Cedric the Entertainer Points Fingers After Show Flops

Cedric the Entertainer is not amused.

His play, David Mamet's American Buffalo co-starring John Leguizamo and Haley Joel Osment, opened on November 17th and closed just eight performances later, earning it the dubious honor of being one of the shortest running plays ever on Broadway.

But Cedric insists it wasn’t the acting, direction or actual play that’s to blame…it was one critic’s review.

“We got crushed by one critic,” Cedric says. “Ben Brantley from The New York Times. All you need is one to say bad things and he was the only one. So, write your protest letters to Ben Brantley!” (Brantley’s review called the staging “a souped-up sports car’s flat tire, built for speed but going nowhere.”)

Is Cedric really that perversely myopic that he can’t see what’s right in front of him and needs to blame other people?

The show wasn’t good, it didn’t sell tickets, and no one wanted to see a King of Comedy with the “I see dead people” kid.

Sorry, buddy. It’s a bitter pill, but you need to swallow it.