Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow, what's up, Years Edition listener,
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Speaker 1: Show podcasts, Beyond the Scenes, hosted by Roy Wood Junior.
Speaker 1: It's the podcast where we dived deep into segments and
Speaker 1: topics from the Daily Show, which the show's writers, producers
Speaker 1: and experts. In this episode, Leslie Jones reflects on her
Speaker 1: week as Daily Show host. She's joined by her co
Speaker 1: host of The Fuckery Podcast, Lenny Marcus. They discuss how
Speaker 1: SNL prepared her for the Daily Show, what advice Chris
Speaker 1: Rod gave her before starting the role, why she wanted
Speaker 1: to tackle men's mental health, and the backstory she created
Speaker 1: for each of the Daily Show correspondents. If you like
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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Welcome to Beyond the Scenes, the
Speaker 1: podcast that goes beyond the scenes of topics and segments
Speaker 1: that ed originally on The Daily Show. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Roy Wood Junior. Very special episode today and what I
Speaker 1: say special first off of you watching the video of this,
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Speaker 1: Show studios. I can tell you where we are, but
Speaker 1: then I'd have to kill you. Here's what this podcast,
Speaker 1: it's like. This is what you have to think of
Speaker 1: this podcasts. This podcast is like you're not in school.
Speaker 1: You got your school teacher who give you the information.
Speaker 1: That's the Daily Show. This podcast is the substitute teacher
Speaker 1: who comes in and go yo ya, ain't got to
Speaker 1: do none of that. Ship today was talking about Today
Speaker 1: we're willing in the TV and we're about to watch
Speaker 1: Faces of Death and a couple of R rated movies.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that analogy completely connects. Joining me
Speaker 1: today though a two wonderful wonderful guests. First up, he
Speaker 1: is one of the co hosts of the Fuckery podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm supposed to add that you
Speaker 1: in there, because I know that y'all like for search
Speaker 1: engine optimization, you can't spell fuckery all the way out,
Speaker 1: so the care it's still pronounced like that, the no, no no,
Speaker 1: no yes. He is acclaimed stand up comedian and writer
Speaker 1: Lenny Marcus. Lenny, how you doing, Thanks right, thanks for
Speaker 1: having it. We took out the vows for the kids,
Speaker 1: but we we still pronounce it but the kids and
Speaker 1: that voice you here is a wonderful, wonderful stand up
Speaker 1: comedian or do we just do comedian? And snell alum.
Speaker 1: But more importantly for the sake of this podcast, she
Speaker 1: was the first guest host of the Daily Show when
Speaker 1: we came back after Trevor Noah's departure and uh, y'all
Speaker 1: Knowah also as a co host of The Fuckery Podcast
Speaker 1: Leslie Jones. Nice, nice see. I used to hate comedian.
Speaker 1: Now I actually like it. Why, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think you earn it. Oh that's interesting comedian or you're
Speaker 1: in comedian comedian. Yeah, it's like a little acoustic crown
Speaker 1: right on top because you can just say you're a comic.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you know, yeah, but comedian
Speaker 1: comedian is by something when you call me a penny
Speaker 1: ask for now and call me a penny us you
Speaker 1: know what, what I'm okay, what I'm going to do
Speaker 1: is violently attack you first, and then I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: all that and that chemistry that you see between these
Speaker 1: two right now, that is what they have been for years.
Speaker 1: These two. Also, what do I call, y'all, is it
Speaker 1: writing partners? Is it producing partners? Because you do so
Speaker 1: many projects together and I know that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of what Leslie touches that Lenny Marcus's fingerprints are on,
Speaker 1: and least I know it's vice versa, so like, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a writing duo, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell y'all are. All I know is
Speaker 1: that when you two are together, it is magic. And
Speaker 1: when you came into this whole situation. First off, give
Speaker 1: us a little bit of the backstory last of how
Speaker 1: you and Lenny met, because it's important that people understand
Speaker 1: your dynamic, and then how that dynamic came into the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Because I'm telling y'all, you two or some
Speaker 1: shit we never had in this build that that that
Speaker 1: makes me emotional. I'm gonna be honest, that makes me
Speaker 1: a little emotional inside. Um. You know, I always I
Speaker 1: always had a vision of my career because that's you know,
Speaker 1: Virgo is just like that. I always knew what type
Speaker 1: of steps I wanted to take, and when I got
Speaker 1: good enough, I was like, if I get a writer,
Speaker 1: I want to be like one of those writing teams
Speaker 1: that's like you know that, like when we go down
Speaker 1: in time, they'd be like, you know, these two people
Speaker 1: wrote together and they created this, this, this and this,
Speaker 1: and I had that idea in my mind. And when
Speaker 1: you really try to force an idea, you end up
Speaker 1: either force it or either you think it, and you
Speaker 1: have to go through what it takes to actually get
Speaker 1: that type of partnerships. Like I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: people that I've wrote with and it didn't work out
Speaker 1: or it just it they wasn't even secure, it just
Speaker 1: it just didn't vibe. And to find Lenny, and it's
Speaker 1: so crazy that everything that I used to fantasize about,
Speaker 1: I used to fantasize having this writing partner and we
Speaker 1: would just be like writing everything together, doing everything together,
Speaker 1: doing all the jokes together, righte. Movies and stuff and
Speaker 1: and do. And it's like to hear you say that,
Speaker 1: it just it's like, oh shit, Like the fucking dream.
Speaker 1: People need to understand the dream that you have. Don't
Speaker 1: go through the fucking path that you think is going
Speaker 1: to go through. It's like a circuit. It's like you
Speaker 1: make the wish and then it goes out there and
Speaker 1: finds its path to you. So it could be anything.
Speaker 1: It can happen any type of way. Me and Lenny
Speaker 1: met at the Seller. I came in there one night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: comedy seller. I think I came in there one night.
Speaker 1: He was sitting at the table, and I think people
Speaker 1: were this is how I remember, but Lenny's going to
Speaker 1: tell probably because Lenny doesn't smoke weed, but this is
Speaker 1: what this is. The fragments of the story that I
Speaker 1: remember is that he was sitting there and there was
Speaker 1: ragging him about him marrying his girl. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what is your girl? The comedians will attack you for
Speaker 1: being in love. Yeah, well, they were just ragging him.
Speaker 1: They were ragging him and saying, yo, you should marry her,
Speaker 1: like she's hot and woo. And I think he showed
Speaker 1: me a pitch and I was like, oh, yeah, motherfuck
Speaker 1: you stupid, like marry or whatever, right, And then I
Speaker 1: think I left a year, came back the next year
Speaker 1: they had got married. I performed and Lenny came down
Speaker 1: and gave me some notes. He was like, Yo, you
Speaker 1: know these are some good you know tags, I got
Speaker 1: some tags to your jokes. And I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go around the corner and do him. And he
Speaker 1: was like like right now, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: fuck that, let's go, like and we went around and
Speaker 1: I was like, like, I think it was like shit,
Speaker 1: maybe like at least seven of them fucking hit. I
Speaker 1: think it was like all of them him. I was like,
Speaker 1: Oh shit, this dude, this dude like and then I
Speaker 1: saw his set and I was like, oh fuck, this
Speaker 1: motherfucker's hilarious. And then we went to a Yankee game
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, Roy, I don't fun I didn't
Speaker 1: fuck with baseball before Lenny. We sat there there and
Speaker 1: Lenny made me love baseball. And I'm telling you, I
Speaker 1: and me and my assistant was laughing like NonStop, like
Speaker 1: it was so like he was saying funny shit that
Speaker 1: was just like so grown it grown jokes, like I've
Speaker 1: hung around people before, you know what I'm saying. I've
Speaker 1: hung around people before and they'd be silly and you go,
Speaker 1: I gotta laugh at that goofy shit, you know. But
Speaker 1: Lenny was grown. So that's And for the people who
Speaker 1: don't understand comedy, Lenny, Yeah, what you did that night
Speaker 1: at the comedy Sellers fucking insane. Yes, you could have
Speaker 1: got cussed the hell out because just so just so
Speaker 1: I could describe you to the people we all know.
Speaker 1: You know, Leslie Jones sixty three six Flourish, Lenny looks
Speaker 1: how he sounds. Lenny's taller than me. But you know
Speaker 1: what was so crazy, Roise that he wrote the jokes
Speaker 1: down so per ically, And I was like, this motherfucker
Speaker 1: is a nerd too, and it's like fucking love nerds.
Speaker 1: And that's connected to day we Okay, So, Linda, how
Speaker 1: much of that? How much of Leslie's story? The the
Speaker 1: It might be a little out of order, but it's
Speaker 1: very It's close enough, and I'll take it. And because
Speaker 1: when she tells it every time, it kind of changes,
Speaker 1: like the events change every time. Yeah, yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty close. And yeah, she took me to this
Speaker 1: Yankee game. And you know this, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: You don't want to give lines to somebody coming off
Speaker 1: stage right, you know they're not in the space hears
Speaker 1: how to do your job better twenty year veteran. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got to know that person really well. But she
Speaker 1: took me this Yankee game. I don't think you know
Speaker 1: those seats right, they're right behind home play Michael seats
Speaker 1: all right, Yes, seriously, that's you know how she says
Speaker 1: the circuit comes to you and the whole thing, that
Speaker 1: whole mess, which she was talking about circuitry and spirituality. No,
Speaker 1: I that's not me. I was just like, one day,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting those fucking seats and she's like, hey, you
Speaker 1: want to go to the game. I was like, I
Speaker 1: know those seats and it's happening right in real time.
Speaker 1: So you manifested the seats. Is that great? So I
Speaker 1: manifested the seats. So I get to the seats, I
Speaker 1: am a tear is like rolling down my eye, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do I how do I pay this
Speaker 1: woman back for this? And the only way I could
Speaker 1: think of, you know what, I'll stick my head in,
Speaker 1: I'll watch the set and if I have anything to say,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'll just say hi, you know, and
Speaker 1: I go and to watch the set. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: think I can. I think she's got a couple a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff here, And so I started taking out
Speaker 1: a pen and started writing stuff real quick. I wrote
Speaker 1: like ten things down. She comes off, and I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for the punch in the face roy I say. I
Speaker 1: literally had to say, hey, I know it's gonna sound
Speaker 1: hey good. She's like, hey, good to see I go
Speaker 1: do you want a couple of lines? Maybe? And she's like,
Speaker 1: I was waiting for get the fuck out of my face. No,
Speaker 1: she goes yeah. I'm like really, She goes yeah, you
Speaker 1: all meet, you go to the baseball games. You have
Speaker 1: this wonderful journey over the next seven eight years of
Speaker 1: just making dope ass content. Right when you get the
Speaker 1: call for the Daily Show and Lenny being the words
Speaker 1: Smith and I would say, less, you're probably a little
Speaker 1: more jazz commedically, And I don't say that as an
Speaker 1: oh no, you're very much. You have an idea, you
Speaker 1: play around with it, but in TV you have the
Speaker 1: constraints of time. Now you also know what you want
Speaker 1: to say, but you're trying to figure out the funniest
Speaker 1: way to say. What was your expectations, what was your approach?
Speaker 1: What was you all's plans? Because you're also you also
Speaker 1: have the burden of being the first mother, the first
Speaker 1: person to guess host. It mean, the first person to
Speaker 1: come back to kick down the doors, to re establish
Speaker 1: this brand. This is the twenty five year brand dog Well.
Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, Lenny the first time
Speaker 1: Lenny saw me on the road, Roy, I did an
Speaker 1: hour in twenty minutes. You know how black comics do, right,
Speaker 1: And I really thought I was the shit. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm gonna come off stage and Lenny's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh wow, I didn't know that you was
Speaker 1: walking Messiah. I literally you know, you know, you know
Speaker 1: that's how cocky. I was like, oh yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know why you you hell hell
Speaker 1: comedians should hell you. They should have made a statue
Speaker 1: at you. So I come on stage and I'm sweating
Speaker 1: and shit just knowing I ripped, and Lenny was like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck was that? He was like, why the
Speaker 1: fuck you even get off stage at fifty eight minutes?
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Nobody wants to see you? After fifty
Speaker 1: eight minutes he was like, you said, motherfucker like seventy two?
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Like he went off on me, like
Speaker 1: off on me. So it was like, well, that's what
Speaker 1: it felt like. I was laughing because I was laughing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is motherfucker, Like no, this motherfucker ain't telling me. I
Speaker 1: know the fuck I've been doing comedy. Whoo whoo. But
Speaker 1: see what I what one thing that I will admit
Speaker 1: about myself that I've always admitted to people is that
Speaker 1: I am a wild, bucking horse. Like I'm not afraid
Speaker 1: to kick the fucking French thing down and run in
Speaker 1: the field. I'm not afraid to buck off a motherfucker
Speaker 1: that I don't want on me. I will jump feet
Speaker 1: first from the building. That's who the fuck I am,
Speaker 1: you know. So Lenny is the guy who is the
Speaker 1: lion Tamer's that's what I call him. I call him
Speaker 1: the lion tamer. He knows what I am and it
Speaker 1: he'll put it down and go stick to this like
Speaker 1: this is this is the script stick. And that's an
Speaker 1: important dynamic because the thing about the Daily Show is
Speaker 1: that the structure of the show. We also don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of time. The morning meetings at nine, rehearsals
Speaker 1: at three, you don't have a lot of time. So
Speaker 1: you have to figure out very stickily how you want
Speaker 1: to do stuff. So Lenny, when you come into the
Speaker 1: building and I feel like you having that more of
Speaker 1: a sense of structure, but you also don't want to lose.
Speaker 1: We don't want to lose what Leslie does right, what
Speaker 1: did you anticipate coming into this, Like, what what did
Speaker 1: you heard about the show? What did you hear about? Well,
Speaker 1: the show. It's a brilliant show. I know, I've watched
Speaker 1: it when John did it. You could tell how funny
Speaker 1: the writing staff is. They get it. And my expectations
Speaker 1: were pretty high, and I was like, can we meet
Speaker 1: your level of expectations because you know, she's she doesn't
Speaker 1: do a lot of prompt to work. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of prompt to work in that she doesn't do, you know,
Speaker 1: like we we have. We've worked with other production companies
Speaker 1: before that we didn't like. So anytime you go into
Speaker 1: a new arena, there's so much to happen within, you know,
Speaker 1: getting to know people and working with people. And then
Speaker 1: you know she's got to do Like with the correspondence,
Speaker 1: you got to do like a two person thing here.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot coming in. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is a lot of bells and whistles are you know?
Speaker 1: But with her there's always two things that play. One
Speaker 1: is she's going to bring everything she's bringing. She is
Speaker 1: bringing way more than you. A bomb is coming in.
Speaker 1: You guys don't even know that this explosions about to
Speaker 1: go off. When I come in, I'm thinking, okay, just
Speaker 1: I have to let her do that thing, let her
Speaker 1: explore with the talent, and let me just figure out
Speaker 1: how to make it all work around her. That's that's
Speaker 1: what that staff did. And you know S ANDL. Of course,
Speaker 1: my experience doing the updates with SNL was very helpful, yea,
Speaker 1: being behind this desk, and he's right. We didn't have prompters.
Speaker 1: We had Q cards, So whenever you do the prompter,
Speaker 1: you gotta get that person on the same rhythm as you.
Speaker 1: And I always feel stupid when I read out loud,
Speaker 1: so I always try to memorize a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I try to tell them not to change too much.
Speaker 1: But I try to memorize a lot because I don't
Speaker 1: like to look like I'm reading and it's just it's
Speaker 1: it was a lot of shit. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of shit. But I'm gonna tell you that fucking that
Speaker 1: fucking writing staff, that crew, it's so much different than
Speaker 1: anything I've ever experienced. It was the first time I
Speaker 1: was able to come in and actually be talented. I
Speaker 1: didn't have to write, I didn't have to direct, I
Speaker 1: didn't have to point I didn't have to do none
Speaker 1: of that shit. You did right, And we wrote for yourself,
Speaker 1: well you know we could they can. We could lay
Speaker 1: it out for her and then she'll lesliefy it. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? How we're like, can I ask
Speaker 1: to a degree, how your preparation different for SNL versus
Speaker 1: the Daily Show? Okay, well y'all, y'all both have that schedule.
Speaker 1: But what I would say for the Daily Show is
Speaker 1: we know everybody I know from SNL. They'd be texting
Speaker 1: me at three thirty in the morning on a weeknight
Speaker 1: about hit at Home. I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying for the day of show, it's like your
Speaker 1: days start to like three. Yeah. And then the SNL
Speaker 1: is six days a week, six days a week. It's
Speaker 1: six days a motherfucker week. We only get Sunday off.
Speaker 1: And they give you the thing of like mentally like
Speaker 1: you need to forget last week. It don't matter what
Speaker 1: the fuck happened to you, you need to forget last week.
Speaker 1: And it's it's a brutal hard, it's a hard. Like
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that at the Daily Show. I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like it was such a hard schedule to where
Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay, I'm gonna die, like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: die like we was home every night by eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very efficient here, very I don't even know if
Speaker 1: you guys appreciate how efficient, because I don't think that
Speaker 1: y'all even understand how efficient y'all are. They waste resources,
Speaker 1: nobody knows what's up. Yeah, but here everybody seems to
Speaker 1: know every you know, it is a tight ship. I
Speaker 1: would say the experience at the desks and learning how
Speaker 1: to cut jokes and stuff. I think SNL got me
Speaker 1: prepared a little bit for the Daily Show for that
Speaker 1: because it was so easy, Like I think I think
Speaker 1: Jim was like so surprised every time she would come
Speaker 1: up and go, okay, so we're gonna cut this and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna put this, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds about writing. She would be like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah. Because people get attached to joke, I think
Speaker 1: it's funny. No, And we've been there, jo Roy, we've
Speaker 1: been understand I've had jokes that that people be like.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'm retiring to joke. It's like what
Speaker 1: you're gonna put it in the glass thing, like on
Speaker 1: top of your fucking on your wall or some shit
Speaker 1: like you know, jokes be like baby stuffs. When I
Speaker 1: first started s ANDL they was cutting them jokes, I
Speaker 1: was like, you're killing me. But then you start loving
Speaker 1: the cut. The cut, just like the clean jokes. Are
Speaker 1: not your children. They're your step children. You gotta love
Speaker 1: them but a little while, and then before a little while,
Speaker 1: and they're not even your step children. They just kind
Speaker 1: of like you, Like you said the substitute teacher, These motherfuckers,
Speaker 1: don't you don't really want you Guys also write. I
Speaker 1: mean the writing here is so strong. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: cut something, it's like, great, you already have ten killers beforehands.
Speaker 1: And y'all wrote for me like y'all wrote for me,
Speaker 1: like not at me. Okay. So then to that point,
Speaker 1: the topics that were thrown at you, um during your
Speaker 1: week you came on the same week at the Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Dick Statue in Boston. But from a certain
Speaker 1: angler looked like a dick of an actual mother. Now
Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to hide Stephen A. Smith
Speaker 1: versus Rhanna. George Santos was in the mix. What did
Speaker 1: you all discuss, the two of you internally in terms
Speaker 1: of what you wanted to say specifically, because the show
Speaker 1: is giving you a little bit of range of going, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is your chance to say whatever you want to
Speaker 1: say to America. But then and what did you want
Speaker 1: to say specifically? And also was there any top of
Speaker 1: you like I can't get into that right now. We
Speaker 1: get well, like Martin Luther King when it came up
Speaker 1: on the Ford and we went through, and I go,
Speaker 1: that is in I don't care what happens in the
Speaker 1: other room. Trust me. She's gonna love this story. That's
Speaker 1: why the final saven trust me. And then she takes
Speaker 1: one look at it. She's like, yeah, you know, so
Speaker 1: I kind of know what she's gonna like. I can
Speaker 1: get us in the I'll get us in the stadium
Speaker 1: and very close to the seats, you know, get us
Speaker 1: in the seat. And then she'll take it and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that one. And it's so it's way, it's
Speaker 1: easier for you guys if I just do that, and
Speaker 1: she can sleep Broy whenever I'm doing stuff like that,
Speaker 1: which has been like the nemesis of the I don't
Speaker 1: know the core of what I've been trying to do
Speaker 1: on stage and everywhere with my comedy. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to actually say what needs to be said
Speaker 1: to you, but still make you laugh about it. That
Speaker 1: does that make sense? Like like like this is some
Speaker 1: horrible shit. Like our job as comedians is to make
Speaker 1: you laugh, you know what I'm saying, But it's also
Speaker 1: to be very real and honest, Like to take that
Speaker 1: real and honest shit and really make it funny. You know.
Speaker 1: I really like, how can I how can I explain it? Like,
Speaker 1: whenever I talk about somebody in the audience, I try
Speaker 1: to make them laugh harder than everybody else. Like I'll
Speaker 1: be talking about them, but I'll be making them laugh
Speaker 1: at themselves harder than everybody else. The only time that
Speaker 1: I hit a person so hard is that they're doing
Speaker 1: some fucked up shit like or you know, cackling me
Speaker 1: or whatever. But most of the time I'll start hard
Speaker 1: on you and by the end of it, you'll love
Speaker 1: me because I've made you laugh about yourself and you
Speaker 1: take a joke. Now, you take a joke to work
Speaker 1: and you go. Man the comedian last night, he really
Speaker 1: got me. He said that I and I sho do that.
Speaker 1: That does how I tell you those comics that you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, he's part of the like
Speaker 1: the I I like brutal ass whoopings, but I like
Speaker 1: them to be ass shoppings. That makes sense. It's part
Speaker 1: of her talent for sure. That's that's God given in
Speaker 1: some ways, like what she's saying, and a lot of
Speaker 1: comics don't figure that out, and she not. She does
Speaker 1: it in a really fun way a lot of the times.
Speaker 1: But we also she definitely keeps her ear to the ground,
Speaker 1: you know, to the ground of issues that happen in
Speaker 1: the world. So we've been trying to write this bit
Speaker 1: for her interact about men's mental health, and so we've
Speaker 1: been talking about this a lot on the podcast whatever,
Speaker 1: And when we came in here, they're like, hey, is
Speaker 1: there any long piece you want to do? And immediately
Speaker 1: she's like, I always I want to talk address men's
Speaker 1: mental health. And because that doesn't get addressed so little
Speaker 1: topic topics like that, like just whatever we're going through
Speaker 1: in our lives in that specific time, it bugs her
Speaker 1: for weeks, you know, and months, and mean it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they should get help. I'm done, you know. But she
Speaker 1: will stick to this and then when we come in
Speaker 1: and we get it, and we have this huge, amazing,
Speaker 1: brilliant writing staff that will help her make what she
Speaker 1: just said. It's she's not done in a mean way.
Speaker 1: It's done in a helpful way and a really funny way.
Speaker 1: And the two of us were just blown away with, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what we've dreamed of for her. You know,
Speaker 1: our writing staff that's really bright and can actually play
Speaker 1: the play tennis with her, hit the ball back over
Speaker 1: the net. You know other writing staffs that we've worked
Speaker 1: with or anything. They don't they have They wouldn't have
Speaker 1: the first idea what to do. And everybody here was
Speaker 1: psyched when she said that. They're like, yes, Well, after
Speaker 1: the break, I want to talk a little bit about um,
Speaker 1: you Thurst and over moist chestnut ass and we got
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about you and guests. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit more about Leslie Jones, the
Speaker 1: first guest host on The Daily Show to start twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. This is beyond the scenes. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back beyond the scenes. We are back Lenny Marcus and
Speaker 1: Leslie Jones of the Fuckery podcasts and also so um
Speaker 1: part of the team. You're now in the Daily Show history,
Speaker 1: you're now part of the IMDb page. Do we technically
Speaker 1: call you the first black woman to host The Daily Show?
Speaker 1: I feel like you're black history now. I feel like
Speaker 1: you get a stamp. Oh shit, I don't even am I.
Speaker 1: I am trying to think of anyone, even in a
Speaker 1: guest host capacity, and unless Jessica Williams did it there,
Speaker 1: I can't think of another person. Wow, I'm the first
Speaker 1: to do some shit. Yeah, you don't put that into
Speaker 1: history books and run to Santas to take it out.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about about the guests. Ye, Now you had
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God yet, Morris Chessnut, Yeah, Alexis McGill Johnson,
Speaker 1: President and CEO of Playing Parenthood. When it came to
Speaker 1: preparing for these conversations like playing Parenthood, that's not that's
Speaker 1: not a light conversation. You can make it funny, but
Speaker 1: the issues that they're addressing with women's reproductive rights is
Speaker 1: a very serious issue. Did you all because like Charlotte Mane,
Speaker 1: not moist Chestnut, we already know what it is. You
Speaker 1: was just chocolate head trying to see in person. Emma
Speaker 1: Tennis was in his face, singing, we're gonna edit that
Speaker 1: out because I'm sorry, melt moist chest and his wife. No,
Speaker 1: that's like having That's like having a chocolate cake on
Speaker 1: account and going people don't like that cake. What was
Speaker 1: the what was the balance of serious to silly that
Speaker 1: you all that you know, Leslie that you and Lenny
Speaker 1: sat down and decided on with your approach to the interviews,
Speaker 1: Because I find interviewing to be to me, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's anything that everyone can do, but I think
Speaker 1: that an interview was only as good as the curiosities
Speaker 1: of the host. And that's where that's why your hall
Speaker 1: our sit of youall hall one on one. That's the
Speaker 1: way you interview somebody. You interview them like everybody at
Speaker 1: home is thinking the same question everybody at home. Everybody
Speaker 1: at home. It's like, you know, you make you make
Speaker 1: those questions like that's what I would have asked him,
Speaker 1: That's what I would have asked him, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like and then to having like some actual
Speaker 1: interest in what's going on, like you know, you know,
Speaker 1: Marris Chestnut has been around forever son like, and I
Speaker 1: don't think nobody really ever given him flowers like he should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: does that make sense? Like he's been still working, still
Speaker 1: working hard, always on the show and always looking good.
Speaker 1: So I just and and I don't think people give
Speaker 1: enough credit to beautiful black men like that. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I just don't think they get a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. But also positive right right, yes, drama, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And then what he did for that, the best man,
Speaker 1: that role that he played, it's just it's great. I
Speaker 1: just I thought that that needed to be I wanted
Speaker 1: that to be my first show on the show. For
Speaker 1: the planned parenthood. Linear tell you, it's another subject that
Speaker 1: I'm always talking about. I'm always talking about planned parenthood
Speaker 1: because people don't People don't understand women in their bodies.
Speaker 1: You men, you will never fucking understood. This is a
Speaker 1: whole factory going on over here. We understand that you
Speaker 1: gotta dick, and you got seemen and all that bullshit
Speaker 1: to deal with, but we got a literal baby making
Speaker 1: machine inside of us, like and and and those things.
Speaker 1: If they're not if they stink, you're not around for that.
Speaker 1: You're just around to take our shit away instead of
Speaker 1: being around to help us clean up the stadium. Do
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, like I don't understand. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like like like like I give this example. All the time,
Speaker 1: truck drivers come to the factory, they drop the shit
Speaker 1: off and they get the fuck out the factory. They
Speaker 1: don't stay and try to run the factory. No, they don't.
Speaker 1: They get the fuck out. They go to the next
Speaker 1: factory with electric Republicans. Basically, Okay, I'm just saying, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, that's right. He's right, That's exactly what you're
Speaker 1: trying to say. What I've been finding, too, Roy, is
Speaker 1: such obviousness that I didn't you know, I am smart
Speaker 1: and grown. I didn't know a lot of people ain't
Speaker 1: smart and grown. Like I didn't know that men didn't
Speaker 1: know that you can go to planned parenthood. Do you
Speaker 1: know how many men didn't know that they were allowed
Speaker 1: to go to planned parenthood? And that is four men.
Speaker 1: So that was the real angle I wanted to take,
Speaker 1: because I was like, if y'all know it's for y'all too,
Speaker 1: maybe y'all wouldn't be so quick to fucking X out
Speaker 1: our shit. You know what I'm saying. It was very personal.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this. She had mentioned somewhere along the
Speaker 1: line like we know people don't even know. It's like
Speaker 1: people think it's an abortion, that's it. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: don't even know the services. So literally, the first question
Speaker 1: I was asking, and I have it on my paper,
Speaker 1: is what other services do you provide? And like, let's
Speaker 1: ask that first, Let's get that. I mean, let's say
Speaker 1: the obvious things like people people, we think that everybody
Speaker 1: know everything. People, a lot of people don't know shit
Speaker 1: like these are the stuff. A lot of planned parenthoods
Speaker 1: don't even give abortions, and and the ones that that
Speaker 1: do give abortions, they also give a sectomies. They also
Speaker 1: do other medical shit, like the one that's in fucking
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and New York. Brooklyn was my motherfucking jam like
Speaker 1: I could go there when I was actually sick, sick,
Speaker 1: like that was a hospital that planned parenthood there is
Speaker 1: fucking incredible. So it's it's like people don't know that shit.
Speaker 1: And she's had experience with this, so now and my will,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving them in my trust. That's how much I
Speaker 1: think far as a guest go, that's a slam dunk.
Speaker 1: And then and then Charlemagne was she's been talking about
Speaker 1: mental health like we have a guy and he was
Speaker 1: men need therapy. I don't give a fuck. And me
Speaker 1: and Lenny talk about Leny always rose his eyes when
Speaker 1: I say this, my eyes, you do it? You fucking
Speaker 1: roll your eyes? Like when when? When when guys going
Speaker 1: to a fucking appointment And I'm saying this to mail
Speaker 1: doctors to use for you to say to your mail patients.
Speaker 1: One of your questions, like when you said this to Lenny,
Speaker 1: one of your questions should be, Hey, how are you
Speaker 1: doing mentally? Yeah? Hey, how are you feeling mentally? Do
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying? I mean, that's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that, but like because it don't care, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're supposed to. And that's the fucking problem. They're supposed
Speaker 1: to because if a woman came into that doctor, that
Speaker 1: same doctor and acting up, they would be like, how
Speaker 1: is your mental Do you get what I'm saying? No,
Speaker 1: that's real fucking talk, though, Roy, Why I did that
Speaker 1: piece was? I honestly, and I tell Lenny this all
Speaker 1: the time. I always look on the other side of
Speaker 1: the joke, you know, I always look on the other
Speaker 1: side of shit, Like men literally are fucking going through it,
Speaker 1: like y'all motherfuckers are going through it, And honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't think that you have been given the permission to
Speaker 1: get help for that. Whenever I say to Lenny or
Speaker 1: when I say to another man, the first thing men
Speaker 1: think is like, I'm not crazy. No, this has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you being crazy. This has to do
Speaker 1: with you being able to talk about what the fuck
Speaker 1: is going on with you, just like for a woman.
Speaker 1: You know, I really don't think men understand that women
Speaker 1: do understand what you motherfuckers are going through, like you
Speaker 1: are going through it, like just to be put into
Speaker 1: this story that we have of the prince and the
Speaker 1: damns are in distress, and then you're supposed to save
Speaker 1: the women, and then you're supposed to be the manor
Speaker 1: house and you're supposed to Oh, you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: so god and damn mascoment. That's a fucking lot without
Speaker 1: the dance, But do you give what the fuck I'm saying? See,
Speaker 1: see you can't even dance, But do you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like, I honestly feel like if we start
Speaker 1: putting that out there more that I think that dudes would,
Speaker 1: would would fucking be like, Yeah, maybe I need to
Speaker 1: go maybe I need to go take care of that.
Speaker 1: But he was great. That was the point. Yeah, yeah, Charlemagne. No,
Speaker 1: and Charlemagne was surprisingly great because I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna be I thought he was Ever thought I thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna be mean. I really did thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be mean. I don't know why Ever met him.
Speaker 1: I thought you've done, but I had not. I think
Speaker 1: I maybe met him in other places, but I always
Speaker 1: see those clips and I'd be like, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: want to argue with Charlemagne because I don't want that
Speaker 1: to happen. I thought that was gonna be like that,
Speaker 1: but he was actually fucking awesome to me. Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: Charlemagne is different from any other show. Charlemagne, especially if
Speaker 1: you're talking about mental health, which he didn't. Wrote two
Speaker 1: books on the ship, so that's his that's his ministry.
Speaker 1: So I love he said. So from the conversations you've
Speaker 1: had with the guests, let's switch over to the conversations
Speaker 1: you had with the correspondence. Now setting up those chats
Speaker 1: because now you're dealing with different personalities in a way.
Speaker 1: Sorry she doesn't Roy, because I don't said us. Y'all
Speaker 1: called correspondent tess because in the real news world, the
Speaker 1: motherfucker leader was called co stars. No other show. You're
Speaker 1: on a fake nude shows reporter. You act like I
Speaker 1: watched you watch the watch the way you'd be yelling
Speaker 1: at MSNB, they was called correspondents. I just send people
Speaker 1: up on the screen. Never read the ship at the bottom.
Speaker 1: When the mother I'm dealing with they always say. They
Speaker 1: always say minister far Con or represent executive director, CEO
Speaker 1: of the correction. They don't say corresponded. Okay, so now
Speaker 1: I know correspondent. So in preparing the desk chats, let
Speaker 1: me talk to Lenny. Talk to me. How were you
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the dynamic of how Leslie would
Speaker 1: navigate this because the people who don't know you know
Speaker 1: it's it's the fake live hit of the reporter out
Speaker 1: on the location. This was important to me personally. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I Leslie and I kind of went through,
Speaker 1: but I definitely had an idea coming in what I
Speaker 1: wanted Leslie to have relationship. She knows you for years.
Speaker 1: I know you fears right, we don't know who DESI,
Speaker 1: but what if we did know them? What if Leslie
Speaker 1: has been doing this like what if she had another
Speaker 1: level of this where she had a relationship and and
Speaker 1: I helped him with this too. Yeah she did listen
Speaker 1: to me, woman, listen no, But it's always I always
Speaker 1: like to make up a whole story of what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on, like with me and the person.
Speaker 1: So with Desi, I was just like, that's the sist.
Speaker 1: Let that bitch go. Like I was just because they
Speaker 1: had us going back and forth, and I was like,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, let me come in, say what I need
Speaker 1: to do, and then let Desi do her thing, because
Speaker 1: I want the sister to have a dance. Bam, there
Speaker 1: it is, right, don't say no, don't say the first,
Speaker 1: don't say I'm so, don't say And then with Desi,
Speaker 1: I really just wanted to treat her like this little
Speaker 1: silly white girl that's my friend that I really want
Speaker 1: to help, this white girl wants to help. I want
Speaker 1: to help you so much because you really are in trouble. Well,
Speaker 1: we had that, that was his idea, that we have
Speaker 1: a friend that we did this on supermarkets. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's and Desi's very similar. So I was like, and
Speaker 1: we couldn't do it in that short time. But I'm
Speaker 1: like Leslie, what if you could actually try and help her?
Speaker 1: Now with with with Costa, Costa was like I wanted
Speaker 1: opposite Colin. I knew because the first thing that people
Speaker 1: do is go, oh, you're gonna be in love with
Speaker 1: the white dude. No. I want this to be a hate.
Speaker 1: But I don't want it to be because we fucked around.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be because he fucked one of my
Speaker 1: home girls. Yeah, and then me knowing Costa, yeah, and
Speaker 1: me knowing Costa and knowing how like arrogant, Like not arrogant,
Speaker 1: He's not arrogant, but he's just like his comedy presence
Speaker 1: is a fucking my Costa. Like you can y'all go
Speaker 1: back to the LA clubs. Yeah, I feel like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to treat him, but I want but I
Speaker 1: wanted to be not to where we hate Costa. I
Speaker 1: want Costa to have a rope of Like, No, the
Speaker 1: bitch he was fucking with was crazy too, So like
Speaker 1: why is Costa the way he is because he's fucked
Speaker 1: with bitches like this? Does that make sense? So like
Speaker 1: it's a whole story and we're friends, like because it's
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't be mad at him at him if
Speaker 1: we weren't friends. Let's just talk about the eggs, okay, Because,
Speaker 1: as I was saying, the shortage is severe. But if
Speaker 1: you look closely, you'll find that it's not all it's
Speaker 1: cracked up to be. You so in Corny Costa, you
Speaker 1: know she was gonna break up with you because you're
Speaker 1: a Cory mother, right, you know that? Right? Look, Look,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a good sport here. I came
Speaker 1: all the way out here to this farm that you
Speaker 1: sent me to. I got feathers all over my suit.
Speaker 1: It stinks, you know what. You know what I tell
Speaker 1: you what stinks. My girl had to go to therapy
Speaker 1: after you. Yeah, because she has multiple personality disorder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what we loved about her. She's like ten friends
Speaker 1: and one after the break, I want to bring it home.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about mentorship and
Speaker 1: what advice you got from people outside of The Daily Show,
Speaker 1: about your journey into guest hosting The Daily Show, Round
Speaker 1: and third and Hit It for Home with Leslie Jones
Speaker 1: and Lenny Marcus. This is beyond the scenes. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back beyond the scenes. We are bringing it to
Speaker 1: a close. Here a wonderful conversation with the first guest
Speaker 1: host of twenty twenty three on The New Daily Show,
Speaker 1: Leslie Jones and her partner that's my NPR voice you like,
Speaker 1: but I like the whole introduction of the first You
Speaker 1: have a great ease behind the microphone for sure. You
Speaker 1: know just this young woman is. I'm gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little bit Leslie Jones about her struggles and her time
Speaker 1: and to ghet O, man, you gotta tell him when
Speaker 1: you when we use in Alabama and you took me
Speaker 1: to this comedy that was That was one of them
Speaker 1: one times when I was like, thank God, I am
Speaker 1: a comic, like and I'm not scared to do this,
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. Seven Lounge in Fairfield, Alabama.
Speaker 1: So Lenny, Yeah, for whatever reason, Leslie is in Birmingham.
Speaker 1: When christ lived there, I ain't know. She had no
Speaker 1: times to Birmingham. And this is how much of a
Speaker 1: comedian Leslie is. On some fearless I don't care where
Speaker 1: I perform any time, any place. She just wanted to go. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's just go hang is there a mike. I'm like, Leslie,
Speaker 1: this is Birmingham on Christmas Eve. There is no comedy
Speaker 1: club both, but it just so happened to be one
Speaker 1: hood spot over in Fairfield and it's literally there's a
Speaker 1: shopping plaster and you can google earth this ship from
Speaker 1: Aaron Aaronov Drive. In front of the old pizza Hut.
Speaker 1: There was a spot called the Seven Lounge. It was
Speaker 1: the only open spot within that shopping plaza of every
Speaker 1: other store is out of business. Seven Lounge holding a
Speaker 1: line out the door on Christ full of black people
Speaker 1: and we're just going to watch stand up and then
Speaker 1: one of them come up to Leslie. You want to
Speaker 1: go and bless the people with a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: It would be your honor day. You know. She's not
Speaker 1: trying to perform, but you know the comedian and you, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me go on up there. She goes on stage
Speaker 1: and it was raining the whole night, and it's fucking
Speaker 1: leaking is leaking on stage and people are breaking buckets
Speaker 1: up where she's mid joke. I'm Tarny's motherfucker's up too.
Speaker 1: She roasted the room. She didn't even do a joke.
Speaker 1: She just went up there and said this shit raggedy
Speaker 1: good night, yo, and they loved it, y'all. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you the one thing that I have learned about
Speaker 1: this game is that I think I might be a
Speaker 1: little crazy, especially when it comes to the mike. I
Speaker 1: remember going to San Bernardini, or had a gig in
Speaker 1: San Bernardini, and we got there and that nobody showed up.
Speaker 1: So the man paid me, but he was like, we
Speaker 1: ain't gonna have no show. Man. I got in the car.
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, let's drive around. Let's find somewhere
Speaker 1: to go up. We found this karaoke club. I went
Speaker 1: up to the bar. I gave a lady fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I said, listen. I was like, let me have some time.
Speaker 1: She was like, we don't do comments like we're doing karyokes. Like,
Speaker 1: let me do some time. If I'm not funny, you
Speaker 1: can have his fifty dollars. Right. Yo, went up and
Speaker 1: I fucking When I say, the dude that was with me,
Speaker 1: he was like, my balls went inside of me. I
Speaker 1: was like, you have taken He was like I didn't
Speaker 1: have no balls now. He was like what you just said.
Speaker 1: I went up, grabbed a mic and when I say,
Speaker 1: ripped that fucking club in half. I went back to
Speaker 1: the bar. That bitch gave me fifty dollars and gave
Speaker 1: me fifty more dollars and then bought us all drinks.
Speaker 1: She was like, anytime you ever want to go up,
Speaker 1: I was like, you got to be And if I
Speaker 1: ever had a comedy contest, that would be one of
Speaker 1: the fucking things is that I would drop you in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Go get a set, show up, and go up. Find
Speaker 1: some create a microphe because if you really do, if
Speaker 1: you're really about your shit, you will do your shit.
Speaker 1: I have performed on the street. I have performed in
Speaker 1: the hallway. I have performed in barbershops, beauty shops. I
Speaker 1: have performed in churches. I have performed in halls. I
Speaker 1: have performed in actual hallways. I have performed son So
Speaker 1: how does that translate then into the hosting, Like, what
Speaker 1: are the skill sets Lenny and Leslie that like from
Speaker 1: stand up, that role naturally into being in that chair
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of the aspects of stand up.
Speaker 1: You cannot use your batman without the tool belt to
Speaker 1: a degree low key yeah, when you're in the chair,
Speaker 1: So what tools from stand up kind of translate. I
Speaker 1: think the timing translates immediately. You know she has a
Speaker 1: great ear for it. You know time. And also she
Speaker 1: plays off the crowd. Well, you know when you cut
Speaker 1: back from one of those packages and it's ridiculous. Just
Speaker 1: her face. She's so expressive with her face, so you
Speaker 1: can get a laugh, you can get a laugh off
Speaker 1: your face, you can get a laugh off just waiting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's just it's not without the two of Beth Roy.
Speaker 1: If you got your face, like when I first started,
Speaker 1: I would do an hour of mirror time. I just
Speaker 1: like it's some lucille Ball ship. Watch lucille Ball, Watch Cariburnette.
Speaker 1: You know exactly what joke they're telling without them even talking.
Speaker 1: Cariburnette could literally have you hollering for fifteen minutes and
Speaker 1: not say a motherfucking word. That's face. That's face, and
Speaker 1: then plus two, Like again, the world is in an obviousness. Now.
Speaker 1: This is what I told my friend the other day.
Speaker 1: I say, I feel like we're in the matrix and
Speaker 1: they haven't updated us because the same stuff keeps rolling
Speaker 1: around and it doesn't seemed like people are not understanding
Speaker 1: that this is the same thing. The thing that I
Speaker 1: will say about that night at the Seven Lounge, like
Speaker 1: it was a hood spot. It was a very it was.
Speaker 1: It was ghetto as hell, but everybody who was there
Speaker 1: came to laugh, and they laughed. Every comedian that was
Speaker 1: there was appreciative. And then I'd be damned if Leslie
Speaker 1: Jones did not stand out on that sidewalk on a
Speaker 1: rainy Birmingham night and chop it up with them comedians
Speaker 1: for an hour. Because comedians, and this is me being
Speaker 1: a comic from Birmingham, we don't get access to comedians
Speaker 1: like you at the level that you were, because this
Speaker 1: is this is peak SNL at this point. We don't
Speaker 1: get access to comics like you at that level where
Speaker 1: you are in the game. You're not even invite You
Speaker 1: can't even get backstage of the comedy club in Birmingham
Speaker 1: to talk to somebody that's on your level. So that
Speaker 1: level of mentorship and just get to and I mean
Speaker 1: as less comics still talk about it to this day.
Speaker 1: They still talk about that Christmas Eve at seven Lounge.
Speaker 1: So when it was time for you to get it
Speaker 1: vice for this show, and I know Chris Rock is
Speaker 1: kind of popped in and out, like I don't know
Speaker 1: what relationship you and Chris Rock have on some friendship shit,
Speaker 1: but I know professionally. He's always been somebody that's been
Speaker 1: a fan of your craft. Was there anybody you talked
Speaker 1: to outside of the Daily Show that helped you to
Speaker 1: prepare for what would happen once you were in the chair, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I did talk to Chris. Chris was one
Speaker 1: of the first people that I was like, how do
Speaker 1: I And he was like, he was like, this is
Speaker 1: literally what he said. He was like, he just laughed.
Speaker 1: He goes, I never worry about you, dude, Like, I
Speaker 1: never worry about you. He was like, just be yourself,
Speaker 1: don't try to be John, don't try to be Trevor.
Speaker 1: Just be who you are. He was like, it's you'll
Speaker 1: be fine. And he was like, I don't worry about you.
Speaker 1: And when you hear that, it just puts you. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: how can I put this? Lauren could do that to me?
Speaker 1: Really good to Lauren was good at that. Like I
Speaker 1: love coaches. I love coach I love coach talk, Like
Speaker 1: like when I when I did my first update, when
Speaker 1: I did my first update, man, I ripped that fucking
Speaker 1: that that dress show. Oh homie, you think the fucking
Speaker 1: live was the dress is always better than the live
Speaker 1: To meet the dress for the people. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I didn't address that shit just I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: fucking rattling motherfuckers was running through the building like, oh fuck,
Speaker 1: who is this bitch? Who was this bitch? Who was
Speaker 1: this bitch? Lauren called me in his office. He called
Speaker 1: me in his office because he knew that my fucking
Speaker 1: head son. I was like, I didn't came in. I
Speaker 1: didn't found my motherfucking spot. Bitch. You motherfucker can't tell
Speaker 1: me shit right. He called me in that office and
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm so glad that you did good
Speaker 1: doing a dress. Now do that shit live. Get the
Speaker 1: fuck out. I tell you something. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I went in the hallway and I can't. I almost
Speaker 1: felt like I had on a uniform because I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, coach, let's fucking do this. You want to live,
Speaker 1: so let's go. Motherfucker Like it was like you had
Speaker 1: just let me fucking like that's so I like like
Speaker 1: when he said that, it was just like you're my
Speaker 1: star player, go play like that's that's that's gets me
Speaker 1: repped up, you know what I'm saying. And Lenny's good
Speaker 1: at it too. Lenny's always just like, just do what
Speaker 1: you do, boss. Yeah, I mean I'll give her at
Speaker 1: the table like between the things, like she's asking me
Speaker 1: if what can I do? I'm like just sometimes very
Speaker 1: little tweaks or you know whatever. But I'm not the
Speaker 1: Bobby Knights school of yelling at people. Lenny goes too yelly.
Speaker 1: I like that you're yelling. You're yelling too much. Bring
Speaker 1: it down? Do this? Hey, Like I that's that's the
Speaker 1: shit I like to Okay, but then how did you
Speaker 1: How were you able to be in a place where
Speaker 1: you could accept criticism or critique. Accept critique, not criticism,
Speaker 1: because that's a hard thing as a comedian because for
Speaker 1: twenty first twenty years and your shit, it's just you.
Speaker 1: You are your writer, you are your editor. No one
Speaker 1: can tell you done because my jokes and my instincts
Speaker 1: got me to this point. And then here comes this
Speaker 1: throwny dude, but a comedy with a slice of Pieta
Speaker 1: in his hand to it. Na, it's not like that, honestly, honestly,
Speaker 1: you if you're a real comic, and I'd say this
Speaker 1: to everybody that does this this craft and even the
Speaker 1: old heads or whatever. If you're a real comic, and
Speaker 1: you really love this craft. I mean, you do this
Speaker 1: craft like I would do this craft even if they
Speaker 1: weren't paying me roy if they I would do if
Speaker 1: it came down to the world and I'd be the
Speaker 1: world comic like not getting me, I would do it
Speaker 1: because that's how much I love comedy. And if you
Speaker 1: really love doing it, you always want to get better.
Speaker 1: So yeah, after twenty years, I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't wrote the joke every which way
Speaker 1: I could write it, like like I am not I
Speaker 1: make myself laugh, but shit, I want to make myself.
Speaker 1: I would see other comics and I would see the
Speaker 1: direction that they're going, and I go, see, I'm not
Speaker 1: there yet. That's why I'm not. So I need someone
Speaker 1: else other than me to come in. Now. It wasn't
Speaker 1: about me not picking another black female or another And
Speaker 1: this is no, I don't know shade on black comics,
Speaker 1: but I do believe that we all kind of think
Speaker 1: of light because I would get tags from them and
Speaker 1: they would be the same tasks that I would have
Speaker 1: come up with. So when you have someone and this
Speaker 1: is why I tell black comics all the time, you
Speaker 1: need to do white clubs, go do the mainstream clubs
Speaker 1: because you're different type of comics. You're gonna give different
Speaker 1: tasks to these white comics. These white comics gonna give
Speaker 1: different tags to you, They're gonna give you different branches.
Speaker 1: So Lenny's a whole different person outside of my bubble.
Speaker 1: That's gonna show me something that I'm not even seeing.
Speaker 1: So that might be even way funny. You're like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: that's how you take it to the next level. So
Speaker 1: the way that I get to being able to take
Speaker 1: a critique is that because I want to be so
Speaker 1: motherfucking good, and you cannot do that by yourself. Jesus,
Speaker 1: until people understand to reach out to the motherfuckers that
Speaker 1: are going to help you. Until you make a t
Speaker 1: you can't. There's no eye in making it. Well, there
Speaker 1: is two eyes, but okay, there's no I in success.
Speaker 1: I should say that you can't do that ship by yourself.
Speaker 1: I know you think you can, but you won't be
Speaker 1: the best like I would. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: say this, but whenever I see certain people and they post, going,
Speaker 1: I look what I did, whoo whooping, and like, okay,
Speaker 1: well who helped you do that? Like yeah, like make it.
Speaker 1: I can't explain it. It's just like we need to
Speaker 1: learn how to grow, and the only way to learn
Speaker 1: how to grow is to actually depend on someone else
Speaker 1: could help you. This am I making it perfect, but
Speaker 1: also she what she's saying now is so rare. You
Speaker 1: know this, Like stand up comedians very lonely people not lonely,
Speaker 1: but they like to work alone. You're your own writer, director, producer, everything,
Speaker 1: And I struggle with that to help to get help.
Speaker 1: Trusting yeah, trusting you for sure. Rodney Perry. Rodney Perry
Speaker 1: would give me tags and I would get mad at him,
Speaker 1: like because because he would be like, yeah that tag Burke,
Speaker 1: Fuck you, nig I thought of it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, you go through that stage, but then
Speaker 1: you get to the stage of like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to see something else other than this joke to go
Speaker 1: outside you. Most of the time, you got to get
Speaker 1: something for somebody you respect. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: If somebody says something to you, If Chris Rock wants
Speaker 1: to give you a line, you're gonna try that line
Speaker 1: the next time out right. If Joe Shamu tries to line.
Speaker 1: But you know what I always said, you should be
Speaker 1: open to anything. And believe me, if people are taken
Speaker 1: full advantage, I've had open MICUs give me lines, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like thank you very much, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like you just have to
Speaker 1: be nice about it. But she is so open in
Speaker 1: a different way to me, and I've had a lot
Speaker 1: to give out there and nobody tapped into it for
Speaker 1: all those years and she's like, why what is going on?
Speaker 1: And she did it and it's been successful. So points
Speaker 1: for Leslie. The podcast is the fuckery and what y'all doing?
Speaker 1: The fun We're gonna end. We're gonna end the list
Speaker 1: that fulray um where you won't talk about a lot
Speaker 1: of different current events. And it's actually a really good
Speaker 1: podcast because it gives a really good winding to the
Speaker 1: dynamic of you two, but also politically how you too
Speaker 1: tend to see the world and current events. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a little couple of fucker reads of the
Speaker 1: week here. Let's do it all? Are we doing? We
Speaker 1: had a week here? Well, we're just you know, we
Speaker 1: just want like a crossover episode like Chicago Fire Chicago PD. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: first up, Rihanna's Have Time performance. Okay, well, I okay.
Speaker 1: First of all, because you went on you went in
Speaker 1: on stephen A. Smith, for say, and but Rihanna was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't say what stephen A. Smith said. I
Speaker 1: still wouldn't say that, but I I was. I was
Speaker 1: surprised that she was pregnant because she had just had
Speaker 1: the baby, so I thought the baby was like two
Speaker 1: months old, and I was like, oh, wow, is she
Speaker 1: getting rid of the baby fat or something like that.
Speaker 1: But then she holds pregnant and then all the little
Speaker 1: white dudes in the white suits look like that was
Speaker 1: some point of it. Yeah, oh, somebody, somebody broke it
Speaker 1: down and they said that Rihanna's performance. If you look,
Speaker 1: she's walking out in the red with all of the
Speaker 1: background dancers looking like sperm. And by the end of
Speaker 1: the performance she is alone away from the sperm, and
Speaker 1: we see clearly that she has the seed in her
Speaker 1: So the entire performance she got it bregnated. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: which means which means somebody bustus. Somebody was roll dog
Speaker 1: in the stadium exactly busted in the middle of the
Speaker 1: Not only that, I don't know my thing on that
Speaker 1: is like multiple billions of points for shit, I would
Speaker 1: never do. Okay, they raised her. How high is she?
Speaker 1: She was way high in the air? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Like if you just said, you know what, she can't
Speaker 1: be here right now, can you just step in? I'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, thanks, No, I mean because they can't
Speaker 1: raising And I was like, oh my god, that's the
Speaker 1: reason she's not moving, because she's up in the fucking
Speaker 1: the hair. She's gonna fall. Leslie and I talk about
Speaker 1: all time. Both of us would fall off that platform.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened. They would have to change,
Speaker 1: they would have to change wrap me to that for me,
Speaker 1: not the restumers have died from half that height. Yeah, exactly, yes,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, get me out of get me out
Speaker 1: of here. I'm out of here, Like oh, black, black, black,
Speaker 1: look at what you got last fuckery? What say you?
Speaker 1: Since y'all missed this topic on the show, because it
Speaker 1: came up in the new cycle after your week at
Speaker 1: Coming Gone All, Rod Descantis putting the end to African
Speaker 1: American ap history of courses doing Black History Month Mine.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get rid of the stop the Wokers.
Speaker 1: They have a stop Woke act. Well, anything that makes
Speaker 1: white people feel bad. You gotta make that shit illegally,
Speaker 1: That's what it fucking is starting to feel like. It's
Speaker 1: just like your obviousness, your obvious racism is just so disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's fucking disgusting. So you, oh, it's then you don't
Speaker 1: need to learn this what we don't need to learn
Speaker 1: while fucking little white kids is still going around calling
Speaker 1: kids nigga and school like we that shit's still going on.
Speaker 1: Like I'm telling you that Michael Max and Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King literally can walk into this world and not see
Speaker 1: a motherfucking difference. So you fucking tell me that, like
Speaker 1: you used to be a history teacher, you are fucking racist.
Speaker 1: You are a racist. You are a motherfucking racist. And
Speaker 1: please pronounce, please announce this shit while he's doing a speech.
Speaker 1: You are a fucking racist. Ron the shit toast. You
Speaker 1: are a mother fucking racist. I'm not following that did though. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, well the podcast by the way, we'll be
Speaker 1: in Florida for two shows saying about it. My fuck
Speaker 1: Florida fuckers need to just float the fuck off to
Speaker 1: the fucking water, like fuck y'all, man. But after we
Speaker 1: perform so we'll be in Tampa and s come get
Speaker 1: that we can't smoke, Come get the smoke. To be fair,
Speaker 1: it's only one Florida by like two points. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of good people, you know. But and then you
Speaker 1: know what, and that's what makes me mad though, that
Speaker 1: there are good a lot of good people. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of good people in this whole fucking United States
Speaker 1: of America that don't believe in half the ship that's
Speaker 1: being done. But you fucking lazy, You sit your fucking ass,
Speaker 1: your complacent, fucking ass and think that motherfucker's is gonna
Speaker 1: straight and shit off of you. Get up off your ass,
Speaker 1: because we are the motherfucking people. We are the motherfucking people.
Speaker 1: If you're paying fucking income tax and you're not voting,
Speaker 1: use a dumb ass motherfucker. I said it. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a political campaign. You're a dumb ass motherfucker. Sick
Speaker 1: of it. I'm sick of it. They need to be
Speaker 1: told straight out how you pay taxes and not and
Speaker 1: not vote. What kind of that don't make you smart?
Speaker 1: That makes you a fucking idiot. Wait one more, one more,
Speaker 1: sorry more, No you on the floe. I'm letting you flow.
Speaker 1: I know when to be quiet. Please, last one. Welcome
Speaker 1: to my world. Roy Chinese spy balloons fair a foul?
Speaker 1: How dumb are we? Fucking stupid? Oh? Wait, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, right a Reagan president Carter would have
Speaker 1: shot the ship. They would have shot it. What they
Speaker 1: all shotgun? But they all fucking gun and shot that
Speaker 1: fucking balloon down. How fucking dumb are you? Dude? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you know how many countries think that we are
Speaker 1: fucking complete idiots? Oh it's just a balloon. It's not
Speaker 1: doing enough, and they're mad at us. Now like the girlfriends,
Speaker 1: they're gas lighting us. They're gas lighting us. Want they're
Speaker 1: sitting back to them, sitting in the pieces and send
Speaker 1: some bullets that's inside of that motherfucker. Don't listen. I
Speaker 1: couldn't be the president. I'm telling you right now. Yo,
Speaker 1: let me tell y'all, motherfucker something. If you've seen another
Speaker 1: balloon over this motherfucker, see what the fuck happened? You
Speaker 1: see what the fuck happened? They've been shooting them down
Speaker 1: now apparently now this is just an influx of a
Speaker 1: bunch of unidentified flying whatever they How are we not smart?
Speaker 1: Enough to know that that these motherfuckers listen. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be racist or anything, but the technology
Speaker 1: comes out of fucking China, like the best cameras, all
Speaker 1: that shit. You think they can't build a goddamn camera balloon,
Speaker 1: it's bizarre. They're shaped like fortune cookie, So it's really
Speaker 1: obvious China. What is racist about that? Marcus, Please don't
Speaker 1: come and band me check. Please the fuck up real quick. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: talk about ship. Yeah, that wasn't that wasn't appropriate for
Speaker 1: him to say. I do not back up that joke
Speaker 1: at all. Yo. When I say I love y'all, man, Broy,
Speaker 1: you are fucking the best man. That's so funny that
Speaker 1: you've been through my life periodically and just great. Yo.
Speaker 1: We used to let Leston and I used to live
Speaker 1: in the same apartment complex. Oh my god, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: German way, that's right, German way. I think I maybe
Speaker 1: saw you twice as you still with that girl. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I didn't think that was gonna last night.
Speaker 1: I saw y'all in the elevated once and I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: that nigga looked like a prisoner. Okay, and now it's
Speaker 1: time to go. No, it's time to go, lady situation,
Speaker 1: tell him my business business. The podcast is the fucking
Speaker 1: Catch Leslie Jones and Lenny Marcus on tour. It is
Speaker 1: one of the best stand up shows out there right now. Leslie, Lenny,
Speaker 1: thank you for going beyond the scenes. Thank you for
Speaker 1: taking us beyond the scenes. Baby to the girl in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Leslie said that not me. Hey, listen, I
Speaker 1: ain't trying to fuck up nobody's ass man. You know,
Speaker 1: you know what I he probably was fucking up. That's
Speaker 1: probably why he You know, I was fucking up. I
Speaker 1: will on that. Just stop talking. They're playing the music.
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