#68: Colored People (Al Jackson)

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Ari Shaffir

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4.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2012

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Al Jackson stopped by Casa de Shaffir while he was in LA for a nice long talk about black people. Of course, I forgot to ask some key questions, but there was still plenty of time to have 3 hours of conversation about it. In case you didn't know, Al Jackson is black.

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0:00.0	Don't tell me neither, don't tell me why I'm here
0:17.0	Don't tell me neither, why I'm here
0:23.0	Don't tell me why I'm here
0:28.0	Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to R.E. Shafir's skeptic tank, how are you guys?
0:42.0	Is it evening? Yes, usually it's a midnight, so let's call it evening
0:47.0	I'll put a rush on you to edit this quickly
0:49.0	Here's a deal, on today's episode I'm going to interview my friend Al Jackson
0:53.0	What do I say friends? Yeah, I should, I would say friends
0:56.0	I first met him at when we, he did the warm-up for Jim Norton's down on dirty on HBO
1:02.0	It was my first and only stand-up comedy gig on television
1:06.0	That's not true, I did Mexican TV once, I did CTV, S-I-T-V
1:10.0	You see the pun there? CTV, it's like yes TV for Mexicans
1:15.0	Anyway, so here's the, I interviewed him, I would say friends, he's a New Yorker
1:20.0	Whenever we see each other like festivals or occasionally like pub crawls in LA
1:25.0	I like that guy, I like that guy a lot
1:28.0	So yeah, fuck it, friends, let's go with it
1:30.0	And for this episode, for my friend Al Jackson, we're going to talk about what it's like to be black
1:38.0	You know, black skin, dark skin, brown, negroid, there's a bunch of charms
1:44.0	But I am going to ask my other friend, Grain Perkins, who's a comedian, who's a funny comedian too
1:49.0	And he was like, there's literally no way I can explain to you what it's like to be black
1:55.0	And I sort of get that, but at the same time, I would like to give it a go
2:01.0	I just like to gain sort of a little bit more of an understanding
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