Jamie Foxx Says 'All-Star Weekend' Comedy Won't Release Until 'People Start Laughing Again'

Jamie Foxx's long-running feature 'All-Star Weekend' won't see the light of day anytime soon, according to the actor.

Foxx stars alongside Jeremy Piven as two best friends who win tickets to the NBA All-Star Game. Yet their travel plans were derailed due to an outrageous cast of characters, including Robert Downey Jr. as a Mexican man and Foxx playing multiple roles, including, allegedly, a racist white police officer. "All-Star Weekend" was filmed in 2016 and also stars Benicio del Toro, Gerard Butler and Eva Longoria.

"It's been tough with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy," Foxx said of any upcoming release plans for the film while promoting Netflix's vampire-hunting flick "Day Shift." . “We try to break the sensitive corners where people start laughing again. We hope to make them laugh and launch them straight into All-Star Weekend because we were definitely going."

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Foxx previously told Joe Rogan in a 2017 interview that he reached out to MCU alum Downey after his race change in "Tropic Thunder."

"I called Robert, I said, 'I need you to play a Mexican,'" Foxx recalled. "I said, 'Damn, you played the black guy [in 'Tropic Thunder'] and you killed that shit.' We need to be able to do characters."

Co-star Piven said on 'Get Some with Gary Owen' that Foxx is "really hard on himself" and wants the movie to be "perfect" before it comes out. "He hung on to this thing for five years," Piven said.

Comedians like Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Jerrod Carmichael and Kevin Hart have addressed the current state of comedy in the wake of cancel culture.

"It seems to me that the job of comedy is to offend, or to have the potential to offend, and it can't be drained of that potential," Atkinson recently said. "Every joke has a victim. That's the definition of a joke. Someone or something or an idea is made ridiculous."

Cleese added that it was the "death of creativity" and that there are "very, very few really good comedy scripts" these days.

"Joker 2" director Todd Phillips previously told Vanity Fair that his move to directing dramas was due to what he considers the death of comedy. "Go try to be funny these days with this woke culture," Phillips said in 2019. This shit, 'cause I don't mean to offend you.'"

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