You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome to CEP Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we're going to discuss the magical Negro, which ironically was my stage name when I was a magician back in the day. You see, instead of pulling rabbits out of hats, pulled mine out of tupple well dead every time. The term magical negro's actually used to describe supporting black characters in movies whose only purpose in the film is to help the white hero.
We've seen it many times in movies like Fix my Golf Game, Fix My Penis, Fix My Dumbass Kids, and My favorite Fixed My Daddy Issues. Intellectuals have debated this for many years, but I think we all can conclude that Yoda was black. He lived in the raggediest part of the galaxy, He had a pip cane, and his car was broke down in the front yard on blocks.
The term magical negro was popularized in two thousand one by Spike Lee, but many scholars suggests that the magical negro first appeared in the Song of the South, a film where black man nurses a little white boy back to health with bedtime stories, which is nonsense. Stories do not have magical healing powers. If they did, I'd be reading Cat in the Hat to my hemorrhoids. Now, if you're a Caucasian, you may be asking why is the
magical negro character problematic? Well, I'll tell you why. The magical negro reinforces the idea that black people's only purpose is to help white people. Because think about it, don't you find it just a little odd that the magical negroes never use their expertise to help themselves. If Michael Clarke Duncan was so magical, why didn't he just rub himself out of prison? Or if Will Smith was so good at golf, why didn't he just win the golf
tournament himself? He could have told Matt Damon, how about you go good will hunting for another sport, bitch. But despite this criticism, movies continue to use the magical negro stereotype and even get rewarded for them. Just last week, the Academy gave the Best Picture Oscar to the Green Book, a movie where a black man uses his magical piano powers to teach us suber driver to not be racist.
But the big news is recent movies are now challenging the magical negro stereotype, and in fact, some are even using white magical negroes. For example, the movie Black Panther featured a magical white hobby and then there's of course, the two thousand fifteen film Creed. Sylvester Stallone in this film used his magical powers to give Mike of be Jordan's the proper skills and training so that he too could get his ass whooped in the big match like
a bitch. And it's not just limited to movies. There are now white people in real life who are using their magical white powers to support the black man's mission, which is why today CPE Time would like to honor one of those magical white negroes. It's with much pleasure that I award this year's CEPE Time Lifetime Achievement Award to Vice President Joe Biden for being Barack Obama's magical
white Negro. He gave Obama good advice, He was the administration's comic relief, and he always had his finger guns loaded and read it. Joe Biden has the soul of a black man and the gestures of someone that just had relations for the first time. So we say thank you Joe Biden. Now, of course Joe Biden is not here to accept this award because he was not aware
he was getting it. But I made several copies enough have been places where I think he will find them, such as a men's warehouse or the dining car of an Amtrak train. Also, I left one at the Walgreens behind the Ben Gate. That's all the time we have for today. I'm Roy Wood Jr. And this has been CEP time. And remember before the culture, I'm gonna need to get this back from Joe. I printed this on the back of my car. Title The Daily Show with
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