How The West Was Won…Maybe is a classic comedy sketch from Robert Townsend‘s groundbreaking HBO variety special Robert Townsend – Partners In Crime.
The sketch is a brilliant parody of classic Hollywood Westerns, infusing the genre with 1980s urban culture, hip-hop slang, and modern labor union politics. In the sketch, a Black cowboy town sheriff faces an impending showdown with bandits, but his plans are completely derailed by his backing posse and crew treating the high-stakes gunfight like a heavily regulated union job.
How The West Was Won Maybe from Robert Townsend’s Partners In Crime
