Matthew McConaughey, the accomplished and versatile American actor, was the host of the Saturday Night Live comedy show yesterday (21 Nov) and Adele, the British singer, was his special guest.
This Thursday is Thanksgiving day and this is a clip from the show with a typically dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner complete with contemporary prejudices, where Adele's “Hello” keeps intervening as the only thing everyone in the family can agree on.
Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm - Black Man In A Suit
''Yeah, it is possible for black people to have other jobs.''
Larry David, producer, writer and actor, wrote for Saturday Night Live, wrote and produced the sitcom Seinfeld and created HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. He currently plays Bernie Sanders, the Democratic candidate for president, on Saturday Night Live.
Beyond comedy, Jane Elliott, an Iowa schoolteacher, on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. She devised a daring "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" experiment with labels on participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the colour of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority.
