I will give you that he favorable reading is that the joke was a subversion of an image, but the guys being black is part of that image. I don't see how you seperate their race out of that image. It's like those old right gaurd commercials with charles barkely and david robinson with the same premise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzdbaoGczC4


>>being smart, sensitive and articulate.
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>i always saw that as a "big dumb bodyguard guy" subversion.
>tracy witnessing dotcom "becoming trigorin on the wesleyan
>arts main stage" is funny because he's a big bodyguard, not
>because he's black. do you recall any specific instances of
>the humor being based on them being black?


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