It wasn’t just stagecraft.
Blacks were the butt of the jokes, with grotesque racial stereotypes.
Jeesh!
So were the Irish and as an Irishman, I say SOOOOOO????!!!!
Lets not even get into the Polish, the Germans, the Jews.
Again I say SOOOOOO? They need to get a thicker skin and grow up.
I can send you (all of us) a roast from the 70(s?) where a lip joke was told. Was it unfunny then? Nope, ALL people laughed.
Gawds this ‘race thing’ is tiresome.
Stereotypes are real for a reason!
Further, please forgive, this is NOT a rant at you or against you. The entire ‘race thing’ has been a tiresome argument for decades.
Oh. Oh dear... that’s very different then... never mind.