WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Donnell Rawlings Explains His Issue With Being Called A 'Mild' Comedian 😤 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.680 Wake that answer up in the morning. The Breakfast Club 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:11.240 Donald tell him you call him back. Hey, y'all got 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.920 on Camo today. Good morning everybody. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.520 This DJ, M V Jesse, Larry Sholam and the God. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.120 We are the Breakfast Club. We have a special guest 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.640 in the building. He has a Netflix specialist out right now. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.279 Now familiar with the old rid law. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.160 Love your friend and his unridden companion, Hate your enemy. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.639 I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemy. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.400 This is from Matthew fifty five forty three forty eight. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.160 That's what all y'all really, I'm telling you to lose 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.599 love your enemies, let them bring let them bring out 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.600 the best of you, not the worst. When someone gives 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.960 you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.159 Look at God, for then you are working out of 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.559 your true selves. Your God, create creative selves. This is 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.040 what God does. He gives his best, the sun to 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.680 warm and the rains of ners to everyone, regardless the 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.240 good and the bad, the nights of the nasty. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.960 If all you do is love the lovable, to respect. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.680 The bonus, anybody can shut the fuck up while I'm 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.560 talking about God is wrong with you, nigg I'm praying, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.360 Nigga and anybody. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:10.039 Can do that. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.640 If you simply say hello to those who greet you, 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.320 do you expect a medal? Any run of the meal 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.600 center does that. In a word, what I'm saying is, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.559 grow up your kingdom subjects now, live like that, Live 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:32.759 out your God created identity. Live generously and gracefully toward 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.399 others the way God lives towards you. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.200 I love you, I love you. Sture you texted me 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:42.360 because you texted me. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:43.560 Matthew five five. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:45.600 Happy? 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.880 Happy? Are the mild tempered? Since they inherit the earth? 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.320 That's Matthew five five, Welcome, Welcome. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.520 How are you feeling, brother? I feel very mild. In fact, 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.360 I'm gonna tell you this is how mald I. I've 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.160 looked at the careers of a lot of people, right, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.720 and some of those people that are super hot that 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:12.280 aren't that mild. Let's just say they're not doing, uh, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.880 the same thing that the mild performers. I don't use names. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.240 I'm not talking about anybody. I mean, we could get 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.040 to it. I mean it's not listen. I had a 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.720 conversation with a very close friends of mind, and they 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.520 said they knew that I was doing the breakfast club right, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.440 and they said, Donelle, don't do it. This is what 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.080 that person says breakfast. They don't do what I'm not 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.080 used to say. They said, don't do what they're going 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.200 to try to do. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:39.920 He said, don't do it. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.360 And the reason why he said, here's the thing you 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.880 could say, it's this thing is I'm giving light to 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.440 somebody that doesn't deserve light. All right, I'm giving energy 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.120 and pumping up something that doesn't have to be pumped up. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.040 Now we could talk about the situation. I see that sinister, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.960 nasty light skin. Looked at your having. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:00.720 You look very light. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.280 You look very like lighter than normal setting like you 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.400 look like like Tisha like light lighting. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.000 Thing is I know it's. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.240 Your business as a fake journalist, as immediate personality, you 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:15.680 have to get to the bottom of thisss. You have 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.680 to get to what people talk about in the streets. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.720 I don't want to do that, but we can't. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.080 No, I want to hear special and they're talking about 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.320 the special. Wait, what's special? A new day? Know what platform? Netflix? 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.040 Not on the YouTube, not a podcast? Continue with Netflix. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:37.000 I'm just saying there's levels of this all right, yes, way, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.160 that's what we do. I'm still in the top ten. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.840 That's what we call from. People don't understand that to 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.920 look for clicks. This is called in this business of 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:44.920 it's called charting. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:45.520 Okay. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.960 Now, there are a lot of shows on Netflix. And 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.200 here's when the world, just not just a podcast, sees 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.680 you when you chart. When my special dropped on the 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.680 twenty seventh, the next day, it was charted at number two. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.800 Cong Now, no, no, no, no, no, let's talk about it. Don't 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.080 try to he was scared of ship and andre Ward 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:12.440 give me the same figa on a punk, I asked questions, So, who. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.520 Do you think was gonna fight next? 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:14.120 Right? 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.960 Who's the greatest? Who's the greatest fighter you ever seen? So? 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.760 Who do you think is the greatest nigga? Answer real question? 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.799 Who do you think is the greatest? 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:22.599 Would you ever fight? 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.360 Scorpion Balls? The biggest scorpion balls? There's a story in 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.680 Las Vegas where some guy Balls got good fight scorpion? 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.640 Hey, andre would you ever fight a scorpion? Can give 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.200 me the same respect I don't need. I don't want 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.839 your mother fucking congratulations. I want to talk about the facts. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:41.920 I have a respectful question. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.040 Didn't that before that, I have to answer his question. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.600 First special dropped. That's a question you and you were 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.839 getting there. It charted number two, right and it held 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.880 on to number two for three days. It went to 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.840 number four for a couple of days, it went to 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.440 number seven. I'm not really sure even if it's charging 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.920 right now. But to have a net Special to come 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.640 out as many programs that are on Netflix, just to 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.600 get recognized in the top ten, it's a big joint. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.120 It's a big deal, and it's the reason why I 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.240 support any comic that want to follow my lead and 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:12.719 be mild. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:13.760 You should do it. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.840 That's what I'm saying. And to address that, here's my thing, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.360 all right, we'll see it. I don't want to get 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.640 into it. I don't want to get into it because 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.839 I don't want to be messed. No, but no, no, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.159 I got to say this to it. It's in your face, nigga, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:31.280 you sinister nigga. I don't understand. That's the type of 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:31.920 nigga you are. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.040 I don't get this done. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.520 You've always been such a mild mannered comic. What is 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.040 setting you off about this situation? 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.000 The thing is setting me up about the situation it's 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.200 being called mild. All right, I'm gonna tell you why. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.279 It's the same issue I here with you for a 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.280 person that i'm bringing you back in. When I want 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:54.000 to bring you back into this, I'm gonna pray for you. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.320 Dear father, help. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:00.800 This nigga, all right? And I'm making what was the 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:01.920 point of can you keep you on track? 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.160 Just what is the point I was making why you 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.799 don't like to be called a mind? 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:06.360 The reason why? 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.240 And it's I say, the issue I had with you, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.600 and I said, okay, this mother for keep on trying 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.200 to create the narrative that he's not funny. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.240 You don't understand it's not true. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.039 To begin, let me say this, let me talk to 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:22.000 a comedian. You know the inward for us not funny 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.520 and corny. As much success as you've had, and I 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.680 know that if you've dealt with nay sayers and everything, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.960 and you can brush it off, your numbers don't lie. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.719 It's still something personal about somebody saying that and you 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:35.760 want to say fuck you. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:36.560 I know I'm not. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.280 And the reason why I'm gonna say that, and I'll 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.240 address this first off, you got to ask who's judging me? 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.240 Who is saying you mild, and if that person is 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.280 now on a level of what I've. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.320 Done, when you talk about what your mouth saying. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.599 Resume, even on a level, it's not even fair for 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.880 you to make an assessment of what you think my 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.800 motherfucking career is because I could do I can do 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.760 the resumes and this is what I could do. Resident 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.960 you can say the rest. I know you saw scorpion balls. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.200 I know I'm gonna deliver you, so you know what 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.040 I'm saying. It's like, Okay, who's judging me? And then 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.440 when somebody's judging, you're making a critique of me, what 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.000 are you doing? What are you doing to your career? 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.120 Was sitting back trying to ship on the motherfucker? And 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.680 I take offense to anybody saying that funny because I 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.760 know after thirty years, that's not what the streets are saying. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:30.000 I'm not funny about you. Isn't that the sign of 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.840 a narcissist? Yes, always bringing. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.920 It back to you. It's not about you. But but 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.400 did you open me? This interview is me, that's right, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.760 a new day of a new doing, and I'm feeling good. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.640 But you opened up for him that night right left, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.840 actory what what what you say? 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:46.840 First off? 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:54.800 First off, you know what, I don't want crazy that 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:04.760 that was crazy? No, I didn't, Okay, no, mhm. I 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:09.720 think it's very petty for comedians and I'm not gonna 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.160 say names because all it's just getting more. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.240 I think it's fucked up for comedians to try to 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.840 be critics of comedians when you're in the same field. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.280 Nobody does that. Athletes nobody do that. You'll never hear 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:28.040 Lebron James going out saying that Jay Morant is whack. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.320 I'm better than him. Okay, joh, whatever it is. I'm 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.200 making my point. You guys can count them. I'm gonna 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.560 get you when I say this. You'll never have any 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.400 other field where when you actively doing the same thing, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:42.000 you're gonna be. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.000 A critic of that person. And what they do is 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:46.280 leave it on the court. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.400 You're not gonna Lebron may have a certain issue with 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.600 certain players, but he was like, I'm not gonna be like, oh, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.679 I'm better at him, Like this, I'm gonna dunk on you. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.280 Michael Jordan never went out and said what I'm gonna 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.400 do to somebody. He went out and did it. So 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.800 if you you want to fight me, fight in the 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:06.640 fair arena. You can't fight me on Netflix because you 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.599 ain't in that league. So if your criticism of me 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.880 is of what your opinion is. And even with this situation, 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.280 somebody said, don't talk about it. You know what, I'm 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.959 a very petty person. I've been riding y'all motherfucker's pause 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.880 for eight years. I can be petty, right, I could 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.199 be petty. Didn't want to be petty, I said it. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.840 And the reason why I didn't want to be petty 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.240 because I started listening. I go through the comments. I 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.240 started listening, and I was saying, wait a minute, I 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.719 don't got to fight this motherfucker. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:33.240 I'll let them fight it. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.679 I don't need just like curting, you have to use 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:42.040 mild for fanity, yes, but I got you with myfanity 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.000 because we don't want to have to edit too much BP. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:44.560 Okay, all right. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.599 What I'm saying is, if you want to fight me, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.360 fight me in the right arena, you know. And the 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.800 thing is where you want to fight me or criticize me, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.240 I've already done that. I've already done that if you 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.520 check my resume, and I know you guys have because 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.520 you always want to have some inside on me. If 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.959 you check my resume and my career goes over thirty years, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.160 I started in the same place that everybody started, probably 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.199 even worse. So when you try to put out there 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.920 what you think comedy is and getting in front of 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.520 the munch, I guess what. I've been through the mud. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.480 But who still want to keep playing in the dirt. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.520 Eventually you got to elevate yourself. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.280 I don't want to do that. Why being so spicy down? 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.400 We know like you are funny, like we were like, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.880 we know you funny, Like, so what you're trying to 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.120 do down is, like I'm being honest, like how many 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:26.160 times is ues? 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.520 Is gas flighting? Your gas lighting? 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.400 Because he's get you started it. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.959 I don't trust you. I'm just I'm keep it real. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.160 I like you, but I don't trust you. And I 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.920 have the same situation with certain names whatever. But it's 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.760 like it's like this and now look at this, and 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.320 I know the question is, well, what's up with all 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.680 this comedy beef or whatever? 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.920 And it's unfortunate who got that question? I had that question. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.200 There's an elephant in a row. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.880 We do and we asked every other comedian that fucking 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.720 comes up here that question, and I was gonna get 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:00.920 to that. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.880 How you feel about the comedy beef and the climate 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:05.319 that it's in. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.360 Let's take away a nigga with a podcast who talks 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.760 about everybody to get attention. Let's take away that talk 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:16.520 about No, I'm talking about the climate in what comedy is? 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.199 You know our comedy is answer this way is to do? 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.280 You got to like comics, white commons, black commics, whatever 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.000 the thing is in our community, we feel like it 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.280 only could be one black person on top of one time. 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.240 Nobody wants to share the stage. They feel like Hollywood 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.559 picks this person, but everybody can win. Everybody wants to 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.920 be Batman. But it's gonna be more Robbins than anything. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:42.040 We're not supportive of each other, very very selfish, very competitive, 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:43.079 but not the point. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.200 Of everybody though we see I'm not talking to you, sorry, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.440 I'm talking to a comedian. Do you want to do comedy? 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.080 You can start like we did. We can do open mics. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.760 I know you have a platform and you think you 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.880 can do anything. All right? Do we interrupt like this? 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.080 I imagine can be interfering when you talking about one 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.079 of your podcast cards. Sorry, continue right, we don't do 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.959 seminars for houses anymore. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.600 I'm so glad that time is. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.280 Wait a minute, wait a minute. He doesn't do open mic, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:13.320 he doesn't open houses. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.360 Open houses. The houses clothes like shit right there anywhere? 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.320 Mind goodness. The question is it's and it's it's an 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:21.960 out were very very very. 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.040 Very hateful and as bad as the climate has been 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:30.000 in comedy, this is the common denominator with everybody that's 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.520 been a subject and discussion from the shell. Let's keep 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.400 it real from the sha and if you all these 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.959 names that came up, the one thing that's common with 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:42.040 everybody is that we all started from nothing. There's not 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.079 a story of anybody's name is going up that didn't 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.560 come from uh one family house. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.079 You know what I'm saying. Nothing. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.560 Everybody, everybody they talk about had a dream and they 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.079 turned their dream into reality. So my thing, if you 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.200 want to be critical of that, then be same, use 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.199 that same criticist and talk about the come up, talk 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.840 about the people that have done it, and let people 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.599 know that this is something that you can focus on 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.520 and you can do it, you can be good at it, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.960 and you make it successful. The only thing right now 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.079 in our comedy community is that people are trying to 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.079 sell controversy. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.360 Now. They don't want to. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.400 Sell jokes anymore because they know what moves the needle 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.720 every podcast platform. I did a whole media run and everybody, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.800 soon as I walked in, they wanted the controversy, which 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.880 I heard so about that they want, Oh I heard 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.960 this because they know that our society, we gravitate toward 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.920 negativity more than anything. That's why you look at news, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.480 the news, whatever New York news, you look at it. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.480 Person was murdered in Brooklyn, person was murdered in Bronx. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.240 Because we gravitate toward negative stuff. It's unfortunate where we 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.080 ever get where we have these positive stories, never because 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.520 that don't move the dow. So you got people here 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.599 trying to move a dow with podcasts whatever. And the 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.599 way I'm trying to move a dow is by what 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.280 I'm doing. I don't have to talk about it. I'm 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.800 not cocky about my Netflix special. I've been doing this 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.520 for thirty two years and anybody you know, you know 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.640 my history, anybody you know my history, I put the 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.560 work in. So when you try to discredit that, I'm 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.560 going to defend that again. I don't want to talk 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.200 about it because there's the thing. I make a conversation, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.599 all right, because somebody told me that's what we have. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.600 Now it's a MISSI fuck them. I don't know how 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:23.960 to say it. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.160 I was trying not to say that. I was trying 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.760 not to say I swear God, don't do this. I 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.520 just give me. That's what I want to say. That's 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:36.840 what I want to ask you. A serious question. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.120 Yeah, if sucking three dicks get you a movie, what 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.000 the fucking six six dicks get well? 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.600 Uh, that's a question for you because I know you're 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.520 you're very serious about it into the acting world, right, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.280 And when I came up here, I was like this, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.600 you know what out of all this discussion on flatio, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.120 and she was like, who better to audition for three movies? 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.000 It's Charlotte made. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.360 So maybe that's what you're the one curious about the 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.800 movie and that's a trigger. I've been in over three 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.560 movies and I've never and with that, I've kept my 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:10.640 career Dick Tree. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.120 So I've done it. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.080 It's been a struggle for some people, right, but I've 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.960 stuck to my guns. The dick out of here so much. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.200 Then I moved to Ohio just to get away from 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:27.080 the traps of the dicko. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.000 They ain't nobody soning dick tarrolls. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.160 I'm pretty sure that's I mean, you know, it's happening 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.080 out there, but that's not you know, that's not a 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:35.640 thing of mine. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.960 Do you practice like gentle or mild parenting. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.560 I'm very very mild, very mild and gentle parent. And 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.600 I think that's because I'm an older, older parent. Like 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.400 I think I'm old enough to be my son's grandfather 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.520 and father at the same time. So he's being raised 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.600 with grandfather energy, all that discipline stuff. I don't really 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.680 do that. Like when he was young, he cried, I 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.400 just give him lollipops. I didn't try to give no 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.480 life lessons. I'm like an old head dad. So yeah, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.920 I got a gentle, kinder parent in style. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.400 He's eight. Hio is good. I'm gonna roll my little 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.080 want to road than anything. Ohio is great. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.000 It's my weather day all the time. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:15.760 It's my weather. That's why I leave because I need 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.800 to go to more spicy weather. I need to go 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.920 to a climate where they get it from the mud, 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:20.840 you know. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.880 And I gotta Here's the thing about it, I gotta 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.160 keep it real, right, that's what society says. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:26.160 But the irony of that. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.560 When I did Chappelle Show, one of the sketches that 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.720 connect with people residents so much was when keeping real 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.400 goes wrong. So it was a situation I had with 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.800 keeping the real goes wrong. Guess who wrote that me? 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.120 So I knew how keeping it real could go wrong. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.320 Next question, Next question. There's a lot of things that 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.040 you don't know about Chappelle Show I did. Do you 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.560 know the character beautiful did? I played Beautiful the pimp? 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.360 That not the pimp the Jerry Croll got. What you 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.240 didn't know about this was that character was not on 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.480 the paper. They didn't write that. And this is how 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.520 hateful of a sketch that was. I asked Neil Brittan, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.120 I said, what's the next sketch I'm going to be on? 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.399 He said, player hate his Ball. So the next day 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.280 I look at the car sheet, which would tell you 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.120 what you planned everything, and I saw that I wasn't naughty, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.080 and I asked Neil, I said, I was supposed to 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.280 be in a player hater his ball? Why am I 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.200 not player's ball? He said, oh, I'm sorry, be I forgot. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.639 I was like, all right, he said, we'll just come 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.639 up with something so that character. If you look at 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.680 the original script, he did not exist on it. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.120 I went home. My hair has been ball for years, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:25.560 and I was like, I want to do a different look. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.800 Everybody know this. I was like, now there's an opportunity 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.720 for me to grow here. So I went to the makeup. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.679 I said, I want a Jerry Carroll wig. I went 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.960 to props and I said, I want a bottle. I 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.840 want some curl activator, right, but I wanted to be 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.399 in a champagne bottle, but they said that'd be too sloppy. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.159 So I said, give me an aerosol can wrap it 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.600 around with some platinum gold look or whatever. I'm going 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.920 to do that, right. This was the night before I 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.240 told him that, and then Five Heartbeats was one of 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.879 my favorite movies, so I said, I wanted to be 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.600 dressed like Eddie Kane Jr. If you look at what 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.720 Beautiful was wearing at it almost looked like the da 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.760 You know, it looked like that. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:17:59.960 So I went with that. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.080 I know this bores you because I'm making sense, So 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.400 you can leave the interview if you want. I see 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.639 you're not making an eye contact. No, no, no, no, no, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.200 you're distracted. I'm not focused on me. Can it be 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:16.840 about me right now? Anyway back to what I was saying, Yeah, 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:23.880 so I said I wanted to Eddie Kinge Jr. Look, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.520 So this guy was did didn't exist. So I got 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.080 to Jerry Carroll. I got the outfit and everything, and 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.680 I'm walking around and I didn't have a name, and 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.520 I'm looking in the mirror. I didn't have a name. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.600 I said, Neil, what's this character's name? He said, I 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.840 don't know. Be just make up something. So I walked 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:44.120 past the mirror and I was like, damn, I feel beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.320