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- she was funny and she was real, and i really related to her characters. the little girl who put the shirt on her head so she could have long hair, that was me. - then she said, "even if you sit in a vat of clorox til hell freeze over, you aint gonna be nothin but black." and she was right cause i sat in the clorox and i got burned. (audience laughing) - although it was really successful, she was the only black female that had a special for a really long time to come. - 2001 was the very import...

- you come here. yes. - martin was good at being spontaneous. he could come off the cuff and when you look at some of those old "def jam" performances, a lot of what he did was improvised. i dont know that he ever went out there with a playbook. - i know big bird outta business, but what the (beep) is up? (audience laughs) - "def comedy jam" was a black comics paradise. - after decades of being told how to behave, whats appropriate, whats okay and whats not okay, black comedians had enough. you ...

- then she said, "even if you sit in a vat of clorox til hell freeze over, you aint gonna be nothin but black." and she was right cause i sat in the clorox and i got burned. (audience laughing) - although it was really successful, she was the only black female that had a special for a really long time to come. - 2001 was the very important time in black standup because you cannot ignore the sisters in comedy. - "the queens of comedy" was monique, sommore, miss laura and adele givens. and these w...

- although it was really successful, she was the only black female that had a special for a really long time to come. - 2001 was the very important time in black standup because you cannot ignore the sisters in comedy. - "the queens of comedy" was monique, sommore, miss laura and adele givens. and these were ladies, who on their own, were powerhouses. - (beep) these skinny bitches! look at her shakin. bitch, cause you hungry! (audience laughing) - but to put all that power together, it exploded....

- i know big bird outta business, but what the (beep) is up? (audience laughs) - "def comedy jam" was a black comics paradise. - after decades of being told how to behave, whats appropriate, whats okay and whats not okay, black comedians had enough. you will no longer censor me. - we put on the acts that we wanted to see, edgy. - im so broke, if a nigga robbed me, hell just be practicing. (audience laughs) - "def jam" comes along and boom! now everybody knows bill bellamy, adele givens, bernie m...

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