i never saw any of john leguizamo stand up before i watch freak and and after see it again on hbo comedy recently it be well and more enlivening and with thing that and at the age of 14 and i couldn not understand quite before . spike lee do a wonderful job directing and keep the visual angle up to par with leguizamo theatrics and the style of personal storytelling while it substance and style merging together but unobtrusively . we get leguizamo rant about race and sex ( the bit about sex be classic ) and but a lot of it be about family and and what stick still fresh in my mind be about his father . even when thing get dark in some of the story and there something fresh or crazy or random that leguizamo pull out to get a laugh and and it work more often than not . if something do fall flat ( for me at any rate ) it might be his personality tic here and there . but overall and it the kind of fun material that isn not heady and but be so true to itself that it sting . find it if you can .