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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Yo, white dude runs for president like this..."''
|'''Jon Stewart''', ''[[The Daily Show]]''}}
Historically, a lot of black comedians based routines on this format, which was shocking, transgressive and deeply satisfying for black audiences when they first heard it in the late '70s and early '80s. As part of the "[[blaxploitation]]" movement where black people started reclaiming and accepting certain black stereotypes as positive rather than negative portrayals of black culture, especially of black masculinity, male black stand-up comics [[Reconstruction|started to turn white stereotypes of blacks being "uncivilized" and "dangerous" on their head]], recreating the stereotype as white men being over-civilized, timid and cowardly while black men were powerful, independent and strong. Comedians such as [[Richard Pryor]] and [[Steve Harvey]] were early pioneers of the trope, and later comedians followed suit.
Over time, this style of comedy has become an [[Undead Horse Trope]], and [[Overly Long Gag|still it continues to live on, and on, and on...]] Successful comedians like [[Chris Rock]] and [[Dave Chappelle]] have become very successful with their own take on the format, often taking great care to find fresh new angles that work off of audience expectations. Younger and less talented comics, however, play the trope very straight to create cliche jokes for cheap laughs.
Generally, [[N-Word Privileges|only minority comedians]] really can get away with using this trope without massively offending people.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Johnny Ryan did a parody of this trope with [[Magneto]] doing a stand-up routine about "mutants do it like this". Ending with him getting carried away and blowing up the Earth.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[30
** Also used as parody once to illustrate how Tracy was growing distant from his fanbase:
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* ''[[Studio 60
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' featured Jon Stewart trying it, inspired by Barack Obama's debate comedy.
* While ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' did this straight on occasion, one particular skit parodied the concept, with Dave telling his
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* Carlos Mencia plays this trope straight, in-your-face, crude and often at the expense of Latinos to the point where it's a tad uncomfortable for some people.
* ''[[In Living Color]]'' made use of the trope. In one sketch, it lampshades the trope as one of the quintessential types of stand-up comedy, along with "Old Guy Who Complains About the Present", "Self-Depreciating Woman" and "Crazy Prop Guy".
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== [[New Media]] ==
* Spoofed (but also pretty much summed up) [https://web.archive.org/web/20140718200413/http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/whiteblack.swf in this flash animation]. (Epilepsy warning: bright flashing letters)
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Richard Pryor]] was an originator of the trope
* [[Steve Harvey]] was another early adopter of the trope
* [[Eddie Murphy]] used the trope occasionally in his stand-up, and in some of his movies actually plays white characters with the use of makeup.
** Eddie had actually touched off some minor controversy with his ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'' remake, in which the Richard Simmons [[Expy]] (played by Murphy) was so convincing, people were accusing him of "reverse blackface."
** It may not be the first example, but when he was a regular on ''[[SNL]]'' he did a bit where he got made up (pretty well, actually) in "whiteface" and went "undercover". One memorable bit was him attempting to pay for a newspaper, only to be told by the (white) shopkeeper "What are you doing? There's no black people around, just ''take it''."
* [[Dave
* [[Chris Rock]]
* [[Mike Birbiglia]], a white comedian, makes fun of this trope by inverting it, using the slur Cracker as a replacement for the N word.
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** He goes further to state his love of that joke because of the voice.
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*** He also speaks of objecting to a black man trying to call him a cracker.
* [[Russell Peters]]' act tends to go along the lines of "white people are like this (insert lame stereotype), but Indian people are like this (even lamer stereotype)".
** Peters is somewhat unique in that his natural voice is much closer to the "white" voice than the "brown" voice, as although he is of Indian descent, he was born and raised in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario.
* The comedy team of "Tim and Tom" (Tim Reid, later famous as Venus Flytrap on ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', and Tom Dreesen, still a working standup) not only used this trope, but ''embodied'' it. Performing in the late '60s and early '70s, they were the
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205143815/http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-08-19 This] strip from ''[[Daisy Owl]]'':
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'''Mr. Owl''': Woah, woah, woah. ''Woah''. Are you using bear color as a proxy for human race? Because that is ''not'' cool.
'''Roland''': I have no idea what you're talking about, but you just ruined a perfectly good joke about bears. }}
* Parodied in [[Cyanide
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' have several variations. One notable attempt by Homer:
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** Also from
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** Groundskeeper Willie did a stand-up routing comparing how people from North and South Edinburgh play golf.
* Parodied in ''[[Family Guy]]'' (from
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had Bobby copy the routine from a black driver's safety course instructor who taught through comedy. Voiced by none other than [[Chris Rock]].
** What's worse, when Bobby is told that the routine he stole was "comedy from the black experience" and that he should instead find jokes "from his own experience" and his "roots", he goes online searching for "white", "comedy", and "roots". and ends up getting a collection of outright racist jokes from a KKK site.
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'''Audience:''' <Angry glares> }}
* Done on the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "My Three Suns" with a Trisolian comedian doing a routine about the difference between those who live under the yellow sun and those who live under the red sun. Fry laughs his ass off and agrees, despite having been on the planet for about half an hour. Which tells you oh so much.
* An episode in ''[[Gary
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Reverend Jeremiah Wright, while drunk on the spotlight of the 2008 American presidential elections, went on a racial tirade that included a bizarre [[Black Dude, White Dude]] performance. Conservative news pundits nearly vomited with rage.
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