Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, Please welcome, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: show here. Thank you for having me. I'm beyond excited
Speaker 1: to be here. You're beyond excited. I am enthralled by
Speaker 1: everything that you're doing, genuinely, because like you have what
Speaker 1: has quickly become like people's favorite show on TV. Because yeah,
Speaker 1: because I mean we just saw in that clip you've
Speaker 1: created a show that is uniquely you and that you'll
Speaker 1: interview people and it's like the most awkward interview of
Speaker 1: all time. People would say that I don't make it
Speaker 1: awkward on purpose. I'm just a little strange. Okay, But
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. So I remember when you first
Speaker 1: started this was it wasn't on YouTube originally, right, and
Speaker 1: then it really blew up on Instagram, like during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and I would watch people and they would talk to
Speaker 1: you on Instagram, like the biggest celebrities and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look, let's see what interview me? And they
Speaker 1: look like idiots sometimes and then other times they just
Speaker 1: looked like they didn't know what was going on, And
Speaker 1: I was like, why why do they How do you
Speaker 1: get the people to keep talking to you? Well, I
Speaker 1: celebrate icons, and I enable icons to say iconic things.
Speaker 1: So when people come to the show, do they know
Speaker 1: the vibe ahead of time? Yes? Okay, the episodes are
Speaker 1: available for stream meg but but it seems like they
Speaker 1: don't expect it sometimes like they feel, you know, like
Speaker 1: we love it as the viewers, and then we watch
Speaker 1: like your your guests, and it's it seems like they've
Speaker 1: just been hit by like a ten time truck. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think, well, so I am very personable and so
Speaker 1: I can neck with them, and maybe that's surprising that
Speaker 1: I'm so kind and hospitable. I also love that the
Speaker 1: show has like all these these these segments that you've
Speaker 1: created that have gone not just viral, but it's like
Speaker 1: into people's hearts. So you know, we've got the guest
Speaker 1: segments where you interview people. Um, you also have the music,
Speaker 1: which there's gonna be an album at some point. Yes, ye, yes,
Speaker 1: definitely definitely. I identify as a pop star. Yes, because
Speaker 1: I love what was Don't be poor Stop being? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a thank you, thank you guys. Are you guys
Speaker 1: living by Reagonomics today. It's a very powerful song. It's
Speaker 1: like the lyrics don't match a fee, but it's like
Speaker 1: it's a yeah, yeah, I I like, I just think
Speaker 1: that trickle down economics it works. And I think if
Speaker 1: you look at yourself in the mirror and say stop
Speaker 1: being poor, eventually it'll happen. And that's why I'm ready
Speaker 1: for Congress. It it feels like this is the kind
Speaker 1: of show that you probably couldn't have made years and
Speaker 1: years ago. Like it's so unique, it's so you, it's
Speaker 1: so specific. It's it's loved by people who know exactly
Speaker 1: what the show is about. Like, do you think you
Speaker 1: could have always done this? Has this always been like
Speaker 1: a brand of comedy? Um? So can I have always
Speaker 1: done this? No? Because this show pulls from like Real
Speaker 1: Housewives and Eric Andre and Colbert Report, So these things
Speaker 1: didn't exist fifteen years ago. Um, but the brand of
Speaker 1: comedy is consistent. Again, this is my personality. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a hyperbolic character, but there's a kernel in there. This
Speaker 1: is you, like deep down inside. I mean, I Z
Speaker 1: way am kinder than the characters the way you are.
Speaker 1: Also you are also um, supremely talented, not just as
Speaker 1: the characters the way, but as yourself I mean writing,
Speaker 1: like creating, performing, the whole you have like a very
Speaker 1: specific vision for what you want. Some people don't get
Speaker 1: it at all, Like I heard that your parents don't.
Speaker 1: They don't get what you do. Know, they have no
Speaker 1: understanding of what I do. Do your parents are when
Speaker 1: you do well? My mom sort of she goes like
Speaker 1: I talked to people. I guess she's sort of but
Speaker 1: I but but yeah, she gets I think she gets
Speaker 1: it a little bit more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: My parents think that I just talked to GAYL King
Speaker 1: for a living so like once the year, they see
Speaker 1: me on CVS this morning and they're like, wow, girls, great.
Speaker 1: They are they proud of you? Though, because I don't
Speaker 1: like Nigerian parents are like very proud when their kids
Speaker 1: do any Like Nigerian parents are just like you, you're
Speaker 1: crushing it whatever you're doing, So are they proud of
Speaker 1: what you're doing? They're definitely proud of what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: although they do wish that I was a doctor. But
Speaker 1: it's a little later. That's what I was wondering because
Speaker 1: Nigerian parents have that vibe very much like what are
Speaker 1: you doing on TV? Are you causing trouble? They literally like,
Speaker 1: don't tell people your last name? We don't want people
Speaker 1: to know who you are. Wow. Wow, Um, so you
Speaker 1: have all these guests on the show. You have I
Speaker 1: mean like like in that clip for instance. So for
Speaker 1: people who don't understand the context, Chet Hanks, Tom Hanks's son, Yes,
Speaker 1: he like blew up again online because like you know,
Speaker 1: he'll speak, he'll say things like in patois and then
Speaker 1: people will like, oh, you're appropriating Jamaican culture. And it
Speaker 1: was a really interesting story though, because Jamaicans were like,
Speaker 1: we love this guy. He's doing it properly. He understands
Speaker 1: our culture, this is our vibe. And the people in
Speaker 1: America were like, this is disgusting. Don't do it. And
Speaker 1: Check was like, I don't give a damn what anyone says.
Speaker 1: I don't care about you. But then you got him
Speaker 1: to come on your show. No, he doesn't like speak
Speaker 1: to anybody. How did you get him to come up?
Speaker 1: And I went to college together and so yeah, fun
Speaker 1: fact and so um. I tried to poot him for
Speaker 1: my Instagram live and he did not want to do that.
Speaker 1: And then we had a guest dropout. He was we
Speaker 1: were texting, he was congratulating me for whatever, and I
Speaker 1: asked again and he flew in two days later. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: I just would like come, come and come and check. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's great that text Hanks, thank you. Thank Do you
Speaker 1: think for your cloud Hacks? Um, No, it's it's it
Speaker 1: was great. I mean he asked, he asked if we
Speaker 1: could promote his fitness app, which we do on the show.
Speaker 1: So it was about twenty minutes of chat in the
Speaker 1: next episode. I like that. Yeah, Chester of Marlon Hanks,
Speaker 1: you gotta love him. You also interviewed Charlemagne the God. Yes, yes, Leonard,
Speaker 1: and I mean he's he's a controversial figure, like you
Speaker 1: know for some people and others are like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: just doing his thing. Was that like a clash of
Speaker 1: the Titans for you? Was it a clash of the Titans? No?
Speaker 1: I I like to think that I'm embracing every single
Speaker 1: one of my guests, giving them a warm hug. I
Speaker 1: like that, you think that's I like that they have
Speaker 1: this feeling. You know, who do you think being your
Speaker 1: favorite guests? Like of season one at least, it's hard
Speaker 1: to every guests are like children. You can't pick a favorite,
Speaker 1: but you can you can. But like Friendly Boys is
Speaker 1: so different than Andrew Yang. It's different than Pope Bridger.
Speaker 1: Is there different energies? Yeah, but you can't, but you
Speaker 1: can pick. Every parent knows. Every parent deep down inside
Speaker 1: knows knows. They say they don't child, that's why you
Speaker 1: say that no no, no no, no no, I've got I've
Speaker 1: got two brothers and my mom knows. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like every parent. Every kid also assumes it
Speaker 1: is them, by the way, but I think every parent knows.
Speaker 1: What do they say? Oh okay, so you won't say
Speaker 1: but you know, so don't say it. Just look at
Speaker 1: me and I'll know. Just just look at me and
Speaker 1: think of your favorites. Now, I know, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I can feel that. I know that. I know. The
Speaker 1: show has become a critical smash hit you you you've
Speaker 1: turned portions of it into like a live performance as well. Um,
Speaker 1: you've created something completely you, completely different. What are you
Speaker 1: plan to do for the future, Like, where's you're gonna
Speaker 1: go for from this? I mean obviously gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: the show hopefully, and then what do you want to do?
Speaker 1: The White House? The presidency? Oh like the actual Oh wow?
Speaker 1: All right, so then let's talk about the song zero
Speaker 1: becomes Present? What are some of your policies stopping poor yeah, okay, powerful.
Speaker 1: Nobody has thought of that. I like that. No one
Speaker 1: has said that. I don't think there's any politician who's
Speaker 1: thought of that, as it may work very powerful. Um
Speaker 1: Any any other ideas to fix the country, get rich myself? Yes, okay, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: anything in addition to that. Um Brat stalls for every
Speaker 1: human in American Wow, these are powerful, powerful policies that
Speaker 1: you that you're putting forward. Thank you. I haven't thought
Speaker 1: about my platform. But you don't really need a platform anymore.
Speaker 1: You just gotta be famous. Oh all right, People, don't
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