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Article: Dr. Comic. (scholar/comedian Bertice Berry)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Johnson Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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R. Bertice Berry is holding court, not in a lecture room but in a crowded nightclub filled with smoke and noisy patrons ordering drinks.
All eyes are glued to the sprited women whose buncing dreadlocks and funny anecdotes almost mask the fact that she's a scholar with a Ph.D.
"I don't look like Whoopi Goldbert," she tells the audience. "People confuse us because we're both Black and have dreadlocks. The other day a lady on the bus said to me. "You look just like Whoopi Goldberg. "I told her, "You 're fat and White, "but you don't look like Mama Cass!.
The line gets tremendous applause.
Berry uses the gag to make her point, and she ...