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Yes, it's great to see Issa Rae as Rachel, Tessa Thompson as Monica and and Jerrod Carmichael, Lakeith Stanfield, Lil Rel Howery and the wonderful Tiffany Haddish reenact at least part of the "Friends" episode "The One Where No One’s Ready," shot-for-shot, line-for-line. And a knowing, self-aware pleasure it is.
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Now, the full thing - which is somewhat of an all-black remake of the all-white NBC hit "Friends" - is available on YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
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It’s a bracing video that, yes, subverts the expectations that its initial jaunty Friends credits sequence purposefully sets.When we first brought you news - and a sort preview - of Jay-Z's "Moonlight" video, it was only possible to see the full thing on Tidal, a streaming music and visual service no practical-minded person who is in possession of a pirated copy of the "Lemonade" movie should subscribe to. If you didn’t catch the depth of that wordplay the first time, the music video makes it clear as Carmichael walks off the Friends set, settles onto a park bench, and looks up at the night sky to the tune of Warren Beatty accidentally announcing that La La Land won the Oscar for Best Picture, when it should’ve been rightful winner Moonlight’s moment. It’s at this point, nearly five minutes into the seven-minute video that Jay-Z’s “Moonlight” finally starts playing, his voice breathing that they’re “stuck in La La Land even when we win, we gon’ lose.” Then, as everyone else gets ready to keep rolling, the video breaks the multi-cam format to focus on Carmichael, looking around the set and hating everything about it. “You did a good job of subverting good comedy,” Buress replies. “When they asked me to do it, I was like, ‘Okay, this is something that’s subversive, something that’ll turn culture on its head,’” Carmichael halfheartedly protests, but Buress is having none of it.
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It was just Seinfeld episodes with black people.
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Buress immediately scoffs, “It was terrible, man. Carmichael wanders off to the side of the stage, where comedian Hannibal Buress happens to be standing, and asks Buress what he thinks of the “black Friends” exercise. The sextet acts out a few scenes from the seminal Friends episode “The One Where No One’s Ready,” saying the exact same lines as the original actors as a studio audience dutifully laughs along.īut the video takes a turn once the cast takes a break from filming. Jerrod Carmichael ( The Carmichael Show) taps in to play Ross, Issa Rae ( Insecure) is Rachel, Tiffany Haddish ( Girls Trip) is Phoebe, LaKeith Stanfield ( Atlanta) is Chandler, Lil Rel Howery ( Get Out) is Joey, and Tessa Thompson ( Creed) is Monica. “Moonlight,” one of the most beautiful and cutting songs off Jay-Z’s newest album 4:44, now has a music video to match.ĭirected by Master of None co-creator Alan Yang, the video for “Moonlight” - which dropped on Tidal at 4:44 pm on August 4 and has now been released on YouTube - initially looks like a straight-up recreation of Friends starring a stellar cast of black actors.