All right, Mr. Wilson, you've done just fine on the roof shock, your papers are good

order, the file's fine.

No difficulty with your motor skills.

Comedy is an art form that consistently provides some of the most insightful social commentary.

Take this famous sketch from the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975.

It features Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor.

And I think you're probably pretty ready for this job.

We got one more kind of psychological test we always do here.

It's just a word association.

I'll throw you out a few words.

Anything that comes to your mind just sort of back on me, okay?

Just kind of an arbitrary thing like if I said dog, you'd say, tree, tree.

This is interviewing Pryor for a job as a janitor.

Fast, slow, brain, snow, white, black, negro, white.

And as there were association exercises, progresses, Pryor's body language transitions

from affable to increasingly tense.

Tar baby.

By the time they get to the realm of obvious racial slurs, Pryor is visibly livid.

Spear, chucker, white track, jungle bunny, hunker, spay, hunker, hunker.

Eventually Chase utters a word that is no longer acceptable to broadcast.

And Pryor, reflecting the militancy of the black community of the 1970s, comes back with

a clear message.

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