.
I haven't wondered for years. I thought Alfonso WAS Don. Until now. I was so much more blissful in my ignorance. Sigh. Damn you Wikipedia for setting me right.
As an Australian who has loved that movie forever it totally cracks me up that David Hartman is not only a real person but also that HE’S STILL IN POLITICS! 🤣😫
Sadly no the last time they saw Don he was in hot pursuit of women with flat butts and sampling several different varieties of cheese .... Help him Lord!!!
Truly brilliant on so many levels, but his facial expressions are f’n HILARIOUS! Especially for the “Down and Funky” segment. Probably David Allen Grier’s funniest performances IMHO.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine
The little touches on the album commercial are such great icing on top--pointing while he's "playing"the piano and my favorite, the peak around the candelabra. So so funny.
I think of this whenever I see a Black spokesman/woman for the Republican/Trump party. And I am left with the question, is it an affliction, or is there money in it. I suspect a bit of both most of the time.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a-drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine Singin'... Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me If I were the king of the world Tell you what I'd do I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war Make sweet love to you Sing it now... Joy to the world All the boys and girls Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me
That guy in the blue jacket and white hat "Le Tari" (Dudleys dad on different strokes) died of a heart attack 6 months before this was actually released.
I see now that I was wrong... I think. I was quite unaware of his long career...or even who he was. Uh, IS. The kid in the Michael Jackson commercial is my favorite. Closely followed by his oh so famous "Carlton dance". His performance on Unwrapped 2.0 is his finest hour! It's his Mayfield Banana Split! As president of the Alfonso Ribeiro Fan Club, I just wanted to say how much of a neat guy he is!
Mr. Grier has been in numerous movies and television shows ongoing to the present time, including the recent _Clifford The Big Red Dog_ film. Mainly he's been appearing on the Broadway stage in shows such as _Porgy And Bess, The Wiz_ and _A Soldier's Play._ He got the Tony Best Actor's award last year for that one.
