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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits[/quote]

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.[/quote]

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

[/quote]He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office [/quote]

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

[b]But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him.[/b] People seem to have forgotten that history. [/quote]  That's not true.  If you're referring to the period between 2012 and 2019, he has discussed this. He was making some really crappy movies, and he stopped having fun. He was even nominated for several Razzie awards.  He was going to take a year off, but it turned into 6  years.

And what controversies are you talking about? The transexual thing that happened in 1997?  He was still active during those years.  He was even still working when he was going through his divorce with Nicole.  He was filming Dreamgirls at the time, and the cast talked about how he would be in character and was able to suddenly just turn it off after his segments. He said it was becuase he was in a very dark place personally and the divorce was taking a toll on him.  [/quote]

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