{"id":93499,"date":"2025-01-26T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T03:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93499"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T03:41:55","slug":"lear-wallace-and-cox-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/lear-wallace-and-cox-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lear, Wallace and Cox Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Reggie <\/strong>in Miami: <em>\u201cI just saw a commercial for a new sitcom with <strong>Laverne Cox<\/strong>.&nbsp; What\u2019s that all about??\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For this one, we had to enlist the aid of the <strong><em>Filth2Go Wayback Machine<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; And you know it\u2019s WAY back, because the sitcom is produced by <strong>Norman Lear<\/strong>, who\u2019s been dead since 2023!&nbsp; Back then, they shot a pilot called <strong><em>Clean Slate<\/em><\/strong>, which was shopped around to a number of networks.&nbsp; I guess they weren\u2019t ready for a sitcom about the owner of a car wash in Alabama (<strong>George Wallace<\/strong>) who is surprised when the son he hasn\u2019t seen for almost 20 years comes back as his daughter (<strong>Laverne Cox<\/strong>).&nbsp; Reggie is right \u2013 the trailer for the show looks fantastic.&nbsp; George Wallace is a comic legend, and Laverne Cox mostly holds her own playing the glamorous, down-and-out daughter.&nbsp; And then you have the sublime <strong>Telma Hopkins <\/strong>as Laverne\u2019s mom.&nbsp; If what airs on <em>Amazon Prime <\/em>starting on February 2<sup>nd<\/sup> matches what\u2019s in the pilot, then they may just be onto something&#8230;continuity be damned!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m picturing Ashley Parker Angel and gallons of baby oil, it\u2019s definitely time to end yet another column.&nbsp; In researching this column, I also learned that Drew Goins has a penchant for karaoke&#8230;of the Celine persuasion.&nbsp; Let\u2019s hope if any part of his body becomes stiff, it turns up on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that always starts with a clean slate.&nbsp; If you have a question for me, send it along at <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before I hit on Drew (in the form of a question, naturally).&nbsp; So, until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Ask Billy question comes from Reggie in Miami: \u201cI just saw a commercial for a new sitcom with Laverne Cox.&nbsp; What\u2019s that all about??\u201d For this one, we had to enlist the aid of the Filth2Go Wayback Machine.&nbsp; And you know it\u2019s WAY back, because the sitcom is produced by Norman Lear, who\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93500,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93499\/revisions\/93500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}