This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the
context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy,
Stepin Fetchit and the Amos'n'Andy show presented a
distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts
this image with the authentic underground humor of African
Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black
shows and films. Watkins offers suprising reassessment of
such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms
Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way
for contemporary comics such as Richard Pryor, Whoopi
Goldberg, Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby.
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