Black and LaBute's Death

Lewis Black is one of the funnier Daily Show contributors so I was looking forward to his latest live dvd, Stark Raving Black, and it didn't disappoint he's still a righteously angry political commentator and fantastic at cutting through the insane levels of bullshit in American society. My only criticism could be that halfway through he drifts away from his political stuff & the performance softens a bit and the laughs less frequent but it's only for 20 mins or so out of 80 mins of shouty fun

After seeing Rock & Jordan bigging up their version of the 2007 farce Death at a Funeral on TV last week I thought I'd give the remake a go. I have watched the original and thought it was funny but slow to start and over-reliant on cheap gags. The remake, as far as I can remember, sticks almost exactly to the original plot and suffers from most of the same faults with the addition of some terrible performances from Martin Lawrence, whose always rubbish anyways and a tired occasionally incomprehensible one from Tracy Jordan. LaBute should hang his head in shame - if you're remaking a movie within 3 years of the original surely you have some ideas on how to improve it & if not why bother ? Mind you maybe he's got previous...