Africa: Humor in the Context of Black Modernity, Cont'd
Stand up comic Louis C.K has a new show premiering on FX and one of the show's promos about a girl's reasons for wanting to date older men is hilarious and dovetails nicely into his stand up bit on the difference btw women and girls. But its his "love being white"/ Black People can't fu*%k with time machines routine (above) that will have you falling out of your chair, laughing till your sides hurt.
Hence this sort of falls under our whole series on "humor in the context of black modernity" and raises the question of how do whites get away with awkwardness of making fun of blacks and the tragedy of race without setting off sirens of the PC police? South African standup comics below continue their thoughts on the matter, suggesting it's all about the angle and finding a way to do it respectfully: