Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour

⭐ Featured Review

"George Kirby was an extremely talented comedian/impressionist who had the bad luck to be short, heavy-set and black in an era when comedians were expected to be tall, thin and white. Also, Kirby did devastatingly accurate (and funny) impressions of white celebrities, at a time when the idea of a black man imitating a white man was not readily accepted. Kirby's imitation of Walter Brennan was one of the most dead-on hilarious impressions I've ever seen, by anyone. (Full disclosure: I had the privilege of working with George Kirby on another one of his projects.) 'Half the George..."