Mo'Nique - I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! (DVD, 2007)

Mo'Nique's style of refinement (like shown on Charm School) was not present in this one hour stand-up comedy routine at an all women's prison. There were times when she performed comedy and at other times I felt I was watching a self-help/improvement show.

There is extremely strong language, sexual comments, and racial comments. Just listening to this routine is not for the faint hearted. Mo'Nique's routine was centered around the idea that "she could have been your cellmate" if she continued on certain paths in her life.

She attempted to relate to the audience (female, prison population) and tried to come off as a "big sister" or preacher. She would stop her routine and talk about how these inmates were thrown away by society. One inmate was serving 145 years to life for various criminal activity and Mo'Nique had an interview with her.

Mo'Nique did preach about if you were one of the lucky ones and were able to be released, stay clean - stay on the path - stay legal. As I mentioned, at times the stand-up comedy routine became a sermon to the audience. The routine also tried to draw some sympathy from the free citizens (you and I), but one must really consider that these prisoners were convicted for their crimes.

It was an interesting routine, but truly not worthy of a good/excellent rating because Mo'Nique interrupted her routine with various forms of preaching.