Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

