Review of Eddie Griffin: DysFunktional Family (2003) by Robert I — 29 Mar 2012

I thought this comedy special was going to be downright hilarious. While it had some funny moments, Dysfunktional Family disappointed. It was too reliant on racial humor, something that all black comics seem to fall back to if they run of other material.

However, it's all racial humor I have heard before from Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, and Chris Rock. The 9/11 bits were OK but not as funny either. The best part of the documentary were about his crazy uncles and his white grandfather.

True life is always funnier than observational humor. I am still a big Eddie Griffin fan but I think he is capable of doing much better than this.