In DL Hughley’s new documentary for Comedy Central, the comic-turned-political commentator lobbies the Environmental Protection Agency to declare black men an endangered species.
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is a tricky balancing act of humor and seriousness.The meat of The Endangered List is a series of interviews Hughley conducts with experts, blowhards, model citizens, and random gangbangers, ostensibly gathering data to present to the government. The best explores crime; the host attempts to talk some sense into two teenage Crips, then talks to a policy guy about the prison industry, then buys the Crips shares in a company that operates for-profit prisons. The irony when he hands them their stock certificates is almost as vicious as the nature of mass incarceration itself.