BLACK MILITANT COMEDY GENIUS: MR. PAUL MOONEY
Once again, welcome back to The Black Fist: Best & Brightest Everyday Black History Series! In this our fourteenth installment I bring to you one of the funniest, most militant, realest black comedians ever to pick up a microphone, to hit 'em up hard about the black experience, the only way a black man who lived through it can tell it.
And if you've ever heard him introduce himself, you know damn well if your time ever to introduce him comes you had better get it right! His name is MR. Paul Mooney. Never too forget the "MR." Or he'll put your ass in check!!!
Let's get straight to it shall we?
MR. PAUL MOONEY (1940- )
Mr. Paul Mooney was born in 1940 Louisiana, and grew up in Oakland, California. Mooney ran away from home as a youth, and became a ringmaster with the Charles Gody Circus. During his stint as ringmaster, he always found himself writing comedy and telling jokes, which would later help Mooney land his first professional work as a writer for Richard Pryor.
CAREER/EARLY YEARS
Paul Mooney wrote many of Richard Pryor's routines for his appearance on Saturday Night Live, co-wrote his material for the Live on the Sunset Strip, Bicentennial Nigger, and Is it Something I said albums, and Pryor's film Jo Jo Dancer, Your life Is Calling. As head writer for The Richard Pryor Show, he gave many young stand up comics, such as Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhard, Marsha Warfield, John Witherspoon, and Tim Reid, their first break into show business.
Mooney also wrote for Redd Foxx's Sanford and Son, Good Times, acted in several cult classics including Which Way Is Up?, Busting Loose, Hollywood Shuffle, and portrayed singer/songwriter Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story.
He was the head writer for the first year of Fox's In Living Color, creating the charactor Homey The Clown, played by Damon Wayans. Mooney later went on to play Wayan's father in the Spike Lee film Bamboozled as the comedian Junebug.
CHAPPELLE'S SHOW
Paul Mooney initially appeared in the sketch "As a Black Dude" on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show, which he later replaced with Negrodamus, the African-American version of Nostradamus. As Negrodamus, Mooney ad-libbed the "answers to life's most unsolvable mysteries" such as "Why do white people love Wayne Brady?" (Answer: "Because Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.") Mooney was planning to reprise his role as Negordamus in the third season of Chappelle's Show, before its unplanned hiatus.
25 MOST @#%! MOMENTS IN BLACK HISTORY
In 2006, Paul Mooney hosted the BET tribute to Black History Month titled "25 most @#%! Moments in Black History." In this show, he narrated some of the most shameful incidents involving African-Americans since 1980. The top 25 moments included incidents involving Marion Berry, Terrell Owens, Wilson Goode, Michael Jackson, Flava Flav, Whitney Houston and Tupac Shakur amongst others.
Mr. Paul Mooney has twin sons, Darryl and Dwayne Mooney, both are comedians in their own right. Mr. Paul Mooney's career will shine for as long as white America is as racist as it continues to be and Mooney is here to continue to expose it laughing all the way to the bank!
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There you have it folks touching only the surface but getting the jest of the career of Mr. Paul Mooney. Our dear Brother Paul Mooney has an extensive television, film and stand up, career spanning over 40 years. Two of his most black militant comedy CDs are the now legendary, R.A.C.E (1993) and Master Piece (1994)! If it is at all possible, anyone who calls themselves Revolutionary Black Militants or Black Nationalist must have those 2 CDs in their personal collections! It is truly a must!
Mr. Mooney's newest Stand-up DVD is entitled: Analysing White America (2004)
Need I say more on that one? The brother is super baaaddddd!!! And he just happens to be our 14th Black Fist Best and Brightest Everyday Black History Series Soldier!!!
Mr. Paul Mooney, a black militant who is not afraid to tell the devil the truth to his face and in his place (America), while using his own style & brand of black militant comedic genius!!!
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This man was too funny on dave chappelle's show. paul mooney should have a show of his own but not on comedy central. he needs something like HBO or showtime for people to feel the full effects of his genius. thank you general nikki x for your black history series. I am glad to see you recovering and back in the swing of things! I can't wait until you do the next one.
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