Category Archives: black comedy

Separated at Birth?

Louis Armstrong – a founding father of jazz Tracey Morgan – does an annoying schtick of a black person imitating a white person imitating a black person

“Where’s Poppa”: When farces plod.

I was prepared to love “Where’s Poppa”, it features the nexus of Normal Lear sitcom character actors who, when I was growing up, felt like extended members of my raisenette-sized broken nuclear family. How fun it would be to see censor-free Barnard Hughes, Vincent Gardenia, Ron Liebman, Rob Reiner, and a pre-SNL Garret Morris. But [...]