Five superstar comedians are performing together in Boston this weekend
George Lopez is one of five big names on the Comedy Get Down tour.
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George Lopez knows how to put himself front and center. His breakthrough performance came on the ABC sitcom George Lopez. He followed that up with the TBS talk show Lopez Tonight, then the short-lived FX sitcom Saint George. The season one finale of his new TV Land sitcom Lopez airs Wednesday night. But Lopez’s name will be sharing the top billing on Friday at the TD Garden with four other popular funnymen.
Comedians D.L. Hughley (The Hughleys), Eddie Griffin (Malcolm & Eddie), Cedric the Entertainer (The Steve Harvey Show), and Charlie Murphy (Chappelle’s Show) are touring with Lopez for the Comedy Get Down tour, a grouping that first came together in 2014 to help raise money for a statue of comedian Richard Pryor in his hometown of Peoira, Illinois.
Lopez told The Boston Globe he can’t think of five comedians on a single tour with a greater difference in styles and points of view.
“Charlie is really methodical,” he said. “He was a military guy, so he has military things in there. He has teenage children, that’s in there. Eddie would be like the crazy uncle who never sits down and can’t sit still and who’s hilarious. The most out there of all of us. And D.L. is pretty much a straight technician, just joke, joke, joke. And then he’s got his style and mannerisms. And then Cedric sings and dances and skits. It’s great to watch. Cedric closes because he’s the full entertainer. And then we all go back up there together at the end.”
George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, and Charlie Murphy at the TD Garden, Friday, June 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $45.25-$85.25, available at Ticketmaster.com.
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