1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Netflix has announced the release of Being Eddie next month, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: a documentary about comedy legend Eddie Murphy's fifty year career. 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: We all just love Eddie Murphy. I mean, as you 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: so much joy and so much laughter. So, Steve, you're 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,119 Speaker 1: also celebrating your fortieth anniversary of your comedy career this year. 6 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: So here's a question for you. 7 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: Time with me wasn't It ain't been as big as Eddie, but. 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: I'm still Yeah, but I have a question for you guys, you, 9 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: Tommy and Jr. What has changed about the comedy comedy 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: industry since you first got in the game. I'm sure 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: a lot, right. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: What you can say, the topics you get that you 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: sometimes you just can't. You're scared to touch, Yeah, because 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: when you don't cross that line, because you can get canceled. Yeah. 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 3: The change is on comedians now that weren't on it before. 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: The freedom of speech is gone, you know. Yeah, you 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 3: can't have an opposing view of anybody on the left 18 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: or the right. 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: That's what's crazy. 20 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, But has the game. 21 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 3: Say something about somebody on the extreme left and see 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 3: what happened, But. 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: Say something about somebody on the extreme right. 24 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 4: In addition to the politics. You know, that's obvious with 25 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 4: the cancel culture. What about the industry that has changed? 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 4: I mean when you guys were coming up, you guys 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: had your heroes and your your icons and the comedians 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 4: you looked up to prior, you know, Red Fox, the 29 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: big Ones. So now what has changed in the game. Like, 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 4: if you're a comedian that's listening and trying to get 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 4: into the industry, I. 32 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: Said, I had I had mentors. 33 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 5: You know, you had you had a comedy mentor who 34 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 5: taught you the right way to do do the business, 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 5: to do the business. 36 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what you're saying is you're you were funny, 37 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: but you needed some guidance and some director. 38 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 5: You have to know how to how to do the business. 39 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 2: You had to have somebody to teach you. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 5: This is what you do on the road. This is 41 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 5: how you go out doing doing everything on the road. 42 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 5: This is what you have to do. And then you 43 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 5: take this and you cly this and this is how 44 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 5: you build your set. You build your set like this, 45 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: and this is how you be professed. All those things 46 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 5: will talk to us. Tell me had we had mentors? 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: Right? 48 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 4: Okay, what about you see a mentor? 49 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, man, of course. I mean Anthony Brown taught 50 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 3: me the most Bill carsby setting me down and school 51 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: me as to what was going on. You know, I 52 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 3: was sitting there. I was in the room with Richard 53 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: cry I've been in the room with our Sinio. I've 54 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 3: been in the room with I've been in. 55 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: The room with them. 56 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 3: I've been in the room with that been Eddie's house. 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 3: I've been I've been in the room. Now I didn't get. 58 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: Entered by Chappelle of Rock because I was there. 59 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, we were all rotting up at the same time, 60 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 3: and I had got on the medeor ride of my own. 61 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 3: You know, Chappelle just of late became after the Chappelle show. 62 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: You know, Chappelle got launched after the Chapelle Show. Yeah, 63 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 3: Chris Rock got launched through his comedy specials. Blacker than Black, 64 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: Bigger than Black, whatever it was, and you know, stuff 65 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 3: like that. But we all had different routes. But you know, 66 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: now it's a different game now. Ah, these guys are 67 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 3: getting famous on Instagram. If you look at this kid, Marco, 68 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 3: if you look at I look at this kid that 69 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 3: was doing all of them all okay scenarios. Is he 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 3: a full time comedian now, But when you look at 71 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 3: him online, he's brilliant with the is that it? Yeah, 72 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 3: he's absolutely brilliant bunny audience, and I've seen him do 73 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 3: some funny stuff with that audience. 74 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: But to sell out an arena arena. 75 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 3: To sell three thousand tickets, you can't just be brilliant 76 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 3: with the audience. 77 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 2: I love to see his set now. 78 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 3: Country Wayne became famous off the internet too, and then 79 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: I saw his. 80 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 2: Special and I actually liked it. 81 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: I thought Country Wayne had did that thing to be 82 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 3: somebody that came off the internet. But it's very hard 83 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 3: to come off the internet with skits to become a comedian. 84 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: That's two different worlds. Now. 85 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 3: Comedic acting and stand up is two different worlds, and 86 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 3: a lot of them have found that out. 87 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.