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Aug 29, 2019 · Joan Crawford introduces Godfrey Cambridge performing stand up comedy act (1965)
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Godfrey Cambridge. 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]
Meet Godfrey Cambridge, purveyor of smart standup comedy, insightful social commentator. and star of groundbreaking movies in this miniprogram. Like and sub...
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. Addeddate 2017-12-25 12:27:14
Feb 7, 2021 · From 1968 to 1972, the late Jim Tilmon hosted a weekly program called “Our People ” on WTTW that focused on issues in the Black community and featured thoughtful, incisive interviews with Black newsmakers and entertainers of the era. Most of them have been lost over the years, but our library staff recently rediscovered a few that we are ...
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 satire of society’s racist double standards ...
Feb 5, 2021 · Clip: Season 2021 | 11m 32s. My List. From 1968 to 1972, the late Jim Tilmon hosted a weekly program called “Our People” on WTTW that focused on issues in the Black community and featured ...
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