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Will Smith nervous about daughter dating
NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) -- Comic and TV producer Chris Rock used humor to drive home a point about diversity on the small screen during the CW's upfront presentation in New York.
The new network combining shows from the WB and UPN presented its fall lineup to advertisers Thursday and the Sunday night block of programming was almost entirely made up of black comedies carried over from the WB.
Rock -- who produces "Everybody Hates Chris, loosely based on his own childhood -- warned advertisers if they don't buy in, "Chris will be played by a white girl," the New York Daily News reported Friday.
Even the cast of "Girlfriends" will be white, Rock joked.
"There'll be white people everywhere. ... Sometimes they'll just walk through and wave, 'Hi, I'm white,'" he said. "They're not going to have any lines or anything."
Rock said CBS President Leslie Moonves has gotten so good at casting black children, "he's picking them for Angelina Jolie now."
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