Come meet Darryl Littleton, author and stand-up comedian and comedy writer, as he describes the history of black comedians, interspersing excerpts from interviews he did with many of them — Eddie Murphy, Robert Townsend, Marla Gibbs, Chris Rock, and Arsenio Hall, to name a few.

He begins with comedy during the period of slavery up to the present, and discusses vaudeville and blackface, the “chitlin’ circuit” of nightclubs, films, and television. Admission is free.

Saturday, January 15 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Bernheim Hall at the Ben May Main Library

For more information call 208-7097.

This program is sponsored by the South Alabama Film Festival and the Mobile Public Library.

Stand-up comedian Darryl Littleton talks with Tony Cox on NPR