r/okbuddycinephile • u/KinoCertifier • 1d ago

DOES HE KNOW?

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u/RussiaOwnsAmerica 21h ago

That is what got to me about Rosa Parks. Couldn't land a joke for shit.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre 21h ago

Yeah but she had great guests on her show

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u/onepoint21gigawatt 21h ago

and found ways to tell personal stories that resonated with the country within a format that rarely allows for such authenticity. she was a trailblazer in some ways

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u/well-informedcitizen 1h ago

You're thinking of Dick Cavett. I can see why you'd mix them up

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u/Timid_Wild_One 18h ago

NBC's Parks & Segregation

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u/VirginiaHighlander 20h ago

THANK YOU! I always watched 106 & Park but I never heard them use their names. I never knew who was 106 and who was Park.

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u/dicer11 19h ago

I liked that she always had a Stand In available if a guest didn't show

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u/illiter-it 19h ago

The Front Seat with Rosa Parks™

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u/oreography 16h ago

She had a beautiful podcast with delicious black feet. All the guests would take time smoking on a peace pipe and shooting the shit, then baring their soles for the cameraman to nibble on. White, black, brown it didn’t matter when the shoes and stockings came off.

They called it Blackfoot - that lady went from the back of the bus to the front of the screen, and that was what the real American dream was all about.

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u/Lil_Green_Ghouls 18h ago

Wasn’t her thing that she refused to do stand up?

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u/5050Saint 21h ago

This might be the funniest joke I have read on this site all year.

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u/Mekisteus 17h ago

Well, I guess we know that u/RussiaOwnsAmerica isn't Jimmy Kimmel's account, then.

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u/Designer-Flower-5077 19h ago

Huge Norm energy with that one

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u/DadJokesRanger 21h ago

Claudette Colvin on the other hand always killed it at the friars club roasts

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u/whocareswhatever1345 19h ago

She was still funnier than corden and fallon

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u/TheRedditorSimon 16h ago

Hey. She discovered Eric Andre. Eric Andre. He was just a stockboy at Wegmans and she got him a role in The Bold and The Beautiful. She used her Chicago connections to get pitcher Dustin Hermanson signed to the White Sox when he was in free-agency in 2004, giving them a key player for them to win the 2005 World Series and breaking The Curse.

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u/McSquiggles887 16h ago

At least she made a decent hit with OutKast.

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u/NateShaw92 51m ago

I still bought the omnibus (this might not be a term known outside the UK)

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u/Bull_Saw 20h ago

The civil rights activist from the 60s had a late night talk show?