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Airdate: New Negroes with Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle

Part standup / part musical, Comedy series features black Americans speaking up & telling their own stories.

US series New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle comes to the Comedy channel shortly.

The title refers to black Americans speaking up, telling their own stories and affirming their various identities to dismantle outdated assumptions and beliefs.

Featuring comedians Baron Vaughn & Open Mike Eagle, this was produced for Comedy Central.

High-concept, racially conscious and earnest, The New Negroes is a part standup, part musical, and was originally conceived and performed as a live show. For the TV version, Vaughn (Grace and Frankie, Mystery Science Theater 3000) and Open Mike (very good rapper) monologue the beginning of each episode, which carry titles like “Identity” and “Criminality.” From there, comics such as Donnell Rawlings, Shalewa Sharpe, David Gborie, perform using those themes as a guidepost. There are also music videos featuring artists such as Danny Brown and MF DOOM, who deliver a hip-hop component to the proceedings alongside Open Mike. It’s an ambitious swing for two friends who met at a comedy rap battle in 2012.

Tuesdays July 16 at 9.00pm on Comedy.

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