Capable Quote by Amanda Seales

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

— Amanda Seales

'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We have two…

— Amanda Seales

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that…

— Chris Rock

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to…

— Y'lan Noel

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe…

— Judd Apatow

The thing about comedians is, we're generally pretty smart. So, if we can be smart and funny, that is the victory.

— Neal Brennan

I thought comedians were the funny guy in the common room, not understanding that the flaws in my personality were actually the funny things…

— James Acaster

“We were watching a sitcom, I don't remember which. There were many of them at the time that all could be lumped together under…

— Jeff Lindsay

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be…

— Greg Behrendt

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were…

— Will Smith