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The Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor / Redd Foxx [i.e. J.E. Sanford] and Norma Miller.
Book/text
Pasadena, Calif. : W. Ritchie Press, [1977]
1977
2 items
Call number | Sc E 17-1638 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Call number | *792.2-F (Foxx, R. Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor) |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Nipsey Russell portrait collection [graphic].
Picture
<1950?-1979?>
1950
1 item
Call number | Sc Photo Russell, Nipsey |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
Richard Pryor live in concert / directed by Jeff Margolis.
VHS
[Place of publication not identified] : MPI Home Video, ©1996.
1996
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual VRA-329 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Richard Pryor, here and now / written and directed by Richard Pryor.
VHS
Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Pictures Home Video, 1987.
1987
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual VRA-330 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
You so crazy / Martin Lawrence ; directed by Thomas Schlamme.
VHS
New York, NY : HBO Home Video
1993
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual VRA-447 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Bill Cosby "himself" / directed by William H. Cosby, Jr.
VHS
[Beverly Hills, Calif.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : Fox Video, [1996]
1996
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual VRA-448 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Urban jam!.
VHS
United States : EI Independent Productions : Bundy Productions, ©1998.
1998
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual VRA-548 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Mantan Moreland portrait collection [graphic].
Picture
[194-?]-1973.
197
1 item
Call number | Sc Photo Moreland, Mantan |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
FINDING AID AVAILABLEFlournoy Miller collection, 1928-1971 1941-1951.
Archival mix
1928
4 items
Collection information
The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections may require an appointment to view and use on-site.
Available online
Call number | Sc MG 599 box 4 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
Call number | Sc MG 599 box 3 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
Call number | Sc MG 599 Box 2 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
FINDING AID AVAILABLEHelen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.
Archival mix
1831
44 items
Collection information
The finding aid is a document containing details about the organization and contents of this archival collection. Archival collections may require an appointment to view and use on-site.
Call number | Sc MG 599 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
Call number | Sc MG 599 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
Call number | Sc MG 599 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.
Whoopi Goldberg (reviewer's reel) [videorecording] / [video prod. company] Broadway Video, Inc.
Film, slide, etc.
New York, 1984.
1984
1 item
Call number | NCOX 1845 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
Jimmy Walker portrait collection [graphic].
Picture
1968-[198-?]
1968
1 item
Call number | Sc Photo Walker, Jimmy |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
Entertainers [graphic].
Picture
[189-?]-[199-?]
199
4 items
Available online
Call number | Sc Photo Entertainers box 4 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
Call number | Sc Photo Entertainers box 3 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
Call number | Sc Photo Entertainers box 2 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
[Redd Foxx performance excerpt] [videorecording]
Film, slide, etc.
New York, 1987.
1987
2 items
Call number | NCOX 1146 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
Call number | NCOX 1146 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
[Interview with Al Hirschfeld : raw footage] [2002-02-11] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
VHS
New York, 2002.
2002
2 items
Call number | NCOX 2128 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
Call number | NCOX 2128 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
[Interview with Mel Watkins : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor]
VHS
New York, 2002.
2002
2 items
Call number | NCOX 2135 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
Call number | NCOX 2135 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT |
Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT.
Real people television stills collection [graphic].
Picture
1979.
1979
1 item
Call number | Sc Photo Television Stills |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.
The soul of comedy / WHMM ; producers, Curt Simmons, Herb Grimes.
DVD
Washington, D.C. : WHMM-TV, 1986.
1986
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual DVD-1251 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Positively black. Big Apple sidewalk humor. New York City Council election update / WNBC-TV Public Affairs presentation ; host, Gus Heningburg.
DVD
New York : WNBC-TV, 1981.
1981
1 item
Call number | Sc Visual DVD-1495 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
Furiously funny : comic rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock / Terrence T. Tucker.
Book/text
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]
2018
1 item
Call number | Sc E 18-221 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Meaty : essays / by Samantha Irby.
Book/text
New York : Vintage Books, [2018]
2018
1 item
Call number | Sc D 19-180 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Unsuccessful thug : one comedian's journey from Naptown to Tinseltown / Mike Epps.
Book/text
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
2018
1 item
Call number | Sc D 18-645 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
From blackface to Black twitter : reflections on Black humor, race, politics, & gender / Jannette L. Dates & Mia Moody Ramirez.
Book/text
New York : Peter Lang, [2018]
2018
1 item
Call number | Sc E 19-1704 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
I can't make this up : life lessons / Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss.
Book/text
New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2017.
2017
2 items
Call number | Sc E 17-1322 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Call number | JFE 17-8047 |
Item location | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Helen Armstead-Johnson audio and moving image collection.
Spoken word recording
1831
1 item
Call number | Sc MIRS Armstead-Johnson 1996-38 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
From the foster house to the White House / Terrence K. Williams.
Book/text
Warrenton, VA : Freiling Publishing, [2020]
2020
1 item
Call number | Sc D 21-821 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The N-word in music : an American history / Todd M. Mealy.
Book/text
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2022]
2022
2 items
Call number | Sc D 22-737 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Call number | JME 23-514 |
Item location | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
To be real : truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy / Lanita Jacobs.
Book/text
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc E 23-322 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dancing down the barricades : Sammy Davis Jr. and the long civil rights era : a cultural history / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Book/text
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc E 23-524 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
To be real [electronic resource] : truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy / Lanita Jacobs.
Web resource
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
2023
2 resources
Available online
Help is on the way : stay up and live your truth / Kountry Wayne with Mim Eichler Rivas.
Book/text
New York : Harmony Books, [2023]
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc E 23-556 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A century of Black cinema / directed by Ted Newsom.
VHS
North Hollywood, CA : Passport Video, ©1997.
1997
1 item
Call number | Sc VRA-2302 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound.
The history of sketch comedy : a journey through the art and craft of humor / Keegan-Michael Key & Elle Key.
Book/text
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books LLC, [2023]
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc E 24-100 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
In a Pryor life : the parallel and contrasting lives of legendary Richard Pryor and his son / Richard Pryor Jr. with Ron Brawer.
Book/text
Albany, Georgia : BearManor Media, [2019]
2019
1 item
Call number | Sc E 24-193 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Leslie f*cking Jones : a memoir / Leslie Jones ; foreword by Chris Rock.
Book/text
New York : Grand Central Publishing, Hachett Book Group, 2023.
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc D 24-19 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
When I was your age : life lessons, funny stories & questionable parenting advice from a professional clown / Kenan Thompson with Dibs Baer.
Book/text
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
2023
1 item
Call number | Sc E 24-477 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Rolling : Blackness and mediated comedy / edited by Alfred L. Martin Jr.
Book/text
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2024.
2024
1 item
Call number | Sc E 25-463 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Pryor lives! : how Richard Pryor became Richard Pryor, or, Kiss my rich, happy black ass! : a memoir / by Cecil Brown.
Book/text
[United States] : [Cecil Brown], [2013]
2013
1 item
Call number | Sc D 25-484 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bits and pieces : my mother, my brother, and me / Whoopi Goldberg.
Book/text
Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2024.
2024
1 item
Call number | Sc D 25-296 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Black Pack : comedy, race, and resistance / Artel Great.
Book/text
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
2025
1 item
Call number | Sc E 25-1093 |
Item location | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor, live in concert / Bill Sargent presents a Hillard Elkins-Steve Blauner production ; produced by Del Jack and J. Mark Travis ; directed by Jeff Margolis.
Film, slide, etc.
[United States] : MPI Home Video, [1996], [©1996]
1996
1 item
Call number | LF435 |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 18 : script].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 5 : script].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 6 : script].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 11 : script].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 14 : script].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 4, episode 17 : script].
Manuscript
1974.
1974
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
Flip. [Season 3], #21 : [script] / [written by Don Hinkley and Flip Wilson].
Manuscript
1973.
1973
1 item
Call number | |
Item location | Off-site |
I can't make this up : life lessons / Kevin Hart with Neil Strauss.
Book/text
New York : 37 Ink, Atria, 2017.
2017
1 item
Call number | PN2287.H26 A3 2017 |
Item location | Off-site |