The funny man died of a heart attack
Paul Mooney
Mooney chronicled their partnership in his 2007 memoir Black is the New White. Mooney wasn’t as widely known as Pryor, but his influence on comedy was
ubiquitous. As head writer on the show, In Living Color, Mooney helped create and inspire the Homey D Clown character. He played the future-foretelling Negrodamus on Chappelle’s Show.
Mooney was also an actor who played Sam Cooke in 1978’s The Buddy Holly Story and Junebug in Spike Lee’s 2000 film Bamboozled.
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