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308 Pages·2011·2.584 MB·English
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ICONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COMEDY RecentTitlesin GreenwoodIcons IconsofLatinoAmerica:LatinoContributionstoAmericanCulture RogerBruns IconsofCrimeFighting:RelentlessPursuersofJustice EditedbyJeffreyBumgarner IconsofUnbelief:Atheists,Agnostics,andSecularists EditedbyS.T.Joshi WomenIconsofPopularMusic:TheRebels,Rockers,andRenegades CarrieHavranek IconsofTalk:TheMediaMouthsThatChangedAmerica DonnaL.Halper Icons of African American Protest: Trailblazing Activists of the Civil Rights Movement GladysL.Knight IconsofAmericanArchitecture:FromtheAlamototheWorldTradeCenter DonaldLangmead Icons of Invention: The Makers of the Modern World from Gutenberg toGates JohnW.Klooster IconsofBeauty:Art,Culture,andtheImageofWomen DebraN.MancoffandLindsayJ.Bosch IconsofMysteryandCrimeDetection:FromSleuthstoSuperheroes MitziM.Brunsdale IconsofBlackAmerica MatthewC.Whitaker,Editor IconsofAmericanCooking VictorW.GeraciandElizabethS.Demers,Editors ICONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COMEDY Eddie Tafoya G I REENWOOD CONS Copyright2011byEddieTafoya Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recording,orotherwise,exceptfortheinclusionofbriefquotationsina review,withoutpriorpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Tafoya,Eddie. IconsofAfricanAmericancomedy/EddieTafoya. p.cm.—(Greenwoodicons) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–313–38084–6(hardcopy:alk.paper)—ISBN978–0–313–38085–3(ebook) 1. AfricanAmericancomedians—Biography.2. AfricanAmericanwitandhumor—History andcriticism. I.Title. PN2286.T34 2011 792.7602808996073—dc22 2010054393 ISBN:978–0–313–38084–6 EISBN:978–0–313–38085–3 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 ThisbookisalsoavailableontheWorldWideWebasaneBook. Visitwww.abc-clio.comfordetails. Greenwood AnImprintofABC-CLIO,LLC ABC-CLIO,LLC 130CremonaDrive,P.O.Box1911 SantaBarbara,California93116-1911 Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica TothegreatAmericancomedians, fromCharleyCasetoDaveChappelle, whonurtureourspiritwiththeirjokes. This page intentionally left blank Contents SeriesForeword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction:BehindtheBlackface xv BertWilliams 1 EarlyLife 2 TheWilliamsandWalkerYears 4 Williams’sSoloCareer 11 Influence 13 MomsMabley 17 EarlyLife 18 TheEarlyMovies 20 OnTelevision 21 AmazingGrace 22 Stand-upCareer 23 Influence 30 ReddFoxx 33 EarlyLife 34 Stand-upCareer 37 SanfordandSon 41 Influence 45 DickGregory 49 EarlyLife 51 ComedyCareer 53 Activism 61 Influence 67 viii Contents GodfreyCambridge 69 EarlyLife 71 Stand-upCareer 75 FilmandTelevision 80 Influence 85 FlipWilson 87 EarlyLife 89 OnTelevision 93 Stand-upCareer 101 Influence 104 BillCosby 107 EarlyLife 110 OnVinyl 115 OnTelevision 124 TheCosbyShow 127 Influence 130 RichardPryor 135 EarlyLife 136 EarlyCareer 141 OnVinyl 142 TheConcertFilms 150 RichardPryoronFilm 161 TheRichardPryorShow 166 Influence 169 WhoopiGoldberg 173 EarlyLife 174 ThePerformanceFilms 179 OnFilm 187 OnTelevision 190 Influence 192 DamonWayans 197 EarlyLife 198 InLivingColor 201 OnFilm 206 OtherTelevisionShows 210 Books 212 Influence 214 ChrisRock 217 EarlyLife 219 Stand-upCareer 223 Contents ix OnTelevisionandFilm 231 Influence 236 DaveChappelle 239 EarlyLife 241 EarlyWork 244 Chappelle’sShow 246 TheAfricanHiatus 256 ThePerformanceFilms 258 Influence 264 Timeline 267 Index 273

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