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People swoon and holler, dance and spontaneously get up from their seats, entered by the spirit of what's going on. It's the difference between Sam Cooke's show at the Copacabana as polite Sinatra surrogate and his Harlem appearance where all this spontaneous energy is circling the room. It simply wouldn't be the same in Wyoming. It makes a world of difference that they are before an audience of their own people, the audience no less a part of what's being performed. But my favorite performance here was the whole as a give and take with this audience, the whole room as the show.
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Two of the best jokes in the whole show were his, black people running if they see someone else doing it, and black people cruising in space cars to the moon after white people if they tried to sneak out the planet. All the others focus on how other people annoy, he surrounds common folly. He's cool, an Isaac Hayes whereas everyone else were manic James Browns. It was Cedric out of these 4 that stole the show for me. It's obvious with Harvey where similar jokes seem to come with a streak of nasty dismissal.
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Bernie Mac was a bit of a cipher, in that I couldn't make head or tails of half of what he was garbling about and then he has an aggression (one of the jokes I think was about having a gay 6 year old nephew) but it seems to come from a good-natured bedrock so I couldn't tell if he was being off-putting or not. One of the highlights is when he gets thousands of people to hoot and swoon as he reminds them of the value of love while playing old favorite songs but frames the moment as the "good old days" by comparison to modern rap. But every time I see him he's also a crotchety, country bumpkin uncle, not entirely an act this. He establishes great rapport with the audience, in turns R&B showboat from the chitlin days and church pastor. Harvey in particular makes me wonder because he seems to be closest to the world the jokes come from, the most genuine presence. Two of the guys are a bit crude here, the first two.