"The Niggar Family" is a brilliant and audacious parody of 1950s family sitcoms like "Leave It to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best." Shot in black-and-white with period-appropriate production values, the sketch follows the wholesome Niggar family—Frank, Emily, and their son Tim—as they navigate their daily lives in suburban America. The comedy derives from the family's complete obliviousness to how their surname sounds, while the discomfort escalates when Clifton the Colored Milkman (Dave Chappelle) arrives for deliveries and must repeatedly say their name. The sketch satirizes both the sanitized world of 1950s television and America's complex relationship with racial language, using absurdist humor to comment on racism, privilege, and the power of words. Chappelle's milkman character provides the sketch's emotional core, expressing the internal pain of having to repeatedly use offensive language while maintaining his professional demeanor in the face of the family's innocent but tone-deaf behavior.
