SYNOPSICS
The Queens of Comedy (2001) is a English movie. Steve Purcell has directed this movie. Adele Givens,Laura Hayes,Mo'Nique,Sommore are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2001. The Queens of Comedy (2001) is considered one of the best Documentary,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
Four African American women, profane and brassy, bring stand-up comedy to the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee. Miss Laura Hayes opens the show and serves as emcee. She tells family stories about her grandkids, her mom, and her sisters. Adele Givens urges her audience to celebrate its flaws; she comments on this crazy world, her 92-year-old grandmother, and the need to take care when naming a baby. Sommore, recently released from jail, talks about kids, men, marriage, and why moms give their 8-year-old daughters a hula hoop. Last, Mo'Nique celebrates big women, contrasts Blacks and whites, and gives advice about sex. The film also cuts away to footage of the Queens on the town having fun.
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The Queens of Comedy (2001) Reviews
Gay/lesbian slurs
As a gay man, who has several gay friends who have also seen this picture, I absolutely LOVED Queens of Comedy, and absolutely ADORED Monique. She is a comedian....you can't take everything so literally. She is a gay-rights activist! Her latest venture was the first ever plus size beauty pageant! Lay off Monique, she's extremely sweet and friendly.....her standup is just that, it's funny and on the edge, that's all. All the gay guys I know adore her and laugh insessintly at her one gay slur. As far as the other ladies, Ms. Givvens is hilarious, Laura Hayes is funny but a little outdated with her material, and Summore is funny, she's just not my type for stand up... 10
Overall This was funny...BUT...
I really enjoyed this show. Almost all of the ladies were hilarious! The only one i took issue with was Monique, I just didn't see much talent there! Though occasionally she would say something funny, her dialogue consisted mostly of swearing (Which I have nothing against!) and very little real talent or actual material to cover herself. Kind of like when we were kids and cursed so we could appear grown up. Monique seemed to cuss to cover up a true lack of talent! i could have also done without her Prejudiced remarks! A true comedian will have to talent to be funny not at the expense of others! If it weren't for her performance (And I am ONLY basing this on her performance!) I would have given this show a 10. Instead I give it a seven.
Better than the Kings
Spoilers herein. Standup is hard. So hard to be really funny instead of steering into the lazy blue zone. These women do. You might find it funny if you don't know its all about class -- funny isn't about laughing. So hard -- if you are African American -- to not do the fatally patronizing: Black people are (fill in the blank with stereotypical behavior). All the Kings relied on this heavily. Only one of the Queens (the last) does, I suppose that makes this better.
"Queens"? Hardly!
Adele Givens set is almost always worth watching, and you can see how much the audience loves here. Laura Hayes is appealing personality, but her routine about grandchildren and coming from a large family was nothing that I hadn't heard before and funnier. As for the other two, they manage to detract from the goodwill Givens built up in her set. Mo'Nique earns plenty of sympathy for her crusade against skinny women, but the rest of her humor isn't funny enough to justify, and she manages to talk about anal sex and include an anti-gay slur all in the same breath. Would you like it if a white gay man used the n-word in reference to YOU, Mo'Nique. Sommore is definitely the worst and apparently assumes that no women in the audience are lesbian with her ignorant comments. I understand a couple of the the men in "Kings" are even more ignorant, which is why I haven't bothered to see it, but I did see this one for Adele. It's too bad she didn't have better support from the likes of Renee Hicks, Wanda Sykes, or Thea Vidale.
HILARIOUS on some parts and DULL on others!
Doing stand-up comedy alone itself is a hard task to achieve. But doing so being a woman is an even greater task. Therefore, i give these women a hand for the achievement of giving the audience a good laugh! Laura Hayes was the host and comedic interval between each comedians segment. i enjoyed her performance and laughed although her jokes seem to tend more to the older individuals in the crowd. overall i still found her story about her grandchildren and the rock, and her family oriented ordeals hilarious! Adele Givens seemed to be the most censorsed of the 4. With that being said she still managed to make me laugh and the audience seems to adore her knowing her catch phrase "Im such a f***kin lady!" I personally don't think her performance was the strongest but she still made me laugh here and there. Sommore was by far my favorite act. She did not hide anything , she was herself and talked about what a lot of us are afraid to talk about which is SEX. hell, if men can do it why not women? but what what i loved most about Sommore was how animated she was. She exaggerated every joke she told with facial expressions, body movements, etc and had me choking on my drink. Her jokes definitely are not for your Christian mother who attends church Sunday-Thursday to be watching. But other than that who doesn't love hearing hilarious truths about sex? Mo'nique was the biggest disappointment in my opinion. The first half of her segment is her cliché usual, degrading skinny women and promoting obese women. its tired and old now. we get Mo'nique! skinny bitches are evil. her next half of her segment was really sexual, similar to sommore's but didn't have that same fire to it. it actually was kind of gross, i mean who wants the image in their head of Mo'nique doing anal sex? YUCK. But overall i give these women a round of applause, they did their thing!