Def Comedy Jam 2. On Netflix: Black Comedians Matter. Don’t call it a comeback. Def Comedy Jam is returning to HBO, sort of, this fall as Russell Simmons’ All Def Comedy. But Def Comedy Jam 2. Netflix. Hip- hop emerged in the 1.

American culture in the 1. Russell Simmons launched a platform for hip- hop comedians to shine on television on HBO. Just how influential was Def Comedy Jam? Look at who turned up for the 2. Los Angeles. From an opening monologue delivered by Steve Harvey, Sheryl Underwood, Cedric the Entertainer and Dave Chappelle, to appearances, presentations and performances by Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams, Tiffany Haddish, JB Smoove, Bill Bellamy, Adele Givens, Tony Rock, Eddie Griffin, Joe Torry and Mike Epps.“It’s good to see so many funny people together in one room, all wondering the same thing, Is Katt Williams going to show up?” Chappelle joked during the monologue, before realizing Williams already was sitting in the audience. Not surprisingly, for all the Original Kings of Comedy and Def Comedy Jam hosts in attendance, it’s Chappelle who is front and center and steals the show.

Sure, Lawrence gets onstage to introduce clips and thank Simmons and Stan Lathan (along with manager Sandy Wernick — yes, the manager Adam Sandler playfully spoofed in Sandy Wexler on Netflix — and booker Bob Sumner) for asking him “the host of what would become the hottest stand- up show in history.” But it’s Chappelle who gets big laughs noting that Sumner passed on him the first three times he auditioned for Def Comedy Jam. Photo: Netflix. Netflix’s celebration of Def Comedy Jam also includes Chris Rock and Kevin Hart, albeit by video in pre- recorded testimonials, as well as a panel about the women of Def Jam featuring Haddish questioning Underwood, Givens and Melanie Comarcho.

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Givens rises above them all, both men and women, by also actually delivering a special stand- up set for the occasion. Griffin acknowledged the importance of the series because “we weren’t getting on none of those m—- f—in’ talk shows.” Ice Cub acknowledges he wouldn’t have discovered any of the comedians for his Friday movies if Def Jam hadn’t discovered them first. And Williams made sure we knew it was 2. Donald Trump and comparing the craziness in the news today with auto- erotic asphyxiation that turns “freaky white boys” on.

Which makes the statement Simmons made on camera about his show as relevant now as it was in the 1. The comedians were honest in the way they expressed their art, and people got uncomfortable. Watch Carry On Spying Online Carry On Spying Full Movie Online. But it was their truth that we were expressing as well as our own.

The thing that makes me most proud of Def Comedy Jam is that this platform got these people to go up onstage in front of the world and tell the truth and get applauded for it. If you understood it, then it would ring a bell for you.

And if you didn’t harbor hate for these people, you learned some sympathy or some compassion or just laughed with them.”An In Memoriam segment reminds us that already, 1. Def Comedy Jam have since died, culminating with an onstage reminiscing about the late great Bernie Mac by the three surviving Original Kings of Comedy. “Bernie was our King,” Harvey said. There’s an even great moment almost an hour into the proceedings, when Chappelle stops to remark on how awkward he read a line from the prompter. Asking to start over, he quickly goes off prompter.

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If we told them what being black in America is, would they believe us?” Chappelle asked, urging the audience to respond. There’s a white supremacist starter kit at Target!” he adds, continuing: “It’s real right now. And have we seen it all before? Yep!”Hughley, standing onstage with Chappelle, laughs as the pair attempt several takes, then start talking to the old- school comedians in the audience such as Earthquake and Bruce Bruce, then to actor Jesse Williams, referencing his outspoken BET Awards speech, and somehow leading singalongs to both “the black national anthem” and “I’m Just a Bill” from Schoolhouse Rock.“We should be taping this shit right here,” said Hughley. Don’t worry. They did. Sean L. Mc. Carthy works the comedy beat for his own digital newspaper, The Comic’s Comic; before that, for actual newspapers.

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