Pardon my French, but that is a DIRECT quote from the man who was standing in front of me at the Subway sandwich shop down the street from my house.
He was pointing at the olives.
You’re welcome.
Black Comedy Experiment Family Reunion Homecoming Revival Festival
Sorry I’m just now getting around to writing about this…Â I’ve had a pretty busy week. Last Saturday I went up to NYC to take part in the Black Comedy Experiment Festival.
3 days, 40 great comics, 16 amazing shows showcasing the diversity of the Black comedy diaspora (not sure if it’s proper to use diaspora in this context, but I just did, so deal.)
I only went up for the last nite of shows. I was on a show called Chicks and Giggles with Abbi Crutchfield, Robin Cloud and Hadiyah Robinson. It was so much fun and played to a packed room. After that I went to the upstairs showroom for Laughing Liberally, hosted by comic and vigilante pundit, Baratunde Thurston. If you don’t know Baratunde, please check him out. He’s awesome. He has an amazing blog, he’s written a few books, speaks all over the country, and is an editor for The Onion. That show featured Leighann Lord, Elon James White (the festival producer) and Charles Star — the festival’s only White act — who was awesome. The last show I caught on Saturday nite was the Shades of Black show featuring Michelle Buteau, Baron Vaughn, Victor Varnado, Elon James White and Jason Weems of DC fame, who came up for the show as well.
I had a great time at all of the shows. And I had a bunch of friends from Howard that came out to see my shows and stayed for the rest of the nite and had a blast too! Finally got a chance to actually meet a lot of the comics I’ve exchanged e-mails with or just heard of. It was like an awesome young Black comedians homecoming or family reunion. There were so many shows I didn’t see that I wish I’d gotten the chance to check out… but there’s always next year. Big up to Elon and Baron for putting the festival together. Looking forward to next year. If they’ll have me, I’ll be there.
ELBOW, We won’t go!
So I’m in the UnSafeway down the street from my house about an hour ago and I almost witnessed a riot. I was walking down the pasta aisle and there was absolutely no elbow macaroni left on the shelves.
On the night before Thanksgiving.
In southeast D.C.
Every single person on that aisle was looking for macaroni noodles… cause a Black Thanksgiving without macaroni and cheese — just ain’t happening. The poor stock boy was like “I’m sure we have some more in the back. Y’all hold up while I check” In the meantime the ladies in the aisle started preparing themselves to riot. “Yeah, they BETTA have some in the back!”, “How I’m ‘sposed to fix Thanksgiving with no baked macaroni?”, “They don’t wanna see us act a fool.”…
Luckily–for everyone in the store–he came back with a flatbed full of macaroni. He didn’t even attempt to put it on the shelves. He just rolled it down the aisle and backed away. Smart guy.
Happy Turkey Day, y’all!