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Index
Cover
Epigraph
Preface
Chapter 1. “If You Ain’t Helping Your Brother, Then ‘I’m’ Beating Your Ass”
Chapter 2. “Keenen Was Always the Pioneer”
Chapter 3. “This Is the Place”
Chapter 4. “Richard Was a God, So We Were Just Lucky to Be in His Orbit”
Chapter 5. “There’s a New Sheriff in Town”
Chapter 6. “This Is What They Think of Us”
Chapter 7. “I Was Young, Black, and Angry”
Chapter 8. “Anybody Who Was Anybody Went There”
Chapter 9. “We’re the Black Pack, Homey”
Chapter 10. “You Can’t Kill This Movie”
Chapter 11. “The Bad Boys of Television”
Chapter 12. “The Running Joke Was If Your Last Name’s Not Wayans, You Didn’t Have a Shot”
Chapter 13. “Is This Okay to Say?”
Chapter 14. “If He Ain’t Got No Jokes, I Don’t Need Him”
Chapter 15. “It Was Just This Overnight Sensation”
Chapter 16. “Until It’s Funny, I Can’t Care”
Chapter 17. “What They Thought Was Hip-Hop, Wasn’t Hip-Hop”
Chapter 18. “That’s the Beauty of It. It’s Dangerous and We Shouldn’t Be Doing It”
Chapter 19. “We Got a Problem. I Want the Other Girl.”
Chapter 20. “Some White Kid from Harvard Joking about Malcolm X-Lax—I Don’t Think That Shit Is Funny”
Chapter 21. “If You Don’t Bring Your A Game, Other People Are Happy to Do It”
Chapter 22. “All I Remember Is the Layer of Desperation That Hung in the Air”
Chapter 23. “Jamie Fucking Scared Me”
Chapter 24. “I’m Better Than Any of These Girls and You Know It!”
Chapter 25. “We Were Horrible to the Censors”
Chapter 26. “I Started Laughing So Hard That I Forgot to Do My Job”
Chapter 27. “This Show Isn’t Just a Money Spigot”
Chapter 28. “It Just Seemed Like Nothing Was Ever Going to Be Funny Again”
Chapter 29. “It Was a Really Cold, Destructive Place to Work”
Chapter 30. “They Were Trying to Commandeer the Show”
Chapter 31. “It Was a Bunch of Scared People Left Trying to Save a Sinking Ship”
Chapter 32. “We Didn’t Land on Chris Rock. Chris Rock Landed on Us.”
Chapter 33. “We Were Getting a Sense It Just Wasn’t Working”
Chapter 34. “It Was Time to Fold Up the Tent”
Chapter 35. “Does Anybody Say NBC Has All This White Programming?”
Chapter 36. “No Matter How Funny a Black Comic Is, It Doesn’t Mean Shit Unless He Makes the Right White Man Laugh”
Chapter 37. “How Does ‘In Living Color’ Fare in a World of ‘Key and Peele?’”
Chapter 38. “It’s That Moment When It All Ignited”
Acknowledgments
Author Interviews
About the Author
Bibliography and Other Sources
Index
Copyright
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