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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 ....
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- one of the most iconic sketches on key & peele involved barack obama and his alter ego, luther. - a lot of folks say that i haven t done a good job at communicating my accomplishments to the public. - because y all mother (beep) don t listen! - and it was so popular that obama himself invited luther to come up on stage with him during a white house correspondent s dinner. so funny. - we won t always see eye-to-eye. - oh, and cnn, thank you so much for the wall-to-wall ebola coverage. for two whole weeks we were one step away from the walking dead! - key & peele proved that an all-black sketch show could be something that was bankable, and the best thing about it is that it paved the way for the next one. - kevin was a good boyfriend, okay? now he stole my car one time, but he brought that shit back. - uh-huh, with a girl in it! - the creator of a black lady sketch show robin thede, packed that show with so many talented black women, ....
Don t say shit. like, he never deal with all that. - martin lawrence was the best host. - 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 don t 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, what s appropriate, what s okay and what s not okay, black comedians had enough. you will no longer censor me. - we put on the acts that we wanted to see, edgy. - i m so broke, if a nigga robbed me, he ll just be practicing. (audience laughs) - def jam comes along and boom! now everybody knows bill bellamy, adele givens, bernie mac, steve harvey, eddie griffin. so i m grateful for it. how could you not be? - she said, does this (beep) taste like pumpkin pie? ....
On the hip hop culture. it was our voice. - what s your favorite collaboration you ve ever done? - it s all i need with method man. - it was like for the next generation. lil bow wow, all these younger acts. - we got lil wayne in the house right now. - yes, sir! - 106 & park compared to something like trl is putting on younger, edgier guests. but at the time there was nothing that was more edgy than def comedy jam. - tag was a game what we played at the mall. you know where you go to the mall, you see some shit you like. you notice that the price is way too (beep) high. (audience laughs) you find the tag appropriate to your financial needs. (audience laughs) when you re ready to go but static and wrinkles are like, nooooo! try bounce, it s the sheet. less static. less wrinkles. more softness. more freshness. bounce. it s the sheet. ....