Paging Another Brother, Sinbad and Mark Curry were underrated comics in the 90s

They're both best-case scenarios for working comics: with multi-year sitcoms, which is a full on miracle regardless of ratings or network, and continuous, nationwide headlining work for multiple decades. I saw Curry at Funny Bone in Omaha around '05 and it's always impressive to see bona fide pros at this workshop and deliver a solid routine for an hour or so. But there's very little in those clips that would seem original or compelling today. I think you can say that the era and brand of comedy itself was underrated for its novelty in the early '90s, and Sinbad and Curry demonstrated their competence in and outside of those specific settings, but there's no real greatness in either case.

 

personally I don't think AB was underrated

 

The Cherokee Kid is the best movie ever.

 

Not a brother but I agree.

 

When I was 22 a couple of buddies and got tickets to see what we thought was the Ohio Players and Sinbad at a state fair in Michigan. It was one day after the Rockets drafted Yao, I had been up all night writing after that, and I needed a break from the season. We loaded the car with beer and drove up to Chicago, had a little too much fun the night before the show and were late to the fair as we worked off our hangovers the next day.

We thought it was Sinbad opening up for the Ohio Players, because Sinbad sucks and the Ohio Players are awesome. Instead, it was the other way around. We missed the Ohio Players, whom we drove for hours to see, only to have to take Sinbad playing to a mostly white audience of old people in lawn chairs. We were PISSED.

Sinbad didn't suck, though. He was flipping fantastic. Hilarious. And we were all into alt-comedy and the like at the time, only making a concession for Brian Regan (whom we listened to on the drive up), and Sinbad was far from cool in our eyes. But his set was absolutely killer.

A buddy of mine that is an awesome stand up comic, Geoff Tate, is hardly a Sinbad-styled clean comic, but he made a long pilgrimage last year to drive through awful winter weather up here to see Sinbad at a giant theatre in Michigan, and he reported that he killed.

Hilarious and underrated.

 

I saw Sinbad at SXSW watching a LOLAWOLF show this past March. There were maybe 100 people at the show. No one bothered to take a photo with him or talk to him either. Actually I don't think most of the younger people even knew who he was. I gave him dap as I was leaving. In fairness, Adrian Grenier from Entourage was at the same show and he was left alone as well.

 

I've seen Owen Wilson and Harrelson together at a dive bar in Austin on a reguler weekend and nobody cared either. As long as there aren't college kids around nobody cares.

 

Does another brother still have a pager?

 

Those guys are really funny. Also Mitch Hedberg.

 

My best friend growing up looked exactly like hangin with mr. Cooper