1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God. We 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: The building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby. 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 3: Welcome. How you feeling. 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: Everything is good, man, Everything is good. Yeah. Man. Why 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: our comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah, 8 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: was read. 10 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 3: I was early, Bruce Bruce. 11 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're 12 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: on time, you're late. Damn. That's fact. So you got 13 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: to be on time. But then the traffic here is 14 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in the lane up here. Nobody, 15 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: the buses, police, nobody. They just drive like they want to. 16 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 4: And what's crazy, they got lane some of them got 17 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 4: their own lanes in spite of right. 18 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, this is the. 19 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 2: First time Bruce Bruce has been on the show almost 20 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 2: and I want to you know, when I when sometimes 21 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: when when somebody comes to the first time, I want 22 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 2: to stall from the beginning, right, Okay, Now I know 23 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 2: your story because I've been studying you I've been following you. 24 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce 25 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: get into comedy? 26 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 3: And I want you to explain your job before comedy. 27 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I 28 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go, 29 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: I used to always be funny. So I hired this 30 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's 31 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: an older guy, old guy, and he said he used 32 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: to watch me in the kitchen when I first start, 33 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you 34 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: need to go, you need to go on stage. And 35 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: I ain't paying at this to He said, I gonna 36 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: bring you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know, 37 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian, 38 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said, 39 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: always your time on this job and you need to 40 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: go on stage. And know what I did, I quit 41 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: because I had a family. I was young, man had 42 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: three kids, and man I went and started working for Freedo, 43 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the whole time 44 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: I'm selling potato chips and on the doc I'm just funny, 45 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: acting crazy, so good old white dude. So you know 46 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: you need to stage. That's a year every morning, you know, 47 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: study you fronny, I look comedians, frauds there or nothing, 48 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: you know, and you gonna stay. And when I took 49 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: that step, man, was I knew That's why I should 50 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: have been in my whole entirelight. And what made me 51 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: take that step? I was going through a divorce, you 52 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and my ex wife said you 53 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: would never make it. I'm like, what why did you 54 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: tell you that? 55 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 4: No? 56 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: So I just looked at it and say, I see 57 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: you on TV. You know what I'm saying, And it's 58 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: been gone there. I've been doing it now thirty five years. 59 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 3: And what made you? 60 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: What made you get married? If she wasn't supportive because 61 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: you said, you know, we're young. 62 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: I was young, you know. You know I'm from Atlanta, 63 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: Georgia and South you know, you get a girl pregnant, 64 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: you know you got to marry all this crazy stuff. 65 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: And I did the same thing. My oldest son is 66 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: forty three, man, my baby boys forty. My daughter's thirty eight. Wow, 67 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: you've been going wrong with I didn't pull out games 68 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: till you know what I'm saying it pull out games. 69 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: I was just laying that. It was crazy, man. You know, 70 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: I just didn't think just doing it, you know, And 71 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: when you're young, you just do that until you get 72 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: somebody old and say, hey, you need to watch yourself. 73 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And that's what we need 74 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: to start doing as older guys and let him know, man, 75 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: this ain't no game. Who taught you how to cook? 76 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: My uncle? Uncle? Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul, 77 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: he about five feet tall by the ninety eight in 78 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: the waist. You hear me play look like egg better on? 79 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 80 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: He was my pocket or bad and he raised me 81 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: and he taught me about you know, life. He taught 82 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 1: me about how to treat women. He taught me about 83 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: being on time, because you know he's he was a baker. 84 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: He's delivered cakes here. We got to be there on that. 85 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: But he was he would never ever drive on the 86 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight back rolls. But 87 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: they ring your tail over on that highway, you know 88 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And he was he was real superstitious. 89 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: I never did believe in that. You know, he see 90 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: a black cat walk the street, but he gonna turn around. 91 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: You know, you put your hat on the bed. Oh no, 92 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: you can't do that, sweepings fleet. You gotta spit the brew. 93 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: You know he was rated superstitious. Don't never let a 94 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: woman touch your wallet. You know you ain't gonna never 95 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: have no money. Man, ain't nobody believing in that woman 96 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: buy shoes? Oh yeah, got your life? Watch it? You know, 97 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: you know the time is at your life. Oh he 98 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: was real superstitition. But other than that, man, he was 99 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: a great, great guy. Man. You remember the first dish 100 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: that you learned to cook? Oh yeah, man, stay, was 101 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: I can steak? Make a joke of cry white supposed 102 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: to be clapping? Oh yeah, my white supposed to be clapping. 103 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: Black people be hollering, yay, how you get the capitol 104 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: for the barbecues? But well, I started down with Joall, 105 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how my mother. It's just me 106 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 1: and mother. I'm the only child my mother ever had. 107 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: And we was struggling, and it was living in the hood, 108 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: and it was in an area called Bluff it was. 109 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: And man, let me tell you man, she needed some help. 110 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: So I went and applied for this job. This guy 111 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: knew worked at the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and 112 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: I told him I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you 113 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I was working, man, I 114 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: was clean up. So I had been there about three 115 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: months and this old white guy named EdWay. I said, 116 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: let me ask you something. He was the man. He said, 117 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: I don't know you really. He said, you work good 118 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: and everything. He said, with you not seventeen, I said no, 119 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: I said, I'm fourteen. He said, why are you working? 120 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: I said, well, I got to help my mom. He said, 121 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: I tell you what. It's gonna be our a little secret. 122 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: You know. He kept me because I was a good worker. 123 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: Everything he told me to do, I did it. And 124 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: I just kind of followed in and started watching this 125 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: guy's cooking and I knew how to cook him. My 126 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: uncle had been showing me. I do everything. Next time 127 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: I know, man, I was running the pit. Man. I 128 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: was cooking barbecue and everything at like sixteen years old. 129 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: Oh so you didn't own it. No, Oh, no, I 130 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: was working there man. 131 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 3: Now you also mentioned that you were an only child. 132 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 3: Only child, your father left at the age of five. 133 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air 134 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: Force and he was a Madican Air Force and he 135 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: was he flew choppers and airplanes and when he when 136 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: he got out, he was an antety geologist. 137 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 3: Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed 138 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 3: or I did? 139 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know 140 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for 141 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: him for? You know, because they be mad. But my 142 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: mother really ran him off, you know what I mean. 143 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: She was just him off and she was off monster man. 144 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: You know, did tell you that? No, I just like, man, 145 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: this dude is cool. He was really cool, you know, 146 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: But she's like, I don't want to know everything he 147 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: tried to do. She just knocked it down, like but 148 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: she was listening to a girlfriend's That's why I tried 149 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: to tell all these young girls, don't listen to no 150 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: woman that ain't got no man. You don't say what 151 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you got a woman, if you got 152 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: a girlfriend, you got a husband. She not how true 153 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: a husband, but a woman that don't have a man, 154 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: she can't tell you nothing. But he I mean, he 155 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: just he left and he never ever called us ever. 156 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He 157 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: did a non contested divorce because my mother just worked, 158 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I 159 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: think I'm going to get a divorce, and when she 160 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,679 Speaker 1: went to do it, this said, you already divorced, noun contested. 161 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: You put it in the newspaper for thirty days. You 162 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: don't answer the ad, bam you divorce. He was already gone. 163 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: He was gone. He was gone. And I got married 164 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: three more time. And I found it when I was 165 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: like forty years old. 166 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 3: So he knew who he was. 167 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: He knew exactly what I was. He knew exactly what 168 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: I looked like. No, my son looked like him, though, 169 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny 170 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: how to dip over, you know what I'm saying. But 171 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: I met with him and we talked and we stayed 172 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 1: in touch, and he ended up passing away about seventeen 173 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, did 174 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you 175 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: ever have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah, 176 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: she said, you know I was wrong. She said I 177 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 1: didn't care about I had other boyfriend. You know, my 178 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: mama food around see parents don't tell you. They try 179 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: to tell you the right thing, but they'll do the 180 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: wrong thing in front of you. You know what I'm saying. 181 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: Those old dudes she used to go with named Dave, 182 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: but you know, had platform shoes with taps on. You remember platform. 183 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: He had taps on platform shoes. He come up the steps, 184 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: clock oclock, how your mama doing, And then he'll tell me, hey, 185 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: come in, let me give you a few dog on 186 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: down and get your cocola, you know something like that. 187 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: I know what you're finna do. Finna get some tail, 188 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he gets you, gets 189 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: your tato tips. I run right out of the house. 190 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: You know, I know what he's finna do. I don't 191 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: want no food, you know what I'm saying. But he 192 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me 193 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's just 194 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with 195 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing. 196 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He dogged my mama. Man, 197 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: he was he was married. She didn't even know he's married. 198 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: She's over there, he's over there every day, every day. Eating. Yeah. Yeah, 199 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: God is a good guard, you know. Yeah, card is 200 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: a good girl and woman. Tell you what happened. When 201 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: I was in high school, four of us used to 202 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: hang together and we saw him in his truck and 203 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: my brother say, man, that call you. You're my my 204 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: boyfriend with your mom. I said no, I said, that's 205 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: my mother boyfriend. That's not my mom. It was another lady. 206 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: So I got out the car, looked at him and said, hey, 207 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: you know I see you right He said, oh, hey, 208 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: how you doing? Play it? Come to my mom house. 209 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: I told my mother see him with another woman. He 210 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: looked me dead at minde. He said that was not 211 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: he did not see me. And my mother believed it. 212 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: For the reason she believed it because I didn't like him, 213 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: so she just kind of figured I made up a 214 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: story about him, and she let it go. But it 215 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: took her girlfriend or hers to see him. Say I 216 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: saw that dude with another woman, you know what I'm saying. 217 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: And they took her to tell me she dated him 218 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: like sixteen years. Man. And I want to tell you, 219 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: my mother, I don't want to get married. I don't 220 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: want to get Okay, you don't want to get married, 221 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude. 222 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: When she found out, she was like, she was toe up. Yeah, 223 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: I heard her. You grew up in the bluff. 224 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: Hold how close the reality was was snow on the 225 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 4: bluff the movie? 226 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was real close. That was the 227 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother told me, 228 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: if you touch it, o kid. So I was most 229 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: scared of my mother than the guys in the street, 230 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I never touched it. 231 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: I watched him do it. I watched him shoot up 232 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: every time. I can't do that, bro, Now, I can't 233 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: do that. My mother is great. My mother is a rastler. 234 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. She had been on WWE. I know 235 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man. So you 236 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: know that's why. And that movie was really really serious. 237 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: But you know it was so funny in the hood, 238 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: being in the hood, because you know, the crackheads come. 239 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, dude had bought a video camera. 240 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: You know, he was fibbing people and everything. Crackhas said, Man, 241 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: I got a camera like that, he said, bigger, but 242 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: it's got a two on it. I said, what are 243 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: you talking about? He done stole the camera off the 244 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: Channel two news truck. The dude was getting ready to 245 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: do some news in the area. He just walked off 246 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: with the ca So we saw the white guy panicking 247 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 1: walking around. I said, you're looking for your camera and 248 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: he said yeah. I said, I know it is. I said, 249 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give some money to get it back. 250 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: He said, I get anything. He's all. He's how much 251 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: you think hundred twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow? 252 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: And the dude brought it back to him just walked 253 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: off with it. 254 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 3: I got a camera like that has a number two 255 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 3: on it, Yes, so two on it. 256 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: They had Channel two on it, right Man, these dudes 257 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit. Walk 258 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: down the street with the dresser. Dude make way about 259 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: one thirty. He said, I got the mirror, the two 260 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: nights stands in the bed y'all needed. Were like what somebody? 261 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying. The dude 262 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: told me said, man, I got I got a I 263 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: got a typewriter like that. The only thing mine difference, 264 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: it's got a TV on it. He didn't realize he 265 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 1: had a desktop computer. He's I got a tight writer, 266 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: but he got a TV on it, like tight with TV. 267 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: I know back then, brothers had to press you to 268 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: try to get in the street though. Oh yeah, man, 269 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,839 Speaker 1: they you know they talk about your you're scared, you're 270 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: punk all this curb. Hey man, I'm gonna have to 271 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: be a punk because my mom didn't play My mom, 272 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: my aunt, the neighbors. They didn't play Man anything. Oh 273 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything. 274 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: He was about six y five, black, real black, with royal 275 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,839 Speaker 1: blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need to 276 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: call your granddad? No. She would get him on the phone. 277 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: He'll say, hey, do I need to come up there? 278 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: All I do was here his voice. I ain't no, sir, 279 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: she's living. Get another phone call and see what happened 280 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: That joker didn't play Man six ' five, black, one skeleton, nothing, 281 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: roy your blue eyes, and you look at him, you'll 282 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: drop your head like a runaway slave. You know what 283 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But when 284 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: I got older, I realized he was really cool. He 285 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: was a cool dude, but he just believed a child 286 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: staying in the child place. That's right. 287 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 4: And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far 288 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 4: as comedy because he was the funny man. 289 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: He was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody got help 290 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: me with this line. Everybody he did, I tell him, Yeah, 291 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: he told you. Everybody didn't help me with this line. 292 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: But he was one of the best bakers in the world. 293 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day, and 294 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: they used to call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys 295 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Junior, and 296 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: he went by the sweetbread Man because he was the 297 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man, and he 298 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: talked about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I 299 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: was really raised on the same street. The street was 300 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: Chestnut Street. They changed to James Street Broadley. I was 301 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: on four fifteen. She was on like seven eighty five 302 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: or something like that, just right up the street, like 303 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: two blocks. So you know, no, no, I I was 304 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: a little kid, but she lived at on her first husband. 305 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But Gladys is a girl. Man. 306 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 4: Wow, were you able to translate your funny to actually 307 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 4: make a career of it. But somebody like Uncle Paul, 308 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 4: who was funny, couldn't. 309 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared 310 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: to go and say he was scared. See see black 311 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: people back in it, they had the skill to do everything, 312 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: but they were scared to do it. They had so 313 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: much fear. So like young kids, not they'll do it. 314 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: They I don't care, I'll do it. So I just 315 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: took it and ran with him. Uncle was one of 316 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: the best bakers in the world. He wouldn't get bakers 317 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: from France and Italy, you know, from England, and he 318 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: beat him all out, you know what I mean. Then 319 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: he went to he had a cheesecake that he made. 320 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world. 321 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: And they tricked him out of it and didn't have 322 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: sense enough to get a lawyer and everything, and gave 323 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: him like ten thousand dollars day clapping. He was all 324 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: happy with yeah, when he could have got one hundred million, 325 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But just didn't have a 326 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: sense and the knowledge to do that at the time. 327 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I wanted to know as a child 328 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 3: was Bruce Bruce Big as a child. 329 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: No, man was a little bit. They was calling me 330 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: little Bruce Man. I didn't I didn't get fat till 331 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: I got man. I don't know why I got married. 332 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wouldn't eat it. Man. I was 333 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: just a little bit of dude, just run around, just 334 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: messing with everybody. I was a little bit of kid man. 335 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: But when I got married, I got fat. You know, 336 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: that's what happened to us as black man. We get 337 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: complacent that we get complacent with jobs. We get a 338 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 1: job and let's just say jeral motives, we make a 339 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: little money. Oh man, that's a good job. I don't 340 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: care nothing about no good job. It's about getting out 341 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: there getting it, because it's more than that than getting 342 00:13:59,280 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: a good job. 343 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 4: I ain't like that question, by the way, what you 344 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 4: mean I don't like the question? Do you ask me 345 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 4: what with Bruce? 346 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: Bruce little as a child was a big child. I 347 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: want what you wanted to He thought I was just 348 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: couldn't clap my hands, could clap his hand, and y'all 349 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: clap my hand. But no, I was a little kid, 350 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: a little cute joker man, and I'm messing with everybody, 351 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: and you know, we we seem to lose focus. And 352 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy. 353 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: But now I'm back at man, I'm sixty two years old. 354 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 3: Man, Wow, is that is that where the comedy came from? 355 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 2: Because when Bruce Bruce does a show and somebody's in 356 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: the audience says something, or somebody's wearing something outfit, Bruce 357 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 2: Bruce has no problem at attacking. This is that where 358 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 2: that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these kids. 359 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: You know when I was, when I was younger, I 360 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: was real scary. You know, most kids wn't admit that. 361 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: I was real scared to do anything. So people just 362 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: talking about me, talking about him back. That's how I 363 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: learned it. I used to talk about this girl. Man, 364 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: this girl, man, she had a pontail in the pail 365 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: body that long look with a rubber band around it. 366 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: I want behind, I said, girl, how did they do that? 367 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: Do it? I said, make the oxtail right there? I said, 368 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: I said, you can stand on your head. Your hair 369 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: stell won't touch the floor. Man, this girl. So I'm 370 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: gonna beat you. Man. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, 371 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: what man, I broke out running you know. I didn't 372 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: know she was a track star. Man. This girl caught 373 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: me and beat the brakes off me. Man, I didn't 374 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: care because I was raised not to hit women, so 375 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: I didn't get she beat me up. She laid me 376 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: on the ground and throw my homes you knowed to 377 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: throw your homes. I she said, what's up now? I said, 378 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: your hair still shot? So then she said, you're gonna 379 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: beat my boyfriend. So I had to beat her boyfriend 380 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: walk her to school every day. That's when I realized 381 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: I had something now, you know. I joned her out 382 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: and talked about the bed. But she did like me, 383 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: and my uncle told me, said that, man, that girl 384 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: like you. That's why she she wants you to be 385 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: a boy friend. She like you. I didn't realize that, 386 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: but I thought she hated my guts, But she really didn't. Man, 387 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: she actually laughed about it. Then she grew up and 388 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: be drop dead gorgeous. You know she did y'all? Still 389 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do it 390 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: no more. Man, I ain't got it. But that's laughter, though, 391 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: you know you can make it. Say if you can 392 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: make a girl laugh, and man, you make him laugh, 393 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: I got him. Most women they just want to laugh. 394 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: You make them laugh. A lot of guys when they 395 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: see women, when they see good looking women, fine women, 396 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: nice body, instantly, most guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh, 397 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: she ain't gonna holler me she will. You ever see 398 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: a real, fine pretty girl with an ugly dude. You 399 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: know what happened because he said something to it. He 400 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: walked in to hey, how you doing. You look good? 401 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: She's like, you're for real, Yeah, I'm for real, And 402 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: he would have You're like, how did this ugly? Because 403 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: I know I got some ugly partners? Oh my god, 404 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: I got some dudes. Cold your eyes when you look 405 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: at the fool, you have to wipe you out. My god, bro, 406 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: what happened? You know what I'm saying. But they got 407 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: the baddest women you ever want to see. But everybody 408 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: got to understand though it's really nothing to it. Just 409 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: talk to him, that's all they want. 410 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: What's the most difficult city Because you're on the road, 411 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: what five days a week, four days a week, every 412 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 2: you know, every week. 413 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 3: What's the toughest city for you? And why if there 414 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 3: is one. 415 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I never had a tough city. Man. 416 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: I've had some tough crowds. When the comedy clubs hold 417 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: these people hostage, you know, like let's just say, first 418 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: show is at seven, second show is supposed to start 419 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: at ten. They let the first show run over. These 420 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: people are coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting. 421 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: So that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you 422 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: got to really go to work to make them laugh, 423 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: you know, or go and or say something like this, 424 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: say y'all have been at working they want to be there. 425 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, I said, that's why I feel now, 426 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when you break the 427 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: ice with them, you got them. Once you get them, 428 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: you got them. But you got to run the clubs 429 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: on time. And it's hard dealing with us as black people. 430 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: It's hard to deal with a lot of black people, man. 431 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: But the white clubs they be on it byam, damn, 432 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: damn because they realize the money they can make in 433 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: the short length of time. Why is that with us, man? 434 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's hard to doing business 435 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 1: with us. I had one dude at a club, man. 436 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: It was in November and it was cold, when he 437 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: had people outside, I say, man, people are standing outside. 438 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: The show's supposed to start an hour ago. He looked 439 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: at me and he said, I don't give up what 440 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 1: they do on I said, I'm like what, so, matter 441 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: of fact, I don't even do his club anymore because 442 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: you don't have respect for the people. But we're the 443 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: one working hard for it to make him laugh, because 444 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: it's hard to get black people to laugh, you knowply 445 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: when they're mad, they better be funny. It better be funny, 446 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: especially when they're mad. You know, white people laughing anything. Oh, 447 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: he's hilarious. He's great. You can be terrible. You know 448 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 1: you're good. You're gonna be great because white people have 449 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: a different way of saying no, Like when you auditioned 450 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: for a show, like how do you like him? Well, 451 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: he's a good looking guy. He has great hair. That's 452 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: a no. See, people don't realize that when they want you, 453 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: they want you to get you checks the sign. But 454 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 1: when they breed hard. You know, I was looking at 455 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: him and smart guy, smart guy. But no, I's like, 456 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: we do it. I said no, And that's what we 457 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: all got to realize. 458 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,120 Speaker 4: You know, you think about when it come to doing 459 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 4: business with black people and white people, because I love 460 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 4: doing business with with with my people, right, But I 461 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 4: don't think we often look at it as a business 462 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 4: like it should be a personal transaction. 463 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 1: Right. It's always because people people call my manager and 464 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: be like me and Bruce go back fifteen. I don't 465 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: even know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 466 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: I met him at the gas station and up you 467 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: don't know me, Bro, Maybe I come across like you 468 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: do know me, but you don't know me. They'll call 469 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: and be like, we discussed the deal and he said 470 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: he would do it for this. That's not true because 471 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 1: I don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they 472 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: always think it's like a partner thing when it should 473 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: just be business. Yeah. 474 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 3: Do you remember your best show and you remember your 475 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 3: worst show? 476 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,439 Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, I can remember a lot of them, but 477 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: they people don't know it. I know it. I can 478 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: remember my first I mean, I come out saint temp 479 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: a guy. I didn't like this show. Well, people thought 480 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: it was great, but I'd be like, I didn't like 481 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: that show. 482 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 2: What was your what was your worst show? Because they said, 483 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 2: you don't write things down, it's just off. 484 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: It come out a couple. One time, I was in Houston, Texas, 485 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: and uh they I was doing this show and I 486 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: was joning everybody out and this dude came up and 487 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: jooned me, and he was funny, but he said go 488 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: up there, you know, even go up there and jone. 489 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: He said, I like a pickle jaw, you know. And 490 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: I started like, damn, that's funny. Bro. I said, I'm 491 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 1: gonna keep that, you know. He sent me like a 492 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: pickle jaw. I was like, oh my god, that's funny. 493 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: But the crowd loved it because I took it so well. 494 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: I didn't go off, you know exactly. It was really 495 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: funny when he said it. And I ended up seeing 496 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: him like ten years lad. He said, you remember game 497 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: on stage? Man? I saw you, so you look a 498 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: pickle jo I said, that was you. I said, let 499 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: me take a picture with you. You know what I'm saying. 500 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,239 Speaker 1: But the cool but the best show I ever did, 501 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: it was years and years and years ago, is when 502 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie Mack was super hot. 503 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 1: And it's a It's a part of Georgia called Macon, Georgia, 504 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: and it's about a hour from Atlanta and Bernie was performing, 505 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: had ten five thousand seater and the feature didn't show up, 506 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: and the guy said, hey, man, my feature in the show. 507 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: Can you come down opening up for Bernie Mac. I said, yes, 508 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: you know I had been in the he ain't there 509 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: about five years? Yes, And I drove down as quick 510 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: as I could, and I was on stage, and I 511 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: can remember Bernie Mack had his arm folded looking at me. 512 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: He said, who's that dude? Right there? They said as 513 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 1: Bruce was. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went 514 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 1: up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice 515 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 1: in my whole entire life. May cern't and then I 516 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: worked with in Columbia, South Carolina on time. That's it. 517 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: But Bernie was a bad dude man, And people don't 518 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: realize when he did I'm not scared of you on 519 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: death chair. He made that up right then because everybody 520 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: was coming up. They was having a car a hard 521 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: time here in New York. Damn jam. They was getting 522 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: it to him, you know, New York. You know they 523 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man, 524 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: I ain't scattering them, mom, and he went up and 525 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 1: did him. And Capri went together on it and he 526 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 1: ripped it. Man, Bernie was a bad? 527 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 3: Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with? 528 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: No, man, I know some funny comedians now, like Tony 529 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: Robbers is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know who? 530 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 1: Tony Robber? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me he's 531 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: the date of girl. Her breath was so bad it 532 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: smelled like a horses hiccups. So who think of that? 533 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: Who think of a horse's hic You know what I'm saying. 534 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,959 Speaker 1: He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Epps is one 535 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: of the dude I trained back in the day. Mike 536 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: used to be on the road me. Mike moved from 537 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: Indiana to Atlanta and I used to take him on 538 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: the road with me. And then he moved to New 539 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: York and he called me when they said, man, they 540 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: want me to audition for Fridays, And I said, what 541 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: you waiting on? I said, look for somebody like you? 542 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: And he called me a week later. I got the part. 543 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: I said, you're on your way day they that's my man. 544 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 4: You said something earlier when you talked about the pickle 545 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 4: joh joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah, so 546 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 4: comedians do cover jokes, Yeah. 547 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told him that. 548 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: But no, you like I sent, comedians just take bits 549 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you do that 550 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: and I see it, I know exactly where you got 551 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 1: it from. I've been in this business so long. I 552 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: know exactly what you got. I know who said and 553 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: how they said and when you said it. No, I 554 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because I saw Bernie. 555 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 4: It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernie Mack and 556 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 4: he was saying, don't say your joke around or are 557 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 4: you a new comedian us? 558 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: And see a lot of comedians now the veterans will 559 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: look at the new jacks and take that stuff. And 560 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: then it looked like the new jack stole it from them. 561 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,479 Speaker 1: But that's not cool. That's not cool to do. 562 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 2: Now we've seen Kat Williams pulled out his chop a 563 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 2: couple of months ago. 564 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 3: He was fired at everybody. What was your thoughts? 565 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: Because you know a lot of that stuff was inside 566 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 2: that became outside. 567 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: Well, I think Cat just told how he felt man 568 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: and what's been going on in his life for real, 569 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: and he just got fed up with it. You know 570 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: when people when people dog you out, Let's just say this. 571 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: I used to tell people. I had a club at Atlanta. 572 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 1: It's called Club five five nine, and I used to 573 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: tell my securities. I said, listen, when you have an 574 00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you. 575 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: You don't be forgot about them. So if you throw 576 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: them at the club, throw them on their head and 577 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: they'd be like, I'm not gonna forget that. They won't 578 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,119 Speaker 1: forget you. But you forgot who that was. And you 579 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: had to go store with your woman shopping, you run 580 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: up all you remember me. You're like, no, you have 581 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: to be careful. So Kat just went through some things, 582 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: stuff that he never forgot that was done to him, 583 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: and he's coming back retaliating, and he just told it 584 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: like it was. 585 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 4: I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different 586 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 4: things you could take from that conversation. But the thing 587 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 4: I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt 588 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 4: like it put black comedy in a in a new life. Yeah, 589 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 4: like people started paying attention. 590 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: To the old gez, like you said, Tony Robbers, like 591 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: they I don't know. 592 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 4: I just felt like it just shine earthquake and shine 593 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 4: the light on the on the people who've been doing it. 594 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: And people got to understand something about Kat Williams. Cat 595 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: Williams is not a dummy. He is very smart. He's 596 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: very smart. I don't know if y'all remember when he 597 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: had altercation in Atlanta with one of the smith phone 598 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 1: V one O three if you ever noticed it, he 599 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: never lost his composure. He stood there and drunk his 600 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: coffee and he was killing her the whole time. And 601 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: he's just cool like that. He's very smart. He's a 602 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: smart guy. 603 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 4: Now, we always talk about the role at L played 604 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 4: in rap. What role did it play in comedy? 605 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. When you like rap me you 606 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: said rap? You know, I thought you was finna say 607 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: with with outcasts and you know I did videos. They 608 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: liked my little homies. I'm like they og They called 609 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: me O G and with too short, made the song 610 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,199 Speaker 1: shake that Monkey with with a little jung gun and 611 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: then uh no, it's too short, and then Little John 612 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: came back with the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's 613 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: just love. Everybody show love in Atlanta. Everybody show love. 614 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: Like when I did the movie I had awhile with Outcasts. 615 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: It was gave to me. You know, it wasn't a 616 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: movie I had to audition for. And then I did 617 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: the movie Who's Your Caddy with Big Boys, a role 618 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: that was gave to me because they just have that 619 00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: kind of love for me. You know what I mean. 620 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: We're all cool and I stay in my lane. Man, 621 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: I don't get out. I don't do crazy. 622 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 2: You talk about something about but before we go, how 623 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 2: did you feel about all these artists mentioned you and 624 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: their songs. 625 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. 626 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: Well, you have a surprise that you hear before when 627 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 3: you heard let Bruce Bruce hit it? 628 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: That. God, I just hate when dude said it. You 629 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like we let Bruce bro you 630 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: shouldn't be saying that. Then your girl should say it, 631 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: but not not me, not you. 632 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 4: Brother said that on the text this morning because our 633 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 4: producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already his we 634 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 4: were on the way. 635 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he goes, well, entertain them. Then let 636 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. I forgive you. 637 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: That's what he said. I forgive you. 638 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 3: That's inside stuff. 639 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: Man. I just I just thought it was stupid. You know, 640 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: I felt he felt we cool. 641 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 4: So he just told me and our producer told him 642 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 4: that was he was going to hs that breath. 643 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Why did you? Yeah? 644 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 3: And Biggie. Biggie mentioned you and hitting the time. 645 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time you heard what happened? 646 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Florid. I never forget this, 647 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet him so bad because I 648 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: was a man and Biggie you know, and man. He 649 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: came in and I was on stage clown and I 650 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: was joning people. I mean, I has to do it. 651 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 1: I said that shirt sil because it's I said, is 652 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 1: it's silky? You behind it too much? You know something 653 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: like that. He walked in, he said, just do this 654 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: because if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he 655 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: didn't really smile that much, you know what I'm saying. 656 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: He just always had that look like this nun should look. 657 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: He smiled on the video when he was on the boat. 658 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: When he was on the boat and he started smiling, 659 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: he said, I wanna put you down for it. And 660 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: when I heard it, I'm like, what what was that was? 661 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: People were debating whether he yeah, did he say that. Yeah, 662 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 1: it was like Bruce, Bruce, who do something to us? 663 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: Talk goes through us, girls do us one of us 664 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,880 Speaker 1: screwls who meets Poppy and Puff. It was just love. 665 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: He showed me he was a cool guy man. And 666 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never 667 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: saw him smile. He just always had this like heart look, 668 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,479 Speaker 1: like you know, he read fight. But he was really funny. 669 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: It was fun to be around. So he told you 670 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay, that's 671 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: how you know it was Yeah, but I heard him 672 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: like what I thought? I heard you know what we 673 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,199 Speaker 1: did on the rate. I'm like and shorty show. They 674 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: called me the comedian Church. He said, Man, Biggy just 675 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: said your name. And I'm like, I listened to it 676 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: over and over. I just kept coming back. I just 677 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: I just kept repeating it listen to And that was love. 678 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,360 Speaker 1: That was real love. 679 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 4: I guess you answered the question because when I said 680 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 4: what role did atl play in comedy? 681 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 1: For you, like, what role did Atlanta play in the comedy? 682 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 1: Oh my god, everything, I think that's it. Well you 683 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: know who did it? Well? Who started it was Chris 684 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: Tucker and Chris Tucker when he did Friday's first. Of all, 685 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: he didn't do Friday's first. He did house party. Yeah, 686 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: when he came to it, he's the same time, man, 687 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna give me the money? The same time it was. 688 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: It was it immature, the group called immature. And he 689 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: went to the door to get some money. I'm looking 690 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: for such and such. Man. He just had that one 691 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: scene at the door, and then he did Fridays And 692 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: Friday's took off way better than they thought it thought 693 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: it would. It took off way better than they thought 694 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: it would. And Chris, he's a good dude too. Man, 695 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: he's a good guy. I used to be on the 696 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 1: road with him. But he fired me though. Man, you know, 697 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: he didn't fire me, but he fired me like I 698 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: was on the road with him back in ninety four 699 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: ninety five. And then he said, man, I'm gonna take off. 700 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna come off the road for about three months 701 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: because did presidents get ready to come out, you know. 702 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: And that's when I said, Okay, when he went back 703 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: on the road, he just didn't bring me back here. 704 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: So that's that's firing ass, you know what I'm saying. 705 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: But then cool it's still my body. But he did 706 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: come back in the policy. I say, hey, man, I 707 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: didn't do that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like 708 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: cool man, I'm good. I work, you know, I get down. 709 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: You said you was a salesperson for Freeo label. Oh yeah, 710 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: they used to make you tell jokes when you know 711 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: everybody on the dock, you know, I you know, we 712 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know, 713 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: go from soa store deliberation. So we delivered. We were 714 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: on the dock. I'm joning everybody. I didn't care who 715 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: they was. And we had some good old boys. Y'all. 716 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: Ain't got no good old boys. I'm trying. 717 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all, 718 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 4: Monk's going up. 719 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: I was, y'all okay, but you know we got the man. 720 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: You're a comedian. We love it. You know, we got 721 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: the boys. They'd be so impressed. So you're a commeldian. Yeah, 722 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: we love that's their word. But we had it. But 723 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: one thing about good O balls. When they like it, 724 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: they like it. When they don't, they don't. And it 725 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 1: ain't a black white thing. It could be a white 726 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: white thing. They don't like it. They don't like you, 727 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: you know so, But I don't seeing racism everywhere. Man, 728 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: it don't bother me. Remember your sales pitch, my sales 729 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: pitch on the potato ye oh yeah, man. Let me 730 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: tell you. I had a Walmart. They had just opened 731 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: this Walmart, and in order to I wanted to dress 732 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: up as chester Cheata, remember the chester Cheeta Tiger. In 733 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: order to do this, you got to have you got 734 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: to sell this huge display to get the carstume, the costume. 735 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Because the company was charging 736 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: different branches money to use cars. I was the biggest 737 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: chester To Cheetah they have ever seen that. Look, man, 738 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: I was the fattest one guy. I said he must Cheetos. 739 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,280 Speaker 1: This bitch as big as a house. But I sold 740 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: like I think it was if I'm not mistaking, like 741 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in Cheetos. That's why they sent the 742 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: uniform too. Its And it was great. And it was 743 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: a Walmart, and it was a guy managed to wal 744 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: My name James Pike White, dude, the matter, he gets 745 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: the lord he talked so you know, he said, when 746 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: I tell you to do something, you be like what 747 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: what did you say? But he was cool. Everybody thought 748 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: he was old red Nick, but he was really cool. 749 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: He ran that store. But he let me bring ten dollars. 750 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: I want Cheetos in that store? That was my man? 751 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: Was your hey man? Just me being funny. I walk 752 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: in and I say, man, I need to seals. I 753 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: need to sell some chips. If not, I'm gonna start backstripping. 754 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: And if if I start backstripping, the church mumb is 755 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: really going to be hard on me about this. I said, 756 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 1: you don't want to see me naked. Trust me when 757 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: I tell you that, you know what I'm say saying 758 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: their bus I laughing got him in order. He wasn't 759 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: really come on. If I was my stage name be 760 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: stretch Marks. 761 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 762 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,479 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, then you know. But if 763 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: I was stripped with today, I go by heart Candy Hard. 764 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: This is a good name. 765 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 3: As I didn't want to hand why heartcare. 766 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 4: It was like something behind it, like you know the church, 767 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 4: old lady in the church with Hard Candy. 768 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: Church, that'd be living pound Cake. I'd be living living 769 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: out of death. 770 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 4: Comedy Jam, Showtime, The Apollo and Comic View which one 771 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 4: had the most impact on you. 772 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: Comicview Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start and 773 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: come on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons. 774 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: I mean, big up for him. Depth Jam was good. 775 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: But when I did Comic View, see Comic View started 776 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: out as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll 777 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: remember that they used to go. They used to come 778 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: out to your city and come to a club and 779 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: film you and then take it back. And d L 780 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: was see the host, and he's like, look went all 781 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: the way down to Atlanta at a club called the 782 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: Comedy Act Theater and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce 783 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: and then showed me and I did the coach co 784 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: when they first started. But I never forget the year 785 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: that I host. It was probably the best year for 786 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: me that I have ever experienced in my life. They 787 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: went from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers 788 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: host and it was great for me. It was it 789 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: was good. I made some money. They gave me money 790 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: for wardrobe. That's why I dressed in all them suits 791 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: because I thought I was a pimp. You know what 792 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I thought I was a straight up pimp. 793 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: How'd you get the gig. They called me. I mean 794 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: I had been doing comedy like seven eight years and 795 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: got I say call me one day, said I would 796 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 1: you like the host comedy view. I said I would 797 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: love that because I wanted to do it and I 798 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 1: wanted to do it before then, and it just won 799 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: my time. But when my time came, it was perfect. 800 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: It did well, it did very well. 801 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 2: It was that the moment that you know that that 802 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: was your big break, like, oh, this is really going 803 00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 2: to happen. 804 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man. 805 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: Then I did more shows than anybody. I did like 806 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 1: four to five shows a day, so I was changing suits, 807 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 1: changing suits, and I was working five days a week, 808 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: so on the days and it was off Sunday Monday. 809 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: So I was shooting commercials for them. And I did 810 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: this one commercial. I like gators at alligator skin shoes. 811 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 1: So I told his capture, I was, take me, man, 812 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: I need to get me some gators. And he took 813 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: me to a real creek where alligators walls. That was 814 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: the joke of it. And he dropped me off and 815 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, what wait, man, it's a real alligator. He 816 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: was real alligator coming out of the water and it 817 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: was really really funny. That was a scene that I wrote, 818 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was fun. So I still 819 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: wear Gator shoes. I'm old school man, you know, I'm 820 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: like the old player Ciaga still wear suits with ten 821 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,320 Speaker 1: and shoes. I can't do it now. I can't do it, player, 822 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: I can't do it. I never felt like Apollo was 823 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: good for comedy, man, It's just I think what it 824 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: was with Apollo. Those people are that all day sitting. 825 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: So the first two shows you're gonna get love. But 826 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 1: like the third, fourth and fifth show, they wore out. 827 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: They boo and everybody. They booed me the first time, 828 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,439 Speaker 1: and I didn't care. I just started talking about people. 829 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: It was a dude in the front dresser like, I 830 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: don't know what the hell was going on him. I said, bro, 831 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,360 Speaker 1: what is your problem? Ye had he was just like 832 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: a woman and a man on one side. A woman 833 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: on the side said break are you slow? 834 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 2: Time? 835 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, and before the time, but it was it was 836 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: a jew on them. They laughed. But then I went 837 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: back and did it again, and then it went well, yeah, 838 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: I did it with Mark Curry first and then back 839 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: with Steve Harvey. 840 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,840 Speaker 3: Is it too sensitive now for comedy? 841 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: Depending on what subj did you touch on? Because if 842 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: you if you don't, like, let's just say gay people, 843 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: you can't you can't touch on that. You can't say 844 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: anything disrespectful. And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know. 845 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 1: When I was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles, 846 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: you know, so we'd be riding the Sweet Pickle. I'm like, well, 847 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: we knew what it was. We were like, what the 848 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:03,759 Speaker 1: world you know? But the thing is, I mean I 849 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: don't do any bashing of anything of sorts like that, 850 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 1: but I see them all the time. Like I remember 851 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: one time I was doing the show at BT was 852 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: in California and the makeup artist is two of them. 853 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: They did makeup and hair and they was gay, gay 854 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: dudes and anything. So you know, one dude walked in, Man, 855 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,160 Speaker 1: hold on no bags doing my makeup. They dude got 856 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: really emotional, so sickness, so tart. I don't like to 857 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: tell you start packing this stuff you and leave. So 858 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,359 Speaker 1: I walked in the room. I closed the door on them. 859 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: He looked at me like what I say, Man, let 860 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: me tell you something. I said, if you're comfortable with 861 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: who you are. I said, be that. I said, but 862 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 1: if you walk out on this show, they're gonna blackball 863 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who may 864 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,320 Speaker 1: work for nobody. I said, jill out, dry your tears 865 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: up and this, I said, do my makeup. You know 866 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I said, but if you walk out, 867 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,439 Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. I say, nine time out of ten. 868 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: At the end of the night, that same dude to 869 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: be hollering at what if you would said that I 870 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 1: had run out of that. I had to run full speed, 871 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then after after the 872 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: end of the night, he's like, he said, thank you, 873 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: thank you so much what you did because he was 874 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 1: commaded to go. He was emotion and everything, and the 875 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,399 Speaker 1: dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk to dude. 876 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: I said, man, chill out and don't do that. You 877 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,520 Speaker 1: know they got feelings too, that's just who they are. 878 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 3: Why do you help so many comedians? 879 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 2: Comedians talk about that you helped someone so many comedians 880 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 2: in their in. 881 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 3: Their career and their life. 882 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,879 Speaker 2: What gives you the energy because a lot of people 883 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 2: be like I ain't helping him because he might get 884 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,800 Speaker 2: bigger than me. But you you talked about so many communities. 885 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, but so many helped me. I 886 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: never forget when I first when I was in the 887 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: comedy act here in Atlanta, and John Witherspoon came to 888 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 1: Atlanta and he looked at me and he say, you 889 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: got it. He said, you really got it. He said, 890 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 1: I like you. So he started telling me what to 891 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,160 Speaker 1: do and what not to do, and he helped me. 892 00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: He took me in from his wing. Rinaldo Ray did 893 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,239 Speaker 1: the same thing. He helped me in on BT when 894 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: he was my co host. People don't realize that Ronald 895 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,960 Speaker 1: Rae was a college professor before he started doing comedy. 896 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: He was extremely smart and he would tell me sometimes, 897 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: he said, turn your body to the right a little bit. 898 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 1: When you tell that joke, it'll work better. And I'm like, 899 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 1: how's that gonna work better? And it worked better. And 900 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: then the last of the Mohicans who really told me 901 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,879 Speaker 1: say you won't have to find her and they will 902 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 1: find you. His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend 903 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,799 Speaker 1: Paul Mooney. He told me that Ridney Winterfield. Y'all remember, 904 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: Rightney Winfield that my man took me and he said, 905 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: a lot of these jokers don't like you just because 906 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: you're funny. He says, keep being funny. You're gonna be 907 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: alright yoused to call me do shows with him. You know, 908 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: you know back in the day, man, somebody say, Man, 909 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: we got to show paying three hundred dollars. I'm like, 910 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 1: let's go. You know these new kids now, he say, man, 911 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,000 Speaker 1: I got a show for you. How much you're paying? 912 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: Hold it? Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by 913 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: TV much less on TV. So what did you talking 914 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: about how much they're paying. If I tell you about 915 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 1: the show, I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that. 916 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 4: Something you think social media helped to hurt comedy, Oh, 917 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 4: it helped it. 918 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social media thirty 919 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 1: five years ago. The only thing we had was going 920 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: this city early through radio, try to do TV to 921 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:25,359 Speaker 1: get people in there. Social media is a platform that 922 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:30,800 Speaker 1: really helped a lot of young comedians. Now now veteran 923 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 1: comedians like myself, they get pissed because all the new 924 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: young comedians are coming up faster. I've been doing comedy 925 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Thirty years and he ain't been 926 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: doing comed for three months. I tell him like this, 927 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,440 Speaker 1: you can't beat them showing them and then winning, so 928 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 1: you might as well fall in the footstep they are winning. 929 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 4: But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why 930 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 4: they're asking how much? Right, because they following them. 931 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, but then the only thing about Charlamagne is when 932 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 1: they do get booked, the only thing they got to 933 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,680 Speaker 1: say is what they did on social media. You got 934 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,719 Speaker 1: to bring out more than that, right, you know, you 935 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: got that. That's seven minutes, you got, oh, it's five, 936 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,279 Speaker 1: But what about this other twenty minutes they need you 937 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,360 Speaker 1: to do. You can tell when a person is bombing 938 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: because they start talking real positive. You know, we need 939 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: to take care of these kids. Man. You know, hey man, 940 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,520 Speaker 1: support these women. Man, hey man, these women need to support. 941 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,879 Speaker 1: They need to respect. They're bombing, like hell, they're trying 942 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: to get positive. 943 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 3: That's a favorite part of the Commiss show. 944 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,880 Speaker 1: It is I like, I like, you know what it is. 945 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: I like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out 946 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,239 Speaker 1: of a hole. Oh my god, if you see me 947 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,959 Speaker 1: laughing really hard, it's probably because you up there thinking. 948 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: Because I remember seeing you because I watch you guys 949 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,879 Speaker 1: all the time. I remember seeing you on Ridiculousness right 950 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,800 Speaker 1: and Chanelle West Coast. She made her so mad. You 951 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 1: see you was coming and saying, I never seen you 952 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: on anything. I never seen you rap with I rap stupid. 953 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: She got the commercial. I think it happened twice right now. 954 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 1: It was the one that she was But do she wrap? Yeah? 955 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 1: I think she did. Okay, okay, but I didn't know it. 956 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 1: But I looked at you and I'm like, oh my god, 957 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,359 Speaker 1: she's pissed. She got pitted. She moved that hair back 958 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: the commercial commercial and she came back. She was gonna come, yeah, 959 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:21,319 Speaker 1: we're back here to pissed her. I never seen your nothing. 960 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:22,640 Speaker 1: I never seen you my snoop, I never seen you 961 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 1: two short, I never seen you. She was pissed. I 962 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,279 Speaker 1: laughed so hard, A dad, that was so good. How 963 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,800 Speaker 1: do you feel about the rebooting rebooting comic View? I 964 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,520 Speaker 1: just I like it, but I think they're trying to 965 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,400 Speaker 1: do a new way. I think they should have rebooted 966 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 1: and did it the old way. I think they should 967 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 1: have had the host and introduced the show like we 968 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,640 Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. Because if you 969 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 1: remember when that show was on. Everybody watched it from 970 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: your mom, your mom, your dad, your dad, your grandma, 971 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 1: and your granddad uncle. You know what. I saw you 972 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: on TV. They love it. So I think we need 973 00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,239 Speaker 1: to go back to that platform. They doing a new 974 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,640 Speaker 1: thing now where you know they wanted all hip hop 975 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,600 Speaker 1: and all that. That's cool, but we need to go 976 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: back to the old way. Now. 977 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,319 Speaker 3: You're a huge car enthusist. I am in classic cause yeah, 978 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,880 Speaker 3: we got you into that. And how many cars do. 979 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,520 Speaker 1: You have back in about twenty seven? I'm I collect Buicks, Buicks. 980 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: I like Buick Buicks. Man, My granddaddy told him, say, 981 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:19,920 Speaker 1: look at young buy nothing but a Buick. You know, 982 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,840 Speaker 1: old Joe, he's have a road mester with three speed 983 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: on the column. I thought he was a genius. When 984 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 1: you change the gears on the column. He was a 985 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 1: bad dude. You know. He put it down the first, 986 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: then go to second. He looking at the talking, then 987 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,440 Speaker 1: he go to third. Get you a Buig, baby, you know. 988 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,720 Speaker 1: So I always liked Buicks, and I like Skylart's Buick 989 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: was a really good muscle car too. People don't realize it. 990 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: I got like I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I 991 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,200 Speaker 1: got a seventy Rivera, I got a sixties Rivera. I 992 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,719 Speaker 1: got a sixty nine Rivera. I got a six eight 993 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: Duce on the quarter. I got a six eight Skylart convertible. 994 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,520 Speaker 1: I got a six egg Scyllart Folk Speed got a 995 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,000 Speaker 1: sixty five sky Lot convertible. 996 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:58,440 Speaker 3: So that's your addiction. 997 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like Ford truck. I love Ford Truck. 998 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 3: So you don't drink, you don't smoke. 999 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,040 Speaker 1: I used to I let it go when my baby 1000 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: boy was born. He's forty. I stopped forty years ago. 1001 00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: I used to get so drunk man envy. I used 1002 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,439 Speaker 1: to get so drunk when I when I get home, 1003 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,399 Speaker 1: I couldn't walk to the crawl. I used to knock 1004 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,319 Speaker 1: in the bottom of the door and my axe say 1005 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,759 Speaker 1: it go be me and the alcohol. One of us 1006 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,480 Speaker 1: has got to go. And I showed it misser. I 1007 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:30,080 Speaker 1: did mean. I missed the hell out of her. Who 1008 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,239 Speaker 1: got a better collection? You and J lino oh J 1009 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: got the call. But you know my man MB got 1010 00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 1: some car I like I got. I've had everything for 1011 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: what ever made, from the Lincoln Blackwood truck to the 1012 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,479 Speaker 1: duel Is to the saline truck. I got a saline truck, 1013 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,839 Speaker 1: I got two lightnings, I got a rapture, I got 1014 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,399 Speaker 1: a super snake truck. I don't have the Ford GT. 1015 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 1: You know, the one like a Ferrari. I had all 1016 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,839 Speaker 1: that you a g yes, sir, really yeah, I did? 1017 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,000 Speaker 1: You know why I sold it? 1018 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 3: Because you couldn't fit it. 1019 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 1: No I fit in. I'm gonna tell you why I 1020 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: sold it because when I did get in, it felt 1021 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,520 Speaker 1: like four people sitting in there with me. 1022 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 3: Michael tre had had it. Asked Michael Straan why he 1023 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 3: got rid it is? He said, cause I couldn't fit it. 1024 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: No, I can fit in it. But it was tight. 1025 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,200 Speaker 1: But when I sold it, it was it was on 1026 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: six When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two 1027 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,800 Speaker 1: hundred miles on it, and I had it for seven years. 1028 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: So when I said, she ain't selling that, because if 1029 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 1: you sold that a triple quadrant, but it's like six 1030 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,759 Speaker 1: hundred thousand for it now. But when I saw I 1031 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: bought it for two hundred thousand. I sold her for 1032 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,200 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand, and a guy in England 1033 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,920 Speaker 1: bought it. It was canary yellow, black stripe, yamn and 1034 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,680 Speaker 1: when I tell you it had the power, It had 1035 00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,319 Speaker 1: the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the one 1036 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,239 Speaker 1: you wanted to hold on to. The No, I don't 1037 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it. 1038 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:54,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to know. 1039 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,919 Speaker 3: It sold like six seven hundred thousand. 1040 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I sold it for two fifty back then, but 1041 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,240 Speaker 1: I could have got five six hundre if I kempt it. Absolutely. 1042 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,799 Speaker 1: How big of a deal is it now for a 1043 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,920 Speaker 1: comedian to have a special? Does? Well? Let me you know, 1044 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,600 Speaker 1: it's funny you said that, man, specials are good. I 1045 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,560 Speaker 1: just got signed for Netflix special. And the reason, the 1046 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,120 Speaker 1: reason I just took it, I won't gonna do I 1047 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,920 Speaker 1: was gonna do it myself, like fim it make them 1048 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,160 Speaker 1: buy you know what I'm saying. But they offered it 1049 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 1: to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. 1050 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,239 Speaker 1: I think around August so at no, no, no, no, no, 1051 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go someone, 1052 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,640 Speaker 1: somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying. Atlanta, 1053 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 1: I'm just average man. You know they see me in 1054 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:41,560 Speaker 1: But I go somewhere like Chicago or Texas. Oh my god, 1055 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,040 Speaker 1: that's why I want to go. You know, in Atlanta, 1056 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,799 Speaker 1: it's my city. I love it. I still live there. 1057 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,960 Speaker 1: And uh I had a place in l A for 1058 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,480 Speaker 1: like thirty years. And La just La. 1059 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 3: You pay. 1060 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,160 Speaker 1: They make you pay for the weather, you know what 1061 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,040 Speaker 1: I mean. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous. 1062 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:58,680 Speaker 1: But it's how here in New York te it is. 1063 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 4: You especially don't need one. It's not I mean, it 1064 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,880 Speaker 4: don't validate you in no way shape before. 1065 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to. I 1066 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,240 Speaker 1: want to do a tour myself. I'm always on somebody 1067 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,480 Speaker 1: else's tour. Now I want to do it too. I 1068 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,400 Speaker 1: got two guys that open up for me who is hilarious, 1069 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,640 Speaker 1: and nobody know them, so I want to introduce them 1070 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,799 Speaker 1: and bring them out and then they can start out 1071 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,800 Speaker 1: doing their own thing. That's what it's all about. Man. 1072 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,520 Speaker 1: There used to be a Kicks for comedians. 1073 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,279 Speaker 4: You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom like 1074 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:28,080 Speaker 4: I don't. 1075 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,680 Speaker 1: Feel you need none of that no more. Some of 1076 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,720 Speaker 1: the people who got them, they can't sell out, can't 1077 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,719 Speaker 1: sell a ticket, you know what I'm saying. They can 1078 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,840 Speaker 1: sell people in the garage, but they can't sell a ticket. 1079 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,400 Speaker 1: You know, back in the day before Kings of Comedy, 1080 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: that's what you had to get. You know, you do 1081 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,319 Speaker 1: real good, then they offer your sitcom, then you do 1082 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,399 Speaker 1: your sitcom, then you go on tour. And Bernard Mack 1083 00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,400 Speaker 1: was like the only comedian that could sell out by hisself. 1084 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,919 Speaker 1: He was about, now, Kat Walliams could do it. Kevin 1085 00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is a good guy. 1086 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:02,920 Speaker 1: But Cat can do it. Like when he did an 1087 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: interview that podcast went crazy. He just started selling everywhere, 1088 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,040 Speaker 1: and well he got something to say, and I think 1089 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,280 Speaker 1: he should said, I agree, they're doing a live Netflix 1090 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,319 Speaker 1: special with Cat. But you know what, the Cat made 1091 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: everybody get on their toes though people like I thought, 1092 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,399 Speaker 1: you're gonna say something about you. I never had any 1093 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,799 Speaker 1: conflict with Cat. We always been cool. He called me 1094 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: one time he said, man, I want you to go 1095 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,879 Speaker 1: on the road with me, and I said this exact word. 1096 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:30,480 Speaker 1: I said, I would do it. I said, but why 1097 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,880 Speaker 1: do you need me on the road with you? So 1098 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,000 Speaker 1: you got it, they're coming to see you. He said, well, 1099 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,799 Speaker 1: it's a big crossover. You got a crowd. I got 1100 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,560 Speaker 1: a crowd. But Cat is he's a smart dude. And 1101 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: he take care of his people. That's what I like 1102 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,799 Speaker 1: about it, said, he take care of his people, and 1103 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,040 Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Can't keep the money, man, 1104 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,279 Speaker 1: You you just think he's gonna work people to death 1105 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,800 Speaker 1: and not pay him. You got to pay these people. 1106 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,759 Speaker 1: We got families, We got kids. You know, I got 1107 00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,960 Speaker 1: grand kids. I mean, you know, grandkids. That's who I 1108 00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,520 Speaker 1: work for. Now. They're cool. 1109 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 4: You've been getting money for a long time, been in 1110 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,600 Speaker 4: the game, thirty When did you start seeing the like 1111 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,520 Speaker 4: that real real money that you know? 1112 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: When I when I when when I when a joker 1113 00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,920 Speaker 1: was giving me a thousand dollars a show, I thought 1114 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,360 Speaker 1: he was crazy because it was so easy to me 1115 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,480 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to be on stage for ten to 1116 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,319 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Oh, this is where I need to be. 1117 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,680 Speaker 1: Potato trip Trump got to go. I tell you how 1118 00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,400 Speaker 1: I quit my job. I took a leave of absence, 1119 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,319 Speaker 1: and I told him. I told my super bowers. I say, man, 1120 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,960 Speaker 1: I said, I'm going through divorce, man, And I say, 1121 00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,959 Speaker 1: I just need some time and get my head together. 1122 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,080 Speaker 1: Can I get a thirty day leave absent? He got 1123 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 1: it approved. When he got it approved, we was inventory 1124 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: in the truck. He said, man, you're coming back. I said, 1125 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,839 Speaker 1: I want you look at me real good, and next 1126 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,160 Speaker 1: time you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left. 1127 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,400 Speaker 1: And what's crazy? You know? Back in the day we 1128 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,839 Speaker 1: had beepers. Anybody beepers. Of course I left. I had 1129 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 1: my cousin and picked me up on a Friday. I said, man, 1130 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:00,959 Speaker 1: take me by the back and I got twenty dollars 1131 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,239 Speaker 1: in the bank. That's all I had in the bank. 1132 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,759 Speaker 1: I went and got the twenty dollars out to give 1133 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: him for gas. And as soon as I gave them money, 1134 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,840 Speaker 1: my beeple went on and I said, stop, man, let 1135 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,560 Speaker 1: me used to pay for him and I called it 1136 00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,920 Speaker 1: was the club owner in the Comuni Act, Theaty in Atlanta. 1137 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,600 Speaker 1: He said, man, what you doing tonight? I said, I'm 1138 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,759 Speaker 1: working for you. I ain't look back. You do a 1139 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,680 Speaker 1: lot of manifestation. Bruke ya. You will see me on TV. Yeah. 1140 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,279 Speaker 1: He's telling man, you got to speak stuff. You know, 1141 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,759 Speaker 1: when people don't realize you have to speak stuff into 1142 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,280 Speaker 1: your life. And when people be speaking the wrong stuff 1143 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,239 Speaker 1: in their life, the wrong stuff is gonna come. Oh. 1144 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm sick as a dog. Okay, we're gonna be sick 1145 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 1: as a doll, because're gonna be sick as a dog. 1146 00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,160 Speaker 1: I love her depth. She'd be dead about three months, 1147 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,719 Speaker 1: so you can't. You know, you got to love her 1148 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,520 Speaker 1: a life. Whatever you speak, the tongue is very powerful. 1149 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,880 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying. So people 1150 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,320 Speaker 1: hollering by church Ford, but they be telling the truth. 1151 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know you say you're 1152 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,200 Speaker 1: gonna be rich, You're gonna be rich. Just just keep 1153 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,520 Speaker 1: you got to believe it what you I'm saying. So 1154 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,359 Speaker 1: I've always told Peo you'll see me on TV. I'm 1155 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,040 Speaker 1: not gonna work this truck all my life. I'm not 1156 00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,640 Speaker 1: gonna be delivering chips all my life. I'm gonna be 1157 00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,080 Speaker 1: doing stuff I like to do. So what's your manifestation? Nine? 1158 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 1: What do you think? My key thing now is to 1159 00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,880 Speaker 1: make sure I make enough money and save enough money 1160 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,080 Speaker 1: to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone. I don't play. 1161 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,400 Speaker 1: I don't go anywhere right now anytime soon. But you know, 1162 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,160 Speaker 1: I just want to make sure they're straight when I leave, 1163 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,719 Speaker 1: because that's where it's supposed to be. I know a 1164 00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:34,560 Speaker 1: guy now he's been married, white dude. He got married 1165 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,799 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. His mother and father gave him 1166 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,279 Speaker 1: a house that he still live in. He never paid 1167 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,040 Speaker 1: a house note because the house were paid for didn't 1168 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 1: and then the property he was on like sixty acres 1169 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,879 Speaker 1: with three lakes, so he living a life. They left 1170 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 1: him money. That's where it's supposed to be. You always 1171 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,239 Speaker 1: leave your family and position where they don't have to 1172 00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,680 Speaker 1: suffer and be in a strain. That's why we need 1173 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,000 Speaker 1: to get insurance. Oh my god, you see somebody to die. 1174 00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,200 Speaker 1: They do gofund me. Then the brother in law take 1175 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,040 Speaker 1: all the money, he take everything but sixty dollars. They'd 1176 00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,319 Speaker 1: raised thirty thousand. They didn't give us sixty dollars. Man, 1177 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,359 Speaker 1: you know they left more than sixty dollars. And that's 1178 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,360 Speaker 1: what we should be. We should always put ourselves in 1179 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,719 Speaker 1: a position to live a good life. Also leave a 1180 00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,400 Speaker 1: good life for our family. I've got a couple more questions. 1181 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:29,160 Speaker 4: There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses to be funny, 1182 00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 4: having the wear addressed to get to that next level. 1183 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,719 Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on that. Well, you know, I'm gonna 1184 00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 1: be honest with you man, I did it. I did. 1185 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:39,080 Speaker 1: It's funny you said that I did. I did a 1186 00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,880 Speaker 1: TV show that I take one time never came out. 1187 00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:45,880 Speaker 1: It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters, and we did this scene. 1188 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 1: I was a bounty hunter. I played a bounty hunter. 1189 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,480 Speaker 1: I played a preacher called Reverend get Money. It was 1190 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,080 Speaker 1: Reverend get Money. And I played a mother named Mother Marshall, 1191 00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,200 Speaker 1: which was crazy, but Mother Marshall was a real lady 1192 00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,640 Speaker 1: in my church that I mimic. I copy it off 1193 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:05,120 Speaker 1: for and I also played I did it in Indianapolis, 1194 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:10,600 Speaker 1: and I did not feel comfortable in that dress, you 1195 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying at all. And some people could 1196 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,759 Speaker 1: do it, some people if it worked for you. Flip 1197 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,160 Speaker 1: Wilson did it when he did Jeraldine. You know, because 1198 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,319 Speaker 1: Flip Willson' show was a variety show, which I love 1199 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,719 Speaker 1: because it wasn't a black show. It was a show 1200 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,400 Speaker 1: for everybody, and that's what people got to understand. But 1201 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,640 Speaker 1: if they want to dress up in a dress, do 1202 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,640 Speaker 1: you think you know? But that's not my thing. Yeah, 1203 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,359 Speaker 1: but you know, Tyler Perry made it big. He's one 1204 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,719 Speaker 1: of the best. But to me, I love Tyler Perry. 1205 00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,600 Speaker 1: But Joe is funny than Tyler peerr than my deal. 1206 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:48,560 Speaker 1: When he plays Joe, Joe, it's funny. Joe had an 1207 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:54,000 Speaker 1: oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing, and I say, thank you Jesus. 1208 00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,239 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So when he plays Joe, 1209 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,640 Speaker 1: Joe is the funniest dude. You know, that's just me. Yeah, 1210 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,520 Speaker 1: I love my dear, but Joe, oh my god, Joe's fighting. 1211 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,560 Speaker 4: And see back then when we used to see people 1212 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,680 Speaker 4: in the dresses or even see like when they used 1213 00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,120 Speaker 4: to do men on film on a living color, it 1214 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:11,800 Speaker 4: was just funny. 1215 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,000 Speaker 1: I never thought nothing of it. Men on film was 1216 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:19,480 Speaker 1: the thing they talked about, Moby Dick, Moby Dick that 1217 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,279 Speaker 1: gets two snaps and the kids and around about yeah 1218 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:24,240 Speaker 1: the twist. Yeah. 1219 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,480 Speaker 4: How would you define this point in your life professionally 1220 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:27,160 Speaker 4: and personally? 1221 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,720 Speaker 1: Oh well, I want anybody to know, professionally and personally, 1222 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,200 Speaker 1: this is me and this is how I do business. 1223 00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,880 Speaker 1: I don't act, I don't put on So if you 1224 00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,880 Speaker 1: see me on and off stage, this is Bruce Bruce, 1225 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,239 Speaker 1: and I'm the same every day man. You know, I 1226 00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:47,200 Speaker 1: have problems just like everybody else I have. I get 1227 00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,040 Speaker 1: a cold like everybody, you know, everybody. Everybody think when 1228 00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,279 Speaker 1: you're in the entertainment things are just perfect noise and 1229 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:57,040 Speaker 1: not and your family members and your friends are the worse. 1230 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,000 Speaker 1: The Bible speaks. If it ain't your family, watch your 1231 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:03,680 Speaker 1: closest friend, they gonna get you. I got a cousin now, Oh, 1232 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:08,080 Speaker 1: you're going through so much. I said, keep having some birthdays. 1233 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,000 Speaker 1: You're gonna go through some more shit. You know what 1234 00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect you to 1235 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,879 Speaker 1: rescue them and fix them and not pay you back. 1236 00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,160 Speaker 1: Who thought of that one? I don't know. I don't 1237 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,000 Speaker 1: know who thought of that one is. I don't know. 1238 00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,560 Speaker 1: They don't think. But if it was Flip, if I 1239 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,120 Speaker 1: owe them now, y'all know he owns some money. He 1240 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,359 Speaker 1: ain't gave me my money yet. But when you owe me, 1241 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,400 Speaker 1: I saw to be able to understand when you got it. Yeah, exactly, 1242 00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,000 Speaker 1: I'll be telling you. I told him, I ain't seeing 1243 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,480 Speaker 1: a rich man with extra money. Dang. Never, Why do 1244 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,480 Speaker 1: you have to say your name twice? I call my 1245 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,319 Speaker 1: mommysed called me twice. My mama said, if I call 1246 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:52,920 Speaker 1: you the third time, I'm gonna kid you. So my 1247 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,600 Speaker 1: mother said, if I call you three times, you're gonna 1248 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,600 Speaker 1: die today. And my mother was a little one about 1249 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,880 Speaker 1: one point forty. I mean, she was just but loving 1250 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,439 Speaker 1: and knew how to make a way out of no way. 1251 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,000 Speaker 1: Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you 1252 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,000 Speaker 1: do get successful and you start making money, make sure 1253 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:11,359 Speaker 1: you take care of mom. And one thing you got 1254 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,680 Speaker 1: to realize it don't take much like you think it 1255 00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:16,800 Speaker 1: though people think like, well, I got to do it. 1256 00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:18,719 Speaker 1: Your mama don't want that much. She just want to 1257 00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:22,520 Speaker 1: make sure she's okay, she's comfortable and she got a 1258 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,319 Speaker 1: little money. My mother last twenty years of her life. 1259 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,480 Speaker 1: I make sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing. 1260 00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,320 Speaker 1: But it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying. 1261 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,360 Speaker 1: But then when your family members found out about it, 1262 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,440 Speaker 1: they started trying to use you too. You know, my mom, 1263 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:39,200 Speaker 1: I'm going through something. Well that's your mother, this one 1264 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:44,799 Speaker 1: is mine. Books. 1265 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,320 Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us. 1266 00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,520 Speaker 1: No, thank you, and you do it right now right Yeah. Yeah, 1267 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna show tonight and you know next week I'm 1268 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,840 Speaker 1: in town. But we got that. I'm in Tacoma, Washington. 1269 00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,120 Speaker 1: We got through that. I mean Raleigh. I'm booked every week. 1270 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,719 Speaker 1: If I'm not booked every week, somebody gonna lose their job. 1271 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,799 Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna be sitting at home drinking lemonade when 1272 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,560 Speaker 1: I'm sitting at home. I need to go to work. 1273 00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,840 Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, well they you have it. It's Bruce Bruce. 1274 00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,239 Speaker 4: We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for 1275 00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,280 Speaker 4: a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected 1276 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,240 Speaker 4: you as a as a comedy legend. 1277 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,920 Speaker 1: Man. Give you an icon, So salute you, Bruce, Thank 1278 00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,560 Speaker 1: you for coming. Respect. 1279 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:19,520 Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. 1280 00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,760 Speaker 1: Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.