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kleinbl00  ·  810 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trevor Noah's Full Speech at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Haha but I mean Don Rickles' golden era was, like, the Cuban Missile Crisis. That's back when everyone was amazed by Lucille Ball not because she was a genius but because she was a girl. Here's Don Rickles-era Richord Pryor:

Don Rickles was a white man who picked on white men because American society consisted entirely of white men and don't you forget it. The context has very much shifted since then, and this is A Good Thing, no matter what the conservatives say.