(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".
Mama dug on, and the contents of the carton piled up on Baba and the twins.
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.
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.
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.
Enlarge This Image CBS Photo Archive Ms. Burnett, right, and Harvey Korman playing Eunice and Ed Higgins, with Vicki Lawrence as Eunice's mama, on "The Carol Burnett Show," which ran for 11 years.
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.
