On the night of November 4th 2004, I went to see Harland Williams, Tess Drake, and Lewis Black at UCF. I thought Lewis was the best of the night, and Harland wasn’t too bad either. But Tess was just average. I was confused at one point when she said “White people, y’all know what you invented.” Despite growing up in white neighborhoods and white television, I had nary the fucking idea what she meant by it. I decided to ask a white couple what she was talking about. One of them said something about how white people invented oral sex. I still don’t get it. If anything, Indians invented oral sex (look up those erotic Indian paintings)
Back in my high school days, lunches were spent hanging out with either an anime/frisbee group, or with an observant fellow by the name of Alex Gonzales. This kid usually told jokes either made out of daily observations or culled from Comedy Central. I once decided to call him out on a joke from Carlos Mencia. His response was something along the lines of “I’ve been saying that shit for years and it’s a pretty simple observation for anyone to make”. I replied “I guess it’s a chicken or egg thing”. He says “One thing’s for sure. Carlos is a chicken”.