{"id":9741,"date":"2026-01-07T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:41:06","slug":"new-kenya-barris-audio-comedy-to-star-jenifer-lewis-cedric-the-entertainer-and-niecy-nash-betts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9741\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kenya Barris audio comedy to star Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenya Barris<\/a> has a brand-new comedy headed straight for our headphones.<\/p>\n

The creator of \u201cBlack-ish\u201d<\/a> is launching \u201cBig Age,\u201d a scripted audio comedy with Audible that takes a hilarious look at retirement life, starring a cast of instantly recognizable voices, including Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts.<\/p>\n

\u201cOld people are some of the funniest, most unfiltered people I\u2019ve ever met,\u201d Barris told People magazine<\/a> while discussing the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were excited to really lean into that audacity while also flipping the notion of what a retirement community looks like on its head, because that generation is out here living their best lives before it\u2019s over,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"JenniferKenya Barris attends the 56th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 22, 2025 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Age\u201d follows the misadventures of recently retired couple Dot (Lewis) and Butch Watts (Cedric the Entertainer) as they begrudgingly settle into Sunset Gardens, a Florida-based senior community that, according to the show\u2019s description, is \u201canything but relaxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once there, Dot and Butch find themselves surrounded by a cast of wildly eccentric neighbors who test both their patience\u2014and their five-decade-long marriage. The lineup includes Ethel (Nash-Betts), Butch\u2019s shamelessly flirtatious ex love, along with spiritually overzealous residents, meddling medication-obsessed couples, and the relentlessly competitive Stevenator.<\/p>\n

Balancing over-the-top humor with moments of emotional depth, \u201cBig Age\u201d examines what it means to age boldly rather than quietly. At its heart, Barris says, the series is \u201ca story about love, reinvention and second chances,\u201d brought to life by characters who prove that getting older doesn\u2019t mean pressing pause on life.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Age\u201d arrives on Feb. 5 on Audible<\/a> and is currently available for pre-order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya Barris has a brand-new comedy headed straight for our headphones. The creator of \u201cBlack-ish\u201d is launching \u201cBig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6776,243,6777,80,6778,6779],"class_list":{"0":"post-9741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-cedric-the-entertainer","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jenifer-lewis","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-kenya-barris","13":"tag-niecy-nash-betts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}