Everybody knows Jamie Foxx from “Any given Sunday” but not until I saw this stand-up session I became aware that this guy is funny. Jamie repertoire includes many imitations of famous celebrities like Clinton, Nixon, Prince and others, most of them black due to the almost all black public that filled the theater. Nevertheless the main course of this evening was the parody of Africa: its smells, people, music and animals. Not bad at all, though sometimes you could feel some repetitiveness on the punch lines. All and all this was a solid black culture show and enjoyable by all.

Well, here is our stand up comedian and actor from movies like Ray, Collateral or Any Given Sunday. Jamie is a funny fellow, with great imitations, very much already into the main stream of the american comedy, nice looking and athletic, he makes pretty much into the group of african american comedians that made it successfully into Hollywood. At this time, close to the 9 11 attack he will pick on talibans, come up with his experience from his trip to Africa, imitate his most famous brothers and sisters and still put some sex into it as I am acustomed to see from african american stand up comedians. Score: 7

Jimmy Carr is one of a kind brilliant, sharp and clever Brittish stand-up comedian.  He’s got some other shows, the one I can relate too is the same recording stand-up comedy evening of year 2005, in which he also exhibited a fantastic way of performing, improvising a lot, just coming up with fantastic ideas “on the fly”, while people would shoot at him from all over with all types of commentaries and questions. Jimmy is specially keen on sex related jokes where extreme scenarios are depicted while he tries to amaze himself by contemplating the degree of ashtonishment he  placed his audience into, observe their reactions, though most of the times it ends with 100 % pure laughing. Score 8.

Well, I met Bill Maher at his latest documentary called Regoligius and not as a stand up comedian he is. This was made on the 2000 and I didnt have the feeling it was old material. This guy is a brilliant comedian, coming up at this stand up comedy session with how cynical we need to be about certain aspects in life, such as sex, politics or religion. At some point of the show I couldnt not to recall in some of his topics and jokes the great Bill Hicks, when he talked about how drugs positively influenced or music compositions, how the marketing industry is pure evil and how they’d lye to you, how the NRA here and how the Bushes and the Kennedies. Score: 7.

To say the truth I saw Lisa Lampanelli on a roast some time ago and I didn’t really saw any funny stuff but this, I would say it is a good laugh. As usual, Lisa would pick on any minority, looks like all of them loved by her, African Americans, Mexicans and Asians are her favorite, sex, bad language and funny stuff assured. On the other side I just fear that some not as liberal and intelligent might take her jokes wrongly and these may stimulate already racists out there. Just a thought. Score: 5.