Laugh at My pain
Oct 03, 2011
Introducing Mr. Kevin Hart, comedian extraordinaire. According to reviews, Hart’s 2011 Laugh At My Pain 90-city-comedy tour of the US (on which this film is based) was a runaway success that earned more than $15,000,000 in ticket sales.
Introducing Mr. Kevin Hart, comedian extraordinaire. According to reviews, Hart’s 2011 Laugh At My Pain 90-city-comedy tour of the US (on which this film is based) was a runaway success that earned more than $15,000,000 in ticket sales.
And it broke all kinds of records, including Eddie Murphy’s long standing record of being the first African-American comedian to surpass over $1.1 million two-day live comedy show ticket sales.
The man is also a record-breaker, having starred in films that have grossed over $510,000,000 at the US box office, including such films as Death At A Funeral, Superhero Movie, Meet Dave, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Scary Movie 4, Little Fockers, Barbershop, Soul Plane, Along Came Polly and Not Easily Broken.
Stand-up comedy is come-lately in Uganda, and our comedians are finding their feet as they go along. Some of them have broken away from the pack, including Pablo and Patrick ‘Salvador’ Idringi. But even they are struggling for new material, once all the dirty jokes have been done away with.
Americans, and especially African-Americans, have been at it for a long time, and we have watched DVDs of such acclaimed comedians as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and many others.
Hart is one of the recent ones, and it is curious how Ugandans will take to this. Will they understand the largely American jokes? Will they be offended by the ‘gutter’ language (the reason for its R-rating)? Or will they just love the whole thing? And maybe Pablo, Patrick and all the others will learn something.
As one Internet critic wrote: “like a lot of comics, Hart has taken the petty grievances and big pains of his childhood and turned them into stand-up fodder that is funny, familiar and biting.
Ten years after breaking into show business, he is a little old and a little familiar to be “discovered” now. But if “Laugh at My Pain” makes people take a second look at this perpetual third banana on the big screen, so much the better” – Roger Moore (not the James Bond star).