With a comedic needle sharper than Bill Maher, with political commentary even more dead-on than Chris Rock and a wit quicker than a discharged bullet, Mooney will have you gasping for air. That’s how hard you’ll be laughing. He is merciless, relentless and has a tongue like a surgeon’s scapel: he performs invasive surgery on the hottest topics and personalities of the day. He peels everyone’s hide with equal aplomb.
Mooney, the man who wrote material for the late, legendary Richard Pryor’s best performance, brings his brash and bodacious brand of comedy to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Aug. 31, at 7:30 p.m.
Some of the subjects Mooney will cover include the most controversial and inflammatory topics of the day: Dr. Laura, the Tea Party, the N-word and President Obama, among others.
But one subject the brutally honest and hilarious Mooney never shies away from is the issue of race with all of its nuclear fallout.
“Race offends. I could talk about sex and religion and they act like they got glue on their butts. But race it takes about 15 minutes. But don’t get caught up and think it’s just white folks. We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons,” Mooney said in a laugh-filled half-hour interview with rolling out. “Their skin is black but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them I call them graham crackers. That’s why we can never have a revolution. But half of them we’d have to kill,” he adds. “That’s why I wrote my new book, Black is the New White, which was on the New York Times best-sellers list.”
But it’s this precise comedic formula that explains why Mooney has attracted Latinos, whites, Asians and blacks in large numbers for decades. It’s precisely why Mooney wrote for urban America’s most precious sitcoms including “Sanford and Son” and “Good Times” and was the lead writer for the Wayans family’s Emmy-winning blockbuster “In Living Color” and introduced the memorable Homey D. Clown character that Damon Wayans made popular.
In any form, Mooney knows comedy. Come laugh until it hurts. –terry shropshire
