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Speaker 1: Every day.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Finished for y'all dun morning.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is the j en V just hilarious. Charlamagne the

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Speaker 3: God we are the Breakfast Club. Laurna ROAs is here

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Speaker 3: as well. We got a special guest in the building,

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Speaker 3: Legend Wonder Sikes.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.

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Speaker 4: Thank you than my energy. I got good energy right now,

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Speaker 4: you know, right now, right now. Yeah, I'm sure I'm

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Speaker 4: going to crash in about an hour all night. But

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Speaker 4: you know I had a little day last night, uh

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Speaker 4: a screening of the movie Under.

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Speaker 1: Out right now.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I may have had a few drinks last night. Yes,

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Speaker 4: did she have Little Kim. Little Kim come out.

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Speaker 5: She had partisan Fontaine and with the hoodie.

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Speaker 6: But she had a part where she gives out five

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Speaker 6: thousand dollars to the person who can shake their ass

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Speaker 6: the best, and so you won.

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Speaker 2: I didn't try. He tried, you know, in these you

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Speaker 2: know and these trying financial times. They was out there

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Speaker 2: shaking that ass, that money.

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Speaker 4: But I was upset because I slip the disc.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 2: I got upset because it was all women.

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Speaker 6: And then this guy came out there popping ass better

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Speaker 6: than all of them, and he won, and I'm like,

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Speaker 6: don't take war.

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Speaker 1: That's not like that on him all night.

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Speaker 2: You're taking money off the women's pockets.

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Speaker 4: Had to do that, ass is ass.

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Speaker 1: But this is one of this first time on the show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome it is wow.

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Speaker 4: Yes, oh man, Yeah, I don't. I don't think I've

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Speaker 4: never been in.

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Speaker 1: I think you did one time on Zoom.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you called it doing the COVID.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I did.

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Speaker 4: I did the Zoom.

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Speaker 3: Before we get into Undercard, I want to start from

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Speaker 3: the beginning, if you don't mind for people that don't

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Speaker 3: know Wanda from.

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Speaker 1: The seven five seven, How did you get into the arts?

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Speaker 3: What made you want to get into the arts and

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Speaker 3: comedy and and all of that.

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Speaker 4: You know, I grew up in that time where it

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Speaker 4: you know, we watched all that, you know, watched all

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Speaker 4: But you know, my dad was in the military, and

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Speaker 4: also I grew up where you go to school, you

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Speaker 4: that's what I was doing, was working for the government.

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Speaker 4: I worked NSA when I when I came out of

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Speaker 4: I beloved Hampton University, I ended up at UH an

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Speaker 4: high school yearbook and everybody had written things like You're

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Speaker 4: so funny. Even teachers were like you should be on stage.

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Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna write some

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Speaker 1: You knew.

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Speaker 4: Win, but I just knew. Like I I felt like

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Speaker 4: I was in my skin, like this is this what

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Speaker 8: Wow?

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Speaker 2: What was the Chris Rock Show? What are your first

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Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely yes, absolutely right on Chris Rock Show. Was

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Speaker 4: my my huge break. Yeah. Chris, uh, you know, he

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Speaker 2: Y'all had a dream team. It was Lewis.

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Speaker 4: Lance Crowser Yeah. Yeah, man. I was the only woman

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Speaker 4: He put together a team and just let everybody be themselves,

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Speaker 4: He he would look at something, put his thing on it,

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, that's that's how it works with us, Like

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Speaker 4: but they were very supportive. All the guys were real

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Speaker 4: mean he drank off from it. I guess I ain't

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Speaker 4: shake that ass.

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Speaker 2: You feel left out? He was like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I was like, God.

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Speaker 4: Damn, that was like right down there down it was

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Speaker 6: But the thing I used to love about the Chris

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Speaker 6: Rock Show it was it was just full of uncomfortable truths.

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Speaker 6: Even now, that whole era was full of uncomfortable truths,

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Speaker 6: right right, You think comedy is still allowed to be

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Speaker 6: everybody wants jokes but they don't want the truth that comes.

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Speaker 4: No, you know what, I think you're allowed to do it,

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Speaker 4: but it's just who wants to do it, you know

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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. It's like I think it's there. But

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Speaker 4: You can't be that common. You gotta be You gotta

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Speaker 4: appeal to the masses. And sometimes right now with the

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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, so yeah, so, but I think you

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Speaker 8: I'm glad you said that. I'm gonna do it. Do it,

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're funny, so just just do it.

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Speaker 8: But when I do, mean when I do funny, people

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Speaker 4: Man who gives a ship. You can't do it for them.

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Speaker 4: You gotta do it for you. You gotta say what

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Speaker 4: you want and hey, if what I want to say

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Speaker 4: I'm but if you want, oh I want to you know,

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Speaker 3: You gotta rise but do people get offended too fast?

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Speaker 3: Where it's like, you know, back then, jokes just flew.

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter. You made fun of everybody. It can

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Speaker 1: didn't matter. People laugh. Now it doesn't seem like they laugh.

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Speaker 3: They look for a reason to say, you know what,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna boycott your next show.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, everybody wants to you know, I even hate

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Speaker 4: but you got to look at where that person is

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Speaker 4: is different from from what you know. Yeah, you offended,

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's more than one perspective on one you.

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Speaker 7: Do you think there's a like when you talk about

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Speaker 7: I feel like the punching up punching down conversation gets

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Speaker 4: I have no problem, but me, I always try to

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Speaker 4: you know, going up. I gotta go up, you.

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Speaker 8: Know, clown like how look like how.

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Speaker 4: Always wash ride beautiful? I know? Yeah, but yeah, I think,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna laugh. But it's a difference. It's

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Speaker 4: a difference to punching down and coming from a a

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Speaker 4: you being mean. You can punch down and be funny,

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Speaker 4: but if it's coming from a place of love, you know,

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Speaker 4: like one of one of Chris's uh good jokes, one

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Speaker 4: of one of my favorite jokes is punching down. But

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Speaker 4: what he says, uh uh about uh, I have my

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Speaker 4: money in books? You know, niggas. That's true.

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Speaker 2: You want to hide something from a black put in

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Speaker 2: the book?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. But it's it's a funny joke.

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Speaker 9: And it's also like, hey, to start reading.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever held back a joke in today's climate today?

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Speaker 4: Now? Uh? I know I did. I wrote a joke

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Speaker 4: on Chris on Chris Rock Show, and it's like, oh god,

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Speaker 4: what was that? It was bad?

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Speaker 2: And it was bad, got bad?

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Speaker 4: It was bad. It was bad.

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Speaker 8: Remember Ray Crews.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he shot his girlfriend who was pregnant and

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Speaker 4: he had the baby and it was and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jesus, damn damn right, that might have been a little too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't gonna spark. It's nothing, sixty two year

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Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't know I could do drama. I

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Speaker 4: How long ago? Riley passed? What like maybe six years ago?

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Speaker 4: Hell yeah, hell yeah, because that's what comics do. You know.

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Speaker 9: I like, damn family, I got grandparents like my parents living.

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Speaker 4: They realized that I was moving on with my life,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we never like stopped talking, but.

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Speaker 4: And it took those other people, like I think God

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Speaker 4: oh okay.

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Speaker 6: And I'm glad you said that because I think about

441
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 6: people who you know, I guess are deemed homophobic or

442
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 6: there against, you know, the gay lifestyle.

443
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Speaker 2: I wonder if they really.

444
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 6: Truly feel like that or they just feel like that

445
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 6: because society and religion tells them they should feel like that.

446
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 6: They actually thought about it. Do you really care if

447
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 6: she would? Do you really care if you would have been?

448
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,120
Speaker 4: And why why don't you care? That's the only thing.

449
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 4: It's like, why do you care? Like how does that

450
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 4: affect you? How does it affect you?

451
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: How with your grand with your kids, with their grandkids?

452
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: At first?

453
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Speaker 4: Oh man, they my mom, she yeah, my whole family, everybody,

454
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 4: they love the kids, love the kids. It's so funny

455
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 4: like early on, uh you know what kids like, you know,

456
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 4: like babies like Onet wanted to whatever and uh and

457
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 4: my mom was visiting and Olivia was crying and I

458
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 4: picked her up whatever and was like hold her and

459
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 4: she stopped crying and she like put her arms around me.

460
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 4: And my mother was like, well she she just uh,

461
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 4: it's like she just just it's like like just right

462
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 4: down with you, like I'm her mother, like.

463
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 8: Like you're not raising her anything.

464
00:25:58,720 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 2: But you got to see her perspective.

465
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 4: My mother what my mom. Mom's almost ninety Okay, so

466
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 4: she went.

467
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 2: Through she didn't even see segregation.

468
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 6: She went through schools when they weren't segregated.

469
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh god, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

470
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 2: So that's a big deal.

471
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 7: The fact she trobably get real in depth, like at

472
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 7: certain points when you're trying to explain certain things, and

473
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 7: I explained. But just like when moments like that happened

474
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 7: and y'all talked through or do y'all just laugh about

475
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 7: it and move on?

476
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 4: We I mean we kind of laugh. We laughed, you know.

477
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 4: My mom says something. And at the time that she

478
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 4: said it, I was like the kind of you know,

479
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 4: throwback ante bellum South ship is that? But she she they, uh,

480
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 4: you know in Virginia and they bought a house. This

481
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 4: is this was back in like maybe the eighties, nineties, yeah, whatever.

482
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 4: They were house right on the water right in uh Portsmouth,

483
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 4: and and she she said, you know what, I look

484
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 4: look around, like one of the only black families on

485
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 4: that street. And She's like, I look I look around

486
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: at these white people and I think I feel sorry

487
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 4: for them. I said, what do you mean she said,

488
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 4: because you know, they're probably looking like it's a lot

489
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 4: for them. That because because they're like looking at us,

490
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 4: like you know, we we used to clean these homes

491
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 4: and now we're living here, that that's a lot for them.

492
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 4: And of course I'm like, look good in your face,

493
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 4: good good. But she's right because because you look at

494
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 4: the situation we're in, and what she was saying, what

495
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 4: her empathy was feeling their fear, and that's and that's

496
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 4: what we're dealing with now, a lot of fear. Like

497
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 4: these these folks they feel like they're losing their place.

498
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 4: And but I mean, it's assholes on them to feel

499
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: like that this should be their place, like they own everything.

500
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 2: But what is she saying? She don't like living around niggas.

501
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 4: Even what she was saying that it must be hard

502
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 4: for for for like white folks to see, you know,

503
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 4: like you had it all and now we're right next

504
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 4: to you, and that must be must be scary.

505
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 9: And that was the time where we didn't have it

506
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 9: all and now we do and a lot of times

507
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 9: more than they have, right, And so I get what you.

508
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, thank you, est you.

509
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 9: I noticed, like when you're struggling and somebody is really

510
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 9: really supposed to.

511
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 4: Help you, thank you.

512
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 8: Every day, that must be exhaust Sometimes you do exhaust.

513
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do on conversations about?

514
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 7: Like? Because you're also very outspoken when it comes to politics, right,

515
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 7: you don't hold back against Trump and administration. But your

516
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 7: mom comes from an era where it's like, who hold on?

517
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 4: It's scary for her. She was wanted to I know you,

518
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 4: you know, I just I just get nervous, you out

519
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 4: there saying stuff. Please don't you know, don't don't, don't

520
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 4: go too far. She will say that, And you know what,

521
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 4: I think I do hold back some some stuff because

522
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 4: really yeah, I mean yeah, I do. I think I

523
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 4: hold back tak it about about I do. I think

524
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 4: about my family, I think about my kids. I hold

525
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 4: back some. But then again it's like it's you know,

526
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 4: it's who I am. But I know where the line is.

527
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 6: You know, we've always, you know, you've always mixed comedy

528
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 6: with politics, but now it's like it seems too ridiculous

529
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 6: to even do satire on.

530
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 2: And it seems too even too dangerous. Right, is there

531
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: funny in it.

532
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 4: You know there there there is Yeah, there, there's funny

533
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 4: there and I think people they want to hear it

534
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 4: because they need to lamp. I mean, I think when

535
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: I go on stage, a lot of people are like,

536
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 4: just give me some relief, help me get through this.

537
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 4: I need somebody, if it's not just to make it funny,

538
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 4: but to give me some explanations that I need to

539
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 4: see a way out. Where's the light at the end

540
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 4: of the tunnel? But yeah, it's it's it's you know,

541
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 4: there there is a fine line and it's hard. It's hard,

542
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 4: like it's some funny use words satire. Who's doing satire anymore?

543
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know Daily Show is supposed to be

544
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 6: like the satire, but they're actually probably one of the

545
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 6: most factual, one of the most fact journalists out there.

546
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, what led you to donate one hundred percent of

547
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 9: your online sales to supporting immigrants rights? And my voice

548
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 9: is gone because that's all Yes, I should have won

549
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 9: that five thousand dollars, But anyway, Yes, you donate one

550
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 9: hundred percent of your online sales to immigrants immigrants rights.

551
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 4: Because I you know, it's it's what's needed. You know,

552
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 4: they're out there just snatching people, snatching people. Man for

553
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 4: this was supposed to have been a you know, the

554
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 4: campaign whatever for getting violent criminals off the street. What

555
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: violent criminals show up for their court hearings? You know

556
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, like they hiding out at you know,

557
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 4: home depots and stores on depots because because you know,

558
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 4: violent criminals they love a good uh uh d I

559
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: y project that's what they you know, you know it's yeah,

560
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 4: so it's no yeah, so I the a c l U.

561
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 4: They you know, they're they need the funds to defend

562
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 4: these people because right now, you know, it's there's there's

563
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 4: no oversight, there's nothing, you know, just there's so it's

564
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 4: so illegal what they're doing. Come on, how are you

565
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 4: gonna jump out of out of Ford focused and go

566
00:31:58,960 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 4: snatch people up?

567
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: I mean, come on it look wanted to ask you.

568
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 6: I want to ask you about identity too, right because

569
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 6: you know you talk about we were talking about what

570
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 6: people think and what people feel. Even when I look

571
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 6: at the characters Cheryl and the undercard, did she have

572
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 6: to be called a butcher? Because it says a butcher,

573
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 6: retired boxing champion and recovering alcoholic couldn't just be retired

574
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 6: boxing champion and recovering alcoholic.

575
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: Plays A jack butcher jack description, a lumber jack butch.

576
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, I mean that doesn't bother me.

577
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 4: I guess that doesn't bother me. Her character, you know,

578
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 4: she was she was a former boxer. So I guess

579
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 4: it's the you know, if that's how the writer saw

580
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 4: the character. I'm like, okay, so I'm here, she was

581
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 4: in shape. I say, I say to that, thank you.

582
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 7: When when does it for you right with playing characters?

583
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 7: When does it go too far when people try to

584
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 7: portray characters that are in the community right. Because we

585
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 7: had Mike Epps here and he had told us when

586
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 7: he was here that the upshaws the ending of it

587
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 7: was because they tried to write a storyline for your

588
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 7: character where there was like something like gay that would

589
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 7: come into your character. And we know that she wasn't gay.

590
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 7: And I know that you've said that you didn't want

591
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 7: you wanted her to be straight for the full entire show.

592
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: I think you know, I love Mike, I love Mike dearly,

593
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 4: and I think it was like I like misunderstood what

594
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 4: he was saying. I think because that because because that

595
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 4: didn't happen. I think what Mike was saying. Honestly, I'm

596
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 4: not gonna say what I thought, Mike, but I know

597
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 4: I think the show just like ran its course, the

598
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 4: kids got older. We you know, Mike is that the

599
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: show was his idea. He he came to me and

600
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 4: was like, Hey, I want to do the show about

601
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 4: a working class family in the Midwest. And that's what

602
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 4: we That's what we delivered. I think. Yeah, I mean that,

603
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 4: you know, with with the writers and the show running Regina,

604
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 4: we yeah, every it was all. It was all love.

605
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 4: But everybody's gonna have a difference of opinions and sometimes

606
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: you know, voices get get you know, we we raise

607
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 4: our voices when you're passionate about what you're doing. So

608
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 4: I think overall, we we all wanted to make the

609
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 4: best show possible. We just wanted to But it was

610
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 4: just a difference of opinions, that's all. But I think

611
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 4: what we delivered everybody was was was happy with.

612
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 5: The and breathed by that show. Yeah.

613
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 4: I love that show and I love everybody worked on

614
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 4: that show. I love what we did and I hated

615
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 4: to see it in but really, I mean it was

616
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 4: I thought we did a good job. And oh and

617
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 4: I'm happy with the way, you know, we finished it.

618
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 2: So you wanted to keep it going?

619
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 5: If if we.

620
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 4: Could have done another season, I would have. Yeah, I

621
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 4: would have signed up for another season.

622
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 8: Damn. I don't think nobody said that.

623
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 4: Absolutely that but but no, yeah, yeah, but no, I

624
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: think that Netflix, they were a great partner and uh,

625
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:51,919
Speaker 4: and I think it was and we knew, we knew

626
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 4: going into that last season that was the last season.

627
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 4: So we got to we got to end it the

628
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 4: way we wanted to end it. Yeah, can you please

629
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 4: tell your engineer this yawning like.

630
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,479
Speaker 2: That, it's not.

631
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 4: It's not.

632
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: Now you filmed your your comedy special at Hampton Vers.

633
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 2: How was that?

634
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: How was that?

635
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 4: I was cursing in Ogden Hall. Yeah, it was amazing,

636
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 4: It was amazing. I it was so much pressure, but

637
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 4: it was yeah, because I didn't know, you know, and

638
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 4: I had uh, I was doing the show in Jersey

639
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 4: and I had had, you know, some a lot of

640
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 4: my sorrows came to the show and uh, and I

641
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 4: was so glad that they came out. I said this,

642
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 4: this is gonna work and handle right. It was like, yes,

643
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 4: it's gonna It's gonna kill and after So that made

644
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 4: me feel a little bit more confident. Yeah, yeah, because

645
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 4: I had a little test test run.

646
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 8: What was what what was the actual pressure about though.

647
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 4: Like going back to going back to my school, you know,

648
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 4: in Hampton, and I didn't you know, and who's gonna

649
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 4: show up? And how you know is this material gonna

650
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: work because my audience, I would say, my audience is

651
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: probably like sixty percent white, yeah, maybe even maybe seventy Yeah,

652
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 4: you know, but I'm going back to my home and

653
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 4: my my HBCU. You know, is this gonna work with them?

654
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: While they you know? And man, I mean killed it,

655
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 4: healed it, healed it. It was beautiful and Julie Dash

656
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Speaker 4: directed Yeah. So yeah, yeah, So because I wanted it

657
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 4: to be special, I was like this special. I need

658
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: a challenge and what could make it, you know, better

659
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 4: than the last one? And and I was like, let's

660
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 4: go home, let's go let's go home.

661
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Speaker 8: Whose idea was it to do it at Hampton?

662
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 4: Actually, my producing partner paid her what she said. She

663
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 4: was like, you should go go back to your school.

664
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 4: I was like, out your mind. She's like, no, you

665
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 4: really should. I was like nope. And then I thought

666
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 4: about it and the way this administration was attacking HBCUs

667
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 4: and then it made it, you know, it gave it

668
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 4: more of a reason for me. Yeah, that's so that's

669
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 4: why I said, Okay, now it's not just going to

670
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 4: be this damn you know. Now there's a connection for

671
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 4: me with the material and the place.

672
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Speaker 6: How do you make a special special material wise? I

673
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 6: know you've told us how you made it special in

674
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Speaker 6: that way, but how.

675
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 4: Materialise push it, push, push the limits. Don't don't go

676
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 4: up and just do it. Chris Rock always told me

677
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 4: that from the jump, like from my first special, which

678
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 4: was a half hour, He's like, don't go up there

679
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 4: and do a set that make it special. So you

680
00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: got to push yourself, polish it, you know, Uh, just

681
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 4: go go go to a place where, you know, challenge yourself.

682
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 4: Go go go to areas where people are gonna be

683
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Speaker 4: a little bit on this on their seats or or

684
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 4: like oh damn, she said that. I've been wanting to

685
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 4: say that, you know.

686
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 8: So yeah, that's I.

687
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Speaker 6: Don't think people realize how close you in, Chris, because

688
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 6: I remember that night of the OS because you were hosting,

689
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 6: and I remember you saying you were physically sick and

690
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 6: everybody's like, why she physically sitting I'm like, but y'all.

691
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 2: Don't realize how close one then Chris right.

692
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 4: Right, people, people don't. I caught a lot of flat

693
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 4: from that, like because I said, you know about how

694
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 4: I felt, But I'm like, y'all got realized. I was

695
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 4: working that night, Yeah, and I watched my coworker yet popped,

696
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 4: you know, at work. You know what I'm saying. So

697
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 4: it's it's yeah, you're not that's not supposed to happen,

698
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 4: and uh so, yeah, so I I really I was upset,

699
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 4: like physically upset by that. And then and then it

700
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 4: just even sicking me more watching everybody just sit out

701
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 4: there and you know, and and not react. And then

702
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 4: to give that man an award afterwards, I was like,

703
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 4: I'm done with y'all. Really what I was like, done

704
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 4: with all this?

705
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 5: I know.

706
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 7: Will Smith reached out to apologize to you too for

707
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 7: overshadowing that night.

708
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 4: Yeah he did. He called. He called, but you know what,

709
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 4: I was actually physically sick. I had a nasty like

710
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 4: sinus effect, so I didn't even pick up. But he

711
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 4: left the message and yeah, have.

712
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Speaker 5: You ever had an extensive conversation after.

713
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 4: You know what, I was like, I received it, I accepted,

714
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:49,959
Speaker 4: I'm good. Yeah.

715
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 6: What does your mama say about seeing people up in front?

716
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly? Lord, g why why why why they do

717
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 4: that wander? I was like, I know, my no, the

718
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 4: white people just looking at them. They ain't never gonna

719
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 4: give us nothing else.

720
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 7: Did you see when those favor reports were circulating that

721
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 7: Will Smith and Chris Chris Rock were supposed to sit

722
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 7: down together and do like one one. It was fake though,

723
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 7: it was fake and I cleared it up and reporting,

724
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 7: But I was wondering if you saw and if you

725
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 7: were like, ain't know when hell that's gonna happen?

726
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah.

727
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 4: I was like, nah, no, no that yeah, I knew that.

728
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I know Chris, and I'm like, that's not

729
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 4: gonna happen.

730
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

731
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Speaker 2: So you you would never really host the Oscars again.

732
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I would never host again, but

733
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 4: I probably will never host again.

734
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 5: Traumatized in real life, I'm not gonna.

735
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 4: Say I'm traumatized in real life, but it's it's it's

736
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 4: a thankless job. Nobody. Yeah, yeah, and don't seem like

737
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 4: did a great job. Exactly. There's there's no yeah, mm hmm,

738
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 4: there's there's no uh yeah. I mean it would have

739
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 4: to be something like maybe you know what, maybe if

740
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 4: if somebody uh you know did uh uh you know

741
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 4: uptown Saturday Night did a remake and that's you know,

742
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 4: and that's up.

743
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 6: Maybe that makes it when it's all said and done.

744
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 2: What do you want one the Sikes to mean to

745
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 2: to comedy?

746
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, I want one of the Sikes to mean,

747
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 4: uh that you know, she she was a voice for uh,

748
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 4: for those who didn't have a voice, that she was

749
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 4: you know, common sense, that she gave it her all. Yeah,

750
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 4: and funny. That was funny.

751
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: There already.

752
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: Then that's right.

753
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 8: Appreciate you real quick.

754
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 9: I love to say I know you produced and you

755
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 9: create so much, and that you said recently that you're

756
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 9: very intentional about hiring women, absolute.

757
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 8: Women, especially black women. I'll be acting.

758
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 9: Sometimes, you know, and if you got anything coming up

759
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 9: I got.

760
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Speaker 8: I love the audition. You don't, but I do. Okay, yes,

761
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 8: actually I don't, but I will.

762
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:30,919
Speaker 4: I will.

763
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna ask you because you don't be lying us.

764
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 9: So yes, I don't like auditioning, but I'm really, really

765
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 9: good at it and I.

766
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 8: Will do that.

767
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 4: There you go, okay, so yes, I will be looking real.

768
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 4: I think I think you're very funny.

769
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 8: And you told me that ten years ago I saw you.

770
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I was in La.

771
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 8: It was that.

772
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Speaker 9: This is after I did well, but I had like

773
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 9: no ten years ago, like eight years ago whatever, and

774
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 9: you told me that, like, you're very funny. You know,

775
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 9: I'm gonna see you again and on that, and I

776
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 9: was like, she's never gonna.

777
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: Call me, but did she go?

778
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 8: No, she didn't.

779
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 9: But she's here now and timing is everything right, and

780
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 9: I'm way better than I was then.

781
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 2: So boom, want you tell her where your reel is? Huh,

782
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 2: go find your real on TV. She can watch your

783
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 2: reel on She's being serious, I know, but I.

784
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 9: Asked, and I want to get back in front of

785
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 9: the cameras and I'm very serious about it.

786
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 4: No for real, I mean you got ideas?

787
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 8: Let me? Yeah, yes, I did.

788
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, definitely check out Undercard is out right now.

789
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 4: We appreciate you for one. What's that video on demand?

790
00:44:49,280 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 10: Definitely check out ash Light is always.

791
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 4: That thing I didn't need touch nothing. My kids always

792
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,919
Speaker 4: taking my phone. The flashlight is Oh shoot, I ain't

793
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 4: need touch.

794
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: It's one the sakes. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,

795
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: hold up every day a week ago. Click your glass

796
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 1: up the Breakfast Club.

797
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 2: You finishing, y'all done, I