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Episode 1278 - "Canceled Comedy" w/ Kliph Nesteroff and David Bianculli

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

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Is There a Role for Black Face in Show Business?

In the post war period, after world war too, that's when black face is basically eliminated from film and television was just starting up. And then silent movies picked it up and started a advertising the stereotypes that had been fased out in vadvill enso it had a second wave. It's what we're dealing with now. What do you make of these earlier iterations of this defence of a hurtful comedy in order to maintain an act? Because it seems to me to be selfish, childish, and just really about the money and not wanting to change. Now, why is it so difficult to let go of tranny and all the language evolves,. respect is afforded to those that

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