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Dude! Eddie Murphy and Louis Gossett Jr. Were Woke In 1982!

Yeshuasdaughter

Yeshuasdaughter

You know, that one lady we met that one time.
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This 1982 SNL sketch depicts a very vulgar low class father and son arguing and acting stereotypical in a very offensive fashion.

Halfway through the sketch, the actors go off script and start yelling at the writer of the sketch. They both say that it depicts African American father/son dynamics very negatively.

Louis Gossett Jr. says in a very serious voice, "I love my father". Eddie Murphy yells to his father in the audience: "I love you!" His stepdad yells, "I love you son!"

At the end of the segment, they walk off set, disgruntled, and the writer is left there alone on the set, with an "Oh crap" look on his face.

I don't know if this is a sketch in a sketch, or if they really went off script, but it is amazing to watch!

 
I'd say it was entirely scripted from beginning to end. Nothing impromptu about it. Humor can be an effective catalyst to deliver various messages which may not be humorous at all. Or how people known for humor can be equally effective being deadly serious about various issues.

I know off camera Lou Gossett was "woke" well before 1982. He was the one intuitively telling the cast of "Roots" how important their roles were not only for themselves personally and professionally, but collectively for America as well. And he was right.

Reminds me a bit of a skit from the Red Skelton show in the 60s, which was famous for really funny skits. But in this one it depicted Red Skelton as a father in his child's empty bedroom, reminiscing about a young boy. Seemed weird, because there was nothing really funny about it.

But then neither was the fact that Red Skelton's own little boy had died of leukemia many years earlier. I recall only because as a kid, I was bewildered by it all. But my mother was crying, and told me what it was really about. The guy who was so known for having so many laughing, had so many crying.
 
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I think this is all part of the script and woke is nothing new. There was even wokeness in the 1960's and my mom was woke as well. Bewitched even had a woke episode as well and I think the entire series was woke except it was witches instead of black people or other minorities.

But interesting to see this TV show trying to educate the audience about prejudice but they did it in a humorous way.
 
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