The Original Kings of Comedy
“We Got Jokes.”
The house is rockin' and the laughs are rollin' as comedians Steve Harvey (The Steve Harvey Show), D.L. Hughley (The Hughleys), Cedric The Entertainer (The Steve Harvey Show) and Bernie Mac (Life) meet in this riotously comedy summit directed by Spike Lee.
Genres
Comedy, Documentary
Studio
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Original Kings of Comedy performed
Budget
$13.0M
Worldwide Gross
$38.3M
Gross Profit
$25.3M
Return
2.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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