WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Martin Lawrence Talks Return To Standup, 'Blue Streak' Sequel, Fearless Comedy + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.640 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:05.360 Morning everybody. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.080 It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the God we are 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:11.680 the Breakfast Club. Jess is six, so she's not here. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.440 Laurla Roe is feeling in and we got a special. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:16.840 Guest in the building, legend himself. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.160 Martin Laws, Ladies and gentlemen. How you feeling. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.880 Good, great man, Glad to be here with you. Guys. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:24.599 This weekend you're gonna be at the ball Clays and 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.040 also Atlantic City Performance. So if you haven't got your tickets, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.840 get your tickets. We're actually today we're giving away front 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.519 row seats to go to the show. So calling one 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.360 on five right now, eight hundred and five eight five 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:34.839 one five. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:35.839 We gotta don't. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.840 Say nothing in the front row because I might get 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.319 you in front row. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.360 Those tickets are yours. How you feeling, brother. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.520 I'm feeling great man, feeling great, feeling blessed. I feel 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:52.480 for all the people going through uh tragic stuff in La. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.640 You know with the fires. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.640 My sister's house burned down. Sorry, yeah, so you know 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.240 we got start rebuilding. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.640 You know, so you live in La too, right, but 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:04.120 it was your house? 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.160 Effective enough, No, but it was getting close. It was 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:08.479 getting close. Yeah. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.800 Do they call you immediately, like you know, modern house 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:12.320 burned down? 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:12.640 Yeah? 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.120 Well I was at my ranch back in Virginia and 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.200 chilling in the snow and all that was going on. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.840 I was just one nothing I could do, but my 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.080 family that I had in LA was holding it down. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.680 Do you reach for your pockets first or do you 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.399 wait to see what the insurance gonna do? 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.320 Oh? Well both? 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.920 What's the rebuilding process going to be like? 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:37.119 Though? 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.679 Like you guys have to wait a certain amount of 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.000 time before you can even start like thinking about that. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:42.280 Do they give you a. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.360 I really don't know. I really don't know. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.000 I got to ask about Bad Boys? You know, the 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.560 Bad Boys franchise picked back up right where y'all left 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.120 off years ago, right, Yeah, And it's pretty amazing because 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.760 as a kid, I grew up on it, right, but 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.440 now my kids are growing up on it. So do 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.920 you expected to catch so big? And how many are 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.280 y'all gonna do? Because it's not it's not like you know, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.960 usually you do a sequel it's like, and then the 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.639 one after that it's like, but now it's not whack. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.359 It keeps going, So how many more. You're gonna do it, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:12.400 y'all shooting? 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.560 I really don't know, you know, you know, the business 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.000 is fickleed, you know. I hope to do uh more, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.240 you know, as long as Will wants to do them, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.639 you know, well, and the audience wants some we're doing 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.880 you know. We like giving you a good work, you know, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.360 so you know, we have a lot of fun with 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.280 bad boys. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.280 Why I was wondering about the toll, like, like you 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.040 got money, you're old enow, why even go back on 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.640 the grind and doing a comedy. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.440 Tour because it's where I started. It's my baby, you know, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.080 it's it's it's my bread winner. You know. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.160 When I don't have nothing else to do, I can't 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.960 do movies or TV or whatever. I can always go 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.240 back to stand up and my audience is always there 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:00.600 for me. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.639 Do you think that the stand up Do you think 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.760 the appetite of stand up is the same as it 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.200 used to be? 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.600 Yeah, if you're still hungry or you know, if you're 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.760 still hungry, Yeah, and I'm still hungry. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.000 What about the audience? Because standup is kind of a 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:13.440 lost art. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:14.760 I love stand up, you know what I mean, But 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.520 it feels like it's kind of a lost art because 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:17.280 of social media. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.440 People. I don't even know people really know what funny 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:21.240 funny is anymore. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.560 But to go on stage and the captivating audience just 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.040 you and the microphone, You think the audience still has it? 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.239 Yeah, people need to laugh, you know, and people want 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.760 to laugh. I mean you see the sound of the 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.840 times that we're in. I mean, people just really want 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.960 to come out and laugh, man, And that's what we 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.080 need to do. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.119 Laughter. Hill's the world. Man. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.800 I saw a quote you said, the way fighters trained, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.520 that's how you train when you're getting ready for comedy. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.280 How do you get ready for a tour like this 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.320 after ten years and getting back on the stage, Like, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.160 is that a different level of training now or is 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:55.880 it still the same? 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.800 You know, it's same. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.360 I go to the comedy clubs, you know, and I 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.400 work out. I go to the comedy store and work 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.160 out during the week and just keep working out, working 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.440 out til I built up our set and to it's ready. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.040 To go on the road. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.280 How you pick and choose what goes into your sets? 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.840 Because I was watching one of your old sets that 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.840 you did at that you mentioned, like the Rodney King 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.359 beatings and like but you made it. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.400 Funny in a dark time. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.840 Nowadays people so touchy, Like, so, do you stay away 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.600 from certain stuff cause you're like, now it's like the. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.000 Icon right now, I'm I'm a little. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:35.960 I'm more cautious about, you know, subjects that I that 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.960 I choose and everything. You know, when I was younger, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.760 I was fearless, you know, I just I would talk 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.640 about anything or anybody. But it's a different time. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.559 Do you remember that the times? 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.400 Because I always hear these stories and it's to me, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.080 it's like, damn, this this really happened when you used 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.360 to work telemarketing, right and you were there with Pepper, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.920 I guess can't play with. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.680 That sis and robots and robot. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.560 How was those experiences? 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.720 And are you ever amazed at all of y'all was 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.560 successful in your own way of going? 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.720 Well, well, see, I wasn't there with kidding play. I 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.599 was there with Salt and Pepper, and and I was 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.279 always clown and you know, joking around at work and everything, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.279 not on the phone doing what I'm supposed to be doing. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.080 What did you have to do? 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.480 I was trying. I was trying to crack on salt. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.720 I was trying to crack on. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.400 SAWT and Herbie Love was working there too, and and 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.440 I was like, Sor, you know, I'm trying to get 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.080 with you, and she was like, Martin, I'm with Herbie. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.080 I said, Herbie is your your boyfriend? And I look 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.040 at Herbie. I said, Herbie, this is your girlfriend? He 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.800 said yeah. I said, oh man. So then I just 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.000 had to leave that alone. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.640 So what were you selling on the phone? That's what 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.280 I never like. What was Sears selling? 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.800 You're selling maintenance agreement selling me? 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.039 Do you remember your pitch back then and what you 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:07.400 had to do? 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.360 Well? 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.520 You know, hello, how are you? I was wondering, you 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.680 just brought a new applying? How is it working for you? 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.640 You know, in thirty days or sixty days, something could 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:22.520 happen to it? 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.000 Would you like to extend your warranty and all that? 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.480 And the way they said no, did you curse him out? 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.080 Do you start cracking on them? Nah? 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:31.920 Because a lot of them just hang up. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:32.440 Okay. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.960 One of it shows to be like yo, you called 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.080 me like nobody. That's never happened. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.640 No, No, I don't remember that. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.680 Y'all was thinking too, My you're you're a very physical comedian, right, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.000 that's like a lot, a lot of what you do 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.320 involved with your facial expression is how you move as 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.760 you got older. Do you believe that impacts your comedy? 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.360 Like, no, no, I still love being physical. I love 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:55.120 I love it. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.279 It's ain't falling all over the floor. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:05.520 No, no, no, I'm not doing that, but I love 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.480 still doing some physical comedy. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.960 Yeah, And you said, you know you don't say what 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.720 you used to say on stage. I remember an episode 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.400 of Death Comedy Jam I forgot he was messing with 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:15.880 I feel like it was at level. But maybe I'm 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.040 making this up, but you were saying you was talking 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.160 about a girl. He was with a girl, and you 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.840 were saying, you remember that episode. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.080 You're talking about mc light. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:30.480 Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that wasn't the true 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.560 joke all the time, all the time, Yeah that that 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:35.440 wasn't true. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.760 That wasn't true. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.640 I was just messing with her boyfriend and I was 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:40.800 just jaging at them. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.120 So you know, I just said it. God damn. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.440 You know he had to approach you about that. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:52.720 He couldn't do nothing. He could whoop my ask. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.080 it was todd at the time or something. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:56.480 Why did you decide to heat him up? 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.440 Like that because I love her and was saying get 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:00.720 get him with a joke. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.600 That's a hell of a joke to stay in front 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:03.800 of him. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.000 Used to do the I used to do a rap 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.240 city with him, not rap city, but. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.200 Has anybody about joke? 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.920 Nah? She she was real cool. No, she's real cool. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:20.920 Did anybody ever coming to you after the show and 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.680 wanted to fight, because, like he said, you didn't hold 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.160 anything back, like you didn't care who was in that show. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.720 You was going at him. Anybody said you, I'm gonna 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.559 be moaning outside after No. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.160 Never, No, because I'm not that dude. Man, I'm not 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:35.840 that dude. And I got. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:41.320 Goomed back then, so it wasn't happening. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.360 Wasn't happening and then. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.920 And I still got him. Go back to that. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.360 You still lean into a lot of the crowd work 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.880 in your shows now you mentioned did you still do 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.600 a lot of CrowdWork today in your shows? 0:08:58.880 --> 0:08:59.120 Yes? 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.600 I do a lot of meet and greets and stuff. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:07.720 You know, I love, you know, hooking up with my audience. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.480 He's talking about snapping on people in the audience. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.679 I mean not snapping, but just like you know when 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.240 you go to the comedy shows, I feel like a lot. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.840 I know for me when I go I want to 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.600 see the comedians of the crowd work because it's off 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.360 the top and like most people when they do it, well, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.120 I'm like, oh dang, he's like really good at this. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:22.920 So I think people look for that for you also too, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.439 because it's in a lot of your stand ups. You 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:25.520 see you go off on the crowd. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.000 Thank you now. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.280 Also when it is your daughter got engaged to Eddie 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.280 murphy Son, Yeah, congratulations. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.040 And he's a great kid. I'm a great young man, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.000 great young man. I don't think she could have found 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:38.800 nobody better. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.319 Now, we have this rule up here if we're ever 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.120 out and about that's Richard than us. Whoever has the 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.079 most money has to pay. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.240 Well. Eddie already said I have to pay for it. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.880 He said he paid for the last six weddings. You know, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.560 because Eddie got a lot of kids. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.480 He said he paid for the last six. So he said, no, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.640 this is on you, he said. I said, I don't mind. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.400 So he's still holding you today, I said, so he's 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.199 still holding you to that. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.520 Yeah, he's holding me to that. He's holding me. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.559 Did you ever did you envision that? Because it seemed 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:09.959 like back in the nineties, and I could be wrong. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.280 It seemed like y'all had just like such a brotherhood 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.360 amongst each other, you know what I mean. And to 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.600 see that brotherhood y'all had. But now y'all kids getting married, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:18.800 did you see that? 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.640 Never? I never couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it when. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.320 They first told you that they was connected. What you 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:26.840 did you call it and be like, hey man, you 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.480 know our children to day? 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.000 No, I just uh. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.800 When I talked to him, I said, can you believe it? 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.080 He said, it's beautiful. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.280 You know, long as they respect each other and love 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.240 each other. You know, hey, world two nah? 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:45.000 Nah nah. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.959 I picture you and Will at the door and they 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.280 coming up and you having that conversation. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:51.600 You never had to have that conversation. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.080 No, with my daughters, I'm open. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:58.120 I'm you know, I'm kind of father that gives them, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.160 gives them room. You know, if they if the boyfriends 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.400 they're bringing me to meet are disrespectful, then they're going 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.120 to see another side of me. But if they're nice 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:11.280 young man or whatever. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:12.960 I don't I don't do all. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.000 By the time you meet, my dad needs to be right, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.040 yeahund and my. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:19.800 Reputation proceeds itself. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:21.760 You mustn't people. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:37.440 Thought in the comedy world, how important was it? 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.480 I mean, how hard was it to sell hip hop 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.599 the Hollywood in the nineties, Because when I think of 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:48.320 like Martin, y'all had Biggie on and Met Mann movies 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.440 like House Party was was was Hollywood. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.920 Embracing of hip hop back then? Or did y'all have 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:53.840 to tell them. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.240 We were coming up? We were coming up, but because 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.520 we were doing so good, you. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:11:59.960 Know, they had to accept us. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.559 They had to embrace us, you know, because hip hop 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:04.440 was hitting hard. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.160 You know, you had all this talent. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.400 And so they had to say, I open the door 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.719 and say we gotta let hip hop in because it's 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.520 impact in the world, you know, and you see what 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.920 hip hop is doing now. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.600 You know what what do you think happened to television? 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.160 And what I mean by that is, you know, they 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.160 always talk about the negative images of black people that 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.400 exist now on TV and in film, But it's like 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.000 when we came up in the nineties, we didn't have that. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.760 We had the Martins and the Cosby shows in the 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.320 Different Worlds and the living singles like what do you 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.040 think made Hollywood say? We're gonna stop doing that and 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.800 start doing reality TV. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.600 I don't know. I don't know. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.120 Maybe because reality when when they first put it on, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.200 it hit, you know, people started gravitating to it or whatever. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.760 And maybe it's it's ways they get tax breaks. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.360 I don't know. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.199 But y'all was hitting too, and it was great the 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.000 tation like you had a job, he was a radio person. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.120 It was probably cheaper too, though you ain't. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.720 That's why I'm saying tax breaks and all that stuff, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:08.520 you know, but. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.319 It don't stand the tother time. It ain't a sy indication. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.920 Years later, thirty years later, yeah, you know, I also 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.880 wonder two. But growing up, you know, watching you play, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.520 watching you in Big Mama's house, I never thought anything 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.280 of it. I just thought it was funny. But nowadays 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.319 you hear people say, oh, you know, that's you got 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.319 to sell your soul in Hollywood, and that's humiliation rituals 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:29.400 and nil zumanai. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:30.800 What are you think of that? 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.040 It's bullshit. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.360 It's it's all bullshit doing doing what I'm doing doing 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.199 Big Mama and characters like that and whatever. These are 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.880 strong black women, you know, and I'm a comedian, you know, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:51.360 and I'm not above playing the character, putting on the 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.439 dress or whatever, because I'm in tune with my manhood, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.440 you know, so I know who I am. So I 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.679 don't worry about all that. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.600 Had a missed art because we've seen it with you, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.079 We've seen it with Eddie. But now it seems like everybody, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.959 like he said, is afraid to do that. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.079 But except for talent. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.439 Except for talent. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:15.080 Yeah, it's if you're in tune with your manhood, you 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.800 shouldn't be worrying about it, you know, if you ain't 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.640 letting nobody get other than your dress. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.600 Whatever a point. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.400 Whatever, a point where you felt like the industry boxed 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.040 you in and they just wanted you to be the 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.360 funny guy and didn't give you, like I guess, room 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:41.720 to grow. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.200 Was an actor, yeah, because I haven't been offered a 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:46.520 lot of dramatic roles. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:54.479 You know. The closest I I. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.880 Had to I got a dramatic role was I had 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.120 to do it myself was the line between eleven eight. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:14:59.960 So that was the closest. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:05.160 And then I wind up recently, about two years ago, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.240 I did a movie called Mind Gauge that was total drama, 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.520 no comedy and everything else. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.040 So I did about two. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:14.400 Do you even want to do that? 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.640 Are you like, yeah, I wanted to try it. I 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.200 wanted to try to see if I could pull it. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.560 When you saw it happening to you, though, were you 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.520 talking to your team like, yo, why is this happening? 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.160 Why are we not pushing back? Or were you just 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.200 like I gotta do what I gotta do to eat 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.880 to keep my family fat always. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.400 You know, I'm not sell your soul, but what do 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.240 what's appealing to you now? 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.000 They also talk about Blue Streak the sequel. Yes, you 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.120 got the shooting that we're working on it. You're working 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.560 on right, we're writing the right to. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.880 Leave off in Mexico or have you figured that out 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:47.320 as yet? 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.200 No, we haven't figured it out yet. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.280 Yeah, but if they come get me from Mexico to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.680 you know, because I have the diamond so I'm living 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.920 high off the hog, you know, so. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 We'll see what happened to be a crazy soundtrack to 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:01.880 like the first one? 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.440 Oh yeah, yeah, how. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.160 Do you choose what to do a sequel to? Because 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.080 Blue Streak was good? 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.840 But to me, I'm like, y'all rather see Life Part two, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:10.880 like I like another one. 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.080 I like to see how y'all want, they want. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.040 Everybody wants to be Life Part two. But you gotta remember, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:21.240 uh me and Aaddy were we were what ninety bout time? 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.360 It can be a period, so it can be based 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.760 on when y'all first got out, wh y'all first broke out. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.600 What did Ray and Claude do? What was their life 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.520 like when they first. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.440 Broke Well, we went to the baseball Gamember, that's all 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:39.880 we saw right by, you know that getting introduced by Agron. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.120 You know, they might not have made it through the experience. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.120 I want you to die with you could right when y'all. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.360 Broke out, right, Well, if somebody puts it together, man, hey, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.200 I told her. I talked to Daddy about it and 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.720 ed he said, he Man, if somebody could make it 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 make sense, hey, we'll do it again. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.880 You do you get I don't want to say frustrated, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.520 but like having to convince people in Hollywood, like you, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.800 Martin Lawrence, you know what I'm saying, Like having to 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.360 sit down and pitch things. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.480 Or like, yeah, that's frustrating. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.600 That's frustrating, but it's part of the business, you know, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.439 And and it's hit a mess, you know, But uh, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.359 I have a strong faith in uh in God and 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:25.600 uh he's my Asian. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.800 It's crazy to me that you still have to pitch 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.680 things like just hearing that, it's like, wow, what about 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.679 a Martin reunion? Like I know you guys did the reunion, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.800 but like people wanted to see like actual episodes like 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:38.880 maybe You're Not Sex and the City. They got back 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.919 there the dated episodes and then they had a movie 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.240 like is there anything on screen from you guys that 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.480 we're going to ever see from the Martin from the 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:46.200 Martin Cash? 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:47.320 Yes, no, No. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.360