Russell Simmons, the hip-hop impresario and the man behind the 1990s stand-up comedy show DEF COMEDY JAM, recently launched an online comedy channel called ALL DEF DIGITAL and the initial offering was a comedy skit about Harriet Tubman creating a sex tape to blackmail her slave master.
Does that sound like it has a shot of even being mildly funny to you? No? Well Russ would beg to differ as he tweeted this effusive praise:

Now I was willing to give this skit a chance because I am all about edgy, politically incorrect comedy and Simmons big upped it so much, so I sought it out expecting to have my side split wide open from laughing so much. Alas what I watched was not the “funniest thing I had ever seen”…it wasn’t even the funniest thing I had seen all day.
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