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Speaker 1: in these Hollywood parties?

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Speaker 2: I left early. I've been to plenty Diddy parties. I

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Speaker 2: did that happen? At what time did this go down?

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Speaker 2: Because I was there two three thirty you mean three

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Speaker 2: all right, good that Wayne's Nigga's gone. He talked too much.

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Speaker 3: All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, pet Price,

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Speaker 3: Want a slice? Got the Brother Geist Swap all my life?

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Speaker 3: I be grinding all my life, all my life, grinding

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Speaker 3: all my life, sacrifics, hustle, pet Price, one slice, Doctor

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Speaker 3: Brother of Geist, the swap all my life. IP be

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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Shay Shape. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of

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Speaker 1: Club Sha Sha the guy that's stopping buy for conversation

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Speaker 1: and the drink Today is one of the most recognized, respected,

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Speaker 1: and successful comedic actors of his generation. He has over

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Speaker 1: thirty years in the entertainment industry. He's contributed to several

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Speaker 1: iconic movies, cult classic and TV shows. We're going to

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Speaker 1: discuss those. He's a bankable star. His films have grossed

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Speaker 1: over one billion global box office dollars. He's a writer, producer,

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Speaker 1: stand up comedian, and a Hollywood actor. He's an all

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Speaker 1: around entertainer, top rated comedic icon, a member of the

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Speaker 1: legendary He's the youngest member of the legendary Wayne's family

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Speaker 1: empire that revolutionized the world of entertainment. He's an og

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Speaker 1: in the game her Heels, Ladies and gentlemen. Mordern wayan.

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Speaker 2: That just damn after that enter, I'm ready to retire.

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Speaker 2: I ain't know I did all that, you did all that,

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Speaker 2: all of that.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy, brother, Thanks for coming on, man, I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. You know, when people come on my show.

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Speaker 1: I have my own knyact Yeah by Laporte and this vs.

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Speaker 1: Op Yeah one Best Best too, a couple of several awards.

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Speaker 2: But uh, I've seen a lot of people drink that

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Speaker 2: ship and start talking crazy. So I'm a wait, I

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Speaker 2: call it crazy juice. I'm a way a second. And actually,

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Speaker 2: now you know I have one with your brother. Here

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Speaker 2: you go, you promote your product. I have to take

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Speaker 2: a sip let. People know how they mm hmm, that's nice.

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Speaker 2: You know it's missing missing some cigars. So I figure

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Speaker 2: I bring you some of my cigars, brother, because I

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Speaker 2: know you black, black and miles, but we gonna get

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Speaker 2: you off them in black and Miles.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this this you just me.

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Speaker 2: Legal Tridentes' one of my partnerships right here, got into

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Speaker 2: the cigar game and uh, you know some a beautiful box.

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Speaker 2: This is the the nice uh. Yazaki's right there, Yaks.

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Speaker 2: So that's for you, brother.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate smoked one.

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Speaker 2: I've seen you a miledbox too. Make sure you check

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Speaker 2: it out and do it with this parent with this

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Speaker 2: is a great pairent boom. Look at that to success

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Speaker 2: for black men doing successful things. That that's crazy that

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Speaker 2: you was hitching the chest boy man, but that a

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Speaker 2: little bit. It's fired it up later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're the youngest ten. Yeah you mentioned that how

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Speaker 1: you grew up. Your family is very close there every.

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Speaker 2: Ten comedians, so basically I'm the butt of all.

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Speaker 1: So they worked on the material on you.

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Speaker 2: Hum, I know how to take a joke. That's why

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Speaker 2: I'm so patient. That's why I'm like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: So with all ten of you guys, because I know

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Speaker 1: Keenan is the second is what they call the knee baby,

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Speaker 2: Keene was so successful. He me and my oldest brother,

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Speaker 2: we discounted that niggas nobody was listening to doing. Just kidding, No, Keenan,

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Speaker 2: Keenan Keeny was my my parents, my mom called he

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Speaker 1: Follow us to follow, right, So what was it like

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Speaker 2: I was the baby, so I don't And we only

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Speaker 2: So they moved out, and then Keenan went to college

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Speaker 2: had a day, you know, my mother had it basically

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Speaker 2: take all the family, ten negroes laundries on my back. No,

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Speaker 2: we didn't have a cart the laundry. It was like

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Speaker 2: I would take five trips, ten trips back and forth,

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Speaker 2: back and forth doing the family laundry. Right. My mother

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Speaker 2: raised us to be independent. I had a day in

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Speaker 2: was like a gold main chef. Keenan and Damon would

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Speaker 2: come home California and I'll run to store. My brother Sean,

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Speaker 2: we go get food, and me and my if to

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Speaker 2: on because we were poor, and my brothers to Keenan,

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Speaker 2: because my father had we had a safety pin right

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Speaker 2: and came he was poor, and I would just be

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Speaker 2: in there chefing up and cooking them French toast. And

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Speaker 2: And I used to be so jealous because I used

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Speaker 1: What was the typical meal like for ten or twelve

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Speaker 1: because your mommy and daddy and you got ten brothers

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Speaker 1: What was being cooked?

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Speaker 2: Whatever we had.

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Speaker 4: Depends. Some days he had steak, some days we had chuck.

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Speaker 4: Come on, man, it wasn't no surline, ain't no eighty

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Speaker 2: It was chuck ground chuck and put some peppers and

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Speaker 2: what we had. My father was funny. Me and my

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Speaker 2: brother's be teasing because my dad my sister became like vegan.

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Speaker 2: She went to Wesleyan University. She came back and she

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Speaker 2: had this vegan diet, and my father's like, gosh, a

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Speaker 2: great idea. So now we was vegan and everything was rice.

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Speaker 2: And he would look in the closet and there'd be

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Speaker 2: we gonna have some string beans. We got some corn bread,

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Speaker 2: and we got some lard, all right, and rice. We're

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Speaker 2: And that was it. Mixed it up. Me and my

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Speaker 2: Nadia created this meal called mullah mush and it was

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Speaker 2: and we call it mula. We have. We didn't have

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Speaker 2: the good cereal moment that you have, like you know,

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Speaker 2: Nigga puffs meat puffs, Like it wasn't a bad Chris

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Speaker 2: in the bag, the big gass bag. It wasn't sugar

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Speaker 2: super sugar cris. No. We had the dry ones that

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Speaker 2: to your milk got gray. Like we grew up poor.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't take back my childhood for nothing, as hard

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Speaker 2: as it was. You know what we had. We had

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Speaker 2: love and when children have love and they have that security.

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Speaker 2: And I had something that a lot of people on

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Speaker 2: I'd be like, Nigga, why don't you leave christgro out?

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Speaker 2: Every day? I thought my father's name was motherfucker til

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Speaker 2: I was like nine years old. But hey, motherfuckers got

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Speaker 2: get some money for school, please, my mother frustration popery,

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Speaker 2: a lot of arguments. Was poverty make people argue? So

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Speaker 2: it was the security and my mother wanted was best

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Speaker 2: for children. I'm not mad at my mama for arguing

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Speaker 5: This shit for the weekend so I could good night,

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Speaker 5: And so my parents argued a lot, but they stayed together, and.

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Speaker 2: up in the projects where there's a lot of broken families.

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Speaker 2: The difference between my family and a lot of families

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Speaker 2: skinned woman, black elbows. Why because my mother would sit

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Speaker 2: her babies play all day, all day.

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Speaker 6: Kennan, I don't do that. Don't cross that street like that, Sean.

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Speaker 6: Don't you fight that boy? You know he too big

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Speaker 6: for you. Damn don't you kick that cat? What if

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Speaker 6: that cat kicked you?

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Speaker 2: Would you like that? My mother would discipline us from

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Speaker 2: the window because she can't my father. We knew we

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Speaker 2: had the answer to two things. We had the answer

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Speaker 2: to my father and God. And we feed my father

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Speaker 2: more because God don't have a belt. My father he

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Speaker 2: whip by that so bad that his belt was tired.

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Speaker 2: His belt was like and I hate when he pulled

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Speaker 2: out that that ironing court. I used to hate that.

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Speaker 2: But we used to always laugh. We used to listen

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Speaker 2: to get our ass well. And then my sister we

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Speaker 2: come out crying and we have welts all over us,

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Speaker 2: and my sisters be like, well, that's all I got

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Speaker 2: to say. Hey man, this is a real fire. It's hot.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know it was a real fire. I thought

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Speaker 2: that was like one of them bullshit ones in campus.

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Speaker 2: You got a real last fire.

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Speaker 1: Here's the end and this what's this called shave Botier.

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Speaker 2: It's the shave Balleportier, That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, yes, how different do you think?

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Speaker 1: How different do you think your life would have been

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Speaker 1: had you not had nine other brothers and sisters, including

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Speaker 2: My father wasn't left with three kids. My father, my

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Speaker 1: How about this? Did you have an appreciation for your

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Speaker 2: I think in some cases, yes, I think that, Like

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Speaker 2: that buildings probably worth fifty million dollars. My mother was brilliant.

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Speaker 2: And I'll actually get a tattoo across my chest. You

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Speaker 2: I am a man. My brother's a man. My father

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Speaker 2: To the point, when my mom lived on the West Coast,

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Speaker 2: I get off the plane. Hey woman, good dress. We

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Speaker 2: We're going. I want some steak. All right, Well, let's

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Speaker 2: don't care what it is. I know it's two hundred

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Speaker 2: I pick her up and my mother, will you put

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Speaker 2: that she went on this date, in this romantic date.

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Speaker 2: Because my mother was romantic. My father unfortunately wasn't. But

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Speaker 2: my mama. I had a wonderful time. You sure know

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you as far as dressing, because

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Speaker 1: It's not like one is it's six five three hundred

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Speaker 2: And it was like he give us like thirty two

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Speaker 2: Where's the rest of the clothes that we got, the clothes,

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Speaker 2: He took us down to the supermarket, got us those

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Speaker 1: When did you realize that all those sneakers, those clothing

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Speaker 1: As like, damn, I got all of these shoes, I

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Speaker 2: I think when my parents died. When my parents died,

429
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 2: it gave me a clarity of what real yeah, what

430
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 2: life really means. None of that stuff means anything. You

431
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 2: can't take it with you. My parents, my mother collected everything,

432
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,439
Speaker 2: she has, all the pictures, she can't take it with her.

433
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 2: The only thing she could take with her is the smiles.

434
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 2: That's all the love. That's all that stuff, and don't

435
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: mean nothing. Who were trying to impress? That's not gonna

436
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 2: do nothing. You know what I'm trying to leave behind

437
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 2: I smiles. So that's why when I'm on a set

438
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 2: and I'm doing comedy, yeah, I will do absolutely anything.

439
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 2: Damn there, light myself on fire for a laugh, because

440
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 2: when I'm gone, I'm leaving behind smiles. And every time

441
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 2: somebody smile on something I did that was classic. That's

442
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: why I don't make comedies. We try to make classics.

443
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 2: Thirty years later, you could watch Awayn's Brother something and

444
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 2: you still gonna laugh like it's your first time seeing it,

445
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: because we don't do jokes. We do classics. I want

446
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: to leave behind that is the legacy smiles. I watch

447
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 2: I Love Lucy and I smile. I watch the Honeymooners,

448
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,640
Speaker 2: I smile. I watch you know, all these great artists

449
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 2: you know, and I prior I watch his specials and

450
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: I smile and I laugh, and they're living through that.

451
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 2: So those are the things that's important to me, not stuff.

452
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 2: To the point, Channon, I got robbed, and it's funny,

453
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 2: I realize I ain't got shit. There was nothing to take.

454
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 2: The nigga should have bought me something, came over and

455
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 2: gave me here at least take this bottle, man. I

456
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 2: didn't have shit. They they you know what they took

457
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 2: my guns. That's all they took was my guns. The

458
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 2: guns I would have shot them with.

459
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: As you've been I've been on.

460
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 2: It's the only thing they took because I ain't got shit.

461
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 2: I ain't got no watchers, I ain't got no change,

462
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: I ain't got you. Everything in my house that's valuable,

463
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 2: it's heavy. You could take the house, go for it.

464
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: Put that on a flatbed truck, go for it. You

465
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 2: won my ja. But I ain't got shit. But the

466
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 2: only thing that's valuable to me is the smiles and

467
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 2: the lives, and those are things I'm gonna die for.

468
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: I don't care about the stuff. Take all them sneakers.

469
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 2: I don't give you hel I'll put them in boxes

470
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 2: for you. Leave them by front. Take them. Trying to

471
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 2: get rid of all this bullshit because none of it

472
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 2: means anything. I ain't got nothing. I got the valuable things.

473
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: I got these smiles, I got these labs, I got

474
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 2: these jokes.

475
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: Well, you guys always funny? Where did you get? Is

476
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: it your mom? Is it your dad? Because it's hard

477
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: to have so many people for one family and all

478
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: of you are comics, comedians? You tell stories? Were you did?

479
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 1: You guys always have disability?

480
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 2: Honestly, yes, everybody in my family is funny. I got

481
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: four sisters. Y'all ain't never seen these women are hilarious,

482
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 2: Like you could just sit around them. They funny as hell,

483
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 2: and they ain't got to worry about getting canceled, so

484
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 2: they say whatever, Well fuck on their mind, they just

485
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 2: say it. They funny, man. My mother was brilliant. My

486
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 2: mother was the funniest person. My mother could walk in

487
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 2: the room, assess the room, and like determinate though, she

488
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 2: sees every flaw that you have, and in a snap

489
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: she could talk about you like a dog. She smiles

490
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 2: as soon as you walk away. Yeah, that bit she had.

491
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 2: She had the jokes. And my father was silly, but

492
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 2: he was annoying, but he wasn't funny. He was silly.

493
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 2: And so I think what happened was my father was

494
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 2: being silly. He got on my mother's nerves. She cursed

495
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: him out, and that was funny. Then they had sex

496
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: and then they made us. Then that's the formula for

497
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: how the waynes it was crafted. But then everybody in

498
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 2: my house was funny. And then Keenan showed us he

499
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 2: unlocked the superpower. It was like, oh, when I saw

500
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 2: Keenan on the Tonight Show Johnny Carson, I was maybe

501
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 2: six and my brother. We had a black and white

502
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: TV with antenna that was broken, with knobs that wasn't working.

503
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 2: We had to turn it with a can opener that

504
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 2: we put on it or applot yes, and we had

505
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 2: a hanger hanging out of it. My whole family in

506
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: the kitchen gather around this table looking at Keenan on

507
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: Johnny Carson. And then after Keenan did his set, Johnny

508
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: Carson called him to the couch because that's when NBC.

509
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: Johnny was like, he's funny, right, And when he called

510
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 2: you the couch, you was getting a deal. So when

511
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 2: Keenan got called to the couch man, it was like

512
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: we wanted a lot of We were like, yes, Lord,

513
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 2: it was like like something out of Good Times.

514
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, we don't did it?

515
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 2: Damn, damn Dawn. And we were so proud. But in

516
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: my head as a little boy, sat there and was like,

517
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: oh my god, because I used to have dreams of

518
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: doing it. But I was like, oh my god, you

519
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 2: mean I could actually have a dream and I can

520
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 2: make it happen. My brother is on TV right now,

521
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: and right then and there, it was like I don't

522
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 2: have to dream no more. This is my new reality.

523
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 2: So from there, me and Sean, we've been studying comedy

524
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: since we was five and six years old. We watched

525
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 2: The Honeymooners. We watched abern In Costello every Sunday, we

526
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: watched The Three Stooges, we watched everything because we used

527
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: to dream one day were gonna have our own TV show,

528
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 2: right and one day and we had our own TV

529
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: show because my brother showed us that we could do it.

530
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: And then the dreams is reality? Simple?

531
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: Was Keenan always one of your biggest role models? Because

532
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, I never looked outside

533
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: of my house for a role model. I had my

534
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: brother and I had my grandfather.

535
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 2: That's what I said.

536
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: So, man, the only man that I ever wanted to

537
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: be like was my brother and my grandfather.

538
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I am the luckiest kid alive. You know. I

539
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: grew up in the house with five legends. All the

540
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 2: people I wanted to be like was in my household.

541
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: Keenan Damon, Kim Damon, my mother, my father, my big sister,

542
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 2: you know, Deirdre, de Vaughn, Nadia, they all Kim, they

543
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: all raised me. And I'm so lucky that I had

544
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: those examples in front of me, and to be the

545
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: baby because I get to go, I'm gonna do like that.

546
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna do that. I'm gonna do that Hollywood thing,

547
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: that cracked thing. I don't think that's a good thing.

548
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: You didn't work out good for Dane worked it. But

549
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: this this acting thing for Keenan Boom. I get to

550
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: make the choices of what works and what don't work.

551
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: But even my big brother Doyne, we were lucky. All

552
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: my heroes was in my household. And I always say,

553
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 2: how lucky am I? If you people can die and

554
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 2: come back as something, I suggest you came back as me.

555
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 2: I had a stellar childhood. I knew Eddie Murphy came

556
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: to my projects when I was eight years old. We

557
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 2: sitting there Eddie Murphy, the biggest star in the world

558
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 2: because Keenan would have was working with him on Raw

559
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: and he had a deal o Eddie Murphy Production. Right,

560
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 2: So Eddie Murphy was in our house and I'm gonna

561
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: be ad these cowskin pants on Nick. And every time

562
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: he sat down, me and my brother Chong were going, move,

563
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 2: you're in move for some steak tonight, Sean. And we

564
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: cracking jokes, and my nephew Craig just kept punching Eddie

565
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: in the stomach and he was like, hey, Kenny, come

566
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 2: and get this kid. And we snapped on Eddie all night.

567
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 2: And God bless Eddie Murphy. God bless that man because

568
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: his pants cost more than everything in my household, including us.

569
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: But he never struck back. He gave us autographs. You know.

570
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 2: He said to Malon, go be great. To Sean, be

571
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 2: free to Craig. When you get older, I'm gonna punch

572
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 2: you in your face.

573
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 6: I know.

574
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 2: Robert Townsend still like a big brother. I know Robertsonce

575
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: I was like seventy eight years old, you know what

576
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 2: I mean. I had legends in my household. Used to

577
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 2: come over and play a fake a fake Trump preparing

578
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: the first time I was ever on stage, we was

579
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: out in California visiting my brother Keny. He flew us

580
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 2: out UH one one winter on an airline when we

581
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 2: first started getting money. He had a little house in

582
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: Hollywood on Fountain, and he put us on this plane.

583
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: We ain't never been on a plane before. All we

584
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: knew was the project. He put us on this plane,

585
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 2: Seasun Airline. It wasn't niggas put us on Delta, it

586
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: wasn't American Airlines. We put us on SeaSound Airline, which

587
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 2: is basically like the Spirits, little broken ass brother. We

588
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: get on an airplane and it takes off and the

589
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 2: wing catches fire. Oh and then the other wing catches fly,

590
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: and we look. We never been on a plane before.

591
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: We looking out the window like, hey guys, look at

592
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 2: the jets. No, we didn't know it was on fire.

593
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 2: We thought that's how it's supposed to be. Were like,

594
00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: this is a rocket ship. Everybody, But I wonder him

595
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: back of Mergency Land.

596
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: That was your first time on the plane, Is that's

597
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: what happened?

598
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: Yes, but we didn't know. We thought that was a

599
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: post that but and then we came out to California.

600
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 2: Robert was doing a set at the Improv and he

601
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 2: was doing his character uncle character old man, and he

602
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: bought me kid me, my nephew Damien, my nephew Craig,

603
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: and my brother Sean on the stage and he did

604
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: this sketch with us. And that's like, those are like

605
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 2: great memories. Like I grew up on a set of

606
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 2: Robert Townsend's Partners in Crime. He would give us jobs,

607
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 2: he would let us write sketches. I'm writing sketches at twelve,

608
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,760
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609
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: easy listening and hip hop.

610
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:44,440
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611
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,400
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612
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,480
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614
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,880
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615
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616
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:06,000
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00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:10,000
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Speaker 8: at contest lock on nine five, twenty four. See terms

643
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Speaker 8: at draft Kings dot com slash d f ass.

644
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: Keenan's off doing this. So Keenan is having success at

645
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: a very very young age. So well, actually no, not

646
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: too young. Keena was about I think when it all

647
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: started happening for Keenan, how much key, how much older

648
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: is Keenan than you? Fifteen fifteen fifteen, So he's sixty seven, yeah,

649
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: so when you're like, so he's twenty four twenty five

650
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: when you yeah.

651
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: He's about twenty seven twenty when he really hits, like

652
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 2: twenty eight thirty when he did I'm Gonna get you sucker.

653
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: And then when Living Color, you know, ahead he was

654
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 2: just right off.

655
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: So what were you like in high school? Got a

656
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: big brother to make it. But he's having not the

657
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: success like he had with Living Color, not the success

658
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: that he has I'm Gonna get your sucker, but he's

659
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,720
Speaker 1: having some level of success. What were you like in school?

660
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: Did you like man my brick brother at in Hollywood

661
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: later for.

662
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 2: Y'all, I was cocky. I knew I was gonna make it.

663
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 2: I knew I was gonna make it, like in high school,

664
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,959
Speaker 2: especially come high school, and I wasn't performing on high school.

665
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 2: You know, It's funny like my yes, my brothers was

666
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 2: famous by the time I got to high school, right,

667
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: they were doing stuff. I'm gonna get. Hollywood Shuffle came

668
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 2: out my freshman year of high school. And I remember

669
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: because I went to performing on high school and my dad,

670
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 2: Joe Witness, he was a homophobe. He didn't want me

671
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: to go to performer on high school because he was

672
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 2: watching fame. Yo. Okay, his nigga thought I was gonna

673
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: be leeroy like. He didn't want me wearing tights and

674
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: I don't know, car, aren't you doing that? And he said,

675
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 2: you can't go to that school. And my brother Kenan,

676
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 2: he was about your size at the time. He said,

677
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 2: he's gonna go to that school. He said he's not

678
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 2: going to audition. He said, I'm not gonna let your

679
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 2: homophobeia stop that little man's dreams. He's gonna go to

680
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: that audition and if he gets in, he's gonna go

681
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: if not, then you're gonna have to answer the me

682
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: and I got into school and that was the day

683
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 2: I realized my dad was a bitch ass nigga because yeah,

684
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 2: so yeah, I had a level of confidence. You know,

685
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 2: I think I wouldn't say cockiness. I just knew. I

686
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 2: knew what it was gonna be. I knew my brothers

687
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 2: were successful. Hollywood sheffle. Then I'm gonna get you, sucker.

688
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you suckle jacket. In school, my friend

689
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 2: Omar Apps used to borrow it from me. You know,

690
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 2: like I remember like going to college. I'm in college.

691
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: I'm at Howard University, in being Colors on the air,

692
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 2: I'm in living Color's brother at a black university. Sunday comes,

693
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: everybody stops what they doing. We run like roaches. We've

694
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 2: ran run to our TV and watch that TV and

695
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: then when it's done, came out laughing and we talked

696
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 2: about it, and those was mine so much so that

697
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 2: the professors sometime at Howard this is why I left.

698
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stress. You know, they be teaching

699
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 2: all these classes and like, you know, let's talk about

700
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: minstrels and buffoony. It live in Color is it a

701
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: minor day minstrel? You know? Put this is it Marling?

702
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you're putting me on blasts and I'm

703
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: in school and I'm like, then after after class, brother

704
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: want to hand me a script? Hit? He get that

705
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: to Keynan for me. He cloud the plays. They give

706
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 2: me a script. You don't get your ass out of it.

707
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: That's the way you left. I've been I read your GPA.

708
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: Wasn't that other?

709
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 2: No, First I let me take a shot. I keep

710
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about some hard questions. Let me get

711
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: a shot of there. I will tell you my GPA.

712
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 2: I was very smart until I got to college. And

713
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 2: it wasn't that I wasn't smart. It's just I didn't

714
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 2: apply myself. My first semester I got a one six

715
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 2: in classes one six, but I had had three point

716
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 2: eight partying. I could party in my ass or I

717
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: learned how much to drink? How many hits of the

718
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: weed before bane the Disney with the combination?

719
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

720
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: Who's gonna give me some Who wasn't I? And I

721
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: remember I bought that great home and Keenan said, Keenan

722
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 2: was paying for my college. He said, all right, well,

723
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 2: you ain't gonna mess some my money. You paying for

724
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 2: your own college now, I said, what start sweating. I

725
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 2: was like, oh shit, I got to pay for my

726
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: own college. And so from then on I pulled in

727
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 2: three point sixes because it was my money. I wasn't

728
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: gonna mess that money up. And the reason why I

729
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 2: left wasn't because first of all, my brother hated the

730
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 2: fact that I went to college. They was like, come

731
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 2: join the family business. Come join the family business. We

732
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: have a living color on the air. My brother Sean

733
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: was like, Yo, let's do our sketches. Let's do this.

734
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 2: I was like, I said no. I said no. I said,

735
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 2: I love you, but I gotta be me if I

736
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: do it, y'all, wig, I can't be me. You know

737
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 2: how hard it is to come after Keenan, Ivory Wayans,

738
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 2: Damon Wayns, Kim Wayne, Sean Wayns and then Marlin, and

739
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 2: the only thing that I had was my own life experience.

740
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 2: I had to do my thing differently. So I wanted

741
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 2: to go to Howard to learn to be a man

742
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: outside of my brothers, to be my own. For me,

743
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: it was like Michael from the Godfather going to the

744
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 2: Army I know there's a purpose for why I'm going

745
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 2: to do this, but I need to go do this

746
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 2: for me. And I remember I wrote my brother Sean

747
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: like a ten page letter. I was so sad because

748
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 2: I knew what we were supposed to do. But I

749
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 2: knew he thought I was going back for a girl,

750
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: and I was like, no, I'm going back to getting Marlin.

751
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: And so I went back. I got a three six

752
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 2: three point six GPA. I did some film projects and

753
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: I was like, then I got more money, and people

754
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,959
Speaker 2: think I was gifted more money. I wasn't. I wasn't

755
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: even on the list. Damon wanted Kadeem Harnessing. Now mind you,

756
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: I'm auditioning for stuff. I'm getting movies and turning them down.

757
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: I got like five movies, turned them down to go

758
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 2: back to school. Then that more money audition came and

759
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 2: Damon was like, look, nigga, I don't want you.

760
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 7: I mean you could work, but I ain't gonna get

761
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 7: your hopes up high and have you committing suicide when

762
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 7: you don't get this part. He said, I want Kadeem Harnesson,

763
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 7: but Kadeen, he's doing a different world and I ain't

764
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 7: got different world money. And then so there's this kid,

765
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 7: Club Brooks. He got little ears, but he looks like me.

766
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 7: He got petzelers, but he looks like me, and the

767
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 7: studio likes him. So if you gonna come in, you

768
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 7: better come with that thunder. And he said, now, I

769
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 7: don't want you to worry about making these white boys laugh.

770
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 7: Don't worry about the studio.

771
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: You worry about making this nigga laugh, because I don't

772
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: find nothing funny. And I knew what that meant. In

773
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: order to make Damon laugh, he wrote his words. Damon

774
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: wanted me to bring the writer out, so I had

775
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 2: to sit there and punch up what he wrote. And

776
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 2: if you look at my script for more Money, I

777
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 2: had all these different notes, never the black, always the red.

778
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 2: I came up with all these improps. I barely did

779
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 2: anything on the script. And when I they and Omar

780
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 2: was on there. Omar Apps, my best friend to this day,

781
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 2: came on the audition with me. He was like, you

782
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 2: got this. He's like, I'm not. I don't even why

783
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: the fuck o audition? He's like, this is yours. I

784
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: went in the audition, I blazed it and Dan was like,

785
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 2: he never gives you credit. He goes. I said, was

786
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: it funny? He goes, We made the white laugh and

787
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,479
Speaker 2: you got the part. And I was like, oh shit.

788
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 2: And that's when I left Howard because I was like,

789
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 2: I'm on my way to do what I love to

790
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 2: do for a living, and I'm making money doing it.

791
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 2: And that's why I was like, fuck your school.

792
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: In the beginning.

793
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: Did people feel that you got rolls or Sean got

794
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 2: rolls or anybody in the family got rolls because.

795
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 1: Of your big brother?

796
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 2: Till this day and I laughed, they still don't want

797
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: to give you credit for what the work that you

798
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: put in. No, they just you know, Hay, this's gonna hate. Hey,

799
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 2: this is gonna hate. Hate is a business. It's a

800
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 2: big business. And hate you can hate. But you can't

801
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 2: discredit my accolades. You don't know my journey. You don't know.

802
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: I wasn't just some dude that got put into stuff.

803
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: I need you to go look at the credits. I've

804
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: been writing movies since I was nineteen years old. Me

805
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 2: and Sean created Wayans Brothers. When we was like twenty

806
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: twenty two, Don't Be a Menace scary movie, Me and

807
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 2: Sean and Keenan wrote that Scary Movie two. Me and

808
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 2: Sean and Keenan with a few other writers. But these

809
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 2: are ideas that we came up with. Sean came up

810
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: with a lot of these ideas. Scary movies. Was like,

811
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: don't be a minute. Sean came up with Scary Sean,

812
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 2: don't get enough credit, scary movie, don't be a minute,

813
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 2: White Chicks. Those are Sean's ideas. Me, I'm an executor.

814
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 2: We executed together. I know funny characters. I know how

815
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 2: to do situations. We all have gifts. In Keenan, he

816
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: knows how to put it all together and see it

817
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: from a macro point of view and work the shit out.

818
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 2: You let me tell you something. They can hate. All

819
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: they want. All my brothers do was len me opportunity.

820
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 2: And that's a gift in a curse because when you're

821
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 2: our age, see they came up. You got thirty years,

822
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 2: twenty years to make it under. In comedy, you found

823
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 2: your point of view. You've been on the stage. You

824
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 2: know how to make people laugh. You could sit on

825
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 2: the couch and you can make people laugh when you're

826
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 2: doing Johnny Carson. You can go in any room and

827
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 2: kill it. You you learn how to act you had

828
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 2: twenty years and now finally you get this opportunity. Me

829
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: and Sean didn't have twenty years. We got pushed in

830
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 2: the Hollywood seventeen and eighteen years old, and all we

831
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 2: had was instincts from being from a funny family. And

832
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 2: then over time, that's why first seasons of Ways, Brother,

833
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 2: we were just too We was just gunning. We didn't

834
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 2: understand story, we didn't understand how to fix thing. We

835
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: just knew we were funny and we had to make

836
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: it funny. And then season three you watch it start, yeah,

837
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 2: because we started getting better, right, And then if you

838
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: watch the progression of the movies, we started getting better.

839
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 2: Now at fifty two, I finally have thirty years in

840
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 2: the business. So everything that I've done for me in

841
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: all that learning, now is my time. You want to

842
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: judge me. I want you to judge me now because

843
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 2: I'm five specials in working on my six one. I'm

844
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: a different animal, because I'm not just a comedian. I'm

845
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 2: a damn good actor. I act the shit I could act.

846
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 2: I got pain I could When y'all see my dramatic

847
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: work that's coming this year, y'all gonna be like, yo,

848
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: I'm telling you now, I have ten thousand hours logged

849
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 2: in five different disciplines. I'm gonna be a I'm a

850
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 2: monster right now, bro like and I see it. I

851
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 2: could do characters, I could do deep character. I can

852
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 2: do characters dramatically, I could do them funny. I can

853
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 2: do so much. And now I'm gonna showcase all that.

854
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 2: Everything else was learning. So yes, my brothers gave me opportunity.

855
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 2: But there was a gift and a curse and it

856
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: was a very hard ride for me and Sean. And

857
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 2: you know what got us through is our work ethic

858
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: because my brothers wasn't easy on us. My brother we

859
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: got to a Living Color. They was like, we ain't

860
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 2: writing for Keenan's little talented brothers. And this is Keenan

861
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: Damon saying that shit. I thought I thought we had,

862
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Me and Sean we every

863
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: sketch on Living Color, the deaf jam sketch, shopping ranks,

864
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 2: mister ugly man. Me and Sean stayed up, snuffing wrong,

865
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: stayed up. We spent the night at in Living Color

866
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: learning to write. Spent the night because nobody would write

867
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 2: for us. We spent the night there writing no sketches,

868
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 2: and then when they got on, we had to go

869
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: execute them. Nobody wrote for us. We created our TV show.

870
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 2: I remember when we left in Living Color because Fox

871
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 2: was syndicating the show when it was curtin Keenan's pockets

872
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: and Keene was like, Nah, you ain't gonna do this

873
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: to me, and my family said fuck this money, and

874
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: we all left in Living Color. There's an episode of

875
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 2: Living Color where we got black shades on. It's a

876
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 2: Christmas episode. Jamie Fox is singing uh. He's singing, uh,

877
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 2: hang all the miss who toes this Christmas and me

878
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 2: and my family black glasses on, and we're sitting there

879
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 2: like this as a family because we protesting, and we

880
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 2: go on, you ain't gonna fuck my brother. We have family.

881
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 2: You touch one, you touch all your money. I'm sorry.

882
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: They was offering us big checks, seventy thousand dollars checks

883
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 2: to stay on that show. I'm still a brother after this. No,

884
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 2: I'm gonna support my brother. And we all left the show.

885
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 2: And that's why season five it got weird, It got

886
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: biz Marquee. God bless Chris Rock. He came at the

887
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 2: wrong time, but as brilliant as he is. You couldn't

888
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 2: save it because the eyes of the show is gone.

889
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: You understand heartbeat, yes, the eyes the vision. You can't

890
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,479
Speaker 2: replicate weighing shit. And anytimes they try, you're gonna fail.

891
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 2: They've done other movies trying. You can't people taste that

892
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: shit that ain't weighing. Can't do what we do because

893
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 2: you ain't got my life experience. You don't have my

894
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 2: point of view. You didn't grow up with the people

895
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 2: I grew up with. Dona understand how life has carved

896
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: me as a visionary. You can't take the flavor. You

897
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 2: can't run. I could give you all the season in

898
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 2: I give you all what's in it. You don't know

899
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 2: how much to put You don't know what kind of food.

900
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 2: I'll give you the right flour. You don't know how

901
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 2: long to cook that chicken. You don't know how much

902
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 2: of that garlic powder you got to put in there.

903
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 2: I'll give you the hot sauce.

904
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: It's francs.

905
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna make you be able to make my chicken.

906
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 2: And that's what comedy is. And with my brothers, when

907
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 2: we left the Limon Color, I had seven thousand, I

908
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 2: had seven hundred dollars in the bank and nine hundred

909
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 2: dollars rent I was broke, and me and my brother

910
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: Sean was looking at each other like, what are we

911
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: gonna do now? My brother Sean was depressed. He was

912
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,959
Speaker 2: sitting in the room with lights out, and he played

913
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 2: Christmas music because if you get upset, because Christmas is

914
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 2: a happy time. Was when we get him saying, nigga,

915
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 2: play that Christmas music, and I would come down with them.

916
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,920
Speaker 2: We always had a bottle of diet pepsi, and when

917
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 2: they had one hundred and twenty, Alex died pepsi and

918
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 2: I would sit there like we did a limit color

919
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: and I would He had a brand new computer and

920
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 2: I was sitting there working on Wayne's Brothers. And then

921
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 2: one day he came out the room in his robe

922
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 2: and he said, what you doing, stupid? Said, I'm working

923
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,919
Speaker 2: on our TV show. And the first thing he read

924
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 2: was interior outside. He said, stupid, how you have interior

925
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 2: you outside? He said, move over, and then we sat down.

926
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 2: We created our show Wayne's Brothers. Nobody gave us nothing,

927
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: and my brothers when we did, don't be this. Keenan

928
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 2: made us do twenty six drafts, twenty six drafts, and

929
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 2: then the director when we finally shot the movie, we

930
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 2: me and Sean would cry, why are we doing another draft?

931
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it again, and they't rdy yet. Then

932
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 2: the director didn't get comedy, messed the movie up. We

933
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: screened the movie, it got terrible ratings. Meri Max was like,

934
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 2: what are we gonna do? Keenan's like, I could fix it.

935
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 2: I need a million dollars and I need ten days

936
00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 2: of shooting. Bet Keenan said okay, and I got the budget.

937
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 2: Now know what to do. Now, you guys gotta write

938
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: a movie. What do you mean, write a whole no movie?

939
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: Fuck this one up? And in one week we had

940
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: to write a whole damn new movie. So much so

941
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 2: that I couldn't even think of anything. I took some

942
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 2: hits a weed, Me and my boy got high, like

943
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 2: me and my boy Xable. I passed him to weed

944
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 2: and he took it. He coughed, and he threw up

945
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: now and fell on the floor. And I looked at him.

946
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 2: I said, hey, nigga passed that shit. And we put

947
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 2: it and don't be a menace. So we wrote all

948
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 2: these different sketches. The Grandma's breakdancing, all these different sketches

949
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 2: that were getting jumped in that became the movie it

950
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,720
Speaker 2: Don't be a Menace. And hadn't we did the twenty

951
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 2: six drafts prior to that, we could have never showed

952
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 2: up to put together that draft in seven days and

953
00:50:55,239 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 2: do what became the classic Don't Be a Menace? You said,

954
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 2: he damn, I got stories. I need a second down.

955
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 2: That was a I look at my face in the

956
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 2: mirror and I don't know I'm this all.

957
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: You mentioned that Keenan made you write it twenty six

958
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: rewrite it twenty six times. Imagine I can imagine the

959
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: length of time that you and Sean spent coming up

960
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: with the first grip yeah, and then to rewrite it yeah,

961
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: and to rewrite it and then say, you know what,

962
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: y'all messed it up again. So guess what.

963
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 2: I got a million dollars from Merril back and we're

964
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 2: gonna do it Againain. Then you like, man, come on, Keenan, bro.

965
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: The whole time, you just roll with it. We wanted

966
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 2: to fight this nigga. I was like, Sean, you get

967
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 2: the legs, I'll kick him in the chest. We were

968
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 2: so mad. But you look back and you go, ah,

969
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: I see why Yoda made us do those things. And

970
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 2: now with Jedi, now I know how to do it.

971
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 2: Now I know. I sit there and I talk to

972
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 2: me and Robert Townsend we have talked and rob was like, damn,

973
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 2: little bro, you you really you really are on your Yeah,

974
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 2: and he's like, I'm so proud of you when they

975
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 2: hear that. You know for my brother and my brother Keenan,

976
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 2: but I'm proud of you doing great work. You know,

977
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 2: I work my whole lifetime to be able to hear

978
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. You're doing great work. My brothers

979
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 2: don't they don't give me, they don't laugh. I go,

980
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 2: how'd you like it? I put it on and when

981
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 2: something funny happens, they go, that's funny. Damon just goes hmm.

982
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 2: And to hear them go, I'm proud of you. When

983
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 2: he watched God Loves.

984
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 7: Me, Damon said, you know, ugly, he did something different.

985
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 7: He took one topic and you went in for a

986
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 7: whole hour. He said, I don't think a lot of

987
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 7: niggas a special, but.

988
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 2: That was that was special. He said, that made me.

989
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 2: You inspired me. I was wow, And that's how I

990
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 2: knew I was on this. Keenan was like, Damning said,

991
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 2: just special was bringing I watched it. He was right.

992
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: We said, good job, beautiful work. And so I knowing

993
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 2: I'm doing the right thing. And it's not like it's

994
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 2: not an accident. I've been trained in ways that y'all

995
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 2: don't even know. They don't even know, y'all, I could

996
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 2: tell you story at the store. I'm this is thirty

997
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 2: three years of cooking. I'm telling you this. This next

998
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 2: level was we were going, We're going for the shiny things. Yeah,

999
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 2: they don't see it.

1000
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: Let's get back to Living Color. I didn't realize till

1001
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: we were researching this in Living Color.

1002
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 2: Was only on four years.

1003
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, that might have been the greatest four year run

1004
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 1: ever in their history.

1005
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 2: Ever. That show should still be on. That was a

1006
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: staple that should have been institution. Yes, it's an institution.

1007
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is in Living Color. I think

1008
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,320
Speaker 2: Damon and Keenan were inspired by Sating out Live and

1009
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 2: I think Keenan was like, they never have me On

1010
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 2: and Damon had just gotten fired from there and he

1011
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 2: was like, all right, well I'm gonna do take all

1012
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 2: this funny shit that I've had we're gonna do it

1013
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 2: on this show. And he took and all these funny,

1014
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 2: crazy sketches that they wouldn't let him do on SNL,

1015
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 2: and they did it on Living Color. And to this day,

1016
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 2: you know, I've never done SNL. Really, I've done Daily

1017
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 2: Show never. I guess I'm not hot enough. But you know,

1018
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 2: I love the fact that I'm you know, I'm always

1019
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 2: gonna be in Living Color alumni, right. And one day

1020
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: sometimes I look at God and I go, if the

1021
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 2: opportunities don't come for you, it's not for you, right,

1022
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 2: And maybe it's God telling me create my own show,

1023
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,919
Speaker 2: do my own sketches. And I could and I will,

1024
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 2: and I you know, I just feel like everything is God.

1025
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 2: When it don't happen, don't be mad. God's writing your story,

1026
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 2: so trust him.

1027
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: We had Tommy Davison.

1028
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 2: Now that nigga. Now we get into the good stuff.

1029
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 2: I need another drink now. He actually he's saying, why

1030
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 2: are you not drinking your own sauce? Neil got me

1031
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 2: up in here drinking your evil juice and you you

1032
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 2: was sitting there watching me. Okay, well that you I

1033
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 2: think you wanted, but a little you know, let's I'm

1034
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 2: gonna sip this one to success, man to success. Go talk,

1035
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 2: Let's have this thing promotion.

1036
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: Got right, Yeah, Tommy said, Should we light up a cigar?

1037
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 2: It's okay, damn oh good, Tommy said, And I didn't really,

1038
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 2: by the way, Love Tommy Davison, big big bro like

1039
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 2: he to me, underrated that boy should have been one

1040
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 2: of the biggest movie stars in the world. Tommy Davison

1041
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 2: is brilliant.

1042
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 9: Let me tell you how dope, Keenan is the fact

1043
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 9: that your eyes for talent, that you could make and

1044
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 9: see talent and greatness in all these people you assembled

1045
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 9: on the cast, Tommy Davidson, Jim Carrey, David Allen Kreer,

1046
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 9: Jamie Fox, Kim Wayns, Kelly Colefield, Steve Park, my brother,

1047
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 9: Sean Me, even the babies.

1048
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 2: J Lo Jaylo was just like a dancer and a singer,

1049
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 2: and Keen was like, you should do more were he

1050
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 2: knew she was special, knew it. J Lo carry Anna Knaka.

1051
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 2: If you look at all the writers that made it

1052
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 2: from in Living Color, and they would complain when he

1053
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,879
Speaker 2: made them work, But just like when we did those

1054
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 2: twenty six drafts, it prepared them for their evolution and

1055
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 2: their greatness as writers, because this is what you gotta do.

1056
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: You got to rewrite. Somebody has to work you and

1057
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 2: you may not like it and you may resent it,

1058
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 2: but look at how you're eating. Keenan ors a visionary

1059
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 2: and Damon that's what taught me the eyes. Damon the

1060
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 2: most magical talent, him and my sister Kim. But Damon

1061
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Speaker 2: as a comedian. I used to watch this man go

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00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 2: on stage and the first only thing he wanted to

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00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 2: do was you go up there, and they'll be like,

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00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 2: and go behind the curtain. I'm doing the invisible coming.

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00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 2: Watch as I scratch my nuts. He would, and he's

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00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 2: just playing with the audience because he don't care. He's like,

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00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use this time to say fuck you to

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00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 2: the audience because now I can create without your Judgment's

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00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 2: the reason why Damon don't do stand up nowadays. He

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00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 2: feels people are too judgmental, and he's right, you can't

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00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,479
Speaker 2: say it no more. I need to speak my mind.

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00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 2: Damon could do characters. Damon could do monologues. He tell

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00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 2: you the joke, then show you the joke. He talked

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00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 2: about his pain handicap. Bully came from somewhere. Damon was

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00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 2: born with a handicap. He had a club foot, and

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00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: so he came out with Handyman, which is from something

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00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 2: that was painful. He created art. Damon is one of

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00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 2: the most brilliant comedians ever. You don't understand. I got

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00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 2: to watch this. I watched Jim Carrey. Like TV, we

1080
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 2: tell them, do Jack Nicholson here, do this character? Do

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00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 2: that character? Du verd Demala used to make us laugh.

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00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 2: Me and Sean we be peeing ourselves. David loonngrere one

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00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 2: of the funniest dudes you ever wanted to meet. Kim

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00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 2: Wayans what a special talent. This is why I'm sometime

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00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,840
Speaker 2: in Hollywood. I get a little upset because there's no

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00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 2: way Kim is like black Carol Burnett. She's only marginalized

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00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 2: by what Hollywood deems they want to make or they

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00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 2: feel is a special talent to be celebrated. Kim Wayans

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00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 2: is a great writer. She graduated from what's called with

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00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: honors Wesleyan University. She's a brilliant writer, amazing actress. She

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00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 2: has a brilliant one woman show. But I tell you

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00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 2: I came from greatness. I know greatness. I was I

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00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 2: was touched by greatness grew up with, and not in

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00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 2: a perverted way.

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Speaker 1: Y'all made the man put y'all made fun of David.

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00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, god on, man, the man gotta we call

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00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 2: that shit a hockey puck, a golf club not even

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00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 2: a good one. It's the p Yeah. It was like

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00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 2: a picture of a pitcher wins.

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00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: Or the one.

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00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 2: We made fun of. It's all we do. We talked shit.

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00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: My whole family. We make fun of each other.

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00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: That's what we do.

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00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 2: But we have a great sense of humor. But more

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00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 2: than that, we have a great life.

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00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: We laugh a lot.

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00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 2: Were laughing our way through this lifetime. I hope other people.

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00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 2: Do you know a living color?

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00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: Tommy said, you guys dropped that during halftime of a

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00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl, got twenty million views, and then the next thing,

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00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, the super Bowl of the following you, the

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00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: NFL dropped Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what happened was what happened was Keenan and Eric

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01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 2: Gold and those guys came up with the idea to

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 2: do the halftime show because they was doing they the

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01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 2: bands marching bands playing and Keenan was and there was

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01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 2: like they got with Dorito's and I think Pepsi is

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01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 2: somebody else. And they was like, we're gonna steal the audience.

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01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 2: And Living Color was at his biggest yes, and it

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01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 2: was like, we gonna take that audience and bring him

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Speaker 2: to a Living Color and a special Living Color halftime show.

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01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 2: All the viewers scattered left the Super Bowl, went to

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Speaker 2: Fox watched this hilarious live uh in Living Color episode.

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01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 2: Damon got in some trouble. He always got in something

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01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:45,919
Speaker 2: proud something we're uh. He said some joke about Carl Lewis.

1126
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 2: I think to this day Carl Lewis is still mad.

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01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 2: David Grill said, Homie, He's gonna long jump into your asshole.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, So we stole the audience and the next

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01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 2: year that Mike, they was like, y'all ain't never doing

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01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 2: that again. They paid the biggest star in the world

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01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 2: to come do the halftime show.

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Speaker 1: Was that Do you think that was the beginning of

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: a halftime show?

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01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 2: Is we know it for the end of absolutely absolutely?

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01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 2: So Hey man, uh all you guys make usher uh

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01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 2: doctor dre j Lo, all you people that are doing

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01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 2: the halftime show, hope you got a big check. Thank you, Keenan,

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01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: thank you Living Color.

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Speaker 1: Dude, do you think like when I look at Saturday

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Speaker 1: Night Live and I look at uh in Living Color,

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01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: and you said, because Keenan, you know, I think Keith

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01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: was on there once, wasn't it that line?

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01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 2: I do know? No? And Damon you said, Damon, Damon

1144
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 2: was on, was on he got and baby see that's why.

1145
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 2: See Damon was bad. That's why when I went to

1146
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 2: Ice go to school and they immediately put me in attention,

1147
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 2: I was like, why were you putting? Because that's we

1148
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 2: saw what Damon did.

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01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,959
Speaker 4: If anything like that, you take that seat.

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01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 2: Damon was bad. And you know, I think on Saturday

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01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 2: Night Live he was bad. He did a character that

1152
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 2: he weren't supposed to do and missed the monopoly. I

1153
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 2: remember the sketch and he's like, why is David doing

1154
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,919
Speaker 2: that character? Because he was tired of not being able

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01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 2: to do him and he got fired for that. Wow,

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01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 2: And so I don't think. I think after that he

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01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 2: was actually allowed to host again. And I think once

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01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 2: again he did something he wonn't supposed to do. David crazy,

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01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: but he's brilliant sometimes man, brilliant people.

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01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: It works for him.

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01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 2: Man, he's brilliant. I would never put a chain on, Damon,

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01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: Let Damon be free. Damon is a magical unicorn man.

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01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 2: He's so talented, so funny, his instincts are great. Love

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01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 2: my brother man. He taught me, taught me to stage.

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01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 2: He taught me not to be afraid of that stage.

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Speaker 1: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two

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01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: is also posted and you can access it to whichever

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01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: podcast platform you just listened to part one on. Just

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Speaker 1: simply go back the club profile and I'll see you there.