Three years after he almost died when a brain bleed led to a stroke, Oscar-winning comedian Jamie Foxx heads to Hulu and Disney+ to joke about the world he sees around him now, as well as how much more he has recovered since his Netflix comeback special at the end of 2024. Foxx wants comedians and comedy fans both to know that he’s still funny after all he has gone through.

The Gist: Foxx, who first broke into the national consciousness as a cast member of FOX’s celebrated 1990s sketch comedy series, In Living Color, proved his acting chops had bona fides, too, when he won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and a slew of other awards for portraying the late great Ray Charles in the biopic, Ray.

His 2024 Netflix special, What Had Happened Was, also earned Foxx both a Golden Globe nomination as well as a Grammy nom.

And yet Foxx also is acutely aware that some felt that comeback hour was more special than funny. He’s here to prove himself as a comedian once more, showcasing impersonations of Katt Williams, Shannon Sharpe, and many more.

Memorable Jokes: Almost two decades ago, Foxx scored a hit single with T-Pain blaming it on the alcohol. He storms out of the gate onstage in Oakland singing about “Mary Jane,” bounding about the stage, and joking not to blame his energy on Adderall.

This is no sentimental hour, certainly not compared to his 2024 Netflix special. Foxx impersonates Katt Williams and Shannon Sharpe, recreating their viral “Club Shay Shay” sit-down, which Foxx says he was okay with hearing criticism about. “I don’t mind getting Katt Williams because Katt Williams gets everybody.” Although to hear Foxx tell it, it sounded like Cedric The Entertainer felt a bit more hurt by Katt’s roasting and ribbing.

While Foxx doesn’t clap back at Katt, he does go after Sharpe, mocking him for “them teeth” and openly spreading rumors about Sharpe’s sexuality. Not that Foxx has any insider info, but he takes the moment to joke about “all those letters” of the LGBTQ+ community to pronounce it as a French word, and recall how growing up in Texas, his neighbors wondered “where gay comes from.” An uncle of Foxx’s claiming the gay is inside you inspires a premise, “What if gay is in us and just flares up?” that finds him impersonating Dave Chappelle making a hard pivot from trans jokes to sucking dick, then impersonating Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, and LeBron James experiencing gay flare-ups.

Foxx attended the Super Bowl and has some thoughts about Bad Bunny’s halftime performance. It allows Foxx to do his slightly best Trump impersonation, too, asking why Trump would be so mad about Bad Bunny’s show if Trump himself loves to just break out into dance himself.

Foxx does open up a bit, as well, making fun of himself for listening to Chef Boy’s “Gang Gang” while driving in Beverly Hills when he wouldn’t know how to react to a real-life gang member today. Or how he’s the old man in the nightclub who still gets dizzy spells. Or how he doesn’t recognize anyone in Hollywood anymore, not because he’s old necessarily, but because of all of the plastic surgery.

Our Take: The special’s title should seem self-explanatory, but as he jokes, the tone in some men’s voices when they say “take care of yourself” may imply a threat?

For all of his energy, though, there are a few moments that may feel tired.

Referencing Denzel’s Training Day monologue for his impersonation of him seems like too easy of a choice. So does choosing to act out a routine where Foxx goes in for a rectal prostate exam. That’s figuratively beneath him at this stage of his career. And yet.

It’s almost easy to forget, unless Foxx explicitly mentions it, that he’s only three years removed from a death scare. “What would people do if you died?” he asks. “I died and I could see the results of my death.” And what he asked for and saw was another chance at life. Which puts in perspective a bit in which he describes getting mocked for driving his old ass in his old Rolls-Royce to the club in Miami, later needing a basketball player to help him up and call him “triple OG.”

In the end, Foxx is a happy father, seemingly never happier than when he’s bringing one of his kids onstage to get in on the act. Seeing him introduce his daughter to play guitar with him, calling it a full-circle moment to when he won a competition on that same Oakland stage in the early 1990s, bears that out. He might not be able to hang with the gang like he once did, but that’s more than okay by him. As he sings at the piano, “while they yelling out gang gang, I’m yelling out love.”

Our Call: This is what you wanted, right? STREAM IT!

Sean L. McCarthy works the comedy beat. He also podcasts half-hour episodes with comedians revealing origin stories: The Comic’s Comic Presents Last Things First.