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- 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 ....
- 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, ....
A Killeen teen was sentenced on Thursday to a term of deferred adjudication probation for two felony charges after she kicked and spat on police officers and then, in a separate incident, broke into a manâs home and beat him. Aaliyah Shante Neal, 19, was sentenced to seven years of deferred adjudication probation on a second-degree felony charge of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit assault and a third-degree felony charge of harassment of a public servant. Neal also will have to pay $275.07 in restitution, have no contact with any of the victims and complete âCognitive Behavioral Treatmentâ at one of the Texas Department of Criminal Justiceâs intermediate sanction facilities. ....