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Speaker 1: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You got

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Speaker 2: The building, the legendary Ken and Thompson. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 2: welcome man, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Good one of my brothers.

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Speaker 5: You feeling and we're checking in man, Happy Black History month?

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Speaker 3: History Month. How you feeling thrill? My brother? How you

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Speaker 3: feeling like energy? Like great?

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Speaker 5: My energy is great, man. Like you know, we're having

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Speaker 5: another good season over there. It's forty nine, about to

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Speaker 5: be the fiftieth. It's getting real over there, man, That

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Speaker 5: fiftieth celebration. I think it's going to be big, was

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Speaker 6: So think about Keenan, you wouldn't even know if he

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Speaker 6: was doing bad. Keenan the meatia is always the same.

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Speaker 4: Tourist, energy man. Let me take my glasses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're good.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 7: I would go to ask, you know, when you see

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Speaker 7: so many things pop up on social on this.

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Speaker 4: World is it?

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Speaker 2: I guess it's good for you because you're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: This is yeah, absolutely, I mean yeah, I mean characters

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Speaker 5: Kind of thing, like we're just trying to heal basically,

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Speaker 5: that's what That's what comedy's supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 7: Is there anything that you won't touch or that y'all

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Speaker 7: come together and be like this would be funny, but

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Speaker 7: not right now?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean especially you know, we on network TV,

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Speaker 5: And you know, some certain topics ain't nothing funny about it.

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Speaker 6: So like too soon, like Donna Rowlins like to say,

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Speaker 6: too soon. You think there are some too soon topics.

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Speaker 5: You know, there's definitely I mean, Gilb but Godfrey killed

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Speaker 5: probably be too soon for two hundred years kind of thing, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, just because it was such a large tragedy.

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Speaker 3: Bringing up people old tweets. Can it don't do peace?

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. But like that was that,

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Speaker 5: It was not anymore. So yeah, you gotta be just

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Speaker 6: And you know, you got a new book out. When

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Speaker 6: I was your age, I should have brought the book.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to hear us to have it propped up.

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Speaker 6: I'm slipping when I was your age, Life lessons, funny

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Speaker 6: stories and questionable parenting advice from a professional clown. First

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Speaker 6: of all, what made you want to write a book?

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Speaker 6: Because you always have been a very private person.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the longest title ever.

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Speaker 5: I just felt it was time, you know, like a

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Speaker 5: of my heroes have written.

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Speaker 4: Books, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: You got seven two yea working on third, so uh yeah,

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Speaker 5: and people approached me. I was just trying to, you know,

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Speaker 5: I worked with a great collaborator, DIBs Bear shout Out,

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Speaker 5: From what I'm hearing, like the people that have read

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Speaker 5: It's not like three hundred pages or nothing, you know,

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Speaker 5: which was kind of strange. I'm like, damn, that's my

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Speaker 4: So yeah, it was a cool experience.

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Speaker 3: Explain the long ass title because it's a lot there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's just like I guess I've been

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And like that's probably why

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Speaker 5: don't really even be getting stressed out on my demeanor

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Speaker 4: But yeah, big tourist energy over here, you know what

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Speaker 6: And like, but you don't seem hard headed though most

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Speaker 5: I get stubborn about when I think I'm right, you

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Speaker 2: Do your kids take you serious?

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Speaker 7: Or they always see daddy as the clown and the

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Speaker 5: I'm the clown and I'm definitely in their way, you

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like I'm in their way for

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Speaker 5: You know, You're you could be you know, Michael Jordan's

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, why do you call your advice, your

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Speaker 3: I was that your parents advice was questionable, which one

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's probably mine, you know, just you know,

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Speaker 5: coming from a place where like I don't know everything

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Speaker 6: Basically, Yeah, but we all are though, Like being a

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Speaker 6: I don't get it right. Actually, I'll apologize to my

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Speaker 6: kids and try to do try to do better next time, exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean when you when you give advice

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Speaker 4: On parenting kind of thing, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: So you should be able to question like what I'm

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Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like I'm not trying to.

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Speaker 4: Like tell everybody exactly what to do with their kids.

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Speaker 2: Basically, would you want your kids to get in this industry?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 5: I mean if they take it seriously, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean, Like I got drama faces tatted on my back,

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Speaker 5: you know, so I take it very seriously. And growing up,

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Speaker 4: It was very specific. You audition, they.

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Speaker 5: like my theater training is like, you know, that's everything,

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Speaker 5: done a movie here and there, some Spike Lee joints

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Speaker 5: when it's like your real dedication, you know, through because

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Speaker 5: being a starving artist is no joke, you know what

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, And it's a reality for I would say

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Speaker 5: more than the majority of people you know in the business,

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Speaker 5: Like like a lot of people are like living like

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Speaker 5: check to check, especially if you don't know how to

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Speaker 5: subsidize with another job.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, you.

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Speaker 6: Got a chapter title called I'm Glad I went broke?

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Speaker 6: When did that happen? You've been You've been working since

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Speaker 6: at least nine and.

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Speaker 5: Foul, yo, Yeah, like I've been blessed to continue working.

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Speaker 2: That was part of the audition.

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Speaker 3: You had to do stand up. Yeah, you walked up

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Speaker 4: I didn't want to rock the boat, you know what

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Speaker 2: Get a job stand up.

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Speaker 4: It really is.

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Speaker 5: And I also wasn't really aware of the second city

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Speaker 5: And they were killed JB. Smooth for Ness Mitchell, you

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Speaker 4: And then I went up there and did my little

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Speaker 4: For your second? I was last?

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Speaker 3: You went after d ray JB and Mitchell Yes.

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Speaker 5: But I know I went last after a bunch of

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Speaker 3: So you really really wanted to kill it, but you

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Speaker 6: Want I want to go back to this one point

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Speaker 3: How does the how do you lose one point five million?

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Speaker 5: We gave that dude power of attorney when we shouldn't have.

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Speaker 4: You know, kids.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was a kid, and my mom was trying

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Speaker 4: Into Atlanta, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: Like I was ready to just be like, no, I'm

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Speaker 3: You couldn't suit the accountant or nothing.

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Speaker 5: That I did, and I won, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Basically, you want to spend more money to sue them

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Speaker 5: Back one, you know. And I sued him for years

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Speaker 3: So, but and Uncle Sam don't care.

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Speaker 4: They don't care at all.

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Speaker 5: it comes back, great, but you know it has yet too.

440
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Speaker 5: But I've been blessed in so many other ways. Like

441
00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,040
Speaker 5: I take those life lessons and just learn from them.

442
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Speaker 6: I'm so sorry for everybody in that situation because they

443
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,119
Speaker 6: don't teach us financial literacy. When when when the communities

444
00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,000
Speaker 6: we come from, but then we get people that we

445
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,200
Speaker 6: think are supposed to have our best interest in that way,

446
00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,119
Speaker 6: and they take advantage it. Just like, how can you

447
00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:20,960
Speaker 6: ever trust my man a black man?

448
00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,280
Speaker 5: God damn, an elder black man?

449
00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,119
Speaker 3: How can you trust somebody ever again?

450
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,639
Speaker 5: Because like you want to try to keep hope, you know,

451
00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:32,639
Speaker 5: you want to try to keep hope on humanity, you

452
00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:32,919
Speaker 5: know what I.

453
00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:39,359
Speaker 3: Mean, Jackson, just you try to keep keep alive, you know.

454
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,920
Speaker 5: But yeah, I don't know, man, Like I've never been

455
00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,200
Speaker 5: one to be like, oh he's a piece of shit,

456
00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,560
Speaker 5: So this next person might be you know what I mean,

457
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,959
Speaker 5: Like everybody has a chance to kind of prove themselves

458
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:50,720
Speaker 5: to be what they are.

459
00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,440
Speaker 7: Those guys, when did you get comfortable on Saturday Night Live?

460
00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,440
Speaker 7: Because you had to be nervous, you know when you

461
00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,159
Speaker 7: first starting off, you with all these people that's been

462
00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,760
Speaker 7: there before, and when did you get comfortable?

463
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Speaker 5: It took a while because you have a writer's burden

464
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,199
Speaker 5: on that, Sonela, and I didn't come from that, you know.

465
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,199
Speaker 5: I just came from being given scripts and then I

466
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,400
Speaker 5: do what I do and like if we added something,

467
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:11,919
Speaker 5: then they'll put it in or whatever. But I was

468
00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,520
Speaker 5: never like part of that process. So it was like

469
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,920
Speaker 5: a learning thing as I went along. And I don't

470
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,840
Speaker 5: think I was like comfortable, comfortable until I got my

471
00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,000
Speaker 5: first personal idea on the show and that was like

472
00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:22,640
Speaker 5: season five.

473
00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 4: Wow, Yeah, Scared Straight. Shout out to Scared Straight.

474
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,360
Speaker 3: Why that role in particular?

475
00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:29,480
Speaker 4: What Scared Straight?

476
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like, why did that make you the most comfortable.

477
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,040
Speaker 5: Well that was just the first one that I got on,

478
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,080
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh, I finally like made my.

479
00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 4: Sense of humor makes sense in this place. Godcha, you

480
00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:40,640
Speaker 4: know what I mean.

481
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 5: So yeah, Like I just felt like up until that point,

482
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,280
Speaker 5: my ideas were going all over the place. I didn't

483
00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,159
Speaker 5: really know how to really collab with writers, or I

484
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,880
Speaker 5: would collab off of their ideas as opposed to something

485
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,480
Speaker 5: personal to me, you know what I mean. And then

486
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,879
Speaker 5: like I started to like learn how to bring forward

487
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,040
Speaker 5: the black zeitgeist, you know what I'm saying, and like

488
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,080
Speaker 5: make that appealing.

489
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Speaker 6: That's gonna go on after fifty. I remember when I

490
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,520
Speaker 6: interviewed you on my late night show, you said you

491
00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:11,399
Speaker 6: think you should end it?

492
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,479
Speaker 5: That I mean, I thought it would be a good

493
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,080
Speaker 5: number to stop at it if that was the case,

494
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,000
Speaker 5: But I don't think it is. I think they gonna

495
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 5: keep it running, you know what I'm saying, Like, it

496
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,600
Speaker 5: doesn't make a difference if it winds up stopping at

497
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 5: seventy two, it doesn't really matter. But fifty it just

498
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 5: felt like such a good package, just like, you know,

499
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 5: here's fifty years of SNL time Warner. You know what

500
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,359
Speaker 5: I mean, so that around o'clock or whatever, DVDs, this, that,

501
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 5: and the other. It's just a nice would number, Like

502
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,679
Speaker 5: if they get to a hundred, great, if they get

503
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 5: to two hundred, you know what I mean, incredible, It

504
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 5: doesn't really matter. But I've never seen a TV show

505
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,399
Speaker 5: outside of like a game show or soap opera go

506
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 5: past thirty years, you know, twenty, Like that's just crazy.

507
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 5: So I didn't really know how long it was gonna

508
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,719
Speaker 5: take it then if dude was going to retire, you

509
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 5: know after that year.

510
00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 3: Lord Michael, Yeah, it might.

511
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Speaker 5: Be you know, it might be smart to pose it

512
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 5: or something like that. But at the same time, Tina

513
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 5: can do it. I can do it, you know. Yeah,

514
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 5: Steve Higgins, There's a lot of people that can keep

515
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 5: it going. It's just will it have the same support,

516
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 5: you know, like budget wise kind of thing, Like if

517
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,399
Speaker 5: you slash the budget, it's a completely different show. And

518
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 5: then that's not fair to whoever's in that chair. So

519
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 5: it's up to them, you know what I'm saying. But

520
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 5: from what I'm hearing, I think it's probably gonna continue.

521
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,800
Speaker 7: Did you ever feel like you didn't have support of

522
00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 7: the culture of the community you know, because starting off

523
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 7: as a new culture, any black comedian that's on Saturday

524
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 7: Night Live, they will say, oh, he's the talking black

525
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,360
Speaker 7: or he's not that funny. It's like the hate comes first.

526
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 4: Did you ever feel it?

527
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, and anytime I do something that's you know,

528
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 5: pushing boundaries or anything like that, there's a lot of pushback,

529
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 5: you know. So I definitely felt like the majority of

530
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 5: black people weren't like, yo, Saturday Night Live is my show,

531
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. It just felt like, oh,

532
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 5: you on that white show, you know what I mean

533
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 5: when people talk to you about But you know, I

534
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 5: took that and was like, all right, well that's how

535
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,920
Speaker 5: y'all feel. You must not really know, you know, kind

536
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 5: of the history of the show and who's really come

537
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 5: out of there, you know what I'm saying. And it's

538
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 5: just as much our show as anybody else's kind of thing,

539
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 5: because you know, we have, you know, the biggest start

540
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 5: probably in movie history coming out there.

541
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah, I've never heard people say that

542
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 6: there's token blacks on that SNEL.

543
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: It just was always there wasn't enough of enough black.

544
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 4: It was you know, one at a timing for a while.

545
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 6: You know, because the black people they have are black. Yeah,

546
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 6: Eddie didn't try not to be black. Tracy Mugan didn't

547
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,919
Speaker 6: try not to be black, like they went for it.

548
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 4: They I don't think Tracy can help himselfing, you know.

549
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,639
Speaker 5: But yeah, that was part of the conversation that I

550
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 5: was talking about when it was time to get more

551
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 5: black women in the show.

552
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 4: You know.

553
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 5: It's just like my quote that was heavily misquoted or

554
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 5: whatever was just the fact that, you know, the pool

555
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 5: to choose from isn't large basically as far as the

556
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,239
Speaker 5: people that ready to do that show. Like, like I

557
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 5: personally didn't know about the ground.

558
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 4: As a second city, you know what I'm saying.

559
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 5: So let alone you know, a whole bunch of us

560
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 5: knowing about it, and yeah, it's just, you know, it's

561
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 5: slim pickings sometimes. So it is kind of one at

562
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 5: a time as far as like discovering the next person

563
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 5: that is ready, you know, because a lot of us

564
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 5: might have other interests athletics, you know, music, business and

565
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 5: stuff like that that might seem cooler to the culture

566
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 5: and stuff. So you know, when it is time to

567
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 5: like look for the next you know, they might be

568
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 5: you know, they might be slim choices kind of thing,

569
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 5: but I think that's expanding. And you know, the more we,

570
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 5: you know, continue to display the fact that we can

571
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 5: do it and that you know, you should open up

572
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 5: the doors and look a little harder.

573
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 4: If that's the case, you know, you find your.

574
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 5: Leslie Joneses and your ego Wodhams, you know what I'm saying,

575
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 5: and you shild Jamadas and and you know, you give people,

576
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 5: you know, an opportunity to show you that we can

577
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 5: do this as well kind of thing. And you know,

578
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 5: I think that's kind of like what my words should

579
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 5: have been in that in that quote, you know what

580
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 5: I'm saying.

581
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 3: I don't even remember the quote.

582
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 5: The quote that they say I said was that, you know,

583
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 5: black women ain't funny, But that's not what I said.

584
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 6: It was like, that's better though, that's a good one.

585
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 5: The person writing the story black women Ain't funny comes

586
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 5: says black women ain't funny. You know, that's basically how

587
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 5: they blasted me, like for a while, and you know,

588
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 5: Leslie was mad, like before she met me, she was like,

589
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 5: let that motherfucker come over here and I'll burn his

590
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 5: ass up.

591
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 4: First of all, I didn't say that.

592
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 5: And when we first met, you know, that was clarified

593
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 5: in two seconds, because you know, when you and me,

594
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not outside the culture like that.

595
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

596
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 5: I don't disrespect my black women at all, you know,

597
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 5: like because like how would my mother look at me?

598
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 4: How would my sister look at me?

599
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 5: My cousins, this, that, and my that. I'm not an idiot,

600
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And I'm not detached from

601
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 5: the world either like that, you know what I'm saying.

602
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 5: So I would never say something so egregious. But my

603
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 5: point was, yeah, man, like this, it's I'm sure there's small,

604
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 5: low numbers, you know, in those improv houses wherever they

605
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 5: might be. So if I'm wrong, let me be wrong.

606
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 5: But I don't think I am because I've been in

607
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 5: the business a long time and I go to shows

608
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 5: a lot, you know what I'm saying, And I be looking,

609
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 5: you know, and I look back on history, like when

610
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: you watch Chris Farley in his Second City Days or whatever,

611
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 5: and you look at the background and his performance it

612
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 5: was tim medals. It wasn't like it was tim medals,

613
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 5: and A's Kevin and there's Joe and there's this that,

614
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 5: and they are all black and together and only Tim

615
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 5: got the shot.

616
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 4: It was just Tim metals there. You know what I'm saying,

617
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 4: That was it.

618
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 6: The problem with headlines is there's no nuance to headlines

619
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 6: because headlines can't be nuanced. Like if you tried the

620
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 6: nuanced the headline, it looked like the title of your book.

621
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,919
Speaker 3: So it has to be something quick, you know what.

622
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 4: It has to be sharp.

623
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, So like I get it, and it you know,

624
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 5: they did their job throwing me under the bus.

625
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, That bus driven by

626
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,679
Speaker 3: black woman is no joke, you know.

627
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 5: But at the same time, you know, you got to

628
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 5: look towards the positive, and the positive is it did

629
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 5: open the doors for some people, you know, even if

630
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 5: it was you know, me having to be the scapegold

631
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 5: or whatever.

632
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: So I can't be mad at it. How much longer

633
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 4: than I can be? But this guy got a plan?

634
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 3: How much longer does Keenan want to do? Us?

635
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 5: And L I mean, I don't know that that question

636
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 5: continues to vary, you know, like it all kind of

637
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 5: starts depending on like what the kids want to do

638
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 5: and where the kids want to be, Like how much

639
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 5: more time can I spend with them? If possible? And

640
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 5: also like are people getting tired of my moves? You

641
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like are people getting tired of

642
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 5: seeing me on the show all the time?

643
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 4: And stuff like that.

644
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 5: So it also is a long schedule and takes up

645
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 5: most of the year kind of things. So you know,

646
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 5: it might be time for like to make room for

647
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 5: other opportunities at the same time, but I want to

648
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 5: see that fiftieth at least.

649
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 6: It is scary for you when you think about, all right,

650
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 6: last time I walked away from a steady gig.

651
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, damn not in no hurry to like get back

652
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 5: to that. Yeah, I've been there, done that, you know

653
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 5: what I mean.

654
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 2: You know that's a guarantee check.

655
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's a guaranteed way of life, which is

656
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 5: rare for an actor, you know, like a lot of

657
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 5: actors is at the airport, you know what I'm saying,

658
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 5: and some casters going to New Zealand for ten years,

659
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 5: you know, Like I can't really afford to do that

660
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 5: with you know, small children, you know what I mean,

661
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 5: Like I love them, So.

662
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: The fifty if you might walk away, see that, See

663
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: how trying to put you on the head.

664
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 4: It could be, it couldn't. It all depends. It all

665
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 4: depends on, you know, how that season goes as well.

666
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 5: You know what i mean, because like right now, we

667
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,479
Speaker 5: only have way through forty nine and that's a lot

668
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 5: of ideas and a lot of sketches. There's a lot

669
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 5: of chances to do something like brilliant and stuff like that.

670
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 5: But it's also a lot of chances to kind of like,

671
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 5: you know, show people that I've been there a long time,

672
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 5: which is like it's not necessarily great when you're trying

673
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 5: to create things fresh and new and you want to

674
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 5: show to feel fresh and new, you.

675
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.

676
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 5: So I've been you know, kind of happy to be

677
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 5: in the background or see like Devin get a sketch

678
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 5: on finally, you know what i mean, like for himself

679
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 5: kind of thing like he did, you know on Saturday.

680
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 5: You know, like I was like very happy for him

681
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 5: for that, like cause other things have been like collaborative

682
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 5: or he'll have a part here and there, but a

683
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 5: whole sketch to himself. I think that might have been

684
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 5: his first one on Saturday, and that's a that's a

685
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 5: big step, you know what I'm saying, and that's how

686
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 5: the show continues to move on through history. So if

687
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 5: I need to move to the side to allow for

688
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 5: those things to happen and just like come in at

689
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 5: the end of the schedule or whatever and help or whatever.

690
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 4: I'm good doing that.

691
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 5: Like I've had my moments where you know, I put

692
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 5: up an idea and like people are singing it as

693
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 5: they decorate their Christmas tree, Like what's up with that?

694
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?

695
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 5: And that's that's something that like went hyper viral and

696
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 5: like I hear about it to this day. I did

697
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 5: that for the first time fourteen years ago, so I'm

698
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 5: crazy like that maybe seventeen years or what well season?

699
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: What season man twenty one?

700
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, fourteen years ago, so you know what I mean,

701
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 5: Like that's a long time, bro, And we do twenty

702
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 5: shows a season. That's a lot of sketches and a

703
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 5: lot of different characters and stuff like that. So I mean,

704
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 5: long story short, if i feel like I'm still creating

705
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 5: and it's not a headache for people, you know what

706
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 5: I mean, then yeah.

707
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 4: I'll keep it going.

708
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 3: Financially, you gotta be good.

709
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 6: It's not like you're gonna be in line at the

710
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 6: food bank that you're in an ambassador.

711
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, yeah, man, you shout out to the food bank.

712
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 5: They're doing really really great things over there.

713
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: We're ambassadors there, we are, you know what I'm saying.

714
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 5: We're ambassadors for you know, leaving nobody behind, you know

715
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, And like I love that. Financial wise, yeah,

716
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 5: we're doing all right, and we're going to continue to

717
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 5: do so. But at any given moment, you know what

718
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 5: I mean. And also, like you know, there's a lot

719
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 5: of things going on in the world, so if anything happens,

720
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 5: like you know, worldly, then you know, you don't have

721
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 5: no control of it. Don't matter what we got in

722
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 5: the bank kind of thing. So try to celebrate the

723
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 5: day man, as it goes.

724
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 7: I was going to ask, you know, when you watch

725
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 7: things that happen, do you have an opinion or as in,

726
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 7: do you care?

727
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 4: Or is it?

728
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 7: The first thing is sketch? Right, So Shannon sharp cat

729
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 7: Williams right, he's going crazy. Are you thinking, oh, this

730
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 7: is a sketch and this is I'm gonna break it down?

731
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 7: Or are you thinking, damn, why is he going at

732
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 7: so many people?

733
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 5: Well, some things are obviously going to be a sketch,

734
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Like, as soon as I

735
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 5: saw it, I'm like, oh yeah, like this is definitely

736
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 5: going to be a sketch only because like Cat Williams

737
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 5: is a good impression, you know what I mean, Shanna

738
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 5: Sharp is a good impression, and this is definitely a

739
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 5: moment that everybody has seen, right, so it's gonna be like,

740
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 5: you know, whoever's first to get the sketch up. Basically

741
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 5: at that point, there's a lot of nighttime shows that

742
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 5: could have done it, you know what I mean, or whatever,

743
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 5: But when we do it, it's on a different level

744
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 5: because like our departments are crazy, like our whig department,

745
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 5: our wardrobe, you know what I mean, our sets.

746
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 4: Like the audio, the whole team, you know what I mean.

747
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like the whole team is like on super duper

748
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 5: point because they've been doing it for forever and they

749
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 5: take it serious.

750
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 4: They love it, you know what I mean.

751
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 5: It's a family, like a generational kind of family that

752
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 5: worked there. So yeah, when I saw that, I was like,

753
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 5: we're doing this for sure. I wish we weren't on

754
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 5: break and everybody was texting like I know y'all about

755
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,479
Speaker 5: to do this. This weekend. I'm like, man, we all

756
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 5: for another week. You can have bro and everyone, Oh

757
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 5: my god, we gotta wait. But shout out the eggo man,

758
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? She get it, like, yeah,

759
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 5: they destroyed it, and I was I was eating it

760
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 5: up because I was it was entertaining, like the first

761
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 5: time I watched it and I was like, oh snap,

762
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 5: you know he said spilling everything, you know, and I

763
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 5: was enjoying it that way. And then of course, you know,

764
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,239
Speaker 5: the elder started chiming in, and like when Dave chimed in,

765
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 5: like why you're painting us with such a you know,

766
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 5: why you're painting dirty, ugly pictures of us or whatever,

767
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 5: It's like, all right, I gotta calm down, you know

768
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like take that into mind, the fact

769
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 5: that you know it the bigger pictures. We are supposed

770
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 5: to be pushing uphill together kind of thing. And yeah,

771
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 5: it was like all right, well, you know, maybe we

772
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 5: shouldn't be, you know, lashing out or throwing each other

773
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 5: under the bus or whatever. But you know, at first,

774
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, I love this.

775
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 6: You know, at a comedian, is that something you would

776
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 6: want to get mentioned in? Would you want cat to

777
00:31:59,120 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 6: say your name.

778
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 5: Nah, I don't want to be in No, I don't

779
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 5: want to be and nobody driving at all, you know

780
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Especially like you know, the topics that

781
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 5: they were discussing. I'm like, I could be on the

782
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 5: wrong side of this at any given moment if they

783
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 5: want to mention me. But my perspective on that, in

784
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,239
Speaker 5: my mind doesn't have me on the wrong side of it.

785
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 4: But you know, people have their opinion.

786
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 3: You might be a plant to somebody.

787
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, how you go from good Burger toes and

788
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 6: L and be there for twenty years?

789
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, like that's that's his opinion on that,

790
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 5: and it's dismissive unfortunately of you know, like Kevin's been

791
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 5: showing up to work all this time, you know what

792
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 5: I'm saying. It's not like even if he was like

793
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 5: planning and being like, all right, here's a movie for you,

794
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 5: he had to still do that movie.

795
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 4: He had to show up to this, you know what

796
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 4: I mean, And.

797
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 3: Like, don't even if he was planning.

798
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 5: Like he wasn't planning, if he was just given an opportunity,

799
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 5: that doesn't come as easy to others say it like that.

800
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, he still had to take

801
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 5: it and run with it, you know what I mean,

802
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 5: and do all the stand up and do all the

803
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 5: other TV show movies and stand the other and like

804
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 5: continue his track of professionalists. So like industry plants, unfortunately

805
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 5: dismisses the work ethic.

806
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 4: Of an individual, you know. And I think that's a nepotism.

807
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 5: Like you know, a lot of people want to do

808
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 5: for their children in any kind of environment, whether it's

809
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 5: Hollywood or corporate America.

810
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

811
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 5: But if the child becomes successful, it's not just because

812
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 5: the dad padded them along the entire time, you know

813
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 5: what I mean. Usually they have a work ethic and

814
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 5: they want to actually go out there and make those

815
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 5: connections and make people see them, you know what I mean.

816
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 5: So try not to dismiss the individual just because they

817
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 5: have an opportunity that you might not have had.

818
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: Kind of thing.

819
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 6: And I want to shout out to two black men

820
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 6: who first put Kevin in movies, Damon Dash and Russ Parr.

821
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 6: Two black men put Kevin in his first project is

822
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 6: that Nah? Before Soul Playing? It was definitely for Dynasty.

823
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 6: It was a state state property, state property, state property

824
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 6: define with Dynasty, he was in state property.

825
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 3: No people soldiers.

826
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 6: And Russ Paul put him into something too, but I

827
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 6: can't know the name of it, but they were the

828
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 6: first two people to put.

829
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: Him out the damn shout out to Russ's right, Yeah, man,

830
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 5: Like anybody that's giving you a leg up in this business,

831
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 5: like shout them out the whole time.

832
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 2: You know, do you make a call and well to people?

833
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 4: A lot of people, you know, I started young.

834
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 5: So the people that helped me, like work at Nickelodeon,

835
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 5: they're not necessarily like names or whatever, but like the

836
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 5: producers of all that in Kennicott was like Brian Robbins,

837
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and Mike Tolan, and you know,

838
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 5: Mike has gone on to do like more sports kind

839
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 5: of documentary kind of stuff, and Brian is like the

840
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 5: head of Paramount now, you know. But they were definitely

841
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 5: big helps. Lauren is a big help. Theater teachers, you

842
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 5: know my high school, you know, drama teacher, mister Freddie

843
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 5: Hendrix shout out.

844
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 4: You know, people like that, they're just as opposed to help.

845
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 5: Just gave me game, you know what I'm saying, And

846
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 5: gave me game about surviving the game, but also how

847
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 5: to like be a real performer and be professional and

848
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 5: show up on time and kill it.

849
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 7: I was gonna ask, you know, do you make a

850
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 7: phone call when you're about to do a skit or

851
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 7: do something about somebody, you know, something happened to somebody

852
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 7: that you effort.

853
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 4: You should You don't know.

854
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: I just take it, like you know, you got those

855
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,479
Speaker 2: calls before, like bro, oh.

856
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, Steve Harvey didn't love it. You know, he didn't

857
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 5: love it at first. You just ain't watch yourself, you know,

858
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 5: because you know, he's a grown man from the streets

859
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 5: of Clevelans or.

860
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 4: Whatever it is, you know what I'm saying.

861
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 5: He's just a big guy, you know, and like he

862
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 5: comes from like the knuckle up generation where you have

863
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 5: to and get it in the cold rocking factories or whatever.

864
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 5: He did, you know. But yeah, at first he was like, hey,

865
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 5: little rerun watch yourself.

866
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 3: All right?

867
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 2: No, so he calls you or you ran into it.

868
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 5: I would he would say it on his show, he

869
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 5: was saying on the radio and like that. So I

870
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 5: would like eventually like call in and be like, hey man,

871
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 5: you good. You know, Like once we did like an

872
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 5: interview or something like that. But whenever I would speak

873
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 5: to him, it was always love, you know what I'm saying.

874
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 5: But I just think, you know, he had to like

875
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 5: make his stance kind of known for his audience play

876
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 5: with blah blah blah. But you know, Steve's also been

877
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 5: another mentor because we was on his show back in

878
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 5: the day, and he gave me a lot of game

879
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 5: basically about just growing up and not.

880
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 4: Treating the business so young just because you young.

881
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of like adults out here

882
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 5: that's working really hard that's got like real problems when

883
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 5: they go home, or like, you know, you know, life

884
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 5: is serious enough, so you can't just be playing all

885
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 5: the time.

886
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 6: Right, Basically, how fatherhood change you? Because you got a

887
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 6: chance to call everything I need to know about life.

888
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 6: I learned from my girls. I got four girls, you

889
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 6: got two? Right, How how does father change?

890
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 4: I mean it really like showed me life outside.

891
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 5: Of my own personal perspective as far as how I

892
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 5: approach the day, you know what I mean, like and

893
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 5: living for others kind of thing, which was.

894
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 4: Like very different.

895
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 5: You know, like when you're in a relationship, it's different,

896
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 5: like you're still both grown individuals, so you expect the

897
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 5: other individual to like be able to take care of,

898
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 5: you know, certain basics or whatever because they grow. But

899
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 5: with a child, it's like, no, they need you for everything,

900
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. In their first few years,

901
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 5: or the first decade, or you know, even for the

902
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 5: rest of their life, whatever it is. They need you

903
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 5: in such a way that it's like it never turns off.

904
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 5: And I had never really experienced that, you know what

905
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 5: I mean, where it's like, you know, you have to

906
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 5: be aware of you know, and know what's going on

907
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 5: with your kids, like on a twenty.

908
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 4: Four hour basis, you know, three sixty five.

909
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 5: It's not like you can take a week off just

910
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 5: because it's Christmas.

911
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: And what did you learn? What have you learned from

912
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 3: your girl?

913
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 4: Patience?

914
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 5: You know, definitely a lot of patients emotion like being

915
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 5: able to like just embrace having emotional moments, you know

916
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 5: what I mean, Because when we were growing up, it

917
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 5: was either suck it up, take a lap, do this

918
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 5: or that, any other kind of thing, and never really

919
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: like sit in what's really bothering you kind of thing,

920
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 5: shake it off, you know what I mean, Like we

921
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 5: had all those kind of like sayings from coaches and

922
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 5: things like that, or you know, just growing up as

923
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 5: a man, you know, like you know, be a man,

924
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 5: suck it up kind of thing, and you would hear that.

925
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 4: But they taught me like it's okay.

926
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 5: To you know, feel these feelings kind of thing and

927
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 5: like understand what may be causing them and kind of

928
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 5: work through it. But also like the perspective of a child,

929
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 5: because we go around like, you know, kind of looking

930
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 5: and not really seeing the world, maybe just because we're

931
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 5: seeing it at our height, you know what i mean.

932
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 5: When you're smaller, you know, you see probably a bigger

933
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 5: picture and stuff like that kind of stopping smell of

934
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 5: roses kind of kind of vibe.

935
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 3: Basically, who's your biggest critic?

936
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 5: Myself? Yep, because I'm I'm the one that sees it all.

937
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. Like some people watch things

938
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 5: and they just enjoy it surface level, but I'm watching

939
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 5: like all snap my shoes and tied or you know,

940
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 5: little ship like my hair and I need a haircut.

941
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 6: You still got a hairline, though, you know what I'm saying.

942
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 6: That's all a black man can ask for a certain

943
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 6: You still got a headline.

944
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 5: God, bless you bless so like you know all that

945
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 5: kind of stuff too. You know what I'm saying, like,

946
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 5: oh I need a haircut, but like, thank god I

947
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 5: do have hair kind of thing.

948
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 4: So that's a stab at you show.

949
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I get a haircut.

950
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 6: You're talking about your get a fresh ball to haircuts

951
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 6: in a shape.

952
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 3: Shade.

953
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 6: I get a fresh ball. You know, it just starts

954
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 6: right here. The headline starts mid the ball.

955
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 4: You do your own, or you go somewhere.

956
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 3: I go to my man every time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

957
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 3: I understand, But you know what I don't.

958
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 6: I like, first of all, my guy right all the

959
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 6: treatment there.

960
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 3: You go exactly in the conversation.

961
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 4: Yeah you know what I'm saying.

962
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean therapy is good. I love therapy too.

963
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 6: But you know when you go into a barber shop

964
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 6: and you just kicking, it's like got all girls.

965
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 3: So it's good to get out the house and get shop.

966
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 3: You know, that's it.

967
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 7: Charlemagne pampas himself, So I take my daughters to this uh.

968
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: Manicurist and Pedicurius. Charlamagne is always there.

969
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 7: They love me and there they like every time I

970
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 7: go there, Like I see your friend, I went there

971
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 7: the other day. Charlemagne is always in there.

972
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 3: They love it.

973
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 5: He take a lesson stay clean, you know, like I don't.

974
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 5: I bite my nails unfortunately, man, habit.

975
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 3: No, man, you got to go get your manicure, pedicure

976
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 3: ken you deserve it.

977
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 5: I can't sit there like that. I don't think I

978
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 5: have patience to just sit there and like let people

979
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 5: tickle me.

980
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 4: I'm also I'm also really ticklish.

981
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 3: You look ticklish?

982
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know he looked ticulars. If that's the case,

983
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 5: it's the truth, because when did you first realize that?

984
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 5: What when I got tickeled as a little kid, you

985
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 5: know what I mean, like I don't take a you

986
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 5: know that was actually like, oh that feels funny.

987
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody does that. You was an adult though.

988
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 5: Now grown men shouldn't be tackling another because it usually,

989
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 5: you know, they.

990
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 4: Just have a good time, you know nothing.

991
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you and kel just reconnected too, but

992
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 6: well not just recollect what y'all did a good burger too.

993
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, man shout out to my brother.

994
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 3: Man.

995
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 6: Now, I don't know if to say how did y'all

996
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 6: get back on good terms? And I don't know if

997
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 6: y'all was having on bad turns.

998
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 4: No, I don't.

999
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,479
Speaker 5: I don't think, I mean, but at the same time,

1000
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 5: you know, hearsay and stuff like that can push it

1001
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 5: in that direction if you don't get like the real

1002
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 5: answer from the individual. And since there was a period

1003
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 5: where we weren't really in that much communication, you know,

1004
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 5: they were probably englands of that kind of energy or whatever.

1005
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 5: But once we actually did speak on the phone because

1006
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 5: we were doing a good Burger sketch on the Tonight

1007
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 5: Show or whatever, you know, and we had to spoken

1008
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 5: in years, you know what I'm saying, We knew we

1009
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 5: had to like at least talk before we go perform

1010
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 5: to each other. It was a two second reconciliation.

1011
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

1012
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 5: It was like time had never gone by, basically, and

1013
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 5: it was it felt like such a blessing to me

1014
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 5: and I feel like to him as well, you know,

1015
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 5: to have each other back in each other's lives, you

1016
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 5: know what I mean, because we do work so well together,

1017
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 5: and we had established, you know what I mean, something

1018
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 5: so beloved that it would be a crime to kind

1019
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 5: of just let it go into the wind just because

1020
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 5: you know, we wanted, you know, individual career identities.

1021
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 4: Kind of thing.

1022
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 5: You know, we didn't always want to be just Keenan

1023
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 5: and Kell, Like my name is Keenan Thompson and his

1024
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 5: name is cal Mitchell, you know what I'm saying, And

1025
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 5: like not a lot of people were willing to recognize

1026
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 5: that at the time. So that's kind of like where

1027
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 5: that drift apart started happening. And then, you know, as

1028
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 5: life does, you know, like different experiences are happening, so

1029
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 5: it just takes you and then you the next thing,

1030
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 5: you look up and we haven't spoken in seven years

1031
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 5: or something crazy like that or whatever. It was, so

1032
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 5: for us to reconcile and do the Good Burger sketch

1033
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 5: that was six seven years ago something like that.

1034
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 4: That was really really nice, and.

1035
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: Then that was sparked a Good Burger too.

1036
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 5: That's kind of sparked like, yo, I think we need

1037
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 5: to do this, and they were going to do a cartoon,

1038
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 5: and it was like, I think you should do the

1039
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 5: movie first and then do the cartoon. Like everybody's been

1040
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 5: kind of asking for a sequel since the first one

1041
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 5: kind of thing. It's like, if you're going to get

1042
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 5: back into that world, might as well do the second,

1043
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 5: especially if we hear you know what I'm saying, and

1044
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 5: we're young enough to like still do it with a

1045
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 5: passion and this, that and the other and try to

1046
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 5: make a good movie. So you know, luckily we were

1047
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 5: able to like put it together and like get it

1048
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 5: green Lid. Shot it in Rhode Island, like thanks to

1049
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 5: artists for artists, and like my business partner, you know,

1050
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 5: Johnny Ryan, who's from there, and.

1051
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 3: Like that's your production company.

1052
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, got a bunch of like you know whatever tax

1053
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 5: credits to make the budget make sense. And it was

1054
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 5: good for me because it was right up the street, you.

1055
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 4: Know what i mean.

1056
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 5: And my girls were in school till late June or

1057
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 5: something like that, so they were able to take to

1058
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 5: train up on the weekend, you know what i mean,

1059
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 5: as opposed to like having to shoot it in the

1060
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 5: middle of nowhere or something like that.

1061
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 4: So it all became you know, a good positive thing.

1062
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 5: And then we actually made something that people enjoyed, you

1063
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, And then it broke records, you know.

1064
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 3: Paramounts plus his most watched original film.

1065
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 5: Ever ever, you know what I'm saying, Like several weeks

1066
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 5: of number one, this, that and the other, so like

1067
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 5: it was it was all very positive, and it was

1068
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 5: positive for our company because it was like we make

1069
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 5: a history too, took the first Paramount movie, the Rhode

1070
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 5: Island kind of thing, you know what I mean.

1071
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 4: So it was just like.

1072
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 5: All, you know, all around really good and then also

1073
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,959
Speaker 5: setting up as the you know, the Kenan and Killed

1074
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 5: world continues to grow now, you know what I'm saying,

1075
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 5: because we know we can go work on this project.

1076
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 5: You know, if he got a project, he can go

1077
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 5: do it. If I got a project, I.

1078
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 4: Can go do it.

1079
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 5: But if we come together and do something, we know

1080
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 5: it's going to be like pretty dynamic. So that that's

1081
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 5: a beautiful thing, you know, because we laid a lot

1082
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 5: of track work early as opposed to like having to

1083
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 5: figure it out middle.

1084
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 3: Ages the cartoon's happening.

1085
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1086
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 5: I think there's an opportunity to do even the third

1087
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 5: one before we do the cartoon, you know what I'm saying,

1088
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 5: Just because the second one did so well, you can

1089
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 5: continue that world and keep on keep on getting it,

1090
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I wanted to ask you one thing.

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Speaker 6: Man, he was on Stephen Colbert Show, and you said

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Speaker 6: that Seinfeld said, you told Seinfeld the old Colbert apology

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Speaker 6: for what.

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Speaker 5: On that episode of Comedians and Cars that Colbert did

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Speaker 5: with Seinfeld. Seinfeld was like, it was just a bit

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Speaker 5: that I wanted to do for the sake of doing bits,

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Speaker 5: So it wasn't even really that serious. But Seinfeld was

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Speaker 5: saying like his show about getting coffee was way less

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Speaker 5: stressful than colbert show, which is like obvious, but to me,

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Speaker 5: it was like kind of like minimalizing Colbert's dedication, you

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Speaker 5: know what I mean. He's one of the most highly dedicated, intelligent,

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Speaker 5: absolute formers that we have and the fact that he

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Speaker 5: does it, you know, should be showing a little more

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Speaker 5: respect kind of thing.

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Speaker 4: But I was just talking ship.

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Speaker 3: Starting trouble between the white men. But it worked.

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Speaker 4: All right. Well, we appreciate you.

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Speaker 7: Man, get his new book When I was your age

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Speaker 7: life lessons, funny stories and questionable parenting advice from a

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Speaker 7: professional clown, And thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Put the glasses back on that, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me man. Y'all need a guest chair.

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Speaker 3: Do you do waking baking?

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Speaker 6: Guess we are Jesse Larry and starts on Monday. Right,

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Speaker 6: We're gonna have the new set up she got a

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Speaker 6: different that's gonna be for the for the guests. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I came right before that.

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Speaker 3: You look at you actually could have been the first

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Speaker 3: if you wanted to. You can bake in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Who's that waken? Bake smoking, we eeding early?

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Speaker 4: I don't know nothing about that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're trying to hurt your kids.

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Speaker 2: Sponsors now and.

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Speaker 4: All that, right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, sponsors are you know, easy to

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Speaker 5: talk to, especially when you go and get in front

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Speaker 5: of them.

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Speaker 4: Is like, man, I don't know what he was talking about.

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Speaker 3: Little drugs.

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Speaker 6: You know, he might he drinks early in the morning,

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Speaker 6: but he's just talking.

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Speaker 4: Man. We keep everything legal.

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Speaker 1: Kenan Thompson, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that

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Speaker 1: answer up in the morning for Breakfast Club.