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Robert Townsend, LAX, c. 2003
He was waiting in line in front of me. I spent my entire flight trying to remember his name. (Success!)

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Tim Meadows, Burbank, c. 2007
He appeared to be holding hands with a female comedian. The next time I saw Tim Meadows in person, several years later, he was alone and looked sad. Using my extremely limited data set, I concluded that the female comedian had dumped him and broken his heart. But probably they were just walking next to each other. Still, chin up, Meadows.

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Paul Mooney, Burbank, c. 2006
He was wearing bedazzled jeans and had the entire severed tail of a raccoon hanging from his knapsack.

Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

9 replies on “Black Comedians I Have Seen at the Airport: A Retrospective”

  1. It’s funny how think you’re being down-with-the-brown when in fact, this would only occur to a sheltered white girl.

  2. @5 – Greatest Paul Mooney quote ever (via Chapelle’s Show): “Wayne Rooney makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X”

  3. Ha ha …. I mean Wayne Brady, not Wayne Rooney, who being an English footballer, really DOES make Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.

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