The comic stylings of actor/stand-up Eddie Griffin are recorded for bigscreen posterity in "Eddie Griffin: Dysfunktional Family," a crude and crudely made hybrid that combines performance footage of ...

Some search for battle, others are born into it ...

Not quite a King Of Comedy, not quite an established box-office draw, and not quite a household name, Eddie Griffin could easily start using Avis Rent A Car's old slogan: "We're #2, So We Try Harder." ...

IT NEEDED to be said: Michael Jackson's face is so messed up, he now looks like the female monkey from 2001's "Planet of the Apes." Thank you, Eddie Griffin. That insight -- and many others far more ...

First there was Richard Pryor, then there was Eddie Murphy, now there is Eddie Griffin. This movei is a must see, you will laugh so hard that you will have to leave the room for relief ...

In DysFunKtional Family, Eddie Griffin is as rude, crude and offensive as he wants to be. The comedian last seen in Undercover Brother wants to shock us with his Richard Pryor outrageousness. He uses ...

The comedy concert film is a strange film genre. Even the best of them (like the seminal Richard Pryor Live in Concert) don't come close to capturing the dynamic energy of a live performance, and get ...

As a fan of Richard Pryor’s stand-up films, I’ve always come to comedy performance movies with high hopes. They weren’t exactly dashed by this 80-minute feature in which Eddie Griffin (Undercover ...

DysFunKtional Family Eddie Griffin is the comedy equivalent of a funk-soul brother who can do variations on the same stomping, aggressive blues riff for 20 minutes. When he gets hold of a joke in ...

Eddie Griffin uses the N-word 382 times in his new concert film, "DysFunKtional Family." I know this because David Plummer of the Ebert & Roeper staff counted them. It isn't uncommon for speakers to ...