Black Quote by Trevor Noah

When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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

We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black…

— Ava DuVernay

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

— Robert Klein

In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person…

— Lenny Henry

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both…

— Will Smith

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But when I…

— Nipsey Russell

I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what…

— Sinbad

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this,…

— W. Kamau Bell

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We…

— Dennis Quaid