{"id":813,"date":"2015-02-02T07:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=813"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T05:20:25","slug":"feb-5-why-we-laugh-great-black-comedians-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/feb-5-why-we-laugh-great-black-comedians-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 5 &#8211; &#8220;Why We laugh&#8221; Great Black Comedians Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Film Screening, Performance, and Discussion: <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;WHY WE LAUGH: Great Black Comedians,&#8221;<br \/>\nDarryl Littleton, Author and Comedian,<br \/>\nAvery Research Center, McKinley Washington Auditorium<br \/>\nFebruary 5, 6 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This presentation features a screening of <strong>Why We Laugh<\/strong>, followed by a performance and Q&amp;A with author, comedian, and executive producer Darryl Littleton. Littleton is the author of Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2008), a sweeping account of the evolution of Black comedy in America. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why We Laugh <\/strong>tracks the way black comedy has evolved from Stepin Fetchit and minstrels in blackface to the politically tinged humor of Dick Georgory; and from the television success of Good Times and The Jeffersons to the big-screen accomplishments of stars like Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg.<\/p>\n[source: https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/gullahgeechee\/CCrif7IW1Wo]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Screening, Performance, and Discussion: &#8220;WHY WE LAUGH: Great Black Comedians,&#8221; Darryl Littleton, Author and Comedian, Avery Research Center, McKinley Washington Auditorium<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/feb-5-why-we-laugh-great-black-comedians-event\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,37,8,21,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}