Documentary to feature Bill Cosby, Steve Harvey, more

Bill Cosby has joined the ranks of comedians featured in a documentary entitled Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy. The film is based on Darryl Littleton’s book that was released late in 2006 with a similar title. Robert Townsend will direct, and Littleton also has a hand in production.

A stand-up comedian under the stage name D'Militant, Littleton’s lens is both first-hand and historical.

“I feel like maybe in the last decade it has become a little bit more buffoonish than it was,” Littleton said to NPR. “My role models were people like Dick Gregory, Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce—people of that nature where when they said something they were actually saying something.”

The film includes Cosby, Harvey and Williams, plus Chris Rock, George Wallace, Paul Mooney, D. L. Hughley. Codeblack will be helping with production, with a release date still in the works.

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