Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Louie Anderson" in English language version.
Apparently, Paramount Pictures "forced" them "to put a white person" in the film," they told Jimmy Kimmel. "[T]he whole cast is Black — and this was back in the '80s — so [Paramount] was like, 'We have to have a white person! There has to be a white person in the movie,'" Murphy said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. "So it was, 'Who's the funniest white guy around?' And Louie, we knew him. We was cool with him. So that's how Louie got in the movie." Hall, who claimed that the studio gave him "a list with three white guys," said the studio asked him, "'Who would you rather work with?' I said Louie."
