http://dalaughingbarrel.c...interview/

Is this real? Not the part about Kevin Hart, nut only one black comic allowed to be on top at a time?

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

http://dalaughingbarrel.c...interview/

Is this real? Not the part about Kevin Hart, nut only one black comic allowed to be on top at a time?

[Edited 8/11/12 15:33pm]

by the very nature of the phrase "being on top," there is only ever one in that position no matter what the field.

errant said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

http://dalaughingbarrel.c...interview/

Is this real? Not the part about Kevin Hart, nut only one black comic allowed to be on top at a time?

[Edited 8/11/12 15:33pm]

by the very nature of the phrase "being on top," there is only ever one in that position no matter what the field.

It's interesting he said they choose one and spit you out, like he said about Chappelle and Martin Lawrence.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

errant said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

It's interesting he said they choose one and spit you out, like he said about Chappelle and Martin Lawrence.

I'd tell him "welcome to entertainment, buddy." And let's not forget that Martin and Chappelle were the makers of their own undoing.

If you start from 1960, it's almost true

Dick Gregory

Bill Cosby

Flip Wilson

Redd Foxx

Richard Pryor

Eddie Murphy

Arsenio Hall

Damon Wayans

Martin Lawrence

Chris Rock

Bernie Mac

Dave Chappelle

Kevin Hart

???

LittleBLUECorvette said:

errant said:

LittleBLUECorvette said: I'd tell him "welcome to entertainment, buddy." And let's not forget that Martin and Chappelle were the makers of their own undoing.

If you start from 1960, it's almost true

Dick Gregory

Bill Cosby

Flip Wilson

Redd Foxx

Richard Pryor

Eddie Murphy

Arsenio Hall

Damon Wayans

Martin Lawrence

Chris Rock

Bernie Mac

Dave Chappelle

Kevin Hart

???

Weren't these two popular around the same time? And seeing that Redd was much older than Gregory, I would have thought his career peaked first. I remember my parents having records by both comedians. You left off one: Moms Mabely.

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Shyra said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

If you start from 1960, it's almost true

Dick Gregory

Bill Cosby

Flip Wilson

Redd Foxx

Richard Pryor

Eddie Murphy

Arsenio Hall

Damon Wayans

Martin Lawrence

Chris Rock

Bernie Mac

Dave Chappelle

Kevin Hart

???

Weren't these two popular around the same time? And seeing that Redd was much older than Gregory, I would have thought his career peaked first. I remember my parents having records by both comedians. You left off one: Moms Mabely.

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Foxx started comedy 6 years after Dick Gregory was born. He was known way before Gregory, but Gregory in 1961 was the first black comic to peform on TV in 1961.

Gregory was the first to bring black comedy to the masses. He was even resented about black comics like Slappy White, Nipsy Russell and Timmie Rogers.

Patrice O'Neal was THIS close to being some kind of comedy superstar just on his stand-up and his appearances on Opie and Anthony but he died before he achieved his real success. I dug him...

Timmy84 said:

Patrice O'Neal was THIS close to being some kind of comedy superstar just on his stand-up and his appearances on Opie and Anthony but he died before he achieved his real success. I dug him...

Patrice said it himself he would have never made it big. On some interview he was talking about Jewish people, knowing the Mafia and turning Spike Lee down and stuff.

Very interesting. He said he wasn't allowed to make it big.

Timmy84 said:

Patrice O'Neal was THIS close to being some kind of comedy superstar just on his stand-up and his appearances on Opie and Anthony but he died before he achieved his real success. I dug him...

I found it.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:

Patrice O'Neal was THIS close to being some kind of comedy superstar just on his stand-up and his appearances on Opie and Anthony but he died before he achieved his real success. I dug him...

Patrice said it himself he would have never made it big. On some interview he was talking about Jewish people, knowing the Mafia and turning Spike Lee down and stuff.

Very interesting. He said he wasn't allowed to make it big.

I see. But yeah he was very controversial but that's why I dug him...