WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Earthquake On The Joke Telling Business, Stand-Up Longevity, Dave Chappelle + More 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.720 Every day a week ago. 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:07.640 Clicks up the Breakfast Club, y'all done morning. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.440 Everybody is the DJ Envy just Hilaris Charlamagne, the guide. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.400 We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.000 in the building. All the Rosa is here with us 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:15.400 as well. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.560 Special guests in the building comedian Earthquake. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.200 Wait, how you doing? 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.400 Good morning bad Well, thank. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.160 You for having me. It's always honor to be here 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:24.880 with y'all. Man. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.640 Congratulations you just got married recently, Yes, Bobbie Brown, Johnny 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:29.400 Gill at the wedding. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.800 How about four. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.800 Weekend? The weekend that's right for earth. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.280 You know, it was my day, not just my wife. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.200 She didn't want to have a big wedding. She wanted 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.559 to do a destination one. I would say, nah, I 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.040 want everybody here. What you tell me? So I want 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:52.199 to proof you know what I mean? 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.280 And it was my day. It was a beautiful day. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.760 All my friends was there, all the comedians was there, 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:58.800 and it was beautiful. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.160 It was it. It was every thing I dreamed of 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:01.560 my day. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.680 Well made you want to finally settle down? 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.160 Other right one I always looked for. I mean, I've 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.120 always believed in quality over quantity. The only reason I 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.679 had quality because I didn't have quality. So until I 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.959 found that person and. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:15.479 It was it. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.679 I never my man who was never based upon how 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.000 many women I've been with or that type of thing. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.120 I'm not down like that. I was always new. I 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.920 used to say in my jokes all the time. People 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.080 were like, well, quake, why ain't you made it? I said, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.720 because I'm one good black woman. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:30.160 For making it. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:30.679 Damn. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.360 I always knew that. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.440 You know, I was never gonna get the success that 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.800 I got right now until I found her. You know, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.760 I listened to you the foundation you have to have 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.720 that and you said, and I always researched. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.120 I just could not find. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.400 That partner, you know, and you know you know is 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.080 you look for miss right, not miss right now. And 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.280 then nothing wrong with them my past women, they just 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:55.240 wasn't my women. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.960 They wasn't right for me. And I don't settle. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.720 So you just gave a great ball for anybody out 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.040 there as a whole, because you said the only reason 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.160 I was I had so much quantity is because I 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.240 couldn't find quality. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.440 Exactly the nex time anybody I did get called a whole. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.840 Use that line a great line. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.560 Yeah, it's the truth. I mean, because it's nonprofitable. I mean, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:21.079 it's nothing in it you I mean, but really, if 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.240 you if you really think about it, if you break 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.280 it down, it's the situation in for any man. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.760 If you don't love it, you're just sleeping with it. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:29.760 It's just for a feeling. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.680 So I have other things that give me just as 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.720 much satisfaction of that feeling and dealing with a woman, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.880 so you get what I'm saying. So it didn't feel 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.720 that for it that it was looking for until I 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:41.200 found her. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.520 One of your best friends, one of my best friends, Jag. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.680 People don't know. He's one of the funniest dude out. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.760 I bring him on my show sometime and we've been 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.720 friends for many years. How that happen, Well, he is 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:53.280 from d C. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.320 And you know I followed him a lot of times 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.120 and then I actually got to meet him at a 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.320 club and we kicked off from there and we've. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.280 Been friends every since. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:02.880 That's dope. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.280 Yeah, my man, right there, he's my man. That's my man. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.280 Got the new comedy special. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.560 Comedy Special drop today and joke telling business because that's 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.760 what I am in. I'm really to tell comedians it's 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:17.640 time to be funny. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:18.679 If you're gonna. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.840 Say your comedian and fly that banner, be funny, you 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.280 know what I mean, or take the banner down. You know, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.360 this is what we do. And I thought it was 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.400 up to me at being in this games. I'm in 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.480 the joke telling business. So all the other stuff y'all 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.640 talking about the people that want to be pronounsticators, naz damas, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.360 selling what the future is and all this other stuff. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:41.640 If you're gonna say. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.920 You're comedian, you need to tell jokes and be funny. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.560 And all these comedians still riding on their previous you know, 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.760 loans and stuff on it. I think, just like a 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.520 driver's license, comedians need to get their license renewed. Say 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.040 you funny, you know, drop us something to say you 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:58.880 steal are comic. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.000 You can still saying I used to be on death 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.760 Jee and and all that. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.000 You know you ain't come on. Time for you to 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.200 renew your license to say you funny. If you're gonna 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.760 fly under the banner of being a comedian, say what 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.560 you ain't or say what you are. But you can't 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.560 be us unless you be funny. And I want to 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.799 say it was funny Saturday night. It was a pleasure 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.720 being with you in Indianapolis, and I've seen you grown 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.039 and keep doing your things, and don't keep doing your thing. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.239 Expound on that though, what's the biggest difference between being 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.960 funny and being a professional comedian who understands this is 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:34.960 actually a business. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.360 Well, a lot of people fall off. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.560 And She'll tell you have to once you get to 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.280 that plateau of being funny and among your peers, to 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.720 consistency of being funny, you have to regenerate and come 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.920 up with new material and stay at that level. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.400 You know what's funny, and you have to work at it. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:53.600 I mean, I have. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:58.480 Nothing against internet comedians or nothing, but you cannot escape 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.799 from hitting that stage there, putting that work in, putting 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.480 new stuff in. And I tell you my wife all 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.159 the time, she said, while you at the clubs and 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.599 hanging it up in place, I said, you know, the 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.359 shepherd has always must smell like the sheet. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.280 People who we get our. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.479 Money from does not live the standard of living that 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:18.560 I live at. So I have to go down there 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.719 and be down here so I can interpret what's funny 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.680 from that perspective and talk to the people, because where 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.159 I'm at, they would not relate and then they'll say 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.960 I'm out of touch. So I have to be around 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.560 the people and be in the wallmarks and be at 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.480 marshes to get an irregular shirt. I have to feel 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.240 it on here so I can relate to the people 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.599 that allows you to sit here and have massage just 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.200 three times a week. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.560 How you ever had to tell a comedian like as 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.160 Og like you're not funny anymore. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.039 You should go do that. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.000 No, I don't do that because jokes are subjective. You 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.320 know what's funny to me, I might fundy nobody else. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.720 That's why I tell all the comedians you know, no 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.400 matter who you are, somebody gonna find out find that 0:05:59.440 --> 0:05:59.760 you're not. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.200 You just pray to God all of them donna show up 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:07.240 that night, you know what. You just pray to God 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.440 they don't come there to see you that night. Then 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:10.160 you get booed. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.760 Now you listen to Jessic set, so you listen to 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.040 other comedian sets to see what they're talking about. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.920 No, because I don't. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.440 I don't physically right, I'm mentally right, so to keep 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.560 my jokes period, I don't listen to other comics. So 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.480 don't you know be contaminating. I think I came of 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.800 it because I heard it. Because I don't physically right. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.719 But what I do do is for the people that 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.600 are my and I want to see their growth. I 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.520 take time out and come to see And she's one 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.159 of those people that I say. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.680 Let me see it because I've seen her in the beginning. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.000 I know how she got in the game. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.520 And you know, people that's been in the game like 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.320 I've been as a veteran holds it against them and 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.240 I said, I don't care how you got into it. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.560 Do you work at it? 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.919 Her DC, young Fly, they work at it, and for 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.800 then man, I have nothing but respect for him. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.960 Weekend weekend, Yeah, they work out. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.800 But people could be on the road that week and 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:09.560 suck bomb and anyday you think. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.920 Then gods that they drop them so many bombs. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.120 Do you feel like the arts you feel like the 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.920 art of the long form stand up set is under threat? 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.240 Or does it make your your style of storytelling even 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:22.800 more valuable? 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.000 I think to be honest with your quality, I mean 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.880 elongated of getting to the punchline. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.080 For me, get to the punchline. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.320 I feel certain comedians have a lot of you know, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.880 nuts because they have a long segue. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.720 Before they get to the punchline. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.080 And I always thought if that don't work, you're in 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.920 trouble because black. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:45.600 People are impatient. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.240 When you you sitting in front of black owners, you 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.440 go that long and they sit in that chair and. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.880 They rocked it one way and they rocked the other. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.680 Way, and they look over to the other person and 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.600 they look over to acknowledge you suck. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:57.720 Then the booze come. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.840 But if you hit them, just can and have multiple set, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.600 multiple subjects. That means anytime did they come into the show, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.120 they can pick up right there. They don't have to 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:09.920 see you in the beginning for you to have the 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.120 call back and everything. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.640 That's just my philosophy on it. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.320 I want you to be like a train that anytime 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.000 you get on it, you can ride. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.720 You know wherever you'll stop. You just walked in late, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:20.280 or you. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.480 Was mad at your girl, and okay, I'm at a 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.679 comedy show because we need your undivided attention. So whatever 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.440 you're going through, I must go through that and get it. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.200 So if you argue with your woman all the way 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.040 through and you mad at her, I need to have 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.080 a joke. Once you come around and realize you're in 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.560 a comedy club you can enjoy at that point. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:41.080 Did your mom really date marg Yeah? Did you really 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.840 say I wish Marvin Gave was my daddy not my 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:43.320 real daddy? 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:48.200 Yeah, I mean because I wanted to come up, she 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:49.000 couldn't trap them. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.200 Heard he was on drugs. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:56.480 She slipping, Come on mom, Yeah, I mean she used 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.000 to always tell who my mama. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.800 My mama was at chick Man. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.960 She did a lot to do some dude, And I 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.599 just didn't understand how my father got him because he 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.760 ain't had none of those qualities. Damn you understand, but 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.240 he funded her, So I get it. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.280 Now as a man. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.120 So you knew your mama was like I did. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:20.240 No, she wasn't. She's a worldly women. She wanted to 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.240 see the world. Some people got you sometimes in New 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.200 York bronze. Now you understand, never need New York. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.559 He's saying, I love my man. Man, this is the 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.319 kind of guy. You know, it's gonna come. I got 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:34.680 one with me next you bank, he's. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.520 Gonna hit that. We call him sniper. You know, he's 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.960 just gonna, you know, get it to your face. You 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.920 just take it. You know what I mean? I got you, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:42.679 I got you? 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.200 What kind of truth? Did you tap into with this 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.400 new special that you know what? I really want to ask, what's. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.920 Something you tapped into that you may not have tapped 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.200 into ten or fifteen years ago. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.440 Oh I really don't go like that. I just interpret 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.199 and then I put it together and then I line 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.760 it up. Which one? I think these the ones that 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.280 I want to do. That's the funniest, that will carry 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.000 on so more than anything, just the perspective of our 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.280 Caucasian friends out here, you know, the Portland part when 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.080 I just went up there and Seattle to see struggling 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.040 white people getting caught with you know, back in the 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.640 day like New Jack City just laying on the ground 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.679 with Fenton on. I mean you could tell they had 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.640 a good mother and father and they just laying I'm 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.600 just stepping over them, like look at God. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.160 I mean. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.480 No, I'm just like I just thought that happened to us. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.760 It was like white version of New Jack City. I 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.080 was like, it happened to us. And to actually have 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.080 a white dude asked me for some money. I was like, no, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.760 you could be anything. You could be anything. All you 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.360 need to, I mean everything is in your image. You know, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.400 you got everything all you need to do is take 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:56.640 a shower and put a suit on it. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:57.960 You'll be my supervisor. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.120 By them all, Trump said, you want to send the 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.280 National Guard to Portland. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.640 Well, you know he wants to do what he want 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.840 to do. You know, he deepot in the country. So 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.720 everybody better tuck the chain because it don't matter who 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.520 you are. You just he ain't playing and ain't nobody 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.679 holding against him. And to the point that he actually 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.720 just letting you know that I'm gonna use the judicial 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.760 system to go after my political opponents and there's nothing 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.920 wrong with it. It's amazing to me that these people 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.280 just put themself impressors to justify what he's doing. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.040 So as black people, we've been through this before. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.880 So you know you got to navigate and just we 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.720 the best peeral, i mean, per per legals in the world. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.320 When somebody get locked up, brother, like, how to get them? 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.959 You know what I'm saying, I don't know. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.160 We the first one. We first want to know. I 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.240 get it. You know what's what's charge? 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:50.840 Now? 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.120 You got so much material like m from the beginning, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.120 like you said about Aretha Franklin, the beginning all the 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.320 way till now right is this comedy show longer than 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:01.839 the last one. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.360 Yeah, I put forty five in them this time. And 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.679 I call it the flu game because you know how 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.640 it is people don't know. And I see Charlamne come 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.360 to work sometime we be under the weather. But you know, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.760 you can't. You know, I'm not Dave's pelle cad or 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.320 one of them. They can go to the next flick 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.200 and say, Man, I'm not feeling good and shoot this tomorrow. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.040 I have to I have to go there. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.679 So I had a respiratory effected when I had a 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.079 sign and still the whole time, and I pushed on it. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.040 Oh man, So you just you've been in there before. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.800 You know how you see comedians they be on the stage, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.120 they had a hot chocolate or the hot tea and 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.080 everything on it. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.200 And we get into it. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.000 So I'm the most proud of it that it came 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.920 at that particular point and I still I came off. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.160 That's why I call it my Michael Jordan flu game. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.200 Still put up forty you know. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.560 To like what you said about you know how comedians 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.280 got to renew their license right, but are some people 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.480 just grandfathered in? And what I mean by that, like 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.720 somebody like Eddie Murphy right like Eddie ain't put out 0:12:58.720 --> 0:12:59.520 a special. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.439 In forever well, he grandfather in. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.920 But he also gave up the banner of being saying 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.400 a stand up comic because he did not want to continue. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.160 He knew what the standard takes for him to maintain it, 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.440 and he bowed out with Steve did the same thing you. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:14.160 Have surfing it. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.520 They give it up on it and for them they 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.400 will always be on my mouse rushmore of the on it. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.520 I'm talking about comedians that's right here and there number 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.720 one claim the fame as being a stand up comedian 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.880 and they're not doing telling no jokes. You understand Eddie 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.720 Murphy doing movie's TV animation then sitting there, he didn't 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.520 gave that up and he appreciated the johndre where it 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.240 was at to give it enough that it deserved the 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.200 utmost respect. And I can't give it to it going 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.760 to club. What his process is to be up to 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.520 that level to get up there, he gave that up. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.400 I don't have what it takes to be at that 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.600 level to get a respect for me to stand on 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.960 that stage to amongst all the rest of the comedians. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.800 For that you applaud, but you don't. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.760 What you do have to do is stop giving all 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.120 these other comedians all these fan faar and giving them 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.360 all this I don't say. They ain't telling no goddamn jokes. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.839 Tell them be what they are, what the title. You are, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.600 what you are, not what you say you are. So 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.319 that's why I'm name it. I Earthquake is in the 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.680 joke telling business. That's what I do. So we have 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.320 nothing else to talk about unless it got something to 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:21.840 do with jokes. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.880 Telling jokes on your podcast or on TikTok or Instagram clips. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:27.440 Well you you is. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.720 But if you say you a stand up comic, you 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.720 have to sit here and do what I don't have no. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.720 Problem with anybody. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.600 Diversifying from the from it, but you must stay with 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.040 the job description of it. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:42.280 You know what I'm saying. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.240 What I mean, If it bans you out to do 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.360 books and TV and all that, great, that's just show 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.520 how diversified we are in the talent that we are. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.360 But you must stay. You know, if you're a singer, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.360 you must sing, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.200 You know what I mean. If you if you're a boxer, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.760 you gotta fight. That's all. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.880 That's all I'm saying you've got too many comedians. In 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.640 my humble opinion, that's not being funny. And sometimes people 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.160 such as yourself, got to ask them, where's the jokes? 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.920 Yeah, is it hard? 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.120 Where's the jokes? 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.760 The joke said? Just this? Where the jokes? That's all 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.000 I asked, Tell the jokes? 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.440 And you got to somebody have to stand up and 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.800 say even nothing, you know, for my profession, my john 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.720 not to stand up for because I love it. It's 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.840 been has been like the baseball is very very good 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:34.160 for me. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:34.480 I have. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.560 I have always given back own my own comedy club, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.560 have my own number one show on series that's called 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.520 Quake House that I bring comedians that nobody hear about 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.560 that we sit around and talk about to give them. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.800 I give back to the jendre on the point of 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.920 it because I love it so much and I think it. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.240 But we have too many people now that just not 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.920 sticking with the job description. And somebody got to tell 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.480 them at some point, man, be fucking funny. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:15:59.880 I was going to ask, is it hard? Once you 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.640 start diversifying and everything else gets big, and then you 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.240 can't get on stage and do what you used to do. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.560 Like Kevin Hart is still on stage, but people come 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.800 for him because he doesn't joke or talk about certain things. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.560 But he's still funny. He's sell a comedian. But people 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.240 try to take that away from him because he's not. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.880 They feel like he's not as raw about certain things. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.600 Well, you gotta understand his constituents that, first of all, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.720 comedians make fun of the experiences that they go through. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.440 Kevin Hart is the. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.480 One percent of one percent, so his experiences not goes 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.680 along with the other ninety nine percent. So what he 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.920 has to do is have fire writers that has experienced 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.760 that and they give it to him and he looks 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.400 it over. I have no problem with that. Evil sit 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.280 there and be funny on it. He's being funny. He's 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.880 still giving back to the John Doff stand up, So 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.280 I have no problem with that. You know, you can't 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.040 expect him to talk about his life. Oh man, I 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.560 went there and jet was late, and do you know 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.360 they didn't have what I asked. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.480 I said, I wanted flat waters. Man, motherfucker just came here. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.720 They got. I'm on probably jet flat water. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.880 Relatability is the number one essential of being a comedian, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.520 and very people can relate to his life because he 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.080 has such a privileged life, so what's funny to him 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:13.960 is not gonna be funny to ninety nine percent of 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.080 the people because they don't experience what he's going through. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.720