Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio Welcome to
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Speaker 4: I think there's a proper term when you reverse. This
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get into it. How's everyone doing out there?
Speaker 4: These these are things, These are things that rappers asked
Speaker 4: before they start performing, Like it's Philly in the house
Speaker 4: and then it's dead silence exactly. All right, Yes, we
Speaker 4: are introducing but more importantly, for the first time in
Speaker 4: two years.
Speaker 2: Fuck we get our theme back. We have not done
Speaker 2: our theme, Like, you better get on your ship real fast.
Speaker 2: Hurry up.
Speaker 4: The people are waiting with actually in breath. Can we
Speaker 4: bring our special guest out right now with us?
Speaker 5: Do it?
Speaker 6: Hi, everybody?
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Speaker 2: Roll call my name sugar. Yeah, I've missed you all. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what I missed the most?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I'm a black lady.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, let's start this needy.
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Speaker 2: Wow, all right, that was.
Speaker 9: Unprepared.
Speaker 2: Please, class.
Speaker 6: You never let me do it.
Speaker 9: I didn't know you were gonna let.
Speaker 6: Me do it today.
Speaker 2: Well, every you've done it. What do I do?
Speaker 9: Improv for a living?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Some of us?
Speaker 6: Hi, everybody, what's up feeling?
Speaker 4: So, ladies and gentlemen, we are a quest Love Supreme
Speaker 4: doing our first show in front of each other in
Speaker 4: two years.
Speaker 2: Almost. You look different, we all look different.
Speaker 9: Fair, you look more award winning.
Speaker 2: Yes, drip you look like an oscar. Beat you into
Speaker 2: faith in a good way. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, welcome
Speaker 2: to Team Supreme. All right, can you pause that?
Speaker 9: Or welcome boss.
Speaker 6: Welcome Boss to the other stage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, welcome. Welcome is not rock Kim.
Speaker 4: So anyway, if you're not familiar with the show or
Speaker 4: are far right, we have the one and only president
Speaker 4: of the Sugar Network, Sugar.
Speaker 5: Steve lock I missed the theme song exactly.
Speaker 4: And then on our far left over here on the stage,
Speaker 4: of course, our organizer, our our mother, our everything. Give
Speaker 4: it up for ladies, John to my direct left. If
Speaker 4: you have kids that still watch Sesame Street, this is
Speaker 4: basically I mean, you're much more than that, Thanks Hamilton.
Speaker 4: That seems like rather No, I mean you're you're damn
Speaker 4: near in egot. You're at so are you?
Speaker 2: Well? You were you were first? Anyway, Well, combined we're
Speaker 2: kind of an egot. We are, let's take it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so together we're an egot. Ladies and gentlemen, give it
Speaker 2: up for this is a long the best part.
Speaker 3: So quick, Paul, whose theme song is the best yours
Speaker 3: is actually I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Moving on, of course, we have to give.
Speaker 4: A shout out to the heart of the show, which
Speaker 4: is fun Tigelow, who is not here.
Speaker 10: He's working hard on this Little Brother documents.
Speaker 2: He's also afraid of Covidlow.
Speaker 10: He also hasn't left North Carolina.
Speaker 4: And he's been you know, he's been doing Little Brother
Speaker 4: shows now and then, so that's true.
Speaker 2: It's all one.
Speaker 4: Ready to get out the house. Ladies and gentlemen, please
Speaker 4: welcome our steam guest. One of my favorite shows on television.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: The last time you were on the show, of course,
Speaker 4: you were promote your BT talk show, right and now
Speaker 4: I think Black Lady Sketch shows. I'm sorry, Black Ladies
Speaker 4: Sketch Show is one of my.
Speaker 2: Favorite shows of all time. Yes, please welcome Robin Fati.
Speaker 6: To Robin, I have no themes on you couldn't blame
Speaker 6: some meg.
Speaker 4: No, I was going to you know, I was, I
Speaker 4: was quite I was half ass in it. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: and I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: People say about you you half as everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do half ass. You actually flew in just
Speaker 2: to just now, just to do this.
Speaker 6: I'm flying right back out. Yes, yes, very busy person.
Speaker 2: I feel very touched.
Speaker 6: I did it for you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Y'all. I really did it for y'all.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Somebody yell we love you. That's never happened to me.
Speaker 6: I'm a rock star.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was me.
Speaker 6: They might not have been yelling at me, to be fair.
Speaker 2: Well, you were telling me that you're going back because
Speaker 2: you Yes, it's weird.
Speaker 4: I guess if you're a showrunner, you don't get a
Speaker 4: summer because you have to prepare your next So when
Speaker 4: do you get time off?
Speaker 6: I don't. I'm still doing stuff for marketing for season
Speaker 6: three and promoting for Emmys that we hope to be
Speaker 6: nominated for.
Speaker 10: Congratulations for your season.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're starting. We're going right into season four. So
Speaker 6: I'm so excited. We're gonna We're gonna get started right away.
Speaker 4: Ok you got fat so as a fan of the show,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad I caught it.
Speaker 3: Did everybody just get an amber alert? Hold on, is
Speaker 3: that not the craziest ship that ever happened?
Speaker 2: That's fante that was bad ship Silver Suzuki. Right, huh
Speaker 2: huh okay, okay, sorry continue, Wait what does happen? So
Speaker 2: my everything?
Speaker 3: Everyone just vibrated, correct, and everyone just got an amber
Speaker 3: alert and it says Silver Suzuki XL seven.
Speaker 2: Everybody in this audience just got the same And why
Speaker 2: didn't you get it? What's wrong with you? That's what
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 4: Is it because I have a flip phone or it
Speaker 4: might be you that flip phote. I'm very old school,
Speaker 4: you are. I was born in the seventies.
Speaker 2: Oh, we know. It says a lot about you early.
Speaker 2: So this is this is what I want to know.
Speaker 4: You know, I started studying like when the pandemic started.
Speaker 4: Season one was you know where I fell into the
Speaker 4: rabbit hole? And of course season two and season three,
Speaker 4: I've watched each episode maybe like ten times each and
Speaker 4: there's so many meta hidden jokes inside of each episode.
Speaker 4: It's almost like you're seeing it for the first time,
Speaker 4: blinking you missed it. Can you walk us through how
Speaker 4: you get inspiration? Because I feel like you're covering everything
Speaker 4: that I've not seen television cover as far as like
Speaker 4: black comedy is concerned.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think without giving away all the secret sauce.
Speaker 6: I think for us it was like we didn't want
Speaker 6: to give y'all. We were going to have something called
Speaker 6: a Black Lady Sketch show. We wanted to give you layers.
Speaker 6: We wanted people to feel seen. We wanted to like
Speaker 6: create something that was cinematically the most beautiful sketch show ever.
Speaker 6: We wanted to have black women look good and all
Speaker 6: light like. It was just important. So so in order
Speaker 6: to do that, we wanted to really layer the show
Speaker 6: so it wasn't just a funny character. There were also
Speaker 6: crossover elements between sketches because I knew, have y'all seen
Speaker 6: Season three? Okay, perfect, perfect, So spoilers for anybody who hasn't,
Speaker 6: but y'all seem to be good. So I knew what
Speaker 6: was gonna happen in the finale, and I knew that
Speaker 6: the women over these three seasons, it wasn't really the
Speaker 6: end of the world.
Speaker 9: It's the end of the world?
Speaker 6: Is we all know it? Because what world would have
Speaker 6: elected doctor had also president?
Speaker 2: Wait, you're spoiler alearning from Oh.
Speaker 6: No, they've seen it.
Speaker 9: You haven't seen the finale?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool?
Speaker 6: Who I didn't see the finale? Final?
Speaker 2: Yeah, alright, all the fans are in this audience, every
Speaker 2: single listen. Here's the thing. And I admitted this in
Speaker 2: the book.
Speaker 4: I have things, mamhow Oh yes, yes, I thought.
Speaker 9: That was my people have been watching my career more
Speaker 9: a while.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I was saying that whenever I watch any series, especially
Speaker 4: in streaming, it's something about the penultimate episode. In the
Speaker 4: final episode, I won't watch it until I know that
Speaker 4: season four is ready.
Speaker 9: Okay, So anyway, that's so dump.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Oh Robin, I've been waiting for that moment go.
Speaker 9: Ahead with so you're gonna get it spoiled. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: But but I knew that the world was going to
Speaker 6: be the end of the world storyline was gonna be
Speaker 6: wrapped up so we could.
Speaker 9: Kind of start something new in season four.
Speaker 6: So the layers, without getting into the spoilers, are really
Speaker 6: important to me because I wanted the characters to start
Speaker 6: to meet, as you saw happen in the finale. I
Speaker 6: won't tell you who, but they all start. They start
Speaker 6: to meet, The world starts to kind of fold in
Speaker 6: on itself to create new possibilities for these women now
Speaker 6: that they're evolved. So there's that story within a story.
Speaker 6: But then the scat you start to realize if you
Speaker 6: look in the background, it's like, oh, that Patti LaBelle
Speaker 6: poster from all my own Season one is in a sketch.
Speaker 6: Season three is in what if I'm.
Speaker 9: Three in season three.
Speaker 6: And like stuff is like starting to characters are starting.
Speaker 9: To meet, things are starting to happen.
Speaker 6: So I knew if we could do that, we could
Speaker 6: create this Black Lady Multiverse with these characters that you
Speaker 6: guys are Black Lady Multiverse, Black Lady Multiverse.
Speaker 11: And so I'm excited for you guys to see now
Speaker 11: what can happen with them because you know that any
Speaker 11: of them can interact like doctor Hedasa can meet you know,
Speaker 11: the Coral Reeves, like Chris can meet Trinity or whatever.
Speaker 9: Right, so it's exciting just asking for a.
Speaker 2: Friend, what's the sign for Black Lady Multiverse? There it is,
Speaker 2: it's black Lady.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, wait wait woman, go ahead, Black Lady Multiverse.
Speaker 2: I love that. That was amazing.
Speaker 10: Moving on, the signers at the Roose pic nigs have
Speaker 10: always been legendary.
Speaker 6: Can I ask you yo?
Speaker 2: I know Soude that was on to reach set. He's
Speaker 2: he's like on Twitter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, more than the roots, because when you put your
Speaker 6: body in its next level. But let me let me
Speaker 6: ask this general. Black ladies.
Speaker 10: Guess your question because I always want to notice as
Speaker 10: a watcher, how much are the ladies that we see
Speaker 10: that are a part of the show involved in the writing.
Speaker 10: And if they're not, like how much, say how does
Speaker 10: that go? How does that that labor work? I know
Speaker 10: there are other people we don't see in the background.
Speaker 6: The ladies that we do see are Emmy nominated writers. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 6: so Ashley Nicole Black wrote on seasons one and two.
Speaker 6: She's amazing, She's so sick. But that's it. That's the
Speaker 6: only person who's written besides me, So Gab Quinta sky Lady.
Speaker 6: None of them wrote. But but that's not to take
Speaker 6: away from their creative collaborations. I was gonna say, the
Speaker 6: improv must be them is crazy. They also bring the
Speaker 6: looks how they want their characters to look. They design
Speaker 6: that piece by piece with all of our black lady
Speaker 6: glam departments. So no dabs are people? She from Philly?
Speaker 10: She I thought she was from Philly. Oh Ship, sometimes
Speaker 10: you get.
Speaker 6: Out I like the people I like to you, said DC,
Speaker 6: Ohio and DC. Yeah, she kind of lived on my
Speaker 6: other hometown. Why am I telling all her business?
Speaker 2: Right? So what happened was when she was like watching tennis.
Speaker 4: I know, so if I were betting man, when I
Speaker 4: when I go tonight to watch the finality, which I.
Speaker 9: Will, which I've spoiled.
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that Quinta makes a return to the show.
Speaker 6: Correct, I didn't say that.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming though, right?
Speaker 9: Why would you assume that because he's wearing hairs?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Does she make a return to the show. Are we
Speaker 9: gonna tell him?
Speaker 6: They're not gonna tell these are my mother fucking people.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna tell you?
Speaker 4: Is quest Love Superior is the only podcast in which
Speaker 4: everyone actually hates those.
Speaker 2: So true?
Speaker 6: And that's not true?
Speaker 9: How happy are we for Quinta? This woman is killing?
Speaker 6: Oh we proud? Oh no, that pretty Philly is proud.
Speaker 6: She's very hard, best, she's the best.
Speaker 2: Robin be supreme.
Speaker 9: Now I got enough, I got enough to do to
Speaker 9: do It's fine.
Speaker 2: So yeah, So that's what I want to know.
Speaker 4: As far as the crafting, does it start with like
Speaker 4: out of a dream, like oh we should do blah
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah blah blah, like when you did
Speaker 4: the hair sketch that was the cold open for season three.
Speaker 9: The product purge?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: So is there just a sort of a think board
Speaker 4: on Yeah, I'm going on No, No, here's how you
Speaker 4: get then like, they'll have no book.
Speaker 6: Our show is very interesting, so we only have like
Speaker 6: seven writers and they write everything.
Speaker 9: So they come in.
Speaker 6: They come in with a pitch that has a beginning, middle, twist,
Speaker 6: and end. Like they come in with their raw, their
Speaker 6: own concepts. Because it was really important to me that
Speaker 6: this it's not a Robin Thede sketch show.
Speaker 9: It's a black lady sketch show. So it's really important
Speaker 9: that we have different points of view. So no, they
Speaker 9: come in.
Speaker 6: And that was actually Akuila Green who wrote that. Who's credible.
Speaker 6: She works on Black Monday and a bunch of other shows.
Speaker 6: She actually wrote that in season two, but we couldn't
Speaker 6: shoot it till season three because we couldn't have one
Speaker 6: hundred women running down the street during COVID.
Speaker 9: So so yeah, she just came in and pitches.
Speaker 6: She was like, what if, like the movie The Purge,
Speaker 6: black women had fifteen minutes to return all their unused
Speaker 6: hair products and get a full refundy, Like how chaotic
Speaker 6: would that be? And I was like, yes, go write that,
Speaker 6: you know, but yeah, the way, I gotta give the
Speaker 6: writer's credit. I write a lot of these sketches too,
Speaker 6: but it's it is collaborative. Like sometimes they'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I have an idea, it's like Romeo and Juliet, but
Speaker 6: we're not sure what to do with it. And I'm like, okay, Ben,
Speaker 6: let's put that together with the stand culture sketch and
Speaker 6: do it. And I am at pentameter and then you
Speaker 6: get Roman Julyssa, you know, so we it's very collaborative too.
Speaker 4: Now working at thirty Rock, I often meet writers who
Speaker 4: at SNL getting their feelings if their.
Speaker 2: Sketch doesn't make it to the show, So how are you? Also,
Speaker 2: do you have to play the bad guy at the
Speaker 2: show as the leader of the show?
Speaker 6: And yeah, sometimes, but I think we all kind of
Speaker 6: know which sketches are rising to the top, so we'll
Speaker 6: do like internal table reads and perform it and you know,
Speaker 6: critique it.
Speaker 9: But I think it's pretty clear by the time we
Speaker 9: go to our shooting scripts what's gonna work.
Speaker 6: But no, they don't get their feelings hurt because everybody
Speaker 6: gets sketches on. Because we have so few writers, everybody
Speaker 6: gets sketches on. So do y'all ever get pushed back
Speaker 6: from HBO?
Speaker 9: Like has there ever been a subject that was or
Speaker 9: no taboo.
Speaker 6: No, it's HBO. You can do anything, but.
Speaker 10: Can you You're the first black lead Craft Country?
Speaker 2: What's that Craft Country?
Speaker 9: Okay, well, look, don't talk no mess.
Speaker 6: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: It got nineteen nominations now.
Speaker 10: Right, but it wasn't there because he didn't want to
Speaker 10: continue the person that did it.
Speaker 6: I don't know, Robin don't want to be on that
Speaker 6: side of it.
Speaker 9: I don't want to do I don't want to I
Speaker 9: don't want to get involved.
Speaker 6: I love that show. Yeah, I think for us, No,
Speaker 6: we really don't get any pushback. I think it's just
Speaker 6: like the funniest stuff rises to the top and they
Speaker 6: just say, you know, be true to the show. But
Speaker 6: we really don't get a lot of puchback. There's no
Speaker 6: real taboo subjects. They've never said, oh, don't do that.
Speaker 10: What's the sketches that y'all? I had problems getting through
Speaker 10: because y'all just been dying.
Speaker 6: I just need to know, like, have y'all ever been dying?
Speaker 6: Laughing so hard? It has been hard to get you
Speaker 6: know what we're performing?
Speaker 10: Oh, my guys, and my mind was I'm going to
Speaker 10: take it back to the to the courtroom, but I
Speaker 10: feel like that was likely courtroom.
Speaker 6: Well, Lisa is very easy to break, so I could. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I messed with her really bad. Whenever she's in a sketch,
Speaker 6: She's like, why are you always with me in every sketch.
Speaker 2: That I do?
Speaker 10: And I'm like, I don't know, but I know it's
Speaker 10: because I want to mess with It looks like, y'all
Speaker 10: you're challenging her, You're trying to whole face and look
Speaker 10: like you're holding fast, Like, bitch, how long your sketch?
Speaker 6: Every sketch, not just Issa, all of our casts. My
Speaker 6: job is to make them break, but they're so good
Speaker 6: they don't. The Last Supper and The Resurrection, like those
Speaker 6: disciple At sketches are really hard to get through anything with,
Speaker 6: Like Gabrielle as the head of the Coral Reefs at least,
Speaker 6: it's hard to get through. A lot of them are
Speaker 6: really hard to get through, to be honest, especially this season.
Speaker 6: The improv is crazy, Like the outtakes are so much longer.
Speaker 6: We have so much stuff we couldn't even show you
Speaker 6: guys because we have a time limit. Like there's so
Speaker 6: many jokes that the world will liver see.
Speaker 10: I have a dream world where like Larry David does
Speaker 10: a guest spot on The Black Ladies Sketch Show and
Speaker 10: it's like Battle.
Speaker 6: Of the Improv.
Speaker 2: That's your dream world.
Speaker 6: That's to have a lot of dream worlds. They're about
Speaker 6: twenty thousand.
Speaker 9: That's like, can you guys tell her why that would
Speaker 9: be impossible.
Speaker 10: Because it's a Black Lady Sketch show and there are
Speaker 10: no white people on The Black Ladies Sketch Show.
Speaker 6: Never, not one. Oh I'm cool with that, not even
Speaker 6: in the background bad not even not even out the
Speaker 6: art on the walls.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 9: Correct where black women. I love Larry play all of
Speaker 9: the characters the.
Speaker 2: Multitude to start back at season.
Speaker 9: One, never even in ature on a wall.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, is that what freedom looks like? That's
Speaker 6: what the finale is saying, Like, when you live in
Speaker 6: this book whatever, you have to watch a finale, But
Speaker 6: when you live in this world and you get to
Speaker 6: evolve to your then you get to enter into this
Speaker 6: world where we are free of the gaze of anyone else.
Speaker 9: And to me, that's Mecca, that's heaven.
Speaker 6: That's so yeah, because isn't that amazing? And it's not
Speaker 6: like I got lost for a second I'm sorry. Well,
Speaker 6: I know it's not at the exclusion of anyone else,
Speaker 6: it's just at the celebration of us. I'm like, if
Speaker 6: I have a chance to create something on HBO, like,
Speaker 6: let me create this dream scenario. I think it frees
Speaker 6: up the comedy too, right, because I don't want to
Speaker 6: do a Karen sketch or microaggression sketch, Like I don't want.
Speaker 12: To do that.
Speaker 9: I'm not saying they don't have value.
Speaker 6: We don't do that. Wow, we don't got to rewatch
Speaker 6: it because you got you gotta caster. Well, because I
Speaker 6: don't want to re traumatize us. I want you to
Speaker 6: have thirty minutes of joy, like I want you to
Speaker 6: you know, my god joy.
Speaker 2: So no white Jewish guys at all.
Speaker 9: No, no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: They probably pay a bill or something, but not even
Speaker 3: like the biggest white Jewish guy, right David, Nope, not no, sorry,
Speaker 3: So where I.
Speaker 2: Know that for a lot of sketch comedians.
Speaker 4: Uh there, Mecca is Second City or like in Chicago
Speaker 4: or Bright Citizens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, was it? You see b if you are black? Like,
Speaker 2: is there what's the version of that?
Speaker 6: No, No, there's not it.
Speaker 9: It's now my show.
Speaker 6: But no, I think because I did Second City and
Speaker 6: I owe and I've done some shows at uc B,
Speaker 6: but no, they're not actually just joined the advisory board
Speaker 6: or Second City because I think we need to do
Speaker 6: better and we need to invite us in legitimately, not
Speaker 6: us in to be tokens in a class. We need
Speaker 6: to legitimately have experiences that are authentic and that teach
Speaker 6: us how to hone our comedy, not how to do
Speaker 6: somebody else's comedy, how to do ours.
Speaker 9: So yeah, no, I think I think we're.
Speaker 6: Gonna We're gonna try some things to help out the
Speaker 6: school that raised me. And you know, I think we
Speaker 6: got a long way to go, but we're definitely working
Speaker 6: at it.
Speaker 2: Impressive.
Speaker 4: I love my enjoyment because you know, like I live
Speaker 4: in a world where everyone's always improving, and like with music,
Speaker 4: I can handle it, but with words, I can't handle it.
Speaker 4: And I feel like the person that said on a
Speaker 4: you know, double dutching that can't get inside the roop,
Speaker 4: Like I'm constantly.
Speaker 6: Like, well you saw me. The moment music was playing,
Speaker 6: I floundered. I couldn't even rhyme with my own last name.
Speaker 2: But I think, yeah, I think the answer is always yes.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's yes and no, but nobody but you
Speaker 6: know what's interesting, But we don't. It's not that hard.
Speaker 6: It's not like an improv school on our set. It's
Speaker 6: like we're just trying to make a funny ass show.
Speaker 6: So wherever we go, we'll just follow, like you know,
Speaker 6: Gabrielle in those in the Resurrections sketches especially but the
Speaker 6: Last Supper, just because I mentioned that, when she comes
Speaker 6: in the scene as Mary, we know she's just gonna
Speaker 6: be chaos. So she plays Mary Magdalen, and we've made
Speaker 6: her this like mean girl to these other women who
Speaker 6: aren't invited.
Speaker 9: To any of the disciple events, and she is.
Speaker 6: She's just so we know when she.
Speaker 9: Comes in, it's just gonna be a mess.
Speaker 6: She's gonna do what's scripted, but everything else is gonna
Speaker 6: go out of the window.
Speaker 9: So we just follow each other.
Speaker 6: Really well, I think for us it's not necessarily yes.
Speaker 9: Anne, but it's just follow.
Speaker 6: Where they take you and anybody can move the story along,
Speaker 6: but as long as we all go together.
Speaker 9: So I think that's what you see on the screen,
Speaker 9: especially in season three.
Speaker 4: How many people have reached out to you about like
Speaker 4: getting on the show or like I know that you
Speaker 4: added sky to the oh.
Speaker 6: For the cast or celebrity guests.
Speaker 2: Oh, not even a celebrity guests.
Speaker 10: I just mean, like, for it, do regular people because
Speaker 10: I want to know my way of doing it, because
Speaker 10: I just be stalking you every six months ahead to
Speaker 10: be doing well.
Speaker 6: You know what's funny for the core cast, because we really.
Speaker 2: Don't Now I don't know what the fuck just happened over.
Speaker 9: Skin these men.
Speaker 6: No, for the core cast, we don't really change it
Speaker 6: that much. I mean we add takeaway each season one
Speaker 6: or two maybe, I guess.
Speaker 9: But people don't really approach me for that. They tag
Speaker 9: me mostly in like people's tiktoks.
Speaker 6: But I'm like, here's the thing. If you can't do
Speaker 6: a hundred impressions and characters, like, I don't know what
Speaker 6: to tell hundred. Yeah, we've all in three seasons, those
Speaker 6: of us who have been there since day one have
Speaker 6: played over one hundred characters in eighteen episodes. So it's like,
Speaker 6: if you don't have that kind of depth and range,
Speaker 6: then people don't. Really, it's way more celebrities pitching than
Speaker 6: people trying to be regulars in the cast. It's a
Speaker 6: hard job. It's a hard job. You know, other skeed
Speaker 6: sules have big, big cast, but like, we're a small,
Speaker 6: scrappy show. We play all the characters, no believe it
Speaker 6: or not.
Speaker 10: I think a lot of people watch it. With Gabrielle
Speaker 10: was like, did not know she had all had depth?
Speaker 9: It's crazy.
Speaker 6: We were all like wait, even like she's killing it
Speaker 6: and she's kills.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, who's this person?
Speaker 9: No, y'all sleep on Beautiful Surprise.
Speaker 6: It was beautiful. I mean y'all not sleeping, but the
Speaker 6: people listening to the podcast, y'all sleeping on Gabrielle. She's
Speaker 6: so versatile, she's so incredible. Like people are like, oh,
Speaker 6: I just knew her on the game and I didn't
Speaker 6: like her, and it's like, okay, but this one so
Speaker 6: I met her. She actually beat me out for a
Speaker 6: sketch show on Showtime when that Damon Wayne's was doing
Speaker 6: back in the day. This is like fifteen years ago,
Speaker 6: and I remember being at the audition. We were like
Speaker 6: the last two and she got it and I heard
Speaker 6: her in the room and I was like, shit, she
Speaker 6: needs to get that.
Speaker 9: She's really good.
Speaker 6: So no, I used to watch her doing stand up
Speaker 6: back in the day. I used to watch her doing
Speaker 6: sketch like she can mimic any singer, And because we
Speaker 6: can't afford to do that a lot on the show,
Speaker 6: she doesn't really get to use it.
Speaker 9: But I'm gonna try to do it more next season.
Speaker 10: But she can mimic any singer living or gone. We
Speaker 10: should never female singer. We should have her a mirror
Speaker 10: should She's incredible. She has an ear for musical mime,
Speaker 10: which is incredible. And then she's just got a ton
Speaker 10: of characters. You throw anything her way, She's like, I'll
Speaker 10: figure it out. She played a character named Steve in
Speaker 10: this sketch called Escrow Download, like this dude that just
Speaker 10: like had an accent, but it was every accent. She
Speaker 10: wasn't supposed to play that character.
Speaker 6: It was supposed to be a guest star and we
Speaker 6: table read it and she just started doing this character
Speaker 6: and I was like, well that's you now, Like it's
Speaker 6: just she just like will grab these roles we never
Speaker 6: intended to be as funny, you know, we wanted them
Speaker 6: to be funny, but the way she takes it to
Speaker 6: the n degree is just crazy.
Speaker 9: They all do that though.
Speaker 6: Sky's really coming into her own Ashley's genius Ashley, and
Speaker 6: what's the character at first season?
Speaker 9: Trinity?
Speaker 10: No black woman who superhero Trinity, nobody knows the world's
Speaker 10: most Yes, the world's best Spike.
Speaker 6: She's called the invisible Spike because she's just like a
Speaker 6: plus sized black woman who's not wearing makeup, so no
Speaker 6: one acknowledges her. I mean that's a statement and a half,
Speaker 6: you know, talk about the development of that character.
Speaker 9: So she actually brought that to us first season.
Speaker 6: She was like, Yo, I think my superpower is being
Speaker 6: like a plus sized black woman who just blends in
Speaker 6: because nobody even notices I'm there. So she's like, I
Speaker 6: want to make that the world's the cia is best spy.
Speaker 6: And I was like, that's fucking genius.
Speaker 9: So, I mean that's just what she does.
Speaker 10: Though.
Speaker 9: She just comes up with sketch it so easy.
Speaker 6: She also came in the room and goes, what if
Speaker 6: Patti LaBelle every time you get broken up.
Speaker 9: With makes you sing on my own till you like,
Speaker 9: she won't leave until you sing on my own. I
Speaker 9: was like, yeah, what about that?
Speaker 6: Go write it? Why not?
Speaker 9: She came up with black Lady Courtroom. She's amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she wrote the first one, I wrote the second one.
Speaker 9: But yeah, like those those ladies. The writers are so good.
Speaker 6: Like I think a lot of people think the magic
Speaker 6: just happens on set, but those scripts are incredible.
Speaker 10: Whatever it is, it looks like y'all come together like Voltron.
Speaker 2: Yeah night.
Speaker 4: So is there uh for you a dream sketch that
Speaker 4: you're eating, like either for a production cost or whatever,
Speaker 4: like we.
Speaker 2: Will you get close to her executing that sketch? Yes,
Speaker 2: I will, And that's all he can say.
Speaker 9: No, I'm gonna tell you what it is.
Speaker 6: Tell me because I'm campaigning this season to get Janet
Speaker 6: Jackson on the show.
Speaker 5: You came to the right place, Come on, I was like,
Speaker 5: so I want you.
Speaker 2: I need to can you picture in thirty seconds?
Speaker 6: ROBERTA is now never?
Speaker 9: Rob it is now never is now never?
Speaker 6: You got come on to me? Here is now a never.
Speaker 6: You said you wanted it, you put it out there,
Speaker 6: don't put see y'all lesson. Put something show us and listen.
Speaker 2: Listen. I'm gonna videotape you.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's my or are you gonna FaceTime?
Speaker 3: I don't want to put it on the spot, but
Speaker 3: I will send this to it in the background. Or
Speaker 3: got a cheer at the end, be the uncomfortable white
Speaker 3: guy in the background. Go hang on, all right, Jen,
Speaker 3: I'm not putting you on the spot, but this is the.
Speaker 6: Pitch, Janet Jackson, It's Robin Thiety from a Black Lady's
Speaker 6: Sketch Show. You are cordially invited to season four.
Speaker 9: To star in the most epic sketch we've ever done,
Speaker 9: and the world.
Speaker 6: Wants to see it. We love you and we want
Speaker 6: to see it.
Speaker 9: Right, We'll take care of you.
Speaker 1: We got you, did it ship?
Speaker 9: Come see us?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm gonna send that to her and then.
Speaker 6: She can do whatever the fuck you wants, right Like
Speaker 6: I want to play doctor Hadassa.
Speaker 9: I'll be like, fine, I'll coach you on the board.
Speaker 2: You literally just said that ship, it's doable, got oscar Son.
Speaker 6: I think she would have hit her before. I know,
Speaker 6: I just said you would have hit her before.
Speaker 2: There's three people in the world. You're either giver, a taker,
Speaker 2: or a connector. Yeah I'm a connector, you're.
Speaker 6: Connector Oh nice to meet you. I'm a connector.
Speaker 2: That's why you're here. All of us are connected. The
Speaker 2: only time you guys have ever gotten along ever you connected.
Speaker 13: I've taken some ship, but you've always been paid on time, right,
Speaker 13: I'm a connector, but I'm a connector.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but thank you. I think that that was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's like, now I really want to It's going to happen.
Speaker 6: It's gonna happen.
Speaker 9: Rob I know manifest that absolutely, I want to.
Speaker 6: I think she's hilarious. I think she's such a phenomenal actress.
Speaker 6: I think she's so funny.
Speaker 9: You know, the reason why.
Speaker 6: Angela Bassett did the show is she said, I did
Speaker 6: it because you asked, and no one thinks I'm funny.
Speaker 9: And she got nominated for an Emmy for Bad.
Speaker 6: Bite some war group. Like she's so dope, like and
Speaker 6: she's so dope, she's so supportive. She was actually the
Speaker 6: first guest star we booked. We hadn't been on the air,
Speaker 6: no one knew what the show was. She was like, Yo,
Speaker 6: I like your late night show and I want to
Speaker 6: do it. No one thinks I can be funny. She
Speaker 6: never these I mean, think about it. These black women
Speaker 6: that have been on the show, and the black men
Speaker 6: that have been on the show, they none of them
Speaker 6: have ever hosted SNL. None of them have ever, And
Speaker 6: this is no shade to SNL. It's just like we
Speaker 6: just didn't have an outlet for us. You know, that
Speaker 6: was that was dedicated to us. So that's what I
Speaker 6: want to try to provide. Oh, we got time.
Speaker 9: Let's say questions from the audio.
Speaker 6: That would be so fun.
Speaker 10: I mean, whatever you say, am I feel like they
Speaker 10: have some Oh my god, can we do it?
Speaker 6: I'll come out, Greg, I'm not coming to you. Okay,
Speaker 6: who got a question?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Okay, we should Yeah? All right, you don't have to
Speaker 9: go jump out like doing this stuff.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 9: How are you gonna get down there, y'all yelling?
Speaker 6: Jump?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 6: Time out. I'm a radio girl. I'm a Philly radio girl.
Speaker 2: All right, So you.
Speaker 6: Got a question?
Speaker 10: Which make sure you introduce yourself to everybody.
Speaker 9: Hello, guys, I am Elizabeth.
Speaker 6: I'm from Philly.
Speaker 9: We love Philly.
Speaker 6: I have a question for you, Robin. Could we extend
Speaker 6: this to possibly a movie? A black lady movie?
Speaker 9: I mean, Bob Bob's Burger's got one?
Speaker 6: Why we can't?
Speaker 9: Why are you so mad at boss?
Speaker 6: I just started watching bobs Burgers.
Speaker 10: It's been on ten years.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 6: Is that something y'all would watch?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Sure, why not. I don't know when I'm gonna have
Speaker 6: time to do it, but why not?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 9: I love that idea.
Speaker 10: Hey, y'all, I'm India, I'm from Texas.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 14: Hey, So my question is, with the show being so amazing,
Speaker 14: do you ever have writer's block? Or have you ever
Speaker 14: had a sketch come out where it took so long
Speaker 14: to produce that you had to prolong it to another season?
Speaker 2: Real life questions.
Speaker 6: No, we had some sketches we couldn't make in COVID
Speaker 6: because they had like kids, or like a bunch of
Speaker 6: extras or whatever. But no, we never had to postpone
Speaker 6: it to another season for any other reason. Do I
Speaker 6: ever have writer's block?
Speaker 9: I always, I'm always thinking of sketches.
Speaker 10: My mind just kind of works that way. So then
Speaker 10: you don't smoke or drink. You don't smoke or drink.
Speaker 9: I don't drink.
Speaker 6: Ah, you're a writer too, Yeah, I mean, look, writer's
Speaker 6: black can happen. There's some people that don't believe in it.
Speaker 6: But sometimes you just don't feel like doing the shit,
Speaker 6: or you just can't get an idea. You know what
Speaker 6: you gotta do, Just write a bunch of.
Speaker 9: Bullshit and some of it'll be good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just keep typing or take a nap.
Speaker 2: How many drafts do you go to before a lot?
Speaker 6: The sketches go through a lot of drafts, sometimes ten
Speaker 6: twelve drafts for sure, and then we continue to punch
Speaker 6: on set and then we improvise and then we edit different.
Speaker 9: So it's always Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a.
Speaker 4: Moment where you are reading one of your things and
Speaker 4: you know it's not working and oh, DA's silent.
Speaker 2: Oh god, they try to force laugh there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, they will not laugh at me. If my shit
Speaker 6: is whack, they'll be like dead silent. One of the
Speaker 6: writers season two, cent I, was like, why are y'all laughing?
Speaker 6: I'm killing at this. This is why how Keisha got
Speaker 6: the joke Keisha the bad Sanda comedian. That's how she
Speaker 6: happened because that was me. And they like pitching bad
Speaker 6: sketches and jokes because I'm just a pitch machine. Like
Speaker 6: I'm one of those people that's just like right, like
Speaker 6: you're just gonna get a hundred ideas.
Speaker 4: And they're allowed to be honest with you. Yeah about no,
Speaker 4: you say yes for know, people with egos where you
Speaker 4: have to laugh at the.
Speaker 2: Don't do that ship laugh at their bosses jokes I heard.
Speaker 6: I was about to say that don't happen here.
Speaker 2: You know people with egos, But no, you can't have an.
Speaker 9: Ego because the audience isn't gonna give a ship. The
Speaker 9: ship's not funny Jackson.
Speaker 10: All right, we got another question, bro.
Speaker 6: Do you thank you?
Speaker 2: Thank you for your question? Yes? No, no, no? The
Speaker 2: numbers all right.
Speaker 8: My name is Ralph from Virginia. My question is very simple.
Speaker 8: I love the credits to opening credits that y'all do.
Speaker 8: Can you explain that because I feel like they change
Speaker 8: a ship? But I could be high and missing ship.
Speaker 8: I don't know, I know, pausing the ship like it
Speaker 8: be long in a motherfucker. So like, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 8: got open. My point is like, could you could you
Speaker 8: talk about that to me? Because I thought, like the
Speaker 8: layers and shit like trying to get them the ship.
Speaker 8: Now you told me this season to look for and
Speaker 8: I did and I couldn't find.
Speaker 4: I was like, I must be an idiot because I
Speaker 4: don't see a difference in like how obvious.
Speaker 6: Are the wait? So you see the finale, Well it's
Speaker 6: the text. So this year's opening credits the opening sequence
Speaker 6: is exactly the same except for the text on the screen,
Speaker 6: and it tells a separate story. But that story, I'll
Speaker 6: tell you, mister Virginia, is a bit of a red herring.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 9: It's supposed to throw you off.
Speaker 6: The trail of who's actually mind controlling them by sending
Speaker 6: you down this other rabbit hole.
Speaker 9: But it all dovetails into this idea that.
Speaker 6: These black women are creating these characters in this universe,
Speaker 6: and it's giving you long story for each of the
Speaker 6: I can't believe you haven't noticed, because I know you've
Speaker 6: seen one through five, six.
Speaker 9: You'll be able to see you have to pause it.
Speaker 6: It was also kind of a It was also.
Speaker 9: A fun thing. Yeah, for the audience.
Speaker 6: I wanted you to have to pause it to read
Speaker 6: the ongoing story as long as fuck long.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that to us?
Speaker 6: Because I think it's hilarious, and because I think that
Speaker 6: I want y'all to have to be so engaged, because
Speaker 6: people like people will be like, oh wow, that was sketch,
Speaker 6: went by so fast, and I'm like, I want you
Speaker 6: to have to actively, like have to pause and like
Speaker 6: really digest it, and I want you to get in
Speaker 6: the Bible doing that for the sketches because they'll be
Speaker 6: so much more rich if you do that.
Speaker 4: Is there an Easter egg from one to or three
Speaker 4: that is so deep and funny that no one has
Speaker 4: come back to you yet with I see you there?
Speaker 9: I mean there's shit that you would really have to
Speaker 9: pause it to see.
Speaker 6: In this sketch called It's getting a Heist in here,
Speaker 6: it's a museum high sketch, kind of.
Speaker 9: Like Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 6: In the cases, it's a Rihanna fashion exhibit, and there
Speaker 6: is a Rihanna diamond, but all the fashion in the
Speaker 6: cases that they go by are our interstitial outfits from
Speaker 6: last year, and they're the last supper outfits also in
Speaker 6: one of the cases. So it's like showing you that
Speaker 6: this world is all starting to dumbtail. But the biggest
Speaker 6: one is Millstone Coffee. So if you look, Millstone Coffee
Speaker 6: was the corporation that plug your ears, that doctor Hadassa
Speaker 6: secretly owned and used to fund her mind control of
Speaker 6: the women.
Speaker 9: Okay, you're done to wow, so you'll see Millstone.
Speaker 6: Batmach support group starts with Angela Bassett pouring a cup
Speaker 6: of Millstone coffee like you see it.
Speaker 9: Trinity kicked Nicole.
Speaker 6: Byer into a case of Millstone boxes. The no makeup
Speaker 6: sketch is at Millstone. She's like, how can I brew
Speaker 6: up an answer for you? She's literally selling millstoneffee. So
Speaker 6: Millstone has been there since episode one, and it culminates
Speaker 6: as kind of the evil nefarious corporation in the end
Speaker 6: of season three. One more question. All right, I'm making good, y'all.
Speaker 9: What's up, y'all? My name is bre Daddy.
Speaker 6: I'm coming all the way from Miami and the reason,
Speaker 6: but I'm.
Speaker 10: Feeling fucking Philly, so shout out Philly.
Speaker 12: Horring as an Afro Latina woman, Black representation is so important,
Speaker 12: but we all know how it is. It could be
Speaker 12: hard to represent ourselves as black women, black men, non
Speaker 12: binary whatever.
Speaker 9: Y'all choice is, how do y'all get past? How do
Speaker 9: you get past imposter syndrome? That is not where I
Speaker 9: expected that question to go. I've never had imposter syndrome.
Speaker 6: I don't even understand it, honestly, I just kind of
Speaker 6: have reckless confidence and everything I do like it's just
Speaker 6: gonna be greating.
Speaker 9: So that's just real. I don't I'm never like, should
Speaker 9: I be doing this?
Speaker 6: What I will tell you is I do know that
Speaker 6: there are people just as funny and funnier than me
Speaker 6: who could have had this opportunity. So I don't want
Speaker 6: to fuck it up because I want to keep the
Speaker 6: door open for all of us to be able to
Speaker 6: do it. That's why I called it a Black Lady sketchow,
Speaker 6: not the because I can't represent us all and I
Speaker 6: want us to be one of many. Right. I wanted
Speaker 6: Amber Ruffing to go get her late now show ze
Speaker 6: way to do what she's doing. All the sam jazz
Speaker 6: bad women be doing this, and I think that we've
Speaker 6: helped in that. I'm not taking responsibility for their success,
Speaker 6: but I'm just saying, like us being their season after
Speaker 6: season is showing the world how funny we can be.
Speaker 9: The funniest women in the world. To me, are black
Speaker 9: women like and you know on the.
Speaker 6: Show, it's so important to us that our afer Latina sisters,
Speaker 6: Gina Torres, marl n Egra, like all these Afa Latinas
Speaker 6: on the show, reg and Gomez, like, it's important that
Speaker 6: that they're there. It's important that our trans sistors are there.
Speaker 6: It's important, Like it's really important to me because we're
Speaker 6: not the same. We're so different and we have so
Speaker 6: in this season coming up, it's really gonna explore a
Speaker 6: lot of that in the way we haven't had a
Speaker 6: chance to.
Speaker 9: So I'm really excited about that because.
Speaker 6: We're so rich, we're so you know, diverse amongst ourselves.
Speaker 4: Speaking of seasons, I know this is a very like
Speaker 4: BBC network thing, this whole like one season is only
Speaker 4: four episodes thing.
Speaker 9: We have six, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, like, why where is the traditional who decides what
Speaker 4: an arnt is for the season as far as the
Speaker 4: volume is concerned, Like, or is it.
Speaker 6: The number of episodes? Yes, oh, that's determined by HBO.
Speaker 6: I don't have any say about that. But what I
Speaker 6: will say is, people, I know that the episodes go
Speaker 6: by fast. Y'all tell me this all the time, But
Speaker 6: if you think about it, we're doing like fifty short films,
Speaker 6: Like it really is denser than most tell I know
Speaker 6: that doesn't help because the show goes by fast. But
Speaker 6: we're on.
Speaker 9: Location, we don't shoot on a stage. We got new characters.
Speaker 6: We're like reinventing a sitcom every day, twice a day sometimes,
Speaker 6: So it's just it takes a while. Like I work
Speaker 6: on the show three hundred and sixty five days a year.
Speaker 6: People think I'm, like, you know, just doing six episodes
Speaker 6: in like three weeks. No, we shoot for three months,
Speaker 6: we write for three months, we prep I post for
Speaker 6: three months, like you know, it takes a long time
Speaker 6: to make the show.
Speaker 10: But so any more episodes you wouldn't have anytime for yourself.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I don't anyway, So that's fine.
Speaker 4: What are you afraid to take a break because what
Speaker 4: I did learn with the pandemic. No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 4: not trying to get deep, but I'm just saying what
Speaker 4: I learned in the pandemic is when you have silence.
Speaker 8: And like.
Speaker 4: The sound of what we're hearing right now, that's where
Speaker 4: ideals really come, and that's where.
Speaker 2: The ideas flow in and inspiration.
Speaker 4: So for you, if this is all year round, where
Speaker 4: you have to now spend the summer months thinking and thinking,
Speaker 4: crafting and building and building and then shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, and.
Speaker 2: Then promoting, promoting, promoting, promoter and all that.
Speaker 6: When I'm never out of ideas, I don't know.
Speaker 2: What do you take time out just to have nothing happening.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I definitely, like, you know, have
Speaker 6: three or four day like a Memorial Day weekend or
Speaker 6: something like that and go somewhere just chill out.
Speaker 9: But that doesn't really help me.
Speaker 6: I know, well, I know what you mean, but that
Speaker 6: doesn't I'm not one of those people.
Speaker 9: I work really weird. Like the more shit I have
Speaker 9: going on, the more creative I am.
Speaker 6: And I'm not going to say that the pandemic I
Speaker 6: wasn't creative, but I don't like sitting still.
Speaker 9: I'm not really that person.
Speaker 6: So I mean, you know, for me, playing dozens of
Speaker 6: characters in a season is like great, that's the status quo.
Speaker 9: Like I can't imagine being on one show playing one character.
Speaker 9: I would be so bored.
Speaker 6: So for me, you know what, Also, you know, this
Speaker 6: like this is like my seventh sketch show that I've
Speaker 6: been on. So it's like I did shows with David
Speaker 6: Allen Greer and Jamie Fox and Apion Krockett and everybody,
Speaker 6: and so for me, it was like I got to
Speaker 6: watch all of them have shows that happened really fast
Speaker 6: and didn't get second seasons, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I want to take all those lessons and make this
Speaker 6: love letter to black women and like make it really
Speaker 6: funny and like make history.
Speaker 9: And I just don't take it for granted.
Speaker 6: So taking a break as far as like the show,
Speaker 6: like maybe not doing it one year or whatever. I've
Speaker 6: thought about it because sleep is good, but I feel
Speaker 6: like people need it, like especially in the pandemic, Like
Speaker 6: people need it, and I think that's important.
Speaker 9: And that's that's like we do.
Speaker 10: But we don't never want you to put us before
Speaker 10: your own self.
Speaker 6: No, butsuse it's facrif no, no, no, no, here's the thing.
Speaker 9: I'm very rich, so it's fine.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well then this is the very last question.
Speaker 9: Then all right, thank you.
Speaker 6: Siya from Cleveland, Ohio. Two part question.
Speaker 12: First, have you thought about a tour around the country
Speaker 12: where you can expose new black female talent.
Speaker 10: Second, what's the advice for young people who are trying
Speaker 10: to get in this work?
Speaker 6: Yes, I have thought about a tour. I wanted to
Speaker 6: take my cast around. They're just so insanely busy. They
Speaker 6: go to immediately to other shows when they're not shooting
Speaker 6: this one. But in terms of showcasing like unknown talent,
Speaker 6: that's I.
Speaker 9: Mean, that would be dope. I mean we try to
Speaker 9: get every year.
Speaker 6: We try to get folks from like everything from Angela
Speaker 6: Bassett to folks from TikTok and YouTube, and you'll see.
Speaker 9: Them on the show.
Speaker 6: Like you may not recognize some of them, but if
Speaker 6: they're your favorites, you will. And then I just ran
Speaker 6: into Duran and Bernardo was performing on the other stage.
Speaker 6: He was so dope. Yeah, we got him in his
Speaker 6: sketch this year, and like people you wouldn't expect to
Speaker 6: see in sketches.
Speaker 9: I think that's really fun. But yeah, I mean a
Speaker 9: tour would be great.
Speaker 6: I don't know when I would do it, but I
Speaker 6: would find time.
Speaker 9: We could do it on the weekends.
Speaker 6: But yeah, maybe.
Speaker 9: But also what advice do I have? My thing is,
Speaker 9: don't think you're.
Speaker 6: Better than any job, Like, especially for young people. There's
Speaker 6: a thing that's happening now that I'm seeing where like
Speaker 6: people would be like, Okay, cool, I want to come
Speaker 6: in as the CEO of the company, or I want
Speaker 6: to come in like and have an overall deal at
Speaker 6: a studio, and it's like we haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 6: Like go be a PA, you know, go be a
Speaker 6: production assistant, Go be a writer's assistant. Don't think you're
Speaker 6: better than those things, you know, and just work your
Speaker 6: way up. I'm a showrunner, right, so that means I
Speaker 6: run the whole show. I manage a multimillion dollar budgets
Speaker 6: and on any show that I run, and I also
Speaker 6: write and I act and I you know, all this stuff.
Speaker 6: So it's a lot of hats to wear. But the
Speaker 6: only reason I was prepared to do that is because
Speaker 6: I had twenty years in the business.
Speaker 9: Doing every job on so many for shows. So I
Speaker 9: don't know if y'all know a lot about where I
Speaker 9: came from.
Speaker 6: But like I was writing for Mike Epps and Chris
Speaker 6: Rock and Kevin Hart and all these comedians, like I'll
Speaker 6: be on the roll with comedians. Then I started writing
Speaker 6: for award shows and writing like the monologues and the
Speaker 6: sketches and the jokes. Then I got Then I started
Speaker 6: staffing in rooms as those comedians started selling shows.
Speaker 9: Then I, you know, worked my way up to being
Speaker 9: head writer.
Speaker 10: We should remind people, Robin that that story is actually
Speaker 10: in the QLs classic.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 10: It is also the Puppetsier version as well. We talked
Speaker 10: about there too.
Speaker 9: But I say all that to say, not to run
Speaker 9: down the resume, but.
Speaker 6: Just to say, like, I've been here a long time
Speaker 6: and some people just got to know me yesterday, you
Speaker 6: know so, and and I'm and I'm.
Speaker 9: Grateful for that. I'm never better than somebody just now saying.
Speaker 9: There's probably people standing here who are like, who is
Speaker 9: this woman talking?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 6: But now you might go google.
Speaker 9: So oh I thought they were saying us, we don't
Speaker 9: know you if they're waving to you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's yeah, right question.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of you writing for other comedians, will you
Speaker 4: ever or is it even a bucket list of yours
Speaker 4: to try stand up once? Because that's the thing I
Speaker 4: was shocked at. I don't because you have never You
Speaker 4: told me you never done stand up, and.
Speaker 6: You yell at me because you're like your literal late
Speaker 6: night show was you standing up telling jokes?
Speaker 9: So I guess I did do stand up.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, I've wrote for literally name your favorite comedian.
Speaker 6: I wrote jokes for them, so, you know, being on
Speaker 6: the road and watching them do what they do, do
Speaker 6: you still feed them now?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, sometimes I have a good idea for you.
Speaker 9: Why don't you sometimes?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Sometimes but like I'll reach out to them because it's
Speaker 6: just that community. Like when Wanda was hosting the Oscars,
Speaker 6: I was like, yo, you did some jokes. She was
Speaker 6: like hit me, you know, and like and I didn't
Speaker 6: because I'm a bad friend. But I just got caught
Speaker 6: up doing shit and not I forgot but but but no,
Speaker 6: it's that kind of community though. Or if they call me, like,
Speaker 6: I'm there, if Rock calls me, if if want to
Speaker 6: calls me, whoever, I'm there.
Speaker 9: So But will I ever do stand up?
Speaker 6: I don't think so, for the same reasons that like
Speaker 6: a lot of older comedians don't really do stand up anymore.
Speaker 6: I think it's like you got to go out and
Speaker 6: fail for a year doing that material. And because I
Speaker 6: never put my ten years in right.
Speaker 2: Now a good time.
Speaker 9: No, it's not a good time to start. I don't
Speaker 9: even want that.
Speaker 2: No, no ten seconds stand up.
Speaker 6: No, I will not be swayed there. This is why
Speaker 6: I play the bad comedian, Like I know where my strengths.
Speaker 6: I I know I'm good at impressions and characters, like
Speaker 6: I'm not good at just standing up and being myself.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's imposter syndrome for the lady that I don't know.
Speaker 6: I know, it's just knowing.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't like it. I tried it twice and I
Speaker 6: almost uncomfortable zone. But for what most stand ups are
Speaker 6: doing it so they can get a TV show. I
Speaker 6: have had multiple television shows. I am multiple my active.
Speaker 2: What you gotroactive? You gotta do the TV shows before
Speaker 2: you do the stand up standing TV shows.
Speaker 9: It would be hustling backwards.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it backwards?
Speaker 6: I mean, one day you should do what.
Speaker 2: You want to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have no desire, right, I mean, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm not doing a toxic mail.
Speaker 10: You know why?
Speaker 6: I think you were?
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 6: You know why too, Because it's a very solitary life
Speaker 6: and it's a very solitary pursuit. And I like doing
Speaker 6: things with other people, and I like supporting us, and
Speaker 6: I like showcasing us, and I feel like stand up
Speaker 6: would just be showcasing me, which I don't think.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 6: Wait before you wrap it up, can I gotta ask
Speaker 6: you a question?
Speaker 3: Boss?
Speaker 6: Wait before you wrap it up?
Speaker 10: Because we don't get moments with Questlove at the root
Speaker 10: picnic rab and you don't know this, but this is
Speaker 10: the only time that he actually leaves like area and
Speaker 10: if this is really something, So can you give us
Speaker 10: any insight on today what you're looking forward to? How
Speaker 10: was last night like, tell us something, This is the
Speaker 10: return of the Roofs Picnic in three years.
Speaker 2: Yes it is.
Speaker 4: You know, for me it's there's a biggest story because
Speaker 4: the one thing we didn't talk about yesterday was yes,
Speaker 4: it was is our thirtieth the Roots, as you know,
Speaker 4: it was our thirtieth.
Speaker 2: And oh my god, I be in her first for
Speaker 2: me to see, you.
Speaker 4: Know, two friends from high school busk on the corner
Speaker 4: of South Street and you tell me, thirty years from
Speaker 4: this date, you're going to hit over sixty thousand people
Speaker 4: in the backyard.
Speaker 2: Of the borough that you grew up in.
Speaker 4: I mean I came here thirty years ago to see
Speaker 4: in Vogue and arrested development and now it's like this
Speaker 4: is my home.
Speaker 2: So you know, for me, uh, it was a dream.
Speaker 2: It was a dream.
Speaker 4: Playing with Mary as well. You know, she definitely gave
Speaker 4: us feed. She wants to she wants to make that
Speaker 4: happen again.
Speaker 10: So every time somebody does the Roots picnic, usher did
Speaker 10: the same thing, right. Every time they do they perform
Speaker 10: with the Roots Robin, they always been like, what else
Speaker 10: we do in Vegas?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well no band is gonna compare obviously.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: By the way, can you text Mary J.
Speaker 6: Blige while you had it?
Speaker 9: Also listen to yourself.
Speaker 6: She will be good. I wanted them all on the show.
Speaker 9: We're gonna get you on in season.
Speaker 4: Anyways, Ladies and gentlemen, this is of course Love Supreme
Speaker 4: on paid Bill.
Speaker 2: He This is Robin Phoebe.
Speaker 7: Thank you very.
Speaker 2: So much. Enjoy the rest of the roofs picnic. Please
Speaker 2: be safe, love one another West.
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