Artist Paul Mooney
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Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney spent the first half of his career as a writer, creating the popular Homey D. Clown character as head writer for In Living Color and co-writing material for several classic Richard Pryor albums. But it was as a performer on Chappelle’s Show that Mooney became a star in his own right, doing memorable segments like “Ask A Black Dude” and Negrodamus. Mooney’s sharp, occasionally confrontational style of comedy remains totally unfiltered on his 2010 Showtime special, It’s The End Of The World, on which Mooney uses Obama as a jumping-off point for yet more musings on race in America—a topic he’s been mining for laughs for more than four decades. At age 70, Mooney is ballsier than comics half his age.
Updated 08/30/2011
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Paul Mooney
March 15, 2007
