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he isn't that great. somtimes he amuses me but he is basicly just doing the whole richard pryer/ eddie murphy thing again.

dave
 
I saw the show on tv t'other night, some of it was funny, very funny. But most left me pretty 'cold', he's notwhere near as funny or 'new' as Pryor or Murphy. But funnier than I expected in parts.
 
I love his section on Wealthy vs Rich -

"Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his cheques is wealthy"

"If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow morning with Oprah's money, he'd throw himself outta fuckin window"



:D:D
 
I was watching this on the TV with some of my friends the other day - now I like comedy a lot, but this, I just don't find my self going hahahahahaaaa hahaaaaa non-stop.

My friends (Who come from different backgrounds to me and what the media might call "British-Asian yoouth innit") find it very funny - and probably me odd for not laughing

Is it thus that:
a)I am loosing my sense of humour. (I hope this isn't so)
b)As a middle class white boy brought up in the rural East of England, abit now living in London, and not on a diet of processed MTV hip-hop all the African-American /ghetto/urban jokes are totally lost on me?
c)He isn't as funny as people make out?
 
He is pretty funny, but his routines have grown stale. He just rehashes the same old stuff, white people are different from black people, men are different from women etc. It's getting old now and it shows.
 
Who's the black American comedian living in the UK now? Does panel shows, been on HIGNFY and QI (I think, or was it 8/10 Cats?) He's funny.
 
He doesn't have the swaggering arrogance and OTT 'in your face'-ness necessary to draw the mentalist whooping of NA audiences. His laconic, somewhat world-weary delivery, is well-suited to the UK.

I like him anyway.
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
Who's that: the black Bill Hicks?:D
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Not quite :D

From Have I got News for You
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeoTYUUUpI&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_D._Hunter#Television

Hunter became a comedian having performed his first comedy set as a dare - he received £10.His relaxed demeanor and thoughtful subject matter often mean Hunter is likened to a philosopher onstage.

His show, Reginald D Hunter: Pride & Prejudice & Niggas attracted some criticism and the poster was banned from the London Underground due to the use of the word 'Niggas'. Furthermore, the journalist Johann Hari called him "a black Bernard Manning, locating his audience’s ugliest side and giving it a rough massage. He almost seems to be deliberately pandering to a racist stereotype – the black man who belittles rape and attacks Jews."

On the other hand, he is also considered one of the most engaging stand-up performers working in the UK at present, a fact illustrated by his ability to fill E4's 320-seater "Udderbelly" venue every one of 27 consecutive nights during the 2007 Edinburgh festival with his latest show, "Fuck You in the Age of Consequence" (the title being named as a response to the negative press reactions to his previous shows, "A Mystery Wrapped in a Nigga" and "Pride and Prejudice... and Niggas").
 
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