Amos n' Andy videos can be bought, and, on very rare occasions, the some of the old shows have been rebroadcast--not as reruns--The elimination of A and A was regarded as a triumph of the civil rights movement, owing to the demeaning stereo types--I was a funny show, and, many of the characters,story lines and gags were recycled on often considerably less funny black comedy shows, from Sanford and Son to Martin Lawrence--

For that matter, a lot of the minstrel show humor is recycled on TV--shows like Golden Girls and Designing Women were nothing more than an Interlocutor, bouncing straight lines off a group of stock character--