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Aug 29, 2019 · Joan Crawford introduces Godfrey Cambridge performing stand up comedy act (1965)
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Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians." [8]
Feb 1, 2012 · This episode features a clip from the classic television variety show "Hollywood Palace" originally broadcast on October 9, 1965 showcasing humorist Godfrey Cambridge.
Meet Godfrey Cambridge, purveyor of smart standup comedy, insightful social commentator. and star of groundbreaking movies in this miniprogram. Like and sub...
Dec 31, 2014 · Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance (initially in whiteface) as Jeff Gerber, a loudmouthed, bigoted white insurance salesman whose sitcomlike suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes up to discover, in a wild spin on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, that he has become a Black man. What ensues is a ferocious ...
Nov 16, 2023 · At a time when Black standup comics were just beginning to break into the White mainstream, Godfrey Cambridge was one of the best known and most successful of a very small group in the early 1960s.
Feb 7, 2021 · First up: comedian and actor Godfrey Cambridge was famed for his sardonic take on culture and society. In his 1968 interview with Tilmon, he lends his thoughts on policing and crime in Chicago with his characteristically dry humor.
