Black Humor

Langston Hughes says, "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Of course, you laugh by proxy. You're really laughing at the other guy lacks, not your own. That's what makes it funny-The fact that you don't know you are laughing at yourself. Humor is when the joke is on you but hits the other fellow first-Because it boomerangs. Humor is what you wish in your secret heart were …

…en many years yet the images that were passed on from slavery still thrive at the bud of jokes many comedians of today tell. However black comedians have finally gotten away from the white interpretation of black humor and created original black humor from an African American Perspective to the world. Black comedy has come to be the voice of the struggle, pain, and joy African American has gone through and are still going through.