You know how every Twilight Zone episode is either directly or indirectly about a guy who feels like he’s going crazy because he wakes up one day and the whole world is different, but he’s still like the only one who realizes it and feels totally insane and left out as a result? That’s how I feel whenever a new Tyler Perry movie comes out.
Tyler Perry’s latest movie, Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail, opens tonight. The movie centers around a no-nonsense elderly black woman, Madea (played by Tyler Perry), who goes to prison, for some reason, and I assume something wacky happens when she gets there that inevitably ends in the empowerment of young black women everywhere. It is Perry’s third feature film that focuses on Madea and it will, in all likelihood, make a whole lot of money.
Do you know what I said back in February of 2005 when I saw previews for this new movie, Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman?
“Who the hell is Tyler Perry?” And, you know what? I still have no idea. I mean, I know who he is on a literal level- he’s the writer/director/star of all those Tyler Perry movies. But at the time, Tyler Perry hadn’t made all those Tyler Perry movies, so he was still just regular old Tyler Perry. So why does he take the possessive route by calling his movie Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad, Black Woman, as if we were all supposed to know who he was already, even though that was his first movie?
Sure, at the time, he had some successful plays under his belt, but so does Martin McDonagh. and you’ve never heard of him. You know why? Because he didn’t try to bill his first movie as Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges. Martin Scorsese can put his name in front of a movie. Quentin Tarantino can do that. More importantly, they can do that now, after they’ve already spent years establishing their identity so we, as an audience, will know what to expect when we see their names. But Tyler Perry? In 2005, I wondered why should his name in the title entice anyone to buy a ticket?
You know what shut me up?
It fucking worked.
Diary of a Mad, Black Woman was made for a little over $5 million and, even though it was critically panned by almost everyone, it became a surprise hit, making $50.6 million. The second film in the Madea franchise, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion, opened at #1 and made $65 million. It was around this time that I started getting that Twilight Zone feeling.
He’s also written a book, Tyler Perry’s Book About Madea The Title of Which I’m Too Lazy to Google But I Know Involves the Words ‘Black Woman’, delivered in the voice of the Madea character, and it topped the New York Times bestseller list.
He’s also got a show on TBS called Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. After 10 episodes, Tyler Perry signed a $200 million deal with TBS for the show because it was such a hit.
What the hell is going on?
Now, lest you think I’m an uninformed hater, I want to make it clear that I’m not going into this blind. I’ve seen both Madea movies, and at least part of an episode of TP’s H of P (which is the closest anyone I know has come to watching a full episode). They all sucked pretty hard. Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry movies are some of the least subtle films I’ve ever seen. For example, if a marriage is going to fall apart, they have to be filled with evil men who physically beat their wives, so the audience clearly knows who to root for. If there’s a bad husband in Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail, you’ll be able to tell in the opening scene when he violently rapes the cute robots from Wall-E.
Do robots have butts? Whatever you have, this dude’s gonna put a wiener in it.
They’re bad movies. But you know what makes this whole thing a little bit weirder? If you follow critical response, not just on Rotten Tomatoes, but everywhere, you’ll see that critics are steadily increasing their approval for Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry movies. The bigger Tyler gets, the better the response, even if it comes from a critic who previously hated him. And that’s insane, because the movies aren’t getting better. In fact, the opposite’s true. The few complexities of Tyler Perry’s Diary have been replaced in Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion with more sight gags and dry sex jokes. The movies are steadily getting worse, they’re making more money and critics everywhere are just surrendering. Tyler Perry got a bunch of cranky white critics to throw up their hands and say “I guess you’re right, these movies are great.” How the hell did he do that? Critics went from panning his movies, to sort of seeing the merit in them, to flat out praising Tyler Perry for his knack for making Tyler Perry movies. If this trend continues, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Class Reunion will win best picture in 2010; by 2015, all movies will be made by Tyler Perry and shortly thereafter, Tyler Perry will infiltrate all aspects of society.
And I don’t buy the argument that it’s a movie aimed toward a “black audience,” as if white people in general wouldn’t get it. For me at least, it can’t be a race thing (some of my best friends liked Barbershop). As far as coming-of-age tales go, I’ve personally identified more with The Wood than I have with Stand By Me, or whatever else would pass for a “white” coming-of-age story (Flight of the Navigator?). So it’s not something as simple as “white people be makin’ comedy like this, but black people…,” and it’s not like I have anything personally against Tyler Perry. He’s clearly a smart businessman, I’ve read that he’s worked his way up from nothing and he’s certainly overcome more adversity than I’ve faced. Also, he’s incredibly tall. I have no negative feelings toward him personally (other than my persistent suspicion that he’s some rare breed of wizard), and I wish him all the luck in the world.
I’m just confused, because this dude came out of nowhere with a bunch of bad, redundant movies, slapped “Tyler Perry” on the box, as if it were a big deal, and somehow convinced the world that he was a big deal. I feel like that guy (every guy) in the Twilight Zone, except instead of waking up in a world where everyone has a pig face except me, I’m waking up in a world where everything is brought to me by Tyler Perry and everyone is thrilled about it.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
I liked Diary of a Mad Black woman. I don’t get any of other movies though. Didn’t Eddie Murphy already do the fat woman bodysuit thing? And martin Lawrence? and currently Keenan does it every once in a while on SNL? I just think its pretty played out. I have tried to watch House of Payne but it feels like they are trying to make me laugh… and i don’t mean they are trying to be funny. I mean they are trying to MAKE me laugh like you would try to MAKE someone eat your cooking… by force-feeding them.
September 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
If “white” people did this, it would be considered racist.
September 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Tyler Perry sucks, all he does is use old stereotypical jokes in his “movies” and “tv shows”. In his world men are evil, stupid, etc. and women are helpless and need to be resuced.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I did not like how you mocked the ghetto (white people be making…) but I do agree with the article.
Im a black woman and I cringe everytime I hear that Tyler Perry has a new movie out. There are good black writers (think Greys’ Anatomy). I don’t understand why he is getting so much press and praise about his crappy movies. They are all the same movie. Black woman is the victim of some craziness that she needs to work through and Madea being a loud, ghetto lunatic with a gun. There are better ways that he could write a movie about black women being uplifted and dealing with drama and overcoming it than putting in all the excess crap like Madea (and her phony-country accent) purposely mispronouncing words and pulling out guns at people every chance she gets. Is this what all old black women are like?
We were raised to call our grandmother Madea as well and she is nothing like this bafoon on-screen. She makes all Madea’s look bad and most black women look short-tempered and ghetto.
It’s sad that the only comedy that black audiences seem to applaud involve cursing, ignorance, flatulence and weapons. Tsk. Tsk.
I feel like you, have I missed out on something?? How are his movies good??? I have yet to get excited when a Tyler Perry movie comes out and I fill my schedule when my friends invite me to go see it.
Oh and I also wondered why he self-titles his movies. Guess we see why now. $$
September 19th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
This article is nothing but a bunch of racist bull shit! I”ve always said that it seems that only white people dont seem to like tyler perrys movies. I admit when I first heard of tyler perry when Diary of a mad black woman came out I really had no desire to see it. I kept asking myself is this movie supposed to be a comedy because of the man playing the old lady or is it a drama. It wasnt until a year ago I became good friends with this guy and he asked me if I ever saw any of perrys movies. I said no and he showed me Why Did I Get Married and I loved it. After that I went out and bought all of his movies and plays that were available and now Im a big tyler perry fan. I just saw I can do bad all by myself and thought it was great. His movies just get better and better. My best friends wife and I were the only white people in the theatre when we saw that movie. I think more white people should give his movies a chance. If you sit sown and watch them and pay attention I think you would like them. I’ll also admit his movies are all kinda the same and they are predictable but who really cares. They are good stories and they all send a good message. Who cares if he puts his name before the titles of his movies. Alfred Hitchcock did it in his early work and so did John Waters with his early underground work. Nobody made a big deal about that. Tyler Perry makes good movies and anybody that doesnt think so is crazy. Madea is funny as hell.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
There is entirely too much hatred from people on this. I have been watching Tyler Perry since his plays were first on DVD. I admit all his plays/movies are basically the same. but what i have always enjoyed is the lessons taught, and they way that madea (Tyler Perry) puts things into perspective in a HILLARIOUS way. This is done the best in the plays, and is most memerable in the play madea goes to jail where she tries to teach litle toni respect and how to pray.
ALSO tyler perry does other movies that are not madea films which are also excellent such as A Family That Preys, and Why Did I Get Married. check em out bitches!
by the way DOB you are hillarious and keep me entertained during work!
September 6th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Perrry’s movies are awful. They suck, are boring, and are edited by a blind and deaf monkey. Oh btw, I am 27 year old black woman!
August 1st, 2009 at 12:25 am
I wish Tyler Perry would dry up and go away forever. His acting, dialogue and movies suck harder than a Dyson vacuum cleaner 300 years from the future.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
He has a crap load of plays that was released and written earlier with the same name as his movies and it was from these plays that he was able to get such a huge fan-base in the first place. I personally love the plays better than the movies, but i’m entertained either way. So now you don’t want to feel so confused, just know you didn’t just wake up and some random nobody got huge for no reason.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:35 am
I want to have Daniel O’Brien’s mutant ass babies… this Tyler Perry article convinced me that I’m totally sane and can stop taking my meds! Now I’m hungry for leg…
May 20th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
[...] The cast is decent, though it’s hard to tell through the explosions. Chris Pine is clearly doing his own thing with Kirk, which is fine in itself, but I’m not sure his characterization gave him much more personality than “kind-of-a-dick”. Karl Urban does a good impression of Bones and Sylar is spot-on with Spock. Anton Yelchin and Simon Pegg are enjoyable comic relief as Chekov and Scotty respectively. But why is Tyler Perry in this film? Was he doing research for Tyler Perry’s Madea Joins Star Fleet? (Cracked has a good take-down of Tyler Perry here.) [...]
May 18th, 2009 at 11:58 am
This is every Tyler Perry movie ever:
Black Guy: White people are evil
The End
May 13th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I dont know how you managed to watch an entire 1/2 episode of TP’s HOP, but congrats i guess. Only one person i know, a black person, said that she liked his work. I soon argued with her, eventually starting to make her see my point of view, but go the “You are white, you dont get the jokes.” She then explained the jokes and thier meaning and I said “Wow i’ve never thought about it like that..” And i gave her a couple of seconds to feel like she convinced me, but eventually saying, “but you do realize that we both live in the same area, and i knew everything that you just said right? Saying something sterotypical isnt funny just because it involves your race. If i found an asian guy eating lo mein, i wouldn’t laugh, because its not funny.” The perfect arguement followed by the classic “You’re wrong!” with the walk away. It was so perfect that I actually got my friends to give her a slow clap as she was leaving. So… I dont know why people like Tyler Perry either, if they would just not label it a comedy it would be fine.. i wouldnt watch it, but it would be fine.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
All his movies are just his plays with different actors and all the humor cut out. Props for getting so many people (including me) to pay to see something they’ve already payed to see once before. I don’t think its a black white thing either. I mean white people saw big momma’s house, the nutty professor, and norbit, didn’t you white people? So I don’t think that’s it either. I think its just the fact that his shit sucks!
May 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I thought some of his plays were funny (except I had to fast-forward through all the singing) but after that all of his work just started really sucking. None of it is funny and sometimes the message of the movie or some of his plays just make me say, “WTF?” For instance, at the end of one his plays the abused wife stays with the now paralyzed abusive husband because she’s his wife and its her duty to take of him, even though she met a really nice guy who didn’t treat her like shit and beat the crap out of her and cheat on her all the damn time. Nice message. Its really annoying how preachy he is, too. House of Payne sucks so much ass. I can’t even fathom why that show is still on the air. That is a shitty excuse for entertainment. I mean the only thing that was really funny about his plays was the character Madea. So, he decides to make a spin off following two different unfunny characters. I just hope he’s run out of ideas (fingers crossed)!
April 21st, 2009 at 7:58 am
I absolutly love you Tyler.You are an insperation to all up and comming movie writers.Keep up the awsome job, doing what you do best-making us laugh and always giving the man up stairs the recognition he truely deserves. You rock!
April 17th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
The first Scream movie can be considered a “white” coming-of-age story. It’s just a coming-of-age story that has disguised itself as a horror movie.
“Breaking Away” can also be considered a coming-of-age story.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I hate observational comedy that is based on ignorance or flawed logic. “Sugar-free chocolate…. Who is THIS for? … What’s that? Diabetics? Oh, ok. Guess I’ll get off the stage now.”
Tyler Perry was a playwright with a big following before he directed movies. I already happened to know this, but you could have known it too by simply looking him up on wikipedia.
Kinda takes all the power out of your observation. My guess is there’s enough people who are similarly ignorant who will still think this is funny, though. Kinda like the hack observational comic.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Tyler perry is obviously a euphenism for the government which is controlled by the Freemasons, the Bilderbergs, Skull & Bones Society and Teletubbies. And they all worship Satan.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I have no idea who tyler perry is. Ireland remains blissfully ignorant, apparently
March 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
sara says: “I agree with the article, but the fact is that you got your Twilight Zone episodes mixed up. The people with the pig faces didn’t wake up with them - they were a small group of people at the reading of a will who put on ugly masks and it gave them ugly faces…”
no, he didn’t. there was an episode where masks transformed people’s faces, but not into pig faces. the pig face episode was a woman in the hospital for surgery and the doctors and nurses were all pig faced but she was “ugly” because she looked human.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
hahahahahahahahahha you serious? really?
you didnt find the movies funny, at least?
tyler perry had been doing small stuff for years. he actually had a pretty large audiance behind his plays and he was VERY well known in southern black communities. I think putting ‘Tlyer Perry’ on the movies was to grab the attention of the people who knew him. (And, of course to get his name out there) which had been buzzing for a while. …and thats, buzzing for a while, period. i dont mean localized in hollywood or something.
As far as the ‘black-white thing’ you mentioned, i agree, i dont thinks its that either.
im pretty sure i DO know what it is….but ill spare you.
Cut the man some slack….hes just doing what plenty of crappy white movie makers have been doing for years. And like those same crappy movie makers, hes directing his movies to the audiance HE would like to please. And its evidently worked.
Who the hell is Tyler Perry?
…hes that guy making millions off of doing what he loves, and working with what hes got.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Toolio’s comment= Win. Just… yes.
March 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Wow, white people don’t have to do much to be perceived as racist.
SCHMUCK!!!
March 13th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
What I dont get is how you pretend to not have a clue to the implied racism in this article? Sure, the facts as you present them are based in truth- TP may suck, but this “So and so presents…” (who most havent heard of) trick is as old as whitey, a pretense to generate interest. What you seem to be saying is- how can this work so well, especially for a *black* man? Maybe he’s getting away with it BECAUSE he’s black (H0rr0rs!) And summarily, is the reason I can’t get away with it because I’m *white*?? Yeah probably, but at least you aren’t like the other hacks on this site who have to curse up a storm to pretend they are “keepin it real” (it’s not working btw) Interesting veneer of an article anyway. But you need to get out of your white neighborhood once in a while and TP movies at the local googleplex- and maybe even getting a friend who’s black- is not gonna do it.
March 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Every time I see Tyler Perry, I cry. Even before I knew who he was, I had nightmares in which he molested kittens that gave birth to terrible deformities. Analogy? Maybe.
March 11th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
tyler perry is chris’s browns sex kitten, there makin a movie called , tyler perry in, brokeback mountan: black uncut
March 11th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I agree. When I went to see the movie in theaters, my friend had been telling me frequently, “I saw the other one, that was funny,” or “that damn Madea! har har har.” It was like I was already supposed to know what the hell they were talking about. I’d brought it up with other people and they laughed just by hearing the name…I felt like the odd one out.
So I saw the Family Reunion one to see what the commodity was about…it was so cliche on so many levels. It’s some sort of cult following. That’s the only explanation. Aside from that it’s a total chick-flick, it’s like the comedy was slabbed in just to gain guy viewers. Yes, whoever this Tyler Perry is, he is certainly one hell of a business man.
I just don’t get it…
March 8th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I agree with the article, but the fact is that you got your Twilight Zone episodes mixed up. The people with the pig faces didn’t wake up with them - they were a small group of people at the reading of a will who put on ugly masks and it gave them ugly faces, which was a blatant metaphor for them being “ugly on the inside”.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I hate happy lame endings
except when the chic gets the guy
I haven’t seen it but from the previews, looks like some
High school comedy $hit
I’ll watch it on dee vee dee
March 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I have no idea if anyone said this already because there is no way I’m scrolling through 365 comments to find out but I’m pretty sure he puts his name in front of it because they were his plays first.
Tyler Perry wrote these movies, or at least most of them, as plays first and they were insanely popular in New Orleans as they showed there and were basically based around the city (a lot of inside jokes that about N.O. that weren’t in the movies).
Honestly, I saw two of them as plays and they were way better. Anyway, that’s probably why they’re “Tyler Perry’s…”.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Seriously, now. Thank you for saying this. I’m black and I don’t get this shit AT ALL. You’re just standing around, surrounded by weird pod people telling you that you should OMGTOTALLYSEETHEMOVIEITSSOHILARIOUS, and all you can think is, “Who the hell IS this guy?”.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
FACT: Everyone is racist.
FACT: Everyone is the same.
FACT: Opinions are subjective.
FACT: Tyler Perry movies suck.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
this is a really sophomoric thread. i was about to respond in depth, but no, thanks.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 am
Oh jay, while i scrolled back through the mounds of tripe to find the gem i was looking for, i lost my initial thought, because there is so much shit to search through. But here’s a little nugget i laughed at:
“.I am not racist at all,nor have taken any racist shots,generalizations to white people.”
Then in your next post you tell someone “you have no black friends.”
And then you spew a bunch of other drivel in your consecutive posts. Although i do have to give you some credit, you’re smart enough to keep using “nefarious” and “obtuse” over and over in your rants, most likely to make you sound smarter in hopes of offsetting the countless spelling errors in your comments.
Also, calling people ignorant and having “superiority complexes” then saying the only people who would laugh at Meet the Spartans are redneck hillbillys who chuckle to themselves watching Seinfeld, and then decrying hypocrites, is in itself, hypocritical. But i do agree that Meet the Spartans was a steaming pile of turkey shit.
February 27th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Add to all the confusion the fact that this black MAN dressed as an old black female is somehow being paraded as some kind of inspiration for black women? Admittedly, I have not even had an inkling of inclination to see any of these movies but I instinctually feel that Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston might be less than enthused.
I suspect the Madea (and why do I keep wanting to spell that MEdea) series is in the same genre as Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, which paralyzed my brain for weeks after I was forced to watch it with a couple of insane rednecks who found it hilarious.
It’s not so much the existence of this type of film that gets to me but the fact that they are so POPULAR. That scares me but it also validates my misanthropy and chronic avoidance of human beings in general.
Then again - I really enjoy Adam Sandler’s comedies so I have to wonder: Is it a question of racial perspective/empathy, or (as I believe) is Adam Sandler’s work genuinely funny? I also think Dave Chappelle is completely brilliant and he makes my stomach hurt from laughing. So maybe it’s as black & white as: The Madea films just BLOW (?)
February 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Yeah, fuck you Jay. I couldn’t find your original post but everyone else is doing it so fuck you.
Seriously, I couldn’t care less what the hell the Jay posted, but complaining about it for 20posts seems to be more counter productive than just ignoring this particular Jay.
That said. I’ve been wondering the same thing O’Brien. Every time I see his name on something I think maybe I just somehow missed something and yet I never had any idea who the hell he is even when I looked him up.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:01 am
@Jay
Oh, wow, a highschooler? Dude, that burns me so bad, the burn ward looked at me and said, ‘Wow, you’ve totally been burned’ and then I had to go to the burn army and they said ‘Yep, you were burned’.
Please learn to spell. Please learn grammar. Just figure out the whole English language and then I can settle this with a nice ‘tl;dr’ for your next comment of fail.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:09 am
This is a fantastic, hilarious article - it perfectly captures the way I feel about Tyler Perry’s movies! “Tyler Perry got a bunch of cranky white critics to throw up their hands and say ‘I guess you’re right, these movies are great.’” Hahahaha…thank you!!!
February 26th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
i like jay. he isn’t the smartest guy, or the most subtle… but these comments are ridiculous and fun to read espescially because people keep referencing him which encourages more wacky posts. stop dancing around it guys loads of people are racist, white and black. not to mention that everyone uses some sort of stereotyping system in their subconcious to evaluate potential threats and sexy time oppurtunities (thats why we cross the steet when we see a scary person walking towards us with a bloody knife, or when we see three breasted hookers) if we didnt categorize people we would all be super dead and wouldnt know where to find all the vagina’s. its an unfortunate side effect that some people do not know how to control their instincts which fuel their emotions and lead to hateful behavior. internet folk are fascinating and i really hope jay responds to all the people telling him to shut up.
PS am i allowed to use all the racial slurs i want on the internet or only the soft core ones?
February 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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February 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
HOLY SHIT! finally. somebody understands me! i think we dont understand black comedies cause were white. and how is tyler perry famous? i think he just made some movies and stuff.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
jay youre getting owned by everyone. it’s probably because you’re a douche
February 25th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Jay, Shut up, tar baby
February 24th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
After thinking about it, I’m actually glad to have titles prefaced by “Tyler Perry’s.”
It tells me whatever I do, do not watch that. It’s the worst shit you can imagine.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
@jay
Go write your fuckin novels somewhere else asshole.Dont blog here no more mother fucker.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
@Jay, SHUT THE FUCK UP GODDAMMIT! Can you stop sucking the Hypno-Perry’s balls long enough to understand that we are not rednecks? Fat white rednecks are the ones who WOULD laugh at Tyler Perry’s awful humor. Many SMART folk like me, A middle class Bostonian with an IQ of 128, find black comedians in fat suits and wigs unfunny, and some INTELLIGENT black comedians, For example, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock, refuse to sink to that level. And you know what, I respect them for that. But Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy and Tyler Perry are simply whores, selling their asses and humiliating themselves.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
PHEW! Loved the article, and couldn’t agree more! Got a big ass man crush on one DOB that’s for sure! I actually spent my flight to BF NH reading the comments and was cracking up haha! I gotta throw in my two cents into this one.
Jay, you keep yapping that people are redneck idiots that don’t understand black america, but THEY’RE NOT IN AMERICA!!! Dude mentioned like 20 times he’s from the UK so of course he won’t care or give a fuck about black culture in america. I live here and I could care less about it. Growing up in bmore i was the minority in school so I got a unique perspective unlike that of those suburban whities you keep bashing. So they don’t like TPs movies, so what? And if they’re offended by how he depicts black and white people, then that’s their opinion. Frankly, I find race based humor the funniest cause I’m not white or black or asian etc (I be greek yo) so I’m an outside observer that can appreciate the humor. So TP’s the black Dane Cook. You should be proud that he has that much success (while the rest of us shake our heads wondering how).
As a background, I still live in Baltimore and love it. What I like is that now suburban whites have finally discovered it’s uniqueness and can appreciate it for more than just its harbor. It’s an amazing blend of cultures and people, and unlike many other cities of similar demographics, manages to meld into something beyond black, white, or spanish. It’s a sharing of cultures that helps us all grow and learn from each other.
Oh, and I LOVE black women! Sexy as hell!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
jay youre still a douche bag.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
“Madea is basically the African American version of Vicki Lawrence’s Thelma Harper Character!!!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. and about as funny.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I’ve watched”House of Payne”a time or two.
It’s okay,but it’s basically”The Bernie Mac Show”
but without the Show Biz aspect and a little bit
of religion thrown in!!
Like the Late,Great,Still Alive Somewhere Bernie Mac,
Curtis’Pops’Payne and his wife are a middle aged couple
who suddenly find themselves having to raise their neices
and nephew!!!
Unlike Bernie Mac,Curtis Payne is just an ordinary working stiff*!!
(*He’s a Fireman.).
Unlike Bernie Mac,Curtis Payne lives in Atlanta,Georgia!!!
Like Bernie Mac,he has a family member involved with drugs!!
Bernie Mac’s real life Sister was a crack addict,just as his TV Sister was!!
Curtis Payne’s Nephew’s Girlfriend is addicted to crack!!
Just like Bernie Mac,Curtis Payne’s Grand Neices and Nephews are smart mouthed!!
And like Bernie Mac,Curtis Payne sometimes has to get physical!!!
Madea is basically the African American version of Vicki Lawrence’s Thelma Harper Character!!!
Anyway,say what you want to,but the SOB laughs all the way to the Bank!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
he is also in the new “Star Trek” movie so i wouldnt be surprised if it comes out as Tyler Perrys’ “Star Trek” even tho its directed by J.J Abrams haha….
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I’m not looking through here to see if it’s mentioned, but in case it hasn’t been, if you want a white “coming of age” movie that’s really good: The War, with Elijah Wood and Kevin Costner. Costner’s best non-baseball movie, and I immediately knew Wood was destined for big things. Haven’t seen it since it came out on VHS, and it did have the unfortunate effect of making me see Costner’s next movie, something with Blue in the title, but still, it’s greatness.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
Dear lord, I just read down the comment section here… people please, stop being trolls, stop feeding trolls. You’re destroying our cracked ecosystem, and no one used the word penis ironically, not even once. Go look at boobs for Pete’s sake!
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
I’m with you. The various Friday movies (Friday, Next Friday, etc) were hilarious. TP movies… not so much… and House of Payne, the first time I started watching it I thought it was a farce show like Mad TV doing a sitcom skit… man was I wrong. All I know is that I want Tyler teaching my next business class cause he seems to be onto something.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:40 am
i have had this same frightening realization. Tyler Perry movies are not even up to par with those “amazing” Andy Warhol movies. I’d rather watch 6 hours of a scrotum sweating.
And where did the magic ego come from? One may never know.
Thank you for this one.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 am
Tartra bitch boy,your brains do not have the capacity,ability to try to correct anything but your 6 inch dick.You cannot comprehend what i amsaying because you sorry bastards are idiotic,immature,peice of shit lames.The types that get bitchslapped and beat up consistently because you got more mouth than balls.Fuck outta here
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
Tartra,bitch you sound like a high schooler,its punkass pussy bitches like you that always want to sidetrack off the original topic in attempt to hide behind the truth like the sorry ass bastard you are.In person i would smack the shit out your shit talking ass,sheps and the rest of them rednecks leaving you running to the police crying racist attacks.Lets stick to the original topic of why punk bitch ass lames like you and them sorry ass whining flames on here are angry because Tyler Perrys dick went through your mouth and past your uvula with that 45 mill.Ole punk ass bitch.Net thugging behind the computer is lame surburbn boy.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 am
Someones been drinking “Tyler Perry’s kentucky bourbon”
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:01 am
*hears an ethnic BRRRRRRR noise from Perry’s oscilating eyes*
Awh haiwh da HyIHpnaw-Perray…!
[NOTE: I'm workin' off a stereotype here, and I'm not about to end my night YouTubing some TP clip]
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 am
All hail the Hypno-Perry
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
O’Brien… I totally agree with you on every level of this article except in one. This is not like an episode of The Twilight Zone because I know exactly what Tyler Perry really is.
Here it comes:
Tyler Perry is the Hypnotoad and you and I are inmune to him.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 am
I’ve read the last 30 comments or so and I just have to say, what the fuck? Why are we turning this into the comments section of a youtube video? Calm the fuck down.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@Jay
Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you said ‘WHERE the fuck is O brien’, not a rehash of the fell-fucking-flat-on-its-face joke you made earlier, which just so happened to be a cheap imitation of the title DOB gave his article and which went largely ignored the first time around (here’s the attention for it you wanted. Shut up now, pl0x). Sorry, I’m just so used to correcting all the crap you spout in my head, I stopped reading what you actually wrote. My bad.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
@Jay
For fuck’s sake. The man is very busy counting his $45 million. He’s right in his vault now, dancing in all those crisp, clean bills. Why don’t you hurry and put HIS balls in your mouth? Unless, of course, they’re in there already and you’re just typing around them - that’d explain why your spelling is so freaking atrocious. Seriously. The best time to have a typo is not when you’re busy calling someone an ignorant redneck. Oh, and why you’re so distracted you can’t come up with anything new to say. That too.
Yes, go get DOB. Either he shuts down the comments or shuts someone up because, seriously, I think maybe six of the first replies to this he got were about the article itself.
@Rashida
As of right now, there are 330 comments listed. That? That right there? That that you wrote? That’s gonna spawn another hundred. SOMEONE’S SERVER IS GOING TO CRASH FROM THE EFFORT IT TAKES TO LOAD THIS.
@Undead_Monkey
I approve of your name. It was fun to type. I give you my love for your comments.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Who the fuck is O brien?
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Spuchy,,My dick,your girls mouth
House of payne is corny because its on TV.No more shows like Martin because you extremely moral bitchers whine and complain about everything that doesnt conform to your world.Tv shows are at the pits overall.Especially those wack ass reality shows your so interested in like Survivor,Who wants to marry my Dad(as if anyone gives a fuck about her dad),Vh1 and etc.
Tyler Perry as Madea is funnier than you can attempt or the corny comedians your so used to watching.That is why the viewers ranged from all different colors outside those with lack of exposure.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
You see you ignorant bums,people who have exposure outside of there world,as well as those who understand a part of sub culture within the African american culture totally got the movie
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I don’t know O’brien his movies are good to the black folk ……….the humor and all but you’ve seen countless other black movies……….( Majority are comedies) they all follow he same suit……..yet I wasn’t aware that white people watched the TP movies.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
they’re doomed. THEY’RE!
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Jay - My balls, your face…
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
If Perry could be LESS funny…well, let’s just say that THAT would be quite an accomplishment.
His comedic qualification? Umm, he’s a black guy? Well, that’s the ONLY thing I could come up with because otherwise this un-funny MF’er must have some illicit pictures on somebody at TBS!
In these idiotic commercials for House of Payne, Perry sits there staring at the camera and resembles what Karl Malone might look like taking a dump. Frightening.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Lmfao rednecks talking about how there doomed
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Tyler Perry should have been the first black president, with all that powerful brand recognition and shit.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
What an amazing commentary on the state of America today; Madea Goes to Jail makes 45M this weekend.
We’re doomed.
Absolutely, positively doomed to destruction.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Madea Goes to Jail made $45 million this weekend. What. The Fuck.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
It’s weird you mention The Twighlight Zone, I was just watching it. DOODLE-DOO-DOO DOODLE-DOO-DOO
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:11 pm
@Jay, Cambodia, and CoMa7Se (or whatever)
I don’t really care who’s right, but I’m sure I speak for everyone else here in saying SHUT THE FUCK UP.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
@Jay
No.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Coma,you need to be beaten into one.Subtle racist? All because you want to live in a colorblind world taking up for these immature subtle racist statements coming from rednecks with conservative mindsets.Look at your comments.Die a tragic death.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Cambodia is that what you say to your black friends until they jump at you ready to pound your Mr Rogers pennyloafers,knock your cheese sandwich out your hand while you beg them to spare you a urban beatdown
“”heyyyyy man,just chill,i was only joking”"”
Ta he he he he!
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
jay… jay….. we need to get you some hooked on phonics (not ebonics)
“dragging there skulls out the closet”
what the hell is that?
lemme no mayne, and when i hit up long john silvers and yall take my order, don’t short me on the skrimp. one love.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
i detect a sublte lacing of racism and fear in everything Jay says. And stupidity. And all just barely audible over the sounds of him gargling all those dicks in his mouth.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
dear jay,
not only are your absurd comments EXTREMELY repetitive, youd do well in understanding that the internet isn’t really the best place for dumb shits like yourself to lash out at the world. and why do you seem to think that anybody that says you’re a dumbass is inbred? doesnt make much sense. and in trying to sound intelligent, it would also be a good idea (as previously stated by somebody) to use correct grammar/spelling. what happened to you to make you such a douche bag? did daddy not love you enough?
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Maybe you as a white man/woman,just do not want to accept the truth about SOME white people.I find it amusing how some of you totally ignore the fact that i stated i do not generalize all whites who dislike Perrys movies as being racist.Yet,the comments here are childish as hell and have subtle racism laced all around it or simple lack of respect for different sub cultures,there approaches.I find nothing but a bunch of extremely conservative pricks with large forms of superiority complexes spouting hypocrisy about people being Obnoxious for dragging there skulls out the closet striking a level of fear.Obtuse describes many of the comments here.A lack of exposure and total ignorance of anything outside of there world,interest.And they become angry when the backlash from the majority is ignoring them and what they chastise jumps right to the top of sucess.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Or maybe you ARE Tyler Perry, and you want to reach out to the white audience. That you’re afraid of.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Whao, just read soome of the comments. Jay, you seem to be quite afraid of white people. Why is that?
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
“It just tells you the power of the brand that is Tyler Perry,” Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers, said in an interview.
Madea Goes to Jail,” which stars Perry in drag as the outspoken family matriarch, is Perry’s fourth to debut at first place in the box office and his biggest opening weekend. Since his “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” in 2005, which pulled in $21.9 million during its opening weekend, Perry’s seven films, all distributed by Lions Gate, have grossed $320.3 million, according to Media By Numbers.
ANGRY? HYPOCRITES?
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Lmfao@you idiots being the minorities of opinions regarding Tyler Perry films.
A bunch of slags with superiority complexes stuck in there feelings because Perry continues to run to the number 1 spot.
Sighs
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
comprehending
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Says the idiot who takes up for the other one who claims Tyler Perry is a peice of shit.The irony in these hypocritical idiots angry because they can never accept the truth,or have braincells that are not capable of comprehend a truth calling anyoner obnoxious with such hate filled insults toward a man they do not know or has done nothing to them.
And Tartra? go jump off a bridge.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
DOn’t worry, I’ve never heard of him either. We need some ‘Daniel O’Brien’s Jack and Dan get cockslapped’ or whatever.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Sheps, don’t even bother dignifying his arrogant-yet-ultimately-immature posts with a response. Much like Mr. Perry himself, he’s obviously an attention whore. Just look at how many times he posts just to try and prove a point completely unaware that he’s being more obnoxious than anything else. The guy obviously has nothing better to do than to sit around all day and see who responds to his posts so he can continue to flame. Like it somehow justifies his existence.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
If comments aren’t needed, then you should shut the hell up already.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
everything is racist
comments are not needed
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Sheps,the irony in your ignorant ass telling me to get out of my sheltered community with comments like
(((tyler perry is a piece of shit, and whoever made the comment about him making the deal with satan)))
You sound like a redneck living in a town with by the mountains with a population of 1000,75 percent being your family.I find it funny when people like you want to criticize every black as crying that everything is ,when the hostile comments you and others aim at Perry are based on hatred for a man that you do not even know or has done not a thing but entertain individuals who appreciate his work.Where else is this pathethic hate coming from.Your comments are needed and your insults to him calling him a peice of shit only leads me to think your racist.The criticisms of anything that is opposite of your approach,your culture is a behavior common in individuals who suffer from institutionalized racism.You call me obnoxious for calling out the bullshit superiority complexes you and a few others here bring to this board.You are ignorant as hell,meaning uninformed,unaware of black culture.Save me the sad sob stories of your claims about experiencing racism because whatever negative has taken effect over you is something you likely deserved because of your ignorant mentality.karma can be a nasty bitch!
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
People are obligated to live there life the way they=People are not obligated to live there life like you or how you wish they would
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Er, that would be “party” and “recovered”. Apparently he also robs people of the ability to type.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Neutral Observer,this is what i mean by individuals who suffer from a superiority complex.First off it is absurd to take comedy serious when it is just comedy.I find it funny you all chastise the films that portray a lifestyle certain black choose to live because it does not conform to your lifestyle,as if your approach,your lifestyle is superior.What makes me laugh is how you insist on passing your opinion off as a fact and it is not.Alot of people view these films and see it for just a film.It is almost like you want black people to act like what is stereotypically considered white.Tyler perrys movies depict a reality among blacks and had you looked past your own complexes your subconscious unaware and see the motives of th film,the morals than perhaps you would understand.The people who love Perrys films understand a part of urban African American culture.However when these individuals who tend to be intelligent in areas you are not,due to your inability to survive in the conditions or areas they live in or populate fail to become booksmart you chastise them.People are obligated to live there life the way they want.To see your approach,your lifestyle as being superior is ridiculous.Individuals who must validate there lifestyle by becoming critical of others suffer from large forms of insecurities.A selfish mindset that is quite annoying and way to constructed morally.People that went to see Norbit ranged in all colors,they saw the movie only for a laugh.The bigblack women present laughed loudly and when asked whether it offended them that Murphy portrayed a black woman as that.The overwhelming majority said no it does not,that was Rasputia.Rasputia does not depict me so why would i become offended when i am very well aware not all black women act like that.By now if you think Madea,Rasputia represent all black women you must live under rock or have very little exposure.People are consistently villified in different cultures as if it is deficient.The superiority complexes must stop.The hatred this world has for america(typically white americans)is fueled by the ridiculous mentalities that exist here.There is nothing wrong with making a movie depicting how certain people choose to live there life.The world does not revolve around you and what you want.The movie has went number 1 with a big opening because many people have backbones and are tired of the poor judgement that is based on large forms of ignorance.Educate yourself before you attempt to call the individuals portrayed in Madea as Uneducated.
With respect.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
My friends and I rented “Madea’s Family Reunion” for my fourteenth birthday aprty, assuming it was a lighthearted comedy.
We’ve never really reovered.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Yess,read the stuff i have been posting,it makes perfect sense.Just read the crap your posting.
(((tyler perry is a piece of shit, and whoever made the comment about him making the deal with satan)))
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
jay, its not even worth responding to whatever you mean when you say ‘…reveal that gut.’ just read the stuff you’ve posted the past few days. you’ll either laugh hysterically like the rest of us are, or cry yourself to sleep, which im sure you do a lot of.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
@J-Pappi
You’re officially the voice of reason.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
@Volta
More like Voltra, AMIRITE????
@Jay
You have not earned the right to sigh.
@Sheps
WHOOOO!! Jamaica!
Which part?
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Jay your an outright retard, firstly I’m half British half Jamaican, I’ve have more racism come my way then your pathetic little arse could imagine.
More importantly your an idiot and you have a chip on your shoulder, your the sort of person that cries out racism of any little thing, when chances are you’ve never even encountered racism your entire life your narrow minded moron. Try living in an area where 98% of the population is white and 89% of them are either outright racist or a closet racist, you have no idea what racism is you god damn retard.
Jay, your a racist, moron, with an obnoxious attitude. Grow up and try leaving your sheltered community your idiot.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Tyler Perry must be an American thing, because I’ve never heard of him… sounds like I’ve dodged a bullet there
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Madea wins big at the box office.
Tyler Perry scored the largest debut of his career as his Madea Goes to Jail opened to a whopping $41.1 million, according to studio estimates from box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI.
Despite having one of the best track records in Hollywood, Perry still surprised many analysts, who had expected his film to open around $25 million.
The strong opening continues to demonstrate the strength of movies geared toward audiences of faith and color, films that are typically made with low budgets. Last year’s faith-based Fireproof cost just $500,000 but did $33.5 million. Jail eclipses Perry’s previous best, 2006’s Madea’s Family Reunion, which opened at $30 million and grossed $63.3 million.
The thriller Taken continues its strong run, taking second place in its fourth weekend with $11.4 million. The Liam Neeson film has collected $95.2 million.
GET EM TYLER!!!!!!!…TO HELL WITH ALL YOU EXTREME MORALIST,CONSERVATIVES,SUBTLE RACIST,SLORE BORE FILM CRITICS.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Cambodia,,,such an insult to the intelligent cambodians.Come from behind that trailor park and reveal that gut redneck?
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
ok,ok, lets just hold up for a second. Im an average middle class person, im not saying what race i am, but my favorite genre of movies is by far comedy. I love all types of comedy, i love the scary movie series, animal house, family guy, that 70s show, south park, the fresh prince, and much more. However, every single thing ive seen come out of Tyler Perry has been racist, offensive, and honestly not funny. I sat there laughing with my friends (Two of whom are black you race card mongers) at how plain stupid his show house of Payne was. I was shocked at how pathetic the jokes were, Perry simply puts a large black woman on screen and has her dance, ” a family that moves together, grooves together,” I havnt seen an episode since, but every preview ive seen makes me believe that Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave. SERIOUSLY, if that is what black people are supposed to act like, then i am veryyyyy ashamed of this nation. IM sorry, i found big momma funny, so ive got nothing with a black dude dressing up as a fat black woman, the only thing is its not orginal, has long since stopped being funny, but its strangely successful. NORBIT, MADEA, BIG Momma, people almost feel obligated to laugh when a black fat woman walks on stage. Let me tell you, its just not funny anymore, and to people who rave about Tyler Perry, i just dont understand whats so funny. Really, i dont, but ive asked lots of people of all races what they think, and i have found zero people who enjoy the show. And to people who say Thats how black people really act, that is an incredibly false statement, and i am embarassed if you think of that as the norm for black people. It portrays the black community as a bunch of over the top, un-educated asses, and if your proud of that, than i feel sorry for you. Im not racist, believe me, and i believe that sopmething needs to be done now against people who call others racist under unfair terms. It should be ok to joke about Obama for one, when president buch was portrayed as a chimp, no one said shit, but potray obama as a gorilla, and its time to rally the masses and raise the protest signs. Seriously, Tyler Perry’s comedy is an example of all that is wrong with todays comedy
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
first and foremost, xlena, you need to go talk to a professional, or stop doing drugs. this is what i think of tyler fucking perry, by the way
A) putting tyler perry in front of everything you do doesn’t make him a marketing genius or whatever you (xlena) think he is. it makes him a cocky son of a bitch.
B) i think it’s important for everyone reading this to understend that tyler perry probably refers to tyler perry in as tyler perry on a daily tyler perry basis.
C) when i first heard of tyler perry’s TV show, which was the first time i heard this bastards name uttered, i didn’t think “HOT SHIT, TYLER PERRY!! who’s that? fuck it, this tyler perry shit has me INTRIGUED. im watching that god damn show.” i thought the same thing that this article is about. “who the hell is tyler perry? apparently everybody knows something that i don’t” i had the same twilight zone effect that dob described in this article. i didn’t watch the show, i haven’t seen the movies, and i don’t plan to. tyler perry is a piece of shit, and whoever made the comment about him making the deal with satan, that is the funniest damn thing i’ve ever read. i love you. great article dob.
tyler perry.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
WHo is the fuck is Daniel O brien?
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Look people it’s really very simple,
DANIEL O’BRIEN IS REALLY TYLER PERRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The funny part is those claiming Tyler Perry movies are not funny are like the minority in the world of those who love comedy.Meet the spartans was not funny,Tyler Perrys Madea goes to jail is top of the line comedy only a redneck or some surburban slob with a superiority complex would criticize while he chuckles and laughs to Seinfeld which i find horribly boring.Black comedy is a number 1 seller among all races.So many whites(particularly young and non extreme conservative minded)love movies like Tyler Perry.They dont try to moralize every damn thing in existence,criticizing it when it does not conform to what they are used to.They see the blunt,direct,approach of black comedy and find it among the funniest.Yet,leave it to the fans of that BORING flick Slumdog Millionaire to criticize what they do not understand.
Sighs
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
It’s really not very difficult. Hannah Montannah is stuff that’s aimed at the enormous tweener demographic, and it makes a lot of money. Most other people don’t like it, because it’s not very good. Does that mean tweeners are stupid? Not necessarily; they just love that someone’s finally got a show devoted to their lifestyles. If something else came along that was along similar lines but better, they’d probably watch it instead.
Tyler Perry’s managed to corner the black female demographic for exactly the same reasons. Good for him; it’s a capitalist society and he’s made a smart move. Here’s hoping someone else comes along and does it better, if for no other reason than to make “chick flick night” with your significant other a bit less painful.
Jay, you’re trying way too hard, dude.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 am
FINALLY! Someone writes a critical article questioning this “just-add-water-and-poof-instant-celebrity” moron. I haven’t, nor would I, ever watch one of these retarded movies or tv shows. It hurts my psyche just thinking about it.
Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry? WHO the hell is the guy? Is he big in Japan? Does he have a massive underground following that’s somehow elluded me and everyone I know? What grates me the most is that he’s “supposed” to be funny. Problem is Perry looks about as funny as my great uncle Carmel after reflecting on his D-Day exploits .
All I know is that I become extremely aggetated, my pupils dialate and my fists clinch in rage everytime everytime I see this imbicile on my television screen as I scream “Who is he!?!?”.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
House of Payne is a show that is not funny to me really,unless Madea makes an appearance.However the show is far funnier than Friends,Seinfeld,That wayans show.We need more shows like Martin and less shows like the 70’s show which is find ultimately boring
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
I was excited to see House Of Pain for the first time. I had heard it was funny. I did not crack a smile.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
Tyler Perrys movies arent aimed at the rubbish mindsets of those who dont understand.Alot of you remind me of the Oscars,nominating movies the average person does not give a fuck about.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
We have none of this Tyler Perry rubbish in England either.
I think I know what it is, DOB, It’s The Man trying to drag us down.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:36 am
TYLER PERRY WILL PIMP SLAP YO BITCH ASS NUGGA FOR YOUR IMPERTINENCE
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Thank you Wendy.It is ridiculous to chastise what you do not understand.So many posters here are obtuse.The nefarious statements and the attempts to pass of there opinions as facts only hint a large subconscious uanwareness of a superiority complex.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:11 am
I only recently noticed that these movies even existed and had a similar confused reaction. I figured I was just out of the loop and I found this article helped explain a lot. When I mentioned it to my wife she said back in 2000 when she sold tickets for ticket master that Tyler Perry’s plays were huge with the black demographic. That is to say every time a new play came out there were lines and people just raved about how great they were. Apparently his play writing rep was strong enough for someone to decide that putting his name on the movie poster made sense.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
Its the type of comments here that keep racism fueling.That causes ignorant black men to want to attack white people with a ridiculous generalization that all are a bunch of subtle racist idiots,or individuals who feel we live in a colorblind society(delusional).This is what Attorney General Eric Holder means when he talks about the lack of discussion of race.Whats funny is when some call you racist,just because you acknowledge the truth.Such ignorance.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:17 am
SHEPS,just shut the fuck up.The movie is headed to the number 1 spot as all his Madea movies do.What the fuck and why the fuck are you trying to pass your pathethic opinion off as being factual.You and your black friends? You do not have any black friends try that bullshit with someone else.You come across as having zero respect or understanding of the black culture to have many black friends.You remind me of them idiotic ass racist who claim not to be racist because they eat Collard Green,watch Oprah and Good Times.Seriously,shut your mouth and stop trying to pass your opinion off as some fact.Dressing up as an old woman is an attempt to depict the attitudes of many African American grandmothers,aunts,cousins you ignorant ass idiot.So what will you do now,criticize them because they do not conform to the extremely conservative approach.You critics insist on nominating movies hardly anyone gives a fuck about,yet the number 1 box office movies tend to be the first with mediocre to poor reviews.Sighs,i swear some caucasions here make it worst for those who have exposure outside there little world.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Why am i racist,because i called out racist idiots like yourself.You are no different from the white people call call Eric Holder racist for simply calling out people afraid to talk about race.I am not racist at all,nor have taken any racist shots,generalizations to white people.You just hate to accept constructive criticism and the truth about how some caucasions have zero respect for movies that do not conform to there liking.Its pathethic and absurd.You do not have to be racist if your white and dislike Perrys movies,yet the many comments here come from individuals who have racial undertones or just simple ignorance to other cultural approaches.Like a superiority complex of some sort
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:07 am
Bill Cosby’s Dr Huxtable goes to Hollywood
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 am
You appear to be quite the racist yourself jay.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:41 am
Seriously though, its like all crappy movies made by black people, the excuses are is that the core will only relate to black people, not true, being British, me and a lot of my black friends find these “African American” movies to be utter crap, seriously who started this whole wave of African Americans liking shitty movies just because another African American made it.
Anyone who says you will either like the movie or hate it depending on race is retarded. Tyler Perry has some of the worst movies ever, seriously since when was dressing up like an old woman still funny? Someone call Tyler Perry and tell him to stop using jokes already used by Eddie Murphy in the 80s.
Seriously, they still let Spike Lee make movies?
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 am
well….when this movie came out I figured it was just the name of a book that came before the movie like the book was by Tyler Perry and was called diary of a mad black woman but truly I never saw the movie so… also I’m used to not recognizing the name of the director no matter how famous he is… and it wasn’t exactly aimed at the film lovers lol
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 am
I don’t think the tolerance argument works here, because DOB isn’t refusing to tolerate the situation, he just wants to know what’s going on here.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 am
@WhoNeeds2Know
“He put out several plays before he started creating movies. I doubt you know this…”
Uh, here’s what Dan said:
“Sure, at the time, he had some successful plays under his belt, but so does Martin McDonagh. and you’ve never heard of him. You know why? Because he didn’t try to bill his first movie as Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges. “
February 21st, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Im with Sheps.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:24 pm
“Now, lest you think I’m an uninformed hater, I want to make it clear that I’m not going into this blind.”
WRONG
He put out several plays before he started creating movies. I doubt you know this because you said “How do you put your name behind your FIRST movie?” Hell, his movies are his plays with subtle changes. I Can Do Bad All By Myself is a play from 1999.
However, the show is stupid. No arguments there. Really, you love it or hate it.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Larry King has Tyler Perry on now and Larry is laughing at the parts where Madea is arguing with Dr.Phil and Larry laughs out loud.This validates my comments about the facts that not all whites,maybe not even most do not find humor in black comedy.Many just see comedy as comedy.If its funny,hell its funny
February 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Sheps,my human side says,Shut the fuck up!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Thank you Tanner,i hear comments from many white americans who simply say there are many things in Tyler Perrys movies they can relate to from smoking Marijuana,to the love shared,dealing with family members or friends strung out on drugs.It would be insulting for blacks to insinuate all whites are penny loafer wearing,highly moralized,extremely conservatives suffering from large subconcious unawareness forms of superiority complexes.Refreshing!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I think the race issue is being way overrated in this. I’ve yet to see a character or a plot issue in a “black” film that I couldn’t identify with better than most films despite growing up in a white community. I enjoy the humor, and Mr. Perry is no exception. However, I did find it strange when I saw him leap from obscurity with his brand already prominent as though I should have expectations of it. Maybe his reviews are going up because we know what to expect when we see that name.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I’m mixed race, my white half is like, “this Tyler Perry nonsense is retarded”, and my black side is like “i agree, this shit is so stupid”
So who the fuck does go to see a Tyler Perry movie? I think its the Asians.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
damn white people got no respect. no respect.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Btw this is no way,shape or form to criticize all white americans mwho dislike this film or Tyler Perrys as being racist,yet some are and if not they just totally have no understanding of other cultures and there approaches.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:57 pm
What the fuck??? What the hell makes you think he needs to be stopped? As if the world revolves around you and what you want.Wade if no one liked Tylers perrys movies how come they manage to reach top box office either number 1 or damn near it.I am sorry but the truth is the nefarious,obtuse statements coming from ignorant individuals has racism laced around it.Those who i find are black and dislike it,tend to be angry because they feel it increases stereotypes.However this gives an insight on how people choose to live there lives,there is nothing wrong with turning it into a film.What angers me is when ignorant individuals(particulary caucasions)part of an entirely different culture that must find any subtle way to chastise what they are far to unaware and uninformed of.Then,you get pathethic comments with demands to stop these black producers as if the world revolves around them.Madea movies in my opinion are funny as hell,she takes no nonsense,yet has a heart of gold,considerate and loving.She is that black woman that many African americans can relate to,strict and loving and blunt with intents that are only good.Yet,because she does not conform to the stuck up,bullshit constructed morals many carry in this country that are nothing but subconscious unawareness forms of superiority complexes,she is chastised and ignorance begins to demand the producer must be stopped due to there own ignorance they are subconsciously unaware of.Have you critics not learned yet? Many whites whose heads not stuck up there ass have seen movies like this just for pure laughter.Laughter releases endorphins and elevates mood.Yet,when the laughter does not conform to the extremely boring laughter you critics tell us is funny,you chastise it and criticize it.People are growing backbones in this society and ignoring crappy critics.Everyone has an opinion and entitled to it.Yet when it comes to Tyler perrys movies either the critics suffer from subtle unaware racism,or just simple ignorance(unaware and uninformed)of different cultures and its approaches.It is different people,not deficient of any kind.Tyler Perry continues to soar to the top the more ignorance,dislike,subtle racism,selfish motives criticize his movies.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
@ Tartra (more like Fagtra, right?)
Actually, I have nothing more to say than that… I’m gonna leave now.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I don’t know if it’s been said yet, but Tyler Perry has a second TV show, ‘Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns’.
Yeah, now that it has been brought to my attention, I do feel like I’m in a Twilight Zone episode.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I was watching TBS last night and they were advertising a 24-hour tyler perry marathon for today. this is true.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:40 pm
The stage plays are awesome (you should go find those). The movies and his tv show? not so much. They suck. Hard. The thing is, he fills a void and is, actually, better than nothing (i.e. having next-to-zero representation.) As far as you having never heard of him - that probably IS a cultural/racial thing. You should get out more.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I have been waiting for somebody to write this FOREVER. Like you said, I have nothing against the guy whatsoever, but he must be stopped. He must.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Coming in 2009: Tyler Perry’s Fuck cracked.com!
personally I can’t see the appeal of these movie but my girly loves the damn things…. basically they’re just melodramatic rubbish, like watching 4 episodes of a bad soap opera stitched together.
Saying that though from a completely neutral perspective when Hollywood typecasts 99.9999% percent of black women as sassy black mammas who say ‘oh no you didn’t girlfriend!’ every 5 minutes it’s good to have the other side of the coin with stuff like this
February 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Honestly, I thought those movies were just some bizarre niche comedies that somehow had a very good advertising management gig.
And I never even noticed Tyler Perry’s name. Shows you how observant I am.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
The spinning. spiral, circular thingy made me dizzy.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
@xLena
I am black. You are the most racist person I’ve encountered outside of /b/ - and they don’t count. You say you don’t buy into stereotypes? Then why the hell was your first comment riddled with you defending them?
Go. Go away. Go far away. You’re the type of person who voted for Obama because he was black and that makes me sad.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am
yes! my thoughts entirely, i’ve been waiting for someone as esteemed as yourself to declare him a fraud! I also noticed Entertainment Weekly declared him the 7th smartest man in Hollywood in 2007
February 21st, 2009 at 11:09 am
@flow, it’s just you. The point you missed is that Scorsese and Tarantino made some great freakin movies and STILL don’t put their name into the title, even though they could. Spike Lee, who is no stranger to self-promotion (and kind of a jerk, really) has earned the right to call his next movie “Spike Lee’s Whatever” and HE still doesn’t do that.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:46 am
some how i kind of find this rasist because for some reason, he doesnt like when tyler perry puts his names in titles.then he stated a bunch of white people who its ok for them to do.or is it just me?
February 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
And if anyone corrects my spelling I’ll slap your children, wether they’ve been born or currently reside in your balls.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:33 am
I think the reasoning behind putting his name in front of the title wen’t something like this. “Great people can put their names in front of a movie. If I do it, people will think I’m some awesome actor/director/writer that they’re supposed to have heard about, and buy my piles of shit.”
February 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am
I don’t get Tyler Perry movies either. My family loves anything with his name in front of it. Its a phase… It has got to be a phase… It wll pass right? I mean he isn’t George Lucas. There isn’t a Madea Ranch is there? (Is there?)
February 21st, 2009 at 9:43 am
THANK YOU GOD………uh…..i mean DOB. Now I can print this out and shove it in my girlfriend’s face and say” See!? I’m not the only one who thinks these movies are shit” Damn. Now, NOW, I can sleep
February 21st, 2009 at 9:40 am
Get ‘em Danny.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:46 am
I buy that it’s not a race thing. My white parents love that Madea crap.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:35 am
@Jorn: Yeah, except they never have notable comments for the columns. I kind of wish they did, I find the funniest comments are always there.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:05 am
Seriously? Have you seen the play? Have you actually seen the movies? Tyler Perry movies rock and if you want to make it a racial thing, I am a white woman. So? I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion so I choose to not listen to yours but man I gotta tell you, you’re missing out on some good stuff!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:02 am
xlena: wow what gave you the clue i was hateful was it the pist off roofer part in my name? your an idiot go wrestle magic johnson in a thorn bush cocksucker
February 21st, 2009 at 6:40 am
Tyler Perry Movies are mostly terrible. I am very shocked that anyone would suggest otherwise. Very sobering thought- knowing that there are still people out there who try to defend those movies. I am black, and smart enough to know that the article had nothing to do with race. That said- boy! do you guys talk a lot…
February 21st, 2009 at 5:18 am
“I respect Tyler Perry a lot and I have no idea why anyone thinks movies have to be “good” (good according to whom?) to make money and have lots of people go see them. I’m sure those of you who got dragged to the old cuntfest “Sex and the City: The Movie” or some other shit can testify. ”
agreed. Just because it’s not your cup of tea doesn’t mean it isn’t someone else’.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:14 am
oh oh, and they both have their character names in the title.
It totally should have been called Jim Varney’s Ernest goes to Jail.
As an aside, did anyone watch Ernest in Scared Stupid? I remember it being pretty funny, but maybe only because I was 7 at the time.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:59 am
Tyler Perry is the black Jim Varney. Do you know why? Ernest goes to Jail. Madea goes to Jail. They both are only a little funny. And they both dress up as a significant cast of their movies.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:19 am
Meh. I’ll give the bastard credit where credit’s due: He earns his money off a large, easily exploitable niche, a niche that exists cos Hollywood/Broadway/what have you refuses to even bother trying to make a good movie/play/show on people that form said niche. He’s no different from, say, Candace Bushnell (neo-feminists), MTV (teenage girls), Sherwood Pictures (Christianist families), Max Mutchnick (gays), Michael Muhammad Knight (American Muslims, particularly young ones), or Stephanie Meyer (goth chicks, teenage girls, and…Mormons). If Tak Toyoshima (Asians) ever gets his shit together, he might have a market too. So, yeah, give Tyler some props for being a crafty bastard.
February 21st, 2009 at 3:38 am
Prediction:
In this week’s round-up, there will be no notable comment, simply a statement that the comment section devolved into some kind of rant-war/flame-war/something or other, because this is the Internet, damnit, and that means my opinion matters! and because it’s anonymous, I don’t have to pretend to be polite to all the people who are different from me (which makes me afraid of them) so I come to a comedy site and go all (Government/Communist / Liberal/Conservative / Peaceful/Violent / Straight/Weird / Criminal / Fanatic) in the comments section of an article only slightly related to the injustices I face in the real world every single day! *cry*
February 21st, 2009 at 3:09 am
I miss Dave Chappelle!!! ;_;
I respect Tyler Perry a lot and I have no idea why anyone thinks movies have to be “good” (good according to whom?) to make money and have lots of people go see them. I’m sure those of you who got dragged to the old cuntfest “Sex and the City: The Movie” or some other shit can testify.
As a young Black girl, I find his movies kinda cheesy and I refuse to go to the theatre and watch anything that doesn’t have explosions in it no matter who made it/is in it; so I’ve only see his films when they’re on TV. However, I’ve seen the plays on DVD though and they do have a lot more depth to them than the movies.
Lastly, I hope all the racists and Uncle Toms who took time to come out of their closet and vent their hate on an article that’s OBVIOUSLY meant to be funny choke.
Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ, we’re supposed to be LAUGHING here!!
February 21st, 2009 at 1:39 am
Erm… If it makes you feel better, I’m Australian and I had never, until about five minutes ago, heard of Tyler Perry. So it’s not the whole world in the Twilight Zone, just America.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:21 am
a black friend at the boxing gym put it this way to me. “you know, y’all white friends i got cant stand that larry the cable guy muthaf**ka. well, ty perry is the larry the cable guy for us.” i don’t think he means crude, lo-brow comedy, but.. well i dont know exactly what he meant. hes black and he boxes, which makes him 22% tougher than me, so i just said “ah, yeah.”
February 21st, 2009 at 1:10 am
@xLena: Whatever makes you feel better. I feel no ill effects from verbal punches, mostly because they don’t exist.
I’m glad I could keep the flame war going without saying anything about race. That’s class.
@Dieandgoaway: I think you nailed it. He’s the black Dane Cook, who is also not funny. My apologies to Bill Cosby’s family for any confusion due to my comparison.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:50 am
@JYS2763:
Dude…that was one of the gayest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life. Way to defend Tyler Perry’s honor, because he was totally making those movies because “laughter is good for the soul.” It definitely had nothing to do with the shit tons of money.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:48 am
tyler perry is the black dane cook.
shitty movies, no one can explain his success and he has a core audience of blind sheep following.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:45 am
xLena: Please just shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch. You’re only lookign stupider and stupider. Anyone who is coddling you and saying you have a point is doing it so you’ll shut the fuck up. This isn’t a race-based article. He’s wondering why he’s famous because HIS MOVIES AND SHOW SUCKS. But somehow people see them. House of Payne is the stupidest piece of rubbish on television, and some reason it’s still airing. These movies are obviously made for the black community. I know I don’t have any relatives who are loud mouthed, speak in Ebonics, and are generally rude. I wonder what stereotype this fits? HMMM. And I wonder who realizes this, and is cashing in on it? HMMM. Don’t act “holier than thou” just because your Uncle Tom ass is pulling out a race card like ever stupid fucking black person on this earth. His movies suck, no one likes them. Get over it. The fact that most of us hate black people is a completely different fact. Doesn’t make it less true, just does not apply here. He’d say the same thing about a white director that was a stupid piece of shit like Tyler Perry. So fuck off and picket a difference cause.
February 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am
FUCK YEAH!
flight of the navigator motherfucker!
thats some classic motherfucking movie shit right there bitches
February 20th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
I read this article thinking the same thing, and it wasn’t until I started reading the comments section that I realized I actually watched one of his movies. One of my church friends swore it was the funniest movie ever, so she brought it over (she was cute) and we watched it at my place.
I think I blocked it out of my memory because of how awkward the contrived laughter from me was. I remember looking over at her to anticipate when I was supposed to laugh.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I know who Martin McDonagh is. Granted, I worked on one of his plays in school, and I’m a theatre major…so maybe I don’t quite count.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
xLena. You are the most amazing, articulate person I have had the privilege of knowing through your words. You make me proud. Proud to be who I am. Proud to know right from wrong. Proud to know that after reading the posts on this blog that I’m not the only one thinking there is something wrong with the people on here. Tyler Perry is an amazing person who, yes, came out of nowhere, made a name for himself and is now reaping the benefits. He had and still has the support of his church family (sorry, no wizardry there) and has the support of millions of Americans who believe that laughter is good for the soul. I believe if you have to ASK who Tyler Perry is…then you’re very definitely confused and deserve to be that way!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Being black, I just have to say, I frankly couldn’t give a fuck. He’s making ridiculous amounts of dosh with little mental effort? Bully to him.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I am not stupid enough to believe that comment was an accident, although I give you props because it was slightly humorous.
I am calm. I type in capitals to emphasize, not to yell.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
It seems these movies you write of haven’t made it big down in Australia. Not that I am complaining.
Also, perhaps you could have given a warning before posting that black swirl / illusion / trick thing. I was already feeling rather nauseous and nearly ended up depositing my lunch all over my work computer. Then I would’ve had to explain why I was spending my work time reading cracked.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
xLena… It might be a good idea to calm down yourself before you tell other people to relax. Honestly, you’re in a bit of a “pot calling the kettle black” (I swear that’s not a race joke) situation.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
And to TheGrayTrain, I know stereotypes are based on truth.
Which is why they suck. And which is why I don’t identify with my African American heritage, because the truth of the matter is the stereotypes are true and ridiculous and I refuse to be that way.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Well, hvymtalmachine, I’m here to verbally punch asswipes like you, simply because it makes me feel better.
In all actuality, I was sent this article by a friend of mine, who wasn’t aware that its contents were likely to set me off.
/sigh. I KNOW most of the negativity was not aimed at Perry -because- he’s black. But I also read farther down the page someone who said that these movies must only be for “poor black people.”
Wtf?
It’s comments like -that- that set me off on the race thing. And I’m not the only one, because “Hate It Or Love It, The Underdogs On Top!” made some really good points about twelve hours ago at 10:31 am.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
And my 2 cents for the flame war:
If xLena realizes “Cracked is a site that rags on everybody for everything under the sun” but doesn’t “see the point in ANY of it,” why is he or she here? I mean, besides to be a douche.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Besides looking like a more svelte, less retarded version of Ruben Studdard, I still don’t know who Tyler Perry is.
Bill Cosby for a dumber generation?
February 20th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
DOB, you beat me to writing this article.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I agree with the Lady Carr, xLena. Tyler Perry’s movies have become a case of “same shit, different toilet.” And we weren’t focusing on him being black, but for being famous (and continuing to be so) for churning out movies that would have ruined other writer/director/actors’ careers. Now I’ve seen the movies and the plays they are based on, and I liked the plays much better. As for his movies? Meh, got boring after “Diary.” Also, as a white male I would like to point out that I have become offended by TP because the main villain in every movie is a man, and the one time he has a white man in a movie he is a scumbag. Lastly, despite my whiteness, I do not hold the keys to power, or drive a car made of money powered by Cristal, nor do I regularly get to decide the fate of black people. If blacks want the stereotyping of their race to change, they must start with changing themselves. Stereotypes are based in truth.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Amazing. Exactly what I was thinking.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
To dj: I’ll make my point about my bringing race into it in a few moments. I noticed our “black” president. And not that I’m not proud, but I WISH everyone would STOP calling him black. He’s PARTLY black, yes, and I’ll be the first to admit that he’s made one giant leap for African Americans everywhere and that we’re all very proud. But he’s also half WHITE, which is probably a big help to why he made it this far and nobody seems to want to talk about THAT.
But this isn’t about President Obama.
To Kate Arner: I wasn’t talking to you specifically about thinking Jackass was awesome. I was jus making a general observation.
To “tom the pist off roofer”: I don’t HAVE a “black power flag.” I realize Cracked is a site that rags on everybody for everything under the sun. The point is, I don’t really see the point in ANY of it. And there’s a fine line between ragging on someone about something and being racist. And everybody on here who said that he’s a wizard or must be using some ridiculously unreal means of help to be getting famous - that doesn’t sound a little racist to you? Fine, I won’t call it racist. I’ll call it being a hateful asswipe. Is that better?
To Yarp: How the fuck is Tyler Perry making racism okay? You’re a nutcase.
To Anna Carr:
2) First of all, I never said it was “okay.” I said its what happens. I said it’s just the way it is. That doesn’t make it OKAY, it just makes it TRUE. And other races don’t make movies about being CLASSLESS? So, for example, movies about Italian mobsters are classy? Give me a break. Fucking a. Those aren’t any classier - murder isn’t classy, I’m sorry. And The Cosby Show, wow, what a comparison. Yes, humor without the ridiculous “OMG I’M BEING RETARDED.” That’s great. You realize how many years ago that was? Times change. Cultures change. PEOPLE change. It’s not the same as it was then. Humor is different. And if all cultures act outlandish at some point, then why is this the only example catching heat for it?
3) II get that Tyler plays on sterotypes. That’s what I was talking about in my above point. It doesn’t matter what type of abusive the person is being - he just chose the hardest-hitting one to what? OH yeah. Make a point.
4) Tropic Thunder was a train wreck of a disaster. I really just…no. Just no. And I personally have never seen Jackass - because of the title. And as for Madea’s role in the titles/movies themselves, the movies are named for her because at some point (like somebody on here mentioned) she’s always the one to “empower” the timid woman/fix the problem/show up out of nowhere and save the day. Yippie. It’s just what she does.
5) I’m not even responding to how ridiculous you sound right now. I’m just going to say, for the record, that I’m not even sure I MYSELF like black people. I’ve been told by PLENTY of my friends that I’m “racist,” because I can’t fucking HANDLE all the stereotypes of black culture. They’re all ridiculous to me. And I’m glad Madea acts like she does, because Tyler Perry, like I mentioned before, is OBVIOUSLY making a point. And yeah, some people think its funny, and yeah, we laugh, but that’s the way it is. And nobody said it’s “okay.” The movie makes people laugh. That’s great. People make movies about murders, but nobody says MURDER is okay - and if you do, therapy, again, please.
6) I beg to differ on Shakespeare naming his things after him. You obviously just don’t do enough research. Perhaps it wasn’t HIM that named them, but because things have been adapted from his plays (like the DiCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet), they DEFINITELY had enough respect not to claim the work, and put his name RIGHT in the fucking title. Are you in shock? That’s okay, its okay to be wrong sometimes. And obviously, it IS marketing. You know why? Because, like DOB mentions in the fucking article, Tyler Perry made a SHITLOAD of money on these movies. He states right there in the article: It worked. It fucking worked. So here’s to what you know about marketing. Maybe YOU didn’t run out to see who he was, or what his movies were about. Maybe NOBODY “ran” to see. But enough people WENT, and THAT was the fucking point.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I was going to reply to Lord Astral’s comment with a compliment on his astute social observation on the differences between America and Australia, but I got too caught up in the race flame war and ended up laughing so hard I stopped breathing for a few seconds there.
And then it stopped and I was kind of disappointed. I would tentatively suggest, however, that MikeWhat and Hate It Or Love It submit a co-written article for Cracked. I would totally read that.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Tyler who?
February 20th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
totally agree with u there DOB, and i’m afraid i’ve been surrending as well, turning into a tyler drone……his movies are ridiculously unsubtle and insulting to blacks in a way if the implication is they can’t appreciate complexity, but then again current movies prove NO race is appreciative of plot, characterisation, nuance etc these days….
February 20th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
XLena, I have a few counterpoints to make. To point number:
2) Acting over the top to prove its okay to be over the top? What’s next, is going to eat fried chicken and watermellon after looting a store to prove a point its okay to be proud of your heritage? Look at the Cosby show: popular without the need for acting like a complete retard. Besides, acting out isn’t just a trait of black people, all cultures are outlandish at one point or another. Here’s the difference: other races don’t make movies about being CLASSLESS and then try to justify them with pseudo-intelligent shit.
3) I think what DOB is trying to say here is that TP is playing on stereotypes to get a message through. The husband doesn’t HAVE to be abusive; he can cheat, he can be neglifent, he can be a villain in ways other than what you’d see at any given moment on Lifetime.
4) I won’t justify Tropic Thunder, but Jackass is a) self-advertised; they’re acting like jackasses and being blunt about it, not acting like jackasses and hiding it in bad plot and b) is a shock-value movie. You see Jackass because you know they’re doing stuff noone with common sense would do, so its funny to watch from a safe distance. You see Madea for plot and comedy, with I’ll return to later.
5) If you don’t like pulling the race card, don’t, end of story. Besides, Caucasion directors are pulled apart all the time, just not on this site recently enough to appear on the front page. More so, if “THAT is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. EVER.” then you can’t possibly have seen the movies; you’re probably just pulling the race card, AGAIN.
6)That’s NOT good marketing. I saw Tyler Perry, I didn’t run to the theatre to find out who this guy is, I MOVED ON WITH MY FUCKING LIFE. More so, “Just in case somebody missed the fact that he’s in a dress.”? Really? Because, you know, it hasn’t been done a million times before. And finally, about taking possession of his plays? You don’t see “Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet”, or “Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire”.
Now, remember how I said I would bring #4 back? Tyler Perry CANT MARKET! Look at the cover of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. MADEA is on the front, taking center stage. In the commercials, I see Madea going around doing zany stuff. I think to myself “This must be a comedy about Madea, a Mad (as in crazy) black woman. Seems like fun.” I rent the movie, and what do I see? About 2 minutes of Madea to 50-odd minutes of “Preachy preachy preachy, not funny not funny not Madea, not funny and not madea, madea and not funny.”
Get some Fucking class.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Anna Carr:
‘You don’t see “Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet”, or “Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire”.’
Hm, really?
http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/shopping/images/09781.rosenr&j.jpg
http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/william_shakespeares_romeo_and_juliet.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5177GWP3T7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
Yarp:
Nothing -ever- makes racism okay.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I’ve changed my mind. Tyler Perry doesn’t make racism OK; xLena does.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I knew who Tyler Perry was before his first movie. I study theatre so I’m sure that’s why but it isn’t impossible for someone to have known who he was. I do agree about the movies getting worse and worse though, all while they become less and less like his plays.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Ernest
Gallagher
this too shall pass
February 20th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
xLena go waive your black power flag somewhere else in case you didnt know cracked bust everybody’s balls why is it when ever someone make fun of someone of color you all go straight to the Thats Racist thing.Jokes are jokes who gives a shit what color the person is.Oh yeah Tyler Perry sucks balls mother fucker
February 20th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
xLena, just a few thing about what you said.
i saw the 1st 10 minutes of tropic thunder, and thought it was so stupid that i turned it off.sure, i’ve never heard of TP(i don’t think his movies are made where i live) or seen any of his movies, but from what i’ve heard about it here, i would have agree with WhiteyMcWhite, who says “Tyler Perry ate Big Momma and the Klumps and then crapped out Madea.”
February 20th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
@xLena
You make my life. *high five*
February 20th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
yes369: who you talkin to cocksucker…if i was there id kick your ass motha fucker
February 20th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I’m feeling the twilight zone thing, but more because I’ve never, ever, ever, seen one of Perry’s movies, heard of his movies, seen ads for his movies, smelt…. yeah. Well I’m off to to wikipedia.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Tyler Perry ate Big Momma and the Klumps and then crapped out Madea.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I’m a little more bothered by the fact that Robert Downey Jr. was oscar nominated for playing in black face. Did you see Tropic Thunder? He wasn’t that great.
But Tyler Perry? As I understand it, he got a whole bunch of money from his church to start putting on plays, and life has been very, very good to him since. Something about targeting ‘religious Hollywood.” I’m afraid I just don’t understand any of it.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
dude, xlena, calm down. you’re the one making a deal… DOB has a comedy blog, so he wrote about someone that everyone’s talking about right now. it’s not even ABOUT race, wtf. you’re the one making it a racial thing too…
nobody’s mocking perry for being black or for having “instant success,” it’s because he got famous for making horrible movies.
shit, stop thinking everyone’s racist, a black man is the president right now if you hadn’t noticed.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
WHOOOOO!!! Oscars blog!! Which is good, because I’ll be on a train back to Ottawa and I won’t be able to watch it.
DOB, I agree with you, but I honestly didn’t see it as much of a problem. It’s annoying, yeah, and regardless of how hard he’s had to work, he’s still a talentless hack (when it comes to his movies and show), but there’s bigger comedy-rapists out there. Like Seltzerberg. They’re so bad that the Wayans brothers had to title their new movie ‘Dance Flick’ which, really, isn’t gonna create enough of a distance to protect them but continues to support my point. CHANNEL your power, DOB! Fight the real fight!
February 20th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Okay. So I don’t often get involved with -stupid- discussions like this, but this article and EVERYBODY’S comments seriously just pissed me right off.
I have a few points to make.
1) Who CARES where the hell he came from?!? The point is, he’s doing a great job making a name for himself (who the hell cares what you all think of him?) and he’s a great person.
2) All of you who think the acting in his movies is ridiculous and “over the top,” you obviously don’t live around or see many black people. As embarrassing as it is sometimes, THAT is how we do. And though many of us try to escape that life (like Perry is doing making a name for himself) it’s a little comforting to see that sometimes, it’s okay to make fun of ourselves and realize that we look like complete idiots. Yes, we realize that we look exactly as retarded and ridiculous as TP seems to act. It brings us down to earth a little. Did you ever think maybe the acting was like that ON PURPOSE? Duh. It’s to prove a point, idiots.
3) All of you who think that the -plot- lines are ridiculous and “over the top,” you OBVIOUSLY don’t watch the fucking news. When a husband is abusive, there IS no grey area, you asses. What do you mean, “the husband HAS to be abusive just so you know who to root for”?!? An abusive husband is an abusive husband! Who the fuck watches a movie where the husband beats his wife and roots for the fucking husband?? ESPECIALLY A BLACK HUSBAND! Go get some therapy, please. The ONLY ridiculous part of these plots is that there is almost never much repercussion for said abusive husband, because it’s implied that God will take care of him. Fuck that. Send his abusive, black-ass to prison and get on with your life.
4) gomavs2004, I have to tell you that you’re an absolute asshole for saying that “intelligent minded people won’t be found in a church.” What the hell is your problem? It’s not a sign of stupidity to like a fucking movie. I would bet you a hundred dollars that all of you idiots saying you hate Tyler Perry movies still went out and watched Jackass or fucking Tropic Thunder or some shit, which BOTH beat out TP’s stupidity levels BY FAR. And obviously you are not an intelligent minded person, having made a damn comment like -that-. That was sheer mental retardation on your part. “Not to be rude” my ass.
5) I absolutely fucking HATE pulling the race card, but here it seems there is absolutely no choice. I have never heard such accusations being hurled at a caucasian writer/director/actor/ANYBODY who became an almost instant success. You’re all comparing him to a wizard!! Somebody said he must have made a contract with the devil!! What the fuck is your problem!? Just because he’s fucking black and successful doesn’t mean he SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL. Come ON. And you all call his FANS retarded?! THAT is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. EVER.
6) About the fact that his NAME is in the movies - wow. Are you all really that stupid? it is not only obvious why he put his name in the movies, it’s brilliant. Not ONLY did it make everybody double-take and go, “Huh? Maybe he’s somebody I don’t know and I should go check it out…” but it also -put- him at the top. It was there to make people look again. To make them REMEMBER. And because he’s IN the movies, only not as himself. Just in case somebody missed the fact that he’s in a dress. And hello, THEY’RE PLAYS. They’re HIS PLAYS. That’s why he takes a possessive tone in the title of the movies - they are HIS plays, put to film. Retards.
I think you all need to sit back and relax a little. I don’t understand the point of this at all. Who the -fuck- cares how successful he is? Who the -fuck- cares that we all have no idea where the hell he came from? Who the FUCK CARES?! WHO? Nobody. Congratulate him, send a prayer up for him if you think he’s conspiring with the fucking Antichrist, and sit back and enjoy his movies like you enjoy the rest of the absolutely CRAPPY comedy-killers that Hollywood churns out.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Since when do you get hailed as advancing your community when you make movies that resemble the black community’s version of “Ernest Goes To Whatever.” Next I’m going to hear about the theatrical contributions of off-Broadway renditions of “Norbit”.
what the pluck?, I laughed more at this part of your comment than I did at parts of the article. Well done.
I liked Tyler Perry’s plays, but I’m not a fan of any of his other work. The plays were much better than the movies were and how anyone can manage to watch “House of Payne” is beyond me. What I think has started to happen is that critics are afraid to say Tyler Perry’s movies are bad because he’s an up and coming black director. His work has gotten progressively worse. I respect him as a man for all he’s been through but that’s it. When it comes to him and Will Smith, I get angry just hearing their names/next project.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
i work at a video rental store and have been experiencing the exact same sense of confusion as expressed in this article. i live in a predominately caucasian community (bloomington, indiana), which may explain why the overwhelming majority of renters of Tyler Perry films are in the honky end of the race spectrum, but it seems as though ALL african-descended patrons HAVE TO rent them whenever they come in. It’s a racial-religious mecca of shit that draws a community that seems to be having issues with their changing national identity in light of our current president.
oh well. the euro-bloods seem to fucking LOVE anything with a popular caucasian actor, despite if it’s crap (such deniro and pacino’s coup de shit Righteous Kill).
what really blows my mind, though, is that in response to the growing “critical acclaim” of Perry’s work, it’s getting taken FAR TOO SERIOUSLY. Take into account what the film is about, as can be expected from previous Madea films, and then look at the NEW poster:
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/12/11/madea-goes-to-jail-poster.jpg
yes, it’s very real. apparently, this new installment of the Madea franchise is actually made from a missing Kubrick reel.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
….BLACK AND WHITE SPINNY THING MAKE ME LIKE BORING WORDS…..
February 20th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Also, don’t be a jack-ass gomavs2004, there’s no need to be a bigot.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I’m glad “tom the pist off roofer” doesn’t have Tyler Perry’s power.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Tyler Perry makes racism OK.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
THIS IS WEIRD!!!
Tyler Perry is on Dr. Phil right now (2/20) talking about dysfunctional families, the power of forgiveness, and abandonment. “Coming up,” Dr. Phil will be on set with Tyler Perry filming “Medea Goes To Jail.” As I’m typing this, Dr. Phil is telling Tyler Perry that he really “is helping a lot of people and should be proud.” Since when do you get hailed as advancing your community when you make movies that resemble the black community’s version of “Ernest Goes To Whatever.” Next I’m going to hear about the theatrical contributions of off-Broadway renditions of “Norbit.” Just when I thought that Martin Lawrence had killed the black-man-in-a-fat-black-woman suit genre…..
February 20th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
isnt it weird that black humor is using the same british humor of 40 years ago….a black guy in a dress how funny…..all these movies suck….i work at a movie theater and people line up outside for this crap everytime….me and the other managers actually have turns, whenever a new tyler perry movie comes out, of who gets the week off. and its not a black thing we get old white ladies who drag their husbands to the movie. (Its great when we have to wake them up after wards by the way.) these movies are all redundant and that shows how great tyler perry is however….because when you can make the same movie 3 times in a row and people still buy it…. you know he owns us
February 20th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Perhaps black people know who he is, hence the name.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Tyler Perry can go Fuck himself!!!
I wish i could get my hands on him he’d quit making shitty movies then cause he’d be fucked up………asshole
February 20th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Martin Lawrence’s Big Momma’s House is probably better than Tyler Perry’s movies.
In fact, Martin Lawrence’s bowel movements may even be better.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I have never seen his movies. DOB does not take me to the movies; we go for dinner and dancing.
The previews look real dumb though. I never understand how these movies get green lighted.
Also: Love you DOB!!!
February 20th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I dated a girl that absolutely loved Tyler Perry. I must confess that I don’t get it either. I watched half of Diary of a Mad Black Woman with her and then when she fell asleep I switched to watching Popeye cartoons. Hilarious article!!! Flight of the Navigator was indeed quite inspirational.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I AGREE!!!!
I still have no idea how this guy is famous. He has TWO shows now… That’s right… TWO! He also made another movie that didn’t have Tyler Perry on it and it probably didn’t do as well… He is making Bajillions of dollars for making movies that shouldn’t even be popular on YouTube. He makes movies that make me feel like I could write a story about a crossdressing man/alien/dog with a heart of gold and put “Danjer047’s ManAlienDog Goes To Prison or Gets Married or Whatever” on the box and people will buy that sucker because they’re genuinely curious about who I am.
I don’t even want to hear that he is a good writer because he isn’t. Brett Ratner could write better movies than this guy. My weiner with a pin attachment (patent pending) could have written better scripts than this guy.
Good for him for pulling the wool (I’m not a senior citizen) over everyone’s eyes but a select few. Tyler Perry movies rank up there with Ice Cube and Queen Latifah movies and that is some extremely mediocre company.
Once again, DOB has his finger on the pulse of everyday men and women everywhere (and also inside women everywhere, I’m assuming). Finally, someone else thinks the same thing that I do. This dude is overrated and is getting paid enormous amounts of money for it. I’m so jealous…….
February 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
anyone remember dave chappelle on oprah, talking about a conspiracy to convince black men to wear dresses? tyler perry might be involved in that.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Not to be rude, but what kind of audience is so easily amused by cross-dressing? Same thing with Big Mamma’s House, and they made two of those, (or are there three now?). Ridiculous and insulting to anyone with an IQ over 80, (Forrest Gump anyone).
To those TP fans out there, IQ stands for “Intelligence Quotient”
He should stick to Gospel apparently, because intelligent minded people won’t be found in a church.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Tyler Perry is a self-hating, biggotry spouting closet case who clearly enjoys cross-dressing.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
These movies suck beyond belief, the DIRECTING has marginally improved but the writing has stayed terrible.
I think the reviews are getting better because as the popularity increases white critics look increasingly like racists for not liking this garbage. Anybody can give a bad review to a play-wright turned screen writer, but to give bad reviews to every movie by the most popular black screen writer just looks racist. Anybody who ever studied literature or film can recognize that these are complete and utter shit, aweful terrible movies objectively.
I like “black” films, I’ll watch Barbershop or Friday or anything by Spike Lee and enjoy it (except She Hate Me) I like spannish films, asian films, australian films…whatever. but Tyler Perry makes shitty films no two ways about it.
It reminds me of the Daria episode where everybody praises her sisters crappy poetry because she is pretty
“DON’T PEOPLE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD ANYMORE?”
February 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Also, I suck at typing right now. he = his.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I’ve never seen the humor in anything by Tyler Perry either. When he show came out, at first my parents said “This show looks like shit.” fast forward about a month later and they’re both afraid to miss an episode.
Yeah, that fucker’s a wizard.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Tyler Perry actually did a lot of plays focusing on the madea universe before the movie came out. The titles of the plays didn’t have his name attached to them. I suppose he did it to let his fanbase know that it was his movie and nobody was ripping them off. Not that I like him, I really don’t find the stuff he puts out all that funny.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
You know before 2005, I had no idea who Tyler Perry was either. Now already in 2009, I know who he is, but still don’t have a clue why he is so popular.
I’ve even tried sitting through his TV shows. Pretty cringe-worthy if you ask me. But yet, House of Payne is said to be “cable’s #1 sitcom of all time” (silly TBS).
Not that I don’t connect with his films/TV shows because I’m not black (I’m Hispanic by the way), its just the lazy scripts. The poor jokes, dialogue and over the top acting don’t do it for me. But despite all that, he seems like a pretty down-to-earth guy who knows what he is doing.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
For anyone who cares and honestly wants to know, TP is a very famous writer of stage plays that began on the blk church circuit because they would have overridding religious themes and gospel musical interludes throughout. Hes been around for ages and finally hit it big by dressing like a fat blk woman. For some reason, white america doesnt notice a black artist unless they are dressed up like a fat black woman, then theyll green light whatever the hell you have behind it…..yea this is part of why black america hates white america.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I pretty much said all I needed about TP in my earlier posts (before that which could pretty much be called an attention seeking troll postwar), but there was one other thing.
I’m probably going to go see it. Twice.
Not because I really want to, or because I hope he does well (which I kinda do).
It’s because I randomly drag my girl or my Ma to any number of slasher/horror/comic book/college comedy flick throughout the years, with minimal complaints.
So when that one chick flick, woman power, religious movie comes along, I’m obligated to be there. God help me.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I pretty much agree with this write-up. Tyler Perry has to be one of the worst writers, period…at least one of the worst at his level of success. Like the article said, a divorce can only be taking place because the man is a cold-hearted woman-beater who probably eats raw squirrels for lunch every day. And whenever Perry does create some remotely HUMAN characters on screen, there goes the big truck of a woman, Madea, to throw the plot straight to hell. And the worst part? At the end of it all, he tries to plug in a contrived message.
The closest he’s ever come to a decent movie with a believable story is “Why Did I Get Married?”. But even then, they had to throw in the couple where there’s yet another evil man who probably stomps of the heads of live rabbits as a hobby, who treated his wife like crap because she was overweight. And it begs two questions; 1) Why did he agree to marry her in the first place if he clearly was disgusted by her?, and 2) Why did the other people in the group hang around him so much, or even let him go on the trip, when he’s such an asshole? But I digress.
Now, if there’s one thing I disagree with the columnist on, it’s that Perry’s movies are empowering to women…I call bullshit on that. First off, the female antagonist in the movies are ALWAYS 100% pure evil (and dark-skinned most of the time); and the explanation for it will likely be that she was raped at one point in her life. Then you have the career woman who can’t keep a man, because evidently women aren’t smart enough to balance the responsibilities of work and home (and apparently the men can’t either, but it’s somehow implied that it’s the woman’s job to balance both, not the man). And if the women aren’t drug-addicts, alcoholics, or rape-victims-turned-bitches, they’re weak and frail, and their ONLY possible source of happiness is a man, who she should be so grateful to have because she has nothing else worthwhile going on in her life. Tyler Perry is a big-time misogynist in my book.
But if I could give him credit for anything, it would be that he’s duped millions of naive Americans into thinking he’s actually a talented writer. Also, he has broken quite a few norms in Hollywood, which will hopefully, one day, make room for a black writer to break the Hollywood mold, but is actually a GOOD writer.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I pretty much resigned to the fact that his movies are for poor black people. I work at Circuit City (for a little while longer) and it’s always poor black uneducated people coming in asking where we keep our Tyler Perry movies. I don’t get it either.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I didn’t think anyone else was as bemused by the tyler perry franchise as me. Well said. I’m an ex-pat living in the UK and have lived a perry-free life for the past year, but with lime scale like “two and a half men” showing up on the networks in this country, I don’t think “house of pain” is far behind.
Having said that, I’ve got nothing against the man. You know, just in case he’s watching.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Here’s every Tyler Perry movie ever made:
Timid black woman is married to an abusive dick-hole
Madea makes her 5 minute appearance (despite all the trailers portraying her as the main character) and comically inspires the woman to stand up for herself
Timid black woman magically becomes a strong black woman and beats the ever loving shit out of her husband
END
February 20th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Actually, this is racist because Tyler Perry is black, and I should know, ive seen the Colour Purple four times.
Actually.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
@Adder
I’m with you on this: about race and gender, but you are missing one more. his movies are very UNhollywood. and that is refreshing.
as a fan, I acknowledge that his movies are not that amazing, but definitely worth our support. they just might get better with it. I cheer him on.
it is always good to see movies that don’t have all white people in them.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Ah, maybe that’s why I’ve never heard of him, I’m Canadian and don’t own a T.V (No, I don’t live in an igloo, I’m a student). Thanks for the insight Malky.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Joshua, it’s called “The Eye of the Beholder”. I always just called it the Pig-Face episode.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I have watched a few of his movies and shows, they were all pretty awful. The article points out a lot of things that I’ve been wondering, things like who he is, why he puts his name everywhere, and also why in the world the movies are doing good.
The entire plotline of most of the shows and movies are cut/paste stories that are slightly dirtier versions of poor writing like what you find on the Disney channel. In addition, though some people claim that he’s “sticking it to the man” by focusing on black characters he’s really not making a statement at all. Most of the characters are stereotypical and one-faceted; are there really people out there who think he’s handling the issue of race correctly? Or, that that’s even a remote excuse for incredibly poor and amateur writing and jokes?
I think his equivalent is Aaron Seltzer. The man continues to create awful movies yet people still watch them, and more criminally, pay for them.
February 20th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I’ve seen TP’s Why Did I Get Married in both movie and play versions and I’ve seen the play version of Madea Goes To Jail. Madea’s version of the Bible is hilarious.
I didn’t know who Tyler Perry was, either. I think someone with that name went to my high school, but he was white.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I’m with you DOB who the FUCK is this guy!! As a black person i absolutely HATE Tyler perry. Just because I’m black doesn’t mean i like anything and everything a black person does.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
You are not alone! Seriously who is this Tyler Perry guy? The first time I heard of him he was on Oprah and they were talking about him like he was friggin Martin Luther King Jr or something while showing clips of him dressed like an old woman and make awful stereotypical jokes. I don’t get it at all.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I agree so much with you, DOB.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
What was the name of that Twilight Zone episode that the picture on top is from? I’ve been trying to remember for the longest time.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I never cared much for Tyler Perry’s movies, they are pretty dumb. Whatever, good for him.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I don’t think we have Tyler Perry in the UK and, from what I’ve just read and the googling it inspired, I think that’s a good thing. I have spare rooms in my house if any of you chaps from the US want to escape the egomaniacal societal excrescence.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Okay so it’s not just me.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
It’s a race AND gender thing.
They’re made for black women, so they love them.
White women kind of like them because they “empower” their gender, though it ignores their race
Black men are split along the like hate line.
White men dispise them.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I all of a sudden am excited about the Oscars. I might actually watch them now. Also, Cracked is the greatest site in the world and DOB is a Demi-God only answerable to the one true lord himself. I don’t know why I’m saying all this but I’m absolutely sure it has nothing to do with the hypno-wheel on this page.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
…1/8 spider-men……..claimin’ they’re white
February 20th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I’ve been living under a rock. I do not know this Tyler Perry fella. I take it his movies are not worth my bandwidth to download?
February 20th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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February 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
liveblogging the oscars???
AHHHHHHH
my joy and immense excitement just came out my wiener.
February 20th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I think it all has something to do with his first story, Tyler Perry’s contract with Satan. Interestingly he got to keep his soul on the condition that he would only remain famous by appearing in drag and propagating black stereotypes every two years.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I’m completely with you! I was working when it came to DVD, the first one, at a certain big-box store. And, I looked at the cover and thought “ok….”
Then, all the sudden we’re sold out by mid-morning! I agree, it’s almost like giving yourself a nickname, and thinking by the sheer act of repetition you can convince everyone to call you it!
February 20th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I agree. his name came out of nowhere in mainstream media, but for the most part his movies are adaptations of his plays. For the sake of argument though, no one I know mentions his name when they say the title of the movie. (White people be sayin movie titles like this! But black people…) I don’t know whether or not he intended for white people to get into them, but they certainly have.
I think the reason for his popularity is that he filled a previously unfilled niche in Hollywood. Although his plots ARE completely predictable, he sold them on the fact that he was pretty much the only guy making movies about black people. BUT at the same time, he tied in (to me, groan-inducing) comic relief. Oh, and everyone in the movies is a GIGANTIC FUCKING STEREOTYPE. Who doesn’t love stereotypes? “I don’t”, you say?! “Oh no, you didn’t!”Replies the nononsense black lady, while doing that finger snapping, neck moving thing. The studio audience loved it. Meanwhile, Tyler Perry is off somewhere, not really sure himself about why he’s making so much money, but baking a cake with real hundred dollar bills in the batter! The delicious taste of preying on America’s insecurity with race. To quote some black guy we’re a “nation of cowards.”
February 20th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Tyler Perry presents a Tyler Perry production, Tyler Perry starring as Tyler Perry in Tyler Perry’s Tyler Perry: A Tyler Perry story
February 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I completely agree. I don’t understand where the Tyler Perry cult came from. I just got back to the States three months ago after two years teaching English in South Korea, and I found out that he has not one, but TWO TV shows on TBS! What the fuck is happening?
February 20th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
This article gave me that “Twilight Zone” feeling, as I’ve never heard of him. There is a lot of American crap that New Zealand never gets. Then again, all the American awesome we get takes 6 months to get here.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I was the same with Tyler Perry, DOB. But I was also the same way with Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers.
“Who, or what, the hell is Broken Lizard?”
February 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
These events do come along every once in a while. The last movement that left me in the ‘Twilight’ was/is Lil’ Wayne’s mind controll over black males. He’s not my favorite but the man’s a phenomenal rapper. Have you ever listened to his rhymes & metaphores? Wherever Wayne (save a few other big name rappers) may go, there too will a majority of these black males. Exemplum: the rock star fad, piercings, praising the use of drugs other than marijuana. All of these would have easily been labeled ‘gay’ or ‘not gangster’ a few years ago. The power of influence, I suppose?
Tyler Perry, on a much more encompassing level, appeals to a huge dynamic of African American culture. Though he focuses heavily on the exaggerated comedic elements, these elements are ingrained in such lives. He’s a genius and has achieved a high level of his community’s attention by sheer comedy and ‘classic’ characters. I’m not a big fan of his movies but I am of his plays. That is where his name was made. Self-righteous primadonna? Naw, he’s just exploiting a market that people know very little about the potential of.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I also question where he comes from. And though I’ve never seen any of his shows/movies except for about 10,000 ads on TBS, I can confidently state that he sucks dick.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Tyler perry is a 30 year old black man who makes movies only a 40 year old white woman with a dry sense of humor would enjoy.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
OMG….I COULD not agree with you more. I JUST don’t get the hype. I’m an african-american, single 20-something and part of TP’s target audience but I refuse to lose any more brain cells on Madea. After my first encounter with a Tyler Perry play, I just KNEW this guy was doomed to fail. BUT to my surprise his success has SKY-ROCKETED and I just don’t get it. Make room for me in the twilight zone.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
OMG Finally! I despise Tyler Perry, he’s such an attention whore with his “TYLER PERRY’S” shit. I don’t get it, they show is predictable and not funny, just annoying. Ugh! Glad you wrote this, but I’d appreciate it if we didn’t mix the awesomeness of Twilight Zone with the filth that is Tyler Perry
February 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Make a movie with “Dan O’Brian” on it man! Work your way to the top!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Extract of Cactus: And we over here in America would like to thank you for giving pretentious American douchebags and morons trying to sound classy the word “cheers.” Not as a drinking toast, but as a goodbye word that saves them from having to say “thanks” to anyone ever again.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
i’ve never heard of tyler perry (guess i’m lucky)
dispite this, i still laughed alot reading this
February 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
White people be commentin’ like this, but black people be commentin’ like this, am I right?
February 20th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
THANK YOU DOB! I asked myself the very same question yesterday and I still cannot understand why anyone would watch the new movie/TV shows.
BTW, House of Payne has a 1.1/10 rating on IMDB. That’s more like it!
February 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Some things about this article that cracked me up:
DOB’s use of itailics
DOB’s use of bold
DOB’s ever subtle use of the word wiener
DOB’s barbershop reference
February 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I was about to ask who Jeff Dunhum is, but then I decided to just click the link. Turns out we in the UK do know him. His “I kill you” catchphrase is now a popular text message ring tone among the dickwitts of our society, as no doubt it is over there. Thanks for that America, thanks.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
i’m with you on the Dunham thing… it’s like Dane Cooke. It’s just trivial, unfunny, Evening at the Improv whats-with-the-bag-of-peanuts-they-give-you-at-the-airport crap filtered through a poorly constructed puppet. And don’t even get me started on Dunham’s stuff…. ba-da-ching!
February 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Seriously? The puppet guy is America’s #1 comedian?
What the fuck?
What are we, France?
February 20th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I don’t get it either, DOB. How is his stuff any different than Big Momma’s House?
February 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
It is good to know I’m not the only person who wondered, “Who the fuck is that?” when they saw his name on a movie. I’ve never seen any of the movies, but if that crappy TBS show is any indicator, they suck hard. You know how commercials for a show usually throw in some of their better punchlines in order to draw you in? The closest thing to a laugh that has happened to me during any of those commercials is a fart, and I don’t think it was related.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
I think my exact words when Diary Of A Mad Black Women came out was, “Who the fuck is Tyler Perry?”.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Since Obama was mentioned, I’d just like to say how the black community (who, for the most part, didn’t give two shits about presidential elections) liken him to MLK Jr. What the fuck? Obama didn’t devote his life to ending segregation, or risk being jailed, beaten or killed for his beliefs. Obama just rode the Black Power wave, on a boat made of Americans’ misguided hatred of Bush and by extension their misguided hatred of the Republican Party into the White House.
Here’s another tidbit: Obama did change his name before attending college. His roommates were Middle-Eastern; they took him on a trip to the Middle-East, and when he came back he was suddenly referring to himself as Barack Obama again. Then this unknown comes practically from nowhere and becomes an Illinois senator, then before his first term is over he runs in and wins the Presidential election.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I have only seen previews of all of Tyler Perry’s movies because I don’t get what is so funny about being obnoxiously loud. You know the old stereotype that when there is a crowd of black people in the theater you may as well leave because they will never shut up, well these movies are made specifically for these crowds. All I see is blatant racism by saying these movies are only for black people. If Martin Scorcese came out and said the Good Fellas was only for white or Italian men he would be crucified. Why does a black guy get a pass?
February 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I watched “Diary” to see what the hubbub was about, and I wasn’t impressed. No storytelling, no suspense. From the adverts and the first few minutes, I knew the evil man wife beater would get rid of his wife, then she would run to her shemale relative and tell the story. Shemale would then get man and start a riot up in that piece, and the evil man would get his comeuppance. Along the way victim woman would meet a nice man, but not realize he’s a good man until after thoroughly paying the abuse forward to him. Also, I think his movies are racist. He makes a point of having no white cast members; well, except for “Preys” which featured a rich white woman who admits to sleeping around and a white male asshole who cheats on his wife and is morally bankrupt. Yeah, racist.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I think he actually has two shows on TBS now, House of Payne and Meet the Browns.vApologies if this has already been addressed.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I saw Dunhum’s special. I find him slightly funny. But not funny enough to warrant such extreme popularity of which I wasn’t aware of either. When I saw his special that one weekend afternoon when I had nothing else to do, it seemed like one of those things only I had stumbled onto that no one else knew existed. Now I’m kind of sad to learn that apparently everyone has seen it…though oddly enough no one I know. Still, I’d rather that he be the nation’s most popular comedian than Dane Cook.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
@Byron Yeah, but now he’s dead, and therefore a minuscule 10 inches (and that’s only if there was a serious error during the burial)
February 20th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I kind of like Jeff Dunham… When my mom and sister forced me to watch his first dvd with the puppets, I laughed a bit. As for the next show he had (on Comedy Central), wasn’t really all that. The novelty wore off I guess.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@DOB 2001?
We still love ya.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
On a note that’s slightly related to this article, I just experienced ANOTHER Twilight-Zoney feeling reading an article. According to this Jeff Dunhum, (the comic with all of those puppets), is the most popular comedian in America. His last Comedy Central special was the most watched broadcast in the network’s history. Ever. When did I completely lose touch with what America finds funny??!
February 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Gotta love the “Flight of the Navigator” shout-out….but DOB, Perry (at 6′6″) isn’t incredibly tall. Dude’s definitely tall or even very tall, but if you’re looking for incredibly tall then the recently deceased Michael Crichton was your man. Six-foot-freaking-ten. Height of many NBA centers. No joke.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Ron says “and treat Martin like a saint”
I am going to assume you are talking about the great civil rights leader Martin Lawrence and impose upon you his wisdom, “Can’t we all just get along?”
February 20th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Liked*
February 20th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I like Tyler Perry’s movies at first, but after awhile, you start to notice repetition. Like, after he got famous, he got lazy and figured because some people expect more movies, he doesn’t have to try as hard.
And Ron is a bigot.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Thank you, DOB! I was beginning to think that I was one of only a handful who had somehow escaped the rampant infection of TylerPerry-itis, which (similar to AccordingToJim-itis) attacks the central nervous system, permanently damaging the humor center of the brain, rendering the victim unable to discern between things which are humorous, and things which merely exist.
I watched Diary of a Mad Black Woman with my wife, seeing as I am a twenty-something suburban male who appreciates the fringe benefits of watching such films with my wife (read as: freaky-ass apology lovin’ for subjecting me to cinematic drivel that doesn’t at least contain excessive nudity and/or explosions).
The plot dragged slower and more predictably than a lethargic geriatric sloth on Xanax, the moments of ‘humor’ were almost painful to watch, and I spent a majority of the movie wondering why the hell a grown man would attempt to make his big break in Hollywood by writing, producing, directing, and liberally applying his name to a movie in which he is only featured as an old woman. Could he not find a funny old woman? Was the film really a coming of age story about a man finding the strength to dress in drag?
Then he made another movie. And another. And got a sitcom? What the hell? Is he like Ewe Boll; independently wealthy, financing his own movies because he enjoys exploiting a genre (that genre, of course, being shitty movies) despite the fact that no one seems to like them? I hope so, because I’d like to see him get in the ring and kick a critic’s ass. I do love a good media circus publicity stunt.
In all fairness, I thought I might have been missing something, so I tried to watch a couple of episodes of the television show. Nope, still not funny. Every line of dialogue, and I do mean every, seems to be followed by the ‘audience’ exploding with laughter, despite the fact that absolutely nothing funny was said. Here’s an excerpt from a script I’m writing for an upcoming episode; “Hi dad, how was work?” “Not bad, son.”
Then again, someone above commented that Oprah endorsed him once. That could definitely explain the success. I swear to God, that woman could hand out bags of excrement to her audience and toilets the world over would suddenly go unused while paper bag sales would skyrocket. Just look at Dr. Phil.
Oh, and ho-ly shit, this article induced some racist comments. Jesus, people, get a therapist. And while you’re at it, kindly remove yourselves from the gene pool; you’re turning the water green.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I must say i agree with DOB, who the fuck is tyler perry? i’ve seen about 5 minutes of the show and nearly shit my pants at the sheer brutal prison rape style of comedy, and as for the movies, that ship sailed with eddie murphy and the nutty professor and then again with martin lawrence with big mammas house. I think its time the ship goes the way of the titanic and rests at the bottom of the ocean. I havent seen the movies at all, not even the previews but if they’re anything like the show, then i must be in the twilight zone with DOB. btw 200 million for that show? seriously? what the fuck!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I work at a video store and the thing that gets me the most is the people who actually rent the tyler perry movies. Yeah, we do have the regular amount of black people who see it because its Tyler Perry, but what amazes me is that, at my store at least, the people who rent it the most is old, white, women.
It doesn’t make any sense to me, but Tyler Perry apparently really appeals to old, white, ladies. It can’t be the humor. It can’t be that they relate to Madea, or going to jail for that matter (lets face it, their white). Maybe its the getting beaten by their husbands? I just don’t know.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am
tyler perry’s plays were all verrry popular. you should do some research before you write.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am
And his name is Jeff DUNHAM you swine. I’ve always found him somewhat funny but…the most popular comedian in America? I don’t know about that. I wasn’t even aware Comedy Central still existed.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I’ll be completely honest: I never quite understood anyone who idolized or praised Daniel ‘O Brien for his articles. Not to say I didn’t like them, but I never quite found them to be spectacular enough for me to declare DOB a sex God [which I have seen numerous times in various forums/comment sections.]
Until now.
Sir O’Brien, reading this article caused my eyes to swell up with tears of joy as I began to masturbate furiously at work after finally finding I am not alone in my shock and confusion at Tyler Perry’s rise to stardom. You have successfully recruited another fanboy. I will be stalking all your internet activity from this point forward in hopes of stumbling upon your home address.
Congratulations.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Spider Jerusalem, good call. TP’s movies inspire intelligent discourse and debate about race issues on internet comment boards. I bet if he makes a movie each year, Tyler Perry can eradicate racism within the decade.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Ron, I axed you a question… Do you want won order of skrimp or too?
February 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Well, I think we can at least all agree that the movies suck the pole. So really… Tyler Perry has brought us all a little closer, hasn’t he? By making fucktarded movies? Thanks TP…
…Thanks.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I know spell check won’t catch everything, since “one” was spelled properly but misused, but the grammar check would have most likely caught it. It also might make you slow down and actually look at what you are typing. This is all assuming you are a smart person in a rush to comment. If you are in fact a raving moron, you may actually think “Obama one the election” is proper usage of the word one. If that is the case, there is nothing spelling/grammar checks can do for you and you should probably stay away from comment boards.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:27 am
The funniest thing is… and I really don’t want to get in the middle of this (but what the hell)… Is that Ron was criticizing peoples speech patterns in his earlier comments.
Really, if you think about it, when you speak on a message board you do it through writing. So if you’re misspelling something, like say “one” for “won”, that sort of thing, isn’t it really the equivalent of saying “axe” instead of “ask”, as he put it earlier? Not that there’s anything wrong with misspelling, I do it all the time (probably in this message even), I just think it’s pretty hypocritical to do it after complaining about someone else’s grammar…
February 20th, 2009 at 11:27 am
LOL@WhityMcWhite!!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I think by now, this would have been solved by a fistfight.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I think Tyler Perry’s movies suck. But even they don’t come close to the suckitude of Ron, who seems to think the cracked.com comments section is a good place to stand on a soapbox and make generalizations about an entire race. JUMP.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Gee Ron, why are you attacking me? I just made a general statement of something I enjoy. It’s not like I said “Ron’s making himself look a fucking idiot by trying to sound intelligent while using ‘one’ instead of ‘won’.” But since you brought it up, insomnia should have nothing to do with it. Are you on a computer? Do you have a word-processing program? Open it, type whatever comment you want, run the spell check, and then cut-and-paste into the comment box. It’s really quite simple, and you look like less of retard.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Ron, I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
BEING AN OPPRESSED MINORITY LIKE RON GIVES YOU INSOMNIA IT IS SO HARD LIVING IN THIS WORLD AS A WHITE MAN!!!!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
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Ron Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Some people never learn. and FYI Wiki is suck a bastion for factional information let me tell you *rolls eyes*
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Did this mothafucka just say “factional?”
ROFLZ!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Nails_Magnum you deal with 10 years of insomnia and being up for days at a time and see how you fucking type.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:12 am
I just love it when people act intelligent in an attempt to give whatever misguided point they are making more validity, only to fuck it up with a shitload of spelling and grammar errors. It makes me giggle.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Hate It Or Love It, The Underdogs On Top! wow you and those assumptions…
What did I tell you that made you?
Some people never learn. and FYI Wiki is suck a bastion for factional information let me tell you *rolls eyes*
February 20th, 2009 at 11:11 am
yo guys i just found this picture of ron….it’s in black and white dude….too late to turn back now
http://www.clemson.edu/newsroom/multimedia/images/2007_images/november/RonWhite_BW.jpg
February 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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Ron Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Hate It Or Love It, The Underdogs On Top! You can play it off all you want.. Talking about muffins and what not. But it’s too late to turn back now…
You have said it. It’s in black and white.
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Lol, I imagine Ron, sitting at his desk somewhere, perhaps at work or at school, furiously typing while hunched over his computer keyboard, his back arched, forehead veins throbbing in heated anticipation, his fingers striking the board as his inner voice screams, “boom headshot!! boom!!” all to a chorus of german military march music as he waits and waits and waits, frothing at the mouth, for me to respond with something racially provocative and incendiary only to get…
muffins.
lol.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:07 am
You know what it is, it’s because Clinton was white. If he was black he probably would have made a rap video with Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky in hot pants shakin they ass.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:06 am
EVERYTHING MLK JR SAID WAS BULLSHIT HE CHEATED ON HIS WIFE WOW I SURE AM GLAD YOU WERE HERE IN THE CRACKED BLOG COMMENTS SECTION RON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
February 20th, 2009 at 11:06 am
MikeWhat Well hell we impeached Clinton for a blow job…. and treat Martin like a saint…
Hmmmmmmm something is wrong here….. HMMMMMMMMMM
February 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
MikeWhat: Yes! Black History Month! During February! The shortest month of the year! We wouldn’t want to give it any more days then we possibly have to.
February 20th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Really??? HE CHEATED ON HIS WIFE???? Fuck it, repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You know what, just repeal all Civil Rights legislation that might have had anything at all to do with Martin Luther King Jr. We wouldn’t want any appearance of impropriety in government.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Hate It Or Love It, The Underdogs On Top! You can play it off all you want.. Talking about muffins and what not. But it’s too late to turn back now…
You have said it. It’s in black and white.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
HOLY SHIT!!!!!! I’m so relieved and glad that someone finally said “WTF is going on here!?” I don’t understand the whole Tyler Perry thing either….it’s ridiculous, absurd, unoriginal, and unfunny and I can’t understand why everyone in the whole world it seems is sucking this guys dick…..SERIOUSLY
February 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
You know what I want…a cranberry muffin.
I haven’t had a cranberry muffin in a long time. Blueberry’s fine and all, possibly my first love and favorite, but cranberry offers a special respite from the mundane cool sweetness of the former.
Cranberry has a dash of sweet layered over an underlining bite of tartness — kinda like Lennon/MCcartney.
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn’t matter much to me.”
oooh…strawberry muffins.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
February 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
MikeWhat and being February and in the spirit of Black History Month here is a Jewel for you.
Martin Luther King Jr. Committed Adultery… You won’t catch that on BET!
February 20th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Did you guys know there’s a whole MONTH devoted to black history?????
February 20th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Hahaha, Obrien started a racewar.
Can’t we all just agree that Tyler Perry is doing exactly what every other hack-flash-in-the-pan line of movies does? Capitalizes on a particular market until eventually even they get fed up with it?
Whatever the market is… in this case I’d say it’s single, middle aged african american women… You squeeze blood from the stone until people get sick of it (see: Police Academy, Friday the 13th, Saw…). In any case, I say good luck to him, because eventually everyone (including his targeted market) will be sick of him and he will just be another product of the decade that we look back on and laugh about.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hate It Or Love It, The Underdogs On Top! Oh and resorting to name calling puts you on such a higher IQ level then me? resorting to 3rd grade tactics?
Try again.
At least I can stay on my point post known but unliked facts and don’t make assumptions about people..
Because we all know what they say about people who make assumptions..
Also at the end of the little rant about chasing out all the bible thumping gun owning rednecks…
Who’s the black man that just proved my point on how you feel about white people in general? and how you want us gone….
Thanks again.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:48 am
This column sucked DOB. I hope you fall into an abandoned well full of dicks. So instead of being full of water, it would just be full of dicks.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:47 am
why doesn’t this site have delete options…
or is that a members only thing.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:44 am
please don’t insult me, but i liked “family that preys”! maybe because, like DOB said, it’s very obvious who’s good and who’s bad, and you know the bad person will get their comeuppance. THEIR COMEUPPANCE!!! is that how you spell it? anyway, i liked *that* movie. haven’t seen any of the others though.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:43 am
you people are fucked, i’m glad you’re not members.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I can’t believe I got involved with this.
I got mad and just started writing.
I feel like an asshole for arguing with an asshole who probably has the IQ of an asshole.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Oh yes MikeWhat. Lets not forget BET, The BLACK Miss America Pageant. The United Negro College fund and the score of OTHER black only things we have in America..
So they went from bitch about WHITE ONLY stuff and wanting in on the game only to turn around and have BLACK only things.
I mean we have a Miss America Pageant Black Women have one it. So why do they need one of their own?
I mean if someone came out and said we are gonna have a Whites only something or other.
Jesse Jackson and every other racial beater will be on our ass…. Oh but Jesse is so great he can get away with Knocking the jews because he’s black.
Oh and I don’t own a gun or thump a bible… so try again
February 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Oh shit I forgot about the horror of affirmative action, in which an unqualified black person gets a job/into college/whatever else that could have gone to a slightly less unqualified white person! Talk about your social injustice.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:34 am
This is borderline off-topic, but I just thought I should agree that The Wood is a great movie. At least the flashback parts anyway.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:32 am
It’s amazing it took this long for someone to bring up the Wayans brothers. There is a key difference, however. The Wayons brothers were well known before they started making nearly unwatchable dreck. Even then, they did so without calling their movies “The Wayans Brothers in: Black Guys dressed up as White Girls”.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Hey Ron, how ya doing? I had a few concerns about your response here.
“No offence but black people in General need no help doing that…
You been to a McDonald’s or any fast food place in the last 8 years or so? You almost have to speak Ebonics to order…
The Music everything they embrace the stereotypes then blast anyone for saying they do it.
To of the things that grade on me most when I talk to even an educated black person is the use of AXE.. for ASK.. and Skrimp for Shrimp.”
Wow, you have just stumbled over the English language concept of REGIONAL DIALECT. You must be a really smart white person to suddenly become aware of such an elementary school concept, and so late in life too.
But I feel your pain. I know whenever I am forced to wait behind the upteenth meth-addicted, bleach blonded, pimply backed welfare white mom of four in the grocery line as she tries to communicate as much as possible with her limited 121-word vocabulary, I think, “A nigger must’ve done this to her.”
Because that’s the only explanation. Because as we know, whatever’s white…is alright.
I often wonder why white people from Boston can’t pronounce simple words that end in ‘R’. Simple words like FAR, CAR, are all but butchered. I used to think it was their utter lack of an education system, or perhaps the large concentration of drunken, ignorant and lazy Irishmen, but then I remembered…Hey, they’re white…so it’s alright. Similarly Italians, with their locks of greasy, tick-ridden hair and an aura of crime mob-mentality cowardice that follows them like a rancid cloud of garlic breath, you would think they could pronounce simple words, but no. Alas, if they weren’t white, I’d fear for their ability to survive in this country. But again…they’re white, so despite being nothing more than gangster movie stereotypes from HBO to the Simpsons, they’re aaaaalll right.
“Then they themselves are the ones who keep propitiating the racial problems in America by not letting it go. From the use of the N-word to everything else. They always play the card they lord it over white people to get there way.
I’m sorry you were never a slave I never owned a slave I didn’t have anything to do with the crap in the 60’s so blow me. You got it pretty fucking good now and you get all sorts of breaks. So shut the fuck up.”
Aaaaahh…the logic of the privileged and silver spoon fed. I do so love white people. Nevermind that in 2002 the New York Times covered a study that proved racial disparities in the Housing market aimed at rich and well-to-do blacks and Hispanics; nevermind that CNN covered, also in 2002, that N.J. admitted to racial profiling; nevermind that schooling in urban areas has continued to be underfunded, you are right…blacks get a lot of breaks.
Why just this year I heard a black man was elected president.
Sure…he had to be half white, denounce his church, regularly hide his middle name, continually remind people he wasn’t muslim, regularly remind white people that muslims weren’t towel-headed sand devils, continuoulsy separate himself from rappers who weren’t connected to him and were only grouped with him in the first place because of melanin levels, all to appease an ignorant, insesstuous, welfare draining, tax payer begging, no teeth having, meth, crack, heroin addicted, southern battle flag raising, whining, incompetent, lazy, watered down domestic beer swilling, no-rhythm having, uncreative, theiving, all but totally useless swath of American society that was once the majority, but is quickly becoming the minority because apparently they can’t FUCK right either.
OH, how i LOVE white people.
And you don’t have to worry about us talking about Africa. I’ll give Obama 5 more months before he starts annoying each and every one of you non grateful, racist, unintelligent, rifle and bible clinging retards to the point that you re-migrate to wherever the hell your smelly asses came from.
Oh yes, and he will get Holden to make it all good an legal, “cowards!”
February 20th, 2009 at 10:29 am
marc I gave up TV a long time ago because it shows 2 things anymore. Shit and Reality Shit. I don’t even have cable or satellite.
So you wanna keep going on you think you know me? You really wanna talk turkey and stereotypes?
You think KFC stays in business because white people love fried chicken? Have you ever wondered why you have to go near or close to a Ghetto to find a Churches Fried Chicken? And if you are from the South my friend Explain The Dodge Store chain to me? You know they have cheap gas and all but you ever seen one in a white hood that doesn’t sell friend chicken? That is but one of the many Stereotypes black people embrace! Listen to there music for Christ sake. Go buy a rap CD today. One of the tracks on anyone you pick at random will be something about white people.
Go pick out a random black comic again hating on white people… I’m not making this shit up!
And if you want to talk slavery. The blacks need to go be pissed off at the Dutch! They invented the slave trade. We didn’t have the fucking ships or the resources to haul them from Africa.
Oh and after they get done with the Dutch they better start with their brothers in Africa. Because the Africans that are still there are the descendants of the tribes that defeated the descendants of the blacks here and sold them to the dutch in the first damn place!
Does everyone believe what they teach you in school really? Next someone will be telling me that Paul Ravier made the famous ride when it was a Jew named Bisil.
Tune out out people pick up a book do some research open those goddamn eye you have.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Wow, this comment section got tedious in a hurry.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am
You’re right on the money, Dan. Tyler Perry’s stuff is crap. It’s a Wayne’s rip-off. Soon it will be “Tyler Perry’s Scarey Movie 5: Madea Gets Angry”.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Ron i agree a little bit. except, what obama does isnt playing the race “card”. he is the first black president. armstrong didnt play the moon “card” by planting that flag. (lets not start THAT debate) But i agree, when TB’s H of P came out it was represented as something like, “From award winner” or, “From critically ACCLAIMED comedian Tyler Perry…” and i turned to my brother and went, “who the eff is tyler parry?” He had no answer for me either. But this is actually inspiring. As i have formulated a plan to be famous simply on the basis of how awesome i am.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:21 am
If you’re going to accuse others of playing the victim card, don’t play it yourself. No one is “programmed” or “on the bandwagon” against you, other than to the extent that most normal people find self-styled Internet iconoclasts who make themselves out to be tragic heroes in online arguments to be really damn annoying.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:19 am
True that there may be a glut of bad movies by black comedians, but no need for old Ron there to go all white sheets and hoods…
I’m from the South, and I think decent rednecks should be ashamed that a fraction of their numbers regularly break into “black people are racist for being black” tirades. But I’m not one to lump them all in as single cross-burning sterotype.
Perhaps Ron should lay off the O’Reilly Factor for a few days to cool down…
Also the meth.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Is Madea the new Ernest? She’s going to jail this time, but she’ll save Christmas in the next movie.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Frankly, DOB, you’re not the only one who doesn’t understand what the hell is going on.
I worked for a while at a Blockbuster rental store, and it honestly seemed like every week we’d get another Tyler Perry film, or play recorded on video to rent.
I just stared at the boxes, and I still just don’t get it at all. What’s the appeal? The man is just basically catering to stereotypes that have plagued black people for the longest time, and the people watching it eat it up as if it was the best steak they’d ever tasted.
Why? What’s the friggin’ mystery?
Can someone please enlighten us?
February 20th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Ron, did you just play the “look at me I’m a non-conformist” card?
Just because a view is commonly held doesn’t make it wrong. Just because a view is common doesn’t mean that every person who holds it has been brainwashed.
I’ve gotta tell you, Ron, your combining emo mentality with racist tendency, and that’s really just a combination of things that deserve to get effed up.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I agree with the guy who though this is an article about Katy Perry (though I didn’t). We could soothe pain from the TP guy with some pctures of Katy (or Katie, too lazy to google) Perry. or Kittens. Damn, anything!
February 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
MikeWhat Oh save it. Blacks throw racial slurs openly in public cause they can get away with it!
They can call us crackers and honkys and no one says a word about it.
You applied for a job a black person applies for? The company will take him even if he is not skilled for the job to make the numbers look right.
Dont even get me started.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Poor Ron… FYI: I’ve never heard Obama drop the race card. I think that has a large part to play in your own imaginary world, as you did vote for him, but so have an issue with his “kind” and what they do. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. If you had actually paid attention to what anyone has said about you here, you would not see a witch burn, but an eye opener. Which leads me to think that if you can see past the sense in this discussion and go straight to anger, you might not be able to understand this comment. So let me spell it out for you - G.E.T O.V.E.R I.T.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Oh and I just wanted to say to everyone one more time ,and i speak for everyone from new orleans with tast and common sense, sorry for giving you tyler perry we never knew he was gonna grow up to make shitty movies……..sorry
February 20th, 2009 at 10:09 am
It’s tough being a white male in the US. Underrepresented in government, religiously discriminated against, and horribly overrepresented in the prison population. And don’t even talk to me about the low-level discrimination white males endure on a daily basis. It’s enough to break your heart.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:09 am
You’re not alone DOB. I felt the same way. When ‘Diary’ came out I was like “who is Tyler Perry and why should I care?”. Year-after-year of massive Tyler Perry blockbusters, I’m still asking that same question.
But ultimately, I started to understand why his film’s have a loyal following. Before Tyler Perry any “black” movie was either an atrocious comedy about a ghetto-fabulous stereotype dropped into the middle of a rich white person’s world and shaking things up with their ghetto-ness (Halle Berry, I’m looking at you) or some rapper vanity project in which they play gun-toting thugs who go to strip clubs. He came along and did regular movies in which the cast members just happen to be black. And by “regular movies” I mean the same kind of crap we get from white comedians that seem to make billions of dollars at the box office despite their trite awfulness (I’m looking at you Sandler and Ferrell).
Still, Perry’s a douche nonetheless.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:08 am
If america is programed then i think the program is broke as fuck
February 20th, 2009 at 10:06 am
beebs yes because I have a opinion that doesn’t follow along with the rest of programed America.
The sad fact is most of the people who are blasting me are the first ones when no one is looking when they are in their homes at night.
They even look around then before drop the N-Bomb or telling a racial joke.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Ron, you’re coming across as a bit of an ass. I just thought I’d let you know.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:01 am
There is only one race and it is the human race and we are all apart of it. but…….the simple fact is that the human race is doomed cause we cannot see past the most dumbass things like colour of skin or religion. Humanity is complealty fucked I hope you all know that
February 20th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Yeah jump on the band wagon people. Even our new President (who I voted for by the way) has played the race card. Hell the asshole he had speak at the swearing in had a little raciest rhyme for America.
Yes but because I speak out and I’m white I’m the redneck asshole!
It’s great being a White Male American over the age of 30! You’re everyones Asshole!
Everything is some how your fault!
Fuck off
February 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Beat me to it, Bacalao…
February 20th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Ron, do kiss off. I could just assume you are a redneck with a knack for words, because of basic stereotyping going on here, but that’d just have to be me assuming all white people are blinder-wearing-finger-pointers. Luckily, I don’t have the same mind frame as yourself. If you just have to believe that a few people represent an entire race, you, dear sir, are an angry curmudgeon. Get over it.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:52 am
@Ron, I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve had the same experience with black people that you’ve had. Yes there are black people like you say, but come on, based on your argument, I can should say that “white people, in general, are a bunch of redneck, bull-testicle eating, wife-beating, trailer-living, mullet-having, uneducated assholes”. Just because those are the loudest, doesn’t mean they represent the majority. You can be an asshole of any color.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
@ Ron, yo your supposed to stop before you rant, you stopped when you finished : )
I think you need to keep in mind that while a sizeable amount of black people do follow a stereotype, and other will call racism if you mention it, not all black people are like that. They may be in your experience, but when you wite like you have, you class all black people the same, while in fact they have differing views.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:51 am
you know how he got popular….I will tell you, its cause he is from new orleans. after katrina alot of pople from here spread all across the country basicly infecting the rest of the nation and take people to see those god awfull movies. yes people i am saying my town new orleans is helping ruin society. and as a representative of my people”the people of new orleans that actualy have tast and some sort of common sense” sorry for producing some one that makes crap movies……our bad…….oh and i am pretty sure tyler perry is gay….not that there is anything wrong with that but yeah he is gay. you know what we need more bruce campbell movies to battle these god forsaken films tyler perry keeps making
February 20th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Tyler Perry is the Kanye West of comedians.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Who the fuck is Tyler Perry, must be an American thing, because I have never heard or seen him. P.S. In bruge is an awesome movie.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:41 am
“He perpetuates every negative stereotype” No offence but black people in General need no help doing that…
You been to a McDonald’s or any fast food place in the last 8 years or so? You almost have to speak Ebonics to order…
The Music everything they embrace the stereotypes then blast anyone for saying they do it.
To of the things that grade on me most when I talk to even an educated black person is the use of AXE.. for ASK.. and Skrimp for Shrimp.
Then they themselves are the ones who keep propitiating the racial problems in America by not letting it go. From the use of the N-word to everything else. They always play the card they lord it over white people to get there way.
I’m sorry you were never a slave I never owned a slave I didn’t have anything to do with the crap in the 60’s so blow me. You got it pretty fucking good now and you get all sorts of breaks. So shut the fuck up.
Also I love when they talk about Africa. Not one single Black American would go back to live in Africa. It hasn’t changed at all since they left! That should tell everyone something.. Grrr I’m about to rant I better stop
February 20th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Man, DOB, I really have to agree with you on this one…
Not the name thing (which is bad), but on the mind numbing simplicity of the plots. After the first five minutes, you know who’s bad, who’s evil, who’s good, and who’s Tyler Perry (40% of the cast)…
But here’s the thing. The guy has cultivated his image in a demographic that has incredible potential. Two of them, you can say. Women, and older Black Women (not exactly one in the same).
Women watch them, mainly for the whole evil man/ You go, Grrl! dynamic. When the (unbelievably) abused woman gets her life back together, the man of her dreams, and her evil old boyfriend/lover/husband rots in a self made hell, you just know it’s going to be a hit with lonely, dumped women.
A harlequinn novel, translated for the screen.
Older Black Women have the same reasons as above, but also because he’s playing to their values. Family, Church, Hardtimes, and Older Grandmas that help you get your head straight when needed (with zany off the wall-edness).
While I myself wouldn’t call his plays/movies/etc particularly deep, I have to admit that some of his non-Madea movies were pretty effective against me. They are specifically designed to emotionally molest you, and make you laugh about it, afterwards.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I’ve not watched any of his movies, mostly because the first one, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”, didn’t sound to me like a fun, entertaining movie.
But I’ve seen tons and tons of adverts for the House of Payne show, and all of them feature the shrill-voiced man-in-drag-as-an-old-woman and the abrasive, abusive old guy. All I can think to myself is “how the fuck are black people not offended by these portrayals?!?” The rest of the characters in the show could be lucrative, well-educated people to put the Huxtable family to shame, but you’d never goddamn know from the stupid commercials. It looks like another “All In the Family” setup. I’m sorry, but I find nothing funny about abusive people telling off the son-in-law they don’t approve of.
Ugh, thanks for putting this out DOB. I was afraid I was the only one that was not finding this man brilliant. Oh, and then curse you for putting in that spiral. I couldn’t read the freaking paragraphs around it ’cause it kept sucking my eyes in.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Tyler Perry is an embarrassment to Americans and especially African-Americans. He perpetuates every negative stereotype.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:32 am
He’s your typical no name black comic who think’s he’s the shit who deluded himself into thinking everyone knew who he was cuz he was and then 3 people said he was funny (probably all family members). Mommy praised him so all of a sudden he’s world famous.
Nothing he’s ever done has been slightly amusing or entertaining.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Well hmmmm I will probably get flamed to hell and back but fuck it.
Tyler there skipped a step.. It seem most black comics at some point do drag in a movie. Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and so and so on.
When there careers started to go south after all the you know White people dance like this and sound like this was old and some newer Fresher comic.. I.E. Chris Rock was doing the white people dance like this and sound like this and they own everything including his black ass…
Eddie sold his soul to Disney and he showed up in drag. Lawrence not the same but did drag to pay the bills. Hell sketch comedy you will find black men dressing like there grannies I think it’s some emotional scars or something cause they always talk about how granny beat them. So I suppose Chris Rock will be next to dawn a wig… Which I think he might have already I don’t wanna check IMDB to see what movie it was.
Hell look at White Chics… Black Men love to dress as women!
So knowing that black people will watch anything…..Soul Plane anyone? Deaf Comedy Jam? You remember that show on HBO right? The one where the comic was a different black dude telling the same joke for so many seasons…
Good old Mr. Perry said I’ll skip the middle man raid my grandmas closet and make mes a movie!
Pretty much how it goes.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:22 am
DOB, one of the writers at an alt weekly I used to intern for in Atlanta (Soon to be known as ‘Tyler Perry’s Atlanta’) tried to get to the bottom of this phenomenon a couple of movies ago.
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/andisheh_nouraee_s_diary_of_a_confused_beige_man/Content?oid=432368
It seems the target audience has a little something to do with it after all.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Well, he was actually really successful with his plays (I know a lot of people who had the DVDs of his plays before “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” came out). I think that’s what got him all the recognition. Not to mention that he appeared on Oprah to promote the movies. THAT’s probably what shot it into the “hit” category” rather than “moderate success” category. Though I personally enjoyed “Diary” (haven’t seen his other movies yet), I guess I can see your point. Frankly most people I know like the character Madea more than the rest of the movies. Most of us would be satisfied if he made a movie with no plot not involving Madea. Also DOB, I love you for mentioning Martin McDonagh! I LOVE his play The Pillowman (probably the best play I’ve ever read, bar none).
February 20th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I glad someone wrote this article, because I’ve been wondering about tyler perry for a while. Important questions like “who the fuck is this guy?” and “where did come from?” And after reading this article… I still have no clue.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Apparently, his real name is Emmitte R. Perry, Jr.. I’ve never seen his movies. I have seen Flight of the Navigator, and yes, it does accurately reflect my coming of age, even including th Pee-Wee Herman-voiced alien robo-space ship that I stole from NASA.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:52 am
His movies are all rated under 5 on Imdb, yet he has a dozen “himself appearances” on talk shows. I don’t his success is really about the quality of his movies. It’s more the fact there’s been eight of them since 2002 and by adding his name to them he’s earned loyalty from his (cult?) fans.
Or he’s so bad no one with an internet connection will pirate him and his fan base is actually willing to… Pay for movies.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Oh damn commenters, my comment was to be just above Lucifer McJesus’ when I posted it
February 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I count 34 Tyler Perry’s
February 20th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I think the Madea movies are not good, but the other ones REALLY are. Watch The Family That Preys and tell me its not a good movie.
But guess what he is making movies with good black actors that are sometimes understimated or havent really made any impact in Hollywood and so the african american community is backing him up. Even thou he mostly uses black actors an is centered around them he appeals to a demographic that people thought didnt need to be addressed specifically because they would just watch whatever the “white folks” were watching, and that is not the case. Black people identify with his movies because not every black guy is either gangsta or lives in denial and pretends to be white.
Also, Hes really smart, he premiers his movies at times were there really are no other blockbusters on the horizon and after everyone already saw the oscar nominated movies. Do you seriously think “Madea #3″ would make money or anyone would watch it if it had come out the following week of The Dark Knight or Benjamin Button? No, so thats one of the reasons his movies are persived as good, because there is nothing better around.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:36 am
“i bet i can find a million people who can’t stand tyler perry” needs to be a facebook group
February 20th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I agree.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Australian and never heard of him. But now that you’re broken the ice, I expect a flood of Tyler Perry.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I don’t understand the fascination with his movies either, they’re very uncreative.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am
I was always annoyed with the fact that Tyler Perry put his name on all his work. When I first saw it I was like, “Is this a joke? Seriously? No one even knows who the frick this dbag is.” It just seemed haughty to me. I refused to see any of his movies and I don’t watch his shows.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
I have also never heard of this guy, so perhaps he hasn’t infiltrated the UK. I have no doubt he will though, we eventually get all your crap. Therefore I feel your pain, or rather I will when I actually have to.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Got to praise DOB for the ‘Flight of the Navigator’ call. Awesome awesome film.
Also, Tyler Perry is a sack.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Movies with the same predictable plot and the same characters in them over and over? It worked for Will Ferrell. At least Perry admits it and has them using the same names in the movies.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,Tyler Perry is NOT funny.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:25 am
This is probably the most important work of journalism that has been published since Watergate.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Maybe I’m just an outlier. But I came in here thinking of that girl that sang ‘I Kissed A Girl’.
Instead, I have someone else to add to the hit list. Right under ‘Katy Perry’.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Cratey thats’ because your black people weren’t imported. The white people were.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I’ve been saying the same thing for years. I’ve watched no fewer than two of this guy’s movies with my wife (who fucking LOVES them for some reason — although she also liked Panic Room, so that should give you a good indication of what I’m dealing with) and could actually feel my brain cells committing seppuku. I look at his movies like an even less humorous version of half the crap Eddie Murphy has put out.
February 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
thank god martin lawrence didnt put his name bfore any of his films
February 20th, 2009 at 7:08 am
You know what’s even worse?
I’ve never even heard of Tyler Perry.
Never. Ever.
Until now, that is. DOB, you should probably move to Australia, as far as I know we have no Tyler Perry here.
February 20th, 2009 at 6:59 am
The words “Tyler Perry” are used 625 times in this article. Don’t try to fight him, your mind has already surrendered.