STAND-UP TUESDAYS: Nick Cannon

Stand-Up Tuesdays is a weekly comedy spotlight written by the wonderfully talented Angie Frissore. Covering both known and unknown comics, Stand-up Tuesdays is your new source for all things funny.

This week, Angie puts a spotlight on Nick Cannon’s comedy career. If you or your comedy troupe would like to be featured on Stand-Up Tuesdays, please email utgjames@gmail.com.

Comedian, actor and musician Nick Cannon returns to the stage in the follow up to his massively successful debut comedy special, cleverly titled, F#ck Nick Cannon. Released last week by New Wave Dynamics, the special offers Cannon at his charismatic best and then some, at a run time of an hour and thirty-five minutes.

Cited by People Magazine as one of the ‘Top Ten most successful young people in Hollywood’ and featured on the covers of magazine’s such as Complex and Black Enterprises’ 40 Under 40, Nick Cannon is an actor, comedian, TV and radio host, musician, writer, director, executive producer and philanthropist. Noted by the NY Times as “one of the most recognizable personalities in teen media,” Cannon runs NCredible Entertainment, serves as the CEO of teen magazine Celebrity High as well as Chairman of TeenNick, Nickelodeon’s television network aimed at the teen audience.

Cannon is an instantly likable guy as his excitement radiates from the moment he takes the stage, at times affording him the leeway to spend perhaps a little too much time talking about his famous wife. His material, while consistently personal, is clever, but not necessarily anything altogether unique as he rants about rectal exams, raising children, and other common subjects. It’s Cannon’s on stage energy that makes up for any weaknesses in his material – his passionate delivery definitely serves to strengthen his set.

“They don’t even train the doctors properly on how to do it,” Cannon quips about rectal exams. “They just bend you over…You ain’t gonna buy me a drink or nothing, huh?”

Despite his high energy level, though, the run time of F#ck Nick Cannon is a bit on the overkill side at close to an hour and a half, leaving my attention span virtually nonexistent by the special’s end. Perhaps in his next special, he will eliminate the dozen or so times he mentions Mariah Carey and tighten things up a bit.

Grade: B-

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