Living in a Foxxhole
I have a question.
Before he really broke out this year, with his roles in Ray and Collateral, was anybody out there a fan of Jamie Foxx, The Comedian?
I mean, the guy's 37. He's been around a while. And yet, all through the '90s, I never once heard people go, "Man, Jamie Foxx is in town. You gotta check out his act. It's fresh!" Or whatever we said in the '90s.
Even if you count just black comedians, I still don't think anybody was ever really into Foxx. Not when you had Chris Rock bringing down the house. Or Dave Chappelle frequenting Late Night. Or even Damon and Keenan Ivory Waynans putting on some awesome sketches in the first couple years of In Living Color. Hell, I think even Tim Meadows was a better known "black comedian" than Foxx for a while there.
Before he really broke out this year, with his roles in Ray and Collateral, was anybody out there a fan of Jamie Foxx, The Comedian?
I mean, the guy's 37. He's been around a while. And yet, all through the '90s, I never once heard people go, "Man, Jamie Foxx is in town. You gotta check out his act. It's fresh!" Or whatever we said in the '90s.
Even if you count just black comedians, I still don't think anybody was ever really into Foxx. Not when you had Chris Rock bringing down the house. Or Dave Chappelle frequenting Late Night. Or even Damon and Keenan Ivory Waynans putting on some awesome sketches in the first couple years of In Living Color. Hell, I think even Tim Meadows was a better known "black comedian" than Foxx for a while there.
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It's true. I don't know anyone who jumped out of their skin for Jamie Foxx the comedian. That being said, I'm a big fan of him as an actor and first really saw him in a new light in "Any Given Sunday," which might actually be the movie that most accurately represents the world of professional sports. Foxx is excellent in it.
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