"Bamboozled," although imperfect in some respects, is an astonishing
film.  I've shown this film as part of a class on American humor and
satire.  After readings on slave humor and minstrelsy, this film just
knocks out the students; it's devastating.  It ties viewers into
knots -- there's so much sickness and yet the routines are so damn
entertaining!  After all of this, we read Huckleberry Finn, and
there's no problem talking about the ways the novel parallels
minstrelsy and how it veers from it at the same time.  Then Richard
Pryor stand-up comedy.  Phew.

Hilton