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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"There's a white man talking up here! Silencio! ''Oongawah!''"''|'''Chuck Taylor''', ''[[Chappelles Show]]'', yelling into a booing multi-ethnic crowd during the racial draft.}}
Similar to [[Black Like Me]] except usually played strictly for laughs as a black character pretends to be white. Generally, a very hip black male pretends to be a [[White Dude, Black Dude|very straight, lame white male]]. Most famously done by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Any time [[Dave Chappelle]] plays/impersonates/imitates a white person, it's always in the same calm monotone that says "I have nothing exciting about me because I'm ''extra'' vanilla." The white news anchor Chappelle plays throughout the run of [[Chappelles Show|his show]] gets whiter every time he appears. In one of the Lost Episodes, pictured above, he's ''literally white''.
* [[Eddie Murphy]] did this for the first time in an old ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' short where, with the help of a good make-up artist, he discovered that white people regularly give stuff to each other for free. All the time. It ends with him with several of friends undergoing the make-up process [[
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[[Category:In Another Mans Shoes]]
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