Ep. 221 - The New Negroes & Black Sketch Comedy
Pop Rocket
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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week Wynter and Karen chat with Ellington Wells, a comedian and writer on Comedy Central’s brand new sketch show The New Negroes with Open Mike Eagle and Baron Vaughn. The panel takes a look at how black sketch comedy has involved and Wells tell us what Robert Townsend TV special inspired Vaughn to create a show with a similar sensibility.
All Abouts
Wynter: No Good Nick
Karen: Season 4 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Ellington: Britney's Gram podcast special episode
That's My Jam
Ellington: Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
Guy: BTS (방탄소년단) IDOL (Feat. Nicki Minaj)
Wynter: Nat King Cole - Harlem Blues
Karen: An Luu - Pourquoi tu me fous plus des coups?
With Karen Tongson, Ellington Wells, Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey there it's Winter, |
| 0:07.0 | Bich-Our by your girl. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Pop Rocket, a weekly show picking over of the pop culture we all love to love. |
| 0:16.0 | Don't have many of us here today, so I will say who's here always and forever so consistent and always the best pop culture scholar and |
| 0:28.4 | dike about town Karen Tong said hey winter hi rocket. I mean I'm a Virgo I can't help but I'm just too |
| 0:36.0 | like Beyonce. You know Beyonce is a Virgo. Yeah she shows up for all her shit |
| 0:40.0 | too. And she's very successful. Yeah, well there you go. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm going to start trying to be more like you. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm working on it, trust. |
| 0:46.1 | And we have a wonderful guest here today, |
| 0:48.6 | whose name completely Belide, who I thought she was going to be be which means I need to Google more. |
| 0:54.3 | A writer comedian Ellington Wells. |
| 0:57.3 | Hi hello what were you expecting? A dude. Oh okay okay. Yeah, yeah. Nope. |
| 1:04.0 | Sorry. That's it. |
| 1:08.0 | You're seeing you here. You're lovely. |
| 1:10.0 | This is a perfect alternative to what I thought. She is a writer and I'm sure she's going to be a sassy participant tonight I can already tell and her new show is comedy central's the new Negro's a term I love |
| 1:26.5 | seeing on the page Ellington what should our listeners know about the show you and |
| 1:30.8 | the show so I am a stand-up comedian and a writer. |
| 1:35.0 | This show is going to air on Comedy Central and also air on BETs, simulcast. |
| 1:42.0 | It is a stand-up showcase show. And so it's three stand-ups. It's all black |
| 1:48.4 | comics. And the whole show is about showing how diverse black people are in America and that black people are not a monolith. |
| 2:00.0 | And so it's just about inclusion and diversity within the black community. I love it. That's exciting. I can't wait for that. It's amazing. I'm really excited and I can't wait to talk about it on the show tonight. So we have a lot to get through this week but I'm going to take a moment to remind our listeners our own pledge drive |
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