the movie start with a board meeting at a major advertising agency . putney swope be on the board for no other reason than the fact that he be black and and the agency need a token on the board . swope be ignore the meeting and reading jet magazine at the big table and and everybody be ignore swope . suddenly and the ceo croak on the spot . no time be waste . a janitor be call to haul off the corpse and and the board immediately and unceremoniously tackle the business of elect a new ceo . and a the vote be tally one by one and the tension be build up and then finally snap in a hilariously ironic climax to the vote and that give the viewer a delicious dish of logical implication to savor for the rest of the movie . if you have ever talk back to some stupid television commercial and you will like see this movie . too bad there do not seem to be any real putney swopes in the world .