Chocolate News

Chocolate News is an American satirical news show hosted and head written by David Alan Grier in 2008 with an emphasis on African American culture.

The show was broadcast on Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm on Comedy Central as a lead-in to its other news satire programs, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.

On 10 March 2009, a Comedy Central representative confirmed that Chocolate News would not be renewed for a second season.

The show satirized these stories with a focus on how Grier thinks typical African Americans view them.

When the series was first pitched to studio executives at NBC, they were initially reluctant to produce and develop a pilot for the show due to the negative racial connotations associated with the term "Chocolate"; it was only with the intervention of actors Martin Sheen and William Shatner that the studio decided to proceed with the pilot and eventually to commission the show.