WEBVTT - Cedric The Entertainer 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:11.119 R and B Money, Honey, we are than Malachi. We 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:16.280 are the authorities on all things. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:16.239 R and B. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.439 Ladies and gentleman. My name is Tank. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.919 This sis the R and B Money Podcast, the authority 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:31.240 on all things R and B dance, nigga and what 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.760 you say and thress and threats, real threats. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.200 Entertainment. Yeah, I'm talking. Listen. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.640 I hang out with King tuh Yeah. Yeah, on many 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:53.040 a stage, many a stage, yes, sir, all the time. Entertainment, television, movies, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:01:01.600 the club, the bar, everywhere, the golf, golf, golf, the 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.400 cool ship there too, all. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.080 The cooler ship you ever want to do. Nigga personify 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:16.559 s t L Yeah, and nigger. Yes, you have asados 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:23.399 with my friend of your friend? Yeah, centric yeah, O. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.720 Course that's what the situation could you I could like it. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.840 I like it because sometimes that's all it is out 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.800 there is the situation. You don't even nothing on that course. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.160 You're just like I'm golfing today. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:38.680 There. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.679 That's the big that's my that's my movie more than anything, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.360 is to drip. You know, you got a nice bag. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.400 You out there, you hit a couple of good balls, cigar, 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.240 you pull up with the music, you know, that's what 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.080 you when you see me golf and that's usually what 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:52.440 you see. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.560 You never really see me. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.760 So you hit the ball, golf cart like a Harley 0:01:58.800 --> 0:01:59.480 with the speakers. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:08.079 Yeah, yeah, put it with the loud, you know, just 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.880 playing zapp they be going before. Yeah, they they be 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.079 on it on the Hardy's loud as hell. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.720 That's a relationship though, is that you the golf course? 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.800 Yeah, golf course always got the music popping in until 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.320 they tell you to turn it down. If you had 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.680 a really good course, then it's gonna be a moment 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:24.400 where you got to. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.120 Be like, they don't care about none of that entertainer. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.000 Yeah, they don't want to hate everybody. Cool out. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.120 But then as soon as they leave, I turned back up. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.359 Let me ask you a question. Are you making deals 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.880 on the golf course? It's just deal doing on the golf. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.960 It is a degree of deal making out there. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.280 Not like the old days though, yeah, the old days, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.560 because I mean, you know, but you know, it's a 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.320 part of the it's a part of. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.520 The kind of camaraderie of it. All. Right. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.800 You get you go you play golf with somebody that 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.560 you don't really know. You go out there y'all kind 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.519 of chit chat. You talk, you become friendly, and then 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.160 it's used on the nineteenth hole, which is where you 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.600 drink and sit around and talk. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.359 Is where you do a little bit more business because. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.200 If you playing, it ain't really a lot of time 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.400 to be doing the chit chatting, especially if they moving 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.600 you along the course. Yeah, but you know, like if 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.760 you're in the cart with somebody, you riding and somebody 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.440 knew that, you can start, you know. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.760 Chumming it up. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.399 But that's the that's kind of the move what everybody does, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.760 because literally you got four hours sitting with somebody, so 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.760 if you get in the cart with them, you just 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.120 try to be like, all right, what's going on with 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.040 your business? 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.920 And then you try to figure out how you you know, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.200 make make a deal out of it. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.880 But it ain't quite like that. Everybody like that's why 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.680 I play. I'm still I can still play basketball. Yeah, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.360 well see, but my knee is still good, and I 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.440 feel like golf. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.240 Is everybody I know over the thirty. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.000 I'm in the league. Man, got a game tonight's a 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:59.960 bye week. It's a bye week. We've only lost one game, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:00.800 so we get a five. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.880 Oh wow, that's good man going to the playoffs and 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.120 so yeah, playoffs as soon. You know, the march madness 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:18.760 of it all. It's probably probably a big, huge in 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.440 a mural situation going on it. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.520 You know. It used to be the entertainment leagues though, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.560 and all that stuff that was really big. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.840 that was real, real thing. What we're doing. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.680 Dudes was extra serious, dog like they was like very 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.279 serious and and brothers was blowing their knees out. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.360 It wasn't We had trainers and everything that you could 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.039 get taped, you get stretched, you had your official uniforms. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.359 Oh yeah, every NBA was there. What happened kind of 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.320 just face. I think somebody ran off with the money. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:53.040 No, what happened was always one you know, it lifted 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:54.480 it faced. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:12.600 You always character and because like NBA didn't see the 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:13.760 value on us anymore. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:14.599 Oh wow. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.320 And then yeah, and then and then you stopped seeing 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.839 that kind of that camaraderie at the whole games and everything, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.800 because there used to be that we used. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.000 To do the games for them, the NBA game we 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.359 would do. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.440 It would be a crew of us that would do 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.640 like you know, Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, all these different games 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.800 for the n b A and then the NBA was 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.719 just like I think, you know, more of the n 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.120 b A guys just started becoming social and stars and 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.160 all that, and we don't really need you no more. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.320 Yeah, that's kind of true. They all got records out. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:52.720 You got come on man killing man. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.480 You man signed that big ass deal. We want a piece. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.640 But you you you working too, brother, and and we 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.480 need to shine some light on your work, brother, than 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.600 you in the streets as we speak. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.120 Yeah, man, you're gonna. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.200 Be in Vegas, Vegas as soon if we speak and 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.159 you speak on I don't you know, man. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.720 You know, we got a residency I've been doing since 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.320 last year me Tony Braxton. It is called Love and Laughter. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.320 So it's, you know, she doing the love songs and 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.840 I'm bringing the laughter. But then we mix it up. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.479 So it's like a real big Vegas show. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:28.360 Man. It's kind of like. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.040 You know the old Sonny and Shall, the Donnie and Marie. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.680 We like we're on stage doing things together. She sings, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.000 I perform. It's big show. We got you know, big 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.719 production behind it. Uh. And so we started last April 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.440 and uh, you know, at the Cosmo and it's just 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.719 been extended man, So everybody that they love it, Vegas 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.360 loves it. So we've been extended it into this year. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.520 We rocking again. Valentine's Day weekend, Valentine's Day weekend, Friday 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.159 and Saturday. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.160 Pull up phone us. I can one procure tickets to 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:03.039 said event. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.560 Love and Laughter go to Chicken Master, I believe, or 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.679 the Cosmo U and Love and Laughter. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.800 Love and Laughter tickets be on sale right there. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.080 Man, you can get it. You can get out. So 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.200 opportunities grab rooms at a discount. Talk about all you 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.960 want to come in and pull up, you want that 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.600 you got, you know, everybody looking for the discount. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:24.440 You know what I'm saying. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.480 And when I say it's an opportunity to do it, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.680 I'm just saying I don't know what that is, but 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.440 I mean, you know it's. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.120 We know what it is. But those are the ingredients 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:33.960 to get. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:40.000 Laid when you yes, when you get hit. That's what Demetrious. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.600 That's terrible because they will you know, people gonna do 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.240 that for real, They'll be sending them out there. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.080 That's how I'd be Like. I have my little nephew 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:49.600 up there too. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.800 He probably gonna think he'd be like now y'all asked 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.720 a little, you know, but but that's that's you know, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.360 but that's it. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:56.560 Man. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.559 You're right, it's Valentine's Day weekend. To bring somebody ves winning, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.800 you know, honey. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.160 To that man like I would. But what can we do? Chief? 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.720 What what you think? I mean? 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.520 We we are alerting the people now, but I feel 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.360 like as we're alerting the people, if we really want 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.520 to be player, come on, we would. We would set 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.480 up for some people to to maybe get because you 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.480 got love and laughter. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.800 Maybe we throw some food in there. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.640 So you want to be laughing too hard on the 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.360 empty you you know what I'm saying, Like you want 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.720 to get listen a date with a dinner and then 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.360 the love and laughter. You getting some ass for sure. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.400 So so how about this? 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.040 How about this? In the comments? 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.680 All right, tell them what we're gonna do your you couple, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.440 the couple that you are. If you have tickets, hit 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.080 the R and B Money Cast, rn B Money Cast, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.040 R and B Money Podcast, d M, show your tickets 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.640 and you're gonna qualify. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.520 I'm not sure who's gonna play for. You're gonna qualify 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:02.000 for a. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:12.200 Free dinner on R B Money Ship on R and Money. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:13.760 Out. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:24.600 Don't take picking though expensive places. We please please show 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:25.160 me do so. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.320 Listen again hit the R and B Money Podcast DM. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.880 You must have tickets to the show. Show the tickets 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.920 to your Valentine's Day weekend show, and we are going 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.760 to pick some winners to go have dinner on us. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.319 We got you in the honor of our brother, the 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.320 not the living legend, the living King sitting. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:53.880 Right here next to quality quality podcasting. Quality is legendary 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.959 right there, just because people don't do it. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.560 Yeah, people don't hand out, you know, prizes. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.040 To their to their We're trying to act like that's 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.600 what the young niggas giving away. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.400 Give hundred dollars to whoever tworks to this in the 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.920 next thirty minute. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.640 Show me that. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:22.040 Yeah, wow, yeah, that sounds thousand. Yeah. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.640 People, the people will work for less, people will work nothing. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.040 Niggas like, yeah, they just toork the out towark. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.880 Somebody just out just to outward outwork the next work in. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.240 The spirit of work competition and it's like, you know what, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.520 it's on the internet all the time. I'm like, oh, 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.920 and it's bad because you can't get it off of 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.720 your explore page. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.199 You can get it off of it, somebody. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.560 You gotta have to explore everything. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.839 Well, but I keep getting locked, like, oh, let me 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.840 switch to golf, and they're like, oh, look at that ass, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.040 And then you look at that and the next you know, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:00.560 your algorithm back full. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.320 I can't give my phone to my granddaughter. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.839 Algorithm won't let you, won't let me, won't let me lie, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:07.679 won't let. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.800 You lie to yourself. It won't let me lie to 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.640 my wife. Well, what phone just full of? 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.920 My wife looked at my phone showing her something. She's like, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.200 what's that. That's just that's just on my spore. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.040 I don't know her. Yeah, but look at all of 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.560 these on your splore page. That's it. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:29.120 Yeah, those women that's been dancing and been working out. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.080 But that's that. The popular page shows you what you 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.200 look at all the time. I don't lead to another. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.040 And then that's and that's that's what's stupid about this whole. Really, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.800 that's why I don't like it. I don't go home 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.920 my exploring page. That's probably oldest. That's probably old man, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.000 now old. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.320 That is what I believe. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:01.760 It says three thirty. I believe that you was just 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.920 oh you't three thous my god, that's crazy. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:11.000 I was like, what the you want to be on here? Look, yeah, dude, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:12.440 I wanted a lucky ones. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.960 I look at cars and stuff for a lot of 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.040 stuff on my popular page. Yes, it's cars, cars and 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.480 and women. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.520 Yeah, jets. Yeah, heterosexual man, that's my algorithm. Yeah. You 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:30.160 know problem with that, that's not saying Is that wrong, Ruben? Yeah? No, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:38.840 it's got dogs and. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.480 Yeah, yeah, because I met his dog outside organic gimble. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.240 Yeah, like you that good nice stuff. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.760 The air products, you know, like they can tell room's 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:47.839 got good air products. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:57.839 Said, it's got about to it, yeah, said St. L Yeah. St. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:05.000 Louis. I'm a Midwest guy myself. Milwaukee. Yeah, I know, 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.680 from being in Milwaukee, just growing up at that time 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.960 and not and not that I was even thinking about it, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.640 but I didn't necessarily know a way out. I wasn't 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.880 thinking when I was in Milwaukee. Man, I'm gonna be 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.839 this this star, and I'm gonna have a podcast, I'm 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.120 gonna have Albums'm gonna have I was just playing in 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.840 the hood, in the neighborhood. Yeah, and that was and 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.440 going to church, and that was that was what I 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.120 thought life was going to be at any point early on, 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.240 you know, as you're growing up in Saint Louis, does 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.640 it ever cross your mind that I'm going to be 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.240 a king of comedy. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:44.079 You know. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.679 I mean I always wanted to entertain, Like when I 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.600 was little, while I had this thing, you know, the 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.040 TV show fame was our coming, and so I remember 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.719 I had the ability as a youngster to do all 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.200 these things. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.800 I could dance, I could sing, I would act. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:01.720 I was and I would tell my mother I was like, 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.000 you know, the braids though like Leroy, not quite bleag womans, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.880 but I definitely had the braids. But I had the fauehead, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.600 you know. I always had this family forehead that was 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.920 like a little past too much for braids. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.640 You know. It was just like, hey, there's never been 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.080 nothing there. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.720 No, that's always been like it always started off. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.520 I always had a little in the back. Yeah. Yeah. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.960 So so anyway, but I but I, but I did 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.960 man and so I used to My mother was a 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.240 school teacher, so I used to try to convince her 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.000 that let me perform more, you know, and she just 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.040 you know, she was from that educational background. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:39.720 So it was hard. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.280 So I ain't really discovered that I can really do 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.240 it until after when I went to college. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.520 I sang in some groups. Then I got a radio show. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.480 You can't you can't just go sanging group, tell us 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.880 the name you can come home, man, I know you remember, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:56.520 don't do this. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.320 Man we had like it was even a dope name dog. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.600 It was the Alderman. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:09.120 What we lived alter We lived on all de Men 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.120 and so we lived on the street called Alder So 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.280 we was the Alderman. And it was like just kind 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.360 of this like the men, the Men of alder Yeah. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.480 It don't matter how much you shrug like, you know. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.760 So he was on all these you know, like Alderman 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.320 was a political thing and so we was all we 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.440 felt like that made us regal, y'all nice. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.000 He's pretty nice though. Yeah. We had a nice harmony. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.600 You know. We used to do the little Ray Goodman 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.600 and Brownjo. No. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.560 That was another dude to sing I am my little yeah, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.400 just yeah, just because I always wanted to sing lea. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.120 But he was, you know, he was the light skinned 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.480 dude and the girls loved him. I was dark back then, 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.480 the dark dude always had to go on the back, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.040 you know what I'm saying. So I just I'd say 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.480 mainly based, but then I would jump out because I 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.120 had a Luther thing that I could do, okay, and 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.280 when I would hit the Luther Jong, then come on, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.080 turn loose. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.800 Shine, excuse me, let me get this. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.320 The singer y'all had to deal and then we were 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.120 we would have grown. But dude, dude definitely had the 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.200 better vocals. You had to give it to him like 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.880 he had to. He had to range and he could, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:22.200 you know. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:27.800 He Gerald Gerald, Gerald, Germ's dope. You know what I'm saying. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:32.360 You know, like to this day, you know what I'm saying, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.720 You're like, yeah, Gerald, Man, it took my girl and 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:45.640 everything walking through the point shot with Gerald. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.920 It's always a girl that breaks up the group. Oh 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.120 always never lasts up the group. So you got the 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.120 singing group and grow up and now you're starting. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.440 To so so now I'm believing in it, you know so, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.880 but you know again, you like you say, you mid West, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.600 you don't really believe you're gonna go You. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:04.520 Ain't gonna go Therry. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.280 You know, you don't see it, you know, until like 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.840 then the comedy started to pop off, and then it 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.200 became a little bit more familiar, like when Robert Townsend broke, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.080 you know, because first it used to be like only 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.440 people that was on like Johnny Carson, right these was 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.320 big comedians and Richard Pryor and you know Bill Cosby, 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:25.560 legendary comedians. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.600 So you didn't see yourself in that group. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.440 And then when Robert Townsend kind of hit right before, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.600 right before the death, comedy jam erat Robert Townsend used 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.960 to have these specials and you start to see people 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:44.520 like Damon Waams and Tommy and late legendary Robin Harris. 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.320 So these was the people that you you go like, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.679 all right, now it's a little bit more like what 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.360 I understand, And now you start to believe a little bit. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.080 And then you know, then you go to the comedy club, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.879 met Steve Harvey. You start to meet people. How do 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.000 you get into comedy? Like, how do you even Yeah, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.959 I'm in say, look, I'm working at State Farm. I'm 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.520 the original Jake. I'm like, I'm a claims adjuster. I 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.360 got a job. I got to you know, I'm wearing 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.920 the khakis. I'm a work, you know, adjusting cars. Like 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.200 you know, like somebody have a wreck, I come out, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.320 you know, all right, man, it's gonna take two weeks. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.879 We're gonna fix that? Are you that guy? A little bit? 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.120 For sure? You know what I'm saying? 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.240 Like, I was definitely funny at my job, but I 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.080 also was a pro you know what I mean? So 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.880 you know, but you know that that kind of really 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.879 led to it. And then it was a friend of 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.760 mine that was a stand up. This dude was doing 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.879 stand up and he come back and be like, yo, 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.320 now I made eleven hundred this week and I made 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.720 fourteen hundred last week, like doing what like I'm doing jokes. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.080 He was like, you can do it, and he signed 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.800 me up for a comedy competition, helped me work on 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.560 my little set and the first time I ever did it, 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:51.800 I won five hundred dollars. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.720 First first time it was only five minutes, just like 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.480 a new thing, you know, like new, you're the new guy. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.920 You go up, you do like five seven minutes whatever. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.280 But he he helped me shape the whole thing with 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:05.520 stuff that I would be saying. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.800 He was like, do that, do that, Joe, do this 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.680 thing you do right here? Do that, do that over here, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:11.560 do this right here. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.840 So he has a pro knew how to help me 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.040 shape what it was. So but because I had been 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.080 in groups and did plays and stuff like that. I 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.159 didn't have no stage fright, so I had I had 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.119 a little bit more of advantage and not being like 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.080 afraid to go perform. So you know, even though I 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.560 was afraid to do comedy, but I wasn't scared of 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.440 being on the stage. So I just was able to 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.560 kind of go up there. And it definitely was far 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.320 more advanced than the than people that was in because 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.760 it was a rookie competition. Yeah, it was like all rookies. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.720 No, I had never done a stand up. I had 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:54.920 never done He had a joke coordinator who looked down 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:55.880 the top. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.960 He had to walk he over, like, tell you put 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:06.240 out of that joke, can go with the McDonald's. What 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:07.359 else is going on? 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.840 Is that happened? Let somebody give you know when somebody 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:16.159 in your That's the thing about it. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.159 When you on you as a stand up, that's the 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.480 only one man, truly, when you on stage and a 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.520 stand up, you ain't got no help, bro, like you 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.800 just it ain't no ain't no weak side help. Like 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.399 if that joke start going bad, if they lose the crowd, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.240 it's only up to you to dig him out. You 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.800 can't get a drum or something you can't drummer, can't 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.879 get a drummer. Yeah, let will Willy do something. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:49.200 Have you had those bomb nights though? Help you? Yeah, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:51.920 you had to have. You had to have a couple 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:52.880 of those if you ain't. 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.520 You know, stand up is definitely not a you know, 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.639 it's not a not a week man every it's definitely 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.440 excited antipic where it looks just because you rocket, you'll 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.680 kill it every time. Definitely had some nights where they's 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:07.919 you know, it went horribly wrong where you just up 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.440 there like, damn this shit crazy, like I usually kill 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.160 like I mean, I did it in front of a big, 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.080 big crowd in New York one time, like big, you know, 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.800 and New York is wanting place that intimidate you anyway 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.600 with but it was but it was like, but this 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.600 was a corporate New York crowd. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:28.639 So it's even different. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.720 And I'm in there, you know, I see all the 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.800 corporate suit guys, and then so I switch up, you know, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.480 I threw all my white voice and hey, guys, you know, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.359 I'm telling jokes completely out of order, you know, like 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.800 you know, out of tone. I've got this extra high 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:51.560 ass pitch ship ain't landing, I mean hawk like going wrong. 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.680 And then Steve Harvey was there. Steve went up and 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:58.080 cuts everybody out and they dying. He with the you know, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.639 with the straight Steve look y'all country. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:06.960 Ass, letting they ass have it. They dying. He was like, 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.320 dog never changed for them, don't ever change. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.440 You just go up there. If you die as you 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.000 then that's one thing. But don't die trying to be 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:16.040 what you think they. 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:17.000 Want you to be. Right. 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.040 That was the biggest lesson I have And that was 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.959 early too in my career. Like, so that was one 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.119 of those things I always tell young comedians that, like, 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:27.560 you just go up there and be yourself dog. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:29.960 If it worked, and then you're gonna you know, you keep. 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.639 Working it, but don't try to don't try to fix it. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.680 You know, like think you're looking at the room, like, 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.000 oh man, it's a seemed like a bunch of Republicans 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.520 in here. Let me try to be on their side 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.000 and get through the night and fuck them. 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:47.480 Save your ship. Yeah, you get your first five hundred dollars. 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:52.800 Yeah though, and drake with me, Yeah that's a Missouri ship. 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.240 You got five Let it be. 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:15.800 Now then easy yeah, easy, You're buying out of the 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:21.520 bar and and what is what is the next milestone 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:21.800 for you? 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.840 Probably so then you know, so I get, I get 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:27.440 what it was. What it was called. It was a 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:29.040 run like that you can book. 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.960 It was a comedy club circuit where you know, you 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:33.919 kind of work in the city, work around, but if 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:37.280 you can book this comedy club. Funny Bones was a 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.960 big comedy club and they had twenty two clubs around 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:43.440 the country and if you book them, you can you 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:44.720 can go twice a year. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.399 They put you on the circuit. That was enough to 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:49.840 quit my job. So you work to get on that. 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:51.639 So that was it. I booked that. 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.960 But within the first year of doing that, Death Comedy 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.960 Jam came on the air. Black Comedy started to take off, 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.000 and then I just I jumped off that. Probably in 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.480 the second half of that run, I was on the 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:08.920 Black Comedy train as a top dude. Like because people, yeah, 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:11.680 people hear about Yeah, that happened pretty fast, Like I 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.440 mean you know that that that was probably within a 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:16.560 three year period, you know what I'm like, Yeah, but 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:18.639 it was fast, you know for stand ups, you know, 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.280 but uh, but I used to have a regular night 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:23.600 so I had a lot of jokes because I was 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:25.520 a host of you know of a black Night in 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:27.640 the Loop, like you know where the where the dope 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.080 boys come and pay you and they you know, the 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:32.640 dope boy spots be you know, you'd be getting rich 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:33.400 in there because. 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.120 We all have experienced the bag. 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:41.040 Yeah, because they just fu it does and people like 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:43.320 you know, you think about like the old Rich Briar, 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:44.160 like the gangsters. 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:45.480 The Mansters used to do them. 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.200 But then in the eighties we had like all you know, 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:50.480 we had just the street boys that be like wanting 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.240 to have a good time. They ay Man come to 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:57.200 the spot dog right, you know, talk about Little Rock 0:24:57.280 --> 0:24:58.080 Little Rock Ruck. 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:02.360 You know, like yeah, was throwing stack some money. I'm 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.520 on the stage. You're feeling like a stripper. But you picking. 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:11.440 They laughing and having a good time. They just that's 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:15.160 they wearing showing appreciation. You was like beg so yeah 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:17.640 that was like big that was big love. And then 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:21.000 then uh, the Steve Harvey Show came. Like well I 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.440 had won like some I did like Deaf Comedy Jam 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:25.600 and all that stuff, But then Steve Harvey Show came 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:27.960 and that's when you know, you started to really be 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:29.240 pulled into Hollywood. 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:31.400 Did you guys have a friendship already before. 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:33.560 That, Yeah, yeah, we I met him and he used 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:36.639 to have a club in Dallas and he was like 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:38.520 a mentor, Like he was one of those guys like 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:41.280 I got the Dallas got stuck, you know, I was 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:44.120 down there. I went to go do another comedy club. 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:46.760 And when I got there, they didn't they didn't use 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:51.399 opening acts from out of town or something. They was 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:53.679 like they had made it up. I don't know what happened, 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:55.800 but they was like, from my understanding that it wasn't 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:57.880 gonna be two black comics on the show at one time. 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:00.639 So what happened was it was a The dude that 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.560 became the headliner was a black dude. And then I 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.719 showed up, and then they didn't know. I guess Cedric 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.240 didn't know. Didn't sound like very authentically black to them 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:10.720 at the time. 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:18.680 So I drove. I was you entertained, Well, I'll tell 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:23.239 you what. I'll tell you what you might you might 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:26.920 you might want get back in your vehicle. Why is 0:26:26.960 --> 0:26:37.480 it always not your car hit up around? 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:44.160 Tell ned, I can't believe it A little bit. Man 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:46.560 is always back to the back to tell mad. 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:51.200 We got he's born racist, he's born we got too 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:55.520 many black? Yeah, too many. I don't know. I don't know. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:27:00.920 Tell you it's a ratio. That's a I may not know. 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:08.520 You drove all the way here, but sticks so you're stuck, 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:12.000 stuck in text. The thing is I was dating this girl. 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:19.760 She was a flight attendant. So yeah, and it's funny 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:24.960 because well it was tough too, but I had a girl. 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:27.920 She she was there. Steve was just opening his little 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:31.480 he had a comedy night. He had a thing popping off. 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:33.360 And then I went by there just each night. 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:36.640 And then, you know, I knew him through another comedia, 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:39.040 so I just was trying to go up at night, 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:41.760 you know. And then so then I was you know, 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:43.720 I would go up after the headline and just do 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.240 like two three minutes. I was killing it, and I 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.320 told him my problem, you know, my situation. Steve gave 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:51.399 me two hundred to get home and then booked me 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.800 to come back, and it gave me my first time 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.320 I ever made a thousand dollars doing comedy goods. 0:27:57.800 --> 0:27:58.560 Harvey did that. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.639 Like put me in and gave your flight because you 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:03.879 used to drive like in the comedy club service you 0:28:03.960 --> 0:28:06.840 had to drive everywhere like old Spain. In the Midwest, 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:11.600 we had a lot of places. Milwaukee was a place, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis. 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:13.800 You would drive and go get loose, like you know, 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.879 if you're willing to drive eight seven hours, you can 0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:19.520 go get some money. Detroit, drive ex suit, go get 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:21.680 that money. Like so we were a hustled like that, 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:25.920 you know, with the comedy business. But then Steve flew 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:28.560 me down Then Dallas was a ten hour drive, but 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:31.000 he he flew me down there and then pay me 0:28:31.080 --> 0:28:31.800 a thousands. 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.919 You up, you up boy? That was like yo. 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.320 And then you know, then we became friends from there, 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:40.760 just with rock and then uh and then so when 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:44.440 he got to Steve Harvey show, he asked he asked 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:45.160 them to put me on. 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:47.000 So that was and that was it. So that was 0:28:47.000 --> 0:28:48.760 a good look right there. That was a hell of 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:50.520 a look, man, And that was I've been gone and 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:52.360 we took off after that. 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:56.200 Well, you know, b et comic you probably would I 0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:59.400 would consider my first real step though, because I came 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:01.560 out that because when I became the host of com 0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:04.800 of You, I became black famous, Like they came on 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:07.880 every night and so you know, you come on every night. 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:10.800 Then everybody in the airport. Now everybody knew me. 0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:13.520 So then you know, and you jumped to you jump 0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:16.080 your little your paydays, you know, because I probably used 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:19.000 to get like at that time, probably twenty five hundred 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:21.880 three thousand in the show. But then when I became 0:29:21.920 --> 0:29:24.960 the host, that that ship jumped to ten fifteen and 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:26.280 I was three of them over. 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:30.080 Yeah, you was like what during the week, you know, 0:29:30.320 --> 0:29:38.560 and the bitches No, I'm just give it ye I, 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:43.560 I I know what you're talking about. Yeah, but that 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:45.680 was my thing going when I was a kid. I 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:48.360 can make her laugh. Oh yeah, I can get her. 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:51.360 That was it, you know, it was you know, that 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:53.960 was it the close you started getting into it all that. 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.320 But then that idea of like going around the country 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:00.440 getting more and more famous, was he became something that 0:30:00.960 --> 0:30:02.760 you're like, all right, this is this is real. And 0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:06.080 then we start getting more TV opportunities like say, comic 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:09.160 view blew up. Then then death jam blew up. And 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:11.200 then you know that kind of led me to the 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:14.840 uh that that Steve Harvey situation, which was great. How 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.320 long we did six? 0:30:18.000 --> 0:30:21.240 Wow? Yeah, so we did six on Steve Harvey Show. 0:30:21.960 --> 0:30:24.959 And then uh, and then I started doing some movies 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:27.800 right after this, so I had a great run up 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:33.080 from ninety Well, you know, comedy you started in ninety 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:35.760 four and it's been pretty solid though. But and then 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:38.800 Steve Harvey Show show started like ninety eight, and that 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:42.040 led into that led all the way to uh now 0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:45.040 Steve Harveyshow like ninety six somethings, and then yeah, that 0:30:45.160 --> 0:30:49.880 led all the way into King's Comedy and all that. 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:56.320 So then King's Comedy, then the movies, Johnson Family to 0:30:56.480 --> 0:30:58.040 do Comic View, to do Comic View. 0:30:58.120 --> 0:31:00.000 Yeah, so I did. I come to do Comic View. 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:03.160 You they and it was one of those things too, 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:05.240 because you know, you don't know how Hollywood work. But 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.400 I just remember they paid me the host the show, 0:31:09.160 --> 0:31:12.880 and then they didn't want I was trying to get 0:31:12.960 --> 0:31:17.160 something out the deal and they didn't want. They basically like, 0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:21.640 you know, don't ask us for nothing else. So so 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:24.160 they that means that they didn't get none of the 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.760 stand up money. Like I'm trying to like include myself 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:32.160 situation thinking that I think it's a deal, Like I'm 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:35.320 thinking I'm packaging all this and they like now so 0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:38.360 I'm like, oh, so y'all don't so, y'all making me 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:40.680 a start, and then I get to go because y'all, 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:44.320 y'all they paid me thirty thousand for the all the 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:46.400 shows the whole season. 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:50.000 I was getting that a weekend. I'm like, I'm making 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:57.920 that a week ind now, like y'all cool? Cool. Then 0:31:58.000 --> 0:31:59.000 I start to be quiet. 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:01.360 Now I'm like, all right, man it so then you know, 0:32:01.600 --> 0:32:04.280 so then that's kind of was the the world how 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:07.719 you started to take off from there and just like steady, steady, 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:09.240 you know, finding moves to make. 0:32:09.320 --> 0:32:11.560 Man, you know, that's that's this business. 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:14.680 You gotta kind of keep your focus on what's the 0:32:14.800 --> 0:32:16.880 next move, no matter even if it's popping. 0:32:17.320 --> 0:32:19.440 You know, you gotta be like, what, like what y'all 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:21.040 doing right here? You got to be like, all right, 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:24.160 cool to me, let me pivot. We do something different, 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:24.840 but it's good. 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:28.080 Kingse of Comedy was one of those moments, like like 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:32.560 a moment in time. Yeah, because I saw I saw 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:36.640 both tours. Yeah, I saw when it was just without 0:32:37.120 --> 0:32:39.000 without d L. I saw that one. I saw that 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:41.560 one at the Capital Center. Then I saw when Steve 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:44.400 went to host. Yeah, and I saw both of them, 0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:48.440 and I had never you know, I didn't get to 0:32:48.480 --> 0:32:52.720 see you know, Eddie in big venues and that, Like, 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:59.400 this was my first experience with comedy destroying an arena 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:05.040 that was crazy destroyed, even when like whd raw and 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:06.920 all that, it wasn't an arena at that point. 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:07.440 Yeah. 0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:10.880 Yeah, he was doing arenas he did. I don't think 0:33:10.880 --> 0:33:11.880 he shot it in an arena. 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:15.800 Yeah, yeah, but he was doing He did an arena tour, 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:17.240 and Martin did an arena tour. 0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:24.040 And Dice those Dice class. But this one came off 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:25.160 when the Kings came. 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:28.080 It was like it was kind of like the old 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:30.840 super fests, you know, like yeah, when you would see 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:33.680 like all your favorites and one night. So it felt 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:37.600 bigger because even though those guys were like big stars individually, 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:40.720 this felt like a bigger idea because it was like, 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:44.640 oh man, everything I love right here on one night. 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.280 So those shows were selling out like crazy like quick. 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:52.720 We did like five United senters for for m C I, 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:56.840 m C I, Like you know, it were like you 0:33:56.880 --> 0:33:59.440 would come for the weekend and the tickets be gone, 0:33:59.560 --> 0:34:01.440 and they they like, hell, y'all don't want to come 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:02.200 back here next week? 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:04.720 You like come back to Chicago. They're like, yep, we 0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:11.000 can sell to more, like right, let's go. So it 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:14.960 was it was incredible, No, that was it was incredible 0:34:15.680 --> 0:34:20.200 and and as a as as a U as a comic, 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:23.320 like when you're on with your guys and those guys 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.960 and you guys are I'm not sure if you guys 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.279 are doing a run of show or a rehearsal or 0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:32.160 or you know, or if you just go in the 0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:35.320 first night and everybody surprised everybody with their material. 0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:38.880 Are you guys also punching each other up? Oh? 0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:42.320 Yeah, you definitely, you definitely punching each other up, like 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:45.040 you definitely once you kind of in a in a 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:47.840 click like that and you start running and you're watching 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:49.840 everybody saying and you're like, hey man, you know you 0:34:50.200 --> 0:34:51.800 when you do the one thing with so and so, 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:56.360 you should be like, you know, now you gotta have 0:34:56.840 --> 0:34:59.279 you gotta have the kind of the you know, when 0:34:59.320 --> 0:35:01.520 we first started out, it was definitely that, But as 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:05.000 people got richer and more, it started to be more 0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:07.600 kind of like individualized, you know what I'm saying. Everybody 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:09.680 kind of was doing their own thing. But when we 0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:11.560 first started, it was a lot of a lot of like, 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:13.640 you know, like anything. It was a lot of love. 0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:16.560 Everybody was with each other. It was a lot of fun, 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:19.040 you know, you laughing and joking with each. 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:19.799 Other, you know what I'm saying. 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:22.719 But you know again, the more the more we kind 0:35:22.719 --> 0:35:24.280 of did it when we did it like three years, 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.640 the bigger it got, the more it just started to 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:28.560 be like comedy for three years. 0:35:28.640 --> 0:35:31.160 Did three years with the tour. Yeah, it was hot. 0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:35.839 We see that money gets bigger, crew gets a little bigger. Yeah, 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.279 you know what I'm saying. The tour of us is 0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:43.439 just your Yeah, you know, your rider is your riding 0:35:43.640 --> 0:35:48.759 even shared. Yeah, yeah, got your people, got the way 0:35:48.880 --> 0:35:52.960 you do it. You know, you earned that though. 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:54.960 Yeah, I mean it's a part of it. And then 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:56.480 you got you know, and then you got you know, 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:58.600 you got everything that goes with it. Like me and 0:35:58.680 --> 0:36:01.120 Steve was doing the Steve Eve Harvey Show at the time, 0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:04.399 so he was Steve Harvey. You know, I'm the I'm 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:05.640 the dude on the show. 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:05.920 Right. 0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:08.759 But still we got a TV show like we popp 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:11.200 and then d L came on. He had a show. 0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:13.919 That's why you see Bertie talk about having a show 0:36:14.040 --> 0:36:14.400 like like. 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.120 You want the show show like that, but then you 0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:19.400 know when and then the show popped off, right, so 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.880 now he got now everybody got their corners right, so 0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:26.279 you know, you know, so again it was but that's 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.319 you know, that's that's a part of it too, man. 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:30.680 But you can't, like you said, you can't. I was 0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:31.960 trip off that the fact that. 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:36.480 It's still a big brand twenty five years later and 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:39.280 it's still a brand, like if you say Kings of Comedy, 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:43.000 people know exactly what you're talking about. So crazy, And 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:45.440 that's the biggest thing that I feel like we never 0:36:45.480 --> 0:36:48.800 took advantage of, is you know, businessman. You know, like 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.480 everybody kind of got in their own out in their 0:36:51.560 --> 0:36:55.279 own way, because that should have been a serious podcast, 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:56.879 I mean a serious radio show. 0:36:57.000 --> 0:36:59.640 It should have been should have been all kinds of brand, 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:02.160 and we I had all kinds of Kings Gun. We 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:03.520 just did the movie and that was it. 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:07.560 Do you feel like as as the original Kings of 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:13.000 Comedy that there will be an opportunity for you guys 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:18.080 to give birth to the next eras Kings of Comedy 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.279 where you guys will be able to facilitate that and 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:23.279 nurture it and present it the same way you guys 0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:24.080 were able to do yours. 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:26.360 I don't know. I think I think that that window 0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:27.040 kind of pass. 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:29.080 I think when you guys like that, you know, people 0:37:29.080 --> 0:37:32.560 will reach the heights of like like keV and you know, 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:36.320 Kevin Hart and Chapelle. I mean who was like you know, 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:39.560 you know in our you know who's in our in 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:43.640 our class. But again, you know, people like people just 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:47.279 bigger brands now like individually, like they. 0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:54.280 Don't necessarily need, you know, at that time to do arenas. 0:37:54.320 --> 0:37:57.480 Yeah, yeah, like we were all big. We can all 0:37:57.680 --> 0:38:01.360 do theaters on our own, but nobody it couldn't necessarily 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:05.120 kill Arena or to Itch right, And I mean to 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:07.279 this day probably you know, it's still like a few 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.440 people that can really do that effectively, you know, you 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:11.040 know what I'm saying. 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:11.840 But that's different. 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:15.160 And I mean just live in general is killing you know, 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:17.880 it's killing people, right, so you know. So but you know, 0:38:18.080 --> 0:38:20.520 like stand up is just gotten to a place where 0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:23.520 you know, it also feels very saturated. So people like 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:26.080 they know a lot of comedians. You hear a lot 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:29.480 of comics both on your phone. You know, it's millions 0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:33.600 million Netflix specials. You like everybody like you see my 0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:37.080 special be like is it a special though, like cause it's. 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:42.759 Just home like everybody man just own like I mean, 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:45.799 you know, and not like the record it's rough. 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:51.240 Yeah, like you're really a special you know, that's even tougher, 0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:52.960 you know what. I was just thinking about that. You 0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:55.560 know the other day, I was riding and I was 0:38:55.640 --> 0:38:59.680 listening to Mario song and I was streaming, like this 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:04.200 song as popular as it was back then, and I realized, 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:07.560 like R and B ain't don't really make a lot 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:10.640 of new music. So the great songs, you know, like 0:39:10.880 --> 0:39:13.400 you know from y'all like that, y'all wrote all of 0:39:13.480 --> 0:39:14.880 them songs back then. 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:18.960 These are the big songs like this, They stick because. 0:39:19.280 --> 0:39:22.399 Like Chris Brown maybe and if us should do something, 0:39:22.440 --> 0:39:25.239 But other than that, like I much rather hear the 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:28.399 songs that I know, like this from this era where 0:39:28.719 --> 0:39:32.120 it was great, it was beautiful R and B songs, 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.440 and you like, those songs still resonate, They still hot, 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:39.080 they still dog, audiences still love them, kids still tick 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:41.440 talking to them, you know what I'm saying. And that's 0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:44.359 but you know, you know, and I feel like even 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:46.720 rap kind of come into that inn wed where rapper 0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:48.440 it used to be a lot of rappers, and now 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.320 you got you got like one or two guys that 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.480 will pop at any given time. And other than that, 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.080 somebody throwing the project out and they might get high 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:59.760 for a week. But it ain't that stick that stick 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:02.800 to it kind of. I mean, we're in an age 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:06.600 where it's like you can get a lot in a 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:12.160 very short period of time if you just if you 0:40:12.400 --> 0:40:15.839 just hit the mark just enough. Like I don't even 0:40:15.960 --> 0:40:20.799 think like anybody's thinking career. People are thinking, nigga, if 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:23.080 I can just hit them over the head one good time, 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:25.520 if I can just if I can just get good 0:40:25.640 --> 0:40:29.160 enough to roll the dice one good time. Whereas we 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:33.000 were trying to figure out how to be a musician 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:37.239 for the rest of our yourself as a creative. That's 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:41.840 because I want to do this. I'll do this anywhere. 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:46.239 I'll do this in an arena or in front of 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:48.520 one hundred and fifty people. 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:50.680 I'll do this anyway. Yeah. 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:53.200 Yeah, I meanber you pulled up at my golf tournament 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:55.880 thing one time. It just popped up. It's funny. It 0:40:56.000 --> 0:40:58.480 was like, you know, it's like we're doing the announcements whatever, 0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:00.879 you pull up, but it just like, yo, I got 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:01.560 a band there. 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:05.080 Man, let's say it's a band, it's a whole band, 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:11.200 but it's a different love. Right, it wasn't. It wasn't 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:14.040 a money grab, right, No, you just we thank God 0:41:14.080 --> 0:41:15.520 for the money. Yeah, right, for sure. 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:18.000 You know because everything that you said when you were 0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:21.360 just talking about it before it like even even just 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:24.320 how you got into it, where it took you or 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:27.239 where it's taken you. But at no point have you 0:41:27.360 --> 0:41:29.080 ever just been like, yeah, and I was just trying 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:30.040 to get me some money. 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:31.759 Yeah, it was just like, yeah, I was. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:35.680 Really following my dream and going after what I love 0:41:35.719 --> 0:41:37.040 and the money came along with that. 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:38.000 That's really real. 0:41:38.320 --> 0:41:41.160 And I think because again especially with standing up, because 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:43.320 when you're out on that stage and it's just you 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:46.040 and you trying to make this audience laugh. Then came 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:48.600 in there from whatever day they got, you know, and 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:51.120 got going on, and they there to see, you know, 0:41:51.719 --> 0:41:52.520 get some laughs. 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:54.680 Your your job is to do that. 0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:57.640 Like, so you can't really be thinking about you start 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:00.200 telling people how much money you made and you know 0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:02.640 that you're just gonna lose people because nobody want to 0:42:02.680 --> 0:42:02.880 hear that. 0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:03.239 You know. 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:07.560 I want to ask you something how hard is it 0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:09.120 to be a funny. 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:10.920 Rich man. 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:15.520 Again, it is differently, like I definitely can see I say, 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:18.279 I say, there's a lot to people that stand up 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:20.080 as a young man sport and it is. 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:22.200 I think it's a poor man to me. 0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:29.120 Yeah, well usually you young and you poor. But I 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.000 mean you can, you can, you know you can definitely 0:42:32.320 --> 0:42:33.600 if you love it, you can't. 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:35.279 Like you can't argue with. 0:42:35.480 --> 0:42:38.000 The fact like I still feel like I'm shining, like 0:42:38.120 --> 0:42:41.480 I still be on stage, like where I definitely feel 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:44.080 like I'm worth your money, Like I'm gonna be you 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:46.640 the way I perform. I'm like, no, if you come 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:48.839 see me, you're gonna be like, all right, boy, boy, 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:52.520 still do it right, you know. So you know, yeah, 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:54.879 I take pride in that spirit. And you can't argue 0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:57.759 with somebody like Chappelle, like right now, he just he 0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.399 rich as they come and and funny as they come. 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:01.520 Right, you know, it's like. 0:43:01.680 --> 0:43:09.759 Chapel Chapelle, let me say this right, he still seems 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:14.080 as he said the broke thing like the one time 0:43:14.120 --> 0:43:17.440 I one time I saw Chappelle on on the streets 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:22.080 of Miami in a mini van, yeah, and in some 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:24.799 jeans I'm sure he has slept in for a few 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:26.880 days and probably the shirt too. 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:31.080 Yeah, just welcome smoking a cigarette? What up tank? 0:43:32.680 --> 0:43:39.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, not driving the minivan. Like the door 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:42.719 of the minivan open, it's parking. He just sitting outside 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:44.239 and inside the mini man. 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:49.120 Yeah, I'm like what, yeah, I know he has at 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:56.960 least forty Yeah no not aw no, No, that's him, Like, yeah. 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:04.680 He's still live, like he's still immersed in the trenches somehow. 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:07.760 Yeah. Yeah. And it's probably because he live. 0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:09.680 In Ohio and he don't really be a part of 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:13.520 the mix or whatever they are. But yeah, he definitely 0:44:13.640 --> 0:44:15.440 like that. But I think, I think there's a lot 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:19.120 of comedians that still take great pride in being great comedians. 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:22.480 So even if they got money, they love the you know, 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.160 most of my guys they still love it like that 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:29.239 d L. George Lopez, They you know, guys who do 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.960 it well, they still love the go tell joke, right, 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:33.200 you know, they love it. 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:49.200 What do you think if you think. 0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:55.879 Are some of the missing steps or missing ingredients as 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:59.520 it pertains to some of the comedy today, or maybe 0:44:59.560 --> 0:45:03.120 they're just a few different ways of going about comedy. Right, 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:05.640 Maybe there's like social media comedy. 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:06.880 Maybe there's the. 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:09.719 Skip play of the thing, but I feel like the 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:14.560 stand up part of it is not the same as 0:45:15.680 --> 0:45:16.720 even from my generation. 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:19.360 Yeah, well, I think it kind of least to what 0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:21.320 Jay was talking about. The money came into it so 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:25.360 much faster, so people they'll be on they start with 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:30.239 their online presence like nowadays, and they get paid, so 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:32.319 they get paid from their skits, and then if they 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:36.960 try to convert it to stand up, then that's again 0:45:37.040 --> 0:45:39.000 that's a skill set where you gotta go to work, 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:40.839 you gotta get up there, you gotta take your time. 0:45:41.239 --> 0:45:43.080 You're not gonna get paid a lot at first, you're 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:45.440 gonna get scratched up. And why do that? 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.239 Why do that when I can get paid like if 0:45:49.280 --> 0:45:51.279 I might try And you got some people that really 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:53.960 worked hard at it and they become good like people 0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:56.600 that you know that these guys that work like DC Young, 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:59.279 like all the ninety five South dudes, like they they 0:45:59.360 --> 0:46:02.399 stay kind of getting that god, but they real stand ups, 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:04.920 like you gotta get theirs and they go on stage 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:06.960 they be lit, you know, so all of them so 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:09.120 and then you got you know, but then you got 0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:10.719 some one of the country Wayne same thing. 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:13.840 Like certain people I know, they work at work, they 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:17.200 work at it. They don't take just their internet thing. 0:46:17.560 --> 0:46:19.920 But that's what I think the gap is is that 0:46:20.040 --> 0:46:22.680 most people just don't want to do that work part 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:24.759 that come with being on that stage all the time 0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:27.319 and going up there and you know, and taking them 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.840 l's and trying to figure out and really working and 0:46:30.920 --> 0:46:35.200 finessing a joke until it turned into something that's worthy. 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:39.040 You used to your fame carrying you. So you if 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:41.239 your fame carry you, you walk up there, you kind 0:46:41.280 --> 0:46:44.360 of you famous first. If you famous first, and you 0:46:44.560 --> 0:46:47.200 you don't know how to do thirty minutes worth for jokes. 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:50.400 And if you know. 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:52.640 So that's what I kind of feel what happened on 0:46:52.680 --> 0:46:55.600 the stand up side. But you know, stand up make 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:58.360 you earn it, so you know, and and from and 0:46:58.480 --> 0:47:00.759 from the stand up world they kind of like that too. 0:47:00.920 --> 0:47:03.880 All stand ups make sure you you kind of paying 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:07.840 homage to this part of the business. Otherwise you just 0:47:07.960 --> 0:47:10.439 won't have that kind of respect, you know what I'm saying. 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:12.680 Like people be like, yeah, no, you famous, you know, 0:47:12.800 --> 0:47:20.040 yeah it's all good, but you didn't yeah yeah, yeah famous? 0:47:20.840 --> 0:47:21.960 You as an og in it? 0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:26.120 Do you when you identify like the DC young Flies 0:47:26.200 --> 0:47:28.200 and Carlos and those guys, do you do you reach 0:47:28.239 --> 0:47:29.000 out to those off? 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:33.520 Yeah, yap in with them for sure. Man, those guys 0:47:33.600 --> 0:47:34.520 are you know. 0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:37.480 Because they also inspire you, because you know, that's the 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:41.320 other thing I've always loved about, Like you know that 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:43.799 that always always say this too, Like when. 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:47.560 You stand up when they say your name, you next period. 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.640 So anybody that's ready for that moment because it ain't 0:47:50.880 --> 0:47:52.680 ain't nothing you can do once they go, ladies and 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:57.320 gentlemen from Saint Louis. Yeah, yeah, I can't send you 0:47:57.400 --> 0:48:02.920 out there now. Yeah take going out there for take 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:08.319 out there from the man right about some man, man, 0:48:09.760 --> 0:48:12.680 I ain't ready. You gotta go, right. So when you 0:48:12.800 --> 0:48:15.200 see people that get ready like that and they do that, 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:19.200 you gotta be like, yo, this, that's that's the inspiration 0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:22.560 because it's that motivation to get ready. I take a 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:24.920 lot of real dogs with me on stage too, like 0:48:25.400 --> 0:48:28.960 like young guys that's like they funny as for real, 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.480 and you know you put them on stage first so 0:48:31.600 --> 0:48:33.840 that you can so you gotta go to work, absolutely, 0:48:34.080 --> 0:48:35.920 you gotta you gotta go to work. I started that 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:38.400 kind of early in my career where dudes they go 0:48:38.480 --> 0:48:40.440 in front of me, they really funny, like you be 0:48:40.600 --> 0:48:42.400 like I'm. 0:48:42.239 --> 0:48:49.439 Sitting Yeah, it's funny because I find that with Tank 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:51.719 right where, you know, from the business side of it, 0:48:51.880 --> 0:48:55.280 of who he'll he'll say, yo to be like chief. 0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:58.200 This young dude or this this young girl she cold. 0:48:58.880 --> 0:49:00.560 Yeah, we need her to you know what I mean, 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:02.279 We need him to open up, and we need to 0:49:02.320 --> 0:49:03.960 put them on the show instead of it being the 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:07.680 you know, yeah you're like, ah, you ain't doing too 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:09.839 much because you know what that means, doing too much? Mean, 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:12.920 I get my ass kicked whenever somebody said yeah, you 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:14.799 know they was true and they was doing too much. 0:49:15.880 --> 0:49:19.239 Get your ass tell the truth. You didn't want the 0:49:19.280 --> 0:49:20.080 heat want. 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:22.600 But I respect that that you can say that, like 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:27.640 I want really funny comedians to go and get that opportunity. 0:49:27.760 --> 0:49:30.080 So it pushes me to do my. 0:49:30.239 --> 0:49:32.520 Yeah, you gotta you gotta step up, you know, and 0:49:32.600 --> 0:49:35.200 then and I mean it will it helps you, you know, 0:49:35.320 --> 0:49:38.040 get your brain, you know, like any like being in 0:49:38.160 --> 0:49:40.839 a fight or whatever, right like you you you step 0:49:40.920 --> 0:49:41.760 up to the competition. 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.080 A lot of times, you know, we say that about 0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:45.160 golf too. All the time. 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:47.480 You know, it's like you play to the level that 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:50.160 the people that's playing with you at like and you're like, 0:49:50.280 --> 0:49:52.680 all right, cool, if everybody really getting down, you like, 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:55.560 let me focus up right, And so but then it's 0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:56.120 the stand up. 0:49:56.120 --> 0:49:59.320 Is that it's a Cedric the Entertainer show, right, So 0:50:00.719 --> 0:50:04.800 when people buy that ticket, they are buying it for 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:10.840 for the name and the brand Cedric Entertainer, and you, 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:15.640 as as the entertainer, are responsible for everything that happens 0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:19.879 on that stage as soon as that show starts. Yeah, 0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:22.759 I agree, And people will talk about that. People will 0:50:22.800 --> 0:50:25.799 say first two access asks, I mean said is always good? 0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:26.239 Right? 0:50:26.400 --> 0:50:28.160 And are they gonna want to come back for that? 0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:33.279 Or or rather saying that whole show was off the hook, 0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:36.360 old boy, it's funny, he gonna probably be the future 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:40.440 or whatever. Like that's a different conversation. As a business man, 0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:41.280 that's smart. 0:50:41.520 --> 0:50:44.760 Yeah, I definitely I think that that's very smart because 0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:47.799 you're right, you gotta you gotta look at somebody bought 0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:50.480 the ticket and this is their whole night and that's 0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:52.120 what you wanted. This is how you want them to 0:50:52.160 --> 0:50:54.960 feel about it, Like definitely, And then you know, and 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:56.880 the thing that You got to remember too, is that 0:50:57.200 --> 0:50:59.520 you got an hour, Like, no matter how funny they are, 0:50:59.680 --> 0:51:01.840 I got a whole hour like you might have. 0:51:02.120 --> 0:51:04.160 You might have been killing the ship, but I'm doing 0:51:06.200 --> 0:51:14.320 I'm gonna work. It was good and so you know, 0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:16.360 like you just gave me overly, you know. 0:51:16.719 --> 0:51:20.239 But I love to see new talent that's hot, that's dope, 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.640 and like you say, you give him an opportunity to 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:24.520 be in front of this size audience, you know what 0:51:24.560 --> 0:51:27.960 I mean? You know, so that's that's a big deal 0:51:28.040 --> 0:51:30.399 to be like, hey man, like you ever you ever 0:51:30.520 --> 0:51:32.640 did you know five thousand people at one time? 0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:34.799 Like you know, you'd be like that, be like yoh yeah, 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:36.480 be like yo, you're gonna come off from me on 0:51:36.560 --> 0:51:36.879 this show. 0:51:37.680 --> 0:51:41.440 So how many franchises are you a part of? 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:52.200 You got Barbershop, Madagascars, Come on, Maurice, Yeah, come. 0:51:52.080 --> 0:51:59.040 On, Planes, the Planes movie, and so there was we 0:51:59.120 --> 0:52:01.360 did two this the Planes and. 0:52:01.400 --> 0:52:03.759 Then were about to do john Johnson Family again, so 0:52:04.000 --> 0:52:06.959 that yeah, about got it. We got another Johnson Family 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:10.959 Vacation Code of all that and then the Haunted House, 0:52:11.000 --> 0:52:13.360 so we did two of those with the with Marlin 0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:16.280 and so yeah, those those are those are part. 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:17.360 Of that many franchises. 0:52:17.600 --> 0:52:20.960 Yeah, so it's like four, like four or five of them. 0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:24.719 There's probably a couple of women probably one more about it, 0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:26.279 Yeah about it? 0:52:26.360 --> 0:52:29.480 You know, when you flexing it, you forget how many 0:52:29.560 --> 0:52:30.960 franchises you have. 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:36.759 Yeah, yeah, whatever. They need somebody to do something all 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:40.160 the time. Yeah, I got a question about barbershop. Yeah, 0:52:41.760 --> 0:52:43.000 why was you on my man of vant? 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:43.839 Like that on the train? 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:45.480 Man? Why you? Why you? Why was you on his? 0:52:45.600 --> 0:52:48.960 Boc was like that? Man? You know, it's always that 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:55.200 one dude show to his notes. Ya know, it's always 0:52:55.520 --> 0:53:00.440 it's always Aaron Belt about it. 0:53:00.880 --> 0:53:04.920 Everybody thought that that was Teddy, but Harold Melvin was not. 0:53:05.080 --> 0:53:08.960 He over on the side telling Teddy he's doing it wrong. 0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:12.880 That's that's that's the idea. It was cool into the 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:14.600 gang and everybody thought the lead. 0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:17.440 Slinger was cool. No, he was cool, cool over here, 0:53:18.400 --> 0:53:22.399 cool over here with the running running things, because he's cool. 0:53:22.760 --> 0:53:23.359 That's who you were. 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:26.160 That was me in that in that group, I'm the 0:53:26.320 --> 0:53:29.480 dude that's all right, just telling the other dude like 0:53:29.640 --> 0:53:30.600 how you need to do it. 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:33.759 It's always that dude in every I remember watching the movie. 0:53:33.800 --> 0:53:37.560 I'm like that. He tells, yeah, he ain't on his 0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:40.000 you got to show him how to. I wish my 0:53:40.080 --> 0:53:43.480 brother Donail was out. Man. You your finger going up. 0:53:43.560 --> 0:53:52.640 But you but you yeah, you point what you want 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:52.759 to do. 0:53:53.160 --> 0:53:56.279 What's what's your favorite out of all the things as 0:53:56.360 --> 0:53:57.040 the entertainer. 0:53:57.280 --> 0:53:58.960 I was about to say that, because as an entertainer 0:53:59.040 --> 0:54:03.360 you are because you can anything, like you can sing. 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:06.960 Sing host because we'll tell you, we'll be here laughing 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:14.680 and you know, yeah, it's about. 0:54:17.400 --> 0:54:17.440 You. 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.560 But probably I mean, you know, as I you know, 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:26.880 as I've gotten older, it's probably more acting like because 0:54:27.360 --> 0:54:29.160 you know, you can take the time, you can kind 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:32.080 of formulate character TV acting to like, you know, I'm 0:54:32.120 --> 0:54:34.480 on you know, the Neighborhood we in season seven. 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:37.680 I love playing the characters that we do that seven 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.719 rare air. I don't even know what that means. 0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:45.719 Money, yeah, and then and then spending it off, so 0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:48.800 I spend so, you know, because I executed a produce, 0:54:48.880 --> 0:54:50.960 but we spend it off with Tracy Morgan, got a 0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:53.719 show coming on that and then we're doing one with 0:54:53.840 --> 0:54:56.040 the with my sons on the show. Spending that off 0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:58.879 to another version of the neighborhood. So we can try 0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:01.360 to keep all that just keep it all up in 0:55:01.400 --> 0:55:03.840 the air, you know what I'm saying. But uh, but 0:55:04.040 --> 0:55:06.200 stand up. I still do and I still love it. 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:08.000 But like you say, it's kind of like you know, 0:55:08.160 --> 0:55:11.480 you start, you start, you know, I don't want to 0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:12.239 travel as much. 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:14.360 That's why I love Vegas Squeeze. 0:55:15.480 --> 0:55:17.800 It comes the question, you know, and that definitely like 0:55:18.000 --> 0:55:21.400 especially if it's one of the spoil Well, Vegas, Vegas 0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:23.680 is you know, Vegas dope because I got Tony. 0:55:23.480 --> 0:55:26.280 With me and it's fun and it's sexy and Vegas, 0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:26.680 you know. 0:55:27.480 --> 0:55:29.320 But then but like if I got to go to 0:55:29.440 --> 0:55:31.719 like you know where, anywhere where you gotta jump on 0:55:31.840 --> 0:55:34.880 two planes to get the connect. The connect, the connect 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:40.439 is one of the moves that you go all right, rich, Yeah, 0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:43.440 that is rich. That is That's what I realized. I 0:55:43.440 --> 0:55:48.600 ain't got a little too much. I don't know one thing. 0:55:49.080 --> 0:55:50.279 They got a budget for the Jacks. 0:55:50.719 --> 0:55:52.439 I knew that was coming. I knew that was going 0:55:56.920 --> 0:56:01.200 airport in that city. Man, I'm a pribay pass on 0:56:01.320 --> 0:56:04.400 that one man. Man, you be like, yeah, it's for 0:56:04.560 --> 0:56:08.080 the homeless children, like. 0:56:11.880 --> 0:56:18.319 Homeless this because I mean, that's the thing, because because 0:56:18.360 --> 0:56:19.759 I could just pay for four of them. 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:25.000 It's easier. It's easy for me to just give them 0:56:25.000 --> 0:56:28.640 the money then to come down. If that then what 0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:31.640 it's gonna take. Yeah, if it's gonna take me there, 0:56:32.000 --> 0:56:32.680 it's gonna. 0:56:32.440 --> 0:56:37.680 Take all that to get there. Like, yeah, that's what 0:56:37.840 --> 0:56:41.240 happened when you give you like all right, man, direct, 0:56:41.320 --> 0:56:41.719 I'm good. 0:56:41.880 --> 0:56:45.160 You've been doing it for for that long and so 0:56:45.360 --> 0:56:49.359 you man, you've earned forty close to it, You've earned 0:56:49.400 --> 0:56:52.720 some luxuries. My brother, you've done it well. Is the difference. 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:56.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I definitely feel very blessed, you know, 0:56:56.880 --> 0:56:59.440 and I think like I will always like try to 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:02.120 strategiz a my moves and take like even when you 0:57:02.200 --> 0:57:03.240 know we're doing the movies. 0:57:03.680 --> 0:57:05.839 Had a big you know, had the movie career going. 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:08.640 But then like my kids got to an age where 0:57:08.680 --> 0:57:10.919 they couldn't they had to go to school. Like first 0:57:10.960 --> 0:57:13.239 they was little and they could come almost everywhere and 0:57:13.360 --> 0:57:14.320 movie shot everywhere. 0:57:14.360 --> 0:57:17.160 You know, you be in you be in Canada, in 0:57:17.680 --> 0:57:19.560 in Ireland, we shooting movies. 0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:21.840 My family could come and the kids a little but 0:57:21.920 --> 0:57:23.960 then they got to that age where they had schedules, 0:57:24.400 --> 0:57:25.040 couldn't come. 0:57:25.600 --> 0:57:26.560 You out on the road. 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:29.640 You lived somewhere for two three months, You're like, all right, 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:32.760 this is not good right here. You know, kids doing 0:57:32.800 --> 0:57:35.280 stuff you don't know, had no idea what's going on. 0:57:35.560 --> 0:57:38.280 So wife, you know, it just became hard. So I 0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:39.800 chose to do television. 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:42.600 So then when I started doing TV, that was like 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:45.120 a fun thing soul man, you know. 0:57:48.440 --> 0:57:52.680 Exactly, boy boy, yeah, voice boy, and so then and 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:55.240 then and then that led to the Neighborhood. But I 0:57:55.280 --> 0:57:57.320 had the other show. I had the Sketch Show first, 0:57:57.400 --> 0:57:59.640 to say, it entertain the presients. That was for one 0:57:59.760 --> 0:58:03.000 seeds in Fun with it was like me JB. Smooth 0:58:03.080 --> 0:58:06.120 and Wendy Rikell. It was like it was right before 0:58:06.240 --> 0:58:09.240 Chappelle's Sketch Show hit. But it was that same kind 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:12.000 of fun sketch show for Fox that was dope. And 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:14.720 then so you know, I've been really blessed to be 0:58:14.800 --> 0:58:17.600 able to kind of strategize that now I would start 0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:20.040 building the movie career back up to now because I 0:58:20.160 --> 0:58:22.560 feel like I've been on TV a long time. So 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:26.160 now I'm just gonna finding movies, developing things that I 0:58:26.240 --> 0:58:27.760 think will be fun to watch and do. 0:58:28.440 --> 0:58:30.440 And then you know, the kids are older. They all 0:58:30.560 --> 0:58:31.680 got their own lives now. 0:58:31.880 --> 0:58:34.000 So you know, it's like most of the things that 0:58:34.720 --> 0:58:36.960 you've done as far as from the television side of it, 0:58:37.080 --> 0:58:38.640 did you develop most of it? 0:58:39.760 --> 0:58:45.240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, co created, man, executive produced, executive reduced. 0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:49.760 So you can't without. I gotta be in charge. 0:58:50.280 --> 0:58:53.240 I gotta be in charge like I was like sometime 0:58:53.680 --> 0:58:55.880 sometime I'm in you know, on the writing side, like 0:58:56.200 --> 0:58:59.240 on so Man, I co wrote that one, but on 0:58:59.480 --> 0:59:02.800 on the Neighborhood it was already I I had pitched 0:59:02.920 --> 0:59:05.760 other ideas, but this show was already done, So then 0:59:05.840 --> 0:59:08.880 I had to co write. I mean, I came in 0:59:09.000 --> 0:59:12.280 to executive produced, which you know, basically gives me a 0:59:12.360 --> 0:59:14.360 lot of control over what the show is gonna be 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:16.640 and what you know. I have a lot of say 0:59:16.760 --> 0:59:18.680 on like we're gonna do this and we're not gonna 0:59:18.720 --> 0:59:21.080 do that, you know that kind of stuff. Nothing language. 0:59:21.160 --> 0:59:24.200 You know. You know a movie I've watched a thousand times. 0:59:24.240 --> 0:59:26.760 You're gonna you're gonna you're gonna laugh, You're not even gonna. 0:59:26.880 --> 0:59:32.720 Know be cool, be cool man, cool, cool dope man, 0:59:32.920 --> 0:59:38.880 that's your movie. He be quoting lines from that movie 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:39.880 like it's nothing, bro. 0:59:42.040 --> 0:59:44.200 Man, that was Classic Man. That was like one of 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:47.280 his first starts doing the movie was fun. And then 0:59:47.360 --> 0:59:48.880 that was my first time getting to work with f 0:59:48.960 --> 0:59:50.360 Gary Gray, which was dope. 0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:56.600 You know what I'm saying. So yeah, so many the 0:59:56.760 --> 1:00:03.720 rock I tell there was legends in that one that 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:06.800 was dope. That is that is a fun movie. Every 1:00:06.840 --> 1:00:08.800 time I see the movie was just on the day 1:00:09.320 --> 1:00:13.600 you just scroll past it. Yeah yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah, 1:00:13.640 --> 1:00:21.040 it'd be a little little photos. I listen that a 1:00:21.240 --> 1:00:25.440 real time. Kids that you got yeah, I got them. 1:00:26.760 --> 1:00:28.000 What's your what's your. 1:00:29.560 --> 1:00:32.360 In your opinion, your favorite movie and your I won't 1:00:32.400 --> 1:00:33.880 say your worst, but your least favorite. 1:00:34.880 --> 1:00:37.760 So my my probably my favorite is Barbershop one. 1:00:38.080 --> 1:00:40.200 That was the one I had the most fun doing 1:00:40.320 --> 1:00:42.880 because you know, I chose to play that old man 1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:45.800 like I came in for a different role. But then 1:00:45.840 --> 1:00:47.720 when I saw it, I asked him could I play 1:00:47.760 --> 1:00:50.320 that old man the whole thing? And that you know, 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:52.280 I had to earn it because they wanted to hire 1:00:52.280 --> 1:00:54.360 a real old man. But I was like, no, I 1:00:54.440 --> 1:00:56.760 got this dude, right yeah, so you know, and then 1:00:56.920 --> 1:00:58.800 it was one of It was also the movie that 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:02.640 changed my career a lot because that movie hit, and 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:05.120 then I was able to be seen like as a 1:01:05.240 --> 1:01:07.280 movie star. So then I was able to go get 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:10.440 other movies on my own and stuff. So and then 1:01:10.640 --> 1:01:13.600 probably you know, like the movie that just didn't work 1:01:13.680 --> 1:01:16.720 out that probably had the worst experience. You know, I 1:01:16.800 --> 1:01:20.960 had a lot of fun doing this movie, but I 1:01:21.120 --> 1:01:23.000 wish I could have did it my way, which was 1:01:23.040 --> 1:01:24.160 The Honeymooners, you know. 1:01:24.120 --> 1:01:26.800 What I mean, Like, no, what I knew you were 1:01:26.840 --> 1:01:29.480 going to say, Man, like this movie. We shot that 1:01:29.600 --> 1:01:31.920 movie in Ireland. It was me and Mike. And the 1:01:32.040 --> 1:01:34.120 thing about it is like this kind of like what 1:01:34.800 --> 1:01:35.840 people don't know about the. 1:01:35.960 --> 1:01:40.240 Business, like because we had like an executive that really 1:01:40.320 --> 1:01:42.560 got us when we started the movie. The dude that 1:01:42.720 --> 1:01:44.880 was like with us to write in the checks in 1:01:44.960 --> 1:01:47.920 the studio, he really got the whole thing. So but 1:01:48.080 --> 1:01:51.880 then he got fired, so before the movie even got made. 1:01:52.080 --> 1:01:54.600 It was a new dude then came in with his idea. 1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:57.520 He put the dog in and he made us do this. 1:01:57.680 --> 1:02:00.960 He made us do that. Then we had a budget, 1:02:01.440 --> 1:02:04.440 and then something happened and they cut our budget, like 1:02:05.440 --> 1:02:08.080 maybe maybe a month before were supposed to start cut 1:02:08.120 --> 1:02:09.920 our budget by like by ten million. 1:02:10.040 --> 1:02:12.680 It was like a number cut the budget, like like 1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:14.439 a number, like a real number. 1:02:14.520 --> 1:02:16.920 They cut that joint, so then we had to read. 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:18.640 That's how we ended up going to Ireland because the 1:02:18.680 --> 1:02:21.200 movie based in New York. So we ended up going 1:02:21.280 --> 1:02:24.120 to Ireland to shoot cause yeah, yeah, they was had 1:02:24.160 --> 1:02:26.680 all these you know, and the you know, the producer 1:02:26.760 --> 1:02:28.160 that was doing it, he was like he had just 1:02:28.280 --> 1:02:30.960 did a movie over there, so he had connections, so 1:02:31.120 --> 1:02:33.000 he was like, we're going over there to shoot this movie. 1:02:33.120 --> 1:02:35.120 But you know, it changed everything. 1:02:35.280 --> 1:02:37.360 Man, It was like one of those but you know 1:02:37.520 --> 1:02:41.600 the idea of having a franchise like that to your point, 1:02:41.760 --> 1:02:43.840 like I felt like if we could have really did 1:02:43.920 --> 1:02:47.000 the movie the way that we envisioned made with the 1:02:47.080 --> 1:02:50.600 first dude, we would have had a big franchise that 1:02:50.640 --> 1:02:53.200 would have really worked because me and Mike Epps were 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:56.600 the right people for that, for that concept, except that, 1:02:56.760 --> 1:02:57.520 you know, this other. 1:02:57.520 --> 1:02:59.360 Dude, he kind of came in and just changed the 1:02:59.480 --> 1:03:01.360 vibe the whole thing. So that was it. 1:03:13.240 --> 1:03:17.320 Get doubt where you going chief, you know, the entertainers 1:03:17.320 --> 1:03:18.560 in the field. So we you know, I feel like 1:03:18.640 --> 1:03:30.760 we should we must entertain entertained. Yeah, brother, let me 1:03:30.800 --> 1:03:32.640 see let me go back and check this thing. 1:03:35.040 --> 1:03:37.240 Oh man, it's time to be talented. 1:03:38.680 --> 1:03:41.720 Let's see. Take there in church with all the muscles 1:03:41.720 --> 1:03:46.080 and stuff. They kick his ass out of the brother 1:03:46.200 --> 1:03:55.160 Sagar the entertainer away from from the new. Yeah, yes, 1:03:56.440 --> 1:04:01.680 my brother, you have been entertaining from continent a compliment. Yeah, 1:04:03.040 --> 1:04:03.680 you're also. 1:04:03.880 --> 1:04:08.640 One of your entertaining skills is that you are second 1:04:08.760 --> 1:04:17.800 tenor first babs. You have displayed your vocals in a 1:04:17.960 --> 1:04:24.520 group with a street name after the street added ment 1:04:24.760 --> 1:04:27.760 to it to make it cool. It didn't knock with you. 1:04:31.080 --> 1:04:32.240 You made it man. 1:04:34.000 --> 1:04:38.240 Made it man. I want to know what's on your mind. 1:04:38.360 --> 1:04:41.520 We want to know the songs that encourage you to 1:04:41.600 --> 1:04:43.920 step out and use your vocals. 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:48.080 Yeah, we call that show what you call it? Cham 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:51.680 top five? 1:04:54.840 --> 1:05:07.120 Your top five? Yeah yeah, your top fuck me singers? 1:05:08.640 --> 1:05:16.320 Whatever are so we got to know before you go 1:05:16.960 --> 1:05:21.160 to your bagg You want to know you. 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:29.680 Yes, do. 1:05:36.200 --> 1:05:54.080 You lit f That's nice right there? Man? Okay, okay, 1:05:59.760 --> 1:06:03.720 boy was letting it that came up with that with 1:06:03.840 --> 1:06:07.040 that was nice right there? Brother, say my top five 1:06:07.280 --> 1:06:09.320 top five R and B singer. 1:06:09.400 --> 1:06:12.240 I man, you know this is tough man, because I 1:06:12.320 --> 1:06:18.880 grew up with it was some singles, single singles growing up, man, 1:06:19.120 --> 1:06:21.480 But you know, probably on my you know, number one 1:06:22.040 --> 1:06:24.720 on my list always is Marvin Gaye. 1:06:24.560 --> 1:06:25.840 Come love Martin. 1:06:26.520 --> 1:06:27.560 Let's get it off with Marvin. 1:06:27.720 --> 1:06:29.960 I'm gonna cut it. I'm a I'm a crooner kind 1:06:30.040 --> 1:06:34.560 of person. I love the crooners. So then Luther, Luther 1:06:34.600 --> 1:06:36.160 and Luther gonna fall up in there. 1:06:37.520 --> 1:06:44.600 I like Frankie Beverly, Like, you know, Frankie got a 1:06:44.800 --> 1:06:48.160 very unique kind of tonality that sometimes people you know 1:06:48.240 --> 1:06:49.280 what I'm saying, You ain't. 1:06:49.160 --> 1:06:51.640 No single gonna stand flat footed and sing Frankie, not 1:06:51.800 --> 1:06:55.200 for not for an hour and a half. I agree. 1:06:55.400 --> 1:06:58.240 I agree people who got to misk screw what he 1:06:58.360 --> 1:07:02.760 does right there? Then and you know, then I'm Shad 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:06.600 is on my interesting. I just fell in love with 1:07:06.680 --> 1:07:08.760 her like I used to be a DJ and Collin 1:07:08.800 --> 1:07:11.600 and I got her first album and it was just 1:07:11.760 --> 1:07:16.800 like you know, had the little radio station and then 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:22.080 and then it was like and then and then one 1:07:22.120 --> 1:07:25.280 of the most unique. I don't know if it's unique, 1:07:25.320 --> 1:07:30.480 but my favorite R and B voice it's Tyrese. Yeah, 1:07:31.680 --> 1:07:35.800 I like I like the of his voice. I don't 1:07:36.640 --> 1:07:37.920 it's no fight for me. 1:07:38.160 --> 1:07:41.800 It's something about that that little gruffness solid And I mean, 1:07:42.440 --> 1:07:42.680 you know. 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:48.120 He's gonna thank you for this because he doesn't realize 1:07:48.160 --> 1:07:49.200 how good of a singer he is. 1:07:49.440 --> 1:07:51.280 Yeah, I tell him now that I'm like I said, 1:07:51.320 --> 1:07:54.040 you're one of my favorite voices. Man, I like your tone. 1:07:54.680 --> 1:07:58.280 He doesn't really because he's what people don't know is 1:07:58.320 --> 1:08:00.520 that he's when it comes to his voice and all 1:08:00.560 --> 1:08:02.280 of these things, like he's of course like very I 1:08:02.600 --> 1:08:04.680 can't really do that and I can't, but nigga, what 1:08:04.840 --> 1:08:09.720 you do do, right, it's pretty fucking serious. Yeah, So 1:08:09.840 --> 1:08:13.440 he has these kind of like almost insecure moments. You 1:08:13.600 --> 1:08:16.360 have to remind him like, hey, nigga, you're one of. 1:08:18.640 --> 1:08:19.120 You can do that. 1:08:20.560 --> 1:08:24.560 So he's gonna love this. And of course he's just 1:08:24.680 --> 1:08:27.120 so many other ones. And I love Jevy yards Born. 1:08:27.160 --> 1:08:31.640 There's a lot of people that very white, that deep baritone. 1:08:32.720 --> 1:08:39.880 Charlie yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and so like them. 1:08:40.040 --> 1:08:44.200 And then and then somebody like Maxwell that kind of 1:08:44.320 --> 1:08:47.600 came in and just did a thing that was like 1:08:48.400 --> 1:08:50.360 like when he came he had that kind. 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:54.280 Of smooth arm uh, that neo soul groove that was 1:08:54.400 --> 1:08:59.840 like another little thing that I liked. So your top 1:09:00.200 --> 1:09:07.360 five R and B songs, all right? Uh, okay, get 1:09:07.520 --> 1:09:10.479 Marvin Gaye go to is Come Live with Me from 1:09:10.560 --> 1:09:11.719 the I Want You album. 1:09:12.840 --> 1:09:15.519 I love that song right there, that's mine. I love 1:09:15.640 --> 1:09:22.960 that right there. Let me see I like promise me Luther. Yeah, 1:09:23.080 --> 1:09:26.080 I like that one right there. I'm gonna go with 1:09:26.600 --> 1:09:27.519 I'm gonna go with. 1:09:28.479 --> 1:09:28.960 You know what? 1:09:29.280 --> 1:09:32.720 This is one only because I love a song. I 1:09:32.760 --> 1:09:40.599 don't even know why, but it's Champagne life. Yeah til 1:09:40.680 --> 1:09:44.439 the cop stuck come knocking like that? So yeah, yeah, 1:09:45.280 --> 1:09:48.040 and then and then and then a shot a uh 1:09:48.360 --> 1:09:54.920 you know, I like, damn nothing can come between us 1:09:55.000 --> 1:09:57.160 and and Frankie Beverly while I'm alone. 1:09:57.280 --> 1:10:03.759 That's I listen to that song. Oh yeah from the Midwest. 1:10:03.800 --> 1:10:07.080 You know this church dream. I ain't saying no names. Come, 1:10:07.320 --> 1:10:10.160 I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no names. 1:10:10.520 --> 1:10:14.120 I ain't saying no names. Where he was, what we was, weird? 1:10:15.000 --> 1:10:15.680 What you need? 1:10:16.439 --> 1:10:17.280 Don't see ship? 1:10:22.000 --> 1:10:23.400 I ain't saying no names. 1:10:30.720 --> 1:10:33.720 Yeah. So we had a very very part part of 1:10:33.720 --> 1:10:37.800 the show. Yeah, will you tell us the story funny 1:10:37.880 --> 1:10:42.280 or fucked up? Are funny and fucked up? The only 1:10:42.400 --> 1:10:44.719 rulee to this game is you can't say the name. 1:10:45.280 --> 1:10:50.560 Name huh mm hm. So you know what I was, 1:10:50.680 --> 1:10:51.479 I was thinking about this. 1:10:51.720 --> 1:10:55.360 That was uh that was doing the uh he was 1:10:55.439 --> 1:11:01.720 doing the movie Honeymooners. So everybody flew over to uh Amsterdam. 1:11:01.960 --> 1:11:03.120 So we in Amsterdam. 1:11:03.720 --> 1:11:07.000 Yeah, we are we out, We we are, we out, and. 1:11:07.040 --> 1:11:09.800 Now we're outside, you know we first time you pull 1:11:09.960 --> 1:11:13.080 up in the cafes, you walk around, you can drink, 1:11:13.160 --> 1:11:14.840 you can walk in the place, grab a drink and 1:11:14.920 --> 1:11:15.760 go walking with it. 1:11:16.200 --> 1:11:18.280 So then we go to the you know, we go 1:11:18.400 --> 1:11:20.120 to the red light district. You're like, yeah, we gotta 1:11:20.120 --> 1:11:22.560 see it, got to see it. See it. 1:11:23.920 --> 1:11:26.560 Now you realize you out in the world and you 1:11:26.720 --> 1:11:29.439 kind of walking around and you start seeing other people 1:11:29.760 --> 1:11:33.599 like that's from the States. So we started yelling out 1:11:34.000 --> 1:11:41.080 famous whenever we would see somebody, so like, you know, somebody, 1:11:41.120 --> 1:11:42.800 we cold up the street and see a couple of 1:11:42.920 --> 1:11:51.720 NBA playing Famous then but so like as the night 1:11:51.920 --> 1:11:54.760 got on, you start hearing other people saying it. So 1:11:54.880 --> 1:11:56.800 now we're kind of looking like for who they see, 1:11:56.880 --> 1:11:59.240 you know, like different folks like you were just here 1:11:59.360 --> 1:12:01.760 yell like down the street. So now you know, you 1:12:01.880 --> 1:12:04.320 got the main part of the of the of the 1:12:04.640 --> 1:12:07.320 the red like district, and then you got so I 1:12:07.400 --> 1:12:09.760 see this one NBA player, We see each other. We laugh, 1:12:09.920 --> 1:12:12.559 were like all right, boy, thanks there. We crossed each 1:12:12.560 --> 1:12:15.040 other path a couple of times. So now you go 1:12:15.280 --> 1:12:17.639 deep into the red like this, and there's some other 1:12:17.760 --> 1:12:20.800 streets you don't even realize, like okay, they going this 1:12:21.000 --> 1:12:24.600 the commercial version, and then it's the then it's the 1:12:24.800 --> 1:12:27.040 like okay, they going wild up in here, like so 1:12:27.240 --> 1:12:31.120 we up in there black market, Yeah, it's like okay, okay. 1:12:30.840 --> 1:12:35.000 This well that girl is Chinese and Hawaii and okay, 1:12:35.120 --> 1:12:36.720 this is interesting like this. 1:12:37.160 --> 1:12:39.560 So we all up in there were crying, so we 1:12:40.080 --> 1:12:43.120 we like we walking, we get were about to come out, 1:12:43.280 --> 1:12:47.920 and then we see this one big rap star coming 1:12:48.040 --> 1:12:50.840 out of one of them and I y'all yell it 1:12:50.960 --> 1:12:54.280 and the basketball player is overcoming round right behind me. 1:12:54.280 --> 1:12:56.680 I don't even know it, and we both yelling at 1:12:56.680 --> 1:12:59.599 the same time, and then we dying like my man 1:12:59.680 --> 1:13:01.000 come out out of the room like. 1:13:01.520 --> 1:13:03.840 Most people like just on the streets, ain't drinking. We 1:13:03.840 --> 1:13:04.519 ain't never seen. 1:13:04.400 --> 1:13:07.560 Nobody go anyone. I can't say, but then broke and 1:13:07.680 --> 1:13:14.040 walking out the room and we go we died like 1:13:14.680 --> 1:13:17.240 man up in the Jones. 1:13:20.000 --> 1:13:20.200 Yeah. 1:13:22.360 --> 1:13:24.120 It was a big deal too. At the time. He 1:13:24.240 --> 1:13:27.240 was like, oh, my man is up inside the Jorge. 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:31.439 Okay, listen man, it's fun though what they say minus well, yeah, 1:13:33.040 --> 1:13:33.719 went in the wrong. 1:13:34.720 --> 1:13:37.840 Yeah, I know, I know, what about what about to 1:13:38.160 --> 1:13:41.160 about what my tour manager does? He loved that, like 1:13:41.320 --> 1:13:43.720 for so he he couldn't even wait. I was like, 1:13:43.800 --> 1:13:45.400 but you know, I ain't get ready to go up 1:13:45.400 --> 1:13:45.640 in there. 1:13:45.720 --> 1:13:45.880 Man. 1:13:45.960 --> 1:13:49.200 He was like, well, I'm gonna get you back to 1:13:49.280 --> 1:13:49.759 the hotel. 1:13:51.680 --> 1:13:55.360 What you Yeah, you know what what year was this? 1:13:56.479 --> 1:14:03.120 This was like oh nine wait oh now yeah, yeah, 1:14:03.320 --> 1:14:10.559 somewhere in there I went in ninety eight. Oh yeah, yeah, 1:14:10.840 --> 1:14:16.800 yeah it was Yeah. It's wild of lord people. I 1:14:16.960 --> 1:14:19.400 just went back over there with my wife and you know, 1:14:19.600 --> 1:14:24.719 a man, a couple of ye you're sitting there trying 1:14:24.760 --> 1:14:29.160 to just prayering. We just like walking you see that. 1:14:29.600 --> 1:14:30.400 That's crazy. 1:14:34.880 --> 1:14:41.519 Don't don't say my name. If somebody would have said 1:14:41.560 --> 1:14:46.120 my that's nothing, that's nothing. 1:14:47.240 --> 1:14:51.280 You you under say the one now, yeah, like that, 1:14:51.520 --> 1:14:59.160 don't Saturday. That's crazy. That's like they just did a 1:14:59.200 --> 1:14:59.920 lot of my movies. 1:15:01.920 --> 1:15:05.639 I'm gonna get off this street just pret dumb. It's 1:15:05.760 --> 1:15:08.599 just too much going on over here, babe, don't. 1:15:08.400 --> 1:15:15.240 You agree, Yes, sir, I know the vibes well, Brother 1:15:15.720 --> 1:15:20.360 Cedric the Entertainer. We appreciate you, brother, first man, we 1:15:21.080 --> 1:15:25.120 salute you and all that you've done as as a 1:15:25.280 --> 1:15:29.120 representation of who we are man as one of our leaders. Man, 1:15:29.200 --> 1:15:32.240 we really really appreciate you. Man, Big up Man, I 1:15:32.320 --> 1:15:33.320 thank you and support you. 1:15:33.560 --> 1:15:34.320 I think that, man. 1:15:34.439 --> 1:15:36.680 I mean, you've always been a super solid dude at 1:15:36.760 --> 1:15:39.640 all times. And you know, and again I really you know, 1:15:39.760 --> 1:15:41.679 I enjoy y'all show. I've seen this, you know show 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:43.200 a couple of different people on here, you know what 1:15:43.200 --> 1:15:45.479 I'm saying. But I love the fact that, you know, 1:15:45.680 --> 1:15:49.160 you definitely one of those people that always reinvent always 1:15:49.360 --> 1:15:49.559 you know. 1:15:50.280 --> 1:15:52.160 You know, like and keeping it popping in. 1:15:52.360 --> 1:15:55.360 So man, big up Man, is fun to be on here, man, Jay, 1:15:55.439 --> 1:15:58.040 you know, definitely been knowing each other, So it's. 1:15:57.960 --> 1:15:59.800 Fun to be here man. You know. So there's dope 1:16:00.120 --> 1:16:03.280 gonna come to Vegas, man. Yeah, don't forget. We got 1:16:03.360 --> 1:16:04.360 free meals for some of you. 1:16:05.080 --> 1:16:08.000 Yeah, get in the d MS on the podlet Uh, 1:16:08.160 --> 1:16:09.920 and we're gonna get you some free meals so that 1:16:10.040 --> 1:16:11.759 you can go see some good. 1:16:13.520 --> 1:16:16.160 Foolish no good stuff. 1:16:16.320 --> 1:16:20.439 Man, No great dinner, A dinner the show, Yeah yeah, 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:22.080 and dinner the show Valentine's Week. 1:16:22.120 --> 1:16:24.160 You know, if I didn't have to work, I will come. 1:16:24.920 --> 1:16:25.120 I know. 1:16:25.320 --> 1:16:25.479 I know. 1:16:25.600 --> 1:16:29.400 You gotta be out somewhere. They want to see these. Yeah, yeah, 1:16:29.439 --> 1:16:30.080 they gotta do it. 1:16:31.640 --> 1:16:34.320 That boy came out I saw you at Vegas on 1:16:34.560 --> 1:16:37.600 that and I said, this was the TV T G 1:16:37.840 --> 1:16:41.840 T T. The man didn't give him no chance to 1:16:41.960 --> 1:16:42.880 not have his shirt. 1:16:43.520 --> 1:16:47.639 The man, I said, that boy walked out there. What's 1:16:47.720 --> 1:16:51.040 up Las Vegas? Yeah, yeah, he says, you gotta be 1:16:52.680 --> 1:16:54.240 get give a chance. 1:16:54.680 --> 1:17:01.640 No, y'all, I know what y'all know that this there 1:17:02.280 --> 1:17:04.320 come on talking about it, talk about. 1:17:05.760 --> 1:17:08.120 I don't care why they showed up. Yeah, let's go. 1:17:08.720 --> 1:17:13.960 I got it. Yeah I tried it one time. Yeah, 1:17:14.080 --> 1:17:20.160 it's like just shirt back. I was really good. 1:17:20.280 --> 1:17:24.439 That did come push ups? They don't one of the 1:17:24.520 --> 1:17:34.920 moments where yeah, I'm right, I'm alright. You know you 1:17:35.000 --> 1:17:37.920 Steve boy, Steven jumped out there. You know you holded 1:17:38.000 --> 1:17:40.320 up Yeah, yeah, hold it up. 1:17:40.880 --> 1:17:41.880 See when you took the picture. 1:17:41.920 --> 1:17:44.680 Oh yeah, yeah, Harbor go out there like yeah here 1:17:45.960 --> 1:17:48.879 tell him man, Man, sometimes you know you use your muscles. 1:17:48.920 --> 1:17:49.040 Man. 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:57.240 You know what I'm saying. I want to shot that ship. Yeah, 1:17:58.000 --> 1:18:02.560 that boy sitting like like the A L P M. 1:18:02.680 --> 1:18:06.840 Hot dog, like late late night. 1:18:06.960 --> 1:18:18.000 Let me get that last one. Drank that Steve Harvey 1:18:18.080 --> 1:18:27.719 dog like greased up sweat and ship dog got sexy 1:18:27.800 --> 1:18:36.800 older all that. Yeah, that's yeah, you know what I mean, 1:18:42.360 --> 1:18:44.160 like fucking shine up. 1:18:45.200 --> 1:18:53.439 It's good. Be like that man, that's my dog. He 1:18:53.680 --> 1:18:57.240 be like they all feeling good on this ship. 1:18:58.760 --> 1:19:02.120 Thank you said, but thank you for your for your brotherhood. 1:19:02.240 --> 1:19:04.599 Thank you for thank you for being who you are man, 1:19:04.680 --> 1:19:08.120 and we we we look forward to too much more. Man, 1:19:08.160 --> 1:19:10.720 as you tap back into this movie space, you don't 1:19:10.760 --> 1:19:14.439 kill it. Yes, I'm never worried about you. What you 1:19:14.520 --> 1:19:16.400 do Man West Brother and the Bill. 1:19:16.560 --> 1:19:20.200 Let's do this. Let's do this to this album. Man, serious, 1:19:20.560 --> 1:19:23.040 I am too. I'm with this. We're gonna be on 1:19:23.120 --> 1:19:24.280 this nest. 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