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Michael Che’s ‘Civil-Rights Update’ Will Always Be Timeless
The 2016 bit is a shining example of the art of comedy persuasion.
“I’m reaching for the potatoes,” Che tells his brother like a nervous suspect, earning another ten seconds of applause before the one-minute mark has passed — an impressive achievement made possible by his extra-lean setups. Doing a light joke after announcing a heavy premise is always smart, but Che’s brother reference also defuses some objections that might get in the audience’s way of enjoying a bit on a polarizing political issue. Che’s anti-BLM character dismisses a list of injustices endured by Black people, again using just enough of the cadence of a suburban white grump to let us know where these objections come from without pushing so far into parody that the voice itself becomes the focus.
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