Transcripts for CNN The History of Comedy 20191223 03:34:00

CNN The History of Comedy December 23, 2019 03:34:00

-- stole their seats. [ laughter ] weren't we sitting here, dear? i believe we were sitting here. weren't we? 66 yes, we were sitting right there. >> well, you ain't sitting here now, mother [ bleep ]. >> even after slavery, it was not permissible for black people to openly make fun of, mock, ridicule white people. by the time you get to richard pryor, richard pryor decides he's not going to speak in code. he's going to talk to mainstream audiences the way black people talk in private. >> police got a chokehold they use out here. they choke -- to death. that mean you be dead when they're through. you know that? we're going, yeah, we know. white folks are going, no, i had no idea.

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