Still Trippin'

Two years after releasing a family-friendly comedy special aimed at churchgoing audiences, Steve Harvey reversed course. Still Trippin’ abandons the polite restraint of his previous effort, dropping the comic right back into the unrated territory he built his career on. Harvey treats the stage like a pulpit for grievances, pacing while unloading on everything from military drafts to the criminal justice system.

Filmed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, the set leans heavily into the physical realities of aging and marriage. Harvey spends a substantial chunk of the show acting out the indignities of needing a spouse to clean you when your body gives out, and detailing the exact logistics of a cheap wedding where the reception catering consists of bologna sandwiches cut into thirty-two pieces on toothpicks. He also wades into topical material for 2008, questioning the practicality of deploying older men to Iraq and using the Michael Vick dogfighting case to point out racial disparities in prison sentencing.