Posted on 05/25/2004 10:30:56 AM PDT by dead
COMPLETE AUDIO of the EVENT
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/metro/052304-1s.htm
I defy you to find a single person on FR who's made more obscure, inane pop cultural references on this website in the space of a little under three weeks.
Good luck!
NyQuille----obviously conceived after dosing the wife with some heavy-duty cough medicine.
113 - "Black humor has always been crass, politically-incorrect, and filled with profanity and sex. "
"Explain Sinbad, then. "
I used to admire Sinbad, until I found out he had two totally different personas, and his 'white' persona was definitely not his 'normal' persona.
A few years back, he had a late nite TV show (replacing Arsenio Hall and a number of others in the same spot). It lasted locally for about 2 months before they yanked him. It was amazing. He had a mostly black audience, and not only was he VERY "crass, politically-incorrect, and filled with profanity and sex. ", he added advocating lying, cheating, theft, kite-ing checks, skipping out on rent, stealing, hiding your car from the repo man, and all kinds of other bad things, skipping out on payments for children (both legitimate and illigitimate), cheating on wives and girlfriends.
I was astounded, it was really bad and pathetic, and his studio audience loved it. However, locally, it raised tempers, and massive call ins to the TV station which pulled it well short of their 'contract', and they replaced it with reruns of something else.
You're right about the commentator -- if blacks can become doctors and lawyers --- and I should think the leftists would think they should be --- how is it a bourgeois fantasy that a black doctor would marry a black lawyer? People often do marry within their same education level. I think the show was pretty realistic of the way black professional families live. At least the ones I've known.
I think they should do what they want --- however other groups have done much more to "help" their own group. You will certainly see Mexicans shunning non-Mexican businesses, and I've seen ethnic groups support one of their own, you see them hiring their own but you can't really accuse blacks of doing that too much. Sometimes I think they should do it what the others do --- for example in some neighborhoods, they have been angry at the Korean immigrants who own the stores and who definitely have an inclination to hire only other Korean immigrants --- but you'll see the blacks shopping there -- even though they face discrimination.
I think his show ran a bit longer on the New York affiliates, but I'm not positive.
To be honest, I don't remember much about his monologues, except for a joke about illegal immigration that was moderately amusing.
If by 'white' persona, you mean the incredibly lame, not especially funny comedian who starred in such gut-busters as "Jingle All The Way", than I beg to differ.
Sinbad was great when he starred on "A Different World" and hosted "Showtime at the Apollo." He also had a great set when he was a stand-up comedian.
However, I'd say the past decade or so has not been too friendly to the man, at least as far as commercial success goes. Unless someone can provide evidence to the contrary, I'd say that the career of Sinbad-at least in mainstream comedy-is just about finished.
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I would imagine she had everyone's gum in her hair on the school bus.
Good lord, has someone told the Black Spokespeople like Jessie that in order to be "black", a comedian has to refer to immoral and irresponsible? This means that in order to actually conquer the problems that apparently beset their political base, they should be prompting the black churches to condemn immoral behavior, push for self-control and personal responsibility, and work to attack the real shortcomings of their own culture, rather than constantly assuming that every trouble they face is the result of oppression from without by Da Man! This could be hugh! Why isn't this being reported!!!!
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Bill has it right, and the people who are supposed "friends to the black community" will do what they have done for fifty years...blame the Other Guys, and line their own pockets while the black family takes the damage.
If the best are white males, that's the way we go. I was thinking, actually, of a particular calibration service we use, where all employees are black males. We don't hire them for "affirmative action", we hire them because they are outstanding at what they do.
Bump for a righteous post.
Cosby stepped up and has always stepped up. People forget he broke color lines that had been built with steel when he became the first black man to star in a television show. Hard to imagine, but it caused a lot of tumult at the time. Even Robert Culp was patted on the back for allowing Cosby to co-star with him.
Cosby's humor was always clean and edifying; he never swore and was consistently hilarious. Long before Seinfeld, he was the best.
My favorite old bit of his was when his brother and he jumped on their bed and broke it, then blamed the damage on "the man who came in the window."
Cosby's only son's death was tragic and very peculiar.
Blacks and whites all need to pay this man respect. If not him, who?
Hey. I just wanted to thank you guys for posting my articles here. Given that we come from different positions on of the issues, feedback here is especially interesting. It's always good to know what people are thinking, especially if they don't agree with you. Who knows, I might be wrong. Anyway, thanks for the postings, thanks for being so vocal in your responses, and please, read on.
What?!
Black America really thought that talking like ghetto trash and wasting money on pimp gear was OK?
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