“I Had to Turn My Blackness Up” - Comedians on Being Black
2023 ж. 25 Ақп.
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Deon Cole, Sasheer Zamata, Roy Wood Jr. and more great comics talk about being Black.
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Roy Wood Jr. just casually dropping "I'd rather talk to someone who doesn't agree with me, than talk to someone with their eyes closed." -- WOW. Beautifully said.
Why Philadelphia 🌹, come up to west Philly love ur comedy 👍
Indeed. I love Roy.
It's not WOW. But yes it was perfectly said.
I loved his segment. Really honest!
Pure GOLD
"Michael B. Jordan lost his daddy that day." 😂😂😂 Roywood's set was 🔥🔥
I liked how some audience members got that joke late. You can hear the laughter build slowly after he already told the joke.🤣
I saw the whole show, he is 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
Yep. Pure class. He’s got funny in his bones.
😂😂😂
Facts LOL
I usually don't ask this but does anybody else think that Deon Cole is kinda fine?
All day everyday.
I've ALWAYS thought that, ever since Blackish
Yes he is.
Right 🤤
Kinda??????
"Ray Charles was just thinking about Georgia....he didn't say go there." 😂😂😂😂
Deon Cole said it….we can’t be black all day! Hilarious!! 🤣
He telling the truth. Its called Code-Switching..
Whenever we need to lol!
Right😅
I’ve never heard it put that way, “We have to manage our blackness” … too funny! This is a great show
You go to work, usually around 1 or more people from a different tribe, and say to yourself, "here comes this bullshi_ I gotta put up with , damn! Be free as a mutha when you leave to be around those who you voluntarily want to be around. 🤣
"we invented The Blues!" Killing me !!!!!
As a Korean, I can confirm I knew all the koreans in all of my schools 😆
“That ain’t the real James” 😂😂😂 it’s the fact that ever black person knows that James probably acts a plum fool outside of work! James be cutting up at the cookouts 😂😂😂😂😂
Roy told NO LIES😂😂😂
Deon didn't lie..... "It behooves me....." 😂😂😂😂
IKR😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
I found out I was black at 8 years old when a white kid said "that's why i don't like black people" after I beat him in a bike race. I asked my white friend Jon...."hey, whats a black person?" he didn't know either. I asked my dad and he almost died laughing and felt bad for not letting me know I'm black.
I love that you were once so naive, you didn't know what black person meant. I think that's beautiful
My son didn’t know he was fully black until he was like 9 He’s 11 now…. And i was the white parent of his mixedness lol All i could do was laugh. He used to be very literal he was caramel so he was mixed and anybody darker than him was black anybody lighter than him was white 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
@@elisepentz1063 I didn’t know I was black until I went to college
@@elisepentz1063 what's more beautiful is that his white friend also didn't know that he was black. think abou thtat.
@@j9ke3r you're right!
"Now I'm looking at you & I'm starting to see a white lady too" laced with accusation😂
Deon Cole gives me LIFE every single time. I absolutely adore him 😘
ME TOO
😂😂😂😂WOOOOOORD WE WENT SWIPING LEFT ON SOOOOO MANY COMEDIANS JUST NOW .. Seeking NEW and DOPE TALENT ..SOH‘s .. like NOT REALLY LOUGHING ONCE UNTILL FINNALLY DION SANDERS HIT IT DA MAGIC BUTTON 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
he is might that is wrong with America white people been mess it up for years look how much debt we are in because of white people. they do not hold no one back they can't even get ahead.
He's everything.
He is Sooo Fine!❤
Roy's comments about the difference in music is spot on. While I recognized the humor (and laughed), I felt deep sadness too. The history of America is horrifically toxic for all Black people. The ripple effect of it continues today.
I’m not saying black people didn’t have a history of oppression in this country in the past. And I’m asking this sincerely and respectful, not to cause an argument…why is only America blamed? Africa sold their own people so why isn’t African countries blamed for black American oppression and slavery? And while the country isn’t perfect, and nothing will ever be perfect, there’s such a huge difference in the country today compared to other centuries and even as recently as the 1960s. Roy was talking about singing songs of freedom in Africa but how was there so much freedom and happiness if they were selling slaves?? Our country is no where close to where it was and this isn’t a racist country. There are racist PEOPLE. I’ll never argue that because there is. But there’s racist people in every race of people. I don’t argue that there wasn’t oppression or slavery and that black Americans did not have very very hard times in the past. But I just feel like most people in this country want to constantly focus so much on the past and aren’t able to recognize just how much this country has changed and ALOT of facts about the present and past are overlooked.
@@ryanwilson5914not all Africans are the same ethnic group or country and will have different cultures, the Arabic or Bedouin originated Africans mostly sold the more bantoid and adjacent related Africans like lemba and the Ashanti etc. Africa is a continent not a country, unfortunately America just happens to own a huge chunk of the north American continent as their country.
@@nazareneoftheway3936 I understand that but people from this country didn’t go over and just take people. The slaves that were in America were bought from these African countries. People didn’t just go steal people. That’s what I’m trying to say.
@@ryanwilson5914 well said. We have much more to consider. I heard a scientist on youtube say, "we are the universe having a human experience" This simple statement opens me to a new way of thinking. Cosmic consciousness.
@@ryanwilson5914Every country has slaves goofy. India has a caste system and wasn’t Irish people looked down upon. I’ve noticed white people always mentioning this topic seem like you want to divide black people even more but only the uneducated will fall for it
Yesterday, I went to the grocery store. I had a whole bird in my hand, and 1 watermelon in the other. There were two empty lines. One cashier was white and the other was black. I went to the black cashier just to avoid my inner voice saying "A black man chicken and watermelon"!!! Ha...
lol When you said "a whole bird," I somehow pictured a live bird of any random type and wondered, where is this story going..? 😂😅
@@TaylorMaurandbhangra 😃 - I can see the confusion.
The a$$hole tightening up cracked me up
Man if y'all don't stop sleeping on Roy Woods. I literally hollered.
Ikr? Roy Woods is 🔥
“Fat white girls be crying” bruh I lost it 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🪦
Dionte'.....😂😂😂😂
Funny how white ppl LOL HARD at jokes about US BUT ABOUT THEM ,selectively lol.
Me too
😂😂😂😂
"That is not the REAL JAMES!" soo true😂
As a Cameroonian (Equatorial African),I could relate so much with Roy Wood's joke about the happy music of Black people in Africa vs the moody Blues when our Black brethren got shipped off to the US
@ngalahansel6066 I think that's why I'm starting to love music from various countries in Africa so much now because it's SOOO different from ours, but in a beautiful way. Not that ours (American Descendants of Enslaved Africans) isn't beautiful, because we created life from the death they they forced upon us. But, there's a happiness or a different story being told and reaches something deep in me on a spiritual level.
Is there not sad music in Cameroon recently about the civil war and violence? I will admit the only Cameroonian music in the U.S. I hear is Daphne
@@lyndseyfifield you've not heard of Manu Dibango? Michael Jackson copied the guy's song "Makossa" and it's not one bit sad lol. Daphne I'd certainly a big deal but she's not aa famous and has for the past few years nor dropped a hit
Nah bro west africa has sad music veeewry close to what we call blues
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Roy Wood Jr killed for me with his Safe Cities bit. So funny man, great comedian 😂
Roy Wood Jr never disappoints... RESPECT!!! ❤️🏆💯👑👍🏿😂😆🤣
You mixed your comment does count for black people. Please bleach your skin
I do agree, Deon is pleasing to the eyes!
00:00 Charla Lauriston 00:42 Deon Cole 02:45 Sasheer Zamata 05:54 Roy Wood Jr. 11:47 Chanel Ali 14:50 Solomon Georgio 16:28 Jordan Temple 17:11 Greer Barnes 18:29 (bumper)
Because we are not a monolith....ijs
Thanks bcz deon Cole kinda sexy to me and I wanna see him
Thank you!
Love this! Thanks so much! ❤
Greer Barnes was amazing!
"... Michael B Jordan lost his daddy that day..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao she said she thought that was a brand new frame 😂 the guy that said I was just tripping is facts 😂 whole time having a mental breakdown
This compilation KILLED! ❤️ 🍺 🙌 Roy Wood Jr. slayed it.
White people are not hold no one back they are broke and don't have any money, isn't nothing worse than a white person on drugs.
Yeah, he ruled!
Funny story, my grandmother was from the Kilimanjaro area and she told me stories about when she was a child, and her first encounter with the caucasians/missionaries when they started to come to that part of Tanzania. She said the people thought they were ghosts at first - made me think of his joke about black ghosts 😂😂😂😂.
Deon Cole spoke nothing but the truth. 😄
Right😂😂😂
I am black all day. I wear African culture all day. I have not worn European style clothes in almost 40 years.
Do you live in Africa all your life?
Lmao she thought the picture frame was waiting to be filled. Hilarious
Roy Woods set 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Roy Wood killed it for me🤣🤣🤣
📠. The only funny comedian in this clip show video
Chanel Ali had some great lines, and delivered that all really well. I like her. That was really funny. “…I’m startin’ to see a white lady, too” “I thought that was a brand new frame”…. Great stuff.
Agree, she is super clever and it's a much needed sentiment in today's social environment
I thought I was the only person who asked an older relative if they where white like that. My case it was my Great Grandma I was confused as hell that summer.
@@spiceyboogerspiceybooger6437 My daughter asked my mom when she was 3 years old (who isn't white by the way, but rather fair like myself). Her exact words were "Mimi, why are you white?" lol. My mother was so upset!! The irony is the daughter that asked, is super fair as well. All very, and wonderfully confusing.
We
That is something that I always tell my biracial family members like they don't even (Or allowed to) celebrate your Whiteside, because society already deemed you as "black", and I'm like I'm no because just like I'm multiracial and I got people who just stepped off the boat from Africa and Asia I always got to tell my Caucasian afromix family members you are mixed be proud of your mix. Celebrate ALL THE COLORS. Don't be ashamed of the white history and your family even if it seems racist is still a part of what made you JUST DON'T IGNORANTLY REPLICATE IT. I LOVE YOU MY LIGHT-SKINNED COUSINS 😘
It behooves me had me rolling lol. It's funny but super sad. Imagine u having to turn off who you truly are for society. We all have to conform in some aspects in life. But just imagine knowing you can't be yourself. That's some deep ish.
That's called code switching. All black people do it
It's called "assimilating."
Yep, Black people have to code switch often. I feel so good around my own people after leaving these negative white spaces.
We didn’t have a word for it growing up but, yes, code switching… assimilating… and being Black in America sum up the experience. White spaces are the absolute worst and my people always look forward to cleansing the palette and getting back to being ourselves.
@empresssk I try to not code switch. I try to be myself in all spaces but even with that being said it's some cases you just have to and that is sad. I should be able to be my free self just like anyone else. I agree with u. It takes a toll.
THIS COMPILATION WAS SO PERFECT 😂😂😂
Roy Wood Jr explained it all
African American mental health is so important.
What you trying to say
Whites too
All the bullshit black people have to endure in America yes it has to be
Aboriginal American Health is More Important
@@GeezCte There is no "more important." It's all important. Such a weird comment.
Roy Woods’ set is so great
Comedy Central: don’t stop the Black narrative once March 1st hits💅🏾
But this was posted 5 da7s ago
@@narekhart9862 5 days ago was still during Black history month. The point was keep it going during the other months.
❤️
@@acousticblu ik the point
💯💯💯
Roy wood jr is the Roy Jones Jr of comedy
I think he has become so much funnier these last years. When he entered the Daily Show staff I was like: Okay, diversity means bringing unfunny people to the set, too? But he has honed his craft so much, he leaves you with that giggle deep inside that stays with you for some time now.
Sasheer Zamato’s voice is so damn nice to listen to
Planet BLACK BLACK
😂😂😂My skin absorbs the sun. It's the melanin for me.
The guy in the blue jacket was hilarious and the last guy did amazing voices
As a South African.... Okay I'll let the dance slide.
@@thandongonyama4254 🤣I'm with you on that one Thando, let's let it slide😂😂😂😂
Me too ❤S.A.
These are really good, this is one of the best CC compilations I’ve ever seen. EXCELLENT “…that don’t even sound like me” was one of my favorites. Also Sasheer looks so pretty in her clip, it’s truly distracting. I’ve seen each of these sets in their entirety but I really laughed so much at this compilation. Really well done. 💛💛💛
For real
Yeah, she is gorgeous.
This was my first time seeing all of them except for Deon . I literally LMAO! I will be looking for them, especially Roy Wood! Hilarious!
Deon Cole is hilarious … It behooves me to um 😂😂😂
God I wish this was longer!!
Something no girl with a black boyfriend ever said.
@@2nd3rd1st ☺️
The way my Wakanda stance 🙅🏽♀went up as soon as he said the aliens were coming to get us!! Baby, we ready. Let’s gooooooo
You on your on Playa 😂
So true, I told my class this, it was an all Black class and we had a blast each day I was given all of the "so called problem students" when that year ended we all cried
Bless you
I truly missed that group of students, I know they won't be understood the way I did , and who will stand and advocate for them the way I did
totally get your point (I too have had some of my best teaching experiences with groups that were set aside by others), but I'm going to be a bit pedantic... it's so called "problem students" not "so called problem students"... regardless, upvoted
I normally don't do stuff like this, but since you are a teacher, quotations should go around "so called" shouldn't be included in quotations
Yes, caught the error, thanks 😊
Deon Cole the best here & he's just brutally honest.Nuff said.
Deon is underrated as a comedian! Very funny guy.
The world needs a part two!
😂😂😂😂 Roy killed this and Deon
Greer Barnes and Planet BLACK BLACK killed my ribs for good LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sadness, angry,blues...Roy wood junior...I loved it. Native African songs are happy...
And the Knicks beating the celtics 15-13 in overtime, that cracked me up
Roy Wood's bit👏
Thank you Roy Wood Jr.! You hit the nail on the head!
He was telling the truth.
“And in tragic sporting news.. there will be no more NFL” 😂😂😂😂😂 One of the Best takes was definitely that last one
🔥🔥🔥
Hilarious and accurate!! No NBA and Track either!😂😂
CRYING
Chanel Ali grandmother sounded cool AF lol
Deon told no lies😂😂😂😂
Roy Wood Jr.’s Father Figure is a classic!
Roy Wiod Jr. educates us🔥
Roy Wood, Jr. was perfect for the 2023 Press Correspondents dinner! 👍
When she said she thought it was a brand new frame was hilarious to me bc we've had white ppl all over our house bc we haven't put our pictures in them yet
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Haha😂
cousins!😂😂
These comedians are hilarious.
this video is full of genius level material. even sasheer with her half and half self had me rolling.
1:52 "it behooves me...." I died 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 18:00 😂😂😂😂
Lmao! Meanwhile my kids thought their great grandmother who we lived with and they saw everyday for years, was Italian. She was Black, Black Black w/ 4C hair and a mean biweekly press and curl 😂🤦🏾♀️ lol! Miss her everyday! ❤️
I'm so white I had to google "4C hair"... a whole new world of information and classification that I knew nothing about, but makes perfect sense.
"A black ghost" 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
I think Deon Cole is “kinda” fine too. I think he definitely got it going on.
Good to see Sasheer working.
Chanel ali's story had me cackling😭
And cute
Anyone hear of "To Understand Humanity" on kindle
Anyone hear of "To Understand Humanity" on kindle
"it's a Black ghost" 😅😅😅
Jordan Temple's joke was spot on!!
UGH! THIS VIDEO WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH!!!! ❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Beautiful choices in clips. Im in such a good mood now! POWER TO MY PEOPLE! BLACK POWER! BLACK POWER! BLACK POWER!
I'm literally eating chicken now alone 😂😂😂😂
That last guy really took it home 😅 lol
Last comedian brought it home. LOL
3:46 I said "Melanin" before she did 🤣
My married name is the equivalent of 'Smith' in Spanish. This did not stop my mother from asking me if I knew EVERY SINGLE PERSON with that last name that she came across. She'd send me her local news articles with people's names circled and, "did you know them?" No. No we don't. You live 500 miles away..... My husband was always amused, "oh, yeah! That's cousin ______! He's my aunts brother in law's sister's daughter's uncles baby's nephew!"
“My immediate thought was… that’s a Black ghost.” 😂😂😂
Dieon Cole is spitting facts 💯
"She's not hanging out with her friends " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sasheer Zamata's hairstyle is so pretty!
James Brown wrote that song for Rocky IV & as soon as he finished singing it, Apollo Creed died in the ring, it’s a sad song 😂. Living In America is a good song though
Roy, Wood, junior the best is yet to come he is comedy 101 on steroids👏🏿🙏🏿
Damn, I love chicken and hummus, turn it up and do sudoku, camp and get burned. This whole set is about me.
Many laughs, many insights, time well spent
PLANET BLACK BLACK. NEVER KNEW THAT PLACE BUT I MISS IT SO MUCH.
1:39 😂 this is so true…I’ve had to tell a supervisor before “it’s within your best interest to leave me alone before you see a different personality”
you mean 'it behooves you to leave me alone ...' 🤣 One of my nursing teachers would always say that before a test: 'it would behoove you to review chapters 8 and 9 by Friday'; she said it so much we would try to beat her to it 😂
I always knew I was black and knew and interacted with white people. As a young Jamaican immigrant l DIDN'T understand the social implications until high school. Even then I was a full-on adult before it really clicked. For years I just thought I had bad luck
All of these comedians are frickin' hilarious. I thought Roywood's joke went on a smidge too long, but it tied together very well at the end, got a good laugh. Everyone after Roy had me in peals.
"Like yall can't handle outside" 🤣
I love how as soon as he said black people will write songs about cities where you can have a good time my head IMMEDIATELY popped to Miami and then he started saying the lyrics yessss
Hilarious! Thank you, I needed this.
"We invented the Blues." Haha
Because it’s true
James Brown….amazingly huge star…still sorely underestimated. Nobody ever saw him coming. I clocked that song.
Sasheer is so gorgeous man.
That last one lol 😂
They can’t handle outside😂😂
Lmfaooooo all of these were hilarious
great selection of hilarious comedic insight on the challenges and triumphs of being black.