Can someone explain the "Wayne Brady makes Bryan Gumble look like Malcom X" joke?

so how does that make wayne brady make them look like malcom x?


eta: does it imply wayne is even more white than they are?

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so how does that make wayne brady make them look like malcom x?


eta: does it imply wayne is even more white than they are?

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yes, that is the joke. not saying i agree with it.

wayne brady is kind of all over the place lately.

here is an interview with him on his most famous skit with chappelle.

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so how does that make wayne brady make them look like malcom x?


eta: does it imply wayne is even more white than they are?

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so how does that make wayne brady make them look like malcom x?

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Because Malcolm X was seen as a very black mother fricker at the time.

Let's put it this way... As a white person, I can do impressions of Wayne Brady and Bryant Gumbel and it wouldn't be considered racist.

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But do you know that in 2024?

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i don't keep up with the Gumbles.


my only exposure to Wayne Brady, at the time, was Who's Line Is It Anyway? and this one, or two, sketches from The Chapelle Show.

I saw a behind the scenes video of that sketch and Brady was really struggling with "Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a bitch" line, and was workshopping other ideas with Chappelle. Obviously they just settled on the original dialogue.

Aside from what the OP is asking I didn't know about Paul Mooney until the Chappelle show. I laughed pretty hard at just about everything he did on Chappelle show.

Negrodamus, Mooney on movies, Ask a Black Dude.

Other things Mooney did: wrote for Richard Pryor, In Living Color (created Homey D Clown) and Good Times.