Complex sentence: In this bit, as in the Cantinflas performance, Wilson retells the story of Christopher Columbus from an anachronistic urbanized viewpoint, in which Columbus convinces the Spanish monarchs to fund his voyage by noting that discovering America means that he can also discover Ray Charles.
Split into simpler sentences: In this bit, as in the Cantinflas performance, Wilson retells the story of Christopher Columbus from an anachronistic urbanized viewpoint. In Wilson's version Columbus convinces the Spanish monarchs to fund his voyage by noting that discovering America means that he can also discover Ray Charles.