I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
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I know how to be funny to black audiences.
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'
It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.