WHo is your favorite comical black tv actor/actress?

Question

time frame
50's to present date, but please don't include Amos n' Andy.
Thank you...

frey, wanda was on Leno a few nights ago,
and she was uproariously funny as usual...
I think shes so funny it sometimes hurts
to watch her.......her tc show didn't last long though

Chris rock isn't as funny as he used to be..
I remember he started out as the voice for
the puppet talking out of the locker in the NIKE commercials, and really took off from
there, but got old after awhile.....maybe is was all the bad movies he was in......

mom, redd foxx and sherman helmsley
were singularly hilarious, in different ways.
Foxx played the junkyard character outsider
and Helmsley played the upright, upscale
entrepreneur, but both were a riot.....and the old mother on the jeffersons going at it with george was almost as funny as foxes ripostes with aunt esther....funny stuff indeed

BTW, I liked the old cosby show with the funny song opening(sung by cosby himself)...as Chet Kincaid, the Gym teacher....great show, and no laugh track,
just wonderful comic pathos with no one-liners......prob the first african american
to be represented just as a fully developed human being that didnt have to be slapstick funny.......I Spy was great to in a drama sense

rich pryor was too good for tv unfortunately......his humor was so developed that it had to be either fleshed out on the big screen in comic drama
or films of his nightclub routines....Pryor
was possibly the greatest comic of the 20th century..........the insight of george carlin, the comic pathos of chaplin,
the one-liner riposts of redd foxx all wrapped into one........one of the all-time greats

To me, I'll always remember the early Eddie Murphy, the first season of SNL,
Gumby, little richard simmons, Mr. rogers
neighborhood, etc., and the first few movies, trading places and bev hills cop..
that look, the uprolled eye-balls, the self-effacing laugh that got under your skin in a good way...thats the eddie murphy i remember.....not the one that did all that dr. doolittle crap post '90.........and thats the eddie i'll remember...

Bernie mac was great in "Kings of Comedy", but where he really shines
is in his tv show...his interactions with kids is the best since Cosby, and possibly funnier...he souesn't patronize kids, and thats what makes him play off them so well!

My God, someone mentioned Chappel,
and I forgot...sorry Dave!
Wow, no matter the reason for his series two flame-out..the man is an american classic.....the filmed skits on the show are as good as the best from the old classic
SNL, possibly better.....and its just him.....
his playing of the blind KKK leader is as good as anything pryor has ever done,
and I would say that he may approach Pryor at this point, if he could get his head together enough to get back to work again.

ang is right about Cosby.......read again what I said about his first show.....and din't have to say the F word once his entire career.........now thats saying somethin'...plus his 60's and early 70's records were bigger than his tv shows
in the 60s and 70s.....I'm old, so I remember when I was a kid how popular
his records were.....the fat albert routines,
the noah skits, the skits with his brother, russell......classic stuff that was a little
like carlin in its way........too bad those are all lost to history

This is Cosby's best album, with some really actually beautiful insights on childhood that tear your heart apart with the humor and insight..

http://www.amazon.com/Russell-My-Brother-Whom-Slept/dp/B0000062TL/sr=8-5/qid=1160151540/ref=pd_bbs_5/002-9318425-4696835?ie=UTF8&s=music

Answer 1

Token and Chef from South Park. LOL

Answer 2

Bill Cosby, Bernie Mac, D L Hugley , Phylica Rashad , Debbie Allen, Queen Latifah , Tempest Bledso, Jaeel White, Kim Fields Neisha Knight Pullham

Answer 3

Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Ricky Smiley, Redd Foxx, Jamie Foxx, Monique,

Answer 4

Wanda Skyes, Eddie Murphy and Chris Tucker

Answer 5

Walter Williams

Answer 6

George Wallace

Answer 7

Dave Chappelle (Half Baked)
Chris Rock (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)

Answer 8

I like Red Foxx and Richard Pryor.

Answer 9

Chris Tucker & Bill Cosby
Also Will Smith & Damon Waynes

Answer 10

Bill Cosby hands down. He is the King of Black Comedy as we know it. With out him non of the newbies would have there own show.

Answer 11

Richard Prior