The Original Kings of Comedy by Original Soundtrack

Engineers include: Rolf Paruda. Principally recorded live at Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina on February 26 & 27, 2000. THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album. An aural document of Spike Lee's concert film of one of the most successful comedy tours in history. Collectively, the four leads here--host Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac--made some $37 million in two years, doing arena shows for mostly African-American audiences. Some of the best visual bits in the movie are necessarily absent here, such as Harvey's hilarious recreation of the Temptations' dance steps. But what remains is mostly very funny, including Cedric's meditation on golf after what he calls "The Post-Tiger Renaissance," and (of all things) a Hughley cannibalism fantasy inspired by the movie ALIVE. There's some recent hip hop stuff interspersed between each comic's performance, but with the exception of Sticky Fingaz' "Ghetto" (as i...