Jimmie Walker | The Complete Pioneers of Television Interview 

He certainly has a lot to say lol. More true thoughts & opinions than the nicey nice publicity front they most put out there. Makes u wonder how it really went on other shows!! I mean like any job some get along better than others & everyone has thoughts & feelings & it’s really cool he tells his like it is/was!!!

Dynamite 2012 was a good read. 📕

James & Esther pissed he became the star. Well…he had the most charisma. It happens all the time on tv shows & movies & especially comedy stand up where he came from, the public decides who they want more of & the writers & directors etc go with it…even if some jokes were redundant & cheesy (I HATE overused catch phrases like “dynomite” or “Watchu talkin bout Willis” etc…) for the most part JJ made the show, I liked Thelma a lot too. I mean the whole cast was good together idk why Esther & John cried about having a huge hit show that people love to this day, I never thought of JJ as a bad influence on young black guys- he had morals, didn’t do drugs. Sure he was a little silly but it WAS a sitcom. Besides Thelma & Michael were serious. What do I know I was a little 70s white girl lol. Reminds us all of our own childhood :)

@@tinajeppesen5948 It was Esther Rolle who nixed the idea of having Walker's character be something of a thief. The ongoing bit was to have "JJ" always managing to "find" something; something of particular value, that is - the 'find' was a euphemism that would be employed to mean(with a wink to audience) that he had either pilfered the item himself or had come by it in a less than above-board manner. Again, this was to serve as a running joke. Rolle was having none of it.

Agreed. I checked it out, and stayed for the whole thing. Well spoken man.

Did u notice in his other in depth interview he had nothing good to say about any of his cast mates including Janet Jackson. Ive heard a few people in the industry say he is very homophobic and an ahole. Especially when his name was kind of big. He cancelled a guy opening up for him when he found out he was gay, and in a nasty way

@@thelog86 - No, I didn’t see negativity - just frankness. And I don’t know about the homophobia charge. There may be more to it than that.

Cambridge was deep, and a riot at the same time. Remember "Watermelon Man"? Lol

I agree 100%! I enjoyed this very honest interview.

😅 nice job JJ

Yep, you're absolutely right.

I saw Jimmie do stand up tonight. Very sharp, smart, insightful, he never uttered his trade mark saying.

Jimmie Walker really seems like a really nice guy he probably fun to hang out with

Agreed and I only watched good times for him and bernadette she's still beautiful and fine!!!

I want to see Jimmie Walker back on television 📺 again.

He's a stand ùp. He did at his peak 300 dates a year

He didn't get anything after good times because he was type cast

because he can't act.

His reputation preceeded him. Have you heard his interview about the relationship he had with his cast members?? AWFUL!

He doesn't have kid's!!!

@@angholloway5091 *kids

@@angholloway5091 she meant the tv show

Thank you

EXACTLY.

Most definitely 💯 and also Michael Evans who played Lionel from The Jeffersons.

lear was a leftist, walker is a consv, that is the real issue

@@joejones9520 Lear to me was way to much of a leftist liberal. You know he hated conservatives. Look how he made Archie the conservative look like a buffoon and Meathead the Liberal look wise and intelligent all the time.

@@joejones9520 Lear was more of a preachy government propagandist, while Jimmie was a comic, not actually political at all. People that are not political and that believe in basic behavior values are constantly called 'conservatives', when the reality is that revulsion generated by the preachy propagandists tends to push many people to any alternative (which is typically the 'republican'). Lear didn't understand (with Good Times) that people mostly watch tv to be entertained, to laugh, not to be preached to constantly.

I agree with you. Jimmie Walker would make a great radio host.

Best guess: He preferred being a road comic where he could be as open and honest as he wanted to be. In radio he'd have to deal with the FCC.

Uncle Ruckus, Tim Scott, and the black guy in the audience at Trump rallies. He’s a conservative, which is his prerogative, but he comes off like Herschel Walker, but with more brains, lol

I thought the show did well when Janet Jackson was added to the cast.

John Rich knew better. People tuned in simply waiting for JJ to say that.

Look up the co creator who created good times and what's happening named Eric Monte

​@@jeremiahwoods-xc6gy Eric Monte really created everything. Norman lear couldn't possibly know about black ghetto life like Monte.

hell ya

Yea I was disappointed about that, but I have seen him in other interviews and he mentioned him.

You rarely see it because your mainstream media won't give a platform to African-Americans like Mr. Walker. They'd rather give you Jay-Z, Lil Ray Ray and whoever the latest trash mumble rapper is.

He was cooler with the whites

Belushi wasn't a standup comic per se. He did Second City and National Lampoon shows. You're right about Williams (and other comics), but Jimmy knew Prinze and was familiar with Pryor more than he was with Williams, I imagine.

@@jamesanthony5681 you’re right about Belushi, he was a comedic actor. Great response

So how is he supporting himself?

​@@howardgofstein7366He gets residuals from Good Times and other TV shows and movies that he appeared in.

Esther Rolle and John Amos had huge egos.