NBC to Make Comedy “Making Friends With Black People”

Barack Obama is inspiring change everywhere, it would seem, and the lag of this change into sitcom prime time apparently is minuscule. NBC announced today that it will begin production on “Making Friends With Black People”, a sitcom aimed at addressing race relations in America. Finally, a network is making a show that needs to be made. It’s almost sad to think that it took the first black president to give them the temerity to produce a comedy on this subject.

“From time to time, race bubbles up in the consciousness of the country and then dissipates,” said “Making Friends” author Nick Adams. “Now, with Obama, people are talking about race a lot more. We hope to capitalize on that and not let the dialogue die down. … It seemed like a good opportunity to strike while the iron is hot.”

This isn’t going to be another “Chappelle’s Show”, but hopefully Standards and Practices won’t over-muzzle it either.