Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God. We
Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.
Speaker 1: The building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby.
Speaker 3: Welcome. How you feeling.
Speaker 1: Everything is good, man, Everything is good. Yeah. Man. Why
Speaker 1: our comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I
Speaker 1: was read.
Speaker 3: I was early, Bruce Bruce.
Speaker 1: Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're
Speaker 1: on time, you're late. Damn. That's fact. So you got
Speaker 1: to be on time. But then the traffic here is
Speaker 1: a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in the lane up here. Nobody,
Speaker 1: the buses, police, nobody. They just drive like they want to.
Speaker 4: And what's crazy, they got lane some of them got
Speaker 4: their own lanes in spite of right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, this is the.
Speaker 2: First time Bruce Bruce has been on the show almost
Speaker 2: and I want to you know, when I when sometimes
Speaker 2: when when somebody comes to the first time, I want
Speaker 2: to stall from the beginning, right, Okay, Now I know
Speaker 2: your story because I've been studying you I've been following you.
Speaker 2: But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce
Speaker 2: get into comedy?
Speaker 3: And I want you to explain your job before comedy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I
Speaker 1: can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go,
Speaker 1: I used to always be funny. So I hired this
Speaker 1: guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's
Speaker 1: an older guy, old guy, and he said he used
Speaker 1: to watch me in the kitchen when I first start,
Speaker 1: when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you
Speaker 1: need to go, you need to go on stage. And
Speaker 1: I ain't paying at this to He said, I gonna
Speaker 1: bring you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian,
Speaker 1: but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said,
Speaker 1: always your time on this job and you need to
Speaker 1: go on stage. And know what I did, I quit
Speaker 1: because I had a family. I was young, man had
Speaker 1: three kids, and man I went and started working for Freedo,
Speaker 1: a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the whole time
Speaker 1: I'm selling potato chips and on the doc I'm just funny,
Speaker 1: acting crazy, so good old white dude. So you know
Speaker 1: you need to stage. That's a year every morning, you know,
Speaker 1: study you fronny, I look comedians, frauds there or nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, and you gonna stay. And when I took
Speaker 1: that step, man, was I knew That's why I should
Speaker 1: have been in my whole entirelight. And what made me
Speaker 1: take that step? I was going through a divorce, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and my ex wife said you
Speaker 1: would never make it. I'm like, what why did you
Speaker 1: tell you that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: So I just looked at it and say, I see
Speaker 1: you on TV. You know what I'm saying, And it's
Speaker 1: been gone there. I've been doing it now thirty five years.
Speaker 3: And what made you?
Speaker 2: What made you get married? If she wasn't supportive because
Speaker 2: you said, you know, we're young.
Speaker 1: I was young, you know. You know I'm from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Georgia and South you know, you get a girl pregnant,
Speaker 1: you know you got to marry all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: And I did the same thing. My oldest son is
Speaker 1: forty three, man, my baby boys forty. My daughter's thirty eight. Wow,
Speaker 1: you've been going wrong with I didn't pull out games
Speaker 1: till you know what I'm saying it pull out games.
Speaker 1: I was just laying that. It was crazy, man. You know,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think just doing it, you know, And
Speaker 1: when you're young, you just do that until you get
Speaker 1: somebody old and say, hey, you need to watch yourself.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And that's what we need
Speaker 1: to start doing as older guys and let him know, man,
Speaker 1: this ain't no game. Who taught you how to cook?
Speaker 1: My uncle? Uncle? Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul,
Speaker 1: he about five feet tall by the ninety eight in
Speaker 1: the waist. You hear me play look like egg better on?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He was my pocket or bad and he raised me
Speaker 1: and he taught me about you know, life. He taught
Speaker 1: me about how to treat women. He taught me about
Speaker 1: being on time, because you know he's he was a baker.
Speaker 1: He's delivered cakes here. We got to be there on that.
Speaker 1: But he was he would never ever drive on the
Speaker 1: highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight back rolls. But
Speaker 1: they ring your tail over on that highway, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And he was he was real superstitious.
Speaker 1: I never did believe in that. You know, he see
Speaker 1: a black cat walk the street, but he gonna turn around.
Speaker 1: You know, you put your hat on the bed. Oh no,
Speaker 1: you can't do that, sweepings fleet. You gotta spit the brew.
Speaker 1: You know he was rated superstitious. Don't never let a
Speaker 1: woman touch your wallet. You know you ain't gonna never
Speaker 1: have no money. Man, ain't nobody believing in that woman
Speaker 1: buy shoes? Oh yeah, got your life? Watch it? You know,
Speaker 1: you know the time is at your life. Oh he
Speaker 1: was real superstitition. But other than that, man, he was
Speaker 1: a great, great guy. Man. You remember the first dish
Speaker 1: that you learned to cook? Oh yeah, man, stay, was
Speaker 1: I can steak? Make a joke of cry white supposed
Speaker 1: to be clapping? Oh yeah, my white supposed to be clapping.
Speaker 1: Black people be hollering, yay, how you get the capitol
Speaker 1: for the barbecues? But well, I started down with Joall,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how my mother. It's just me
Speaker 1: and mother. I'm the only child my mother ever had.
Speaker 1: And we was struggling, and it was living in the hood,
Speaker 1: and it was in an area called Bluff it was.
Speaker 1: And man, let me tell you man, she needed some help.
Speaker 1: So I went and applied for this job. This guy
Speaker 1: knew worked at the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and
Speaker 1: I told him I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I was working, man, I
Speaker 1: was clean up. So I had been there about three
Speaker 1: months and this old white guy named EdWay. I said,
Speaker 1: let me ask you something. He was the man. He said,
Speaker 1: I don't know you really. He said, you work good
Speaker 1: and everything. He said, with you not seventeen, I said no,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm fourteen. He said, why are you working?
Speaker 1: I said, well, I got to help my mom. He said,
Speaker 1: I tell you what. It's gonna be our a little secret.
Speaker 1: You know. He kept me because I was a good worker.
Speaker 1: Everything he told me to do, I did it. And
Speaker 1: I just kind of followed in and started watching this
Speaker 1: guy's cooking and I knew how to cook him. My
Speaker 1: uncle had been showing me. I do everything. Next time
Speaker 1: I know, man, I was running the pit. Man. I
Speaker 1: was cooking barbecue and everything at like sixteen years old.
Speaker 1: Oh so you didn't own it. No, Oh, no, I
Speaker 1: was working there man.
Speaker 3: Now you also mentioned that you were an only child.
Speaker 3: Only child, your father left at the age of five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air
Speaker 1: Force and he was a Madican Air Force and he
Speaker 1: was he flew choppers and airplanes and when he when
Speaker 1: he got out, he was an antety geologist.
Speaker 3: Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed
Speaker 3: or I did?
Speaker 1: I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know
Speaker 1: I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for
Speaker 1: him for? You know, because they be mad. But my
Speaker 1: mother really ran him off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: She was just him off and she was off monster man.
Speaker 1: You know, did tell you that? No, I just like, man,
Speaker 1: this dude is cool. He was really cool, you know,
Speaker 1: But she's like, I don't want to know everything he
Speaker 1: tried to do. She just knocked it down, like but
Speaker 1: she was listening to a girlfriend's That's why I tried
Speaker 1: to tell all these young girls, don't listen to no
Speaker 1: woman that ain't got no man. You don't say what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you got a woman, if you got
Speaker 1: a girlfriend, you got a husband. She not how true
Speaker 1: a husband, but a woman that don't have a man,
Speaker 1: she can't tell you nothing. But he I mean, he
Speaker 1: just he left and he never ever called us ever.
Speaker 1: And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He
Speaker 1: did a non contested divorce because my mother just worked,
Speaker 1: come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to get a divorce, and when she
Speaker 1: went to do it, this said, you already divorced, noun contested.
Speaker 1: You put it in the newspaper for thirty days. You
Speaker 1: don't answer the ad, bam you divorce. He was already gone.
Speaker 1: He was gone. He was gone. And I got married
Speaker 1: three more time. And I found it when I was
Speaker 1: like forty years old.
Speaker 3: So he knew who he was.
Speaker 1: He knew exactly what I was. He knew exactly what
Speaker 1: I looked like. No, my son looked like him, though,
Speaker 1: my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny
Speaker 1: how to dip over, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: I met with him and we talked and we stayed
Speaker 1: in touch, and he ended up passing away about seventeen
Speaker 1: years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, did
Speaker 1: you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you
Speaker 1: ever have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she said, you know I was wrong. She said I
Speaker 1: didn't care about I had other boyfriend. You know, my
Speaker 1: mama food around see parents don't tell you. They try
Speaker 1: to tell you the right thing, but they'll do the
Speaker 1: wrong thing in front of you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Those old dudes she used to go with named Dave,
Speaker 1: but you know, had platform shoes with taps on. You remember platform.
Speaker 1: He had taps on platform shoes. He come up the steps,
Speaker 1: clock oclock, how your mama doing, And then he'll tell me, hey,
Speaker 1: come in, let me give you a few dog on
Speaker 1: down and get your cocola, you know something like that.
Speaker 1: I know what you're finna do. Finna get some tail,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he gets you, gets
Speaker 1: your tato tips. I run right out of the house.
Speaker 1: You know, I know what he's finna do. I don't
Speaker 1: want no food, you know what I'm saying. But he
Speaker 1: was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me
Speaker 1: very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's just
Speaker 1: crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with
Speaker 1: this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He dogged my mama. Man,
Speaker 1: he was he was married. She didn't even know he's married.
Speaker 1: She's over there, he's over there every day, every day. Eating. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: God is a good guard, you know. Yeah, card is
Speaker 1: a good girl and woman. Tell you what happened. When
Speaker 1: I was in high school, four of us used to
Speaker 1: hang together and we saw him in his truck and
Speaker 1: my brother say, man, that call you. You're my my
Speaker 1: boyfriend with your mom. I said no, I said, that's
Speaker 1: my mother boyfriend. That's not my mom. It was another lady.
Speaker 1: So I got out the car, looked at him and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know I see you right He said, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing? Play it? Come to my mom house.
Speaker 1: I told my mother see him with another woman. He
Speaker 1: looked me dead at minde. He said that was not
Speaker 1: he did not see me. And my mother believed it.
Speaker 1: For the reason she believed it because I didn't like him,
Speaker 1: so she just kind of figured I made up a
Speaker 1: story about him, and she let it go. But it
Speaker 1: took her girlfriend or hers to see him. Say I
Speaker 1: saw that dude with another woman, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And they took her to tell me she dated him
Speaker 1: like sixteen years. Man. And I want to tell you,
Speaker 1: my mother, I don't want to get married. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get Okay, you don't want to get married,
Speaker 1: but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude.
Speaker 1: When she found out, she was like, she was toe up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard her. You grew up in the bluff.
Speaker 4: Hold how close the reality was was snow on the
Speaker 4: bluff the movie?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was real close. That was the
Speaker 1: heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother told me,
Speaker 1: if you touch it, o kid. So I was most
Speaker 1: scared of my mother than the guys in the street,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I never touched it.
Speaker 1: I watched him do it. I watched him shoot up
Speaker 1: every time. I can't do that, bro, Now, I can't
Speaker 1: do that. My mother is great. My mother is a rastler.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. She had been on WWE. I know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man. So you
Speaker 1: know that's why. And that movie was really really serious.
Speaker 1: But you know it was so funny in the hood,
Speaker 1: being in the hood, because you know, the crackheads come.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, dude had bought a video camera.
Speaker 1: You know, he was fibbing people and everything. Crackhas said, Man,
Speaker 1: I got a camera like that, he said, bigger, but
Speaker 1: it's got a two on it. I said, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? He done stole the camera off the
Speaker 1: Channel two news truck. The dude was getting ready to
Speaker 1: do some news in the area. He just walked off
Speaker 1: with the ca So we saw the white guy panicking
Speaker 1: walking around. I said, you're looking for your camera and
Speaker 1: he said yeah. I said, I know it is. I said,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give some money to get it back.
Speaker 1: He said, I get anything. He's all. He's how much
Speaker 1: you think hundred twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow?
Speaker 1: And the dude brought it back to him just walked
Speaker 1: off with it.
Speaker 3: I got a camera like that has a number two
Speaker 3: on it, Yes, so two on it.
Speaker 1: They had Channel two on it, right Man, these dudes
Speaker 1: in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit. Walk
Speaker 1: down the street with the dresser. Dude make way about
Speaker 1: one thirty. He said, I got the mirror, the two
Speaker 1: nights stands in the bed y'all needed. Were like what somebody?
Speaker 1: Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying. The dude
Speaker 1: told me said, man, I got I got a I
Speaker 1: got a typewriter like that. The only thing mine difference,
Speaker 1: it's got a TV on it. He didn't realize he
Speaker 1: had a desktop computer. He's I got a tight writer,
Speaker 1: but he got a TV on it, like tight with TV.
Speaker 1: I know back then, brothers had to press you to
Speaker 1: try to get in the street though. Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: they you know they talk about your you're scared, you're
Speaker 1: punk all this curb. Hey man, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: be a punk because my mom didn't play My mom,
Speaker 1: my aunt, the neighbors. They didn't play Man anything. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything.
Speaker 1: He was about six y five, black, real black, with royal
Speaker 1: blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need to
Speaker 1: call your granddad? No. She would get him on the phone.
Speaker 1: He'll say, hey, do I need to come up there?
Speaker 1: All I do was here his voice. I ain't no, sir,
Speaker 1: she's living. Get another phone call and see what happened
Speaker 1: That joker didn't play Man six ' five, black, one skeleton, nothing,
Speaker 1: roy your blue eyes, and you look at him, you'll
Speaker 1: drop your head like a runaway slave. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But when
Speaker 1: I got older, I realized he was really cool. He
Speaker 1: was a cool dude, but he just believed a child
Speaker 1: staying in the child place. That's right.
Speaker 4: And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far
Speaker 4: as comedy because he was the funny man.
Speaker 1: He was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody got help
Speaker 1: me with this line. Everybody he did, I tell him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he told you. Everybody didn't help me with this line.
Speaker 1: But he was one of the best bakers in the world.
Speaker 1: He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day, and
Speaker 1: they used to call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys
Speaker 1: Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Junior, and
Speaker 1: he went by the sweetbread Man because he was the
Speaker 1: baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man, and he
Speaker 1: talked about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I
Speaker 1: was really raised on the same street. The street was
Speaker 1: Chestnut Street. They changed to James Street Broadley. I was
Speaker 1: on four fifteen. She was on like seven eighty five
Speaker 1: or something like that, just right up the street, like
Speaker 1: two blocks. So you know, no, no, I I was
Speaker 1: a little kid, but she lived at on her first husband.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But Gladys is a girl. Man.
Speaker 4: Wow, were you able to translate your funny to actually
Speaker 4: make a career of it. But somebody like Uncle Paul,
Speaker 4: who was funny, couldn't.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared
Speaker 1: to go and say he was scared. See see black
Speaker 1: people back in it, they had the skill to do everything,
Speaker 1: but they were scared to do it. They had so
Speaker 1: much fear. So like young kids, not they'll do it.
Speaker 1: They I don't care, I'll do it. So I just
Speaker 1: took it and ran with him. Uncle was one of
Speaker 1: the best bakers in the world. He wouldn't get bakers
Speaker 1: from France and Italy, you know, from England, and he
Speaker 1: beat him all out, you know what I mean. Then
Speaker 1: he went to he had a cheesecake that he made.
Speaker 1: It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world.
Speaker 1: And they tricked him out of it and didn't have
Speaker 1: sense enough to get a lawyer and everything, and gave
Speaker 1: him like ten thousand dollars day clapping. He was all
Speaker 1: happy with yeah, when he could have got one hundred million,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But just didn't have a
Speaker 1: sense and the knowledge to do that at the time.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I wanted to know as a child
Speaker 3: was Bruce Bruce Big as a child.
Speaker 1: No, man was a little bit. They was calling me
Speaker 1: little Bruce Man. I didn't I didn't get fat till
Speaker 1: I got man. I don't know why I got married.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wouldn't eat it. Man. I was
Speaker 1: just a little bit of dude, just run around, just
Speaker 1: messing with everybody. I was a little bit of kid man.
Speaker 1: But when I got married, I got fat. You know,
Speaker 1: that's what happened to us as black man. We get
Speaker 1: complacent that we get complacent with jobs. We get a
Speaker 1: job and let's just say jeral motives, we make a
Speaker 1: little money. Oh man, that's a good job. I don't
Speaker 1: care nothing about no good job. It's about getting out
Speaker 1: there getting it, because it's more than that than getting
Speaker 1: a good job.
Speaker 4: I ain't like that question, by the way, what you
Speaker 4: mean I don't like the question? Do you ask me
Speaker 4: what with Bruce?
Speaker 1: Bruce little as a child was a big child. I
Speaker 1: want what you wanted to He thought I was just
Speaker 1: couldn't clap my hands, could clap his hand, and y'all
Speaker 1: clap my hand. But no, I was a little kid,
Speaker 1: a little cute joker man, and I'm messing with everybody,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we seem to lose focus. And
Speaker 1: that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy.
Speaker 1: But now I'm back at man, I'm sixty two years old.
Speaker 3: Man, Wow, is that is that where the comedy came from?
Speaker 2: Because when Bruce Bruce does a show and somebody's in
Speaker 2: the audience says something, or somebody's wearing something outfit, Bruce
Speaker 2: Bruce has no problem at attacking. This is that where
Speaker 2: that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these kids.
Speaker 1: You know when I was, when I was younger, I
Speaker 1: was real scary. You know, most kids wn't admit that.
Speaker 1: I was real scared to do anything. So people just
Speaker 1: talking about me, talking about him back. That's how I
Speaker 1: learned it. I used to talk about this girl. Man,
Speaker 1: this girl, man, she had a pontail in the pail
Speaker 1: body that long look with a rubber band around it.
Speaker 1: I want behind, I said, girl, how did they do that?
Speaker 1: Do it? I said, make the oxtail right there? I said,
Speaker 1: I said, you can stand on your head. Your hair
Speaker 1: stell won't touch the floor. Man, this girl. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna beat you. Man. You know what I'm saying. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what man, I broke out running you know. I didn't
Speaker 1: know she was a track star. Man. This girl caught
Speaker 1: me and beat the brakes off me. Man, I didn't
Speaker 1: care because I was raised not to hit women, so
Speaker 1: I didn't get she beat me up. She laid me
Speaker 1: on the ground and throw my homes you knowed to
Speaker 1: throw your homes. I she said, what's up now? I said,
Speaker 1: your hair still shot? So then she said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: beat my boyfriend. So I had to beat her boyfriend
Speaker 1: walk her to school every day. That's when I realized
Speaker 1: I had something now, you know. I joned her out
Speaker 1: and talked about the bed. But she did like me,
Speaker 1: and my uncle told me, said that, man, that girl
Speaker 1: like you. That's why she she wants you to be
Speaker 1: a boy friend. She like you. I didn't realize that,
Speaker 1: but I thought she hated my guts, But she really didn't. Man,
Speaker 1: she actually laughed about it. Then she grew up and
Speaker 1: be drop dead gorgeous. You know she did y'all? Still
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do it
Speaker 1: no more. Man, I ain't got it. But that's laughter, though,
Speaker 1: you know you can make it. Say if you can
Speaker 1: make a girl laugh, and man, you make him laugh,
Speaker 1: I got him. Most women they just want to laugh.
Speaker 1: You make them laugh. A lot of guys when they
Speaker 1: see women, when they see good looking women, fine women,
Speaker 1: nice body, instantly, most guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: she ain't gonna holler me she will. You ever see
Speaker 1: a real, fine pretty girl with an ugly dude. You
Speaker 1: know what happened because he said something to it. He
Speaker 1: walked in to hey, how you doing. You look good?
Speaker 1: She's like, you're for real, Yeah, I'm for real, And
Speaker 1: he would have You're like, how did this ugly? Because
Speaker 1: I know I got some ugly partners? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I got some dudes. Cold your eyes when you look
Speaker 1: at the fool, you have to wipe you out. My god, bro,
Speaker 1: what happened? You know what I'm saying. But they got
Speaker 1: the baddest women you ever want to see. But everybody
Speaker 1: got to understand though it's really nothing to it. Just
Speaker 1: talk to him, that's all they want.
Speaker 2: What's the most difficult city Because you're on the road,
Speaker 2: what five days a week, four days a week, every
Speaker 2: you know, every week.
Speaker 3: What's the toughest city for you? And why if there
Speaker 3: is one.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I never had a tough city. Man.
Speaker 1: I've had some tough crowds. When the comedy clubs hold
Speaker 1: these people hostage, you know, like let's just say, first
Speaker 1: show is at seven, second show is supposed to start
Speaker 1: at ten. They let the first show run over. These
Speaker 1: people are coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting.
Speaker 1: So that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you
Speaker 1: got to really go to work to make them laugh,
Speaker 1: you know, or go and or say something like this,
Speaker 1: say y'all have been at working they want to be there.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, I said, that's why I feel now,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when you break the
Speaker 1: ice with them, you got them. Once you get them,
Speaker 1: you got them. But you got to run the clubs
Speaker 1: on time. And it's hard dealing with us as black people.
Speaker 1: It's hard to deal with a lot of black people, man.
Speaker 1: But the white clubs they be on it byam, damn,
Speaker 1: damn because they realize the money they can make in
Speaker 1: the short length of time. Why is that with us, man?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's hard to doing business
Speaker 1: with us. I had one dude at a club, man.
Speaker 1: It was in November and it was cold, when he
Speaker 1: had people outside, I say, man, people are standing outside.
Speaker 1: The show's supposed to start an hour ago. He looked
Speaker 1: at me and he said, I don't give up what
Speaker 1: they do on I said, I'm like what, so, matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I don't even do his club anymore because
Speaker 1: you don't have respect for the people. But we're the
Speaker 1: one working hard for it to make him laugh, because
Speaker 1: it's hard to get black people to laugh, you knowply
Speaker 1: when they're mad, they better be funny. It better be funny,
Speaker 1: especially when they're mad. You know, white people laughing anything. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's hilarious. He's great. You can be terrible. You know
Speaker 1: you're good. You're gonna be great because white people have
Speaker 1: a different way of saying no, Like when you auditioned
Speaker 1: for a show, like how do you like him? Well,
Speaker 1: he's a good looking guy. He has great hair. That's
Speaker 1: a no. See, people don't realize that when they want you,
Speaker 1: they want you to get you checks the sign. But
Speaker 1: when they breed hard. You know, I was looking at
Speaker 1: him and smart guy, smart guy. But no, I's like,
Speaker 1: we do it. I said no, And that's what we
Speaker 1: all got to realize.
Speaker 4: You know, you think about when it come to doing
Speaker 4: business with black people and white people, because I love
Speaker 4: doing business with with with my people, right, But I
Speaker 4: don't think we often look at it as a business
Speaker 4: like it should be a personal transaction.
Speaker 1: Right. It's always because people people call my manager and
Speaker 1: be like me and Bruce go back fifteen. I don't
Speaker 1: even know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I met him at the gas station and up you
Speaker 1: don't know me, Bro, Maybe I come across like you
Speaker 1: do know me, but you don't know me. They'll call
Speaker 1: and be like, we discussed the deal and he said
Speaker 1: he would do it for this. That's not true because
Speaker 1: I don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they
Speaker 1: always think it's like a partner thing when it should
Speaker 1: just be business. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you remember your best show and you remember your
Speaker 3: worst show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, I can remember a lot of them, but
Speaker 1: they people don't know it. I know it. I can
Speaker 1: remember my first I mean, I come out saint temp
Speaker 1: a guy. I didn't like this show. Well, people thought
Speaker 1: it was great, but I'd be like, I didn't like
Speaker 1: that show.
Speaker 2: What was your what was your worst show? Because they said,
Speaker 2: you don't write things down, it's just off.
Speaker 1: It come out a couple. One time, I was in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: and uh they I was doing this show and I
Speaker 1: was joning everybody out and this dude came up and
Speaker 1: jooned me, and he was funny, but he said go
Speaker 1: up there, you know, even go up there and jone.
Speaker 1: He said, I like a pickle jaw, you know. And
Speaker 1: I started like, damn, that's funny. Bro. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep that, you know. He sent me like a
Speaker 1: pickle jaw. I was like, oh my god, that's funny.
Speaker 1: But the crowd loved it because I took it so well.
Speaker 1: I didn't go off, you know exactly. It was really
Speaker 1: funny when he said it. And I ended up seeing
Speaker 1: him like ten years lad. He said, you remember game
Speaker 1: on stage? Man? I saw you, so you look a
Speaker 1: pickle jo I said, that was you. I said, let
Speaker 1: me take a picture with you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But the cool but the best show I ever did,
Speaker 1: it was years and years and years ago, is when
Speaker 1: Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie Mack was super hot.
Speaker 1: And it's a It's a part of Georgia called Macon, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and it's about a hour from Atlanta and Bernie was performing,
Speaker 1: had ten five thousand seater and the feature didn't show up,
Speaker 1: and the guy said, hey, man, my feature in the show.
Speaker 1: Can you come down opening up for Bernie Mac. I said, yes,
Speaker 1: you know I had been in the he ain't there
Speaker 1: about five years? Yes, And I drove down as quick
Speaker 1: as I could, and I was on stage, and I
Speaker 1: can remember Bernie Mack had his arm folded looking at me.
Speaker 1: He said, who's that dude? Right there? They said as
Speaker 1: Bruce was. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went
Speaker 1: up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice
Speaker 1: in my whole entire life. May cern't and then I
Speaker 1: worked with in Columbia, South Carolina on time. That's it.
Speaker 1: But Bernie was a bad dude man, And people don't
Speaker 1: realize when he did I'm not scared of you on
Speaker 1: death chair. He made that up right then because everybody
Speaker 1: was coming up. They was having a car a hard
Speaker 1: time here in New York. Damn jam. They was getting
Speaker 1: it to him, you know, New York. You know they
Speaker 1: don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't scattering them, mom, and he went up and
Speaker 1: did him. And Capri went together on it and he
Speaker 1: ripped it. Man, Bernie was a bad?
Speaker 3: Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with?
Speaker 1: No, man, I know some funny comedians now, like Tony
Speaker 1: Robbers is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know who?
Speaker 1: Tony Robber? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me he's
Speaker 1: the date of girl. Her breath was so bad it
Speaker 1: smelled like a horses hiccups. So who think of that?
Speaker 1: Who think of a horse's hic You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Epps is one
Speaker 1: of the dude I trained back in the day. Mike
Speaker 1: used to be on the road me. Mike moved from
Speaker 1: Indiana to Atlanta and I used to take him on
Speaker 1: the road with me. And then he moved to New
Speaker 1: York and he called me when they said, man, they
Speaker 1: want me to audition for Fridays, And I said, what
Speaker 1: you waiting on? I said, look for somebody like you?
Speaker 1: And he called me a week later. I got the part.
Speaker 1: I said, you're on your way day they that's my man.
Speaker 4: You said something earlier when you talked about the pickle
Speaker 4: joh joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: comedians do cover jokes, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told him that.
Speaker 1: But no, you like I sent, comedians just take bits
Speaker 1: and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you do that
Speaker 1: and I see it, I know exactly where you got
Speaker 1: it from. I've been in this business so long. I
Speaker 1: know exactly what you got. I know who said and
Speaker 1: how they said and when you said it. No, I
Speaker 1: don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because I saw Bernie.
Speaker 4: It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernie Mack and
Speaker 4: he was saying, don't say your joke around or are
Speaker 4: you a new comedian us?
Speaker 1: And see a lot of comedians now the veterans will
Speaker 1: look at the new jacks and take that stuff. And
Speaker 1: then it looked like the new jack stole it from them.
Speaker 1: But that's not cool. That's not cool to do.
Speaker 2: Now we've seen Kat Williams pulled out his chop a
Speaker 2: couple of months ago.
Speaker 3: He was fired at everybody. What was your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Because you know a lot of that stuff was inside
Speaker 2: that became outside.
Speaker 1: Well, I think Cat just told how he felt man
Speaker 1: and what's been going on in his life for real,
Speaker 1: and he just got fed up with it. You know
Speaker 1: when people when people dog you out, Let's just say this.
Speaker 1: I used to tell people. I had a club at Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's called Club five five nine, and I used to
Speaker 1: tell my securities. I said, listen, when you have an
Speaker 1: altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you.
Speaker 1: You don't be forgot about them. So if you throw
Speaker 1: them at the club, throw them on their head and
Speaker 1: they'd be like, I'm not gonna forget that. They won't
Speaker 1: forget you. But you forgot who that was. And you
Speaker 1: had to go store with your woman shopping, you run
Speaker 1: up all you remember me. You're like, no, you have
Speaker 1: to be careful. So Kat just went through some things,
Speaker 1: stuff that he never forgot that was done to him,
Speaker 1: and he's coming back retaliating, and he just told it
Speaker 1: like it was.
Speaker 4: I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different
Speaker 4: things you could take from that conversation. But the thing
Speaker 4: I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt
Speaker 4: like it put black comedy in a in a new life. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like people started paying attention.
Speaker 1: To the old gez, like you said, Tony Robbers, like
Speaker 1: they I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just felt like it just shine earthquake and shine
Speaker 4: the light on the on the people who've been doing it.
Speaker 1: And people got to understand something about Kat Williams. Cat
Speaker 1: Williams is not a dummy. He is very smart. He's
Speaker 1: very smart. I don't know if y'all remember when he
Speaker 1: had altercation in Atlanta with one of the smith phone
Speaker 1: V one O three if you ever noticed it, he
Speaker 1: never lost his composure. He stood there and drunk his
Speaker 1: coffee and he was killing her the whole time. And
Speaker 1: he's just cool like that. He's very smart. He's a
Speaker 1: smart guy.
Speaker 4: Now, we always talk about the role at L played
Speaker 4: in rap. What role did it play in comedy?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. When you like rap me you
Speaker 1: said rap? You know, I thought you was finna say
Speaker 1: with with outcasts and you know I did videos. They
Speaker 1: liked my little homies. I'm like they og They called
Speaker 1: me O G and with too short, made the song
Speaker 1: shake that Monkey with with a little jung gun and
Speaker 1: then uh no, it's too short, and then Little John
Speaker 1: came back with the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's
Speaker 1: just love. Everybody show love in Atlanta. Everybody show love.
Speaker 1: Like when I did the movie I had awhile with Outcasts.
Speaker 1: It was gave to me. You know, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: movie I had to audition for. And then I did
Speaker 1: the movie Who's Your Caddy with Big Boys, a role
Speaker 1: that was gave to me because they just have that
Speaker 1: kind of love for me. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We're all cool and I stay in my lane. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't get out. I don't do crazy.
Speaker 2: You talk about something about but before we go, how
Speaker 2: did you feel about all these artists mentioned you and
Speaker 2: their songs.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3: Well, you have a surprise that you hear before when
Speaker 3: you heard let Bruce Bruce hit it?
Speaker 1: That. God, I just hate when dude said it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like we let Bruce bro you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be saying that. Then your girl should say it,
Speaker 1: but not not me, not you.
Speaker 4: Brother said that on the text this morning because our
Speaker 4: producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already his we
Speaker 4: were on the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he goes, well, entertain them. Then let
Speaker 1: Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. I forgive you.
Speaker 1: That's what he said. I forgive you.
Speaker 3: That's inside stuff.
Speaker 1: Man. I just I just thought it was stupid. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt he felt we cool.
Speaker 4: So he just told me and our producer told him
Speaker 4: that was he was going to hs that breath.
Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Why did you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And Biggie. Biggie mentioned you and hitting the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time you heard what happened?
Speaker 1: What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Florid. I never forget this,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet him so bad because I
Speaker 1: was a man and Biggie you know, and man. He
Speaker 1: came in and I was on stage clown and I
Speaker 1: was joning people. I mean, I has to do it.
Speaker 1: I said that shirt sil because it's I said, is
Speaker 1: it's silky? You behind it too much? You know something
Speaker 1: like that. He walked in, he said, just do this
Speaker 1: because if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he
Speaker 1: didn't really smile that much, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He just always had that look like this nun should look.
Speaker 1: He smiled on the video when he was on the boat.
Speaker 1: When he was on the boat and he started smiling,
Speaker 1: he said, I wanna put you down for it. And
Speaker 1: when I heard it, I'm like, what what was that was?
Speaker 1: People were debating whether he yeah, did he say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like Bruce, Bruce, who do something to us?
Speaker 1: Talk goes through us, girls do us one of us
Speaker 1: screwls who meets Poppy and Puff. It was just love.
Speaker 1: He showed me he was a cool guy man. And
Speaker 1: I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never
Speaker 1: saw him smile. He just always had this like heart look,
Speaker 1: like you know, he read fight. But he was really funny.
Speaker 1: It was fun to be around. So he told you
Speaker 1: he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay, that's
Speaker 1: how you know it was Yeah, but I heard him
Speaker 1: like what I thought? I heard you know what we
Speaker 1: did on the rate. I'm like and shorty show. They
Speaker 1: called me the comedian Church. He said, Man, Biggy just
Speaker 1: said your name. And I'm like, I listened to it
Speaker 1: over and over. I just kept coming back. I just
Speaker 1: I just kept repeating it listen to And that was love.
Speaker 1: That was real love.
Speaker 4: I guess you answered the question because when I said
Speaker 4: what role did atl play in comedy?
Speaker 1: For you, like, what role did Atlanta play in the comedy?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, everything, I think that's it. Well you
Speaker 1: know who did it? Well? Who started it was Chris
Speaker 1: Tucker and Chris Tucker when he did Friday's first. Of all,
Speaker 1: he didn't do Friday's first. He did house party. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he came to it, he's the same time, man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna give me the money? The same time it was.
Speaker 1: It was it immature, the group called immature. And he
Speaker 1: went to the door to get some money. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for such and such. Man. He just had that one
Speaker 1: scene at the door, and then he did Fridays And
Speaker 1: Friday's took off way better than they thought it thought
Speaker 1: it would. It took off way better than they thought
Speaker 1: it would. And Chris, he's a good dude too. Man,
Speaker 1: he's a good guy. I used to be on the
Speaker 1: road with him. But he fired me though. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't fire me, but he fired me like I
Speaker 1: was on the road with him back in ninety four
Speaker 1: ninety five. And then he said, man, I'm gonna take off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come off the road for about three months
Speaker 1: because did presidents get ready to come out, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's when I said, Okay, when he went back
Speaker 1: on the road, he just didn't bring me back here.
Speaker 1: So that's that's firing ass, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But then cool it's still my body. But he did
Speaker 1: come back in the policy. I say, hey, man, I
Speaker 1: didn't do that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like
Speaker 1: cool man, I'm good. I work, you know, I get down.
Speaker 1: You said you was a salesperson for Freeo label. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they used to make you tell jokes when you know
Speaker 1: everybody on the dock, you know, I you know, we
Speaker 1: used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know,
Speaker 1: go from soa store deliberation. So we delivered. We were
Speaker 1: on the dock. I'm joning everybody. I didn't care who
Speaker 1: they was. And we had some good old boys. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Ain't got no good old boys. I'm trying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all,
Speaker 4: Monk's going up.
Speaker 1: I was, y'all okay, but you know we got the man.
Speaker 1: You're a comedian. We love it. You know, we got
Speaker 1: the boys. They'd be so impressed. So you're a commeldian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love that's their word. But we had it. But
Speaker 1: one thing about good O balls. When they like it,
Speaker 1: they like it. When they don't, they don't. And it
Speaker 1: ain't a black white thing. It could be a white
Speaker 1: white thing. They don't like it. They don't like you,
Speaker 1: you know so, But I don't seeing racism everywhere. Man,
Speaker 1: it don't bother me. Remember your sales pitch, my sales
Speaker 1: pitch on the potato ye oh yeah, man. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you. I had a Walmart. They had just opened
Speaker 1: this Walmart, and in order to I wanted to dress
Speaker 1: up as chester Cheata, remember the chester Cheeta Tiger. In
Speaker 1: order to do this, you got to have you got
Speaker 1: to sell this huge display to get the carstume, the costume.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Because the company was charging
Speaker 1: different branches money to use cars. I was the biggest
Speaker 1: chester To Cheetah they have ever seen that. Look, man,
Speaker 1: I was the fattest one guy. I said he must Cheetos.
Speaker 1: This bitch as big as a house. But I sold
Speaker 1: like I think it was if I'm not mistaking, like
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in Cheetos. That's why they sent the
Speaker 1: uniform too. Its And it was great. And it was
Speaker 1: a Walmart, and it was a guy managed to wal
Speaker 1: My name James Pike White, dude, the matter, he gets
Speaker 1: the lord he talked so you know, he said, when
Speaker 1: I tell you to do something, you be like what
Speaker 1: what did you say? But he was cool. Everybody thought
Speaker 1: he was old red Nick, but he was really cool.
Speaker 1: He ran that store. But he let me bring ten dollars.
Speaker 1: I want Cheetos in that store? That was my man?
Speaker 1: Was your hey man? Just me being funny. I walk
Speaker 1: in and I say, man, I need to seals. I
Speaker 1: need to sell some chips. If not, I'm gonna start backstripping.
Speaker 1: And if if I start backstripping, the church mumb is
Speaker 1: really going to be hard on me about this. I said,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see me naked. Trust me when
Speaker 1: I tell you that, you know what I'm say saying
Speaker 1: their bus I laughing got him in order. He wasn't
Speaker 1: really come on. If I was my stage name be
Speaker 1: stretch Marks.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, then you know. But if
Speaker 1: I was stripped with today, I go by heart Candy Hard.
Speaker 1: This is a good name.
Speaker 3: As I didn't want to hand why heartcare.
Speaker 4: It was like something behind it, like you know the church,
Speaker 4: old lady in the church with Hard Candy.
Speaker 1: Church, that'd be living pound Cake. I'd be living living
Speaker 1: out of death.
Speaker 4: Comedy Jam, Showtime, The Apollo and Comic View which one
Speaker 4: had the most impact on you.
Speaker 1: Comicview Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start and
Speaker 1: come on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons.
Speaker 1: I mean, big up for him. Depth Jam was good.
Speaker 1: But when I did Comic View, see Comic View started
Speaker 1: out as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll
Speaker 1: remember that they used to go. They used to come
Speaker 1: out to your city and come to a club and
Speaker 1: film you and then take it back. And d L
Speaker 1: was see the host, and he's like, look went all
Speaker 1: the way down to Atlanta at a club called the
Speaker 1: Comedy Act Theater and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce
Speaker 1: and then showed me and I did the coach co
Speaker 1: when they first started. But I never forget the year
Speaker 1: that I host. It was probably the best year for
Speaker 1: me that I have ever experienced in my life. They
Speaker 1: went from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers
Speaker 1: host and it was great for me. It was it
Speaker 1: was good. I made some money. They gave me money
Speaker 1: for wardrobe. That's why I dressed in all them suits
Speaker 1: because I thought I was a pimp. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I thought I was a straight up pimp.
Speaker 1: How'd you get the gig. They called me. I mean
Speaker 1: I had been doing comedy like seven eight years and
Speaker 1: got I say call me one day, said I would
Speaker 1: you like the host comedy view. I said I would
Speaker 1: love that because I wanted to do it and I
Speaker 1: wanted to do it before then, and it just won
Speaker 1: my time. But when my time came, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: It did well, it did very well.
Speaker 2: It was that the moment that you know that that
Speaker 2: was your big break, like, oh, this is really going
Speaker 2: to happen.
Speaker 1: And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man.
Speaker 1: Then I did more shows than anybody. I did like
Speaker 1: four to five shows a day, so I was changing suits,
Speaker 1: changing suits, and I was working five days a week,
Speaker 1: so on the days and it was off Sunday Monday.
Speaker 1: So I was shooting commercials for them. And I did
Speaker 1: this one commercial. I like gators at alligator skin shoes.
Speaker 1: So I told his capture, I was, take me, man,
Speaker 1: I need to get me some gators. And he took
Speaker 1: me to a real creek where alligators walls. That was
Speaker 1: the joke of it. And he dropped me off and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what wait, man, it's a real alligator. He
Speaker 1: was real alligator coming out of the water and it
Speaker 1: was really really funny. That was a scene that I wrote,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was fun. So I still
Speaker 1: wear Gator shoes. I'm old school man, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like the old player Ciaga still wear suits with ten
Speaker 1: and shoes. I can't do it now. I can't do it, player,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I never felt like Apollo was
Speaker 1: good for comedy, man, It's just I think what it
Speaker 1: was with Apollo. Those people are that all day sitting.
Speaker 1: So the first two shows you're gonna get love. But
Speaker 1: like the third, fourth and fifth show, they wore out.
Speaker 1: They boo and everybody. They booed me the first time,
Speaker 1: and I didn't care. I just started talking about people.
Speaker 1: It was a dude in the front dresser like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell was going on him. I said, bro,
Speaker 1: what is your problem? Ye had he was just like
Speaker 1: a woman and a man on one side. A woman
Speaker 1: on the side said break are you slow?
Speaker 2: Time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and before the time, but it was it was
Speaker 1: a jew on them. They laughed. But then I went
Speaker 1: back and did it again, and then it went well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did it with Mark Curry first and then back
Speaker 1: with Steve Harvey.
Speaker 3: Is it too sensitive now for comedy?
Speaker 1: Depending on what subj did you touch on? Because if
Speaker 1: you if you don't, like, let's just say gay people,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't touch on that. You can't say
Speaker 1: anything disrespectful. And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know.
Speaker 1: When I was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles,
Speaker 1: you know, so we'd be riding the Sweet Pickle. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: we knew what it was. We were like, what the
Speaker 1: world you know? But the thing is, I mean I
Speaker 1: don't do any bashing of anything of sorts like that,
Speaker 1: but I see them all the time. Like I remember
Speaker 1: one time I was doing the show at BT was
Speaker 1: in California and the makeup artist is two of them.
Speaker 1: They did makeup and hair and they was gay, gay
Speaker 1: dudes and anything. So you know, one dude walked in, Man,
Speaker 1: hold on no bags doing my makeup. They dude got
Speaker 1: really emotional, so sickness, so tart. I don't like to
Speaker 1: tell you start packing this stuff you and leave. So
Speaker 1: I walked in the room. I closed the door on them.
Speaker 1: He looked at me like what I say, Man, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I said, if you're comfortable with
Speaker 1: who you are. I said, be that. I said, but
Speaker 1: if you walk out on this show, they're gonna blackball
Speaker 1: you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who may
Speaker 1: work for nobody. I said, jill out, dry your tears
Speaker 1: up and this, I said, do my makeup. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I said, but if you walk out,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. I say, nine time out of ten.
Speaker 1: At the end of the night, that same dude to
Speaker 1: be hollering at what if you would said that I
Speaker 1: had run out of that. I had to run full speed,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then after after the
Speaker 1: end of the night, he's like, he said, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you so much what you did because he was
Speaker 1: commaded to go. He was emotion and everything, and the
Speaker 1: dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk to dude.
Speaker 1: I said, man, chill out and don't do that. You
Speaker 1: know they got feelings too, that's just who they are.
Speaker 3: Why do you help so many comedians?
Speaker 2: Comedians talk about that you helped someone so many comedians
Speaker 2: in their in.
Speaker 3: Their career and their life.
Speaker 2: What gives you the energy because a lot of people
Speaker 2: be like I ain't helping him because he might get
Speaker 2: bigger than me. But you you talked about so many communities.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, but so many helped me. I
Speaker 1: never forget when I first when I was in the
Speaker 1: comedy act here in Atlanta, and John Witherspoon came to
Speaker 1: Atlanta and he looked at me and he say, you
Speaker 1: got it. He said, you really got it. He said,
Speaker 1: I like you. So he started telling me what to
Speaker 1: do and what not to do, and he helped me.
Speaker 1: He took me in from his wing. Rinaldo Ray did
Speaker 1: the same thing. He helped me in on BT when
Speaker 1: he was my co host. People don't realize that Ronald
Speaker 1: Rae was a college professor before he started doing comedy.
Speaker 1: He was extremely smart and he would tell me sometimes,
Speaker 1: he said, turn your body to the right a little bit.
Speaker 1: When you tell that joke, it'll work better. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: how's that gonna work better? And it worked better. And
Speaker 1: then the last of the Mohicans who really told me
Speaker 1: say you won't have to find her and they will
Speaker 1: find you. His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend
Speaker 1: Paul Mooney. He told me that Ridney Winterfield. Y'all remember,
Speaker 1: Rightney Winfield that my man took me and he said,
Speaker 1: a lot of these jokers don't like you just because
Speaker 1: you're funny. He says, keep being funny. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: alright yoused to call me do shows with him. You know,
Speaker 1: you know back in the day, man, somebody say, Man,
Speaker 1: we got to show paying three hundred dollars. I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's go. You know these new kids now, he say, man,
Speaker 1: I got a show for you. How much you're paying?
Speaker 1: Hold it? Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by
Speaker 1: TV much less on TV. So what did you talking
Speaker 1: about how much they're paying. If I tell you about
Speaker 1: the show, I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that.
Speaker 4: Something you think social media helped to hurt comedy, Oh,
Speaker 4: it helped it.
Speaker 1: I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social media thirty
Speaker 1: five years ago. The only thing we had was going
Speaker 1: this city early through radio, try to do TV to
Speaker 1: get people in there. Social media is a platform that
Speaker 1: really helped a lot of young comedians. Now now veteran
Speaker 1: comedians like myself, they get pissed because all the new
Speaker 1: young comedians are coming up faster. I've been doing comedy
Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Thirty years and he ain't been
Speaker 1: doing comed for three months. I tell him like this,
Speaker 1: you can't beat them showing them and then winning, so
Speaker 1: you might as well fall in the footstep they are winning.
Speaker 4: But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why
Speaker 4: they're asking how much? Right, because they following them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then the only thing about Charlamagne is when
Speaker 1: they do get booked, the only thing they got to
Speaker 1: say is what they did on social media. You got
Speaker 1: to bring out more than that, right, you know, you
Speaker 1: got that. That's seven minutes, you got, oh, it's five,
Speaker 1: But what about this other twenty minutes they need you
Speaker 1: to do. You can tell when a person is bombing
Speaker 1: because they start talking real positive. You know, we need
Speaker 1: to take care of these kids. Man. You know, hey man,
Speaker 1: support these women. Man, hey man, these women need to support.
Speaker 1: They need to respect. They're bombing, like hell, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get positive.
Speaker 3: That's a favorite part of the Commiss show.
Speaker 1: It is I like, I like, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out
Speaker 1: of a hole. Oh my god, if you see me
Speaker 1: laughing really hard, it's probably because you up there thinking.
Speaker 1: Because I remember seeing you because I watch you guys
Speaker 1: all the time. I remember seeing you on Ridiculousness right
Speaker 1: and Chanelle West Coast. She made her so mad. You
Speaker 1: see you was coming and saying, I never seen you
Speaker 1: on anything. I never seen you rap with I rap stupid.
Speaker 1: She got the commercial. I think it happened twice right now.
Speaker 1: It was the one that she was But do she wrap? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think she did. Okay, okay, but I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: But I looked at you and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's pissed. She got pitted. She moved that hair back
Speaker 1: the commercial commercial and she came back. She was gonna come, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're back here to pissed her. I never seen your nothing.
Speaker 1: I never seen you my snoop, I never seen you
Speaker 1: two short, I never seen you. She was pissed. I
Speaker 1: laughed so hard, A dad, that was so good. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about the rebooting rebooting comic View? I
Speaker 1: just I like it, but I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: do a new way. I think they should have rebooted
Speaker 1: and did it the old way. I think they should
Speaker 1: have had the host and introduced the show like we
Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. Because if you
Speaker 1: remember when that show was on. Everybody watched it from
Speaker 1: your mom, your mom, your dad, your dad, your grandma,
Speaker 1: and your granddad uncle. You know what. I saw you
Speaker 1: on TV. They love it. So I think we need
Speaker 1: to go back to that platform. They doing a new
Speaker 1: thing now where you know they wanted all hip hop
Speaker 1: and all that. That's cool, but we need to go
Speaker 1: back to the old way. Now.
Speaker 3: You're a huge car enthusist. I am in classic cause yeah,
Speaker 3: we got you into that. And how many cars do.
Speaker 1: You have back in about twenty seven? I'm I collect Buicks, Buicks.
Speaker 1: I like Buick Buicks. Man, My granddaddy told him, say,
Speaker 1: look at young buy nothing but a Buick. You know,
Speaker 1: old Joe, he's have a road mester with three speed
Speaker 1: on the column. I thought he was a genius. When
Speaker 1: you change the gears on the column. He was a
Speaker 1: bad dude. You know. He put it down the first,
Speaker 1: then go to second. He looking at the talking, then
Speaker 1: he go to third. Get you a Buig, baby, you know.
Speaker 1: So I always liked Buicks, and I like Skylart's Buick
Speaker 1: was a really good muscle car too. People don't realize it.
Speaker 1: I got like I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I
Speaker 1: got a seventy Rivera, I got a sixties Rivera. I
Speaker 1: got a sixty nine Rivera. I got a six eight
Speaker 1: Duce on the quarter. I got a six eight Skylart convertible.
Speaker 1: I got a six egg Scyllart Folk Speed got a
Speaker 1: sixty five sky Lot convertible.
Speaker 3: So that's your addiction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like Ford truck. I love Ford Truck.
Speaker 3: So you don't drink, you don't smoke.
Speaker 1: I used to I let it go when my baby
Speaker 1: boy was born. He's forty. I stopped forty years ago.
Speaker 1: I used to get so drunk man envy. I used
Speaker 1: to get so drunk when I when I get home,
Speaker 1: I couldn't walk to the crawl. I used to knock
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the door and my axe say
Speaker 1: it go be me and the alcohol. One of us
Speaker 1: has got to go. And I showed it misser. I
Speaker 1: did mean. I missed the hell out of her. Who
Speaker 1: got a better collection? You and J lino oh J
Speaker 1: got the call. But you know my man MB got
Speaker 1: some car I like I got. I've had everything for
Speaker 1: what ever made, from the Lincoln Blackwood truck to the
Speaker 1: duel Is to the saline truck. I got a saline truck,
Speaker 1: I got two lightnings, I got a rapture, I got
Speaker 1: a super snake truck. I don't have the Ford GT.
Speaker 1: You know, the one like a Ferrari. I had all
Speaker 1: that you a g yes, sir, really yeah, I did?
Speaker 1: You know why I sold it?
Speaker 3: Because you couldn't fit it.
Speaker 1: No I fit in. I'm gonna tell you why I
Speaker 1: sold it because when I did get in, it felt
Speaker 1: like four people sitting in there with me.
Speaker 3: Michael tre had had it. Asked Michael Straan why he
Speaker 3: got rid it is? He said, cause I couldn't fit it.
Speaker 1: No, I can fit in it. But it was tight.
Speaker 1: But when I sold it, it was it was on
Speaker 1: six When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two
Speaker 1: hundred miles on it, and I had it for seven years.
Speaker 1: So when I said, she ain't selling that, because if
Speaker 1: you sold that a triple quadrant, but it's like six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand for it now. But when I saw I
Speaker 1: bought it for two hundred thousand. I sold her for
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand, and a guy in England
Speaker 1: bought it. It was canary yellow, black stripe, yamn and
Speaker 1: when I tell you it had the power, It had
Speaker 1: the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the one
Speaker 1: you wanted to hold on to. The No, I don't
Speaker 1: miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know.
Speaker 3: It sold like six seven hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I sold it for two fifty back then, but
Speaker 1: I could have got five six hundre if I kempt it. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: How big of a deal is it now for a
Speaker 1: comedian to have a special? Does? Well? Let me you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny you said that, man, specials are good. I
Speaker 1: just got signed for Netflix special. And the reason, the
Speaker 1: reason I just took it, I won't gonna do I
Speaker 1: was gonna do it myself, like fim it make them
Speaker 1: buy you know what I'm saying. But they offered it
Speaker 1: to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I think around August so at no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go someone,
Speaker 1: somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying. Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I'm just average man. You know they see me in
Speaker 1: But I go somewhere like Chicago or Texas. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's why I want to go. You know, in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it's my city. I love it. I still live there.
Speaker 1: And uh I had a place in l A for
Speaker 1: like thirty years. And La just La.
Speaker 3: You pay.
Speaker 1: They make you pay for the weather, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But it's how here in New York te it is.
Speaker 4: You especially don't need one. It's not I mean, it
Speaker 4: don't validate you in no way shape before.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to. I
Speaker 1: want to do a tour myself. I'm always on somebody
Speaker 1: else's tour. Now I want to do it too. I
Speaker 1: got two guys that open up for me who is hilarious,
Speaker 1: and nobody know them, so I want to introduce them
Speaker 1: and bring them out and then they can start out
Speaker 1: doing their own thing. That's what it's all about. Man.
Speaker 1: There used to be a Kicks for comedians.
Speaker 4: You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom like
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Feel you need none of that no more. Some of
Speaker 1: the people who got them, they can't sell out, can't
Speaker 1: sell a ticket, you know what I'm saying. They can
Speaker 1: sell people in the garage, but they can't sell a ticket.
Speaker 1: You know, back in the day before Kings of Comedy,
Speaker 1: that's what you had to get. You know, you do
Speaker 1: real good, then they offer your sitcom, then you do
Speaker 1: your sitcom, then you go on tour. And Bernard Mack
Speaker 1: was like the only comedian that could sell out by hisself.
Speaker 1: He was about, now, Kat Walliams could do it. Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is a good guy.
Speaker 1: But Cat can do it. Like when he did an
Speaker 1: interview that podcast went crazy. He just started selling everywhere,
Speaker 1: and well he got something to say, and I think
Speaker 1: he should said, I agree, they're doing a live Netflix
Speaker 1: special with Cat. But you know what, the Cat made
Speaker 1: everybody get on their toes though people like I thought,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say something about you. I never had any
Speaker 1: conflict with Cat. We always been cool. He called me
Speaker 1: one time he said, man, I want you to go
Speaker 1: on the road with me, and I said this exact word.
Speaker 1: I said, I would do it. I said, but why
Speaker 1: do you need me on the road with you? So
Speaker 1: you got it, they're coming to see you. He said, well,
Speaker 1: it's a big crossover. You got a crowd. I got
Speaker 1: a crowd. But Cat is he's a smart dude. And
Speaker 1: he take care of his people. That's what I like
Speaker 1: about it, said, he take care of his people, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Can't keep the money, man,
Speaker 1: You you just think he's gonna work people to death
Speaker 1: and not pay him. You got to pay these people.
Speaker 1: We got families, We got kids. You know, I got
Speaker 1: grand kids. I mean, you know, grandkids. That's who I
Speaker 1: work for. Now. They're cool.
Speaker 4: You've been getting money for a long time, been in
Speaker 4: the game, thirty When did you start seeing the like
Speaker 4: that real real money that you know?
Speaker 1: When I when I when when I when a joker
Speaker 1: was giving me a thousand dollars a show, I thought
Speaker 1: he was crazy because it was so easy to me
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars to be on stage for ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Oh, this is where I need to be.
Speaker 1: Potato trip Trump got to go. I tell you how
Speaker 1: I quit my job. I took a leave of absence,
Speaker 1: and I told him. I told my super bowers. I say, man,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going through divorce, man, And I say,
Speaker 1: I just need some time and get my head together.
Speaker 1: Can I get a thirty day leave absent? He got
Speaker 1: it approved. When he got it approved, we was inventory
Speaker 1: in the truck. He said, man, you're coming back. I said,
Speaker 1: I want you look at me real good, and next
Speaker 1: time you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left.
Speaker 1: And what's crazy? You know? Back in the day we
Speaker 1: had beepers. Anybody beepers. Of course I left. I had
Speaker 1: my cousin and picked me up on a Friday. I said, man,
Speaker 1: take me by the back and I got twenty dollars
Speaker 1: in the bank. That's all I had in the bank.
Speaker 1: I went and got the twenty dollars out to give
Speaker 1: him for gas. And as soon as I gave them money,
Speaker 1: my beeple went on and I said, stop, man, let
Speaker 1: me used to pay for him and I called it
Speaker 1: was the club owner in the Comuni Act, Theaty in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: He said, man, what you doing tonight? I said, I'm
Speaker 1: working for you. I ain't look back. You do a
Speaker 1: lot of manifestation. Bruke ya. You will see me on TV. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's telling man, you got to speak stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: when people don't realize you have to speak stuff into
Speaker 1: your life. And when people be speaking the wrong stuff
Speaker 1: in their life, the wrong stuff is gonna come. Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm sick as a dog. Okay, we're gonna be sick
Speaker 1: as a doll, because're gonna be sick as a dog.
Speaker 1: I love her depth. She'd be dead about three months,
Speaker 1: so you can't. You know, you got to love her
Speaker 1: a life. Whatever you speak, the tongue is very powerful.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying. So people
Speaker 1: hollering by church Ford, but they be telling the truth.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know you say you're
Speaker 1: gonna be rich, You're gonna be rich. Just just keep
Speaker 1: you got to believe it what you I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: I've always told Peo you'll see me on TV. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna work this truck all my life. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be delivering chips all my life. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: doing stuff I like to do. So what's your manifestation? Nine?
Speaker 1: What do you think? My key thing now is to
Speaker 1: make sure I make enough money and save enough money
Speaker 1: to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone. I don't play.
Speaker 1: I don't go anywhere right now anytime soon. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure they're straight when I leave,
Speaker 1: because that's where it's supposed to be. I know a
Speaker 1: guy now he's been married, white dude. He got married
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. His mother and father gave him
Speaker 1: a house that he still live in. He never paid
Speaker 1: a house note because the house were paid for didn't
Speaker 1: and then the property he was on like sixty acres
Speaker 1: with three lakes, so he living a life. They left
Speaker 1: him money. That's where it's supposed to be. You always
Speaker 1: leave your family and position where they don't have to
Speaker 1: suffer and be in a strain. That's why we need
Speaker 1: to get insurance. Oh my god, you see somebody to die.
Speaker 1: They do gofund me. Then the brother in law take
Speaker 1: all the money, he take everything but sixty dollars. They'd
Speaker 1: raised thirty thousand. They didn't give us sixty dollars. Man,
Speaker 1: you know they left more than sixty dollars. And that's
Speaker 1: what we should be. We should always put ourselves in
Speaker 1: a position to live a good life. Also leave a
Speaker 1: good life for our family. I've got a couple more questions.
Speaker 4: There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses to be funny,
Speaker 4: having the wear addressed to get to that next level.
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on that. Well, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you man, I did it. I did.
Speaker 1: It's funny you said that I did. I did a
Speaker 1: TV show that I take one time never came out.
Speaker 1: It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters, and we did this scene.
Speaker 1: I was a bounty hunter. I played a bounty hunter.
Speaker 1: I played a preacher called Reverend get Money. It was
Speaker 1: Reverend get Money. And I played a mother named Mother Marshall,
Speaker 1: which was crazy, but Mother Marshall was a real lady
Speaker 1: in my church that I mimic. I copy it off
Speaker 1: for and I also played I did it in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and I did not feel comfortable in that dress, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying at all. And some people could
Speaker 1: do it, some people if it worked for you. Flip
Speaker 1: Wilson did it when he did Jeraldine. You know, because
Speaker 1: Flip Willson' show was a variety show, which I love
Speaker 1: because it wasn't a black show. It was a show
Speaker 1: for everybody, and that's what people got to understand. But
Speaker 1: if they want to dress up in a dress, do
Speaker 1: you think you know? But that's not my thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, Tyler Perry made it big. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best. But to me, I love Tyler Perry.
Speaker 1: But Joe is funny than Tyler peerr than my deal.
Speaker 1: When he plays Joe, Joe, it's funny. Joe had an
Speaker 1: oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing, and I say, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So when he plays Joe,
Speaker 1: Joe is the funniest dude. You know, that's just me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love my dear, but Joe, oh my god, Joe's fighting.
Speaker 4: And see back then when we used to see people
Speaker 4: in the dresses or even see like when they used
Speaker 4: to do men on film on a living color, it
Speaker 4: was just funny.
Speaker 1: I never thought nothing of it. Men on film was
Speaker 1: the thing they talked about, Moby Dick, Moby Dick that
Speaker 1: gets two snaps and the kids and around about yeah
Speaker 1: the twist. Yeah.
Speaker 4: How would you define this point in your life professionally
Speaker 4: and personally?
Speaker 1: Oh well, I want anybody to know, professionally and personally,
Speaker 1: this is me and this is how I do business.
Speaker 1: I don't act, I don't put on So if you
Speaker 1: see me on and off stage, this is Bruce Bruce,
Speaker 1: and I'm the same every day man. You know, I
Speaker 1: have problems just like everybody else I have. I get
Speaker 1: a cold like everybody, you know, everybody. Everybody think when
Speaker 1: you're in the entertainment things are just perfect noise and
Speaker 1: not and your family members and your friends are the worse.
Speaker 1: The Bible speaks. If it ain't your family, watch your
Speaker 1: closest friend, they gonna get you. I got a cousin now, Oh,
Speaker 1: you're going through so much. I said, keep having some birthdays.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go through some more shit. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect you to
Speaker 1: rescue them and fix them and not pay you back.
Speaker 1: Who thought of that one? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know who thought of that one is. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They don't think. But if it was Flip, if I
Speaker 1: owe them now, y'all know he owns some money. He
Speaker 1: ain't gave me my money yet. But when you owe me,
Speaker 1: I saw to be able to understand when you got it. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'll be telling you. I told him, I ain't seeing
Speaker 1: a rich man with extra money. Dang. Never, Why do
Speaker 1: you have to say your name twice? I call my
Speaker 1: mommysed called me twice. My mama said, if I call
Speaker 1: you the third time, I'm gonna kid you. So my
Speaker 1: mother said, if I call you three times, you're gonna
Speaker 1: die today. And my mother was a little one about
Speaker 1: one point forty. I mean, she was just but loving
Speaker 1: and knew how to make a way out of no way.
Speaker 1: Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you
Speaker 1: do get successful and you start making money, make sure
Speaker 1: you take care of mom. And one thing you got
Speaker 1: to realize it don't take much like you think it
Speaker 1: though people think like, well, I got to do it.
Speaker 1: Your mama don't want that much. She just want to
Speaker 1: make sure she's okay, she's comfortable and she got a
Speaker 1: little money. My mother last twenty years of her life.
Speaker 1: I make sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing.
Speaker 1: But it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But then when your family members found out about it,
Speaker 1: they started trying to use you too. You know, my mom,
Speaker 1: I'm going through something. Well that's your mother, this one
Speaker 1: is mine. Books.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1: No, thank you, and you do it right now right Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show tonight and you know next week I'm
Speaker 1: in town. But we got that. I'm in Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 1: We got through that. I mean Raleigh. I'm booked every week.
Speaker 1: If I'm not booked every week, somebody gonna lose their job.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna be sitting at home drinking lemonade when
Speaker 1: I'm sitting at home. I need to go to work.
Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, well they you have it. It's Bruce Bruce.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for
Speaker 4: a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected
Speaker 4: you as a as a comedy legend.
Speaker 1: Man. Give you an icon, So salute you, Bruce, Thank
Speaker 1: you for coming. Respect.
Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.