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 African American culture, race relations, church, and families. Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. ... For the AIDS activist also named Steve Harvey, see Lenford Harvey. ... D. L. Hughley Darryl Lynn D.L. Hughley (born March 6, 1963) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and star of the television sitcom The Hughleys, which ran from 1998 to 2002 on ABC and then on UPN. D.L. Hughley grew up in South Central Los Angeles and... Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Antonio Kyles, April 24, 1964) is an American actor and comedian. ... Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ... Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. ... For the AIDS activist also named Steve Harvey, see Lenford Harvey. ... Darryl Lynn D.L. Hughley (born March 6, 1963) is an African-American actor and comedian and star of the sitcom The Hughleys which ran from 1998 to 2002 first on ABC and then on UPN. D.L. Hughley grew up in South Central Los Angeles and had a rough... Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Antonio Kyles, April 24, 1964) is an American actor and comedian. ... Bernie Mac (born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on October 5, 1957 (sometimes incorrectly given as 1958) in Chicago, Illinois) is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. ... Nickname: Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Government  - Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area  - City  280. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Race relations is the area of sociology that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races at all different levels of society. ...

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. is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Summary

Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey, the star of The Steve Harvey Show, is the master of ceremonies for the show. Unlike his sitcom character, Harvey's on-stage routines use a significant amount of profanity; as the show's M.C., Harvey is given three short sets instead of one long one. The Steve Harvey Show (August 25, 1996—February 24, 2002) aired for six seasons on The WB Television Network. ... A Master of Ceremonies or MC (sometimes spelled emcee), sometimes called a compere or an MJ for microphone jockey, is the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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. City Charlotte, North Carolina Other nicknames The Cardiac Cats Team colors Black, Panther Blue, and Silver Head Coach John Fox Owner Jerry Richardson General manager Marty Hurney Mascot Sir Purr League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1995–present) National Football Conference (1995-present) NFC West (1995-2001) NFC South (2002... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Rae Carruth (born January 20, 1974) is a former football player (wide receiver) for the Carolina Panthers. ... Titanic is a 1997 romantic drama film directed, written, and co-produced by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ... Kool & the Gang is a highly successful American jazz/R&B/soul/funk/disco group. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... Funk is an African American musical style. ... “Temptations” redirects here. ... Earth, Wind & Fire was a legendary American funk band, formed in Chicago in 1969. ... The Ohio Players are a funk and R&B band whose heyday was in the mid- to late 1970s. ... Lenny Williams is a successful R&B vocalist who is perhaps best known as the lead singer of Tower of Power from 1972 to 1975, when the group recorded So Very Hard to Go and several other of its other biggest hits. ...

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). Look up thug in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The theme music of a radio or television program is a melody closely associated with the show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ...

D.L. Hughley

Steve 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. The TV show The Hughleys aired on ABC from 1998 to 2000 and on UPN from 2000 to 2002. ... The U.S. Southern states or The South, known during the American Civil War era as Dixie, is a distinctive region of the United States with its own unique historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ... Insert non-formatted text here Bungee Jump in Normandy, France (Souleuvre Viaduct) Bungee jumping (or bungy jumping) is the sport of jumping from a tall structure without connections of any type. ... Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, conceived of by its perpetrators as extrajudicial punishment for offenders or as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. ... A pair of mens briefs Undergarments, also called underwear or sometimes intimate clothing, are clothes worn next to the skin, usually under other clothes. ...

Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric the Entertainer, who presents himself as the most in-tune with the younger demographic, goes through a number of topics during his routine. Primary among these is his embellishment of the differences between the "hope factor" and the "wish factor": white people "hope" that nothing goes wrong, and black people wish someone would start trouble so that they can retaliate. Cedric's acknowledges that he is now a "grown-ass man", and can no longer call his friends by their "lil' nicknames" or engage in other such immature behavior.

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. Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having a sexual relationship[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. ... This article is about the sport. ... Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. ... Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ... Apparent magnitude: up to -12. ...

Bernie Mac

Bernie 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). He then tells a story about his mentally challenged nephew and his bouts with his bus driver; according to Mac, when the bus would come, his nephew would attempt to ask a question, but would immediately start stuttering, frustrating the bus driver and prompting him to drive off without picking him up. This continues the next few days, and Mac's sister confronts the bus driver, asking why he was "denying [her son's] 'edumacation.'" The bus driver begins to stutter exactly like Mac's nephew, then proclaims "he was teasin' me!". 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. Self-deprecation is a form of humour in which a comedian makes jokes about himself, his shortcomings, or his culture. ... For the Peruvian rock group, see Libido (band). ... Look up faggot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... The Bernie Mac Show was an half-hour American sitcom featuring the comedic antics of comedian Bernie Mac. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... A split infinitive is a grammatical construction in the English language where a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, occurs between the marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. ...

Box office & DVD release

The 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. Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly Paramount Home Video) is a home video company founded in 1981. ... Big Tymers Hood Rich (2002) The Big Tymers were a U.S. hip hop duo, one of the popular acts on New Orleans record label Cash Money Records. ...

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Awards & nominations

2001 NAACP Image Awards The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music and literature. ...

• Outstanding Motion Picture (nominated)

2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Award The Chicago Film Critics Association is an American film critic association. ...

• Best Documentary (nominated)

Related films

The popularity of this movie inspired spin-offs, including The Original Queens of Comedy, The Original Latin Kings of Comedy, The Kims of Comedy, and Blue Collar Comedy Tour. The DVD cover of The Original Latin Kings of Comedy The Original Latin Kings of Comedy (TOLKC) is a 2002 film and comedy directed by Jeb Brien, it is part of the franchise that was spawned by the great sucess of The Original Kings of Comedy. ... From left to right : Larry the Cable Guy , Bill Engvall , Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White. ...

External links

• The Original Kings of Comedy at the Internet Movie Database
• The Original Kings of Comedy at Rotten Tomatoes