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Negrodamus
Played by Paul Mooney
Negrodamus is a prophet and fortune teller played by Paul Mooney on Chappelle's Show, a satire of Nostradamus who answers questions about race and celebrities with blunt one-line prophecies. One of his answers, about why white people love…
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Negrodamus is a prophet and fortune teller played by Paul Mooney on Chappelle's Show, a satire of Nostradamus who answers questions about race and celebrities with blunt one-line prophecies. One of his answers, about why white people love Wayne Brady, resurfaces as a drug hallucination in the Wayne Brady sketch.
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