WEBVTT - John Witherspoon Interview 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:07.360 I'm a real y real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.600 everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee Sharlo Mine the guy. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:12.920 We all the Breakfast Club special guests with us this morning. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.760 Mister John Weatherspoons, mister Weatherspoon, Hey, thank you for having me. Y'all. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.279 Thank you cold, but I'm happy to be here. You 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.040 look good, man, seventy three years young, semi three. I'm 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.640 gonna I'm gonna get go to buy one hundred and twenty. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.800 You're gonna got around one twenty about four thirty in 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:31.800 the afternoon. You know, you guys interest me man, because 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.479 we had Larry King up here a couple of days ago, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.720 and he's eighty one, eighty one, and it's just like 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.400 y'all just keep moving, y'all, just keep going. Eighty one. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.640 His wife is like fifty five or something. That's a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.160 good that's a good combination. Yeah, it's a good gal. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.800 What keeps you going? Man? Um working and getting his paper. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:51.839 I was a broken man when I was coming up. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.240 See yeah, yeah, he'd have been broken a long can. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.960 But but the fact he is that you never forget. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.640 I was from a family eleven kids, right, Yeah, so 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.400 uh we either had a paper. So you know, now 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.840 that I'm making money, I'm doing fine. You know, you know, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.200 keeps me working is uh. I used to go to 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.280 school like colders is right now. So I used to 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.040 wear two left boots school. My mother made me wear 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.080 the two left boots fifth grade. Hey, people say that, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.160 how do you wear two left boots? You've got to, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.280 you know, kick your ass out the house. That's how 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.160 you wear. But that's the right boot, the left foot, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.440 the right foot. I don't know which you called the 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.800 boots with two left boots. Yeah, so, um, you never 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.840 forget that when you're growing up. And you grew up 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.360 in Saint Louis, Detroit, Detroit, Motor City. My brother used 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.120 to wearing at Motown. So I knew all the people. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.280 I knew MYBN gating the temps, and I played basketball 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.640 with Attempts and I know Smokey today, I knew I 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.760 knew all those people in Detroit. Or were you cool? 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:48.360 You were cool with Bill Cosby Hunt. I met him once, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.040 I think in passing. Really we want to airplane? I think? 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.120 And I met Bill cause but I didn't. We were 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.080 in the same uh arenas. They will never let me 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.360 in the Playboy Club, play mansion. I try to get 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.880 in the pay to get in. Let me, I've been 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.520 there at one time. When did you go in there? Yeah? 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.399 Yeah for a party. But um so, when you see 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.400 everything that's happening with him, and you know he's had 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.120 a long, illustrious career towards the end of his career, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.040 his name is just miss mud. Yeah, what do you 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:17.680 what do you have to say about something like that 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:22.880 and those allegations, Well, he must have handsome misunderstanding with 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.799 a lot of women, because they don't They didn't particularly 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.640 like what he did to him. But he didn't have 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.280 to do this. You get the paper a club. Women 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.560 aren't run around naked right there. So why are you 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:38.519 giving somebody they say you gave them appeal or some 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.840 some liquid. You don't need to do that. That's a fetiship. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.960 You've got a different kind of thing going. How do 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.760 you avoid being accused of things happening? You know? Did 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.120 you ever? Were you ever in a situation? When were 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.680 you ever in a situation where you didn't do something 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.360 but somebody accused you of No? Never, No, it ain't 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.560 happened yet. You're too late in the game. But I 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.240 got too much game. Now, Oh no, I never had 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.120 that happened to me. But Bill shouldn't. I don't understand 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.040 what he's doing in a situation like this. I think 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.520 some people have fetishes though, Like maybe for some people 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.320 that's what turns them mind, Like he got too much game. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.200 If they said I gave him some pills or anything 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:18.840 woman will get for me, it is I high blood pressure, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.200 peel some chlestol medicine and her blad. I might be 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.240 okay because I take them bad appeals to So no, no, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.480 I ain't never been a game like that. You gotta 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.400 be careful, though, you gotta be careful. Yeah, well you're 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.079 really in the civil rights movement, you told you, Okay, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.960 But we walked down Whatevernue once and I used to 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.320 cursh out the TV hill out. Yeah, but uh yeah, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:42.920 but I was back in the civil rights movement. Yeah, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.200 I did all that when I was coming up, man, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.320 you know, and Martin Luther King was there. Yeah, but 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.000 we didn't march as much as they did in the house. Well, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.080 you know, everybody Detroit nineteen sixty something, like players pimps. Yeah, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.840 they walked ahead the catalacs and the hand comped y'all 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.920 drove down the blay Joel with with the woman sitting 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:04.560 there with the red talking about we shall overcome. Yeah, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.160 you still got a light little cart going. No, just actually, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.560 when you die, your head it's straightened out on yourself. Okay, 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.040 that's all that is. When his dad come out to 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.920 head my head gonna chap. What's your relationship with Eddie Murphy, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.760 he says, A good friend. Yeah, I'm real good friend 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.960 and worked with him. He called me for jobs and 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.640 I didn't even know him. Gonna get said, I want 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.480 spoon to do that. That's really cool. Well, Richard probably 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.839 used to do the same thing when I knew Richard. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.799 But Eddie we worked on a vampire and Brooklyn together. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.719 We a lot to get. You're talking about somebody funny 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.799 when the cameras are off, that's when Eddie real funny. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.520 You know a lot you saw. Did you see him 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.760 out the other night the forty fanniversary? Yeah, I didn't 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.880 see that. But but the fact that that part didn't 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.440 talk about build called me. That wasn't nothing anyway, Yeah, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.680 it was nothing. Eddie got enough money, so I don't 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.320 want to do crap like that. Another comedian was telling 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.599 me all. Eddie Murphy was scared. I'm like Eddie Murphy. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.080 He got so much money he went to he went 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:58.599 to smashing in the face. I'm gonna go with it, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.880 but I ain't gonna do nothing. That's all that was. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.800 Do you do it, dude? You get a lot of 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.800 that too, because I feel like people like Eddie don't 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:09.000 get appreciated by the institutions that they helped establish. With me, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.440 I don't give a damn. I don't people appreciate me, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.840 but I don't give it day appreciate me or not. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:19.120 I got some money. Now, I have all the movies 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:20.640 that you've been in. What do you think there is 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.600 a part two? A sequel everyone that you've been in? 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.120 What would you love to see a part two of it? 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.080 But you know, I don't know. You know, Friday, they 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.440 need to do another one of those. That's what I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.200 think I make. I make a lot of money on 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.520 that one, the original Cash. We gotta be crazy. Everybody 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.320 got to come back. Chris King is not coming back. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.080 He got saved, and that's what I'm told. And he 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.840 got his U income tax stuff taking care of now 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.840 with the government, so now he's fine, right, But me 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.520 thinking about my little world. Yeah, I like to have 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.920 another Fourth Friday. Already the third Friday they paid a 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.160 lot of money, so they knew they got to give 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.360 your more money on the fourth front. M So that's 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.640 the one. I think I ready to come back. And 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.640 also I love the vampan Brooklyn. That was a good movie. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.920 I had a lot of fun. Oh yeah, it'd be funny. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.880 And it ended like it was gonna be a sequel 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:10.040 because hardest we've been. He was the he was a 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.039 vampire now yeah, and that was a lemousine driver. Um, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.000 but never did they never nobody picked it up. Yeah, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.280 and you could disappoint him because I'm thinking myself, boy, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.159 it's him. They're gonna do a sequel on this called 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.520 anything like it's gonna be a sequel. He said, you 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.600 worked with Robin Williams too on this when you used 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.800 to work with Richard Pryor. Yeah, Robin had just come 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.279 in town. We were all day players. We only got 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.120 about five hundred dollars a week. And Robin had a 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.520 little young dude. He was real scared. He's and they 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.400 made him an extra. He was an extra in the movies. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.680 Richard Prye would would say, I won't spoon to be 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.479 in this scene. Let's spoon do this. Let's spoon do this. Robin. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.120 Let him stand in the corner. But you know he 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.000 give Robin spots. So Robin was the lawyer when I 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.440 was charged with raping a white woman. Remember that he 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.159 was our lawyer. And let him at lib. We both 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.120 at lib. And it's a funny scene. You got charge 0:06:54.120 --> 0:07:04.040 of raping a white woman. No, I did you ever 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.960 get accused or something? No, no, no, I never. I't 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.800 got a job ripping no white Did you appreciate Robert 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.680 Robin was a cofine was drugs there he went, a 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.040 coke fine or drug dealer. He loved cocaine, and one 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.320 time he saved me. You know, I was you know, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.400 I would hit everybody coke. But one time I bought 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.280 a Grandma cocaine in my own and I had had 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.680 no idea how much you get you, I know, you 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.360 get that little power for one hundred dollars. I was shocked, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.440 and so I'm hitting my little cokea I had a 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.000 little spoon around my neck in the back of the 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.800 communist store, and so Robin come in there and I'm hit. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.040 Didn't joke yeah, man, and Robin came to they want 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.840 to hit my coke. He I get in the cope. Yeah, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.200 Rob here I getting the spoon off my neck. He 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.560 went into my little vowel with a little brown violin, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.440 hit that coke and turning to the side and fip 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:55.000 some coke and yeah, damn, Robin, idn't know you hoover 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.960 back and clean the company coach was regular back then, though, Yeah, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.880 like well you know, well, you know what when Richard 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.320 Pride come on stage, the cope man would have somebody's 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.960 at the door to give Richard, give his bodyguards and stuff, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.400 cope to give it to Richard. Um, if you like it, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.240 I got you can buy more. That's what they do. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.560 They give you a lot of They wouldn't give it 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.080 to me, but they give it the Richard. But Richard 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.120 probably his biopic. Had they asked you just for some consulting, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:23.200 like maybe some good stories. Well I knew, well, you 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.320 know what happened in the comedy store back then. I 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:30.240 was there MC, the host of the show, and Richard 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:31.960 would come in. I didn't know he's in the room. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.360 He'd be sitting in the back and he would say 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.079 I would come Richard, how are you doing? Man? What 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:38.520 are you doing here? You gotta come back see how 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.840 you're doing Spoon. You know, but I know he want 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.320 to go on stage, but I need to coach him in. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.160 They're going on stage, right. He would never come there 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 and say I want to go on stage. So, um, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.680 I do something, I said, Richard, want to drink and 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.440 get your drinking. Yeah, it's gonna get me into there. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.160 So I know to give him. I give him a drink. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.600 Now I leave and come back again. So I said, Richard, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.000 so you okame in everything. I won't gonna stay. He said, no, no, no, no, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.880 I just come see how you're doing Spoon. So I 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.960 walk away again and then uh, third times we just 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.560 go up on stage and that everybody know that you 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.280 we get big stars coming to the Comedy Store. He's okay. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.080 So when I go up there and say, he said, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.920 what am I going? I see it going. Next, I 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.800 put him on He stepped the hour in the half. Yeah. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:15.680 Then you have his secretary camm me next day and 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.880 say tell Spoon, thank you for putting me on stage. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.400 Was getting me on stage? Wow? He was that. He 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.640 was that kind of cool on the Comedy Store Mitchy Shore. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.760 Sammy Shore's wife, she took it from him when they 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:33.080 got a divorce, and uh, Pauly Shore's mama. You know, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.280 it was all kind of legal issues with that. Yeah, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.080 that's between the two brothers. Yeah, and his sister because 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.839 Mitchie is so feeble now and I don't think you 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.040 know her name. Do you still go to places like that? 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.760 Just pop up yourself and oh no, I haven't done 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.640 it in twenty some years. I had the son and 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.880 go to the comedy store. Now laugh. You don't work 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.160 out no more. You just do some great shows. If 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.560 I want to try something new, I tried on on 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.199 the stage and where I'm working. That's never go to 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.319 the comment store and try out when I do David Ledimature, 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.439 I used to be so nervous all that stuff. Man, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.520 seven minutes, I do that stuff. I go on to 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.600 show work at work. But he's my friend, so we 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.760 uh you know, he had asked me different questions. That's 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.240 not even on the list. So that makes it funny. See, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.679 we can be ourselves. But you're the old ge now, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.520 so that like you're too old to get booed anybody 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.199 gonna do you know, I'm gonna all at me. Yeah, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.480 you know, I was in a constitution. Oh, I didn't 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.600 know what the dude said, way back to forty two 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.319 hundred people somebody back there. You can't talk about back 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.880 there and acknowledge it. But then he stopped. Tobody Brown 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.400 probably told him, shut there, shut up. Do you get 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.720 mad at you know, some of your old stuff like 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.560 bank bank, bank, bank, you know, or you know, thirty 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.480 forty fifty minutes in the bathroom, like, oh yeah, do 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:45.760 you get mad at that? Because when you're what I 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.480 was going to introduce you, I almost said, and now 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.480 we had the bank, you know, because no, did you 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.760 get mad at no? Hell no? No. That made me. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.120 I can't believe somebody don't want about to say, like dynamite. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.360 What's his name, Jimmy Walker didn't want people say dynamite. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:03.439 Oh no, that's what me living where I'm living for 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.720 that ad lib? Was that written in the script. It 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.000 was a boomerang because the whole scene in Boomerang was 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.480 ad lib. There was no script. Richard Pryde, I was 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.720 in LA. I mean Eddie Murphy said he wants Spoon 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:23.280 to play David Allen Grill's daddy in boomerang, and and 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.840 so a pairmount. They were over budgeted already on the boomerang. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.280 You know what, I said, My scene won't even had 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.160 nothing to do with the movie. It's just me coming 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.240 and visit my son. They said they don't want um Spoon, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.840 whoever he is, to do play this new scene. And 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.480 they told Reginald Hutland, we don't want anybody who was 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.120 just spooning anyway. And Richard and Eddie said, I want 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.679 Spoon to play the part. We're not gonna finish the 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.839 movie until you do it. They flew me all away 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.880 from LA to New York, and I picked all them 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.120 clothes I put on. I picked all that out and 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.679 I wrote it. I went in my little dressing room 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.680 and wrote my little stuff down what I'm gonna say, So, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.079 I said, all you gonna do is ask me when 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.720 I walk in and do how do I pick my clothes? 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.400 So first first wim me shot the scene. Mark Lawrence 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.600 was the one open the door. Richard saw, Eddie saw 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.199 so much how much last week begaining. He told Martin 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.439 to keep walking to his seat. I'm gonna do the 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.960 scene with Spoon. They're amazing. So he and I did it. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.600 We had Sindbad on him, and Sindbad said that Hollywood 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.959 never liked Bill Cosby, So I wondered, You know, you've 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.240 been in the game a long time. Did you ever 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.960 get any backlash from Hollywood just being black? Just for 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.400 you being black? Oh? Really? You know, I don't know 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.920 why Hollywood didn't like made tons of tons of money, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.000 tons of money out of it. Bill Collpley made out 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.160 like he didn't made it. Maybe didn't like Hollywood. Hollywood 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.319 love Bill Callsby, Brendan try to call, gave him the 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.920 job he used to be the president of Paramount. He's 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.760 the one that hooked Bill Callsby up. Bill Cosmick can't 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.280 say nothing or whatever had been in his misunderstanding with 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.439 them ladies. It's his fault. I don't know he should 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.240 have put a mask on. But about the way as brothers, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.160 you still cool? Oh yeah, man, they made me. They 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.640 got me the best job. I had a regular check 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.520 coming in every week. That check was there. Oh, y'all 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.280 should have seen that money. But I never had a 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.680 series before. Yeah, you gotta really had them serious. You 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.280 know you're doing the series. We did a hundred shows 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.079 five years. That check bum bum Bang Bang bang bang 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.080 series is better money than its regular money, But is 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.920 it better money than a movie. We'll see the thing about. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:31.199 If you're working on ABC, NBC, Box Network, ABC network, CBA, yeah, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.959 network television, you're gonna get the big bucks. I'm working 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.960 on on cable, and that's not the same money you 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.520 get on regular TV, you know. But we were getting up, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.320 Like when I was on Tracy Morganshaw made a lot 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.040 of money because Carci warn The money about were the 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.520 producers and they produced big time stuff, right and what's 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.880 the name from satanay Lad was wanted the producers. The 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.920 head of st Michael Michaels wanted to producers. Um, so 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.920 you get a lot of money on those, but cable 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.360 you don't get this. You don't get the same money. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.439 So you said, the Boondocks and Black Jesus gonna pay 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.920 you well, which not as much as I need I deserved. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.840 No boon Knocks is gone. That's cancer. I know. The 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.960 last season was so bad. Yeah, well because Amma Gruder 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.800 did not write those scripts. He got tired and they 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.760 fired him. So they got somebody else. They trying to 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.480 get somebody to to imitate my voice. We didn't want 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.840 to do it if Amma Gruder wasn't around. So they're 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.040 gonna try to get somebody. Did the whole casting thing 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.560 to see who can talk like Granddaddy, that wasn't you 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.600 last season? Yeah? That was me? But they couldn't find anybody. Yeah, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.960 so that means we really tried him double, We really had. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.680 I tried them to end boy. Then they had to 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.680 pay me a whole season. I ain't nuther one word. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.120 They paid me a whole season. Wow? Who that money 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.280 looked good you seeing that check? Yeah? Man, you know 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.840 that that that bucked me because I was such a 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.240 big fan of the Boon Doctor and I'm like, how 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.160 can they take something that Aaron and just say you're 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.320 not You're not part of it? Him? That's cold because 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.200 he sold his rights to television. He sold his rights 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.440 to TV to never said your stuff until they give 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.480 you twenty million dollars. Wo. He sold his rights and 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.440 he can do a movie. But he's doing other stuff now. Yeah, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.120 like Black he's doing Black Jess. That's gonna be a 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.280 big head. You wait to this next season back, there's 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.640 gonna be a gonna be a bigger They did the 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.920 Little show here look easy show ten episode to see 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.000 if anybody liked it, and it went over big time. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.720 And now this this new season coming, they say it's 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.120 gonna they rode a lot of new stuff and it's 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.640 gonna be two cold. You play a homeless person? Or 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.720 how the how did you prepared for that role? Did 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.800 you go slip on the street every nothing? No, I 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:35.840 used to two left boots. I know a boy, so 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.120 um no. You know what happened was they didn't know 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:40.840 that I want to take the role. They said, just 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.480 do the little scene up front in the first one. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.840 So I looked at the scene and they gave me 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.240 all the scripts for the whole season to read and 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.640 see what I like about. So I add them out 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.040 of the lines of this one. I sa, this might 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.040 be a good little role for me to play the 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.160 homeless man. So I didn't. They loved it, so they 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.600 we negotiate it and I got and I'm one of 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.400 the most favorite characters in the Black Jesus and I 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.440 live in I live in a cardboard box. And I 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.480 don't wash up when I go to the show. I 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.520 don't call my half, I don't brush my teeth. I 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.560 go over there. I'm telling you. It's funniest role. I 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.440 have a lot of fun doing it, and Court would 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.920 tell you we have such a good time. That don't 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.440 take you to a bad place though, because you said 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.160 you grew up poor like you know you like. I 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.000 can't wait to get out these homes clothes. Matter of fact, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.000 the clothes I'm using on this show the same clothes 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.560 I wore on Hollywood Shuffle and I played the home 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.960 say the whole outfit. You wouldn't believe it. Eighteen years ago. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.200 I saved the outfit in the bag and put it 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.080 in my clothes in my garage and I found the 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.960 found the clothes, Wow, And I gave it to the 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.680 Waters department. They did four or five copies of the 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.040 same clothes and gave me my old outfits back, same clothes. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.680 I will you look at Hollywood Shuffle when I'm sitting 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.960 on the ground eating the whole cakes and they didn't sell. Yeah, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.040 that's the same house. Wow. But you're gonna be for 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.960 them in this weekend, Yeah, he'll Yeah, I know where 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:12.600 I'm being, you know, comedy comedy club. It's the time, 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.840 the times, Yeah, eight thirty tonight and ten three. I'm 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.520 just joking. I knew it was got Um eight and 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.560 tomorrow Saturday and one show Sunday at eight. Okay when 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.680 a candemy waters on Sunday, I don't care about candy water. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.960 I never didn't watch that crap that they make all 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.280 the money. They got all the big breasts in Apprentic, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.360 they got all the cars, all the house. Then they 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.439 give themselves trophies. The hell with them? Eight to ten Friday, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.240 eight ten Saturday, and eight on Sunday. Check out John Witherspoon, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.159 Black back Back, Black Bank bab Man. I have a 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.920 cooking shot on YouTube called cooking for Poor People. Looking 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.640 for people, got to start. It's gonna be a lot 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.840 of parking on that. No, you know, puking chicken. Okay, chicken, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.400 and he's goned cooking for poor people because when you're hungry, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.240 everything tastes good. It was a good recipe. It was 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:03.199 a good quick what you want? Huh? Chicken? I like 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.280 and I like chicken. You should eat a chicken rosemary 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.800 chicken with the pestal pasta. That don't sound like for 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.600 something poor people? No, you ain't got him buster. You 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.760 go in the yard and get you some pesto. Let 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.280 me and some up um, whatever, and you get the chicken, 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:20.879 you cook it in the pan, okay, and make some 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.040 pasta with some pesto sauce. Ontime got you, Yeah, but 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.920 you get rosemary, Rosemary. I got rosemary in my garden, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.000 cooking for poor people because when you're hungry, everything tastes good. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.040 But I do a lot of funny stuff. My stuff 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.200 is funny. It ain't like I'm just cooking that serious. Yeah, oh, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.480 I'm I'm talking about everything in the world. I'm doing 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.920 the isis and doing about the ices people in it 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.720 and jumping. I call it ears ears, and I ain't 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.879 ain't mess with it. I had to make funny about ices. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.680 What do you think about older men dating younger women 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.399 like a twenty five ye old day and seventeen year 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.960