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Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.
He performed in comedy sketches and played host to many African-American entertainers, including Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, the Supremes, the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Melba Moore, Redd Foxx, boxer Muhammad Ali and basketball player Bill Russell. He greeted all his guests with ...
The Colored Museum is a play written by George C. Wolfe that premiered at Crossroads Theatre in 1986, directed by L. Kenneth Richardson. [1] In a series of 11 “exhibits” (sketches), the revue explores and satirizes prominent themes and identities of African-American culture.
The Late Show Figure-It-Out-a-Tron: In a parody of Glenn Beck's use of chalkboards, Colbert brings out a chalkboard with names of people implicated in an ongoing scandal written all over it. He then tries to figure out the links between these people by drawing lines connecting their names.
Studio C is an American family-friendly, comedy sketch group created by Matt Meese and Jared Shores. [1] Derek Marquis and Scott Swofferd share the job of executive producer on the show. It is produced by Meese, Luiz Malaman and BYU TV. Each half-hour long episode consists of about seven or eight comedy sketches performed by a group of comedians.
The New York State Convention of Colored Citizens was a series of colored convention events active from 1840 until 1891 in various cities in New York state. [1] The convention was one of several social movement conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.
The 1491s are a Native American sketch comedy group, with members based in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Montana.While the members' sketch comedy has had a growing cult following since the mid-2000s, and their videos since 2009, they are perhaps best known for their work in more widely-known shows such as Rutherford Falls and Reservation Dogs.
Tom Richmond (born May 4, 1966 [1]) is an American freelance humorous illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has appeared in many national and international publications since 1990. He was chosen as the 2011 "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year", also known as "The Reuben Award", winner by the National Cartoonists Society .