- 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
- colored. - redneck. (audience laughing) - jungle bunny. - peckerwood. (audience laughing) - spade! - honkey! (audience laughing) - nigger. - dead honkey. (audience laughing) - richard s voice was so powerful, nbc gave him the richard pryor show. (upbeat jazzy music) - so the richard pryor show was ahead of its time. they were doing sketches about star wars. they were doing sketches about a black president. that sketch show was incredible. - yeah, what is it? - mr. president, you ve been courtin an awful lot of white women. will this continue? - mm. (audience laughing) as long as i can keep it up. (audience laughing) - for the kids that are coming up now, look to the dave chappelle show, and to me, richard was the chappelle show
without paul mooney, there is no richard pryor. - comedy before that and comedy after that is never the same. - richard s appearance in 1975 on saturday night live kind of showed what black comedy could be. - you got to get down and say things like, excuse me. (audience laughing) would you move out of my way? and you walk like this, check this walk. (audience laughing) - what people don t know is that richard pryor insisted upon writing a lot of his own material for that show. so he didn t rely on the white writers to write his skits. he said, i m gonna do it myself. i m gonna bring paul mooney in to come in and help me write this. so they write these amazing sketches that are talking about what blackness is. - it s just a word association. i ll throw you out a few words, anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, okay? - and i say blackness because that s exactly what is was. it was about blackness. - colored. - redneck. (audience laughing) - jungle bunny. - peck
- you got to get down and say things like, excuse me. (audience laughing) would you move out of my way? and you walk like this, check this walk. (audience laughing) - what people don t know is that richard pryor insisted upon writing a lot of his own material for that show. so he didn t rely on the white writers to write his skits. he said, i m gonna do it myself. i m gonna bring paul mooney in to come in and help me write this. so they write these amazing sketches that are talking about what blackness is. - it s just a word association. i ll throw you out a few words, anything that comes to your mind, just throw back at me, okay? - and i say blackness because that s exactly what is was. it was about blackness. - colored. - redneck. (audience laughing) - jungle bunny. - peckerwood. (audience laughing) - spade! - honkey! (audience laughing) - nigger. - dead honkey. (audience laughing) - richard s voice was so powerful,
an in minnesota. i won the first by 312 votes which that s funny. thank you so much. when they say this show features living color, you better believe it. spear chukker. white trash, jungle bunny, [ bleep ] i m not allowed to say certain things. i can make fun of jewish people, but i m not allowed to make fun of other ethnic groups. they don t arrest anybody that kills rabbits. if you want to get away with murder, all you ve got to do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket. when you laugh, it s a racial joke. when you don t laugh, it s a