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toastykitten) wrote2007-01-09 12:41 pm
toastykitten) wrote2007-01-09 12:41 pm
Entry tags:
colbert report and daily show people
Colbert's black friend speaks up.
I cornered a "Daily Show" writer, doing my best to get the inside track on a possible actor/writer gig. We broached the subject of black correspondents. He told me that they "tried a black guy once, but it didn't work out."
I remember that black guy, too. And you know why it didn't work out? Probably because they didn't let him write his own damn jokes. He had the ironic deadpan thing down, but the stuff he said totally did not work for him.
I cornered a "Daily Show" writer, doing my best to get the inside track on a possible actor/writer gig. We broached the subject of black correspondents. He told me that they "tried a black guy once, but it didn't work out."
I remember that black guy, too. And you know why it didn't work out? Probably because they didn't let him write his own damn jokes. He had the ironic deadpan thing down, but the stuff he said totally did not work for him.