- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2008
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None.
- Premiss:
- Various
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Loneliness | Political Correctness | Republicanism | Social class | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Eddie Murphy | Richard Pryor
- Review Format:
- DVD
Soi-disant Black comic who provides a good night out, but has little of any real political weight to say.
BOYLE never goes deeply into any subject, but relies on a superficial turn-of-wit that resembles marketing slogans in which the form and the content are identical.
BOYLE’s anti-capitalist UK republicanism is frequently implied but never fruitfully explored in his quest for the next big laugh. Interestingly, he has regular, surreal moments conjuring up brilliant word-pictures to accurately describe something he is railing against – with incredible pith and celerity.
This is a man who has still not come to terms with his personal demons (eg, fear of the disabled & and his Negrophobia) to allow him to become an outstanding comic. He is nothing like the actual Black comics whose symbolism he appropriates (eg, Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy).
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