White Famous

CAN A MAN REALL HAVE IT ALL? CAN HE BE HAPPY AND successful, famous yet true to himself, triumphantly devoted to a single lady love while finding within himself the courage to make triumphant love to other ladies?

- Amy Wilkinson

Such are the eternal ponderables considered within White Famous, a halfhearted satire of Hollywood race relations and a nostalgia trip for the golden age of premium-cable brogramming. Jay Pharoah plays Floyd Mooney, an ascendant stand-up worried about losing his authentic self to fame. He’s offered a breakthrough role in a feature film—but dressed as an old lady. “Every time there’s a funny black brother in Hollywood, they try to emasculate him,” Floyd ruminates. “I don’t want to sell out.”