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2008-11-26T16:30:20Z

Someone mentioned this yesterday and comments, I decided to dig it up. Looking back on this, man this stuff is harsh. Talk about un-PC--you can even hear it in the audience's reaction. But still hilarious. And made all the more hilarious by the fact that the Smother Bros were doing the singing, as one of the commenters mentioned. Just to show how it's all connected, Bill Cosby once sucker-punched Tommy Smothers. I bullshit you not.

Comment from shani-o on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T16:43:32Z

And now it's time for my monthly moment of "Oh, man, I *really* miss In Living Color."

The show had some pretty awful skits, but it also approached race and comedy in a really unselfconscious, brutal, and smart way.

Comment from blackink on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T17:11:37Z

That retelling of the Cosby-Smothers showdown was almost surreal. The Coz, Smothers, sucker punches and the Playboy Mansion? Wow.

That said, I gained a newfound respect for Tommy Smothers. I pretty much knew of them only from the cartoonish parody of them on "In Living Color."

I really hope Tommy gets his shot at Bill someday.

Comment from Fighting Words on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T17:44:58Z

I was in junior high school in 1990, when you had the Simpsons, In Living Color, and Married...With Children all on Sunday nights. Good times. Good times. The show was hilarious until their Super Bowl halftime show. Damn Carl Lewis...

Comment from JC on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T18:20:22Z

I loved In Living Color. As Fighting Words says, that and Married with Children - I was there!

This particular skit - meh. A bit stale, at this point, for me.

Comment from laborlibert on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T18:23:25Z

My favorite ILC skit had to be Damon Wayans as Anton the Bum. Mike Tyson on Love Connection is also a good one. Not to hate on my fellow white man, but I didn't really think Jim Carrey was that funny at the time. I really felt like Damon Wayans was the star of the show.

I also like to catch the old episodes to see Jennifer Lopez as a Fly Girl, event though she wasn't really all that fly at the time (Although I think she was flyest in Janet Jackson's "That's the Way Love Goes" video)

Comment from JC on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T18:25:33Z

Also, this is great from Marlon Wayans, campaigning for Obama.

Comment from namhenderson on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T18:36:58Z

Watching this clip reminds me of why i loved ILC.
It points to the genius of Bamboozled which also features one of the Wayans. In general as a matter of a fact the Wayans in general were briliant satirists of race and class issues.

Comment from Michael Jackson on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T21:12:53Z

Loved the skit but I've always felt that people hate on my fellow Oreos too much (and also inaccurately). Here is my response:

"I'M WHITE ON THE INSIDE
MY SKIN IS A CAGE
BUT WHITE ON THE INSIDE
DOESN'T MEAN I'M NOT BLACK WITH RAGE ..."

Comment from Eddy on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T21:24:20Z

Great skit. Man that show was amazing for a few years there. I give it "2 snaps in a circle".

Cosby has gotten too much flack on the race issue over the years though. He tackled it in a different way than most of his peers; I think it was/is necessary to have a couple of folks doing things the way Cosby did. He been a strong supporter of HBCs, the man cares about his people.

Comment from shani-o on 2008-11-26

2008-11-26T23:02:04Z

Eddy- some would say Cos cares more about being embarrassed by his people.