Comments on: Oh It Is to LAUGH!

By: sezaar

sezaar — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:09:00 +0000

yes “blackface” was a sort of comedy whereby whites would paint their faces black and acting as the stereotypical happy but lazy, carefree blacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackfacernrnSpike Lee’s “Bamboozled” tackles this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

I noticed that all of the hands are white… so that means the rest of the guys’ face are covered in shoe polish, and really are white guys underneath.

By: madwoman

madwoman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:21:00 +0000

I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.rn

By: sezaar

sezaar — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:09:43 +0000

yes "blackface" was a sort of comedy whereby whites would paint their faces black and acting as the stereotypical happy but lazy, carefree blacks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" tackles this.

By: AuroraMoon

AuroraMoon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:16:12 +0000

I noticed that all of the hands are white… so that means the rest of the guys' face are covered in shoe polish, and really are white guys underneath.

By: madwoman

madwoman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:21:02 +0000

I like how they call the white guy “Pinhead”.

By: Dierna

Dierna — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:15:26 +0000

This is oddly a long running comic. It ran from 1917 - 1949.

The joke is that the writer of the comic, Gene Byrnes, is a former shoemaker before he got into comics (oddly after breaking his leg while in a wrestling match....uh..). Hense the shoe dressing thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Byrnes

By: Dr. Novakaine

Dr. Novakaine — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:53:05 +0000

Some people love what they call the “good old days.” I say good riddance, and this is one of the reasons why.

By: Matt Algren

Matt Algren — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:01:06 +0000

Apparently shoe dressing is a kind of shoe polish, and “Snowball” would probably indicate that it's white.

Honestly, it's the funniest of the three jokes.