Now before you assume that this is good news, let me tell you right out the gate that when I say, “did it again,” I’m speaking of recycled jokes. But let me start with the good news. It was so packed up in that late show for DL Hughley, I thought I was going to have to sit on somebody’s lap. And DL does not mess around with some half-funny opening acts. You are required to bring the thunder for him to bother letting you grace his stage. And he clearly had a dress code, because the folks were playas’ ball sharp. I know its serious if Willie Lynch Jr. had a church anniversary suit on. If it weren’t for Clint Coley – who probably got his pay docked by DL because of his around-the-way attire – the show could have been billed as The Cat Daddies of Comedy Tour. DL and Bo LastnameDacious were serving Player’s Ball realness. The openers brought that heat – and you already know none of it is safe for print. I wish I could say the same about my beloved DL. I couldn’t believe he brought up Michael Sam. I wanted to stop the show to say, “You know the Rams are in your town now, not ours, right?” Nobody in St. Louis wants to hear a thing about them at this point – especially a five-year-old joke – unless it’s a vicious Kroenke insult. And Caitlyn Jenner was woman of the year in 2015, which was not last year. The bits of fresh that he sprinkled in were hilarious. When he talked about how his sick father (who just passed away) said kind things to him only to learn that he thought he was talking to D.L.’s brother instead of him, I was weak. I wish he gave us some more of that “new new.” I know he spends a lot of time on his political and social justice commentary – and always has a brilliant and much needed perspective. I wish he would work some of that fresh stuff into his latest act. I still ride for him and will click any clip that comes in my timeline with his face on it. And He got extra points when I learned he paid for a woman’s tab after the lady cut up so bad arguing with the waitress about her bill that it interrupted his Sunday show.
