SNL has a miserable record with black comedians. Eddie Murphy won't talk about his tenure on that show to this day. Can't remember a single skit Chris Rock did while he was on. And they SO love putting their non-white comedians in dresses...and hiring them fat. Yes, Dave Chappel did white face, but he didn't have cast members doing it: it was the "Chappel show." This isn't the "Armison show." In Living Color hired Jim Carey, and really gave him chances to shine. A high percentage of successful comedians and comic actors are black--you'd never know it from the non-whites cast on SNL. Keenan is really the best they could do? And before that Tracy Morgan? I couldn't imagine safer, less-threatening black males. The fact is that, obviously, they don't care, and America doesn't much care.
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" A high percentage of successful comedians and comic actors are black--you'd never know it from the non-whites cast on SNL".
Having grown up in Iowa with only broadcast TV I can say that this is absolutly true. I had no idea of the range of comedic talent in the black community. It simply didn't exist until I got older and moved.
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