Paul Mooney - White People
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Mass Appeal is a magazine i would actually enjoy reading maybe...not the usual http://xxlmag.com
- kyl30
PM: O.J. doing what he does best—killing. That’s hysterical. O.J. and Lola in a movie about the Klan. It’s great. I need a copy of this too. I gotta give it to you white man—all these movies you showed to me, they’re all tens.
I love Mooney!
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The Jews have a luxury- theyre allowed to hate out loud. The Holocaust, they bring that shit up every five fucking minutes.
- DrHuxtable0
great link
son, are you a fan of ra?
- jevad0
The Jews have a luxury- theyre allowed to hate out loud. The Holocaust, they bring that shit up every five fucking minutes.
son
(Dec 9 05, 13:35)fuck off son
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i liked him a little on soundbombing
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Look at all the real white faces—it’s classic. I love white folks when they put their own bullshit on screen. Evil is what evil does.
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he said at the end of that bet show...25 most fucked up things black people did or whatever
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if you loved the show, i'm Paul Mooney, if you hated it....i'm Bryant Gumble
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- mrdobolina0
paul mooney is hilarious, I have a ton of his mp3's at home.
- pavlovs_dog0
son got himself out of county.
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he said, i'm ready to start hangin niggers again, then we'll see who's black
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i guess you should delete this too QBN
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Ladies and gentleman, Mr. Paul Mooney...
Well, I have to say that I've never worked this hard to track someone down for an interview! With that said, I'd like to wish you happy Black History Month, my brother...
Yeah, Okay...happy Black History Month. It's the shortest month of the year, that's why they gave it to us.
What have you been up to lately? How long will you be in New York?
I'm in New York every month — I work at Caroline's. I'm the only black person they bring back every month. Actually, I'm the only black performer on Broadway who doesn't dance and sing — that's quite a feat in itself. I've been traveling all over the country and I've been writing. I wrote a movie for Whoopi Goldberg called Call Me Claus. It's been on TNT, it's very funny. Whoopi also called me to help her sell her pilot to NBC — I haven't heard from her since, but that's Okay. I love her to death.
What's up with you and Dave Chappelle? Negrodamus is hilarious.
Dave has given me that youth exposure, which is good. Negrodamus is very funny — it killed. It's going to be a regular bit on the show. Before that I was doing "Ask a Black Dude."
So, you've written for SNL, Sanford & Son, Good Times and also for Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. Tell me about your experience of laying that kind of foundation for today's comics.
Yes, I've written for all of the black shows. I've also written for Arsenio Hall, The Wayans — name them and I've written for them. And if I haven't written for them, they've stolen and recycled things from me, so what's the difference? I might as well have written it.
It's been a good experience for me. God gives you what you can handle and I was meant to do what I was supposed to do. People say to me that my career is long overdue, but I don't think it is. Even if I passed today, I believe that I've done what I was meant to. If there was not a Paul Mooney, comedy would have been different. I am the Harriett Tubman of comedy. I've freed a lot of people, both black and white, from Sam Kinison, Sandra Bernhardt, Robin Williams, Tim Reid, John Witherspoon to Shirley Hemphill, who has since passed. I dared to do what no one would do — I okayed it.
As a pioneer of comedy, how do you feel about the evolution of the art form? It seems like every black comic has their own sitcom now...
Well, that's what white Hollywood is all about. It's similar to the black films of the '70's — it's exploitation to get the money to put back into their shows. It's always been that way. Cleopatra costs millions of dollars. It was a bomb at the theaters, but they worship it. But I have to give it up to them, the way they worship themselves. We should be that way. Marilyn Monroe has been dead, what, 40 years? Think about Seabiscuit — they even worship their horses.
Should we dare talk about Hollywood and how they create images? What do you believe the real problem to be?
They're insane! The way they make movies is insane. Cold Mountain? There were black soldiers fighting in that war, so why are there these little picanninies running around like little slaves? They are messing with history. Give us our do. And what about with Pearl Harbor? How is there going to be a film based in Hawaii and there's not one Hawaiian? Chinatown and there are no Chinese people. The Mexican, Brad Pitt? The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise? Mississippi Burning? Mississippi ain't never burned, but LA has — three times. Even with Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ— come on, Jesus was black. They're crazy.Let's talk about Bamboozled for a minute. Were you surprised by the film's reception?
I loved Bamboozled. It was great working with Jimmy the Cricket — you know, Spike Lee. Doesn't he look just like Jimmy the Cricket in those glasses? I got all of the reviews — black and white. Black people were turned off by that movie, they were offended. We're still cooning, you know, and we're still being bamboozled. But that film was brilliant and right on the money.It's just like with Jo Jo Dancer, which was a great movie, but the timing [was off]. They were almost offended by it because they wanted a documentary on Richard. It's like they wanted it to be a reality show so they could go to the house and watch him smoke the pipe.
Can we talk about Richard Pryor for a minute?
The King of Comedy — there are no others as long as Richard is still alive. It's not up for discussion. It's offensive to me when I hear people call [other comedians] "The King of Comedy" — they don't get it. I thought the intelligent blacks got it, but apparently, I was wrong.Point well taken. But let's not forget that Richard once denounced the use of the word "nigga" after he returned from a trip to the Motherland. You said in your show that you say the word 100 times every morning just to keep your teeth white. How do you really feel about using the "n" word?
I'm not bothered by it. The word is going nowhere, it's not leaving this planet. I'm going to use it because it conjures up demons and I like that. It comes from the word Negro, Negroid — it all means black. When it was powerful and offensive, people called me "nigga" enough, so much so that I feel like I own it. I was born in the South, you know?Richard said he would stop saying it because he didn't see any "niggas" when he was in Africa. He did stop using it on stage, but he still said it in private. He made that whole speech at The Comedy Store and we were all in the audience — me, Robin Williams, a bunch of us, but I never bought into it. I followed both of them and said, "Well, ya'll are all niggas to me!"
But Richard's career changed after he made that statement. He was the black God — he was Shaka Zulu, W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, Nat Turner and even George Washington Carver. He was all of the political and social radicals rolled into one person. I used to tell him all of the time that blacks would follow him through fire and he'd to say that his shoulders weren't big enough. But then you have to remember that drugs were involved, too.
My theory is that white folks sat Richard down and told him, "Look, if you stop saying that word, we'll give you this show and put you on TV." He was always so obsessed with Bill Cosby, but I would tell him that Bill couldn't hold a candle to him. Richard was into our blackness, the essence of us. I love Bill, have known him since I was 18, but he was like the ambassador to white folks — he never mentioned race and they liked that. They'd already heard it so much from people like Dick Gregory, you know?
As much of your material focuses on race, what is your take on race relations in today's world?
If you decode the word America it spells I AM RACE. [Racism] used to be overt, but now it's covert...it's undercover. They created the race situation and now they don't want to hear about it. That's very funny to me.I heard you refer to our National Security Advisor as Condoleezza Rice 'n Beans. Do you not feel a sense of pride with a sister and a brother, Colin Powell, up in the White House mix?
What? She's not my sister and she's not yours either. She's against anything that's black. I bet she doesn't have butter beans, red beans, brown rice or white rice in her house. Well no, she might have white rice. She's against affirmative action and that's what got her in the White House. It's too much affirmative, not enough action. It's a very subtle game, a vicious one, and I don't like black folks who play it. I think she should be told to her face. I have nothing to say about Colin Powell. He was in the military and he has to do exactly what he's told. I was in the military, so I know. But, there's a rumor that he's related to the Reagans.
Are you the one who started that rumor?
No, but I heard that he's like a third cousin or something like that...really! Oh, but wait, what about Strom Thurmond who talked all that stuff about hating blacks and had that little black baby. Guess he didn't hate us that much. I always talk about how God gets us all and he sure got Thurmond.So, what is your opinion on the media circus surrounding Michael, Kobe and even Jayson Williams?
I've known Michael since he was eight and I think he's innocent. If he were a pedophile, it would almost be normal for him — that's just how crazy he is. But let me tell you, I don't want to see Peter Pan locked up in handcuffs. I was screaming to the TV, "Fly away, Peter Pan, fly a-w-a-y!" But since O.J. got away, Kobe's gotta pay. There's a problem with all these athletes — they make too much money. It's like, "Okay, I don't have any bills, so I suppose I'll go out and kill or rape somebody and put them in the trunk of my car." They should be put on welfare so that they'd have some realities to deal with, like their phone bills. Broke black folks don't do these things. These rich niggas done went crazy. Nigga, go home and count your money!So, what's next for Paul Mooney? I, for one, would love to see you do your thing on HBO.
It's the truth. We're working on that, but HBO has a problem with me — why, I don't know. What I do know is that you can't stop a silent storm. But if you want to see me on HBO, you'll have to tell folks to write, e-mail and call Chris Albrecht at HBO and tell him so...from 2004, now tell me shits changed
