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    American comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor

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  1. Paul Gladney (August 4, 1941 – May 19, 2021), better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, was an American comedian, writer, and actor. He collaborated with Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle, wrote for comedian Richard Pryor and the television series Sanford and Son, In Living Color and Chappelle's Show, as well as acting in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), the Spike Lee-directed ...

  2. May 19, 2021 · May 19, 2021. Paul Mooney, the boundary-pushing comedian and comedy writer who made his views on race, racism and social justice abundantly clear as Richard Pryor’s longtime behind-the-scenes ...

  3. May 19, 2021 · Paul Mooney attends a photo shoot at the Apollo Theater Jan. 5, 2008 in New York City. Comedian and writer Paul Mooney has died. Often referred to as the "godfather of modern Black comedy," a ...

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  5. May 20, 2021 · Known as the godfather of Black comedy, Paul Mooney, who dealt with race in hilarious, eye-opening detail, died Wednesday. Comedian Dave Chappelle called him "the best that ever did it."

  6. Paul Mooney, the actor-comedian famous for starring on “Chappelle’s Show” and “Bamboozled,” has died at 79, a rep for the actor, Cassandra Williams, told The Hollywood Reporter.

  7. May 19, 2021 · Paul Mooney, pioneering comic and writer for Richard Pryor, dies at 79. Comedian Paul Mooney at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles in the late ’90s. Paul Mooney, the boundary-pushing comedian who ...

  8. May 19, 2021 · Make God Laugh, Paul,” Los Angeles’ comedy landmark, The Laugh Factory, wrote on Twitter. His birth name Paul Gladney, Mooney was born in 1941 in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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