Albums Quote by Chris Rock

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

— August Wilson

Black audiences are probably the toughest for me to make laugh. I've gotten pretty good at performing for them, but it's still a challenge.

— Neal Brennan

Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing…

— Jon Stewart

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the…

— Tommy Chong

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar music. It's…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those…

— Hilton Als

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

— Bernie Mac

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

— Rashida Jones

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't…

— Redd Foxx

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

— Boots Riley