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Prior to the presidency of the twice-impeached dictator idol-worshipper Red Barron 45, Florida was the ideal place to be, with sun-filled days and beautiful starry nights.

- how do you do? - youre a negro! lenny didnt tell me that! - thats all right, wanda. leonard didnt tell us you arent. - she really felt that they were presenting an image of the white negro. - but at the time, i didnt care because theres a black woman on tv. shes a nurse. shes helping people. - diahann carroll was the first black woman to be nominated for an emmy for her performance in that show. - it represented the first time that a black family went into the homes of americans on a weekly ba...

To go to her dressing room. she went out by the pool and just dipped her feet, her little, pretty feet, in the water. they drained the pool and repainted it. so redd was from that era, from that chitlin circuit. - redd foxx, he had comedy albums that were raunchy, and they thought he would never make it on tv. how could he clean up his act? and then he goes on television. - my first wife, i had a 1942 buick, and her. (audience laughing) and i left both of them to come to california. (audience la...

For black comedians. - more i think about the future, i think about the black comics that really sort of move me. i think about people like amber ruffin. i think about sam jay. i think about nicole byer. streaming allows for new faces and new players to get into the game to find success. - with the explosion of streaming, black comedians started making these record breaking deals on streaming networks. the list goes on and on. - so to see them be established and getting big checks for doing big ...

Its absurd that he would die broke. - he died with nothing. you know, eddie murphy paid the funeral costs. - i think its important that we dont forget about the great people that came before us when signing these huge deals because there were a lot of people who gave their all to the craft and died with nothing financially to show for it. - looking back on everything that youve done, if you could change anything, what would it be? - write in my underwear. (interviewer laughing) - its a great tim...

Was making $10,000 a week and he gave all that up to march with martin luther king. - dick gregory has been dubbed the father of black political comedy. - and moms mabley was the mother of black female comedians. - he said, "where will you find another man like me?" i said, "in the graveyard." (audience laughing) - she was one of the first black female comics ever, the harriet tubman of comedy. - when she got off that stage, she would transform into her real truth, which was wearing a zoot suit ...

- and for every dummy, theres a dummy. - one of the creators of "sanford and son" saw redd foxx in his act and thought that he would be perfect for the series they were gonna do, which was an adaptation of a british series, "steptoe & son." - "sanford and son" was a more authentic show because of writers like paul mooney and ilunga adell. - redd and i said, "you know what? we need to have some black writers." - what you doing combing your hair? - why does anybody come their hair? to look neat. -...

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