Review: Amazon's new doc is an inspirational oral history of LA's Black comedy scene

"Phat Tuesdays," a three-part docuseries that premiered Friday on Amazon Prime, tells the story of the weekly show that brought Black comedy and Black audiences to Hollywood — West Hollywood, technically — and the Comedy Store, from 1995 to 2005, as well as what came before and what's come after. Directed by Reginald Hudlin ("Boomerang," "Safety," "Marshall," lots of television), it's an oral history with pictures, interspersed with clips of comics in their youth, that details what Dave Chappelle calls "an under-recognized cultural moment."

Moved along by a cast of famous and less famous faces from older and less old generations, including Tiffany Haddish, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina King, Luenell, J.B. Smoove, Jay Pharoah, Nick Cannon, Steve Harvey, Chris Tucker, Snoop Dogg, Lil Rel Howery, Bill Bellamy