WOEBOT

Black Comedy.

Franklyn Ajaye isn't that funny, but I love the LP cover on this. Ajaye manipulates nine foot high stereotypes; makes hardcore culture risible for safe white middle-class folk. He sounds like he's high on grass, giggling effervescently, having SO MUCH FUN on stage! To be fair he is pretty amusing at times, if deadeningly incorrect. Fr'instance the skit in which he assumes he's gonna "whup the ass" of the chinese ping-pong player, who (obviously) pastes him. This goes out to two of the crew who are fighting back the weed.

And I also dug out this. I love Richard Pryor. I like the way he pitches cynical up against cuddly. Isn't he great in Superman too? Pryor, unlike Ajaye, is no performing monkey. I guess I should have an Eddie Murphy record here too to make up a trilogy. People are always telling me to watch "Raw." This week there's going to be a few other non-musical records too.

Posted by Woebot at February 1, 2004 09:40 PM