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** Chris Rock has retired his famous stand-up bit "Black People and N***** s" for this reason. His stand-up album features him doing this bit followed by a white fan coming up to him after the show and enthusiastically saying "I hate n***** s too!", followed by the sound of a punch.

* [[Patton Oswalt]] has a routine that tells the story of a movie audition he went to where he read for the [[Gay Best Friend]]. In the routine, he explicitly compares the stereotype to blackface.

* [[Ahmed Ahmed]], for the Axis Of Evil Comedy Tour, had a bit about how he had to stop acting and focus on comedy because they kept casting him as an Arab terrorist. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ50K63l4NY His stand up] includes a bit where he got a role by trying to dial the farce [[Up to Eleven]].