When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeomen’s work railing against the venality of the establishment (roughly moneyed white men).

Malcolm-Jamal Warner in 2023 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The actor died Sunday at 54. (Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP) When Bill Cosby revolutionized television during the mid-1980s ...

When Bill Cosby revolutionized television during the mid-1980s with "The Cosby Show," the fictional Huxtables, the wealthy Black family at the center of the sitcom, were often referred to as ...