Kings of Comedy & Barbershop: Total Disappointments

Look I'm different from most people. I don't go for that obvious comedy. You have to come with something intelligent and funny to make me laugh. Last week I bought Kings of Comedy for the first time. I saw it the other day for the first time. Needless to say I was disappointed. The between shots with Bernie, D.L., Cedric and Steve just talking were funnier than their standup. I was shocked! I mean come on! These guys are usually hilarious but they weren't on this stage on this DVD.

By the middle of the DVD all I could think of was one thing…" Where the hell was Chris Rock when you needed him? "

Now the funniest hand down was Bernie Mac. I mean Bernie never disappoints! He could make a corpse laugh. But what surprised me was that Cedric and D.L. weren't as funny as I thought they would be. I knew Cedric way back in the day when he was on BET Comic View, D.L. too. Goodness it hurts to say BET. Anyone who knows me now know I am anti-BET all the way. I wouldn't watch BET if my mother were on it! But back then BET was good, before it was taken over by millions of spoiled, no talented rappers and dancing sluts. Okay, back to my point…D.L. and Cedric are funny people! But I wasn't feeling them on this and obviously the audience wasn't either from the lack of laughter.

Cedric spent his time dancing and told his jokes like he was on his last leg. He wasn't even enthusiastic. This wasn't the Cedric I know. Maybe he was nervous, but still his job was to make the audience and me laugh. Especially after cranking out money to buy this DVD. And D.L. was a little funnier than Cedric but he wasn't half as funny as his HBO comedy hour. Man he rocked with that! The only thing he did that was funny on Kings of Comedy was when he talked about the audience members and the part about his grandmother and Viagra. Other than that, total disappointment. He should have spent more time dissing the audience.

Steven Harvey…well what can I say about Steve? I've seen Steve's HBO special too. That's why I can't understand why he sucked so much on Kings. I know it's not just me because a lot of people said the jokes weren't as good as they hoped. I hadn't seen this for five years and finally when I decide to give it a shot I am totally disappointed. I mean, Steve's part was so unfunny I wanted someone to come and shoot me. Shoot, wasting all that time with that section about old-school music. Did we need to see him up there dancing? Spike directed this fiasco you'd think he'd given Steve hints to keep the jokes coming and stop all this filler busting. And another thing, you get Steve, the most ignorant one of the group to be the announcer? His grammar is so bad I had to put the caption on to understand what he says. Shoot I'm southern and I don't talk like that! I don't know if most of it is a put-on or what but he needs to cool it with some of those backwoods words. Especially if you're gonna be up there hosting a comedy show. Man oh man…

But yes, the " Bernster " brought it home. Bernie was funny from the time he got on stage to the time he left. I mean it was nonstop laughter. If it hadn't been for Bernie's section I would have died of displeasure. I just hate that they saved the best one for last.

And for the record, I hated Barbershop. I saw it when it first came out on DVD. I didn't even see the second one. Maybe it was better than the first. At least Queen Latifah was in that one. She's funny! The only part I liked about Barbershop was when Cedric talked about Rosa Parks and you see all the trouble he got into for that. Other than that, total disappointment. Why? Oh let me see. Maybe because it was a stereotypical mess that relied on race jokes (not talking about the Rosa thing. I saw nothing wrong with that. I'm talking about the men talking about sisters and etc.), ass jokes and sex jokes. Oh and Anthony Anderson playing a dumb criminal didn't do a thing for me either.

To me these were two films pumped up by a bunch of hype. Show me real substance and then I'll be the one pumping it up. Save the drama for yo' mama and save the empty hype for someone else.

My recommendation is to skip Kings of Comedy and get Queens of Comedy! I saw that on Show time and I loved it! Mo' Nique's a riot! Man she's funny!