- 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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(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.
Who helped us very early on in our career, the way he treated us and took us under his wing that will always, like, stand out to me. - desus and mero are two of the most hilarious brothers out there. - you know, you in the hood mcdonald s when the drive-through says, yo, no walking, like, you can not walk through here. - people be knocking on the glass like. (knocks) hello! hello! i see y all in there. - yo, i m in a car, i m in a car, don t worry about it. look, ten-and-two, ten-and-two. look. and they re like, sir! i was like, hold up. (imitates window rolling down) (audience laughing) how can i help you? - late night tv has certainly expanded its stable of black voices and people who can not only entertain, but offer black perspectives, which have long been missing from late night television. - as far as like pressure and feeling like, oh, i have to represent this, i have to represent that, it s like we are who we are, and we are that. - the show we make is a reflect
(audience cheering) people don t know that i wasn t one of the original queens of comedy. they had taken it out a couple times, and then i got the call. we were, and still are, the highest grossing female comedy tour in history. - now you can t talk about black female comedians and not talk about wanda sykes. - being gay is not a choice. it s not a choice. (audience cheering) - wanda gets on stage completely unapologetic. i am a black woman who is a lesbian. - and if you believe that it s a choice, then you re saying that straight people are straight because they chose not to be gay. right? (audience clapping) and i m sure a lot of straight guys in here, you know, i m talking about em. sure there s, on several occasions, you know, you probably think, you know, i think i m gonna suck a (beep) today. (audience laughing) - she s like, this is me, accept it. and we have and we love it. - so to go from a point where moms mabley has to hide who she is to wanda sykes being able to be c