'Right to Offend' charts the 'Black Comedy Revolution' from the '60s through today
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A&E documentary looks at comedy giants, from Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor to today
The first half is perhaps inevitably a trip down memory lane, dealing with trailblazers on the standup circuit, foremost among them Gregory, who essentially gave up performing in order to throw himself into the civil-rights movement. It also affords a fair amount of time, grudgingly, to Cosby ("There's no Barack Obama without Bill Cosby," D.L. Hughley says), before moving on to Richard Pryor, who many of those interviewed cite as the most influential voice of all and, as author Mark Anthony Neal notes, "the template for everybody who comes after."
The second half, by contrast, veers from the stage heavily into the influence of movies and television, from Fox's "In Living Color" to Eddie Murphy -- first on "Saturday Night Live," then as a mainstream star in films like "48 Hours" -- to the wedding of a hip-hop sensibility and comedy via TV showcases like "Def Comedy Jam."
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