Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney
Paul Gladney, better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, is an American comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor. He is best known for his appearances on Chappelle's Show and as a writer for the comedian Richard Pryor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth4 August 1941
CityShreveport, LA
CountryUnited States of America
mean self black
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
self white people
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
real self white
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
art freed helped opened west
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.
good hard liberty ourselves
It was hard to look at ourselves as the good guys. It just wasn't about liberty and democracy.
I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.
knew williams
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
spite
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
ask both saw
One of the things that is interesting is, I saw both sides. I'd done it, so what could they say? I didn't ask to go, I didn't ask to feel the way I did.
streisand using worried
I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.
I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.
best mold
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.
allow hard listen neither others people understand
It's hard to listen to people sometimes who have been to neither place. It's (also) often hard for me to understand how people who have been there would allow others to go there if they have any say about it.
almost funny mess offered people turned
They offered him $70 million, and he turned it down. It's funny because (in the beginning) the show almost didn't get made. He said, 'I can do it if no one will mess with my material, if they'll let me do what I want creatively, because these people don't know what funny is.' (That's why) I went and did it.