"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