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Comedy can quickly become outdated, but there are some black-and-white classics which are still just as hilarious all these ...
In part two of our series on the history of Black comedy, Michael Harriot tells the story of the night Richard Pryor became the greatest comedian of all time.
Set in early 2020, the bleak, black comedy takes on COVID, masks, BLM, police violence, Antifa, white guilt, white grievance and the growth of toxic online influencers.
During the late 1960s and early 70s Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen became the nation's first black and white comedy team. During a tense time of segregation and race riots, they won rave reviews — all ...
Surveillance footage released on the same day clearly shows the shooter is white, and now many are ripping into the NYPD for refusing to say that word. Though the suspect is wearing a pulled-up ...
"The White Liars," which comes first, is a compact melodrama of surprising complexity dealing with identity. Shorter than "Black Comedy," it proves more satisfying.
“I’ll bust you in the head till the white meat shows”: Stand-up comedy, black families and corporal punishment Black comedians from Pryor to Bernie Mac have transformed the childhood trauma ...
Spencer’s own insecurities, exemplified through Crews’s incredible mix of slapstick body comedy and sight gags, become a catalyst for unmooring stereotypes about Black masculinity and race.
Cincinnati police mistakenly arrested black man before uncovering ploy. Dec. 2, 2010— -- After a string of robberies in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area earlier this year, police arrested an ...
Black Mask Comics is soliciting the new Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3 and Jamal Igle sequel to Black, White, well in advance. Issue 5 is in the new August ...
OPINION: Part two of our series on the history of Black comedy examines how Richard Pryor became the greatest comedian of all time by bringing Black comedy to the masses. Editor’s note: The ...