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‘Homey Don’t Play That’: A Tale of Emmy-winning Black Comedy Sitcom ‘In Living Color’
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‘Homey Don’t Play That’: A Tale of Emmy-winning Black Comedy Sitcom ‘In Living Color’

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Christopher John Stephens
/ 7 May 2018

Comedy is a cruelly subjective art form, and not much of it survives outside of its time frame.

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Stand-Up! America’s Dissenting Tradition: Bill Hicks and Bill Maher

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Iain Ellis
/ 2 August 2012
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Stand-Up! America’s Dissenting Tradition: George Carlin and Richard Pryor

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Iain Ellis
/ 10 May 2012
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Stand-Up! America’s Dissenting Tradition: Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce

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Iain Ellis
/ 19 January 2012
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Harlem Nights: Eddie Murphy and the Original Gangsters of Black Comedy

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PopMatters Staff
/ 6 June 2011
Richard Pryor’s Designated Writer: An Interview With Paul Mooney
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Richard Pryor’s Designated Writer: An Interview With Paul Mooney

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Steve Ryfle
/ 25 March 2010

How Paul Mooeny and Richard Pryor seized control of America’s ugliest racial epithet and wielded it as a comic weapon.

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Richard Pryor: Stand-Up (2005)

By
John G. Nettles
/ 7 June 2005
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Richard Pryor: I Ain’t Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! (Uncensored)

By
Zeth Lundy
/ 15 November 2004

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