Artist spotlight: Shang Forbes New York Amsterdam News | March 31, 2004| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Grant, Natasha
New York Amsterdam News
03-31-2004
There is absolutely no subject comedian/poet/actor Shang Forbes considers
taboo. Not at all, "cause I'm getting older and I'm sick of the bull. And
if there's something on my mind, if I feel it's wrong, I say it. Sometimes
crowds agree with me, sometimes they don't. There's people that are
Republicans that hate what I'm saying about Bush and there's people that
are Democrats that are like, 'Why did you say Kerry looks like a tree?'
[laughs] ... I got tired of doing comedy and not saying what I felt."

Shang was first bitten by the comedy bug while a ...

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