2 Minutes of Fame

2020 Directed by Leslie Small

An up-and-coming stand-up comic moves to L.A. to pursue a film career after video clips of his act make him an online sensation.

Jay Pharoah Keke Palmer Katt Williams Deon Cole Andy Allo Valery M. Ortiz RonReaco Lee Madeleine Byrne Kimrie Lewis Jim Wise Cooper Thornton Kayla Eva Nena Za Reatha Grey

Alternative Titles

#2MinutesofFame, Two Minutes of Fame

comedy

97 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by danielle ⚡ ★½

keke palmer deserves better than the uptight girlfriend role!!! the stand-up bits were p good tho
Review by Webz ★½

Yikes
Review by Justin Davis ★★★½ 1

It's got the stench of a BET Blackbuster movie—and serves as an analog to the Katt Williams/Kevin Hart beef (with Katt as the Kevin Hart sell out) AND the rise of Youtube /GenZ comedians—but 2 MINUTES OF FAME has a really novel story that doesn't focus on cross dressing comedy or Tiny Lister appearing for no reason. It's the Black version of FUNNY PEOPLE, and Katt's revelation is a lot more solid than Sandler's. Wow did I just make that comparison?
Review by Luke Thorne ★★

Leslie Small’s comedy in which a comic dreams of reaching stand-up stardom in Los Angeles… but his girlfriend would rather he become a stand-up father at home.
The story concerns a stand-up comedian who has ambitions to hit the big time in Los Angeles after he becomes a star on social media.
Jay Pharoah gives an okay performance in his part as Deandre, the upcoming comedian whose attempts to get his big break are going to be harder than he thought.
Elsewhere, Katt Williams and Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) don’t offer much in their respective parts as Marques and Sky. Marques is the comedian who Deandre has been doing impressions of, while Sky is Deandre’s girlfriend who thinks…
Review by hannahable ★★★

Definitely not as bad as I thought.
Review by Brendan Wahl ★½

Did not really care for this at all. I like Jay Pharaoh (he's completely unlikeable in this movie) but the film was boring and the 'nagging wife who realizes her husband's dream is worthwhile' storyline is so drab. There is one part that made me laugh pretty hard (text bubbles) but overall this was tepid.
Review by MichaelasCage ★★

The very first time I seen Jay Pharaoh doing his impressions I was not only laughing uncontrollably, I was also very impressed. 2 Minutes of Fame is a by the numbers comedy that you can predict from the second it starts. Even with it being a predictable comedy it still has a few laughs and does showcase Pharaoh’s strengths. The movie plays to Pharaoh’s impressions but I feel like it proves that his type of comedy is perfect for a side character or short skits. I don’t think this comedy is the right stuff for entire feature length film. This is probably as good as a movie centered around his comedy can be. Kat Williams did a pretty good job…
Review by Nate Baum ★★★½

I will watch Jay Pharoah for hours on end. Maybe even days if you let me
Review by emily ★½

i love keke palmer
Review by Ricardo Du Toit ★★½

It's always great to see Jay Pharaoh, who after all these years is still an underrated personality on screen. Some chuckles and giggles but nothing new, sadly.

Recent reviews

Review by kampwoods ★★★★

I REALLY enjoyed this movie! It was organically funny in a way I haven’t received from a film in a long time. 8/10 I do recommend and special shout out to Keke Palmar lol
Review by Ryan ★★★

Katt Williams still got it
Review by Charlie Maldonado ★★★½

I'm a sucker for an underdog comedian story, and this one was very funny, but mostly hella cute.
Review by Richard Cross ★★★

A likeable comedy with Jay Pharoah playing a struggling stand-up comic with domestic problems who wins a place in a stand-up competition in Los Angeles. It's at it's best when focusing on the feud between Pharoah and successful comic Katt Williams - particularly the brutal scene in which Williams effortlessly deconstructs Pharoah's act - but spends a little too much time on domestic issues.
Review by kennerwest ★★★

tudo menos engraçado mas eh bom o filme 🤌🏼
Review by RachelHall13 ★★★★

The movie overall was okay. Nothing special. What I loved and appreciated, mainly as a stand-up comedian myself, was the real way stand-up was depicted! It was spot on! Everything from the 1am open mic with no one in the crowd to how we feel about you-tube comic to the conversations we have just hanging out. Wonderful! The realest depiction of stand-up I’ve ever seen.
Review by Stoned Cullen ★★★

Much funnier than i thought.
Review by Frederick Sims ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I'll take more Jay Pharoah any time Hollywood feels like highlighting the man's talent. Movie could have gone from decent to great with only a few tweaks in my opinion. No real reason to have DeAndre be a complete piece of shit by trying to immediately bang Taylor. That role can still exist, can still try and hook up with DeAndre, and can still be the catalyst for his expulsion from the Showcase when he turns her down. Hard to see this complete change of heart from DeAndre when just the night before he was down to sleep with someone he just met because they both like comedy. Hard to root for that guy when he's playing the devoted family…
Review by Luke Thorne ★★

Leslie Small’s comedy in which a comic dreams of reaching stand-up stardom in Los Angeles… but his girlfriend would rather he become a stand-up father at home.
The story concerns a stand-up comedian who has ambitions to hit the big time in Los Angeles after he becomes a star on social media.
Jay Pharoah gives an okay performance in his part as Deandre, the upcoming comedian whose attempts to get his big break are going to be harder than he thought.
Elsewhere, Katt Williams and Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) don’t offer much in their respective parts as Marques and Sky. Marques is the comedian who Deandre has been doing impressions of, while Sky is Deandre’s girlfriend who thinks…
Review by Brendan Wahl ★½

Did not really care for this at all. I like Jay Pharaoh (he's completely unlikeable in this movie) but the film was boring and the 'nagging wife who realizes her husband's dream is worthwhile' storyline is so drab. There is one part that made me laugh pretty hard (text bubbles) but overall this was tepid.
Review by James Greene ★★½

Pretty standard in a lot of ways but I appreciated the little modern day 'new school' vs. 'old school' moral argument included in the movie.
Review by Leo Brady ★

Keke Palmer and Jay Pharoah are better than this.

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