The Original Kings of Comedy

...and lava lamps. Harvey, one of "The Original Kings of Comedy" stars (along with entertainers such as the late Bernie Mac) preached about the need for layaway in black communities hit particularly hard by the recession. "We hope enough...

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...with pneumonia. He was 50 years old. Mac began his career doing stand-up routines, and achieved national fame with his appearance in the documentary film The Original Kings of Comedy. Mac went on to star in his own award-winning...

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...played from 1997-2006. Hayes was 65. Still-rising star Bernie Mac reached prominence in Spike Lee's 2000 film "The Original Kings of Comedy," and starred in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven" films. His own sitcom, "The Bernie Mac Show,"...

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...How to Be a Player." But he wanted more. Mac sowed the seeds for his success on a cloudy day in North Carolina while taping the 2000 Spike Lee concert film, "The Original Kings of Comedy." There, on a rain-soaked basketball court,...

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...to "Racing Stripes" in 2005. He also was featured on a comedy tour with Cedric the Entertainer, Bernie Mac and D.L. Hughley, which turned into the 2000 Spike Lee-directed film "The Original Kings of Comedy." He started in radio in 2000 and...

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...and he knows what I want!" In 1997, Mr. Mac began touring with Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer and gained wide fame when director Lee released "The Original Kings of Comedy" in 2000. Within a year, Mr. Mac was...

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...as an intimidatingly no-nonsense funny man. After a few bit parts in movies through the '90s, Mac's big break came in 2000 with Spike Lee's "The Original Kings of Comedy," which documented a stand-up tour featuring Steve Harvey, D. L....

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...fellow comic Steve Harvey at WBLS (107.5 FM). Hughley and Harvey, along with Cedric the Entertainer and the late Bernie Mac, were the four stars in Spike Lee's "The Original Kings of Comedy." The radio success of Harvey, who has one of the...

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It debuted in 2001, a year after the Spike Lee-directed concert film The Original Kings of Comedy introduced a wider audience to the stand-up routines of tour mates Mac, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, and Cedric the Entertainer. Mac had...

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