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Word: funkier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...considerable problem of how to be black without being racial. Like Cosby, he tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Communicating with Laughter | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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