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Must-See: Jamie Foxx Spoofs Tyler Perry's Madea for 'SNL'

The actor/comedian imagines what the Alex Cross movie would be like if Madea were in the picture.
Jamie Foxx Spoofs Tyler Perry's Madea
Jamie Foxx Spoofs Tyler Perry
By Essence · Updated October 28, 2020
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Jamie Foxx used his time as host of SNL last night to take a hilarious shot at Tyler Perry’s beloved Madea character. The actor starred in a “movie trailer” called Tyler Perry’s Alex Cross 2 – Madea: Special Ops, a fictional buddy-cop drama in which Perry (played by Foxx) is both the young male Alex and potty-mouthed Madea, in one human body. In short, it’s “the only buddy cop movie starring one actor.”

Watch as Perry and Madea (Foxx) do everything from fight for control of the gun and try to take down a pesky skinhead.