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why do most black comedians always talk about race?

They have nothing else original and always revert to black white issues and always do a character who is ghetto.

Update:

Not sensitive and who cares just asking why this crutch as one woman put it is there.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well - really it is a central point to many Blacks' lives and a comedian talks about life. I will admit that many arent funny though and they use race or sex as a crutch topic.

    But someone like Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle was funny because they have a larger point abd they are good comedians. Eddie Murphey, Richard Pryor, ..etc. They were just good comedians.

  • 5 years ago

    in all risk using fact in the event that they do the comparable humor all the white comics are doing, they won't be observed as there are a lot of persons doing that style of humor. so as that they use the race attitude. I observed a youtube video of a Muslim comedian interior the united kingdom and what do you think of his humor relied upon? It depended on jokes approximately him going to the airport and different issues approximately Muslims being subjected to discrimination in line with unfavourable stereotypes. And as somebody else spoke back, their humor comes from their very own life reviews handling racism.

  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe because black people in general have faced racism in some way or another in America, and also have had a friend or a friend of a friend who lived or worked in the ghetto.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not all black comedians are like that. Some like Chris Rock are. But most people are past that. Watch comicview sometime, alot of the times their jokes are not race related.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's not only black people from what I see, I watched all types of comedy shows and the asians, hispanics, and blacks joked about other races, even their own.

  • 1 decade ago

    because if you can relate to what they are saying it is funny otherwise you end up asking stupid questions like this one.

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    1 decade ago

    Because it sells. If they weren't making money from it, they wouldn't do it. Seriously, have we become so sensitive that we can't laugh at our differences? It's funny and it makes money, that's why.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The same reason YOU are always talking about race. You can't think of anything else that interests you more.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree with you all the way...Chris Rock is racist & Jerry Seinfeld never talk about race.ANd how do black people know that white people are always on time,walk funny & eat applesauce all the time I disagree!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because if no one laughs they will be accused of being racist, so people feel forced to laugh

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