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The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show

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For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
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Yoruba Richen
Year
2020
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documentary, history
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Awards
4 nominations total

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[Announcer] From New York, "The Tonight Show," - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
[Announcer] From New York, "The Tonight Show,"
And now, here's - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
And now, here's
(Audience applauding) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
(Audience applauding)
♪ The strong gets more - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:19
♪ The strong gets more
I went over to his home - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
I went over to his home
And I'm thinking, wait a minute, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
And I'm thinking, wait a minute,
- That was probably the most revolutionary move - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
- That was probably the most revolutionary move
♪ That's right the woman is smarter ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
♪ That's right the woman is smarter ♪
♪ That's right ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:15
♪ That's right ♪
What Harry Belafonte did, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
What Harry Belafonte did,
Like a forerunner to "The Daily Show" - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
Like a forerunner to "The Daily Show"
Is that a fancy way of saying I told you so? - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
Is that a fancy way of saying I told you so?
(Audience laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
(Audience laughs)
The nation was really in crazy upheaval. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
The nation was really in crazy upheaval.
There was increasing and very appropriate Black anger. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
There was increasing and very appropriate Black anger.
And Harry exposed you as a white person, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:11
And Harry exposed you as a white person,
This was a talented, intelligent, sophisticated, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:13
This was a talented, intelligent, sophisticated,
I guarantee you, my grandmother had her three kids - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:11
I guarantee you, my grandmother had her three kids
It was something that was really inspiring, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:12
It was something that was really inspiring,
Harry Belafonte at 11 o'clock late night - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
Harry Belafonte at 11 o'clock late night
Mr. Belafonte, would you like to look at - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
Mr. Belafonte, would you like to look at
When I was there I was a bit overawed by the whole thing. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
When I was there I was a bit overawed by the whole thing.
It was so seldom in the '60s that people of color - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
It was so seldom in the '60s that people of color
I'm sitting between Harry Belafonte and Paul Newman. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
I'm sitting between Harry Belafonte and Paul Newman.
Me, too. (Laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
Me, too. (Laughs)
You see how pivotal this week was - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:14
You see how pivotal this week was
(Audience applauding) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:11
(Audience applauding)
(Bright music) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
(Bright music)
Johnny Carson was the rage of the evening. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
Johnny Carson was the rage of the evening.
If anybody was up after 10 o'clock, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
If anybody was up after 10 o'clock,
(Audience laughing) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
(Audience laughing)
(Bright jazz) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
(Bright jazz)
"Hey, I know you're in bed when you're watching me." - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
"Hey, I know you're in bed when you're watchi...
The birth rate in this country has - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
The birth rate in this country has
Carson was this Midwestern very, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
Carson was this Midwestern very,
(Audience laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
(Audience laughs)
Johnny Carson helped define what late night would be. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
Johnny Carson helped define what late night would be.
Early on the 1950s, '60s, as we really started - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
Early on the 1950s, '60s, as we really started
(Audience laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
(Audience laughs)
So that started making late night really special - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
So that started making late night really special
I think that as an interested citizen - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
I think that as an interested citizen
[Ron Simon] When "The Tonight Show" first began, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
[Ron Simon] When "The Tonight Show" first began,
I don't expect you to say, "Boy, what a program!" - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:16
I don't expect you to say, "Boy, what a program!&q...
[Bill] He managed to weave in more contemporary news - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
[Bill] He managed to weave in more contemporary news
Senator, Mrs. Kennedy are expecting their tenth child. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
Senator, Mrs. Kennedy are expecting their tenth child.
I understand Ethel Kennedy is demanding - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
I understand Ethel Kennedy is demanding
(Audience laughs) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
(Audience laughs)
Our bloodshed will be in our racial situation, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
Our bloodshed will be in our racial situation,
But you probably, as most people do in the world today, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
But you probably, as most people do in the world today,
[Bill] And the interesting thing about - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
[Bill] And the interesting thing about
(All laughing) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
(All laughing)
And whatever's going on in pop culture, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:12
And whatever's going on in pop culture,
11:30 at night, Eastern, was the most segregated hour - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
11:30 at night, Eastern, was the most segregated hour
(Audience applauding) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
(Audience applauding)
Well, there's riots, brutality, poverty, sit-ins, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
Well, there's riots, brutality, poverty, sit-ins,
You want to hear the bad news now? (All laugh) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
You want to hear the bad news now? (All laugh)
As you know this is the usual starting time - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:12
As you know this is the usual starting time
[Newsreader] On the morning of January 31st, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
[Newsreader] On the morning of January 31st,
(Protesters shouting) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
(Protesters shouting)
[King] In 1968, there were many Americas. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
[King] In 1968, there were many Americas.
There was Black America and White America. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
There was Black America and White America.
(Funky music) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
(Funky music)
There was establishment America, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
There was establishment America,
(Funky music) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:13
(Funky music)
It's the time when women said, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
It's the time when women said,
Things were no longer going to be the status quo. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
Things were no longer going to be the status quo.
♪ I never seen no road other than the one from here ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:13
♪ I never seen no road other than the one from here ♪
The Black community had risen up with righteous indignation. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
The Black community had risen up with righteous indignation.
We could no longer tolerate the racial indiscretions - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:07
We could no longer tolerate the racial indiscretions
As performers, we felt a need - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
As performers, we felt a need
♪ Highway men don't have to fight ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:19
♪ Highway men don't have to fight ♪
♪ Oh time - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:14
♪ Oh time
We were really seeing these pretty trivial depictions - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
We were really seeing these pretty trivial depictions
Television shows had a always very difficult - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:13
Television shows had a always very difficult
My personal experiences have been that there is - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:10
My personal experiences have been that there is
And it lies a lot about who we are. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
And it lies a lot about who we are.
If you were a sci-fi person, which I am, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
If you were a sci-fi person, which I am,
We were never at the beach blanket bingo. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
We were never at the beach blanket bingo.
We just weren't there, we weren't represented. - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
We just weren't there, we weren't represented.
Television was a medium that was still - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
Television was a medium that was still
There were a few Black stars in television at the time - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:05
There were a few Black stars in television at the time
♪ Cannonball come to the judgment ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:16
♪ Cannonball come to the judgment ♪
♪ I say let us put man and a woman together ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:14
♪ I say let us put man and a woman together ♪
First performer to sell over a million copies - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:04
First performer to sell over a million copies
(Rhythmic music) - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:15
(Rhythmic music)
♪ Won't be back for many a day ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
♪ Won't be back for many a day ♪
♪ Had to leave a little girl in Kingston town ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:08
♪ Had to leave a little girl in Kingston town ♪
And when it's all put together, - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:06
And when it's all put together,
Just say after me, "I wonder why nobody don't like me." - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:09
Just say after me, "I wonder why nobody don't like...
♪ I wonder why nobody don't like me ♪ - The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show 00:14
♪ I wonder why nobody don't like me ♪
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For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.

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Director: Yoruba Richen
Writer: Èlia Gasull Balada, Yoruba Richen, Valerie Thomas
Production: N/A
Genre: documentary, history
Year: 2020
MetaScore: 70/100
ImdbRating: 7.6
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 10 Sep 2020
Awards: 4 nominations total
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