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Author |
: Darryl Littleton |
Publisher |
: Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1557837309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781557837301 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Comedians on Black Comedy by : Darryl Littleton
(Applause Books). Black Comedians on Black Comedy is the only up-to-date book to examine African-American humor. Comedian Darryl Littleton traces the history and evolution of "black comedy" in his narrative and through the 125 interviews he conducted with some of the top African-American comedians in the world. Those interviewed include Dick Gregory, Sinbad, Eddie Murphy, Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Nick Cannon, Bernie Mac, Eddie Griffin, Damon Wayans, Arsenio Hall, Chris Rock, Marla Gibbs, Robert Townsend, and John Witherspoon.
Author |
: Bambi Haggins |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813539854 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813539850 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing Mad by : Bambi Haggins
In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performance of blackness continues to be made culturally digestible for mass consumption.
Author |
: Mel Watkins |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2006-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400096763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400096766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stepin Fetchit by : Mel Watkins
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perry was hailed by critic Robert Benchley as “the best actor that the talking movies have produced,” and Mel Watkins’s meticulously researched and sensitive biography reveals the paradoxes of this pioneering actor’s life, from Perry’s tremendous popularity to his money troubles and rowdy offscreen antics. As later generations come to recognize Perry’s prodigious talent and achievements, in Stepin Fetchit, Mel Watkins brilliantly and definitively illuminates the life and times of a legendary figure in American entertainment.
Author |
: Eric Reese |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2017-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1796993492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781796993493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Just Stand Up by : Eric Reese
Cherish the lives and struggles of the most memorable comedians in the world of black comedy! This historical reference point of Black comedy mentions: The early history of stand up comedy and ignorance of Blackface The impact of Jackie "Moms" Mabley The impact of comedians turned actors for television such as Redd Foxx and Nipsey Russell The movie industry for early black comedians; Richard Pryor, Robert Townsend, Eddie Murphy and Bernie Mac And much more! This book pays homage to the legends of stand up comedy and is a no-brainer for those interested in African American comedy.
Author |
: Glenda Carpio |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2008-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199719549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199719543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing Fit to Kill by : Glenda Carpio
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the post-civil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up act and the outrageous comedy of Chappelle's Show to demonstrate how deeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenth-century fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by Kara Walker and Robert Colescott cleverly lampoons the iconography of slavery. Ultimately, Laughing Fit to Kill offers a unique look at the bold, complex, and just plain funny ways that African American artists have used laughter to critique slavery's dark legacy.
Author |
: W. Kamau Bell |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2018-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101985885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101985887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by : W. Kamau Bell
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell’s gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women’s issues as inseparable." After all this love and praise, it’s time for the next step: a book. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of issues, such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; left-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; white men; his up-bringing by very strong-willed, race-conscious, yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice, then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much, much more.
Author |
: Mel Watkins |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 638 |
Release |
: 1999-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569767603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569767602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis On the Real Side by : Mel Watkins
This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg, Eddie Murphy, and Bill Cosby.
Author |
: Baratunde Thurston |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2012-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062098047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062098047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Be Black by : Baratunde Thurston
New York TimesBestseller Baratunde Thurston’s comedic memoir chronicles his coming-of-blackness and offers practical advice on everything from “How to Be the Black Friend” to “How to Be the (Next) Black President”. Have you ever been called “too black” or “not black enough”? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? Have you ever heard of black people? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. It is also for anyone who can read, possesses intelligence, loves to laugh, and has ever felt a distance between who they know themselves to be and what the world expects. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has more than over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the murder of his drug-abusing father, and other revelatory black details, he shares with readers of all colors his wisdom and expertise in how to be black. “As a black woman, this book helped me realize I’m actually a white man.”—Patton Oswalt
Author |
: Mel Watkins |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106011391247 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis African American Humor by : Mel Watkins
This collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satire, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, and snaps documents the evolution of African American humor over the past two centuries. It includes routines and writings from such luminaries as Bert Williams, Butterbeans & Susie, Stepin Fetchit, Moms Mabley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Redd Foxx, Ishmael Reed, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence, and Chris Rock. This anthology includes classic stage routines, literary examples, and witty quotations presented in their entirety.
Author |
: Kliph Nesteroff |
Publisher |
: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2015-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802190864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802190863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Comedians by : Kliph Nesteroff
“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal