- 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
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to go to her dressing room. she went out by the pool and just dipped her feet, her little, pretty feet, in the water. they drained the pool and repainted it. so redd was from that era, from that chitlin circuit. - redd foxx, he had comedy albums that were raunchy, and they thought he would never make it on tv. how could he clean up his act? and then he goes on television. - my first wife, i had a 1942 buick, and her. (audience laughing) and i left both of them to come to california. (audience laughing) didn t hurt too bad cause neither one of em was working. (audience laughing) - now did he clean up his act? in a way he did. but you knew what he was thinking. (upbeat percussive music) - in 1971, the intensity was something that was really everywhere. you know, we ve had assassinations recently, riots, there s nixon talking about law and order. but soul train suggested that there s joy in black culture.
- one of the most iconic sketches on key & peele involved barack obama and his alter ego, luther. - a lot of folks say that i haven t done a good job at communicating my accomplishments to the public. - because y all mother (beep) don t listen! - and it was so popular that obama himself invited luther to come up on stage with him during a white house correspondent s dinner. so funny. - we won t always see eye-to-eye. - oh, and cnn, thank you so much for the wall-to-wall ebola coverage. for two whole weeks we were one step away from the walking dead! - key & peele proved that an all-black sketch show could be something that was bankable, and the best thing about it is that it paved the way for the next one. - kevin was a good boyfriend, okay? now he stole my car one time, but he brought that shit back. - uh-huh, with a girl in it! - the creator of a black lady sketch show robin thede, packed that show with so many talented black women,