(The Clip does have A LOT of swearing and reference to sexual material so be warn when watching)
Thinking about the lecture on the relationship between Black and White, I was really interested in the way that the characters form Spike Lee’s movie bamboozled characterized their idea of what it was to be black. Putting on a black face and parading themselves in over exaggerated stereotype about black people and the black community. In the movie, the exaggerating of black character could symbolize two things. One, as a coping method in which to deal with the pressures they felt as part of the black community and another a way liberating themselves and controlling the jokes said about them. This idea about creating exaggerating character about the black community in also seen in modern comedy where there is a entirely distinctive genre dedicated for back humor. Jokes such as “yo mama…” “he was so black…..” and “I am so ghetto…” all buy into black oriented stereotypes. The jokes, besides there hilarity, often hold deep and hurtful ideas that are rooted in years of prejudice. Even in the video clip, he often refers himself as lazy, unemployed and poor, claiming at the beginning of his act that it was relating to his real life. He often also makes a lot of jokes regarding his mother, whom not only could not provide for them as kids but also was also addicted to drugs and suffered abuse. Although these are serious issues, he addresses them with exaggerated humor ad funny anecdotes as a way to make it easy for everyone to accept it. Comedy is seen as the taking of the ordinary life events is portraying them in a humours way, and in some way, the idea of black comedy sort of reaffirms these ideas as they take prejudice they feel as a community and add movie to it as a means to deal with it.
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