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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-05-07 12:46 am
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maybe I'm too white or something

I just watched Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly and, well, for a HBO comedy hour I didn't find it hugely amusing. There were a few funny bits, sure, but I was expecting far more actual laughs than I got. Dave is strong on racism, which I guess is intended to make a li'l sheltered white boy feel uncomfortable, but, you know, Lenny Henry did racist humour and made it funny, without losing his sense of outrage about racism - so you got your laughs while you got your thinks. Chappelle just plain didn't work for me, I guess.

Man. Do you know how hard it is to make a comment like this without using the phrase, "I'm not racist, but..."?