. Even though he had me stone faced through every bit of the BET Awards, I decided to still see what Chris Tucker was talking about Saturday night at The Fox Theatre. There wasn’t a whole lot of the show that anybody hadn’t seen before. And if you went to see him in 2011 when he came to the Fox, there was hardly ANYTHING you hadn’t seen before. The show was such a repeat I felt compelled to go through our archives to see if he had even bothered to change his clothes. He did. Luckily for him, though, my expectation level based on his BET Awards bust, so pound for pound I don’t think he was terrible. We already know that he’s obsessed with Michael Jackson, he can barely get a hamburger because the IRS is waiting to swoop down on every penny he earns and that he wasted tens of millions of dollars in his heyday, but that was basically his whole show…again. I still cackled, and I would be lying if I didn’t say I enjoyed him reliving his Michael Jackson experiences before he carried them on for far too long. He looks great though and I like that he’s cleaned up his act a bit. The show deserves a strong language and adult situations label, but it was NOTHING like his Def Jam days. And if he gets some new writers – AND new opening acts he could have a shot at getting back in the standup mix full time.
