i don't really have a poll "question" -- consider this thread benign trolling.
from: http://splitsider.com/2011/10/how-to-build-the-ultimate-black-comedian/
BONUS ENCORE: FIVE WHITE COMICS THAT NEED BLACK VERSIONS
Jerry Seinfeld: Black people are just now finding their cool, calm, collected American middle-class sensibility. This will eventually produce calm, observational comics, currently known as “Seinfeld-ass niggas.” Most nights at the comedy club, though, it’s still predominantly po’ black comics.
Jeff Foxworthy: The Blue Collar Comedy Tour might be likened to the Def Comedy Jam circuit as both appeal to the populist and, perhaps baser, ethnocultural denominators in their comic approach. Def Comedy Jam produced some stars, but none have broken out as a singular branded cash cow like Foxworthy. I guess “You might be a nigga if...” is a tougher sell than “You might be a redneck if...”
Andrew Dice Clay: It’d be interesting to see if the obscene, obnoxious Dice set would translate coming from a black guy. Tracy Morgan has some of this going on in his less-seen raw and raunchy stand-up act, but he’s more absurd than obnoxious. Like with Seinfeld, the obnoxious sensibility comes with a certain level of entitlement that only the middle-class experience can bestow.
Adam Sandler: Black comics don’t usually play the juvenile humor. There might be a little too much “no homo” in the response to Sandler’s little man-boy routine. Black comics will act silly but also somehow want to always project the vibe that they can lay the pipe. Sandler’s comedy, so juvenile in its response to “boobies,” is sort of desexualized in that it has no seeming capacity for mature sexual relations.
Dennis Miller: An over-the-top pretentious smart person (and a conservative to boot) would be a nice change of pace. Think Michael Eric Dyson smoking a lot of weed or doing a lot of coke. (See also black Steve Martin)
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Jerry Seinfeld | 2 |
| Adam Sandler | 1 |
| Dennis Miller | 1 |
| Jeff Foxworthy | 0 |
| Andrew Dice Clay | 0 |
― ms. c flat (get bent), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link