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The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Stoop Comedy Club! It's our last episode of the season and we are laughin’ it up with three African comedians - Nigerian-American Beverly Adaeze, Kenyan-American Dubai Denis, and Sudanese-American Ahmed Abdelrahman. Each has their unique style, and each has to deal with a complicating question that has to do with their Blackness in America. Plus, Leila tries to break into the comedy scene!

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0:00.0	Hey Lila! Hey, I know. I know. I have a joke. A joke. Okay. Okay. Why the monkey fall
0:11.6	out of the tree? Why? Because it was dead. What? It was dead. The monkey. That's horrible.
0:22.4	That's not a joke. You just made that up. I'm glad that you think my skills are
0:29.8	that great that you think I made it up. That's a spot. That's not like it's not even
0:34.6	ironic. That's nothing. I liked it because it was bad. It's like why did the
0:41.3	chicken cross the road, right? Like why is that a good one? Anyway, let's highlight
0:46.8	some real comedy today. That's our last episode of the season. So we should do
0:52.2	something really special. Today we're gonna meet some comedians, African
0:59.2	comedians, and they make a smile. They make us think. And sometimes their jokes
1:05.2	make us a little uncomfortable. So where's the limit and how far can you push?
1:13.6	And I got some more jokes. No. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I promise
1:22.0	we will check in with you later to see what you got. But for now, ladies and
1:27.0	gentlemen, welcome to the stoop comedy club.
1:30.8	The stoop. The stoop. The stoop. The stoop. Stories coming across the black
1:43.9	diaspora. My cousins were water and grease girls. And I couldn't be a water and
1:49.7	grease girl. That's what I'm talking about. Ballerine in the hood. We be
1:52.8	gonna get you 90 people. When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor, what
1:59.7	preconceived notions do you have about her? I didn't even know we had a hair
2:03.8	sharp.
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2:23.2	podcast where you'll hear unapologetically honest and opinionated conversations
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