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Posted: 7/31/12 at 11:08pm
"I wanted to call it 'Boxing, Bitches and Lawsuits,' but was advised not to." And thus began the extremely entertaining and extremely crazy "Undisputed Truth."
The show was divided in three parts. The first two were hysterically funny and the audience was completely along for the ride. The third section needs some trimming (or Tyson perhaps needs to stick closer to the script here). He doesn't shy away from the low points of his life; he actually avoids his successes more than his failures.
The two funniest sections are when he TRASHES Robin and then relates a 20 minute story about getting a fight with Mitch Green in Harlem. A projection of him and Robin appears and the audience started laughing and clapping. So did he and he responded, "You're looking at the dumbest n***a in the history of dumb n***as!" I won't spoil all the stuff he dishes about her, but it's fun and juicy.
I was impressed with how much he threw himself into acting out the other people in his life. He wasn't just standing up there giving a report on his career. His wife wrote the book, and it's pretty damn good. At least it captures his personality well.
You really have to pay close attention to him though. Now and then he gets excited and trips over his words, and sometimes the stories are so crazy you honestly have no idea where's he's going with them. There were definitely some shades of "The Blonde in the Thunderbird," and occasionally he reminded me of Liza going off on a tangent, but he always held my attention.
Two criticisms: They need to cut the few times they underscore a story with some music. It overpowers him and distracted me a lot. It only happened briefly a few times, but was worth noting.
The other thing that didn't go over well was the stuff about his rape conviction. I'm glad he didn't not talk about it, but I think it was the only time the audience was uncomfortable. I think it's fine that he maintains his innocence, but he doesn't need to lay out his whole defense.
It ended on a touching note, and he pulled that off nicely. I really wish I could go see it again. Maybe HBO will pick it up for a special. Spike Lee deserves credit too for his direction. Good stuff tonight.
The show was divided in three parts. The first two were hysterically funny and the audience was completely along for the ride. The third section needs some trimming (or Tyson perhaps needs to stick closer to the script here). He doesn't shy away from the low points of his life; he actually avoids his successes more than his failures.
The two funniest sections are when he TRASHES Robin and then relates a 20 minute story about getting a fight with Mitch Green in Harlem. A projection of him and Robin appears and the audience started laughing and clapping. So did he and he responded, "You're looking at the dumbest n***a in the history of dumb n***as!" I won't spoil all the stuff he dishes about her, but it's fun and juicy.
I was impressed with how much he threw himself into acting out the other people in his life. He wasn't just standing up there giving a report on his career. His wife wrote the book, and it's pretty damn good. At least it captures his personality well.
You really have to pay close attention to him though. Now and then he gets excited and trips over his words, and sometimes the stories are so crazy you honestly have no idea where's he's going with them. There were definitely some shades of "The Blonde in the Thunderbird," and occasionally he reminded me of Liza going off on a tangent, but he always held my attention.
Two criticisms: They need to cut the few times they underscore a story with some music. It overpowers him and distracted me a lot. It only happened briefly a few times, but was worth noting.
The other thing that didn't go over well was the stuff about his rape conviction. I'm glad he didn't not talk about it, but I think it was the only time the audience was uncomfortable. I think it's fine that he maintains his innocence, but he doesn't need to lay out his whole defense.
It ended on a touching note, and he pulled that off nicely. I really wish I could go see it again. Maybe HBO will pick it up for a special. Spike Lee deserves credit too for his direction. Good stuff tonight.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
