African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (The Library of Black America series)
"If I really want to scare the hell out of my white friends, I  drive out to the suburb they live in and walk down their street  slowly, carrying the real estate section of the New York Times."  This bon mot from 1960s comedian Godfrey Cambridge (1933-1978)  is among the many jokes, snaps, comedy sketches, satires and  folk anecdotes gathered in African American Humor: The Best  Black Comedy from Slavery to Today. Selected by editor and  writer Mel Watkins (On the Real Side), the witticisms come from  such luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, Satchel Paige, Nipsey  Russell, Richard Pryor, Damon Wayans and many others. ()Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.