[wtc911]

Most political/topical/racial comedy is born out of anger, not all of course, but most. Take the comic off the stage, scratch the surface just a bit and the anger and feelings of impotence are right there. It's the Lenny Bruce school, and look how he disintegrated.

A few of them manage to hide the anger during their careers for common sense financial reasons but after a while it shows. Think Cosby - a very angry man in spite of his great success and wealth. Or thinl of virtually any reasonably successful comedienne - Cho, Bernhardt, Poundstone - they are all angry queers.

[John O]

Think Cosby - a very angry man in spite of his great success and wealth.

Difference here being that Bill Cosby is angry at the blacks for selling themselves back into slavery.

[allmendream]

I would feel angry and impotent as well if I, like Lenny Bruce, was arrested for telling dirty jokes at nightclubs where alcohol drinking adults had paid to hear my dirty jokes, in America where we are supposedly free to express our thoughts any way we want.

‘they arrested me for saying an eleven letter word. They said this word was for a homosexual practice. Now that confused me, because when I think of that word - I don't think of a homosexual practice; I think of any hip contemporary chick I might know, or would WANT to know, or would love, or would marry.’ Lenny Bruce on being arrested in San Francisco for saying “c*cksuckers”.