On the eve of the premiere of his new Comedy Central series Chocolate News (Wednesdays at 10:30pm) funnyman David Alan Grier speaks to GIANT about giving the mainstream media a black eye.

His Inspiration for Chocolate News
“The conceit is that we tackle every topic that the mainstream press is afraid to bring you.  It’s very Bill O’Reilly…if he were black and much cooler.”

Where He Gets His News
“The first thing I do every morning is read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.  All you have to do is read real news-it’s more absurd than our show.”

How to Make Obama Funny
“I love Barack Obama, I’m going to vote for him.  But there are times when, as a black man, I wish he were a little more black.”

If Obama Wins the Election…
“If he’s in office, he’s like any other president and you say whatever the fuck you want about him.  It is on and poppin’-you’re President of the United States and you have to be able to take it.”

What Won’t He Do
“Jokes about my mother!  That would be terrible because she would kill me.  [Laughs] I’m not going out to offend you, but a part of me thinks that if I do comedy and no one’s offended than maybe I’m not doing my job.  I want to make you talk about the show-that’s my goal.”

Sneak Sketch Preview
“We just wrote a sketch where the federal N-Word Commission has finally come up with a settlement in terms of the use of the N word.  It brokers a deal to allow white people to use this word in addition to a certain number of epithets black people are allowed to use.”