The Original Kings of Comedy

2000 Comedy

In 1997, four of America's leading African-American stand-up comedians -- Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Bernie Mac, and Cedric The Entertainer -- joined forces for a concert tour that became one of the top money-earning attractions of recent years, consistently selling out 10,000 to 15,000 seat arenas from coast to coast. The Original Kings of Comedy captures the tour's rough and raunchy humor on film. The concert documentary was shot in February of 2000 during a two-night stand in Charlotte, North Carolina (which was the site of the tour's first date three years earlier). Spike Lee served as director.

Director: Spike Lee

 30 Reviews  2 Awards

Reviews

  • Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.

    Jay Carr - The Boston Globe

    27 April 2013

  • A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    27 April 2013

  • Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    27 April 2013

  • Doesn't have the theatrical subtext or, let it be said, the genius of Richard Pryor.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    27 April 2013

  • Can make a person sick in two ways at once -- through its lowdown raunch and through the spasms of laughter that use stomach muscles one might not have known existed.

    Peter Stack - The San Francisco Chronicle

    27 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Documentary

    Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2001)

     

  • Outstanding Motion Picture

    Image Awards (2001)

     

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