Strangely enough, I happen to have seen this exact episode. And I interpreted the point of the skit the opposite way. I thought it was poking fun at (some) black people for having an unrealistic sense about how good white people have it.
OK, Jack, what’s funny to you?
Let’s look back at the Eddie Murphy sketch I referred to. (And IzzyR, your interpretation is valid.)
Eddie Murphy put on white-face and went around New York City. In one scene, an earnest-looking black couple tries and fails to get a loan at a bank. White-faced Eddie then sits down with the same loan officer. The officer starts off by saying “Could you believe that guy (referring to the black man)?” Eddie chortles, “Silly Negro.” The officer than gives Eddie a 0% loan, in cash, and tells him he doesn’t need to pay it back.
Later, Eddie is on a city bus. When the only (other) black man gets off the bus, a bar opens with free drinks for all, a band begins to play, and a party starts.
There were other similar incidents in the sketch. Was this sketch offensive? Under my interpretation, Eddie was portraying white people as hiding the good things in life from blacks. Under IzzyR’s, it was mocking black peoples’ unrealistic beliefs about white racism. Either way, the sketch got its humor from playing on racial stereotypes.
I will modify my point to this extent. Playing to stereotypes is acceptable in comedy, so long as you make it obvious that that is what you are doing. Hyberbole is the basis of most comedy, after all.
Sua
Several people have suggested to me that I watch “Will and Grace”. So a couple of weeks ago I did. I was terribly unimpressed. What’s so funny about a non-effeminate gay guy making fun of an effeminate gay guy for 30 minutes? If this is what it’s like each week then people are very easily amused.
Why aren’t you complaining about this program? If it is so racist or bigoted to make fun of people and stereotypes why not object to a program like Will and Grace?
Needs2know
Well, Suas, I’ve never found Eddie Murphy very funny. Even if I could tolerate that dopey giggle of his, the underlying racial hostility is all too apparent (I guess I missed the subtle ironies behind “Kill all de white people”). The sketch you cite seems like more of the same low-rent moronic venomousness.
One comedian I did like was Franklin Ajaye, including his tales of working as a clerk in an upscale men’s clothing store. Customers would come in asking questions, which he would answer straightforwardedly, while muttering his true feelings under his breath, as in: "Do you have any Pierre Cardin suits? Yes sir, right over there (but they won’t fit your fat ass). It was clear from the context and speech patterns that he was talking about white customers, but it didn’t come off as racism. I even sort of enjoyed his bit about walking down a city street behind a white couple who kept looking over their shoulders toward him and acting uneasy; after awhile he said he was so offended that he just went ahead and robbed them.
Some of Ajaye’s successors are louder, cruder and nastier. Enjoy them if you want. I’ve tuned out.
"Canadians and thier wierd sex habits"
Canadians do have some of the strangest sexual habits of any culture. Just cruising for members of the opposite sex can be difficult when they are bundled up in parkas, toques mittens, and boots and it is all too easy to mistake Joyce for Joe. Attraction is based less on physical appearance in Canada even though Canadians are some of the most attractive people on earth, especially the women.
There are seldom violent repercussions in cases of mistaken gender, this is due primarily to the aforementioned mittens which prevent people from using their hands for much of anything and there’s no way you can fire a gun with mittens on.
This is one of the reasons why Canadians are such a peaceful people… mittens. Unless they are cowboys. Since you can’t run in cowboy boots your option is usally to fight. This is one of the reasons I avoid country bars besides the “my wife ran off, my dog died, my trucks broke” theme music and big assed belt buckles. What’s up with that anyways?.
Another advantage to wearing mittens is that you can give someone the finger but only you will know. 
If you cut someone off in traffic you can’t be sure if they are waving or flipping you the bird. It’s probably waving because Canadians are so polite. If you bump into one they will actually apologize to you. Try it, it’s hilarious.
Anyways, let’s get back to sex.
The Canadian male can avoid the risk of approaching a person of the wrong gender by using a baiting strategy. Whereas many American males use their automobiles and homes to attract mates the Canadian male will seek to impress his woman by displaying the symbols of his success. The number of sled dogs can say a lot about a man’s social status as will the number of seal pelts he has drying. If he has a snowmobile parked in front of his igloo a woman can know that this man is a keeper.
Foreplay for Canadians is a much longer process than for people from , let’s say… Florida. After the gender has been ascertained the couple has to spend a fair amount of time peeling off their respective layers of clothing, if the weather is really cold this can take a long time. I can speak from my own experience and say that Canadian men can engage in foreplay for hours on end. This helps the man and woman warm up and get some circulation going.
Once the clothes are off and the foreplay has ended Canadians engage in sex much like other races… well… with the exception that Canadian men have twice the stamina of their American counterparts. It comes from eating blubber… really. I won’t even go into the marked difference in penis size.