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...anyone epitomizes the new look in black humor, it is probably Flip Wilson; he seems to have solved the considerable problem of how to be black without being racial. Like Cosby, he tends to narrative rather than one-liners. His harridan housewife who swears to her hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow...
Purlie Judson, unlicensed preacher and self-appointed messiah of his race, hoodwinks neo-Confederate, bullwhip-wielding Ol Cap'n Cotchipee (John Heffernan) and secures the money to buy Big Bethel Church and preach freedom to the workers in the cotton fields. The problem is how to believe this in 1970. The wheedling, tricking, self-inflating Purlie embodies a slavery-induced personality that no longer applies to a race increasingly infused with the will and strength to command its own destiny...
...self-described "country preacher" came to Harvard last night to discuss America's sickness-and to urge his audience to try to cure...
...water hole in the desert. He stakes a claim, swears revenge on his two partners (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner) and who can spin his clerical collar around into layman's garb faster than most men can draw a pistol. Everyone sort of threatens, jokes and loves each other, and gets in each other...
...mark of the ongoing Christian life, even as the Lord's Prayer invites us to daily repentance and forgiveness of sins. It is an irony of what can be called White House religion that the chief spiritual advisor of both President Johnson and President Nixon is precisely our foremost preacher of repentance. Repentance is a religious term which, when cast back into its original Greek sense in the New Testament, means change of mind...