- you know what? that looks like fire! - comedy without black people would be like the nba without black players. (kevin screaming) - your biggest, biggest superstars in comedy have been black. (eddie yelling) - just genius and hilarious. - yeah, i said it. (audience cheering) - the chappelle show redefined sketch comedy. - i m rick james, bitch. (audience laughing) - in living color set up a platform for black comedians blowing up. - i don t think so. homie don t play that. (audience laughing) - arsenio hall was, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. it was groundbreaking. - [audience] woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. - you had a black man willing to fight the power. - nice being out of jail. (audience laughing) - laughter is healing, laughter purifies the air. actually i don t like to talk about the races, because i m white. - and we, as black people, have been doing it forever. - i am, this is a freckle. (audience laughing) - all black comedians discuss race. - it s harder being gay than i
(audience laughing) made me mad as hell, i said, don t ask me no damn question like that! i ain t never had no pumpkin pie. kick it! (audience laughing) (upbeat music) - you know the women of def comedy jam hold a special place in my heart because they are like the women of gangster rap. they had to really make room in such a toxically masculine space. that is not an easy thing to do. - when you get that nfl contract and you get that nba contract, who do you marry? you marry bambi, you run the other way, you should have been (beep) with a country hoe, such as myself, from arkansas. you woulda got your (beep) sucke and biscuits from scratch up in that mother. (audience laughing) - at about the same time as def comedy jam, snl was looking for another great black sketch artist because eddie murphy left and chris rock was super young and he wasn t quite ready at the time. he eventually left and became much bigger after snl. - honey, it ll be aight if you just say you did it.
(upbeat music) - you know the women of def comedy jam hold a special place in my heart because they are like the women of gangster rap. they had to really make room in such a toxically masculine space. that is not an easy thing to do. - when you get that nfl contract and you get that nba contract, who do you marry? you marry bambi, you run the other way, you should have been (beep) with a country hoe, such as myself, from arkansas. you woulda got your (beep) sucke and biscuits from scratch up in that mother. (audience laughing) - at about the same time as def comedy jam, snl was looking for another great black sketch artist because eddie murphy left and chris rock was super young and he wasn t quite ready at the time. he eventually left and became much bigger after snl. - honey, it ll be aight if you just say you did it. you start thinking, i guess it ll be aight. (audience laughing) honey, i did it. is it aight? no, it ain t aight! i can t believe you did that.
that is not an easy thing to do. - when you get that nfl contract and you get that nba contract, who do you marry? you marry bambi, you run the other way, you should have been (beep) with a country hoe, such as myself, from arkansas. you woulda got your (beep) sucke and biscuits from scratch up in that mother. (audience laughing) - at about the same time as def comedy jam, snl was looking for another great black sketch artist because eddie murphy left and chris rock was super young and he wasn t quite ready at the time. he eventually left and became much bigger after snl. - honey, it ll be aight if you just say you did it. you start thinking, i guess it ll be aight. (audience laughing) honey, i did it. is it aight? no, it ain t aight! i can t believe you did that. i thought you said you knew. i didn t know til you told me! (audience laughing) - so after chris rock does bring the pain, it was an explosive moment for him and there was no going back.