Hailing from Brooklyn, USA Elon James White has performed through out NYC and has been featured in the New York Underground Comedy Festival, Underground Zero Festival, the DC Comedy Festival and has been featured on Laughing Liberally.

Elon James founded the comedy production group "The Brooklyn Comedy Company" spawning successful comedy shows through out New York including the critically acclaimed "4 Shades of Black" Elon also founded the Black Comedy Experiment, a yearly festival featuring some of the nations funniest standups of color showing that breaking comedic stereotypes is not only funny, its hilarious. Most recently, Elon has created the brand new web series "This Week in Blackness".

Blog Entries by Elon James White

This Week In Blackness: Obama Is the Worst. President. Ever.

5 Comments | Posted October 11, 2009 | 09:03 AM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the Award Winning Web Series "This Week in Blackness" hosted by Elon James White. After hearing all of the issues with the current POTUS, TWiB! wanted to go on record acknowledging that Obama is the Worst. President. Ever.

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Echoes of Gates' Arrest in Brooklyn?

1 Comments | Posted July 27, 2009 | 11:26 PM (EST)


"Shem Walker? Who the heck is Shem Walker?"

That was the response a friend had when I brought up the name of the recently murdered Brooklynite. I will admit that I would have LOVED to stand on my higher-than-thou step stool and wag my finger at him; I'd love to...

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This Week in Blackness: "2009 is the New 1952"

1 Comments | Posted July 20, 2009 | 09:52 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the critically acclaimed Web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. In this episode, I discuss the past few weeks in "Post Racial America." Man, is it POST RACIAL and stuff.


WATCH:

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Why You so Black?

19 Comments | Posted July 17, 2009 | 03:42 PM (EST)


I started performing stand-up comedy around 2004. I had been working in corporate America for a few years and I hated everything about it. I didn't hate it because it was soooo racist (I worked in what was affectionately referred to as the "I.T. Ghetto" at a primarily black company...

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This Week in Blackness: Black Kids Shouldn't Be at Your Pool

13 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 08:56 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present this special "Quickie" of the critically acclaimed web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. Host Elon James White wants to draw attention to an incident highlighted on NBCPhiladelphia.com concerning the dismissal of 60 Black children from...

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TWiB!: This Week in White People F'ing Up Hard

1 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 12:11 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the Season 2 - Episode 3 of the critically acclaimed web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. Host Elon James White discusses Sarah Palin's sudden departure from politics and a possible new Black charismatic GOP Presidential hopeful.

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This Week in Blackness: BET Doesn't Care About Black People

8 Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 10:29 AM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the Season 2 - Episode 2 of the critically acclaimed web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. After the death of Michael Jackson, BET tried to help console the world and especially Black People about the his death....

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A Message from the Average Black Person

275 Comments | Posted June 24, 2009 | 03:44 PM (EST)


To Whom It May Concern:

Greetings. My name is Elon James White. I'm Black.

I write this letter on behalf of a lot of people that fall into the category of Average Black People. (Yes, I capitalize it, as if it were a title.) I do not claim to represent...

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Thats What's Wrong with Black People

105 Comments | Posted June 11, 2009 | 06:29 PM (EST)


If you happen to have perused the latest Rolling Stone you might have come across an interesting comment by celebrated Black academic Dr. Cornell West:

That's not my calling. Yeah, brother, you find me in a crack house before you find me in the White House. I'll go into...

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This Week in Blackness

Posted April 6, 2009 | 07:47 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the Season 2 premiere of the critically acclaimed web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, we try to catch up with all the blackness that seems to have past while we were on break.

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This Week in Blackness Ep# 14 - Kwanzaa, Communion and Keyes

Posted December 22, 2008 | 10:01 AM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 14th installment of the critically acclaimed web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White presents part 1 of his 4 part year in review.

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This Week in Blackness Episode 13 -- Black, Black, Blackity, Black.

Posted November 13, 2008 | 01:58 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 13th installment of the web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White talks about the wide spread notion of eliminating color when it comes to President-Elect Obama. Lets just say,...

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This Week in Blackness Episode 12: President-Elect OBAMA

Posted November 5, 2008 | 04:17 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 12th installment of the web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White has a few spaztastic moments after hearing of the Obama win in the election. Elon also addresses some...

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This Week in Blackness #11: Debate, Bucks, Powell, Oh My!

Posted October 23, 2008 | 03:31 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 11th installment of the web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White talks about the massive amounts of news that's come down concerning black people and a final plea.

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This Week in Blackness Episode #9 - about the VP Debate

Posted October 3, 2008 | 03:55 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 9th installment of the web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White talks about the vice presidential debate and interviews watchers of the showdown at Drinking Liberally debate party.

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This Week in Blackness, Episode #7: Was There a Debate Recently?

Posted September 30, 2008 | 10:01 AM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present its 7th installment of the web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post. With this episode, Comedian Elon James White talks about the presidential debate and the perceptions of those watching it.

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Sarah Palin: Eye Keeper on Russia

Posted September 25, 2008 | 05:00 PM (EST)


So the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin is making the rounds and, of course, everyone talks about how she seems stupid, and is obviously not ready to be near the presidency in any shape, form, or fashion.

Um . . . after I wrote that last sentence I just...

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McCain Wants to Help The Country. And, Soften the Beating He's Taking in Polls.

Posted September 24, 2008 | 06:26 PM (EST)


As you might have heard, Senator John McCain has supposedly suspended his Presidential campaign in order to head back to Washington to handle the budget crisis that has befallen the country. The same crisis that had befallen the country last week. But now that he's down in the polls and...

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TWiB Episode Six - New Poll States "Race" will Matter in Election!

Posted September 23, 2008 | 03:05 PM (EST)


The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to debut its web series "This Week in Blackness" on the Huffington Post with the sixth entry in the series. A poll from the Associated Press and Yahoo states that in the upcoming presidential race...er..."race" will matter. Shocking! We know.

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