The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
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The Original Kings of Comedy achieves the seemingly impossible task of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac and the magic of experiencing a live concert show. Director Spike Lee and his crew plant a multitude of cameras in a packed stadium and onstage (as well as backstage, as they follow the comedians) to catch the vivid immediacy of the show, which is as much about the audience as it is about the jokes.
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100
Boston Globe
Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
90
Chicago Reader
Lee performs magic. He's preserved and expanded the experience of an adrenaline-pumping, uproarious night of racism-, classism-, and sexism-subverting humor.
90
Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
88
USA Today
Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.
88
New York Daily News
It's not so much good material as divinely inspired delivery.
