Chocolate News
Comedy Central | Release Date: October 15, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: We get the feeling Grier is much more concerned with scoring a laugh than raising an issue, which makes his well-placed jabs all the more clever. Read full review
80
Washington PostPaul Farhi
Season 1 Review: The cable network might have found "Chappelle's" worthy replacement in Chocolate News. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 1 Review: This is social satire, and Grier's job is to make a mainstream audience see race and power in new ways. That often involves shock. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Chocolate News" is funny like Chappelle, edgy like "In Living Color" and smart like "The Daily Show," but without the smugness. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
Season 1 Review: Credit Grier for trying, credit Comedy Central for adding another voice to the mix, and keep hoping that a show like this eventually hits its stride. Read full review
70
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Chocolate News has the funny part down; now it just needs to make some fresher observations. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: This is not unfunny stuff, but in a week in which a show that's willing to turn a satirical eye on race might have drawn real laughs, Chocolate News feels a bit like a lost opportunity. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyClark Collis
Season 1 Review: It pales-- satirically speaking, anyway--when compared with the "Daily Show," especially with Chocolate's tired sketch about imaginary rapper Phat Man. More promising is a bit in which Grier's Maya Angelou recites a poem penned to commemorate a McCain victory Read full review
67
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: In all, not a great debut, but one with potential, and it shows off Grier's versatility well. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Chocolate News is a moderately tasty, low-nutrition snack--the kind that, with apologies to perhaps the next ethnic frontier, will leave you hungry a half-hour later. Read full review
50
SalonJames Hannaham
Season 1 Review: The pilot delivers some hearty laughs, but it also has a couple of painfully tired bits that come close to deflating the entire proceedings. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: It aspires to distill the news from an African-American perspective, and in two weeks on the air its comedy has been variously anachronistic and plodding, and timely and sharp. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: David Alan Grier, star of the new Chocolate News gets points for moxie, but the series fails on too many other counts. Read full review
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