- 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
was making $10,000 a week and he gave all that up to march with martin luther king. - dick gregory has been dubbed the father of black political comedy. - and moms mabley was the mother of black female comedians. - he said, where will you find another man like me? i said, in the graveyard. (audience laughing) - she was one of the first black female comics ever, the harriet tubman of comedy. - when she got off that stage, she would transform into her real truth, which was wearing a zoot suit and having two women on her arm. - we have to understand who moms mabley was. she was a gay, black woman. - nobody knew that at the time because she couldn t be out. no one was out. - redd foxx and moms mabley both toiled for decades on the chitlin circuit. - redd was back in the day when nat king cole, lena horne, harry bellafonte could play in vegas, but they couldn t stay in the hotel. dorothy dandridge had to go through the servants entrance
was making $10,000 a week and he gave all that up to march with martin luther king. - dick gregory has been dubbed the father of black political comedy. - and moms mabley was the mother of black female comedians. - he said, where will you find another man like me? i said, in the graveyard. (audience laughing) - she was one of the first black female comics ever, the harriet tubman of comedy. - when she got off that stage, she would transform into her real truth, which was wearing a zoot suit and having two women on her arm. - we have to understand who moms mabley was. she was a gay, black woman. - nobody knew that at the time because she couldn t be out. no one was out. - redd foxx and moms mabley both toiled for decades on the chitlin circuit. - redd was back in the day when nat king cole, lena horne, harry bellafonte could play in vegas, but they couldn t stay in the hotel. dorothy dandridge had to go through the servants entrance
(smooth rock music) - in the late 50s, early 60s, the country starts to change more when civil rights hit. then you re getting grittier comedy that is gonna deal with race. - i hate to see any baseball player having troubles cause that s a great sport for my people. that is the only sport in the world where a negro can shake a stick at a white man and won t start no riot. (audience laughing) - dick gregory put politics in his comedy. it was like seeing a curve ball, and he d throw it and you couldn t see it coming. - 1961, appearing on the jack paar show, dick gregory becomes the first black comedian ever to sit down on the couch after his performance. - what kind of car you got? - a lincoln, naturally. - [jack] well, that s a. (audience laughing) - dick gregory in the 50s and early 60s was making $10,000 a week and he gave all that up to march with martin luther king. - dick gregory has been dubbed the father of black political comedy.
here. glenn i would like to hear your full explanation on that. go ahead. sure. if you look at the memo and i wish you had a chance to go over it. if you add up, those are the big five benefits. the big five would be daycare, earned income tax credit, health care, low income housing and food stamps. if you take a single person making $10,000 a year you add up the five benefits by itself and you get something like 25, 30, 32,000 or something. that s not an outlier or strange family. if i give that family three or four kids the benefits would be greater. the point is not that it is overgenerous or making fun. it s unfair if you have two people in identical situations and one decides to get married and one decides not to get married the person whoklaéñú#z married loses tens of thousands of dollars. don t you think your don t you think you re broad brushing