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The History of Stand-Up with Wayne Federman

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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The Blackface, the Original Sin of the American Entertainment Industry

It was created because abolition was becoming more popular, and people in the south wanted opportunity to make fun of black people. But that much black face came more in the north. The joke, you know, like the joke that we included in the second hundred jokes was, why did the chicken cross the road? Riht a. And we hear that is sort of like the first anti-joke that, like, a kid learned twhatever. It's terrible. I mean, like, referr to as the original sin of the american entertainment industry for this reason,. Like, it's starting from this awful place, right?"

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