What? You Don’t Know Moms Mabley?
Jackie ‘Moms’ Mabley was gay, black, and political – and her stage act, the focus of a new Whoopi Goldberg documentary, was a cornerstone of all standup comedy. Whoopi show about Moms will air on HBO on Monday: are you excited yet? I sure am. Watching her as a kid, I didn’t know she was gay or that she’d had a hard life — and as Moms was saying long before Mae West, “A hard man is good to find.” I just knew that she was funny.
