Sitcom starring a predominant African American cast
Not to be confused with Black comedy.
TV cast of The Amos 'n' Andy Show (1951-53). Spencer Williams (Andy), Tim Moore (Kingfish), and Alvin Childress (Amos)
A black sitcom is a sitcom that principally features black people in its cast. Prominent black sitcoms to date typically come from the United States with African American casts, forming a branch of African American comedy. Although sitcoms with primarily black characters have been present since the earliest days of network television, this genre rose to prominence in the 1990s, mostly then on upstart networks outside the Big Three.[1][2][3]
^Dalton, Mary M.; Laura R. Linder (2005). The sitcom reader: America viewed and skewed. Suny Press. p. 142. ISBN 0-7914-6569-1.
^Moss, Robert F. (February 25, 2001). "TELEVISION/RADIO; The Shrinking Life Span of the Black Sitcom". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
^Bogle, Donald (2001). Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television. Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 0-374-12720-4.
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