A good way to pull them back is by telling them not to listen. I'm not sure who started it, but Shirley Hemphill is the first I saw do it. It works pretty well. Jungle Fever Interracial couples are a feeding frenzy for the black hack. It starts out with a comment about jungle fever.
Audiences love it every time they see it.
The following are used so often, you'd think it was a mantra. A talented black hack can get an audience to laugh at this particular line 40, maybe 50 times in a single performance. My old lady's a ho' Most black hacks are apparently related to a whore. Although truly innovative black hacks are also related to a bitch. Black hacks tend to congregate around a few popular topics.