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It Took Richard Pryor To Change How Comedy Sees The Police

THEATRE Posted: June 21, 2020 8:30 am

Comedy culture before Pryor, that is, white comedy culture, depicted copys “as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. When they swung their clubs, you never really felt the blow.” Then Pryor came along. – The New York Times

THEATRE Published: 06.17.20

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.17.20

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