I haven't seen a single Tyler Perry movie, play, tv series, nothing. I just haven't been interested enough to give them a shot. The Wood, The Brothers, that Bill Belamy movie about being a player and Soul Food are really all you need as far as recent black comedies/dramas. The rest is all rehash. I'll give Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins credit simply because Mike Epps and Michael Clarke Duncan are hilarious in it.
On Madea...is that character like Ernest P. Worrell? By that I mean do any of her movies follow each other like a series or is each a whole new story featuring the character with no other recurring characters/story lines?