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Song Parodies -> "A Fourth Stooge?"
Original Song Title:
"I Love You"
Original Performer:
Barney and the Backyard Gang
Parody Song Title:
"A Fourth Stooge?"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
Black comedian and actor Mantan Moreland, best known as Charlie Chan's chauffeur and character actor in black audience films, was proposed by Shemp Howard to Columbia Studios as a backup Stooge. After he died in 1955, Moe and Larry also considered Mantan for a replacement role, but Columbia wouldn't have a Black stooge. Joe Besser was called in instead. One can only wonder what Mantan would have brought to the Stooges...
A fourth Stooge?
Not to be,
Columbia segregation policy
Mantan was known,
Charlie Chan's chauffer never under review,
Blacks as servants were always approved!
A fourth Stooge?
Lordy! Lordy!
Bulging eyes Mantan loved comedy
Coulda filled the role,
Could have had us all amused,
But Columbia refused, refused!!!
Hear that Y'all???
Not to be,
Columbia segregation policy
Mantan was known,
Charlie Chan's chauffer never under review,
Blacks as servants were always approved!
A fourth Stooge?
Lordy! Lordy!
Bulging eyes Mantan loved comedy
Coulda filled the role,
Could have had us all amused,
But Columbia refused, refused!!!
Hear that Y'all???
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Columbia Pictures did not practice segregation. They mistakenly catered to the so-called segregated policies of the South. Just business. Reports of racial segregation anywhere in the U.S. is fake news written by leftard commies. There has never been racism in America. We have always treated our nigras as equals. Feets, do yo' stuff!
Oh, U-RPRA, you ain't a-buffaloing us anymore.. You're a leftard troll pretending to be a red blooded American what's saying racist stuff. (Ooor hoor hoor hoor.) You're jes' doing that routine made famous by that leftie fart sniffer Steven Colbert (Ooor hoor hoor hoor) But we's on to you now, and that's why I's laughin'. You still think you make an impact with that (oor hoor hoor hoor)
Move over troubles - here we come again!
Why I oughta... rate this 5's!
It would have been fun to see a black stooge take a pie to the face!
maybe columbia just wasn't fond of... wait for it... black comedy! "crickets chirping" I know, I know. I'll show myself out... 455
Man Tan was the brand name for a self-tanning lotion, created in the 1960s to appeal to white men.
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