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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I vaguely knew the name, but I never saw him in anything and never heard his act. I remember something about him helping massively obese people in the 1980s, and that was really all I ever knew about him.
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He's kind of a comedic Hank Aaron in that sense. There was a time when the comedy circuit was segregated as anything else, and he paved the way for mainstream acceptance of Cosby and then Pryor after him. Not as militant as Paul Mooney, not as chitlin as Moms Mabley, not as clean cut as Cosby [used to be], not as scatological as Pryor or Redd Foxx, but a pioneer.
First black comedian on the couch of The Tonight Show with Paar.