WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Bruce Bruce Talks Comedy Upbringing, Bernie Mac, Katt Williams, Social Media Comics + More 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.040 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.760 Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God. We 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.480 are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in. 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.360 The building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:15.320 Welcome. How you feeling. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.600 Everything is good, man, Everything is good. Yeah. Man. Why 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.120 our comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.799 I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:24.040 was read. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.320 I was early, Bruce Bruce. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.840 Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.160 on time, you're late. Damn. That's fact. So you got 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.720 to be on time. But then the traffic here is 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.040 a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in the lane up here. Nobody, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.400 the buses, police, nobody. They just drive like they want to. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.159 And what's crazy, they got lane some of them got 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.479 their own lanes in spite of right. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.479 Yeah, Now, this is the. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.519 First time Bruce Bruce has been on the show almost 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.559 and I want to you know, when I when sometimes 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.080 when when somebody comes to the first time, I want 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.920 to stall from the beginning, right, Okay, Now I know 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.080 your story because I've been studying you I've been following you. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.520 But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:57.360 get into comedy? 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.480 And I want you to explain your job before comedy. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.000 Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.160 can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.000 I used to always be funny. So I hired this 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.760 guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.120 an older guy, old guy, and he said he used 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.360 to watch me in the kitchen when I first start, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.200 when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.120 need to go, you need to go on stage. And 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.600 I ain't paying at this to He said, I gonna 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.800 bring you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.280 back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.280 but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:28.880 always your time on this job and you need to 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.040 go on stage. And know what I did, I quit 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.000 because I had a family. I was young, man had 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.720 three kids, and man I went and started working for Freedo, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.080 a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the whole time 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.600 I'm selling potato chips and on the doc I'm just funny, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.200 acting crazy, so good old white dude. So you know 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.880 you need to stage. That's a year every morning, you know, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.360 study you fronny, I look comedians, frauds there or nothing, 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.160 you know, and you gonna stay. And when I took 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.880 that step, man, was I knew That's why I should 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.440 have been in my whole entirelight. And what made me 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.200 take that step? I was going through a divorce, you 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.360 know what I'm saying, and my ex wife said you 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.600 would never make it. I'm like, what why did you 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.040 tell you that? 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:06.320 No? 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.840 So I just looked at it and say, I see 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.079 you on TV. You know what I'm saying, And it's 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.280 been gone there. I've been doing it now thirty five years. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:15.239 And what made you? 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.760 What made you get married? If she wasn't supportive because 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.240 you said, you know, we're young. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.040 I was young, you know. You know I'm from Atlanta, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.880 Georgia and South you know, you get a girl pregnant, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.600 you know you got to marry all this crazy stuff. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.120 And I did the same thing. My oldest son is 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.680 forty three, man, my baby boys forty. My daughter's thirty eight. Wow, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.200 you've been going wrong with I didn't pull out games 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.480 till you know what I'm saying it pull out games. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.040 I was just laying that. It was crazy, man. You know, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.320 I just didn't think just doing it, you know, And 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.240 when you're young, you just do that until you get 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.680 somebody old and say, hey, you need to watch yourself. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.720 You know what I'm saying. And that's what we need 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.720 to start doing as older guys and let him know, man, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.959 this ain't no game. Who taught you how to cook? 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.280 My uncle? Uncle? Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.240 he about five feet tall by the ninety eight in 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.240 the waist. You hear me play look like egg better on? 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:03.840 You know what I'm saying. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.720 He was my pocket or bad and he raised me 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.320 and he taught me about you know, life. He taught 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.239 me about how to treat women. He taught me about 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.840 being on time, because you know he's he was a baker. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.720 He's delivered cakes here. We got to be there on that. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.440 But he was he would never ever drive on the 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:24.079 highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight back rolls. But 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.440 they ring your tail over on that highway, you know 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.639 what I'm saying. And he was he was real superstitious. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.240 I never did believe in that. You know, he see 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.160 a black cat walk the street, but he gonna turn around. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.240 You know, you put your hat on the bed. Oh no, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.280 you can't do that, sweepings fleet. You gotta spit the brew. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.680 You know he was rated superstitious. Don't never let a 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.440 woman touch your wallet. You know you ain't gonna never 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.280 have no money. Man, ain't nobody believing in that woman 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.600 buy shoes? Oh yeah, got your life? Watch it? You know, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.320 you know the time is at your life. Oh he 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.720 was real superstitition. But other than that, man, he was 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.120 a great, great guy. Man. You remember the first dish 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.320 that you learned to cook? Oh yeah, man, stay, was 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.240 I can steak? Make a joke of cry white supposed 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.080 to be clapping? Oh yeah, my white supposed to be clapping. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.440 Black people be hollering, yay, how you get the capitol 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.280 for the barbecues? But well, I started down with Joall, 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.960 I'm gonna tell you how my mother. It's just me 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.560 and mother. I'm the only child my mother ever had. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.840 And we was struggling, and it was living in the hood, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.159 and it was in an area called Bluff it was. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.039 And man, let me tell you man, she needed some help. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.080 So I went and applied for this job. This guy 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.160 knew worked at the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.880 I told him I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.919 know what I'm saying. So I was working, man, I 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.480 was clean up. So I had been there about three 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.600 months and this old white guy named EdWay. I said, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.800 let me ask you something. He was the man. He said, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.920 I don't know you really. He said, you work good 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.360 and everything. He said, with you not seventeen, I said no, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.120 I said, I'm fourteen. He said, why are you working? 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.440 I said, well, I got to help my mom. He said, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.760 I tell you what. It's gonna be our a little secret. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.000 You know. He kept me because I was a good worker. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.919 Everything he told me to do, I did it. And 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.840 I just kind of followed in and started watching this 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.640 guy's cooking and I knew how to cook him. My 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.960 uncle had been showing me. I do everything. Next time 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.400 I know, man, I was running the pit. Man. I 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.440 was cooking barbecue and everything at like sixteen years old. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.040 Oh so you didn't own it. No, Oh, no, I 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:11.840 was working there man. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.280 Now you also mentioned that you were an only child. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.520 Only child, your father left at the age of five. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.160 Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.120 Force and he was a Madican Air Force and he 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.400 was he flew choppers and airplanes and when he when 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.279 he got out, he was an antety geologist. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.599 Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:31.240 or I did? 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.960 I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.120 I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.000 him for? You know, because they be mad. But my 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.920 mother really ran him off, you know what I mean. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.000 She was just him off and she was off monster man. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:49.120 You know, did tell you that? No, I just like, man, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.479 this dude is cool. He was really cool, you know, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.839 But she's like, I don't want to know everything he 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.080 tried to do. She just knocked it down, like but 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.160 she was listening to a girlfriend's That's why I tried 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.960 to tell all these young girls, don't listen to no 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.120 woman that ain't got no man. You don't say what 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:03.920 I'm saying. If you got a woman, if you got 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.680 a girlfriend, you got a husband. She not how true 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.200 a husband, but a woman that don't have a man, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.640 she can't tell you nothing. But he I mean, he 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.279 just he left and he never ever called us ever. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.560 And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.880 did a non contested divorce because my mother just worked, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.440 come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.960 think I'm going to get a divorce, and when she 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.679 went to do it, this said, you already divorced, noun contested. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.600 You put it in the newspaper for thirty days. You 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.400 don't answer the ad, bam you divorce. He was already gone. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.640 He was gone. He was gone. And I got married 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.080 three more time. And I found it when I was 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.120 like forty years old. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:36.960 So he knew who he was. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.479 He knew exactly what I was. He knew exactly what 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.880 I looked like. No, my son looked like him, though, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.880 my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.680 how to dip over, you know what I'm saying. But 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.520 I met with him and we talked and we stayed 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.720 in touch, and he ended up passing away about seventeen 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.400 years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, did 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.680 you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.840 ever have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.040 she said, you know I was wrong. She said I 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.039 didn't care about I had other boyfriend. You know, my 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.600 mama food around see parents don't tell you. They try 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.279 to tell you the right thing, but they'll do the 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.200 wrong thing in front of you. You know what I'm saying. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.800 Those old dudes she used to go with named Dave, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.200 but you know, had platform shoes with taps on. You remember platform. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.400 He had taps on platform shoes. He come up the steps, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:23.560 clock oclock, how your mama doing, And then he'll tell me, hey, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.880 come in, let me give you a few dog on 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.880 down and get your cocola, you know something like that. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.360 I know what you're finna do. Finna get some tail, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.400 you know what I'm saying. So he gets you, gets 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.600 your tato tips. I run right out of the house. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:34.920 You know, I know what he's finna do. I don't 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.560 want no food, you know what I'm saying. But he 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.520 was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.080 very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's just 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.280 crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.920 this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.480 I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He dogged my mama. Man, 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.840 he was he was married. She didn't even know he's married. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:58.320 She's over there, he's over there every day, every day. Eating. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.120 God is a good guard, you know. Yeah, card is 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.160 a good girl and woman. Tell you what happened. When 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.640 I was in high school, four of us used to 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.720 hang together and we saw him in his truck and 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.560 my brother say, man, that call you. You're my my 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.360 boyfriend with your mom. I said no, I said, that's 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.960 my mother boyfriend. That's not my mom. It was another lady. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.280 So I got out the car, looked at him and said, hey, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.240 you know I see you right He said, oh, hey, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.200 how you doing? Play it? Come to my mom house. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.880 I told my mother see him with another woman. He 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.400 looked me dead at minde. He said that was not 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.840 he did not see me. And my mother believed it. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.679 For the reason she believed it because I didn't like him, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.640 so she just kind of figured I made up a 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.520 story about him, and she let it go. But it 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.040 took her girlfriend or hers to see him. Say I 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.160 saw that dude with another woman, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.679 And they took her to tell me she dated him 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.680 like sixteen years. Man. And I want to tell you, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:51.880 my mother, I don't want to get married. I don't 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.319 want to get Okay, you don't want to get married, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.040 but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.400 When she found out, she was like, she was toe up. Yeah, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.360 I heard her. You grew up in the bluff. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.280 Hold how close the reality was was snow on the 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:05.199 bluff the movie? 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.880 Oh my god, it was real close. That was the 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:14.600 heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother told me, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.840 if you touch it, o kid. So I was most 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.480 scared of my mother than the guys in the street, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.319 you know what I'm saying. So I never touched it. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.560 I watched him do it. I watched him shoot up 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.160 every time. I can't do that, bro, Now, I can't 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.920 do that. My mother is great. My mother is a rastler. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.560 I'm telling you. She had been on WWE. I know 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.040 what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man. So you 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.960 know that's why. And that movie was really really serious. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.679 But you know it was so funny in the hood, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.560 being in the hood, because you know, the crackheads come. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.360 I said, hey, man, dude had bought a video camera. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.880 You know, he was fibbing people and everything. Crackhas said, Man, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.720 I got a camera like that, he said, bigger, but 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.960 it's got a two on it. I said, what are 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.160 you talking about? He done stole the camera off the 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.000 Channel two news truck. The dude was getting ready to 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.679 do some news in the area. He just walked off 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.400 with the ca So we saw the white guy panicking 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.880 walking around. I said, you're looking for your camera and 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.080 he said yeah. I said, I know it is. I said, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.480 you're gonna have to give some money to get it back. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.079 He said, I get anything. He's all. He's how much 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.000 you think hundred twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow? 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.160 And the dude brought it back to him just walked 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:16.520 off with it. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.240 I got a camera like that has a number two 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.199 on it, Yes, so two on it. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.040 They had Channel two on it, right Man, these dudes 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.839 in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit. Walk 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.439 down the street with the dresser. Dude make way about 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.760 one thirty. He said, I got the mirror, the two 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.679 nights stands in the bed y'all needed. Were like what somebody? 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.600 Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying. The dude 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.600 told me said, man, I got I got a I 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.200 got a typewriter like that. The only thing mine difference, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.560 it's got a TV on it. He didn't realize he 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:49.839 had a desktop computer. He's I got a tight writer, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.360 but he got a TV on it, like tight with TV. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.520 I know back then, brothers had to press you to 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.680 try to get in the street though. Oh yeah, man, 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.839 they you know they talk about your you're scared, you're 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.760 punk all this curb. Hey man, I'm gonna have to 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.800 be a punk because my mom didn't play My mom, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.480 my aunt, the neighbors. They didn't play Man anything. Oh 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.040 my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.480 He was about six y five, black, real black, with royal 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.839 blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need to 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.920 call your granddad? No. She would get him on the phone. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.640 He'll say, hey, do I need to come up there? 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.960 All I do was here his voice. I ain't no, sir, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.160 she's living. Get another phone call and see what happened 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.120 That joker didn't play Man six ' five, black, one skeleton, nothing, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.680 roy your blue eyes, and you look at him, you'll 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.760 drop your head like a runaway slave. You know what 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.520 I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But when 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.840 I got older, I realized he was really cool. He 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.520 was a cool dude, but he just believed a child 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.800 staying in the child place. That's right. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.760 And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.000 as comedy because he was the funny man. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.280 He was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody got help 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.520 me with this line. Everybody he did, I tell him, Yeah, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.120 he told you. Everybody didn't help me with this line. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.800 But he was one of the best bakers in the world. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.200 He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day, and 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.640 they used to call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.480 Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Junior, and 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.440 he went by the sweetbread Man because he was the 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.520 baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man, and he 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.240 talked about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.800 was really raised on the same street. The street was 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.040 Chestnut Street. They changed to James Street Broadley. I was 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.559 on four fifteen. She was on like seven eighty five 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.920 or something like that, just right up the street, like 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.400 two blocks. So you know, no, no, I I was 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.640 a little kid, but she lived at on her first husband. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.600 You know what I'm saying. But Gladys is a girl. Man. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.559 Wow, were you able to translate your funny to actually 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.560 make a career of it. But somebody like Uncle Paul, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.880 who was funny, couldn't. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.640 Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.840 to go and say he was scared. See see black 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.040 people back in it, they had the skill to do everything, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.520 but they were scared to do it. They had so 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.520 much fear. So like young kids, not they'll do it. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.160 They I don't care, I'll do it. So I just 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:58.520 took it and ran with him. Uncle was one of 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.440 the best bakers in the world. He wouldn't get bakers 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.080 from France and Italy, you know, from England, and he 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.080 beat him all out, you know what I mean. Then 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.880 he went to he had a cheesecake that he made. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.840 It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.199 And they tricked him out of it and didn't have 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.880 sense enough to get a lawyer and everything, and gave 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.920 him like ten thousand dollars day clapping. He was all 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.800 happy with yeah, when he could have got one hundred million, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.760 you know what I'm saying, But just didn't have a 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.199 sense and the knowledge to do that at the time. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.200 Oh, you know, I wanted to know as a child 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.680 was Bruce Bruce Big as a child. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.120 No, man was a little bit. They was calling me 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.360 little Bruce Man. I didn't I didn't get fat till 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.760 I got man. I don't know why I got married. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.160 Oh my god, I wouldn't eat it. Man. I was 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.000 just a little bit of dude, just run around, just 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.680 messing with everybody. I was a little bit of kid man. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.600 But when I got married, I got fat. You know, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.040 that's what happened to us as black man. We get 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.120 complacent that we get complacent with jobs. We get a 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.199 job and let's just say jeral motives, we make a 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.280 little money. Oh man, that's a good job. I don't 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.160 care nothing about no good job. It's about getting out 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.240 there getting it, because it's more than that than getting 0:13:59.280 --> 0:13:59.800 a good job. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.040 I ain't like that question, by the way, what you 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:03.959 mean I don't like the question? Do you ask me 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:04.760 what with Bruce? 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.160 Bruce little as a child was a big child. I 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.800 want what you wanted to He thought I was just 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.520 couldn't clap my hands, could clap his hand, and y'all 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.520 clap my hand. But no, I was a little kid, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.000 a little cute joker man, and I'm messing with everybody, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.880 and you know, we we seem to lose focus. And 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.400 that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.840 But now I'm back at man, I'm sixty two years old. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.440 Man, Wow, is that is that where the comedy came from? 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.640 Because when Bruce Bruce does a show and somebody's in 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.920 the audience says something, or somebody's wearing something outfit, Bruce 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.520 Bruce has no problem at attacking. This is that where 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.320 that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these kids. 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.760 You know when I was, when I was younger, I 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.600 was real scary. You know, most kids wn't admit that. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.640 I was real scared to do anything. So people just 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.480 talking about me, talking about him back. That's how I 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.120 learned it. I used to talk about this girl. Man, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.680 this girl, man, she had a pontail in the pail 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.360 body that long look with a rubber band around it. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.080 I want behind, I said, girl, how did they do that? 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.040 Do it? I said, make the oxtail right there? I said, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:08.720 I said, you can stand on your head. Your hair 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.040 stell won't touch the floor. Man, this girl. So I'm 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.960 gonna beat you. Man. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.480 what man, I broke out running you know. I didn't 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.280 know she was a track star. Man. This girl caught 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.920 me and beat the brakes off me. Man, I didn't 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.960 care because I was raised not to hit women, so 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.640 I didn't get she beat me up. She laid me 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.840 on the ground and throw my homes you knowed to 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.320 throw your homes. I she said, what's up now? I said, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.200 your hair still shot? So then she said, you're gonna 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.840 beat my boyfriend. So I had to beat her boyfriend 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.120 walk her to school every day. That's when I realized 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.160 I had something now, you know. I joned her out 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.400 and talked about the bed. But she did like me, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.280 and my uncle told me, said that, man, that girl 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.560 like you. That's why she she wants you to be 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.920 a boy friend. She like you. I didn't realize that, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.440 but I thought she hated my guts, But she really didn't. Man, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.600 she actually laughed about it. Then she grew up and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.520 be drop dead gorgeous. You know she did y'all? Still 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.800 Oh no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do it 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.000 no more. Man, I ain't got it. But that's laughter, though, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.240 you know you can make it. Say if you can 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.640 make a girl laugh, and man, you make him laugh, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.360 I got him. Most women they just want to laugh. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.440 You make them laugh. A lot of guys when they 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.440 see women, when they see good looking women, fine women, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.520 nice body, instantly, most guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.600 she ain't gonna holler me she will. You ever see 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.680 a real, fine pretty girl with an ugly dude. You 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.320 know what happened because he said something to it. He 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.080 walked in to hey, how you doing. You look good? 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.280