What's on your mind?

[KasperKalamity]

i haven't been rm'ing now in about 8 months or so. I'm just burnt out on it. I've started to make acting my thing that i do, in addition to standup. i've been thinking about how to make some almost racist jokes, to make people uncomfortable, and then turn it into a laugh somehow. i've got the opening idea for my next set, about how there are slave songs (it's actually a gospel song from 1897, but nobody's going to check ) on the voyager record. im going to open by singing it in a really exaggerated negro (re: southern black circa 1920s) accent, joke about how the aliens know we're ready for them, dare them to call me on it, do some other bits, and then once somebody does, close with something like how if this were 50 years ago.......(uncomfortable pause as i make eye contact with a minority audience member) we wouldn't have been born and our parents would still be happy. i was at an open mic last year, and this skinny black kid opened with "wow, this is the weirdest auction i've ever been to" and it was perfect, because it was the most shocking/funny thing he could say out of the gate to get our attention.

update: i just asked another comic for advice, and she said she didn't know. now i can make a joke about asking a jew for advice on a slave joke.