{"id":3389,"date":"2021-05-21T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2021-05-21T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T20:04:18","slug":"paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/05\/paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDeath is coming, you just wait\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n

Well Mr. Mooney death came, rest in peace. I\u2019m sure y\u2019all are having a hell of a ride, in a 76 Cadillac Coupe, obviously talking shit about us.<\/p>\n

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(I can\u2019t start this without mentioning that I know about the allegations of molestation around him, however, it hasn\u2019t been completely cleared nor demonstrated; benefit of the doubt it is. And, if we still play the music of Michael Jackson who enjoyed looking at kids\u2019 booty holes like Dave Chappelle says, then Paul can be praised for his talent as well)<\/p>\n

I got hooked on him watching Chappelle\u2019s shows. I immediately started to get my hands on everything he\u2019s ever been in. All his standup comedy, his book. I\u2019ve always loved dark humor and absolute irreverence in comedy. Going ALL the way there, takes courage but also means that you understand social dynamics and can dance with them. Paul was so good at that, taking you there and hitting you with the most honest and searing funny sentence. \u201cwe fucked up your tennis\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I think he was that rowdy on stage because he wrote for others, for years. You edit, you shape words for different people and then you go on stage, randomly burning the fuck out of everyone. Because you can. Paul could.<\/p>\n

Irreverence and IDGAF stances in comedy are essential. I know, it\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d now but I do believe that on stage, you\u2019re supposed to do whatever the hell you want. Roast the shit out of your kids, your mama, your people, others, everything. It\u2019s a performance, it is fine. Paul\u2019s delivery was impeccable. Raunchy and sophisticated at the same time. That is hard to pull. His looks at the audience, gauging how hard he would go on the next joke, probably fomenting on which words to use appropriately was always already funny to me. He was playing with the audience\u2019s mood and racial breakdown masterfully. Pushing it, always.<\/p>\n

This is a black man who was sent to the west coast as a kid before something bad happens to him in 1940s Louisiana. He lived everything from war rationing to Oakland brewing the Black Panther Party to White Hollywood and the Sunset Strip back when it was truly the hottest shit in the world, to NYC and his comedy clubs. He\u2019d seen it all, segregation, integration, integration failure, positive segregation, he knew what was going on. Which is why he looked mean, sometimes. He was just super tired of the bullshit.<\/p>\n

Anyway thank you for the joy, Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDeath is coming, you just wait\u201d Well Mr. Mooney death came, rest in peace. I\u2019m sure y\u2019all are having a hell of a ride, in a 76 Cadillac Coupe, obviously talking shit about us. (I can\u2019t start this without mentioning that I know about the allegations of molestation around him, however, it hasn\u2019t been completely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}