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Unlike earlier black comedians, Pryor never tried to ingratiate himself with white audiences or cloak his rage.
As many of the British comedians either speak with thick North or West Country accents, mumble, talk too fast, or all three, it is sometimes difficult to understand what they (and their audiences) are on about.
The authors might also have discussed the deliberate use of taboo words for their shock (or humor-inducing embarrassment) value by so-called “x-rated” comedians, especially performers like the American Lenny Bruce and the British Jerry Sadowitz and Kevin Bloody Wilson: some of that humor can be heard on British television, where some of the studio audience are evidently easily convulsed by the mention of words like shit and fart .
To compare the collectors of Wellerisms to brick-wall comedians is to overlook a generational, if not historical and unfortunate shift in humor.
Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
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