Tyler Perry is a funny brother! No, I don't think Madea is demeaning -- I think he does comical caricatures. What I know is that I saw a clip from the new Madea movie and just a 30-45 second clip had me laughing HYSTERICALLY, with tears rolling down my cheeks.
Some people say the Madea and Mr. Brown and all those characters are caricatures of people in the South. I think they're archetypes of classic Southerner black folk -- people whose thinking and understanding was perhaps not mainstream, but worked in the worlds in which they lived. Are you going to tell me that the understandings, actions, and rituals of the Madeas of the world are any more or less strange than the understandings and rituals of, say, Orthodox Jews in the 20th century North or South America who still dress in 18th century eastern european garb? At least Tyler's people play on their strangeness and make you laugh. I LOVE em. One of my best friends DOES NOT love em.
On the Tonight show, Tyler said he was doing something called "pray fit." Jay glossed right over it, but it says it's a 28 day guide to a healthier body and a stronger faith in 28 days. Let's see if I go any further with that than I did with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Francis of Loyola.
It's after midnight and I have a long day tomorrow (surprise, surprise). Good night!
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