As a white man and a Jew, I am perfectly ok with laughing at myself. I’m secure in who I am both ethnically and as an individual. So are most white people and Jews, imho, and a great many blacks. Without that, you cannot have much humor. It’s leftards, Islamofascists, and PC morons who are incapable of self-deprecation, of stepping outside their egos and having a good laugh at their own expense. It’s a stinginess of spirit.
Yes, I think it’s funny. Especially those leftard whites. They’re so full of good will and rosy optimism, and they get crushed, as the two blacks knew they would. I also think Amos and Andy are funny, and also Jack Benny’s interactions with his butler Rochester. Jack Benny’s not a retard, he’s a notoriously cheap Jew and enjoys playing that stereotype up for comic effect. Rochester still takes advantage of him shamelessly, and that, too, is masterfully funny. Perhaps Stepenfetchit enjoyed being comically servile. Hard to say, because that was the only role allowed him at the time.
Every TV show? Flip Wilson cross-dressed and played a greedy Reverand Leroy. Urkle played an awkward nerd. Bill Cosby...well.... Eddie Murphy played a bitter old Jewish Gumby and an angry poet on the Dick Cavett version of You Bet Your Life. I don’t watch much TV anymore, but once upon a time blacks in sitcoms was a novelty. There are still plenty with talent. For example, Dave Chappelle played a black Grand Wizard who was unaware that he was black because he was blind. Yes, the racists he was making fun of were white. And it is now a classic.
I own the Chappelle Show, and Clayton Bigsby is my NetFlix account.
It just seems all one direction now.
Flip Wilson was one of my favorites especially the Christopher Columbus bit. “I’m gonna discover America. I’m gonna fiiiiiiind Ray Charles!”