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What the FUCK is so funny about this movie? I honestly laughed twice throughout the entirety of the thing.

Steve Harvey - Good-spirited, likeable, clever, but never TOO funny.
D.L. Hughley - Most of his jokes fail, but he did manage to get both of my laughs.
Cedric the Entertainer - Not particulary interesting, and not at all funny.
Bernie Mac - ANNOYING AS FUCKING HELL. Christ. I wanted to punch him in the fucking face. He can't even pronounce any of his words because he's so busy trying to fill the "black funnyman" stereotype.

Anyone agree? Disagree? If you disagree, I'd love to know what you thought was funny.

― fdah, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

fantastic!!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Did the audience members seem to be enjoying themselves?

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe all the comedians were actually funny but you just have some kind of weird problem; a RACIST problem.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh brother.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

No hold on that's not

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway. I haven't seen the movie but I do find steve Harvey and Cedric the entertainer very funny in all their other stuff.
The other two I don't think I like.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think that if you don't think black-oriented comedy isn't funny it means you're racist. Maybe it just means you're not the target audience. And of course, this argument can be applied to countless other arguments about "racism" around here, especially on ILM.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

IE -- enjoying the comedy of Jeff Foxworthy is just as "racist." I don't like the guy myself, but he's not racist. His whole act focuses on one demographic within one race. That also the case with "Kings of Comedy."

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The comment was entirely unnecessary and puerile. Fdah exhibits no racism whatsoever in his/her post, unless someone wants to find fault with the phrase '"black funnyman" stereotype', which is an understandable concept.
How does anyone know Fdah isn't black?

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No I strongly disagree. If you don't think black-oriented comedy is funny then no matter who you are or where you come (whether you're white or black) then you're probably a racist.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What if you think some is and some isn't?
That's me and everyone I know.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

So if you dont like Seinfeld, you're antiSemetic? Well colour me a Nazi in that case.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't think black-oriented comedy is funny then no matter who you are or where you come (whether you're white or black) then you're probably a racist.

That's absurd.

It's black-oriented comedy! Suppose you're not black? You're a racist because you don't get jokes that aren't geared toward you in the first place?

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway I'm genuinely not sure you're not taking the piss, so highly strung and ludicrous is your comment xx-post

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

So if you dont like Seinfeld, you're antiSemetic?

Exactly.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No ha ha you are pulling our legs aren't you?

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I saw this picture myself a few months back and I'll be honest with you...I didn't find it all that funny. In fact, I laughed about twice during D.L. Hughley's set just like Fdah. But the point is, my non laughter helped me come to terms with my own deep seeded racism. Since then I knew I would do what I can to help others accept face their own individual racist selves.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. We've been had. Well done dude. Still your second post is still inscrutably...odd

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Or are you parodying Ethan? Were we supposed to get that cos you know....were slow.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 9 August 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

who the fuck is ethan?

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The test of your racism is not whether you laugh at Steve Harvey. It's whether you think when you see a black person walking down the street, "This is a bad neighborhood."

(x-post, and I guess I've been had as well)

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really think of the "Original Kings of Comedy" as "black humor" -- it's more like "working class ethnic humor", because I saw this comedy concert film at a relative's house, and I and everyone else in this house were crying and gasping for air because we were laughing so hard. Because of this, I have especially high hopes for the Original Latin Kings of Comedy, which, due to George Lopez's presence, I must see.

And I think Jeff Foxworthy's "redneck" humor is actually kinda sophisticated -- though Bill Engvall's is much more sophisticated than that. Come to think of it, Ron White's humor is also pretty far away from being stereotypically "redneck" in that it includes a gay-positive message right smack in the middle of it (I will never forget how he says, "Isn't that the most useless thing to be, a homophobe? I just don't see the point of being afraid of gay people," and "We're all gay. It's just to what extent are you gay?"). The only "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" guy I'd say was true to the stereotyped spirit of "redneck"-ism is Larry the Cable Guy, and even then I'm not entirely convinced that his act isn't just acting.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 9 August 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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