David Naimon
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first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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Well, I wanted to maybe look at this act of interruption.
you were raised in a certain way, and in a way your art is – I don't know if interruption is the right word.
But you did write an essay that I really loved called I Think About This A Lot, Kanye West at the Katrina Telethon.
And, um, and you say this really interesting thing about interruption, but I, I wanted to first, maybe you could orient us again to that phenomenon with, um, Mike Myers and Kanye West for people who don't remember, um, and why you were compelled to write about it in
And on decorum in general.
Yeah.
I want, I wanted to take a line you said in there that I, that I really was captivated by and bring it back into magical Negro and ask you a question.
And the line from the Kanye West essay is I often consider the conditions that create revolutions and the acts that might be deemed revolutionary, how an average person, not otherwise a political actor is,
might be an agent of change, how maybe resistance looks like interruption.
So if we think of resistance as interruption and we go back to Magical Negro, both your Kanye West and Bill Cosby pieces meditate on comedy.
In the Kanye West essay, there's a line, I know we laugh when we're uncomfortable and we cry when we laugh.
Those urges sit in our chests, two-headed.
And in the Bill Cosby piece, you say, I've been compelled to explore why I think what I think is funny, why I often use humor to talk about my darkest aches and the country's most egregious defects.
I've been reading about the history of black comedy, listening to Richard Pryor vinyls, revisiting Dick Gregory's shtick and the Flip Wilson show.
But also in Magical Negro, one section is entitled Popular Negro Punchlines.
And somehow I relate, rightly or wrongly, I relate this impulse to use humor to talk about one's darkest aches to you saying that resistance looks like interruption.
I don't know if those feel connected to you.
If like the humor is the interruption in some way.
it's this weird –
it's in a weird arena that's sort of abstracted from everyday life.
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