it would push the envelope in a strange way, but in the voice of a child. jesus was black, ronald reagan is the devil, and the government is lying about 9/11! the boon docks were the black south park. dived into the subset of the black community maybe white people don t see at all. these character that is aren t human, they get to say things that people might be afraid to say. ow! i told you, you better not even dream about telling white folk the truth. one of the most hilarious episodes was martin luther king coming back and seeing how black people were living and really being shocked. about what he saw. i had a dream once. but lo and behold, some four decades later, what have i found? but a bunch of trifling, shiftless, good for nothing [ bleep ]. so whether it s about racist white folks, whether it s about
black folks being problematic with themselves and the outlook on life, the boondocks is not pulling any punches. one thing for sure, can t blame this on the white man. what am i saying? of course i can. but when i was a kid, my top sitcom was probably dinosaurs. it was bonkers. everything the jim hansen company does is escapist. hey! oh, that s great. the original idea was all really generated in the year that my father, jim henson, passed away in 1990. and he just liked the idea of dinosaurs who live so irresponsibly, they will inevitably go extinct. there will inevitably be casualties. what my dad loved about
because they didn t take all the blue m&ms out of the bowl in your dressing room like you asked. it s kind of ridiculous at times how spoiled we are. this really brings you together, makes you realize what is important, which is all the important things in life and the fact that people are healthy and we can hopefully rebuild some things for folks. brad, what are you going to be performing? i m going to be doing a couple of things. i m going to do welcome to the future to kick off the show tonight. then i m going to do later on in the program i m going to do a song that was written by one of my heroes, roger miller, called river in the rain. it s a song that came from big river, his musical, which is a tribute to huck fin. roger being one of my heroes, i named my son huck. that s a beautiful story. you now have to give me a couple lines as we say good-bye to you. since we all cannot be there in nashville. lines of the song, you mean? yeah.
boon docks common strip before you became a voice of not one but two characters? yeah, i did follow the comic strip. and for those people that followed the strip and now the cartoon, there s a big difference between the two. because the strip, he can be very current with events and social issues that are changing daily. whereas with the cartoon, we have to take time to be very selective with what we choose so that when the show actually starts to air, the things that we re talking about are still relevant. so are you part of that creative process? do you interject with, i don t think huey would do that? i think riley would do it this way? because you are playing the character voices of two, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, boys, by the way. yes, yes, and i do, we all are able to imput our own ideas.
obvio obviously, this show has been going on for three seasons on tv, but we ve been regacording e show and part of the show for seven years now. there s some choices that i think are very specific to huey that i won t let huey do and some things that are riley that you know, riley s just wild and, you know, anything that comes out of his mouth matches him. but huey is a much more thoughtful provocative young man. so huey i have to really make sure he stays true to who he is. so you re an actress. you re an artist. but how do you, you know, bring the distinction between these two characters? you didn t set out to do two voices, did you? they felt like nobody was more perfect than you. then it was up to you and your creativity and your artistry to make them distinctively