Comedians: Humor, Integrated

At Chicago's Playboy Club, where businessmen from all parts of the U.S., including the Deep South, wallow in their shoulder-padded expense accounts, a neatly dressed young comedian talks about the race problem. "Segregation is not all bad," he says. "Have you ever heard of a wreck where the people on the back of the bus got hurt?" And, on sit-ins: "I sat at a lunch counter for nine months," he discloses. "When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted." The audience always laughs and usually applauds the performer, who is...

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