The Sketch That Would Break the Internet—Literally
Saw it late one night before working the graveyard and tapping the old CRT. Chevy Chase, clean-shaven and cold as a desk lamp, playing the smug interviewer. Across from him? Richard Pryor, eyes like embers, sitting in a folding chair, waiting.
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The scene starts slow. Word association.
“White.”
“Black.”
“Negro.”
“Whitey.”
“Jungle bunny.”
“Honky.”
“Spade.”
“Honky-honky.”
“Ni**er.”
“Dead honky.”
Not a gasp. An exhale. That line didn’t punch—it detonated.
And nobody turned it off.
Now? That sketch would not air. Not even in a parody of a sketch. X would turn into a ten-alarm inferno. Think pieces would rain down like acid hail. Headlines like “SNL Dehumanizes BIPOC Voices.” Meanwhile, context would
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