WEBVTT - Episode 235: Can't Cheat in Peace (Feat. Tommy Davidson) 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.559 What's up this slip service? I mean lay, I'm g 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.959 g McGuire, I'm stop from Santiago. I'm Laria And we 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.280 got a super super incredible iconic guess with us today. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:18.639 We had Tommy Davidson here, thanks for having welcome. And 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.599 we got the original lip service crew here, right, gangs together. Yeah. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.000 Once we found out you were coming, people called flights. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.120 They came in from Atlanta. Yeah, two people came from Yeah, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.960 just now they here. Yeah. I like that, Like you 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.960 know how that is because even for you, like with 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.960 your career from early on, you gotta make it happen. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.519 It doesn't stop. It doesn't stop from the second I 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.320 hit the apolo here doing comedy and DC, nothing's been 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:55.240 the same, right, you know? And I want it um. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.040 But I lost at the finals. Yeah, I lost the finals, 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.480 but it was kind of a set. There's still a 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:01.960 win though, because the win is that a lot of 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.040 people had the opportunity to see you. And then it 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.000 kind of jumped started more than it was the thing. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.160 But but but he pulled the technicality East Coast technicality 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.520 on so the audience with the audience was voting, So 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.560 it came down to that. David Peason, remember David Peason, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.960 the singer that was a while back. I only think 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.280 you google Piece and the singer. It was down to 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.120 me and him. But I was a comedian. No comedian 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.440 had ever won that thing because all these singers, and 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.240 that's when Paulo, you know, was real, you know, the 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.480 one that was sad Man came out, you know, every 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.440 five minutes. Sam Man never got a chance to hit 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.479 the stage back in the day because everybody was so good. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.680 So the MC goes, so that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.840 the yeas even right, So then the MC goes, so 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.000 who do you want? Do you want Tommy Davidson from Washington, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:02:00.560 d C. Or David Piece from New New York? Are 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.800 David Pizza to come up here today? But you know what, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.400 it's cool. He had a great career and you know, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.480 but honestly, a win is like even if you look 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.880 at shows like American Idol, people who don't win and 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:18.560 are like runner up, sometimes they end up being the bigger, right, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.480 what who was the running rock that was that's really big? 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:30.840 Wasn't Differ, wasn't Jennifer Hudson? She won Fantasia. Yeah, Fantasia 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.320 did one right, you know, but it wasn't Jennifer Hudson 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.000 and runner up. I'm gonna be honest with you, watching 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:42.079 the show just can't stand it now. I think, yeah, 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:45.680 she might be the biggest. Yeah besides Kelly Clarkson. Did 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.120 she win or she was a running up to Kelly? 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.880 She won? I think Kelly she was the first winner. Okay, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.639 all right, Well anyway, so we normally start the show off, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.280 and by the way, before we're going to get more 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.200 into the book Living in Color, which is out right now, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.000 which tell us a lot about your life and which 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.960 we had no idea. But as a matter of fact, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:05.880 you might not remember this, but I met you a 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.040 while ago when you were performing and singing at like 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.440 my friend Butter he was a drummer. And where was 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.400 it that was it down to it here? Yeah? It 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.639 was in New York and there was all these clubs 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.360 and you would be like and I thought you were 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.040 going to really like launch this real singing career at 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.400 that time, and he was like, yeah, I'm working with 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.360 Tommy David saying, you know, he could sing da da 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.639 da da da. And so during that time I did 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.840 get a chance to see you like do some stuff. Okay, Yeah, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.840 I got, I got some singing in me, and Butter's 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.000 real talented. So that's that's I'm waiting on that. That's 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.400 the next That's a phase, a couple of phases off. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.160 But now I'm starting to think that's apollo. Loss was 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.000 your fault because you could sing, and you had the jokes, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.600 so you could have just snatched the mic. And Black 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:56.080 he could sing, sing, sing, he could sing. No, I 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.280 think I think I improved my chances because I was 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.080 so unique being a comedian. Yeah, back then, the younger 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.520 black comics hadn't really blown I came into the scene 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.880 where the only young black comics that were really blowing 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.200 up were sin Bad. You know, Martin. Martin hadn't hit 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.280 the scene. Uh, nobody had hit the scene. Chris Rock 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.440 hadn't He hadn't hit the scene. Day Chappelle you came 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.680 up with. Chappelle hadn't hit the scene. Nobody had hit 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.880 the scene. I was the first one to like hit 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.760 the scene and come with comedy. There was another generation 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.520 in front of me. It was Eddie Murphy generation, which 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.520 simbadis in that age. So plus I had lost in 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:41.440 d C because I tried to sing. Yeah No, But 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:42.880 then one of my friends pulled me to the side. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.920 He said, you're not unique. Everybody sings. You sing everybody singing, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.560 so why don't you do comedy? So when I went 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.520 to the Apollo, I was like, okay, I'm funny. We 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:58.200 try comedy, but in comedy I sing. Okay, yeah, fed 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:04.520 your rund zogy you bigg made me live again. You've 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:12.039 turned on mom, fine bay, come on nine to reach out. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.960 You know what else too? That's fascinating that you actually 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.000 got to performer greats like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.840 And you met Paul Mooney too, right, Yeah, yeah, we 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.760 had an interesting interview with him on the Breakfast Cup 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.160 that never made it to the air. I don't know, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.880 it got a little weird. We got weird about it. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:40.560 I can imagine Paul isn't his old self put it 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.000 that way, all right. So we usually set the show 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.360 up with a full disclosure and that's when a couple 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.560 of us tell full disclosure stories. We don't have anything. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.000 It might be something we've never shared before about ourselves. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.000 So Stephanie, it's only right because you gotta do it. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.839 Go ahead, you might um you're bruised up today, so yeah, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.679 we need to hear. So the last that I decided 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.360 to go out and drink, and I haven't been drinking 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.279 for like two years. For the most part, I don't 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.720 get really drink. So I had like fifteen shots of 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.920 patrol and I don't even drink. Way to go in. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:19.760 That's disgusting. Shots a drinking problem, but there is celebration one. No. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.920 I was just like, oh, oh, everybody's elside. I'm not 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:29.720 sayingbody drink right exactly. So I went crazy and this 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.800 morning I woke up with a black eye and I 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.080 got this scrape. I don't know what that is. I 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.680 don't I took two showers. I don't know what that is, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.800 and it can't be the same thing you got to 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.800 the fight. I called everybody, and I'm like, yo, was 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:54.680 I fighting like everybody like yourself should see the other part. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.400 We were having so much fun. Somebody else is waking 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:04.640 up like I got a black eye, rules nuck straight something? 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.840 What I got penis has teeth marks on it? Like 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.760 home for yourself? Did you check your photos because sometimes 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.880 like I find day oh, and I lost my phone 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.440 main phone, so let me see you probably was fighting 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:27.720 for your phone Larry, Larry, I had some great fight 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.000 for your phone. You want happy. I woke up in 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.720 the ambulance, but I got myself now. But I woke 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.200 up in bed and my person was there. I was like, oh, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.640 I made it. Well, we're happy. You're hearing this right? 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.800 And what would you start? What's that? Because I'm done 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.480 and here it is now. I was gonna say, me 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.880 and Larry I have had some good times that we 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.400 found out about on Snapchat. Yeah, because we first we 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.920 got some men that we don't remember it, and then 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.640 the next day we were like, look look at chat 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.280 and we saw all kinds of things that we were 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.520 doing that we didn't know. The crazy thing was fast 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.800 right that how are you guys able to do that? 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.480 So so basically because one night I could think of 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.640 in particular, we went out to eat and we went 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.200 to the first foot Prince and then Stephanie, what the 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:21.800 hell out we're doing the show? So it's like to 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:28.760 hangoverd No. We were out of a baby shower the 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.160 next day and the night before we had went to 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:32.880 foot Prints and we ended up at Swede. We was 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.120 only supposed to go to one restaurant and we thought 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.880 that we went out, had a good time, and DJ 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.959 Scratch was with us, and DJ Scratches was us. We 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.480 thought we just went home and I remember, to my ability, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.120 I swear I remembered everything. She couldn't make it up 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.560 the stairs. I put a blanket off, fell on the floor. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.280 It was like a hundred and ten degrees. I was like, oh, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.560 she keeps the blanks. No, no, no, in my house. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.199 But I done that, said when I looked at next 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.360 day we were on snapchat, I'm like, I snatched the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.079 thing out of the floor, like you know, like the 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.559 advertisement flags in front of businesses. I took it in 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.160 front of a pizza place, was waving the flag. It 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:17.120 was like pizza Pizza, Pizzai, like the sign spinners. It 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.480 was like the ship that stands up. But when I 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.480 tell you I thought I remembered everything, I don't remember 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.760 none of that. But we had a whole night on 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.200 that snapchat that neither. There were people we were hanging 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.000 out with. We don't remember them being there. I was 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.280 like my cousin's husband. That husband now at the time, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:36.719 he was like, yeah, I've seen your cousin and she 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.199 was buying the shots. I was like, why no, that's 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.600 what's happening to me today. People are calling me like, yo, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.559 you yo, he was outside us, that was crazed, Like 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.960 I don't even see you in years, like the last night. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.439 So yeah, so that's a couple of focus wells. Just 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.800 so time me. It's your turn. I ain't got all 0:09:52.840 --> 0:10:02.480 that stop you definitely, And that's last. But there every 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.760 time that you had a night that you didn't remember 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.080 and people have to tell you about it, of course, yeah, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.440 of course I grew up in d C two. Yeah, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.000 but that's been a long time ago. I ain't visited 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:19.800 that for a while. That was a long long time ago. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.559 I don't recommend it, but yeah, my disclosure is like 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.800 you know, I um fell asleep watching forensic files and 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.480 you know what I mean, Yeah, and then you have 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.480 a bad second ye go to that you wasn't that 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:42.920 good and then that's when you have a bad dream 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:49.760 with forensic foles. I can't wake up white dude in 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.559 front of me with a gun now, Yeah, but that 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:59.720 that's um. Remember those adventurous times though, you know, if 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.560 you been through it, you know you ain't been through 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.800 nothing right exactly like those things though, I really would 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.719 make you like who you are, just being able to 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.480 go through certain things and survive it, and it makes 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.920 you like a stronger person as long as you can 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.520 come through on the other side and be okay. Yeah, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.679 I mean, is it just a part of adulthood, you know? 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.760 You know, the stuff is put in front of us 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.320 to do. You know, it's it's supposed to be called 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.160 enjoyment and all that stuff, and you can enjoy it 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.880 to a certain extent. But you know, everything got that 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.520 flip side, right, You put that flip on your ass, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.240 and you the only one to know when to gauge it. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.400 You do only want to know, you know. And with today, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.600 with what's going on now, especially in the club world 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.200 and and everything that's going on. Man, it's like y'all 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.800 got it a lot better than read it, you think. So, yeah, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.000 are you kidding me that? Because there's like, you know, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.160 there's so much going on. You know, we used to 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.160 walk to a party. See look, I disagree with that 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.760 because back then you could do stuff and get away 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.240 with it. Now you can't get away with ship. Well yeah, 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.199 because people are on the me and it's not even 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.000 fun anymore. Everybody's out and they want to like take pictures, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.080 take selfies and their stuff there, like look back then, 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.640 all the stories you told them the book. We had 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.920 no idea about some of these things. Right, if this 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:17.960 is happening today, we got y'all got y'all got chat 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:25.559 snap snap like that thing actually, man, that cat baby, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.960 y'all got book face. You find out now you're still 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.600 in the club and they like put up the whatever 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.480 happened to you? And you're still outside. Every time I 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.240 catch my man in the club is because somebody put 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:44.480 him on snapshot, right every time anything, Everything is always 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.600 okay in the club. Right now, is that not your sweater? 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.559 I can see you in the back of the back 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.439 of the back, I'll see you right there, zoom in 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.760 on it and everything, and like so you can't even 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:58.160 cheating piece now, you can't chat. You can't be a 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:06.840 bitch now Instagram what you call it cat snaps chat 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:13.160 snap But think about it, like all the things that 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.320 you went through and everything that happened, that she would 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.360 have been all on blast, yeah you know, and so 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.760 and sometimes that makes it hard for you to recover 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.400 from things in peace because when everyone's talking about to 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.199 everyone's coming up to everybody's weighing in on things. You 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.280 can't even like deal with it because everyone else is 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.079 dealing with it. For you. I don't know. It's like 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.839 everything everything is, you know, everything is different, nothing stays 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.719 the same, you know what I mean. The thing I 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.040 noticed about when I go to clubs now, you know, 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.760 as as as as recent is probably about maybe six 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.440 years ago. You know, six years ago, I go to Miami. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.840 You know, see people in the VI I P Section talking, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.920 you know, they are dancing on the dance floor. Never 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.800 everybody's like this, Oh my god, Oh my god. Everybody's 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.600 back been sitting next to like all these hot chicks 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:07.720 and right, come on and everybody's kind of like nodding 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.840 their head to the hot song. Oh see them having 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.839 a great time on their phone. It's just it's just 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.920 an observation. It's so boring. Now. I feel like even 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.600 even when I'm at a concert or I'm on vacation, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.880 you know, I've been I feel like I've been taking 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.360 pictures for so many years on my phone. I'm sick 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.720 of it. Like I don't I'm not at the concert 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.560 recording Beyonce. I'm watching it like I want to enjoy that. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.600 But sometimes I'm there and I'm like, but I'm not. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.600 Is You have to balance, You have to get a 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.200 little bit to remember and to have the memory to 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.640 post the show off, and then you enjoy it. That's 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.440 all it's all about. Yeah, yeah, I figured, like Facebook 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.080 friends and stuff like that, they don't deserve to be 0:14:54.200 --> 0:15:07.720 with me because exactly, yeah, I purposed him purpose I 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:13.600 purposely don't post like everything. I purposely don't post everywhere 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.360 I met everything I do everywhere because it's just not 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.400 for everybody. For one, and for two, I do so 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.920 much that people would think I was like bragging there 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.720 being obnoxious, and I'm just like, let me just not. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 I just so even believeing some ship you were definitely 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.840 catch pure she was I was important and I didn't 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.040 even I got on the airplane to but no, but 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.960 you didn't see me at the beach or smoking. Like 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.360 I only posted a couple of pictures in the ghetto 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.240 of Puerto Rico just to show that I'm not scary, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.040 and I could go to the yeah, like picture on 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.160 the beach and the marcula snapped to the pool, and 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.840 then I didn't already post a real picture until I 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.080 was already back home. It was like days later when 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.720 I posted that, I was, yeah, because they'll break into 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.880 your house. Now you posted you somewhere and next thing 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.280 you know, they're break into your house and they gotta 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.840 got a low jack on your ass. You know where 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.640 you're at. Now, let me ask you this, How hard 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.080 was it for you to discuss certain things in the book? 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.640 Was it ever? Was there anything that you are hesitant about? 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.720 Like not really, not really, because it was it was 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.920 I wouldn't be me, I wouldn't mean me if I 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.080 didn't go through the experiences. So you know, when I 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.000 when I finally really started thinking about it, I didn't 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.560 even realize that all that stuff was like twenty something 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.720 years ago, right, you know, that's a lot of a 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.560 lot of growth took place. But you know, I had 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.760 to have my own experiences. Yeah, you know what I mean, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.040 to learn who I'm going to be. You know, I 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.160 went from an assistant chef at Ramada in something that 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.480 I thought was a great accomplishment, you know, at eighteen, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.960 to be doing that. My friend Howard told me he's 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.040 about the stupidest ass person I ever seen. You know, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.200 because you should go to Hollywood and you should be 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.120 doing movies and you should be doing that, you should 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.960 be doing this. And I was like you no, you 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:06.119 stupid because you ain't got no job and you make 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.800 me lose my job, but loved me to death. That's 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.480 my friend Howard who I grew up with INDC. You know, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.480 he's the one you give a watch too, because yeah, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.600 yeah yeah. And Howard was like, Howard was the poorest 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.159 person I knew. I had eleven brothers and sisters. He 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.080 had moving blankets, you know, the moving blankets that you 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.960 see Evans had them on a bit, you know, they 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.760 eating shifts. You know how it was from the worst 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:35.000 building around thee where I lived. Step Step used to 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.200 beat his my other ass man, the whole family to 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.639 be out there. She'd be bleeding naked, you know. And 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.119 he come over to my house one Christmas morning and 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.879 he had a paper bag with three plastic army men 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.399 in it and an orange and his bag had a 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.240 bow on it. That's what he got for Christmas. And 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:56.720 imagine that your Christmas president is an orange. You think somebod. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.600 So my mother was like come here. And when she 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.239 said come here, I'm like, oh man, because I used 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.480 to think she's crazy, you know, come here, come here me, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.199 and she's gonna say something crazy to me. And she did. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.199 She was like, give him one of your watches. Why 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.640 should I give him one of my watch? She said, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.359 because you got two of them. Your grandparents gave you 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.160 one and I gave you one. So take the one 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.440 that you like and give the other one to him. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.520 And I was like there. You know, for years, I 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:28.240 was like, right, do you know that it's Howard? That 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.240 there is the reason I'm sitting here Because Howard wouldn't 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.280 give me a break about comedy. Howard kept saying, man, dude, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.480 you gotta do something in comedy. You'd be the best. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.760 I'm telling you, you'd be a huge star. And so 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.960 he finally got me a job at the worst strip 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.040 club in d C. I mean the worst. He got 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.600 me five minutes on stage. He even came over to 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.040 my house February cold and ship okay, came over to 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.040 my house a little dots and beat you tier with 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.480 rope on the hood so it wouldn't come up when 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:04.879 I'm driving my radiator bust the middle of February cold. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.239 He just got out. He just got out the car. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.000 He was smiling and just went to the bus stop. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.080 He said, I'd be back here next next week, fix 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.320 that ship. He came back next week. We went to 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.639 the club. I walked in. The guy looked at me 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:19.719 and he was like, is this the guy you keep 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.520 talking about? And how I was like yeah. He said, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.119 you got five minutes. I turned to Howard. I was like, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.440 what what do you want me to do? He was like, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.800 and I don't care what you do. He said, get 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.160 up there and say something. And I got up there 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.560 and from the first thing I said, people laughed. And 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.199 I haven't stopped since. I swear that the first time 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.680 I even said anything, people laughter. I stayed at that 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.080 club for probably about probably about three months. Reputation went around, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.120 promoters started coming around. I started opening for concerts. Within 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.480 a year. I was at the Apollo and that's where 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.280 I met my manager there who became my manager. He 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.959 was attorney and he was like, hey, man, you can 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.680 do anything you want. You can write your own ticket, 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.440 I can take you to l A with me for 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.760 a week, see how it feels. If you like it, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.959 let's move out there. So I went out there. That's 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:15.360 when I met Eddie Murphy, Robert Townsend, Keenan and all 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.720 them because I went into the Comedy Act Theater, which 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.840 was the hot spot right and blew it up, and 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.200 I said, I think we can do this. So we 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.680 saved our money for like three months, got on his 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.440 Nissan Center. He rode down to d C, put my 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.520 big gass TV in the back with glad bags full 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.080 of clothes, and we drove all the way over. They're 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.480 not knowing nobody, and that's just just built from there. 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:40.240 You think things like that can happen nowadays, things like 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.240 that can happen forever and a day, okay, because I 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.000 feel like with like online and I felt like, also, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.520 I don't know, I feel like sometimes I think, yeah, yeah, 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.520 go ahead. You know. I just felt like people have 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.399 these different types of shortcuts where they don't even have 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.320 to like put all of that leg work in like 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.320 you used to have to. There's nothing like seeing somebody 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.000 live in person killing a room. And there's such a 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.400 difference between people being online and being funny and then 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.200 being live in front of Being live and funny in 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.840 front of an audience is completely Like we've seen a 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.199 lot of people who are social media starts that are 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.359 funny have a great following, but then they try to 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.280 do stand up comedy and it doesn't right. You know, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.240 you actually built yourself from the ground up, like you 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.400 took the leg work to do everything. Like you started 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.119 with the crowd, you went to bigger crowds. You know, 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.800 you went from five minutes to a full set. And 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.320 like you're saying, these people put up a thirty second 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.760 clip and next thing that the funniest people in the world. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.440 And then you're like, how, you know what I mean, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.800 Like they didn't even no, not going well, the how 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.119 is that? The howard is just just changed. It's just 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.800 it's just you get more eyeballs on you because of 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.560 social media, right, that's all. It doesn't mean you can't 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.400 take advantage of it though as a performer. Kevin Hart 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.879 was an example or somebody who you know, used social 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.080 media as a platform and got a lot of eyes 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.000 on her. But he had done the work right before that. 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.040 He had already been in the clubs and done all 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.080 that stuff. But I forgot who I saw on a 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:16.440 movie last night, little light skinned chick. She was on 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:18.600 the reality show. My wife had told me she was 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:25.200