Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome Shary Shepherd. Sure,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Welcome to the show. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Look, you are fine. I'm not seeing you
Speaker 1: in person because you'll see people on TV. You're like Denig.
Speaker 1: All right, you're fine. I see what you're doing already.
Speaker 1: Whatever are we going to Africa again? I've never been
Speaker 1: to Africa. I'd like to go. You've never been. I've
Speaker 1: never anywhere. I've never been to Africa. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. Mothers love me in Africa. I've never been,
Speaker 1: but I know they're gonna like me. How do you know?
Speaker 1: I just I'm that kind of person. I'm that kind
Speaker 1: of person, Like you know, I'm family reunion ends. I
Speaker 1: like going. I cooked sometimes while I ordered from door
Speaker 1: Dash and I put it on the china. I just
Speaker 1: know I fit in with families. Okay, that's probably why
Speaker 1: you're gonna make such a great host for a new show.
Speaker 1: I should say Welcome to The Dady Show. And more important,
Speaker 1: I should say welcome to New York because you moved
Speaker 1: to New York. Here in New York, I love it.
Speaker 1: Welcome to New York. This is a big deal. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is because I've been on the you know, I
Speaker 1: did the View for seven seasons with Barbara and Whoopy
Speaker 1: Enjoy Elizabeth, and so to do my own it's literally
Speaker 1: a dream come true. I've been I used to talk
Speaker 1: to my Teddy Bears with like the toilet paper roll
Speaker 1: and I will put I put it in front of
Speaker 1: their faces and I would do that, and when I
Speaker 1: was a legal secretary, I would sign my name Sherry.
Speaker 1: So it's like I always thought about doing a talk.
Speaker 1: So you wait, let's go back. So you interviewed the
Speaker 1: Teddy Bears I did as an adult child when I
Speaker 1: was a child. Okay, No, you didn't explain like way exactly.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to situate the whole experience. No, No,
Speaker 1: I do grown men now when I have interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. I don't do Feddy Bears anymore forever.
Speaker 1: What sir? Oh you it feels like you were made
Speaker 1: for this role. Like people love you on TV. You act,
Speaker 1: you're you're in comedy. But this is a different type
Speaker 1: of job because it is your show. It's gonna be daily,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be talking about everything. Let's talk about that
Speaker 1: part of the show because you know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in daytime TV where a lot of people go, oh,
Speaker 1: don't do politics, and you know, don't do certain parts
Speaker 1: of comedy, and it feels like you're bringing everything that
Speaker 1: makes you who you are to the show. Tell me
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. I am, you know what,
Speaker 1: because I have I love politics. I could sit and
Speaker 1: talk about, but I'm very clear my show is joy,
Speaker 1: fun and laughter. Because we go through so much in
Speaker 1: our day, I think we get desensitized, and I want
Speaker 1: you to be able to come because they can get
Speaker 1: it from you. They can get the news from the
Speaker 1: view from Wolf Blitzer. But I want you to come
Speaker 1: to my show and laugh. I want you to have
Speaker 1: a good time. That's all I want. And I just
Speaker 1: have the sincess that need. We're both stay end up comics.
Speaker 1: I have to make you laugh and so if that's
Speaker 1: what you want, I want you to turn into Sherry,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be tuning into the show. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be laughing. You also gonna be showcasing comedians, which which
Speaker 1: I love. Like you have a special segment on the
Speaker 1: show full stand up comedian specific series Laugh Lounge, because
Speaker 1: I have been a struggling comedian like my entire life.
Speaker 1: I used to go and I would get bumped by
Speaker 1: Tommy Davidson, Marlon Wayans, all of them, and I would
Speaker 1: just sit there to one in the morning and I
Speaker 1: would play in front of one person and I go,
Speaker 1: if somebody would just give me a chance, And that
Speaker 1: is what I want to do with comments. I know
Speaker 1: so many commons. I love that. Yes, that is my
Speaker 1: missing you know, because you know, you know there are
Speaker 1: comics around Trevor who just they just need the exposure.
Speaker 1: But they can't sit on the couch, you know how
Speaker 1: that that world is. But you can come and sit
Speaker 1: with me and you make people laugh and hopefully that
Speaker 1: will open up like what Johnny Carson used to do.
Speaker 1: I did it with you know, Jay Leno. He had
Speaker 1: me do stand up and the change my world. It
Speaker 1: feels like you have, you know, an energy about you
Speaker 1: that is all about positivity, because it's not just about laughing.
Speaker 1: You know, even on even on the View, you had
Speaker 1: your moments where you would go really deep, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, you found a reason to laugh. You
Speaker 1: found a reason to smile, You found a reason to
Speaker 1: make people feel good about themselves. And the show that
Speaker 1: you're in you know. For for a lot of daytime shows,
Speaker 1: some people will say, oh, it's it's gonna be gossipy only,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be negative only. But you've never been that
Speaker 1: kind of person. It's almost like you have a joyous
Speaker 1: way of seeing whatever is happening in the world. I do.
Speaker 1: I just I've just grown up going. You got it.
Speaker 1: There's a silver lining in everything. You just have to
Speaker 1: know how to find it. And I am a woman
Speaker 1: of a certain age, and I want women to look
Speaker 1: at me and go, if Sharry can do it, if
Speaker 1: it can happen for Sherry, it can happen for you too.
Speaker 1: I used to scrub, so I know this. You know.
Speaker 1: I want people to know that joy. I want people
Speaker 1: to get past the fear because I'm a big I'm
Speaker 1: a big believer, and run towards a thing that scares you. Really, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and see I know and I know you said that
Speaker 1: like when you you you should run away from the
Speaker 1: thing that scares Now, I'm like the thing that scares you.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it scares you. But if you
Speaker 1: go towards it, it can no, no, it will not
Speaker 1: kill you. There's a lot of blessings on the other side.
Speaker 1: So if you go towards it, having Sherry Conny, let
Speaker 1: me tell you where you gotta be man enough to
Speaker 1: know how to pick her up. I mean pick it
Speaker 1: up is heavy, but you know, run towards it. That's
Speaker 1: that's what I enjoy about your journey because it's like
Speaker 1: you're going into a show. You know, you've been doing
Speaker 1: the stand up, you've been doing the acting. What you're
Speaker 1: doing is extremely hard coming to New York. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, LA has like a different pace to it.
Speaker 1: It's chill, people are friendly. It's like a vibe you've seen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen that video like that Mercedes crashing
Speaker 1: into that other car. That's New York. That's New York.
Speaker 1: You know how you know that New York is crazy
Speaker 1: because that the people walking by in that video don't
Speaker 1: even stop. They don't they you know, I'm telling you're
Speaker 1: not going to let that change you. It does not.
Speaker 1: In l A, it's were so chill like in New York.
Speaker 1: If I say to you, let's have lunch New Yorkers
Speaker 1: of well, what time where we gonna meet? I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to say goodbye. That's how we are in LFT.
Speaker 1: Like that it's it's too much. We we when we
Speaker 1: say we're gonna go to lunch in l a. It's
Speaker 1: just like I'm trying to get off the conversation. We
Speaker 1: don't mean it. But New Yorkers are very even riding
Speaker 1: the subway, like everybody looks at their cell phone. They
Speaker 1: don't see anything. You know. One lady got on the subway.
Speaker 1: She's like, hello, I am blind and I need money
Speaker 1: and I had a fire in my place. And she's like, girl,
Speaker 1: you so funny. I am and I need Joe help.
Speaker 1: New Yorker's hustle. It's another world. It's another world. And
Speaker 1: so you're at the beginning of a new show. Everything
Speaker 1: is an opportunity, everything is a possibility. It kicks off
Speaker 1: on September twelve. I want to know if you could
Speaker 1: fast forward to five years, ten years, howe many years
Speaker 1: you want to be doing the show, what is the
Speaker 1: thing you want to leave people saying afterwards when they
Speaker 1: go like, man, that Sherry Shepherd show, it did it was?
Speaker 1: You know? I think if I want to want people
Speaker 1: to say, Sherry Shephard gave me joy, Sherry Shepherd made
Speaker 1: me feel good, That's what I think you have to
Speaker 1: know who you are when you walk in. I think
Speaker 1: women we also have a problem with that knowing what
Speaker 1: is unique about us, and so you know that is
Speaker 1: what is unique about me. I want to make you
Speaker 1: smile and feel good. So I hope that people leave
Speaker 1: saying that and women, and I hope you leave going.
Speaker 1: Cherry taught me how to negotiate my money. Never take
Speaker 1: the first offer. Never let me tell you stopping no,
Speaker 1: say no, I want them to say. Sherry taught me
Speaker 1: how to say no. That's right. Well, if you ask
Speaker 1: me and I won't say no. They don't apply to
Speaker 1: this right here. But Sherry taught me how to say no.
Speaker 1: You gotta go for what you want. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be sitting behind this depths, So I
Speaker 1: got to tell Trevor how I feel. Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: let him know. I did it for Prince. I told
Speaker 1: Prince the same thing. We're going to Africa. I will
Speaker 1: go to Africa with you. I do, yes, I do,
Speaker 1: I swee Yet did you hear that? Didn't get that?
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