Yes! Child star success story.

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Correct!!!

Yes, so proud of her. Along with Oscar, Regina has a Golden globe award, multiple Emmy awards and nominated for a Golden globe for best director for One Night In Miami. She's on 🔥.

Long time coming

227 and Amen were the best. I'm still lucky enough to be able to watch it on TV.

On Saturday nights at that!

I loved 227 and Amen. Each character was absolutely wonderful. How could anyone NOT love all these people?

Saturday nights on NBC in the '80's 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The two shows ran back-to-back where I lived. I just can't remember which one came on first.😁❤

Yes❣️

Amen Roy Jackson

Roy Jackson... so very true!

Family matters, Bel air, 227, Sanford, Jeffersons, Roc etc So many good black shows those days!!! What happened? I mean why is it no longer like that?

@@michaelpalmer1580 Again, the media chooses to project a negative image of Americans of color. It has been this way, since the inception of television. Google early Disney cartoons, there were even documentaries on how to approach a black customer. It is mainly due to FEAR of a black awakening. Google Black Wall Street! FEAR, is the answer!

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So true, Donald! Many actors who rise to the level of fame she has achieved would have conveniently not been available to do this reunion show. That says a lot about her as well. Love Regina!

RIP to her kid though. Jeez.

True

Yes she could produce a remake of 227

@@jwilliams7554 Yes, that would be a great idea!

"One Night in Miami" is her directorial debut and it WILL be nominated for an Oscar!!!

Yes!

Rip Pearl

Rest in Heaven 🌹💜🌹💜🌹💜

And Alaina's (Rose) husband Kevin Peter Hall who passed as well. He played her boyfriend on the show and fell in love in real life. Their characters married on the set. He played in Harry and the Hendersons as Harry and in Predator 2 as The Predator and the Elder.

@@diva70smusic Ohhhh you’re talking about the tall guy who played the undercover cop! I didn’t know they got married. Tfs!

@@diva70smusic He was also in Predator 1 as the predator. He also played the helicopter pilot at the end of predator 1. May they both S.I.P

Wow thats an incredible story

Cool story

Calvin looks good !!!!, the rest of them

Where is Countess Vaughn , the rest ??????

YOU'RE SO LUCKY!!! I LOVE MARLA GIBBS!!🙏❤️

Amen

Oh yes!

They wouldnt have lasted, they keeo cancelling good show

It was so wholesome

@@antinciafoster7979 that was a good show too🙂!

Wwwooooo!!! 🤣

🥰🥰🥰😆😁🤣🤩

😊

That was always my favorite part of the theme song! 😁🤜

Dang u cute.

Yes she is

Yes, we must give her her flowers now!

@@summerlyric506 I agree!!!!

Yes we love Marla Gibbs!

So true 🤗 She didn’t just star in this show. Didn’t she write and produce it as well (I could be wrong)? 🎉🙌🏾

Okay, Mike, knowing his FACTS. Yaaassssssss.

Wow! I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing! That’s awesome!!

Thank you for sharing. I never knew that!

Okay, Mike... you getting invited to the cookout.

@@bluscorpion 😂

Black don't crack.

@@SirNic4180 it sags🤣🤣🤣

@@SirNic4180 Black indeed does crack, unless you take exceptional measures of being good to your body.

@@zingloa7193 Not all the time

@@zingloa7193 hater

and the Drill sgt on Private Benjamin. oooh ! he used to scare me even in the tv series.

Smitty.

I remember that to. With that corny as white man at his side. The white dude was funny to me.

@chakur25 He was one of the movers who came to evict them in season one. I think it was the pilot episode.

I thought I saw him on Gunsmoke.

Does baby Jessica count? How bout the second Lionel? And the first actor who played Jenny's brother Allan?

@@perri_6 I don't know about the rest of them, but the second Lionel definitely DOESN'T count! 😖

@@grammardynamite9764 😯🤦🏾‍♀️

She is our Marla Gibbs!

@@brownin329 👍🏾

Huh????

Lie

Calvin should have kept Brenda(they were a couple in real life) - she's a star

@@MsM1975 They also dated on the show.

Me as well! ❤

I didn't like when stone Jackson, Barry sobel, and. Toukie Smith was on there it was better when they wasn't there

That's a blessing 😎

Three Emmys and an Oscar. Now, she's directing. I'd say she did quite well for herself

STEADY

So has Jackee..

Selects her rolls carefully, smart woman ♀️

And Reynaldo Rey The Postman

Yes they do

She Def Knows How 2 Break Up Families!! Trust...You All Will Hear The Dirt She's Done Back In The Day! She's Foul! She's Not What Everyone Thinks!!

@@sotr6347 Who?

@@sotr6347 You don't know any of these people personally shut up

Wish it was that eazy

I'm coming with you

Please I want to go too♥️

I’m coming with y’all! I didn’t have a care in the world back then ❤️

I miss my childhood too. I wanna go back and stay there and see my mom again. Tell her I love her every day.

Yes it is...I hardly watch modern music and TV anymore..I go back to the oldies

Wheres Countess Vaughn

It brings back so many memories. It’s fun but also 😢 sad too ( family back then no longer here)

Yesh that was thy really good times before cell phone and technology. When people actually when outside to talk and kids actually when outside to play. I wish we can go back in time.

I watch it on crackle.

@kandace OMG same with me! My great grandmother use to watch it.💝💝

me too!!!

Me too

She and Janet Jackson on Good Times were dime pieces to me as a little boy lol.

Me too 😂

me three! lol

Her only child, sadly, committed suicide this past Jan. I understand they were very close. God be with her.

@@mikedavis8314 yes a tragedy like that is never by loved ones

Me either! I was like wait what?!

Also pearl pass away too

dont forget Pearl Calvins Grandma

@Creepy People i didn't know that..thanks for letting me know😊

70s and 80s

@Creepy People all the seasons? Plus Amen too??

Me too

I am happy to hear that.

@@AL-tx5nx thanks.

@ felix121984 Great point! However, I have to add a correction. There was another black sitcom in the '70's called "That's My Mama". It started Clifton Davis as "Mama's" son (was Rev. Gregory "Amen"), Theresa Merritt as mama (also Aunt Em in "The Wiz), Teddy Wilson as the postman (also played Sweet Daddy Williams on "Good Times") and Ted Lange as Junior (played Issac on the "Love Boat"). Like most black actors in that era, they were all seasoned Broadway stars. Clifton Davis was especially popular then as a singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, and game show guest. As a songwriter, his biggest hit was "Never Can Say Goodbye". In season 1 the opening credits showed a barber's pole and the theme song was instrumental. Season 2, the closing credits had the best view of a Washington, DC neighborhood ever on a sitcom. I don't know for sure but it looked real to me and not a movie backdrop. I lived in DC as a young child and moved back in my twenties even though I am not a native. The theme song had vocals. The TV series was not very popular in the mainstream even though it was on ABC. I don't remember the competition on those nights. It only lasted about 2 years. As a teenager then, I watched most of the black sitcoms. Plus I had a crush on Clifton Davis 😊😊. The fact that he was in a high profile romance with Melba Moore at the time, made me love him more. She was and still to this day, a favorite entertainer of mine. Other actors who appeared on the show were Jester Hairston, Lynne Moody, Helen Martin, and Joan Pringle (who was married in real life to Teddy Wilson). Lamont Dozier, the great songwriter wrote the theme song for the show. Ironically, the singer who sung the lyrics was not Clifton but I don't remember who he was. The show was not as strong as some of the other shows back then but I liked it. You can catch it on cable on the weekends, the channel I am not sure. Happy hunting!

Yup

@@diva70smusic 40+ years ago

@@diva70smusic Great call.... I too remember that show and another show called Baby I'm Back on CBS starring Kim Fields, Damon Wilson, Denise Nichols from Room 222. Speaking of Room 222, it was the Black principal who was the star of the series, however, actress Karen Valentine and Denise Nichols overshadowed him.. Also, during this time another Black sitcom premiered that showcased a young Black couple (can't recall the name but it too was on ABC). The 1970s was a good time for Black Hollywood after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, not nearly as good as Black Hollywood is now, but good enough.. ABC also cast a Black actress (Brenda Skyes) as a regular on Ozzie and Harriet in the 1970s. Actress Lynne Moody appeared on many ABC programs. I remember a lot of Black talent from back in the day.

*Capitol* ,not capital.

I mean no place Chile! 🙌🏽

The role won Sandra an Emmy (only cast mbr too win one) so if anything she shld be grateful...Urkel saved Family Matters n give him n the cast 9 yrs of solid pay + residuals.... (a huge blessing in the industry).....Problem was he became type cast b/c the character became so popular....But his agent n parents did not serv him well from a financial...At the peak of the character's popularity....ABC made a Ton of money on merchandising n Jaleel received pennies (5% of net vs gross)....if he were going to settle for such a low amount n at the time he had the clout 2 negotiate a much better deal.

Yeah, the MAJOR difference between Jackee Harry and Jaleel White, is that Jackee went on to have another solid, steady and memorable role on "Sister Sister" for six seasons.... And this was after her five seasons on "227"... And Jackee also did several movies.... Jaleel didn't get any major roles after "Family Matters"..

@@hardren101 I tell people all the time that he really did save Family Matters. I was around 6th grade and I said that if they don't do something, this show would not make it past season 2.

U said it

Remember the jeffersons?

Crazy part is that was 2010. It's actually 31 years now

He favors BOBBY BROWN

Calvin always reminded me of M.C. Hammer

Yeah they was sleeping on "Lester Jenkins". Definitely an underrated living legend.

I remember him from Private Benjamin as the no nonsense seargeant. I was kinda scared of him when I was little..

@@rahsaanthomas7030 Al Roker messed that interview up, he was way to focused on the women.

Hal Williams played a recurring character, Harley, on The Waltons too.

Lester Jenkins is one of the best tv dads and husbands ever! He's so overlooked but was up there with Uncle Phil, Carl Winslow, Dan Connor, James Evans etc.

Can't upset the powers that be.

AGREED

I couldn't agree more! I absolutely LOVE her!!! She reminds me soooo much of my mother! Just a dynamic woman!!!! ✊🏾

Yes, that's phenomenal TV. The 80s and 90s was AWESOME.

Yeah, me too!!

Absolutely loved this show definitely one y my favorites so badly missed. Thank you Al.👍🏾💖💟🙏

You’re so right. That why I stay watching reruns.

Yes I'm 13 and love this show especially jackee.

I literally just watched that episode on prime video. What a hot and hilarious mess. Regina dancing with Pee Wee at the end made me holler

Yeah, none of them look like that today... including Al Roker.

Yeah, there's a small card in the left margin saying 2010.

Same

Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm still confused bcuz at first when I seen this was uploaded a month ago and never heard of this show I thought it was new...then at the beginning Al said the show ended 20 years ago and I was like wrong..30 years ago and then the cast laughed when he said that...after the clips of the show, Al said he was wrong and the cast said longer than that.....then all of the sudden I'm seeing 2010 at the corner of the screen...now I'm really confused.....then of course I gotta go to the comments to see what people are saying And to add to this Al asked why don't they make shows like that anymore so I'm thinking again this gotta be recently bcuz they don't make sitcoms like 227 anymore...then again there were no sitcoms in 2010 (all reality bull-issh).... and if this show was recently...yeah I'm sure they would have their mask on and distance themselves...or probably Zoom

One of the shows I watched back then and still watch it when I can

Peg Bundy lol 😂

Kathy Seagal she's back for another ABC show

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Might be because Regina is really popular right now and is winning awards

Lol

Same here

Same!! Lol!

OMG yes 🙌🏽❤️💯💯

VERY underrated! Love 227 ♥️ 💕 ♥️

@@juantime7816 Why?

Countess wasn’t the main character on the show the whole 5 years. She was on the temporarily like Stony Jackson and other “fill in” actors through the years.

@@armyvetgrl2731 Ok!!! Just would've been nice to see.

@Thomas Brown Possibly. Or it could've been the old lady. Who knows🤷‍♂️

It was regina that was mean to her