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Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime Vol. 2 Street 9/9 Urbanworks, Comedy/Performance, $14.99 VHS, $19.99 DVD, NR. Stars Robert Townsend, Damon Wayans, Paul Mooney.
The '80s as a decade - or a setting - are funny enough. Throw a variety show chock full of soon-to-be-much-more-famous comedians into the mix and Robert Townsend's Partners in Crime Vol. 2 is still funny for the same reasons we watch reruns of "Saturday Night Live." Townsend's 1988 HBO special - shot a year after his classic comedy, Hollywood Shuffle - captures the Renaissance man in his prime, and while it's nowhere near as groundbreaking, offers plentiful laughs.
The special gets off to an amusing start as Townsend is...