Want a good laugh?

Go see Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. You must see it with a full audience - I felt like I was there in the original audience tonight because folks were rotfltho
[or whatever], dancing and slapping hands. The comparisons between r & b and rap/common and everyday hiphop were great
especially if you are the type to pump up the radio when you hear only a few beats of a favorite song.

The several rifs on white and black are good [I especially like the running coordinator], they might open some main stream folks up to different perspectives.

As good a good Richard Pryor? Hard to say because it has been wwwaaaayyyyyyy too long since I laughed so hard with a comedian. No, Pryor’s rifs on traveling in Africa are true classics, but the Original Kings of Comedy was consistently funny.

They had a long segment on Ebert, and it was all Black racist stereotype jokes. Sure the audience may laugh, but they laughed at Rastas and Liza too. Pryor was at his best when he lost the racial stuff, and Redd Foxx and Bill Cosby always had balanced acts that didn’t depend on “White guys do this and Black guys do that”.