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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"There's a white man talking up here! Silencio! ''Oongawah!''"''|'''Chuck Taylor''', ''[[
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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* [[Eddie Murphy]], thanks to the magic of ''really'' good makeup, played a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Richard Simmons in ''[[The Nutty Professor]]''. You couldn't tell it was him unless you were explicitly told as such.
* [[Eddie Murphy]] played the black barbershop's resident [[Alter Kocker]] in ''[[Coming to America]]''.
* [[Whoopi Goldberg]] disguises herself as an elderly white businessman in ''[[
== 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 [[
* [[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 [[It's for
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