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About this episode

Angela Basset narrates about the issues that fueled Bill Cosby's 2004 controversial address at the NAACP's 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.From Why We Laugh DVD in stores & online 4/27In­spired by co­me­di­an Dar­ryl Lit­tle­tons book, pro­duc­er and writ­er Quin­cy Newell and di­rec­tor Robert Townsend have craft­ed a no-​holds-​barred doc­u­men­tary that is both an in­sid­ers take and a crit­i­cal ex­am­i­na­tion of the cul­tur­al in­flu­ence of black com­e­dy. Why We Laugh is a hi­lar­i­ous and spec­tac­u­lar­ly archived film en­riched by in­clud­ing in­ter­views with promi­nent schol­ars, politi­cians, cul­tur­al crit­ics, and a host of no­table comics, in­clud­ing Dick Gre­go­ry, Bill Cos­by, Chris Rock, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Katt Williams, D.L. Hugh­ley, Steve Har­vey and Som­more.

• Release Date

  Apr 21, 2010

• Runtime

  00:50