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Speaker 2: Yo, Damn. I was the man on campus. I was

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Speaker 3: I heard about this comedy club called the Uptown comedy

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Speaker 2: Everybody used to come through there. Man, I'm talking about

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Speaker 3: But maybe when I tell you, it was the most

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Speaker 3: It was the most amazing thing ever. And that's where

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Speaker 2: So all this was before this is when everybody's on

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Speaker 3: I remember all this stuff that we saw us growing

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Speaker 1: Now, all of a sudden, you go from that date

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Speaker 1: loved at that moment when you were driving by, you

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Speaker 1: were saying, man, I'm on TV now, And I'm not

438
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Speaker 1: sure if you were like, damn, now, I really gotta

439
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Speaker 1: work or you were like, oh, you.

440
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Speaker 2: Gotta realize one thing. Yeah, you got that one thing.

441
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 3: I grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, right, you

442
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 3: know who I grew up with Pete Rock, sal Smooth,

443
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Speaker 3: heavy ding, the Boys, right, I'll be sure, Paul, Yeah,

444
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 3: ready to do all right?

445
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Speaker 2: Next door to us Grand Pooper and Masters Masters of

446
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Speaker 2: Ceremony later came later when I was growing up.

447
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about who I'm really who I really grew

448
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 3: up with. Now, Yufis was right right there, but I

449
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 3: didn't know xing them back then. But I don't even

450
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Speaker 3: know if that was even I don't know if he

451
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Speaker 3: was even known yet.

452
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying the element of all the people

453
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Speaker 1: I mean because all yeah, yeah, going back.

454
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Speaker 3: To like early early, I'm going back to when when

455
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Speaker 3: when Head and Salt Pepper.

456
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Speaker 2: I'm going back back, back, back back. I'm talking about.

457
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Speaker 3: Look, you talking to a dude who used to carry

458
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Speaker 3: record crates for his cousin, who used to battle against

459
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Speaker 3: heavy d in the boys. You're talking about a kid

460
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Speaker 3: that used to go to the Bronx for block parties

461
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: in neighborhoods and we didn't even know and we had

462
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Speaker 3: to be like contend we were from there, be who

463
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Speaker 3: we didn't get beat up?

464
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Speaker 2: You talking about it, dude, You I was like man

465
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Speaker 2: spirit guard man talking the louder.

466
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Speaker 3: I was one of the guests who put his lead

467
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Speaker 3: jeans between the mattress to make sure they were flat

468
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Speaker 3: a friend of the stars, to cuting between the matches,

469
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Speaker 3: to make sure that they would they would have the

470
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Speaker 3: best crease ever.

471
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Speaker 2: And wait to go downtown and go to that concert.

472
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Speaker 3: Man, you're talking about man, Look, you're talking about somebody

473
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Speaker 3: who's been to almost a few name any.

474
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Speaker 2: Hip hop moment. I was there. We are inspired by everything,

475
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Speaker 2: and this is early. I played football with our you know,

476
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Speaker 2: I've been to every man.

477
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Speaker 3: I was almost every party that he did in mart

478
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Speaker 3: vernon people. I see us smooth hanging out with those guys,

479
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Speaker 3: and I'm all forgetting people because we all grew up

480
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Speaker 3: in the boys and girls stuff. We all have history, man,

481
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 3: and that that's our that's our beginnings. Man, this is

482
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Speaker 3: each one of our talents fees the other. It just

483
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Speaker 3: has to You can't Mark Burnin's wanting four square miles.

484
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Speaker 3: How can you not be inspired by someone you went

485
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Speaker 3: to school with and see them blow up like that.

486
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 3: I'll be sure during that rooftop, I can't tell you

487
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Speaker 3: how I want to feel love out of two ninety.

488
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Speaker 2: Day on the rooftop doing the video, it was like, oh,

489
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Speaker 2: that's our friends. A year A year earlier we throwing

490
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Speaker 2: football in middle of the street and he went from

491
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Speaker 2: that to this. When we saw that video, we said, yoh,

492
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Speaker 2: look at our our It's on damn TV. He's on

493
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Speaker 2: video music box. See, man, you I'm talking about age

494
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Speaker 2: right now. I'm going I'm going to hord right now.

495
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Speaker 2: Then no, no, no, no, no no. I was over.

496
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Speaker 1: I was over the Hollers the same this. But you know,

497
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Speaker 1: you know, and what was it where the chuck shall

498
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Speaker 1: out from Chuck Shall out from up there Brox.

499
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Speaker 2: So it was truly Uptown's ticketed, truly, all the battles

500
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Speaker 2: U Shan and terrorist one and all these things, man

501
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Speaker 2: that we see it. We saw that we went to

502
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Speaker 2: I used to go to look. I used to go

503
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Speaker 2: to the soundview. I sell you, uh this seal View

504
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Speaker 2: projects over there. You know how many times I seen

505
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Speaker 2: the Cole Chris brothers. I've seen the cos for so

506
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Speaker 2: many times flash in a few age five, man, I

507
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Speaker 2: seen everybody, but but and.

508
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Speaker 1: I want to get into like, and you clearly are

509
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: like you know you like me, like I think you're

510
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: only four years old than me. But you know, I

511
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: had the same experience with Hollis and we were all

512
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: having you know I was there, you know the same

513
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: thing when running that pulled that bus up. You know

514
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: they picked us all up from Hollis because you know

515
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Speaker 1: you're doing the same And I want to get into

516
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Speaker 1: your head though about the moments, because you know you

517
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Speaker 1: would go from there then you would go to Saturday

518
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Speaker 1: Night Live. You're right on Saturday Night Live.

519
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Speaker 2: Right. I did a lot of first in New York.

520
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Speaker 2: I did the first pilot on MTV. I did the

521
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Speaker 2: first pilot on Comedy Central. I did the first season

522
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Speaker 2: of the comedy Jam. I did the first one of

523
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Speaker 2: the first seasons of B E. T. Comic View. So,

524
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Speaker 2: I man, I can't even this. I try to spain

525
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Speaker 2: us to young, young inspiring comedians and that you truly

526
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 2: have to know how to drive your vehicle. You know,

527
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: I use it. I use that metaphor because you know,

528
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 2: you know, I use it because I just have a

529
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Speaker 2: writ a dance car, you know, the kind of car

530
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Speaker 2: you gotta hold the foot and the break in the

531
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Speaker 2: gas at red lights because it was so when cut

532
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Speaker 2: off on you. That's how I feel like I had

533
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Speaker 2: to move through everything I'm doing.

534
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Speaker 1: So did you look at those pilots as opportunities or

535
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: did you look at it or did other people because

536
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: other people, some people would have been like, yo, man,

537
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: I ain't doing that that new stuff all the time,

538
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: and me because you were starting to get more established.

539
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 2: Look, I told this is what I told people when

540
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 2: I when I did bat comic View. I did BT

541
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Speaker 2: com with view once by the death comedy Jam twice right.

542
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Speaker 2: That was different.

543
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 3: When I did bat once right, and I realized that

544
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 3: all my other friends were doing it three four, five times,

545
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 3: I kept staying I cut up.

546
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 2: I would tell them to say, look, it's okay to

547
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 2: do it that many times. But make sure now this

548
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 2: is the term, this is a big term.

549
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 3: Make sure you still do other stuff, do other stuff,

550
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 3: be able to communicate in other rooms. Don't just make

551
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 3: yourself one dimensional because they gonna see you with one

552
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: dimensional and meaning that I'm in saying it, because look,

553
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: I did multiple things, and I made sure that I

554
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: was able to perform in.

555
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: Front of different kinds of audiences.

556
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Speaker 3: Not that I was excluding anybody, but I made sure

557
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 3: I understood, and I made sure I tried to write

558
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 3: what's overall funny that you can get it, you can

559
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: get it, and I can still go top tele comedy

560
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Speaker 3: club and kill it.

561
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

562
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Speaker 1: But I wanted to make sure that you're saying when

563
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: you said that to other people that did anybody say, nah, man,

564
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Speaker 1: I'm mistake.

565
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 3: No no, no, that's not even you know, an answer

566
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: isn't even required. It's just means to saying, hey man,

567
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 3: you should try to this other stuff so that way

568
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: later on it'll make sense.

569
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Speaker 2: Right now, you might not see it because you're killing

570
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: you're killing me in the black black clubs. You don't

571
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: mean killing it. I get it.

572
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 3: And and there is comedians who do a lot of

573
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 3: black rooms and black theaters and they chill them. But

574
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 3: you still, if you want to have balance, I said,

575
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 3: don't exclude anything.

576
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: Do what you do, but find a way to communicate

577
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 2: and be able to walk in any room for a

578
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 2: meeting and be able to communicate and be able to

579
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 2: sell your brand. Whatever your brand is, you gotta be

580
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 2: able to sell it. This is sharp language. You gotta

581
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 2: be able to sell your brand and know what you

582
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: do to the you know where it's effortless.

583
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: I don't want you to float over that point because

584
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure when you walked into it. Okay, I you

585
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: know I'm not going to assume. But when you walked

586
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: into every single room, different rooms, and you knock it

587
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: out the park all the time, no man, no, but.

588
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 3: You got you gotta hear it. You gotta go through

589
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: your system, through your system. It has to go through

590
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 3: your ears, your decipels.

591
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 2: You know.

592
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 3: You gotta be able to hear the difference and hear

593
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: different laughters. You gotta hear what they what this particular

594
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: audience tonight loves about me? Is it my delivery tonight?

595
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 3: Is it my timing tonight? Is it my mannerisms tonight?

596
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 3: Is it my physicality tonight? Every night I went on stage,

597
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 3: I got different things that that worked. But I had

598
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,959
Speaker 3: to listen to what this particular audience is laughing at

599
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 3: tonight and give them more of what they want this

600
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 3: particular audience wants. Some audiences just want you to sit

601
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: there and give it to them. Some want you to

602
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,719
Speaker 3: paint the pictures on stage.

603
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think I think you're too

604
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: close to it, because I gotta tell you the Uptown

605
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: Comedy Club in the Saturday Night live audio, two different

606
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: people Saturday Night, different people, and Curb two different people. Now,

607
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: when I go out and speak sometimes I will be

608
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: especially you know, for some reason, a lot of times

609
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: I'm banking organizations and especially insurance organizations have to speak.

610
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: And the insurance organizations always say, damon, I got to

611
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: tell you we need change. We are all pale and stale.

612
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: And I walk into the room and a lot of

613
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: silver haired males are there that I'm about to tell

614
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: them a story about a little brown boy who got

615
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: left back and grew up damn near welfare from Hollis. Yeah,

616
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at them and I you know, we

617
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: don't want to assume, you know what I mean, because

618
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: the people have all colors, who've helped all people around

619
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Speaker 1: the world. But I'm looking like, how are they.

620
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: Going to relate to me?

621
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Speaker 1: And they do, But they're sitting there in their staunch,

622
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, they're in their way. They're in their suits

623
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: right there next to their colleagues. Maybe they don't want

624
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: to have a good time. How did you feel walking

625
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: into these rooms, especially when sometimes you did not get

626
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: the reply you wanted? How did you go back into

627
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: that room?

628
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: I need to drive, you know what I mean. If

629
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: I'm and I use that because I know how to

630
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: drive me and I know and I know how to

631
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 2: sell myself. If you can sell yourself, but read people,

632
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 2: you know, read their energies and feel what they're giving

633
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: you back, even if they don't say nothing to you,

634
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 2: and you're able to change the tune of the room.

635
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: You know, and you can feel people, you know what

636
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: I mean.

637
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 3: If you're able to do that, you you are able

638
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 3: to control your destiny. Ain't anytime you see me on

639
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 3: the late night show, I'm always driving. It's not my

640
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: damn show. I'm not the guest, I'm not I'm not

641
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 3: the late night host. But but damn it, damnit, I'm driving.

642
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: I'm driving. I'm driving this damn show tonight. When you

643
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 3: pre interview me, and you're right, you got ten questions

644
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 3: for me, you might get the two or three. You

645
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 3: might know, you might get the two or three of them.

646
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: They already know when I come. They just would throw

647
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 3: that card away because.

648
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: Let's talk industry. Because right now, what you just said,

649
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: because people listening right now, when you pre interview show,

650
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: people don't know that it's not just a given you're

651
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: going to go on the show. You have producer against

652
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: producer against p Yeah, they don't know what you're gonna say,

653
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: if you fit the way that this uh, you know,

654
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Speaker 1: interview is going to interview. So they call you up

655
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: and they pre interviewed because they want to know what

656
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: are you going to say? Can I have this and that?

657
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: And you're saying they're stuck in their own ways and

658
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: a lot of us, you know, we see people who

659
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: are stuck in their own ways. They have their ten questions.

660
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: You're saying, you barely let them get two out, and

661
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: you dictate what's going to happen.

662
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 2: Man, But I can't. I cannot honestly tell anybody to

663
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: do it. But I know how I know how to

664
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 2: do it.

665
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: I trust my process, I trust my thoughts. I trust

666
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 3: listening to what the audience is laughing at right now.

667
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: I trust the host who's show it is, you know,

668
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: even even hosts who have met for the first time

669
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 2: on their show. I feel like we have we have

670
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: to come across like, hey, we're cool, we're friends, We're cool.

671
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 2: This is gonna go so smooth because and then they

672
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 2: get then they get caught.

673
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 1: Up and they disarm them exactly, and they.

674
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 2: See what you're doing and they let you be you

675
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 2: the crowded. As long as the audience is having a

676
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: good time at laughing man, carry on, man, it's has

677
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 2: some fun and I think that's what makes anything. But

678
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: it took me. It took me time to figure that out.

679
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 2: I can'tnot sit here and say I figured it all out.

680
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: I learned.

681
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 2: Even today, every time I get on a set, every

682
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: time I get on stage, I still learn I stumbled.

683
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 2: I full, I do it all. But can nobody tell

684
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 2: you to be smooth? Who's not? Feelings? Because I truly believe.

685
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: And again, I got a bad memory for failure. I

686
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 2: have bad memory for failure. If you ask if I

687
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 2: stay home one night and you ask me that next

688
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 2: say what happened, I'd be like, I don't know.

689
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: You gotta whoa? I don't know what ad memory for

690
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 1: fail Are you serious?

691
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 2: Or you a jeri?

692
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: You have to.

693
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 2: I have to because if I do well on things

694
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: too long, my movement stops. And I tell people. I

695
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: tell them people that all the time. Don't let nobody

696
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: talk you out of anything.

697
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: Experience it for yourself, Absorb it and figure out how

698
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 3: can I fix this?

699
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 2: What did I do wrong last night? Stole and move on.

700
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 2: Now you get stuck in the mud, you're gonna want

701
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 2: to you're gonna be too gunshot to pull a trigger.

702
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 2: You won't be able to pull a trigger, they said

703
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: walking on stage right, it's half the battle. If you

704
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 2: can say I want.

705
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 3: To do this, and you can get your hands out

706
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 3: of that chair and walk on that seat and grab

707
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: that microphone, you're already halfway where you need.

708
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: To be at.

709
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: So and why don't we Why don't we tell on

710
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: what you said?

711
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 2: You said, you walk in.

712
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: The room, you feel out everybody, and then you relate

713
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: to them. What can somebody do right now when they

714
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,879
Speaker 1: walk into a room, Because a lot of people don't

715
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: you know, they walk into a room, they have their

716
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 1: walls up in front of them. What are the cases

717
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: I find?

718
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: You work in a room.

719
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: Everybody has some things in common. Everybody has wives, they

720
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: all have kids, they all have some things they want

721
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: to do and life. Is there anything that you can

722
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: tell us right now that when next time I walk

723
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: in a room and I don't know how to read

724
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: the room, that I can disarm them and I can

725
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: relate to them.

726
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 3: You walk in the room, if your auditioned for something,

727
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 3: you walk in the room. I just want them I

728
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 3: go in the room as the character I want them.

729
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 3: I want to see eyebrows raised. I want to see

730
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 3: them sit up in their chair. I want to see

731
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: them twist their head. I want to see them like, Okay,

732
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 3: I see what they're doing. I disarmed them. And that's

733
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: the same thing I talk about with doing interviews. You

734
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 3: you'll control you're a cadence. You're listen to what a meaning.

735
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: Let's talk what I mean because you you're often in

736
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: rooms when you're you know, you're a businessman the end

737
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: of the day, a hugely successful businessman. Do you walk

738
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: in the room as Jav Smooth, the no comedian, or

739
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: you walking there is the businessman?

740
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 2: I'm working as a businessman and how do you design? Hey,

741
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: I'm jb all day.

742
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 3: Let's talk about what we're gonna Let's talk about right

743
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 3: now what we plan on doing together.

744
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: Do you relate and how do you relate?

745
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: How we can can find our skills to do something don't?

746
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 3: And this is how this is, This is how I'm

747
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 3: talking right now, is how I speak when I'm in meetings.

748
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 2: I'm passionate about what I do. I know how hard

749
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 2: I work, and I know that any I know people

750
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: can do this. I know they can do it. But

751
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: you gotta be passionate about it. And if it ain't you,

752
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: who're gonna do it? Somebody else gonna do.

753
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 3: It and they're gonna feel like that when you walk

754
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 3: out of that room, Like dammit, I like this, dude,

755
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 3: And how how do I corral this moment and make

756
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 3: it and make it work for me? I can't sell

757
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 3: myself short because I already been through it. I've already

758
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 3: been through what. I've been through it many. I lost

759
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 3: my dad when I was fifteen years old, right, my

760
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 3: father died. I guess gris what I had to do.

761
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 3: I had to figure this shit out, and this is

762
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 3: how you got to move sometimes. I went to SNL

763
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 3: as a writer, right, That's what I ended up doing.

764
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 3: I ended up getting a job right as a writer.

765
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 3: That's one check.

766
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: Then I started doing warm up on the show. There's

767
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: two chicks. Then they started cutting me in minologs here

768
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 2: and there. There's three checks. Then Cal O'Brien was still downstairs,

769
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: still at NBC during his show in the same building,

770
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: four stories down in his studio.

771
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 3: He finds out I'm upstairs as a writer. He already

772
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 3: knew me already, he said, Man, Jamie's some stats you know,

773
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: people claw on lawn miners and say, hey, can we

774
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 3: borrow j B? To put JB in some sketches on

775
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 3: my show. So I'm up there working as a writer

776
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 3: behind a computer.

777
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: LAWD called my phone and say, hey, you know, JB,

778
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: A corner wants to borrow you for a little while

779
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: to do a sketch. Go down there and do a

780
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 2: sketch with Corn and then come back and finish your writing. Man,

781
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: what damn that's four checks. If that ain't a New

782
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: York hustle, I don't know what it is.

783
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 3: Four separate checks for doing four different jobs in the

784
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 3: same building, you know what I'm saying. So that being said,

785
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 3: I had to hustle to make that happen. I had

786
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 3: to show up to make them say, hey, you want

787
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 3: to do warm up? I had to show up to

788
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 3: make them say we didn't pick them for cast, but

789
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 3: we're gonna thraw on some sketches, you know what I mean.

790
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 2: I had to have a.

791
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: Relationship already with Coney from previously. He had to like me,

792
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 3: you know, he had to. He had to like me

793
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 3: to say hey, can we borrow j APE. I had

794
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 3: to do that a long time ago. I had to

795
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 3: plant that seed. That's another scene that got planned that

796
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 3: ends up coming back. So I ended up not getting

797
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 3: not getting I end up not getting renewed, right.

798
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 2: Man, this is crazy, this is crazy. So I gotta

799
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: I gotta go. I was watching I got I fired everybody,

800
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 2: so I gotta signed with a new agent.

801
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: Right.

802
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: So, I would say home watching Cribby Enthusiasm, and I

803
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 2: told my wife, I said, man, I love to show

804
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 2: so much. Man, I said, I would love to be

805
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 2: able to show one day. My wife said, you're gonna

806
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 2: be on that show. She said, I see it. I

807
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: can see you and Larry together. I don't know what

808
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: it is. You love this show so much, and you

809
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: do you do this stuff all the time, like with

810
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 2: your eyes closed.

811
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 3: You improvised all the time. You gonna go to a

812
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 3: party and this saying you know the party is it's

813
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 3: a lot live in the whole party up because you

814
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 3: just being you and you're just improvising you. You and

815
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 3: Larry would be so funny together. She put that into

816
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 3: the universe. She's here's how things happen sometimes. One my

817
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 3: wife told me I was gonna be on the show.

818
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 3: Two SNL didn't resign me, right if SNL resigns me,

819
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 3: guess what I never know about. I never know about

820
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 3: quirp enthusiasm because I wouldn't. But I ended up doing

821
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 3: sue stand up on the road. When I didn't get renewed,

822
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 3: I was talking, I was, I just signed a new Asian.

823
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 3: I was on the road doing some stand up you're

824
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 3: talking about. Two or three months after I didn't resign.

825
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 3: I end up in Atlanta in the hotel room after

826
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 3: my show, my phone readings.

827
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 2: My buddy O G.

828
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 3: Pearce, who produced the song this is how we do it,

829
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 3: Marchal Jordan is how we do it. You know, g

830
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 3: Gonna make some das you know he produced that song.

831
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 3: We became friends when I was on such an an

832
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 3: a Tannis show. He was doing the music supervisor, so

833
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 3: me and him.

834
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 2: Hit it off. We became good friends. And then I

835
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: found out that O G passed away, right I ended

836
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:30,479
Speaker 2: up leaving Atlanta, I said, oh, and then I found

837
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: out they were having a memorial service for m in La.

838
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 2: So look I just saw it. With a new agent.

839
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 2: I get to La. I said, hell, way, I'm in La.

840
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 2: I'might as well go and see my new agent. Go

841
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: and meet them so I say, you know what, let

842
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: me go over here and meet meet these double heads.

843
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 2: I met the people in New York. Let me go

844
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: meet the people in the LA office. I go over

845
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 2: to the LA office. I'm over in town. One day,

846
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: my just came for the memorial service. I get to

847
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 2: the office, right, I called myself in town for a

848
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 2: friends of memorial service. He passed away.

849
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 3: He said, come on over to the office and meet

850
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 3: the team. I go over there, man, I go to

851
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 3: go to this you know, big ass table. Ten chairs

852
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 3: around the table. I'm sitting at the head of the table.

853
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 3: Everybody got blue suits. Hoole like weed, a damn matrix,

854
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 3: you know, like I'm in the major like a meo.

855
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 3: I said, okay, so what you want to do now?

856
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 2: You know you've been behind a computer type ping for

857
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 2: three years. You know what's what do you want to do?

858
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 3: I said, you know what, Man, I'm just ready to

859
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 3: get from behind the camera back to the front of

860
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 3: the camera again.

861
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: Man, my energy is good, you know God. And then

862
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: Asian walks in and says, hey, man, hey, JD get

863
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 2: to meet you. Hey, I heard you in town. Hey

864
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: what do you How long you here?

865
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 3: I said, I leave tomorrow. I only came in to

866
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 3: town because my buddy O. G. Pierce passed away. I

867
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 3: only came to town for that, So I'm leaving tomorrow.

868
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 3: I got a gig on Sunday.

869
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: Man.

870
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 2: He says, well, I got an audition.

871
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: If you have time to go over there. I said, yeah,

872
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 3: I'm free, I can go over there. I can go

873
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 3: over there today. I said, what's it?

874
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 2: Four?

875
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 3: He said, Curby Enthusiasm. I said what I said, Man,

876
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: I love kurb enthusiasm. I said, I love kurb enthusiasm.

877
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: He said, can you go over there now? I said,

878
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: I said, I said, give me the side. He gave

879
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 2: me the sides. There's three different things on the page right.

880
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: He said, you know you're gonna do it, maybe two

881
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 2: of these off this list. I said, okay, I read

882
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 2: the paper. I said, man, I'm going ahead. I know

883
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 2: I know what this is.

884
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 3: I get over there, man, I go split over there.

885
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 3: Everybody's in that room ready to go in the audition.

886
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 3: All my friends, all all my comedian friends are all

887
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 3: going in for the same role, for my role, going

888
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: in there for bificous role, going in there for Auntie

889
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 3: Rag's role. All the roles people are in that room.

890
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 3: Going in there, I'm saying, oh, man, you know we're.

891
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 2: Joking around in there. So I said, yo, I said one, okay,

892
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 2: So I read it, and here's what I do. I

893
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 2: walk in the room. This is my thing. I feel like,

894
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: especially when I'm trying to figure the character out. Like

895
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 2: I said, I'm go into the room as the character.

896
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. I walk in the room as Leon. M Yo.

897
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 3: Your white people were looking at me like, what in

898
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 3: the hell is going on here? They didn't know what

899
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 3: I was doing, but I had him laughing.

900
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

901
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: They were like, they said, yo, and Larry's still in

902
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 2: the middle of the room. I had no idea at

903
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 2: a curb your enthusiasm or audition you improvised directly with Larry.

904
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 2: I had no idea. I had no idea you want

905
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: this room sometimes you're going on tape.

906
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: That gotta be intimidating to it.

907
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 2: But see, just save me. It saved me because I

908
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: didn't go in the room as JP. I didn't go

909
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: and I went in the room as Leon.

910
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: You always Leon.

911
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 3: From from minute from the time I turned the door

912
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 3: knob the walk in there, I was already in Leon Low.

913
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 3: I already started doing some man of riasms wore I

914
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 3: thought he was. I started speaking differently. I started speaking

915
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 3: more aggressively to Larry because I wanted to put him

916
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 3: on his heels. The first thing I said to Larry,

917
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: this is crazy. I did this though I wouldn'tcommend anybody

918
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 3: doing this, but I said, I said, Okay, okay, JB.

919
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 3: He said, you're gonna improvise with Larry. Let's do seem one.

920
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 2: And I said, okay, Larry, let's improvise. I said, may

921
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 2: We're gonna improvise, right, And I've been doing it. I've

922
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 2: been improvising my whole life. I bet improvising through my

923
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 2: real life and my stand up life. That's the only

924
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: way I'm able to have that type of confidence in

925
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 2: what I'm doing. Win or lose. You gotta have it.

926
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: I walk in there, I said, okay, Labry for improvise.

927
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: I said, anything can happen, Larry. I don't know. I

928
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 2: might slap in the.

929
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 3: Face, I don't know. Let's see what happened. Le's see

930
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 3: what we going, you know. Larry looked at me like

931
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 3: what the what the is? Room and the producers all

932
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 3: like and Larry looked at the producers like like, okay,

933
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 3: you know, and man, from that moment on, I had

934
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 3: that dude crying.

935
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 2: He had to we we get it off, so well,

936
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 2: see you don't you don't know how these things work.

937
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 3: Then later on I found out that Larry actually but well,

938
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: Larry's on the show that I used to love, which

939
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 3: was Fridays.

940
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 2: Remember that show. Fridays.

941
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 3: Fridays was a show that was in competition with SNL

942
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:42,919
Speaker 3: back and the day. Remember Fridays, God Fridays. Oh Man,

943
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 3: Fridays was a joint. Michael Richards was on Fridays, Larry

944
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 3: was on Fridays. It was a show that went head

945
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 3: to head with.

946
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 2: Man.

947
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 3: It was freaking Hilarry's. It was the only other sketch

948
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 3: show that was just like SNL that came on late

949
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: at night. Different, no work. I. I go in the

950
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 3: corner and we just started.

951
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 2: We hit it. We immediately hit it off.

952
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 3: We laugh and get laughing and say asshof you know

953
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 3: produces the bike meen and I left out of there.

954
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: My agent called me, and my new agent called me.

955
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 2: Chicked on me. He said, man, how did we go?

956
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 2: I said, Man, if anybody else walk in and get

957
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: that role, God blessing, But all often say, is me

958
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 2: and Larry had a great time. But Larry, But Larry

959
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 2: did work in SNL for a year. Now, I'm gonna

960
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 2: tell you when I worked at SNL for three seasons,

961
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: I can count on one hand how many of my

962
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: sketches made it to air one hand, and I might

963
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 2: be able to remove two fingers.

964
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: Why you didn't get anything renewed but yet?

965
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:51,240
Speaker 2: But but let me tell you them. I was definitely.

966
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 3: A favorite at SNL. My pictures are legendary, legendary. You

967
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 3: took a comedian who writes for himself and you put

968
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 3: them in a writing position, you know, actuality. I probably

969
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 3: should have been both. I probably should have been a

970
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 3: cast member who wrote for himself and other people. Because

971
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 3: I mean, to this day, people still bring up my

972
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 3: old sketches. I don't care who I see. I could

973
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 3: see Lauren, I could see head writers from back then,

974
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 3: past members from back then. They all remember every pitch

975
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 3: I ever pitched, because I would pitch. I would pitch

976
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 3: as a comedian meeting. I would stand up and I

977
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 3: would pitch my, my, my, my sketch ideas.

978
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 2: So this is crazy.

979
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 3: I leave there, I said, if someone gets it, this,

980
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 3: God bless him. I said, me and Larry had a

981
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 3: good time. I thought about it. I didn't think about

982
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 3: it no more. I said, whatever happens happens. I've seen

983
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 3: a lot of people in that room who are talented

984
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 3: as hell. So for me and so like, we'll see

985
00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 3: what happens.

986
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: You know. I didn't think about it. I just said

987
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 2: laterated a good time. I don't know how it's gonna

988
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 2: turn out. I don't know.

989
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 3: I get on my flight for the next day. I

990
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 3: fly to Pittsburgh to do a stand up show. I

991
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 3: landed Pittsburgh. I had to drive two hours to get

992
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 3: to the comedy club, which is deep and Pensidica.

993
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 2: I get there the most horrible hotel I've ever been in,

994
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 2: motel Motel No. I got to three hours earlier. I

995
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 2: laid on the bed in my clothes and my colt

996
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 2: and know, I'm thinking about this is crazy, how life is.

997
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 2: I'm laying there one can damn thirty ass bed. Right.

998
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 3: It's a horrible ass motel, you know, And I'm sitting

999
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 3: there like, damn my ass used to write for. I

1000
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 3: get on stage, man, I had a good show, right,

1001
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 3: go back to the room, I said, Nah, after I

1002
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 3: smell bad weather coming.

1003
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: I can smell it.

1004
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 3: I said, nah, I'm two hours from the airport. Here's

1005
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna leave here. I'm gonna

1006
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 3: go drive and stay at the airport in a nice

1007
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 3: clean room. Got a Hampton in I'm not gonna stand

1008
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 3: this raggedy ass motel. I packed myself, put.

1009
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 2: It in the trunk. Started driving. Fifteen minutes into my drive,

1010
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 2: it is freaking me. Bury's coming down, snow wurry. Then

1011
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 2: it's like more snow. Then it's more snow. Man.

1012
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 3: It got a half an hour into the ride, I

1013
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 3: couldn't see. I said, damn it. Should I turn around

1014
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 3: and go back? I said, no, what I'm these coats,

1015
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 3: I can drive it in this snow. We used to

1016
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 3: driving in the snow. I'm done fifteen hours. An hour

1017
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 3: is freaking the blizzard. People are pulling over under it

1018
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 3: and other passes and stuff. I'm just driving in the

1019
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 3: middle of the highway. My agent calls me.

1020
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 2: Now I'm thinking he's calling me about what happened club

1021
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 2: and be cussing his ass out. He said, you know what,

1022
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: I said, man, Look man, that dude's a trip. He said, yeah,

1023
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,840
Speaker 2: I know, man. We we've he always gets into it

1024
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 2: other people. Then he says, I said, now when a

1025
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 2: Holloway doing fifteen miles an hour, man the snow, He said,

1026
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 2: slow down to ten miles an hour because I need

1027
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 2: you to come back to LA tomorrow, because you just

1028
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 2: got Kurby enthusias dang. And I said, yo, I said

1029
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: what I said? Let me call you back, man. I

1030
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 2: call my wife. I said, baby, guess what happened. Guess

1031
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 2: what I got? Kirby enthusiasmic. She said, God, I do it.

1032
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 2: I told you you. I told you he's gonna love you.

1033
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 2: I do it it. That's IM saying, listen to your wives.

1034
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: I tell tell people all the time, it's still the

1035
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 2: wife once in a while. But my wife came on

1036
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 2: the show. David, this is nuts, dammit. I get back

1037
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 2: to l A right.

1038
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 3: But first day on set with that, we were having

1039
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 3: so much, some damn fun. Right in between shots, Larry's

1040
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 3: to me, he said, man, this is crazy, but I feel.

1041
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 4: Like we've been working together for years. I said, no,

1042
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 4: what Larry has ironically be had And I had to

1043
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 4: think about this on my head. We were both on

1044
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 4: essdel We both barely got sketches on snel. Larry even

1045
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 4: quit while he was on Essendel went home. His roommate said,

1046
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 4: are you crazy? That's a check. Larry went back to

1047
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 4: work the next day and pretend like he did. He

1048
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 4: actually did an episode.

1049
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,959
Speaker 2: Of a side thought on it. Yeah, he quit because

1050
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 2: I asked who his roommates so, are you crazy? That's

1051
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 2: a freaking check.

1052
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: Man.

1053
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:51,720
Speaker 2: Larry went back to work. By nothing happened. Damn its crazy,

1054
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 2: he said, So we that's we had that moment, right,

1055
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 2: did the whole season? Kirby enthusing, right, we ended up.

1056
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 2: You know, they had the rap part. So they had

1057
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 2: the rap part just everybody you know, all casts or

1058
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 2: crewe the celebrate the season being over.

1059
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 3: We get to the rap part, right, my wife and

1060
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 3: are there showing it. They had something called the gag wheel.

1061
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 5: The gag wheels all the funny moments from the season

1062
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 5: or photos of everybody on crew taking pictures of pictures

1063
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 5: and candid photos of each other, videos scenes that you

1064
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 5: know where were laughing too much or whatever, you know,

1065
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 5: group of rios stuff.

1066
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 2: Man, So dam it's crazy. Just what song was on

1067
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 2: the Jagga bull the bean music? Right? This is how

1068
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 2: we do it? Shit yo, yo, man, my heart just

1069
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: started being crazy, and my wife and I looked at

1070
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 2: each other, like, yo, that's crazy. I would never have

1071
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,280
Speaker 2: even been in l A. I had to think about everything.

1072
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 3: I said, one what if Woji didn't die, What if

1073
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 3: you didn't die at that week, or what if you

1074
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 3: didn't die at all? I would have never been in LA.

1075
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,320
Speaker 3: What IFS and L would have resigned me for my

1076
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 3: fourth season? I wouldn't have been in LA, I said,

1077
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 3: third or first? You told me I was want to

1078
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: be on the show, but you wouldn't. We wouldn't have

1079
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 3: had that. You told me I was gonna be on

1080
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 3: that show, be before I got fired. And if I

1081
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 3: think about that moment, you gotta have several moments. I think,

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Speaker 3: but you gotta have the right frame of mind. You

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00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:54,280
Speaker 3: gotta want everybody to win. You don't want just yourself

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00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 3: to win. Even when I left that audition, I wanted

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00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 3: my friends to win. Those are a real friends in

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00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 3: that room going in after me.

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00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 2: Now, I ain't a lie. When I came out there,

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00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 2: I was. I was fucking with my little bit. I said,

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00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 2: hey man, I hold the door. I was just that's

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00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 2: just how we do a comedity. I hold the door.

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00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 2: I was all right, all right, okay, Mary, you call

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00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,879
Speaker 2: me later. Man, you'd be cool and close the door.

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 2: I said, yeah. Larry said, y'all get just sco the now.

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00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: You don't want to be in the room. You don't

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00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: want to be a room. You don't want to be

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00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: in a room with all your comedians. And one time

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00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: it's O.

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Speaker 2: No, no. Everybody started laughing. Because that's how we do.

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00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, y'all gonna have fun.

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00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 3: Man, got I gotta go with the Pittsburgh Man do

1101
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 3: a show. I said, good luck, everybody, good luck. But

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00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 3: I say that because that's how we are.

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00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: We that's how I am. I root for everybody because

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00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 2: I know if you could walk in that room and win,

1105
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: that opens up. That opens up other doors. Yeah, it

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00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: opens other doors up. So my moment can become your moment.

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Speaker 1: You know, Jay. And this is probably one of the

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00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: most informal, most powerful interviews I've done it in a

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00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: long time for various reasons. I think that you did

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00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: go over what that moment was. I've had those type

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00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: of moments, but I think everything is not just that simple.

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Speaker 1: It is, like you said, planning seeds, and that moment

1113
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: is a culmination of a bunch of moments that happened.

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00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: And I think you said it right.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: You know, you lost a lot of people, so you

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00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: value the moments that when you when you're with people,

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00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: you you walk out the room and you wish everybody

1119
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,919
Speaker 1: you know success, even if it's no one against maybe

1120
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,360
Speaker 1: your success, but it doesn't matter. You know, you don't

1121
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: want to get in their way. It doesn't make your

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00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: way any easier, you know what I mean. And then

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00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: you had a special moment. Man. I really really thank you, man,

1124
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: because I think that I got to reflect and think

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00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: about things. And you know, you've always been like that.

1126
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever met I mean, you know, Quincy.

1127
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: You know you've never had people in between any of us.

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00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: Like when I speak to you, and I've always whenever

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00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: I've speak spoken to anybody spoken you, it's almost like

1130
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: you're talking to a long lost friend or old body,

1131
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: you know. And even if you have somebody there who's

1132
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: working with you, like my Chauncey or my Ted parent

1133
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: or Ted, it's like, yeah, that's cool, but we're talking

1134
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: to you. We're just all hanging out. And I think

1135
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: that that is what makes you such a beautiful person,

1136
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: and it comes off on TV. It comes off when

1137
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: people meet you, man, and and it's good to see

1138
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,959
Speaker 1: people that don't put a lot of shields in front

1139
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: of them. And if we have to go and speak

1140
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: to the other people, it's all good. But we know that,

1141
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: we know that it's part of the process and it

1142
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 1: was all cool. But thank you for sharing that moment

1143
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: with me.

1144
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 2: I think you have me man too.

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00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: We know we always have good talk, we always have

1146
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: a good time. We're gonna have any more of them,

1147
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna have.

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00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 2: Well.

1149
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us.

1150
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 2: Brother, Hey man, I love you all. Man, You'll be

1151
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 2: good day.

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Speaker 1: This has been that Moment with Damon John. That Moment

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