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The Original Kings of Comedy is a 2000 stand-up comedy film, directed by Spike Lee, and features the comedy routines of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac. Filmed in front of an audience in Charlotte, North Carolina, the comedians give the audience their views about church, kids, black culture, white culture, and African-American families. The film was shot over the last two nights (February 26 and February 27, 2000) of the Kings of Comedy tour with Harvey, Hughley, Cedric, and Mac; the most successful comedy tour in American history. Its on-stage routines are intercut with brief sections of video footage showing the comedians backstage, promoting the show on the radio, at the hotel, and during a basketball game.
SummarySpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Steve Harvey
Harvey's first set covers Carolina Panthers football star Rae Carruth, his distaste of the movie Titanic, and his theory that although the white band in Titanic kept playing as the ship went down, "Kool & the Gang woulda been unpluggin' shit!" His second explores the differences between hip hop/rap music and the old school soul music and funk of artists like The Temptations, Earth Wind & Fire, the Ohio Players, and Lenny Williams. The finale of Harvey's sets finds him heckling a member of the audience by stealing his coat while he is away from his seat, and remarking that the "thuggish" looking young man couldn't possibly be in the field of "computer technology" that he claims he is. Harvey also covers his experiences growing up in the church, calling out the ineffectiveness of the typical black church "building fund", and recollecting his mother's friend Sister O'Dell's profane language and befuddled attempts to sing a church hymn (interspersed with lyrics from television show theme songs). D.L. HughleySteve Harvey' first set is followed by D. L. Hughley, the star of The Hughleys. He talks about family, specifically African-American family with roots in the South, which shows there's still something to the concept of the perceived monolithic black experience. He exploits the differences between black people and white people; for example, Hughley notes that black people don't ski or do other dangerous physical activities because they experience enough peril just trying to get through an average day. "Bungee jumping," he says. "That's too much like lynchin' for us!" He also talks about "helicopter man", a game he and his wife play in bed, and some skid-marked undergarments that he tried to hide at the bottom of his dirty clothes. Cedric the Entertainer
He discusses how angry a black president might become if a Monica Lewinsky question were posed at a news conference, and also goes into routines about smoking, black athletes' expansion into golf, tennis, and other sports, what a "ghetto-ass wedding" would be like, and black people's eventual migration to the moon. Bernie MacBernie Mac is the most autobiographical of the group. He turns his comedy on himself. He uses short, punchy attacks to make his point about his decreased sex drive and desire for quick sex instead of longer periods of intercourse. Mac's longest routines involve his hard-nosed style of child-rearing, where he makes no qualms about "fucking a kid up" if he needs to. He goes into an extended routine about the stress of raising his sister's children for her while she recovers from drugs, and tells of a run-in he had with his two-year-old niece and his effiminate six-year-old nephew, whom he refers to repeatedly as "the faggot" (Mac's routine about his sister's kids later became the basis of his FOX Network show The Bernie Mac Show). The set, and the film, are concluded with Mac's piece on the ubiquity of the swear word "motherfucker", which he describes as "a noun: a person, place or thing," and then proceeds to give the heft of an adjective and even transforms it into a split infinitive. Spoilers end here.
Box office & DVD releaseThe Original Kings of Comedy was produced on an estimated $3,000,000 budget. On its opening weekend, it was shown on 847 screens and grossed a total of $11,053,832. It eventually grossed a total of $38,168,022 at the box offices. This film was released on DVD on February 27, 2001 and distributed by Paramount Home Video. Bonus features on the DVD include the music video "#1 Stunna" by Big Tymers, Kings On The Town featurette, and bonus scenes. Awards & nominations
2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Award
Related filmsThe popularity of this movie inspired spin-offs, including The Original Queens of Comedy, The Original Latin Kings of Comedy and Blue Collar Comedy Tour. All of these films have been played on TV, after originally premiering on Comedy Central.
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