Directed by Spike Lee • 2000 • United States
Starring Steve Harvey, Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer

Spike Lee’s dynamic document of a legendary stand-up comedy tour captures Steve Harvey, D. L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac performing back-to-back sets before a packed audience in Charlotte, North Carolina. Interspersing their hilarious and incisive observations on race, relationships, and American culture with revealing backstage footage, THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY is an uproarious, unstoppably entertaining record of one of the most significant comedy events of its time.