Head of State

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1. #001

   The scream heard after Mays Gilliam says "Security!"

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2. #002

   Tina Fey was one of five writers who rewrote the screenplay without receiving an on-screen credit.

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3. #003

   Chris Rock took the idea for the story from the 1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine A. Ferraro ticket, in which the Democrats believed they had no chance of beating Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush, and could make a historic first in the next election to gain support. So they ran Ferraro as their party's first female vice-presidential candidate (and lost).

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4. #004

   During the Chicago speech, a man stands up and shouts "Get your hand out of my pocket" in tribute to Malcolm X, something that also happened before he was assassinated.

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5. #005

   Chris Rock admitted he did not know how to use an electric slide and was taught on the film's set.

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6. #006

   Part of the presidential debate is a word-for-word repeat of the Argument Sketch from Monty Python's Money Programme (1972).

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7. #007

   The name Mays Gilliam is a combination of two famous 1950s New York baseball players: Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Jim Gilliam (also known as Junior Gilliam) of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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8. #008

   Tamala Jones (Lisa Clark) and Tracy Morgan (Meat Man) played husband and wife on The Tracy Morgan Show (2003).

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9. #009

   In 1999, actor Chris Tucker was set to play the role of an average man who unexpectedly becomes the first black President of the United States in "Mr. President." However, Head of State (2003) went into production before "Mr. President" even began. Chris Tucker still insisted his film would be made and had in fact done considerable research for the role. He visited troops in Virginia, volunteered to encourage voter registration, and consulted Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Jesse Jackson, the first major black presidential candidate. By 2008 Barack Obama was elected president in real life, and the film was shelved entirely.

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10. #010

    The Wire (2002) shares five uncredited actors: Delaney Williams, Clarke Peters, Reg E. Cathey, Doug Roberts and Tray Chaney.

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11. #011

    Stephanie March, Ned Eisenberg and Delaney Williams appeared in NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).

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12. #012

    Lynn Whitfield and Keith David play the powerful couple Bishop and First Lady in Greenleaf (2016).

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13. #013

    On election night, Mays Gilliam, played by Chris Rock, plays Ready 2 Rumble, published by Midway Games in 1999, and he plays it on the PS2, because the game was available on the PS2, because the PS2 was released in October 2000, and the film was released in 2003, and trying to buy a PS1 in 2003 would have been very "movie budget" expensive.

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14. #014

    Lynn Whitfield calls out angrily from the Players Ball in Detroit. Whitfield played Thelma Cleland in Doctor Detroit in 1983. The Players Ball in Chicago was attended by Doctor Detroit, Thelma and her co-workers.

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15. #015

    This was the first film Chris Rock and Bernie Mac worked on together. The last film they worked on together was Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), released five years later.

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16. #016

    Elizabeth J. Carlisle's debut.

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