Considering the verbage of "teasing" - look at how popular some comedians are today...and listen closely to what they're saying and how they say it.
On COMEDY CENTRAL, they run some show called "Mixed something" and it was being hosted by David Alan Greer. It looked a little like the inside of the Apollo.
Anyway, they brought on a white guy...some edgy stuff, but he had the blacks in the audience (about 80%) laughing and slapping like he was black himself...and of course, the white guy goes on about how, in his car, he has "hood" and "gangsta" CDs 'cause he likes the boom and such...anyway, he has his black friend riding shotgun and he's got "gangsta" rollin' and he knows the "n" word is comin' up in the song and he's thinkin' about what his friend is going to say/do if he should say the "n" word and as he looks over at his friend, he says his friend is lookin' at him and the look says "What are you going to do?!?"
He mumbles the "n" word...no harm? No foul?
The audience didn't stray...they laughed 'cause whitey fluffed it and nobody took it the wrong way...they laughed over the uneasyness of the situation...not the situation itself.
Andrew Dice Clay? Today? I don't know how he'd be take and I wouldn't take your dollar to go see him and find out...just not my type of laughs...
And the good guys? Carlin? Pryor? Their time ended WAY TOO SOON for all of us...
I only hope the next generation can keep the laughs on the edge...and us laughing at ourselves...
