Sentence examples for mama on from inspiring English sources

A series of sketches, "The Colored Museum" has a section, "The Last Mama on the Couch Play," that remains one of the funniest sendups of black realist theatre around.

The rapper Talib Kweli shares a bill with the vocal group Zap Mama on July 19.

After Barkley L. Hendricks's painting "Lawdy Mama" appeared on the show, the Jack Shainman Gallery wrote, "Did you catch the lovely 'Lawdy Mama,' on Empire last week?" to its fifteen thousand Instagram followers.

Janice Crouch, called "Mama" on the air, is known for her pink-tinged wigs, which look like huge swirls of cotton candy, and for talking emotionally about the Lord's blessings.

For the target male consumer, the born-to-run ideal of a motorcycle mama on the back has given way to a spouse or girlfriend riding alongside, holding the dog or the groceries.

Bonds sang, as he has for decades, with his wife, Laurie Anderson, whom he calls Big Mama, and his daughter, Laurie Anderson Tobias, whom he calls Little Mama, on backup vocals.

(The director and writer George C. Wolfe opened the door to this approach in his 1986 parodic sketch, "The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play").

Or ridicule "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's seminal African-American-experience drama, as a "mama-on-the-couch story".

To play her, Bruce channels instead Claudia McNeil's Bible-quoting, spiritual-humming matrinrch in the 1961 film version of "A Raisin in the Sun"—an image of the black woman as paragon of moral virtue which Wolfe quite rightly satirized in a skit in "The Colored Museum" entitled "The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play".

Mama dug on, and the contents of the carton piled up on Baba and the twins.

(Men seeking sugar mamas on these sites typically have fewer choices because profiles of wealthy men tend to outnumber profiles of wealthy women).