Speaker 1: Every day a week ago.
Speaker 2: Clicks up the Breakfast Club, y'all done morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody is the DJ Envy just Hilaris Charlamagne, the guide.
Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest
Speaker 3: in the building. All the Rosa is here with us
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: Special guests in the building comedian Earthquake.
Speaker 1: Wait, how you doing?
Speaker 2: Good morning bad Well, thank.
Speaker 1: You for having me. It's always honor to be here
Speaker 1: with y'all. Man.
Speaker 3: Congratulations you just got married recently, Yes, Bobbie Brown, Johnny
Speaker 3: Gill at the wedding.
Speaker 1: How about four.
Speaker 2: Weekend? The weekend that's right for earth.
Speaker 5: You know, it was my day, not just my wife.
Speaker 5: She didn't want to have a big wedding. She wanted
Speaker 5: to do a destination one. I would say, nah, I
Speaker 5: want everybody here. What you tell me? So I want
Speaker 5: to proof you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And it was my day. It was a beautiful day.
Speaker 5: All my friends was there, all the comedians was there,
Speaker 5: and it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was it. It was every thing I dreamed of
Speaker 1: my day.
Speaker 2: Well made you want to finally settle down?
Speaker 5: Other right one I always looked for. I mean, I've
Speaker 5: always believed in quality over quantity. The only reason I
Speaker 5: had quality because I didn't have quality. So until I
Speaker 5: found that person and.
Speaker 1: It was it.
Speaker 5: I never my man who was never based upon how
Speaker 5: many women I've been with or that type of thing.
Speaker 5: I'm not down like that. I was always new. I
Speaker 5: used to say in my jokes all the time. People
Speaker 5: were like, well, quake, why ain't you made it? I said,
Speaker 5: because I'm one good black woman.
Speaker 1: For making it.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 1: I always knew that.
Speaker 5: You know, I was never gonna get the success that
Speaker 5: I got right now until I found her. You know,
Speaker 5: I listened to you the foundation you have to have
Speaker 5: that and you said, and I always researched.
Speaker 1: I just could not find.
Speaker 5: That partner, you know, and you know you know is
Speaker 5: you look for miss right, not miss right now. And
Speaker 5: then nothing wrong with them my past women, they just
Speaker 5: wasn't my women.
Speaker 1: They wasn't right for me. And I don't settle.
Speaker 6: So you just gave a great ball for anybody out
Speaker 6: there as a whole, because you said the only reason
Speaker 6: I was I had so much quantity is because I
Speaker 6: couldn't find quality.
Speaker 2: Exactly the nex time anybody I did get called a whole.
Speaker 2: Use that line a great line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the truth. I mean, because it's nonprofitable. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's nothing in it you I mean, but really, if
Speaker 5: you if you really think about it, if you break
Speaker 5: it down, it's the situation in for any man.
Speaker 1: If you don't love it, you're just sleeping with it.
Speaker 1: It's just for a feeling.
Speaker 5: So I have other things that give me just as
Speaker 5: much satisfaction of that feeling and dealing with a woman,
Speaker 5: so you get what I'm saying. So it didn't feel
Speaker 5: that for it that it was looking for until I
Speaker 5: found her.
Speaker 1: One of your best friends, one of my best friends, Jag.
Speaker 1: People don't know. He's one of the funniest dude out.
Speaker 1: I bring him on my show sometime and we've been
Speaker 1: friends for many years. How that happen, Well, he is
Speaker 1: from d C.
Speaker 5: And you know I followed him a lot of times
Speaker 5: and then I actually got to meet him at a
Speaker 5: club and we kicked off from there and we've.
Speaker 1: Been friends every since.
Speaker 2: That's dope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my man, right there, he's my man. That's my man.
Speaker 7: Got the new comedy special.
Speaker 5: Comedy Special drop today and joke telling business because that's
Speaker 5: what I am in. I'm really to tell comedians it's
Speaker 5: time to be funny.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna.
Speaker 5: Say your comedian and fly that banner, be funny, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, or take the banner down. You know,
Speaker 5: this is what we do. And I thought it was
Speaker 5: up to me at being in this games. I'm in
Speaker 5: the joke telling business. So all the other stuff y'all
Speaker 5: talking about the people that want to be pronounsticators, naz damas,
Speaker 5: selling what the future is and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna say.
Speaker 5: You're comedian, you need to tell jokes and be funny.
Speaker 5: And all these comedians still riding on their previous you know,
Speaker 5: loans and stuff on it. I think, just like a
Speaker 5: driver's license, comedians need to get their license renewed. Say
Speaker 5: you funny, you know, drop us something to say you
Speaker 5: steal are comic.
Speaker 1: You can still saying I used to be on death
Speaker 1: Jee and and all that.
Speaker 5: You know you ain't come on. Time for you to
Speaker 5: renew your license to say you funny. If you're gonna
Speaker 5: fly under the banner of being a comedian, say what
Speaker 5: you ain't or say what you are. But you can't
Speaker 5: be us unless you be funny. And I want to
Speaker 5: say it was funny Saturday night. It was a pleasure
Speaker 5: being with you in Indianapolis, and I've seen you grown
Speaker 5: and keep doing your things, and don't keep doing your thing.
Speaker 6: Expound on that though, what's the biggest difference between being
Speaker 6: funny and being a professional comedian who understands this is
Speaker 6: actually a business.
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people fall off.
Speaker 5: And She'll tell you have to once you get to
Speaker 5: that plateau of being funny and among your peers, to
Speaker 5: consistency of being funny, you have to regenerate and come
Speaker 5: up with new material and stay at that level.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, and you have to work at it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have.
Speaker 5: Nothing against internet comedians or nothing, but you cannot escape
Speaker 5: from hitting that stage there, putting that work in, putting
Speaker 5: new stuff in. And I tell you my wife all
Speaker 5: the time, she said, while you at the clubs and
Speaker 5: hanging it up in place, I said, you know, the
Speaker 5: shepherd has always must smell like the sheet.
Speaker 1: People who we get our.
Speaker 5: Money from does not live the standard of living that
Speaker 5: I live at. So I have to go down there
Speaker 5: and be down here so I can interpret what's funny
Speaker 5: from that perspective and talk to the people, because where
Speaker 5: I'm at, they would not relate and then they'll say
Speaker 5: I'm out of touch. So I have to be around
Speaker 5: the people and be in the wallmarks and be at
Speaker 5: marshes to get an irregular shirt. I have to feel
Speaker 5: it on here so I can relate to the people
Speaker 5: that allows you to sit here and have massage just
Speaker 5: three times a week.
Speaker 8: How you ever had to tell a comedian like as
Speaker 8: Og like you're not funny anymore.
Speaker 2: You should go do that.
Speaker 5: No, I don't do that because jokes are subjective. You
Speaker 5: know what's funny to me, I might fundy nobody else.
Speaker 5: That's why I tell all the comedians you know, no
Speaker 5: matter who you are, somebody gonna find out find that
Speaker 5: you're not.
Speaker 1: You just pray to God all of them donna show up
Speaker 1: that night, you know what. You just pray to God
Speaker 1: they don't come there to see you that night. Then
Speaker 1: you get booed.
Speaker 3: Now you listen to Jessic set, so you listen to
Speaker 3: other comedian sets to see what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: No, because I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't physically right, I'm mentally right, so to keep
Speaker 5: my jokes period, I don't listen to other comics. So
Speaker 5: don't you know be contaminating. I think I came of
Speaker 5: it because I heard it. Because I don't physically right.
Speaker 5: But what I do do is for the people that
Speaker 5: are my and I want to see their growth. I
Speaker 5: take time out and come to see And she's one
Speaker 5: of those people that I say.
Speaker 1: Let me see it because I've seen her in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I know how she got in the game.
Speaker 5: And you know, people that's been in the game like
Speaker 5: I've been as a veteran holds it against them and
Speaker 5: I said, I don't care how you got into it.
Speaker 1: Do you work at it?
Speaker 5: Her DC, young Fly, they work at it, and for
Speaker 5: then man, I have nothing but respect for him.
Speaker 2: Weekend weekend, Yeah, they work out.
Speaker 5: But people could be on the road that week and
Speaker 5: suck bomb and anyday you think.
Speaker 1: Then gods that they drop them so many bombs.
Speaker 6: Do you feel like the arts you feel like the
Speaker 6: art of the long form stand up set is under threat?
Speaker 2: Or does it make your your style of storytelling even
Speaker 2: more valuable?
Speaker 5: I think to be honest with your quality, I mean
Speaker 5: elongated of getting to the punchline.
Speaker 1: For me, get to the punchline.
Speaker 5: I feel certain comedians have a lot of you know,
Speaker 5: nuts because they have a long segue.
Speaker 1: Before they get to the punchline.
Speaker 5: And I always thought if that don't work, you're in
Speaker 5: trouble because black.
Speaker 1: People are impatient.
Speaker 5: When you you sitting in front of black owners, you
Speaker 5: go that long and they sit in that chair and.
Speaker 1: They rocked it one way and they rocked the other.
Speaker 5: Way, and they look over to the other person and
Speaker 5: they look over to acknowledge you suck.
Speaker 1: Then the booze come.
Speaker 5: But if you hit them, just can and have multiple set,
Speaker 5: multiple subjects. That means anytime did they come into the show,
Speaker 5: they can pick up right there. They don't have to
Speaker 5: see you in the beginning for you to have the
Speaker 5: call back and everything.
Speaker 1: That's just my philosophy on it.
Speaker 5: I want you to be like a train that anytime
Speaker 5: you get on it, you can ride.
Speaker 1: You know wherever you'll stop. You just walked in late,
Speaker 1: or you.
Speaker 5: Was mad at your girl, and okay, I'm at a
Speaker 5: comedy show because we need your undivided attention. So whatever
Speaker 5: you're going through, I must go through that and get it.
Speaker 5: So if you argue with your woman all the way
Speaker 5: through and you mad at her, I need to have
Speaker 5: a joke. Once you come around and realize you're in
Speaker 5: a comedy club you can enjoy at that point.
Speaker 3: Did your mom really date marg Yeah? Did you really
Speaker 3: say I wish Marvin Gave was my daddy not my
Speaker 3: real daddy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean because I wanted to come up, she
Speaker 5: couldn't trap them.
Speaker 1: Heard he was on drugs.
Speaker 5: She slipping, Come on mom, Yeah, I mean she used
Speaker 5: to always tell who my mama.
Speaker 1: My mama was at chick Man.
Speaker 5: She did a lot to do some dude, And I
Speaker 5: just didn't understand how my father got him because he
Speaker 5: ain't had none of those qualities. Damn you understand, but
Speaker 5: he funded her, So I get it.
Speaker 1: Now as a man.
Speaker 2: So you knew your mama was like I did.
Speaker 1: No, she wasn't. She's a worldly women. She wanted to
Speaker 1: see the world. Some people got you sometimes in New
Speaker 1: York bronze. Now you understand, never need New York.
Speaker 5: He's saying, I love my man. Man, this is the
Speaker 5: kind of guy. You know, it's gonna come. I got
Speaker 5: one with me next you bank, he's.
Speaker 1: Gonna hit that. We call him sniper. You know, he's
Speaker 1: just gonna, you know, get it to your face. You
Speaker 1: just take it. You know what I mean? I got you,
Speaker 1: I got you?
Speaker 2: What kind of truth? Did you tap into with this
Speaker 2: new special that you know what? I really want to ask, what's.
Speaker 6: Something you tapped into that you may not have tapped
Speaker 6: into ten or fifteen years ago.
Speaker 5: Oh I really don't go like that. I just interpret
Speaker 5: and then I put it together and then I line
Speaker 5: it up. Which one? I think these the ones that
Speaker 5: I want to do. That's the funniest, that will carry
Speaker 5: on so more than anything, just the perspective of our
Speaker 5: Caucasian friends out here, you know, the Portland part when
Speaker 5: I just went up there and Seattle to see struggling
Speaker 5: white people getting caught with you know, back in the
Speaker 5: day like New Jack City just laying on the ground
Speaker 5: with Fenton on. I mean you could tell they had
Speaker 5: a good mother and father and they just laying I'm
Speaker 5: just stepping over them, like look at God.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just like I just thought that happened to us.
Speaker 5: It was like white version of New Jack City. I
Speaker 5: was like, it happened to us. And to actually have
Speaker 5: a white dude asked me for some money. I was like, no,
Speaker 5: you could be anything. You could be anything. All you
Speaker 5: need to, I mean everything is in your image. You know,
Speaker 5: you got everything all you need to do is take
Speaker 5: a shower and put a suit on it.
Speaker 1: You'll be my supervisor.
Speaker 2: By them all, Trump said, you want to send the
Speaker 2: National Guard to Portland.
Speaker 5: Well, you know he wants to do what he want
Speaker 5: to do. You know, he deepot in the country. So
Speaker 5: everybody better tuck the chain because it don't matter who
Speaker 5: you are. You just he ain't playing and ain't nobody
Speaker 5: holding against him. And to the point that he actually
Speaker 5: just letting you know that I'm gonna use the judicial
Speaker 5: system to go after my political opponents and there's nothing
Speaker 5: wrong with it. It's amazing to me that these people
Speaker 5: just put themself impressors to justify what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So as black people, we've been through this before.
Speaker 5: So you know you got to navigate and just we
Speaker 5: the best peeral, i mean, per per legals in the world.
Speaker 5: When somebody get locked up, brother, like, how to get them?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We the first one. We first want to know. I
Speaker 1: get it. You know what's what's charge?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 7: You got so much material like m from the beginning,
Speaker 7: like you said about Aretha Franklin, the beginning all the
Speaker 7: way till now right is this comedy show longer than
Speaker 7: the last one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I put forty five in them this time. And
Speaker 5: I call it the flu game because you know how
Speaker 5: it is people don't know. And I see Charlamne come
Speaker 5: to work sometime we be under the weather. But you know,
Speaker 5: you can't. You know, I'm not Dave's pelle cad or
Speaker 5: one of them. They can go to the next flick
Speaker 5: and say, Man, I'm not feeling good and shoot this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I have to I have to go there.
Speaker 5: So I had a respiratory effected when I had a
Speaker 5: sign and still the whole time, and I pushed on it.
Speaker 5: Oh man, So you just you've been in there before.
Speaker 5: You know how you see comedians they be on the stage,
Speaker 5: they had a hot chocolate or the hot tea and
Speaker 5: everything on it.
Speaker 1: And we get into it.
Speaker 5: So I'm the most proud of it that it came
Speaker 5: at that particular point and I still I came off.
Speaker 5: That's why I call it my Michael Jordan flu game.
Speaker 5: Still put up forty you know.
Speaker 6: To like what you said about you know how comedians
Speaker 6: got to renew their license right, but are some people
Speaker 6: just grandfathered in? And what I mean by that, like
Speaker 6: somebody like Eddie Murphy right like Eddie ain't put out
Speaker 6: a special.
Speaker 1: In forever well, he grandfather in.
Speaker 5: But he also gave up the banner of being saying
Speaker 5: a stand up comic because he did not want to continue.
Speaker 5: He knew what the standard takes for him to maintain it,
Speaker 5: and he bowed out with Steve did the same thing you.
Speaker 1: Have surfing it.
Speaker 5: They give it up on it and for them they
Speaker 5: will always be on my mouse rushmore of the on it.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about comedians that's right here and there number
Speaker 5: one claim the fame as being a stand up comedian
Speaker 5: and they're not doing telling no jokes. You understand Eddie
Speaker 5: Murphy doing movie's TV animation then sitting there, he didn't
Speaker 5: gave that up and he appreciated the johndre where it
Speaker 5: was at to give it enough that it deserved the
Speaker 5: utmost respect. And I can't give it to it going
Speaker 5: to club. What his process is to be up to
Speaker 5: that level to get up there, he gave that up.
Speaker 5: I don't have what it takes to be at that
Speaker 5: level to get a respect for me to stand on
Speaker 5: that stage to amongst all the rest of the comedians.
Speaker 1: For that you applaud, but you don't.
Speaker 5: What you do have to do is stop giving all
Speaker 5: these other comedians all these fan faar and giving them
Speaker 5: all this I don't say. They ain't telling no goddamn jokes.
Speaker 5: Tell them be what they are, what the title. You are,
Speaker 5: what you are, not what you say you are. So
Speaker 5: that's why I'm name it. I Earthquake is in the
Speaker 5: joke telling business. That's what I do. So we have
Speaker 5: nothing else to talk about unless it got something to
Speaker 5: do with jokes.
Speaker 6: Telling jokes on your podcast or on TikTok or Instagram clips.
Speaker 1: Well you you is.
Speaker 5: But if you say you a stand up comic, you
Speaker 5: have to sit here and do what I don't have no.
Speaker 1: Problem with anybody.
Speaker 5: Diversifying from the from it, but you must stay with
Speaker 5: the job description of it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: What I mean, If it bans you out to do
Speaker 5: books and TV and all that, great, that's just show
Speaker 5: how diversified we are in the talent that we are.
Speaker 5: But you must stay. You know, if you're a singer,
Speaker 5: you must sing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. If you if you're a boxer,
Speaker 1: you gotta fight. That's all.
Speaker 5: That's all I'm saying you've got too many comedians. In
Speaker 5: my humble opinion, that's not being funny. And sometimes people
Speaker 5: such as yourself, got to ask them, where's the jokes?
Speaker 8: Yeah, is it hard?
Speaker 2: Where's the jokes?
Speaker 1: The joke said? Just this? Where the jokes? That's all
Speaker 1: I asked, Tell the jokes?
Speaker 5: And you got to somebody have to stand up and
Speaker 5: say even nothing, you know, for my profession, my john
Speaker 5: not to stand up for because I love it. It's
Speaker 5: been has been like the baseball is very very good
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 5: I have always given back own my own comedy club,
Speaker 5: have my own number one show on series that's called
Speaker 5: Quake House that I bring comedians that nobody hear about
Speaker 5: that we sit around and talk about to give them.
Speaker 5: I give back to the jendre on the point of
Speaker 5: it because I love it so much and I think it.
Speaker 5: But we have too many people now that just not
Speaker 5: sticking with the job description. And somebody got to tell
Speaker 5: them at some point, man, be fucking funny.
Speaker 8: I was going to ask, is it hard? Once you
Speaker 8: start diversifying and everything else gets big, and then you
Speaker 8: can't get on stage and do what you used to do.
Speaker 8: Like Kevin Hart is still on stage, but people come
Speaker 8: for him because he doesn't joke or talk about certain things.
Speaker 8: But he's still funny. He's sell a comedian. But people
Speaker 8: try to take that away from him because he's not.
Speaker 8: They feel like he's not as raw about certain things.
Speaker 5: Well, you gotta understand his constituents that, first of all,
Speaker 5: comedians make fun of the experiences that they go through.
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart is the.
Speaker 5: One percent of one percent, so his experiences not goes
Speaker 5: along with the other ninety nine percent. So what he
Speaker 5: has to do is have fire writers that has experienced
Speaker 5: that and they give it to him and he looks
Speaker 5: it over. I have no problem with that. Evil sit
Speaker 5: there and be funny on it. He's being funny. He's
Speaker 5: still giving back to the John Doff stand up, So
Speaker 5: I have no problem with that. You know, you can't
Speaker 5: expect him to talk about his life. Oh man, I
Speaker 5: went there and jet was late, and do you know
Speaker 5: they didn't have what I asked.
Speaker 1: I said, I wanted flat waters. Man, motherfucker just came here.
Speaker 1: They got. I'm on probably jet flat water.
Speaker 5: Relatability is the number one essential of being a comedian,
Speaker 5: and very people can relate to his life because he
Speaker 5: has such a privileged life, so what's funny to him
Speaker 5: is not gonna be funny to ninety nine percent of
Speaker 5: the people because they don't experience what he's going through.
Speaker 2: Damn you, he did have that.
Speaker 6: He talked about being on the private jet or on
Speaker 6: his last special when he had to go to the
Speaker 6: George Floyd funeral.
Speaker 2: That shit was funny.
Speaker 5: Okay, I mean you can, but the relatability is the
Speaker 5: key to it, because you have to sit here and
Speaker 5: allow him. That's why I said previously, a shepherd must
Speaker 5: always smell like the sheep. You have to put yourself
Speaker 5: in that situation or somebody tell you what the sheep
Speaker 5: is going through and let you know, so you can
Speaker 5: be relatable to the audience that you ask in that
Speaker 5: money to come see you.
Speaker 1: Because the comedy is relatable.
Speaker 5: They need to see that experience or have the imagination
Speaker 5: of seeing you in that scene of that situation.
Speaker 7: Do you think Stand Up today still has the essence
Speaker 7: that I had back in the day.
Speaker 5: I think it's hotter now because no, because we're important,
Speaker 5: We're you see what happened to Jimmy Kimber. We have
Speaker 5: always been the third eye of society. We have always
Speaker 5: been the one that said truth to power. We was
Speaker 5: always the one from your Richard power to George Clark,
Speaker 5: and we in those terms, we in them turn, we
Speaker 5: in them times. Now, I think strong comedians stand there,
Speaker 5: such as your dls and the rest of them are
Speaker 5: doing that.
Speaker 1: They're take a lating from the point and people want
Speaker 1: to hear.
Speaker 5: And I look at it as the same way you
Speaker 5: give medicine to a baby. You know, you put a
Speaker 5: little apple sauce in the front of the spoon and
Speaker 5: you put the medicine behind. And that's what comedians and
Speaker 5: we put the joke in there, and we put the
Speaker 5: information in it, and we put it in their mouth
Speaker 5: before they can get healed. That's how we do it,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And it's very important, and
Speaker 5: I commend every comedian that's out there that's standing on
Speaker 5: ten toes down. That's you know, speaking power, truth to power,
Speaker 5: and that's what we do.
Speaker 6: You've been you've been around for a long time, earthquake.
Speaker 6: You've always been like you know, comedians favorite comedians, right,
Speaker 6: But Dave Chappelle pushed for your I don't want to
Speaker 6: call it a resurgence, but he pushed you in like
Speaker 6: a different spotlight with the Netflix situation.
Speaker 2: But now you got your own land.
Speaker 6: So how do you balance gratitude for that code sign
Speaker 6: but also making people see Earthquake as his own brand
Speaker 6: and not just somebody Dave.
Speaker 5: I don't get caught up in that, you know. I
Speaker 5: just do me, and I collaborate with anybody. I don't
Speaker 5: have to be the clothes on the show. I don't
Speaker 5: have to be in. I standing by you. If it's
Speaker 5: perceived that you're hotter.
Speaker 1: Than me, don't kill my shine. I don't get caught
Speaker 1: up into those speclives to things. You know, It's just
Speaker 1: another thing.
Speaker 5: I collaborate with anybody that want to collaborate me, Like
Speaker 5: you know, I watch y'all show that lady said, It's true,
Speaker 5: when you get to this point in my life, the
Speaker 5: two most valuable possession you have is your time and
Speaker 5: your energy.
Speaker 1: If the time is.
Speaker 5: Good and your energy is good, then you know, and
Speaker 5: the money right Quake there every night.
Speaker 1: We in there, You know what I mean. So I
Speaker 1: don't get caught up.
Speaker 5: I will be always indebted to Dave, but I was
Speaker 5: always indebted too, because I hired him to come to
Speaker 5: my club when he was when he wasn't Dad.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's it's, it's, it's,
Speaker 1: it's it's Petty. I'm from d C. We we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't fuck with Petty and ship.
Speaker 5: You can't send me news clippings and expect me to
Speaker 5: support that.
Speaker 1: I don't do news clipping.
Speaker 5: Man. You have to get on that stage and do
Speaker 5: what you do, and no matter who gets on there,
Speaker 5: Quaker's gonna do what you do and let the chip
Speaker 5: standing with us that that's first last medal in the
Speaker 5: whole time, and whatever I do, have nothing to do.
Speaker 1: What you gotta do.
Speaker 4: What's one comedian now quick?
Speaker 2: What he said is so powerful?
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: You had a club back in the day.
Speaker 5: Yes, you used to put Dave, Yes, all of them,
Speaker 5: Kevin Hard, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, every comedian that's walking here.
Speaker 1: That's hot right now. At one time I hired him
Speaker 1: for my club.
Speaker 6: And they and they all speak highly of you and
Speaker 6: not a damn position. You're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 5: And then they do that, Yeah, they put it on,
Speaker 5: they do it too it and but you got to understand,
Speaker 5: like I'm just but thank god, I have my own
Speaker 5: sitcom that's coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When Deil Bird would produce.
Speaker 5: It and everything, and we're you know, and it's a
Speaker 5: blessing on here. And it's so many people I want
Speaker 5: to put down that's good people, but it's only but
Speaker 5: so many slots, and then I can't jeopardize my slot
Speaker 5: for the overall trying to help everybody where it could
Speaker 5: help up the whole production. So I have to sit
Speaker 5: back and say I want to help everybody, but I
Speaker 5: still have a team to come in and say that
Speaker 5: person is better, and that person is better. Because something
Speaker 5: of nothing leaves nothing. So I got to get something.
Speaker 5: And then when I get something, then I can bring
Speaker 5: you in when it's something, But trying to bring you
Speaker 5: in before it's something, we both gonna end up being
Speaker 5: nothing outside the Fox studio on the streets.
Speaker 2: I remember you had to deal with Paramoul, Right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Had CBS deal, had a Warner Brothers deal, had an
Speaker 5: ABC deal, had this one came together. The network president
Speaker 5: is his name is Michael Thorne, came to me with
Speaker 5: my manager and said they're making a change in Fox.
Speaker 5: They want to go back to their original when married
Speaker 5: with children and live in color was that and they
Speaker 5: want to go to multi camera to TV's I mean
Speaker 5: to sitcoms, and they wanted me to be on they
Speaker 5: air and they wanted me to be me. They didn't
Speaker 5: want me to water down for me, warned me down.
Speaker 5: They say they feel, which I feel, you able to
Speaker 5: say what everybody thinking in the right way. They're not offended,
Speaker 5: and I want you on my heir. And so now
Speaker 5: we're in the process of trying to find my Larry
Speaker 5: David Like if you know he's the executive debusz on Steinfeld,
Speaker 5: my writer, my showrunner, you had your own you know,
Speaker 5: that's the most important thing and most important I've been
Speaker 5: interviewing for the last two months trying to find the
Speaker 5: right person that capsulates that I feel that can then
Speaker 5: and I think we're close right now. And the Bird
Speaker 5: thing is a great thing because he had a first
Speaker 5: look deal with Fox Bill Bird did and he wanted
Speaker 5: to produce my show since it was and I said,
Speaker 5: it's a great combination between the two because I love
Speaker 5: his comedy, and we're gonna branch both of my comedy
Speaker 5: my mindsets and his mindset and put it in the
Speaker 5: physicious world that I navigate through.
Speaker 4: Congratulations. What's the premise of the show premiers of the show.
Speaker 5: I got frustrated with being in d I mean Los
Speaker 5: Angeles because I never thought they was gonna get me
Speaker 5: a shot. And me and my fiance moves back to
Speaker 5: my hometown in Washington, d C. To rebuy my old
Speaker 5: comedy club up and I own my own comedy club
Speaker 5: in Washington, DC, you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean. Yeah, And then I made it.
Speaker 5: You know, I just got frustrated with sitting there, and
Speaker 5: the fires was the reason why. That was a sign
Speaker 5: from God. My house got burnt down, with my as
Speaker 5: well just gone.
Speaker 1: This is it.
Speaker 5: Take this money and this locked money I got from
Speaker 5: my house, and I could live balling in DC compared
Speaker 5: to l A.
Speaker 1: And it's time to go home.
Speaker 5: And and my fiance and we moved back and I
Speaker 5: bought my own comedy club where I started at and
Speaker 5: it's called still Quake.
Speaker 2: I'm still gonna sound like a winner, winner, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And you know, bring out the comedians on they you know,
Speaker 5: come through and people that can play themselves in my
Speaker 5: in my fatitious world without you know, he's singing this.
Speaker 5: He's actually in town stopping by Davis at the day
Speaker 5: at the Big Venue performing and he stopped by the
Speaker 5: Coming Club what we do and come by and have
Speaker 5: all my friends on it, and then also give again
Speaker 5: young comedians chance to be on TV and then normal
Speaker 5: selves being themselves in the club so they could show
Speaker 5: the world that they too have talents such as I do.
Speaker 6: Man, I hope you have much success quick. I hope
Speaker 6: you have a miss Pat style run. Yeah. You think
Speaker 6: about how Pat was trying to get that show on
Speaker 6: Fever and she finally got it on. It's loosely based
Speaker 6: on her life and she on what season five minutes?
Speaker 5: Ye look at God. Yeah, it's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: And you sit back and you're like, all right, this
Speaker 5: is it. Now that I have promoted everything for the
Speaker 5: for my special, it's time to just knock down and
Speaker 5: just concentrate on getting ready to be on TV.
Speaker 3: As you know earlier you were talking about you touched
Speaker 3: the stage. You're not worried about any other comedian. You
Speaker 3: do what you do and whatever, however, the chip's full.
Speaker 3: Has it ever been a comedian that surprised to issue
Speaker 3: out of you that you you got one day and
Speaker 3: you'd be like, damn, I ain't know he was this funny.
Speaker 4: Has that been a comedian like that?
Speaker 5: Well, I will say this, I never estimate any comedian
Speaker 5: because you know one moll father because like you take
Speaker 5: ours j very energetic comedian. So when you go behind him,
Speaker 5: you can't play around because he's already got the people up,
Speaker 5: the crowd hype up, and you go up there, Hello,
Speaker 5: how you doing? You're in trouble. So I never under
Speaker 5: mess what I do. What has always caught me off
Speaker 5: guard because out there is the sudden with the transition
Speaker 5: from a comedian you and don't know and the next
Speaker 5: thing you know, they they blew. I ain't see this cover.
Speaker 5: I'm like, God, damn, where was I at? You know,
Speaker 5: you just wake up in the morning. The motherfuckers in arenas.
Speaker 5: Let me let me go back and you look at
Speaker 5: it with that game, no special jokes in here is
Speaker 5: this oversuccess? Peel this fo you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: You just be you like he went from nobody to
Speaker 5: twenty thousand people and you it was just six days
Speaker 5: ago he was overhead at the open mic. So dat
Speaker 5: it makes me more than anything. But it just let
Speaker 5: me know how you know you can go it can happen.
Speaker 5: How fertile this game is that you can walk on
Speaker 5: there literally a comedian is the only person that could
Speaker 5: actually go to La get on stage. A producer could
Speaker 5: see him do his seven minutes, say I want to
Speaker 5: do a show about you, to write a show, put
Speaker 5: a producer and he get a show and then he
Speaker 5: come out here in arenas.
Speaker 7: Now has that ever happened back in the day, because
Speaker 7: that's that happens.
Speaker 5: I was seeing nothing, I mean all the time, like
Speaker 5: I never I never seen I didn't see the upcoming
Speaker 5: of none of the hot comedians that were at none
Speaker 5: of them back in the day. No, I ain't seen
Speaker 5: none of it like Kevin and No, I never seen
Speaker 5: none of that Kevin about his era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never know. Were Kevin about the same? Nothing?
Speaker 6: But I used to because it used to be like,
Speaker 6: you know, you'd be on bet comed View, you be
Speaker 6: on death comedy jams and you go out to.
Speaker 1: A lot of people. Just a lot of people do that.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't translate to twenty thousand people, you know
Speaker 5: when capp was doing twenty thousand people two shows on
Speaker 5: a Tuesday.
Speaker 6: But we started a building up though, you know, I'm saying,
Speaker 6: so when was here Caroline's doing eight shows in like
Speaker 6: we start a build up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but see, when we are headline US, we don't
Speaker 5: maintain other people's ticket counts because we're working.
Speaker 1: That same day.
Speaker 5: So I don't know what he's doing in Carolina because
Speaker 5: I'm in Augusta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm doing seven and I just sold out shows and
Speaker 5: ten shows in place.
Speaker 1: But it ain't quantified equal to Madison Square, Dark and Sell.
Speaker 1: You're like, god.
Speaker 6: Damn, I've seen two up close and personal. I saw
Speaker 6: Kevin Hard and Andrews shows up closer. I didn't see
Speaker 6: none of that I saw. I saw everything high school
Speaker 6: gyms with Kevin, like doing homecoming to you know, Carolines,
Speaker 6: to just building up, building up to get the.
Speaker 1: I didn't see none of it. But see you.
Speaker 5: You know you got your pulse on the community and
Speaker 5: everything too, so you more in.
Speaker 1: Depth of it.
Speaker 5: But I from a comedy standpoint, I'm like, god damn,
Speaker 5: and you you see the residue of it because motherfuckers
Speaker 5: be calling you want to open up certain people.
Speaker 1: I ain't open up for this. When the fuck I
Speaker 1: ain't opening up for this motherfucker. Man?
Speaker 2: What he and where on a Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Damn?
Speaker 2: God damn.
Speaker 5: You know, like you know, you don't hate, You're just like,
Speaker 5: oh God, and really, and I tell all comedians, man,
Speaker 5: you really salute the I mean, you cheer for them
Speaker 5: because that means its possible. And if you see it's possible,
Speaker 5: that means you can do it. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So I never had envy. It was just more surprising
Speaker 5: that a deva seating coming. And it also tells everybody
Speaker 5: else be careful how you treat everybody, because you never
Speaker 5: know when they don't become the man. And a lot
Speaker 5: of people, you know, shoot it on the other different
Speaker 5: people and turn around now end up, you know, kissing
Speaker 5: and licking their boots and ship like that.
Speaker 2: You know, is it true you met your fian because
Speaker 2: you made a donation?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, I remember fiance eight years before we hooked back up.
Speaker 5: I try to get on them. You know, one nice stand.
Speaker 5: You know, she turned me down like a loan, so
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, she ain't that type. So
Speaker 5: you know just what you know, going through my phone
Speaker 5: and I see her picture again and you know, you
Speaker 5: just hit up what's up, big head? And right into
Speaker 5: a show she came and we kicked it, and then
Speaker 5: COVID hit and then we just started kicking.
Speaker 1: We ain't had nowhere to go.
Speaker 5: And it's the most concentrated time I ever been with
Speaker 5: any woman, because wasn't no outside interests and that's the
Speaker 5: rest of the world was getting, you know, socially dissidence
Speaker 5: from people, and I was getting closer to it, and
Speaker 5: I knew she was the right one when I we
Speaker 5: could coexist without doing anything, you know, and saying she
Speaker 5: was there and she wasn't there. She didn't invade my space,
Speaker 5: but she was there and it was and she always
Speaker 5: believed in me, you know what I mean. She was
Speaker 5: always encouraging me, you should be doing more of this,
Speaker 5: and you can't do that if you're doing that the
Speaker 5: most way. And it made a difference in my life.
Speaker 5: And that's from that point on. That's why you see
Speaker 5: me having a in my humble opinion, having a sitcom
Speaker 5: down and things are going well there and everything, and
Speaker 5: hold me accountable if you say you're gonna have this.
Speaker 1: It's counter productive doing that.
Speaker 5: And people always come to me and say, you know,
Speaker 5: you know, what do women when you get to this
Speaker 5: point financially, what women have to do? Ring to the table,
Speaker 5: And I said, my woman, what she brings to the table,
Speaker 5: She assembles the table. She tells me, what's at the table?
Speaker 5: Do I got too many chairs at the table? Do
Speaker 5: I need to move a chair to a table? Do
Speaker 5: I don't have enough chairs on the table? What chair
Speaker 5: has been on there?
Speaker 1: Too long? You know?
Speaker 5: So when you have that female perspective, only she can
Speaker 5: give from a loving point, it's essential when you're dealing
Speaker 5: at the higher level. And I had always missed it,
Speaker 5: that aspect of it, and it's making a difference now.
Speaker 6: So what's the story about that? Our producer says, at
Speaker 6: much you gave a large donation to hurt No, I
Speaker 6: don't know.
Speaker 1: We got that.
Speaker 5: We getting all that we want to down a donation
Speaker 5: for our foundation that we're helping the fires in La
Speaker 5: that when we did that in little of gifts at
Speaker 5: the wedding we took in donations.
Speaker 1: We had enough and we didn't want another toaster and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know, we don't need that.
Speaker 2: So listen, what's the one piece of business advice you
Speaker 2: think young comics?
Speaker 1: Miss I could tell you what I can.
Speaker 5: Miss I would tell him what one I would do different.
Speaker 5: Loyalty is not mean Loyalty doesn't mean that they believe
Speaker 5: in you and loyalty. As you get closer to your goals,
Speaker 5: get compromised, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. So if I was them,
Speaker 1: I would take a lesson from Jamie Fox.
Speaker 5: And Jamie says the first of the year, every year
Speaker 5: he sits down with his sister or his family and
Speaker 5: reevaluates everybody in their life business wise.
Speaker 1: And I would give that suggestions.
Speaker 5: Because if anything hindered a lot of my career was
Speaker 5: being layal to people that wasn't meant to be in
Speaker 5: my life in the first place.
Speaker 1: But you feel since you just feel a sense of
Speaker 1: obligation that it was there and you know they need
Speaker 1: this and everything. You know what I'm saying, Ready to dance.
Speaker 2: You need to reevaluate now.
Speaker 1: You gotta pull them one away. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: My wife be like that, Yeah, we know what Chad,
Speaker 1: we need you know what I'm saying. Too many chance
Speaker 1: at the table. That's how it is.
Speaker 2: Listen, joke telling business out right now.
Speaker 4: Netflix definitely go check it out and we appreciate you
Speaker 4: for joining us.
Speaker 7: Congratulations on congratulations on the sitcom coming.
Speaker 5: And you promise that you will come read for the
Speaker 5: you understand, come on in there. I will make sure
Speaker 5: that you get a call. I look forward to it.
Speaker 5: And as always, man my brother man, but I'll tell
Speaker 5: you are beautiful and of course my life skinned brother's right,
Speaker 5: y'all be cool, and thank y'all for having me. Also,
Speaker 5: this is my son's I have to wear my son's
Speaker 5: outfit right here. It's clothing lines.
Speaker 1: Toxic University, and I'm wearing his and make sure I
Speaker 1: give him a shout out Toxic University, Toxic University. She's
Speaker 1: doing well in his own clothing line.
Speaker 5: I tell people you got you have to invest into
Speaker 5: your your kids uh activities or you either choose to
Speaker 5: put fund their activities or they bail money. Pick which
Speaker 5: one you want to do, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Either or and I believe in them. So Toxic University
Speaker 5: on the whole time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I love you.
Speaker 2: Earthquake.
Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up
Speaker 4: in the morning.
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