Speaker 1: And I remember one time when they started writing in
Speaker 1: all that scripts and they laugh about this. They wrote
Speaker 1: and then Kill does something physical, Kill goes crazy, and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't even like give the action because they just
Speaker 1: didn't know what I might do. So they go next,
Speaker 1: which was fun. Man, Hey, what's up everybody? This is
Speaker 1: Keil Mitchell, and I love the quote that says, it's
Speaker 1: a great day for a good day.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Here we are again, everybody. Yep, you guessed it. This
Speaker 3: is another episode of Off the Beat. I am your host,
Speaker 3: Brian Bomgartner. You might say my guest today is all
Speaker 3: that he's a good guy. Yes, I'm talking about the
Speaker 3: very very funny Kill Mitchell. You've probably known Kel for
Speaker 3: a long time, like since he was just a kid.
Speaker 3: He was on the Nickelodeon Sketch comedy show, all that
Speaker 3: groundbreaking in its time. But you probably didn't even need
Speaker 3: me to say his last name because he's also half
Speaker 3: of the iconic duo Keenan and Kell, the other half,
Speaker 3: of course, being SNL's own Keenan Thompson. The pair were
Speaker 3: also the brains behind another iconic duo, Ed and Dex
Speaker 3: from the hit Sketch Turned movie Good Burger, and you
Speaker 3: can watch the brand new sequel, Good Burger two on
Speaker 3: Paramount Plus right now, breaking records for Paramount Plus twenty
Speaker 3: five years after the original Good Burger. But he doesn't
Speaker 3: just serve burgers. Did you hear that transition? Kell is
Speaker 3: also a voiceover artist. He's worked on cartoons like Clifford,
Speaker 3: the Big Red Dog, The Proud Family, Pink Panther in Friends.
Speaker 3: He's a licensed pastor. He's a musician who not only
Speaker 3: writes and records his own music, but he has appeared
Speaker 3: on tracks with big names like Khalid and Mature and
Speaker 3: Kanye West. So let's just hear what he has to
Speaker 3: say about all this, shall we. Here's the precocious kel
Speaker 3: or kel Mitchell.
Speaker 4: If you must, Bubble and squeak, I love it, Bubble
Speaker 4: and Squeakna.
Speaker 2: Bubble and squeak. I cook get every month left over
Speaker 2: from the ninety before.
Speaker 5: What's up? Kell?
Speaker 2: What's up? Man?
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good? Good to see you.
Speaker 5: Good to see you as well? What's going on? Where
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 2: I am in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, the city of Angels Now? Is that where
Speaker 3: you live?
Speaker 2: That's where I live?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 3: You know I was talking to somebody the other day
Speaker 3: and they were talking about walking the dog and walking
Speaker 3: with their kid, and the kid melted down, and then
Speaker 3: they sent me a picture saying he's fine now he
Speaker 3: got a cookie, and she sent the picture, and I
Speaker 3: wasn't thinking about the cookie or the melting down. I
Speaker 3: was thinking about the fact that the kid had a
Speaker 3: snow cap on and like a gigantic coat and gloves,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's cold other places right now,
Speaker 3: Like I had like forgotten that we're in towards the
Speaker 3: middle of December right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, off from Chicago originally, So.
Speaker 5: I know that you were born in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So are you do you consider that your
Speaker 3: home or is Los Angeles your home now?
Speaker 2: I mean I was born and raised in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'm always gonna love Chicago be in Chicago, and but
Speaker 1: Los Angeles home.
Speaker 5: When did you start performing? How old were you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man, Well that was if you ask my parents, I
Speaker 1: was very young out the womb. My mom not busted
Speaker 1: out smiling when I came. But yeah, man, I was
Speaker 1: always like making people laugh, get in trouble in school,
Speaker 1: and so my parents tried to try everything to get
Speaker 1: me in some type of hobby and we tried everything,
Speaker 1: and the one that stuck was actually doing theater. It
Speaker 1: was a community theater in Chicago that we saw a
Speaker 1: few plays at and they had a summer course. My
Speaker 1: parents were like, yo, just go to the summer course.
Speaker 1: See what you know, We'll see what happens. Just something
Speaker 1: to keep you busy. It wasn't like on TV or anything.
Speaker 1: I just fell in love with the art of acting.
Speaker 1: This was like, oh, this, this is my people. This
Speaker 1: is where I could do all the things I do
Speaker 1: in school and get in trouble. And it went from
Speaker 1: me doing showcases there too, it turned into an actual
Speaker 1: job where I did plays at night with adults and
Speaker 1: had to rehearse and so I wasn't acting up as
Speaker 1: much as I was used to in.
Speaker 2: School because now it's a job. So it was it's
Speaker 2: kind of cool.
Speaker 3: So how old were you here when this starts to
Speaker 3: become like a real thing and you're doing You're doing
Speaker 3: you know, shows with adults and not just sparting around.
Speaker 1: This was I want to say, twelve, okay, twelve and
Speaker 1: to thirteen, yeah, like around that age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, now are you are you taking classes too?
Speaker 5: Is there a class? Okay, yeah, yeah, there were classes.
Speaker 1: So then I started after the summer course, then it
Speaker 1: was classes. I think they were like every Wednesday or
Speaker 1: something like that after school, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But we would do these acting classes at the theater.
Speaker 1: So shout out to Runako Jahi who's my drama teacher.
Speaker 1: I recently just talked to him recently about Gerberger too.
Speaker 1: We were, you know, talking back and forth. But but yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I just I loved it, and I went from working
Speaker 1: there to doing stuff at Goodman Theater, Victory Gardens Theater.
Speaker 1: You know, I love the city in Chicago, so they
Speaker 1: have a great theater district.
Speaker 3: So yeah, man, were you doing any comedy? Were you
Speaker 3: doing any stand up or improv at this point or yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of comedy, definitely, definitely a lot
Speaker 1: of improv in drama. So I was doing drama plays.
Speaker 1: I started with the drama. But it was such a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing in theater because I learned, you know, the dance.
Speaker 1: We also took dancing. We also you know, took acting
Speaker 1: classes in prov classes like the whole thing. And so
Speaker 1: that's why I'm always into like the rat Pack and
Speaker 1: like that, you know, triple threat type of vibe, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And because I do music, a dance,
Speaker 1: tell jokes, comedy, drama, all the entertainment you know, I'm into.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about your music career a little
Speaker 3: bit later, but at this age are you singing at
Speaker 3: this age like within.
Speaker 1: Plays with play as I am? At this time, I
Speaker 1: had a rap group that I was involved in.
Speaker 5: Uh really yeah.
Speaker 1: We got a song on w gc I, which is
Speaker 1: local at this point, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and doing stuff there in Chicago. And you know, my
Speaker 1: sister worked at Metro Music, which was like a record
Speaker 1: company that a lot of the artists used to go
Speaker 1: to and sign autographs back then. And so like she
Speaker 1: got all the all the tapes you know before before
Speaker 1: they came out, all the samples like l COOJ and another,
Speaker 1: Bacorasan Crisscross, all the dope stuff, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I was, I was into it. I used to
Speaker 1: play the B side with instrumental and just make my records.
Speaker 5: That's awesome, that's awesome. Where your where your folks?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know you said before if they wanted
Speaker 3: you not to get in trouble so much, so they
Speaker 3: were trying to find an activity. Now, I mean, this
Speaker 3: is a lot of running around from place to place.
Speaker 3: Are they supportive at this point? Are they like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you go kel or or what's what's there? What's their feeling?
Speaker 2: They're supportive, man, They're supportive.
Speaker 1: They liked that I was having a positive votlet because
Speaker 1: I had buddies that were on the up and up,
Speaker 1: and then I had buddies that weren't, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it was good that I was doing
Speaker 1: something positives right with that, you know. And they always
Speaker 1: always in everything, you know, as far as like church
Speaker 1: boy scouts we were. They kept us very active. My
Speaker 1: parents were really into education. My dad is a retired
Speaker 1: psychologist and my mom is a retired teacher.
Speaker 2: So like it was very well, yeah, right, and they
Speaker 2: had this kid that's doing you know, class clown stuff.
Speaker 3: And so I like to talk to my guests about
Speaker 3: this because to me, it's interesting. And you kind of
Speaker 3: touched on it a little bit like from a child
Speaker 3: who says like I want to, you know, be a
Speaker 3: professional basketball player, or you know, I want to be
Speaker 3: in the movies or whatever, and then that sort of
Speaker 3: goes away or you're doing activities because you're a kid
Speaker 3: and you need to stay busy and that tea wich
Speaker 3: is you important social lessons and blah blah blah. But
Speaker 3: you know, at what point for you and how old
Speaker 3: when you're like, this is what I want to do,
Speaker 3: Like I want to be an entertainer and also special
Speaker 3: two part question, because you were doing so much in
Speaker 3: the theater, which is which is where I started. Was
Speaker 3: it about doing theater being an actor or did you
Speaker 3: start thinking about other mediums?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I okay, So to as to that, I think as
Speaker 1: a parent because then also being a parent too, I
Speaker 1: think it's very important to kind of lean into those
Speaker 1: things that you see your kids have interest in or
Speaker 1: a desire to do, because that could be one of
Speaker 1: the things that leads to their purpose in life, of
Speaker 1: one of the doors that open and have them experience
Speaker 1: different things that are you know, positive but experiencing different things.
Speaker 1: Because of that fact doors were like open that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, this is another part of this
Speaker 1: thing that I enjoy because it's like when I was
Speaker 1: doing theater, then all of a sudden, you know, we
Speaker 1: had this shoot because they came to see some kids
Speaker 1: that had, like you know, hip hop style or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they were just like, hey, we want you guys
Speaker 1: to model for Captain crunch What then, so now we
Speaker 1: take a picture. So I always tell people I was
Speaker 1: a model first. So I booked that and I got
Speaker 1: on the back of the Crunchberry's box. That was from
Speaker 1: me doing theater, you know, Downtown Theater, Vidrick Gardens and Goodman,
Speaker 1: and then that turned to meet an agent, and then
Speaker 1: from me getting that agent, then that turned into going
Speaker 1: on auditions and movies, and so it wasn't a thing
Speaker 1: of like we knew exactly. My parents were like experiencing
Speaker 1: with me along the way and just being very supportive
Speaker 1: and me going, Okay, I want to try this now.
Speaker 1: I want to try this. This door is open, and
Speaker 1: I want to try this now. And so shout out
Speaker 1: to them for being very very supportive doing that process,
Speaker 1: because I know it was a lot to even for
Speaker 1: them to process at that point.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, and I mean it's very different now. But
Speaker 3: I grew up in Atlanta and at the time, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, it had a very solid, you know, stable
Speaker 3: of theaters that you could go and act in and
Speaker 3: so forth. Now it's of course it's totally different. It's
Speaker 3: like the entertainment capital of the world and everything under
Speaker 3: the sun is shot there. But at the time, I
Speaker 3: don't know, like it just it wasn't even like a
Speaker 3: part of my con No one was asking me to
Speaker 3: be on the back of crunch berries. Like there wasn't
Speaker 3: like that modeling stuff or like commercials or at least
Speaker 3: it was just not in my consciousness, Like I never
Speaker 3: even saw that as an opportunity. But it sounds like
Speaker 3: pretty early you start having a diverse experiences. Talk to
Speaker 3: me a little bit, because You're still young at this point.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not a great at math, but it
Speaker 3: seems like sixteen ish you end up auditioning for a
Speaker 3: new show called All That Talk. Do me a little
Speaker 3: bit about that experience. How did that audition come about
Speaker 3: and how did you end up getting the job?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was I feel like I was like fifteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're almost right there right in the bah Man So
Speaker 1: similar like what you were saying back then as far
Speaker 1: as the opportunities, because now Chicago they filmed everything there
Speaker 1: now right as well as in Atlanta. But around this
Speaker 1: time it was infomercials, a lot of modeling gigs, things
Speaker 1: of that nature. But then all that came along and
Speaker 1: it was like a sketch comedy for kids, and you
Speaker 1: know that was new too because that hadn't been done.
Speaker 1: I mean because you had SNL yeah, Living Color, but
Speaker 1: an all kids sketch show had not been done. And
Speaker 1: so except for like I want to say, Roundhouse, but
Speaker 1: it still wasn't the same.
Speaker 5: No, I was shown.
Speaker 3: I mean in getting ready to talk to you today,
Speaker 3: you know, I did a deep dive back into all that,
Speaker 3: and you know, I was familiar with your work and
Speaker 3: your sketches and specifically what we'll talk about you and
Speaker 3: Keenan together, but I wasn't aware of this show and
Speaker 3: how groundbreaking it was. What you just said, I don't
Speaker 3: mean to be reductive, but basically SNL but for kids, yeah, literally,
Speaker 3: and the idea of that, it's just like, well, of
Speaker 3: course why would we not have that, But at the time,
Speaker 3: it hadn't been done. So where how do you you
Speaker 3: just get an audition to meet with them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how it kicked off was that I was
Speaker 1: already going on auditions out in Chicago. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: nothing like this had ever came through the pipeline. So
Speaker 1: when that came along, and you know, this is back
Speaker 1: in the day where they didn't have to zoom auditions
Speaker 1: or nothing like that. They were really scouting kids across
Speaker 1: America and they went everywhere. Man, so they came to
Speaker 1: Chicago at this point. You know, I'm a sophomore, like
Speaker 1: in high school. I remember I had finals that day
Speaker 1: and we had this audition. Ended up getting there late
Speaker 1: because it was like way downtown. I lived on the Southside,
Speaker 1: and I remember to get in LA and I did
Speaker 1: the audition with for Brian Robbins. You know, you're talking
Speaker 1: about the head of class. These are shows that I watched,
Speaker 1: you know, and they say, hey, do you want to
Speaker 1: do any personations? And instead of doing people that were
Speaker 1: like famous, I didn't people that were that I grew
Speaker 1: up around.
Speaker 2: Like people saw that I was, you know, on the
Speaker 2: l you.
Speaker 1: Know, riding on the subway, you know, my uncles, all
Speaker 1: these different people, my coach in my high school, and
Speaker 1: ultimately all those characters that I did in the room
Speaker 1: ended up being on the show. But it was deep
Speaker 1: because within this audition process, it took like, I want
Speaker 1: to say, two weeks before they even called back. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I didn't get it. And then I remember
Speaker 1: it was a late night phone call at my house
Speaker 1: and my mom was like, hello, huh who whoa thank you?
Speaker 1: Jesus said, we went to La. Then it was like
Speaker 1: when we went to La it was the Avengers. It
Speaker 1: was like every funny kid that they found from all
Speaker 1: these different cities and states battling out. And so at
Speaker 1: the battle about one more time and I got in
Speaker 1: there and made the top top seven for all that.
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is that it was just
Speaker 1: a special. And so because Nickelodeon was they were afraid.
Speaker 1: They were like because I compared it to a living
Speaker 1: color as well, because it was very diverse too as well.
Speaker 2: We had a lot of you.
Speaker 1: Know, the hip hop acts and you know, we're all
Speaker 1: different colors and all these different things. So and so
Speaker 1: for Nickelodeon, they were just like, let's try it. Let's
Speaker 1: see it kicked off. I mean the ratings were through
Speaker 1: the roof. But for us, all of the kids, we thought, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a one off, it's a special. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happened to us. So we all went back home,
Speaker 1: you know, just to see what happened.
Speaker 5: Got it.
Speaker 3: So you thought you were just shooting one. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we thought how much later is it that you find
Speaker 3: out like that they want to do more.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was a few months later,
Speaker 1: because when the special went off, the kids were going crazy. Kids,
Speaker 1: We're going crazy. They're like, what is the show all that?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. TLC was our like first guest. They
Speaker 1: sung the theme song, you know what I mean, and
Speaker 1: it was like it really spoke to the time. Now
Speaker 1: we all have the same vibe as kids watching it
Speaker 1: at that point. So they brought us all back and
Speaker 1: life changed right there. Like, you know, my mom was
Speaker 1: pregnant with my younger sister and it just so happened,
Speaker 1: you know that she was on leave for that, and
Speaker 1: so she had time to fly with me to go
Speaker 1: to Florida to film this show, and it just really
Speaker 1: it really kicked off, and you know, to shoot at
Speaker 1: Universal Studios in Florida, you know.
Speaker 2: On the back plot. Yeah, man, it was awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah. How many episodes did you do?
Speaker 3: Were you there for like a long time or did
Speaker 3: you kind of shoot them back and back and bang them?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We shot I want to say season one might have
Speaker 1: been like twelve episodes, I believe. Yeah, and then we
Speaker 1: would do it like a small heatius and then come back.
Speaker 1: And we kept going and we went from season and season.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden they stopped me and Keenan,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it was hey, you guys,
Speaker 1: stay back on this next hiatus, next break, you all
Speaker 1: stay here. And we were like why, and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: we want to create a show with you and Keenan,
Speaker 1: and we're like what. They're like, this is going to
Speaker 1: be different. This is going to be like Martin or
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince bel Air, you know that type of show
Speaker 1: family matters.
Speaker 4: I said, whoa Okay.
Speaker 5: Did you and Keenan hit it off pretty quickly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it was such a beautiful thing where it's like,
Speaker 1: of course we size each other up, like okay, okay,
Speaker 1: this kid.
Speaker 2: Is similar to me.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then it was a thing of us both
Speaker 1: killing it and sketches alone. And then what happened was
Speaker 1: there was a sketch called Magas and Clavin's where we
Speaker 1: prayed two old guys. We both saw it in that
Speaker 1: sketch where it was like I would say something, heople
Speaker 1: say something. I knew what he was about to say
Speaker 1: right before he said it. And in that moment, it
Speaker 1: was this magic where it was just like okay, and
Speaker 1: they started putting us in all sketches like together. It
Speaker 1: was great, man, in that moment, and we both remember
Speaker 1: that moment too as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was the writers who saw that. I mean,
Speaker 3: you guys felt it when. This was the writers who
Speaker 3: in that next hiatus said hey, you guys, you're not
Speaker 3: you're you're not going home. This was from them watching
Speaker 3: you guys work together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: And then because you know, Brian always says it was
Speaker 1: like he would watch us off camera too, and you know,
Speaker 1: because our life off camera was very hilarious too. And
Speaker 1: so they wanted to create this key and the Kille
Speaker 1: world and it was it was awesome, man. And you
Speaker 1: know they came to us and with the sketch, I
Speaker 1: mean not sketch, but the show idea. And I remember
Speaker 1: it had a bunch of different names. I remember we
Speaker 1: had a dinner and it was like these two guys
Speaker 1: and like the title were just really crazy. Somebody there
Speaker 1: decided to say, hey, just name it after the kids.
Speaker 1: And that was great because I remember Will Smith talking
Speaker 1: about when he decided to have his name be Will
Speaker 1: on the show. He was like, well, you were all
Speaker 1: your fans are going to grow what you would always
Speaker 1: know your name, And I was like genius. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we did that because that was they know us. It's
Speaker 1: Kim to Kel's kimy to Kell. You know, they grow
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kenan and Kel launches. It is a big rating success,
Speaker 3: very big deal at the time for a whole new
Speaker 3: generation of young people. Did you feel it at the time,
Speaker 3: like did you were you like, oh, now it's hard
Speaker 3: to go to the grocery store, Like were you feeling it?
Speaker 3: Or were you just like, hey, I'm doing what I love,
Speaker 3: I'm having a great time. You know, how was that
Speaker 3: for you? Did your life change?
Speaker 2: It took it like okay, because I always playing this
Speaker 2: like back in the day.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like how it is now out where they
Speaker 1: put the shows out and it's like instant because it's
Speaker 1: on social media.
Speaker 5: But it was a.
Speaker 1: Slow burn because it was like people had to you know,
Speaker 1: discover the show go crazy over it. So for us,
Speaker 1: we were just like in Florida, it was nuts. We
Speaker 1: couldn't really go anywhere because it was like our audience
Speaker 1: was all high school students that all like frequent around.
Speaker 2: There, so we couldn't really go anywhere.
Speaker 1: But then when the show really started taking off, like
Speaker 1: you know, when Ken Keel came out and then we
Speaker 1: were doing all that in keeny n Kel. At the
Speaker 1: same time, it did get crazy, like we couldn't go
Speaker 1: anywhere where, Like there were kids like you know, like
Speaker 1: chuck E cheese or the mall, the all the movie
Speaker 1: movie theaters, you know, all that tough stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And I remember going back home, I used to try
Speaker 1: to like be real low key, you know about you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, likemar was so people would know.
Speaker 1: But after a while it was just it was crazy,
Speaker 1: like the fans were just going nuts over the show,
Speaker 1: which was which was amazing. I mean we got chased
Speaker 1: a lot and a lot of stuff like that, which
Speaker 1: is cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, you we're still young. I mean you said
Speaker 3: like going to the movies. I mean, maybe you weren't
Speaker 3: going to chuck e cheese so much. You were a
Speaker 3: little old for that, but but yeah, like that's what
Speaker 3: you would do, right, I mean, at least at that time.
Speaker 3: You know, a teenager, you go to the mall, you
Speaker 3: watch the movies, your hold hands or you know, whatever
Speaker 3: you're doing there and you can't. You can't do that.
Speaker 3: Do you feel isolated or is it just that you
Speaker 3: were happy with what you're doing?
Speaker 1: Man, you know, we were happy with what we were doing.
Speaker 1: Was just an experience, like just like, man, we're just
Speaker 1: we're having a blast with that. I think as we
Speaker 1: started to get to the adulting stage, because there was
Speaker 1: also a point in between this where we are now,
Speaker 1: you know, turning seventeen eighteen, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: within this process and having this you know, adult within
Speaker 1: the limelight, So that was different things. We're like trying
Speaker 1: to not isolate it, but everybody doesn't really understand the dynamic,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, having a public opinion and
Speaker 1: being in the public and who can you trust and
Speaker 1: ieople are trying to you know, do certain things wrong,
Speaker 1: like all those different things, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that did happen within the process. You know, there
Speaker 1: was a turn within it, but it was still enjoyable time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at eighteen, ANDed and Decks finally get to graduate
Speaker 3: from the little screen and go make a movie Good Burger.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell me about making that movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, you'd been working together and in some ways
Speaker 3: you've been working on these even specific characters for a while.
Speaker 5: Ye did this feel special?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was the same thing again where the producers and
Speaker 1: the writers because we always know they meet us a
Speaker 1: different dresser rope, like hey we got to meet and yeah,
Speaker 1: over and we sat down and they're like, okay, so
Speaker 1: check it out. We want to, you know, have Good
Speaker 1: Burger turn into a movie. Now, Goudburger had already had
Speaker 1: like some success even more because like the musical guests
Speaker 1: always wanted to be in a Good Burger sketch, which
Speaker 1: was cool for me, you know, because I love hip
Speaker 1: hop and music and all that. And so it had
Speaker 1: already put out a single with the top like R
Speaker 1: and B kid group around that time called Immature, and
Speaker 1: so I had already been on the billboard charge soul
Speaker 1: trained as ed you know what I mean, doing all right,
Speaker 1: And then it was a thing where like okay, this
Speaker 1: they were looking at the model, same again with you
Speaker 1: know SNL. But you know, you take a sketch to
Speaker 1: a movie. So it was like, all right, let's take
Speaker 1: this d character and do that. And then the first
Speaker 1: script I remember was about this stick and it.
Speaker 2: Had every character, so all my characters were in there.
Speaker 1: All of Keenan's characters were in there from all that,
Speaker 1: but then they Paramount doubt us down and was like,
Speaker 1: let's just keep it to ed in that world of it.
Speaker 1: And for Keenan, they were trying to create a characters.
Speaker 1: Keenan had already done Mighty Ducks and even before all that,
Speaker 1: so they were trying to create like, does he shitty
Speaker 1: Doe lester Oaks construction worker was a character he did
Speaker 1: on all that? Or make him just the kid this
Speaker 1: goes through these you know this issue And I'm glad
Speaker 1: they did that because his story in Good Burger it
Speaker 1: was just.
Speaker 2: You know, amazing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, man, this was my first film, and you know,
Speaker 1: Keenan had already done one already, so he was giving
Speaker 1: me a lot of you know, advice on the film world.
Speaker 1: But it was great, man, to have this movie come
Speaker 1: out and just be amazing. I remember seeing the billboard
Speaker 1: or sunset boulevard of us surfboarding on a pickle, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, tomatoes with the mundy, the mustard
Speaker 1: flying and everything.
Speaker 2: So and it took off very well. I mean it.
Speaker 2: Good Burger is the gift that keeps on giving, right.
Speaker 3: Awesome, man, I want to go back for one second,
Speaker 3: because you keep talking about these meetings, these big meetings,
Speaker 3: you get the secret nod like here we go, let's
Speaker 3: go into there, and you know something's going to happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's interesting. I know it's got to be
Speaker 3: somewhat different from SNL, But I want to know about
Speaker 3: the collaboration that happens. Because you are kids, you have writers.
Speaker 3: How much say are you giving?
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 3: Two parter? I don't even usually do two parters, but
Speaker 3: I don't know. Two part question, how much say do
Speaker 3: you have in the conception or writing direction of scripts?
Speaker 3: And then two my least favorite question of all time
Speaker 3: when people ask me this, but I am curious again
Speaker 3: because you're still so young at this time, how much
Speaker 3: freedom are you given to improvise while you're shooting?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: So, with all that, it was a ton which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool because you're talking about like our producers
Speaker 1: on the show were also in the industry as kids too,
Speaker 1: but now they were you know, adults, young adults, and
Speaker 1: so they were this was like their first show, especially
Speaker 1: with all that, and so they were like enjoying this
Speaker 1: process with us, and so a lot of the characters,
Speaker 1: especially from my side. I brought a lot of characters
Speaker 1: in from these voices right had already been doing, and
Speaker 1: so they used to say, hey, do it film it
Speaker 1: twice the way we wrote it, and I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: and then it was go crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember one time when I did improv and the
Speaker 1: place went crazy, cracking up, laughing, and then they their
Speaker 1: like lights went off, like.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, kell what else you got? Keep it going,
Speaker 2: keep going, hey, Keenan, what else you got? What you got?
Speaker 1: And then that started to turn into us having these
Speaker 1: fun banters with the writers, but like what if we
Speaker 1: take it there? When you take it there? And this
Speaker 1: is what I mean about a delli Within the process.
Speaker 1: Now you start to understand like, oh wait, I should
Speaker 1: have been being paid as a writer.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: It was like what I've learned, what I learned through
Speaker 1: that process was amazing, man. And we have amazing writing staff.
Speaker 1: Not to jump too far ahead, but you know Kevin
Speaker 1: Heath who also paying Good Burger too, and they pinned
Speaker 1: the first one. These are people that have known us
Speaker 1: for for years, so you know that in that machine
Speaker 1: of what we have worked so well. And I remember
Speaker 1: one time when they started writing in all that scripts
Speaker 1: and they laugh about this they wrote, and then Kill
Speaker 1: does something physical, Kill goes crazy and they wouldn't even
Speaker 1: like give the action because they just didn't know what
Speaker 1: I might do.
Speaker 2: So they were just like go nuts, which was fun. Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, an iconic movie for its time. Now you're going
Speaker 3: back twenty five years later. What made you want to
Speaker 3: do it? Besides the obvious reasons like did someone approach you?
Speaker 3: Were you pushing for it? Like how did it come
Speaker 3: about to get you guys together again?
Speaker 2: Well, I remember the first time it spoke about.
Speaker 1: I was doing a show back on Nickelodeon you called
Speaker 1: Game Shakers.
Speaker 2: I was playing this wild hip hop mungul.
Speaker 1: That owned a company with these young teenage girls that
Speaker 1: were coders, right, and it was a fun, fun show.
Speaker 1: And I remember at that time Jimmy Fallon hit us
Speaker 1: up and said, hey, I would love to do this
Speaker 1: Keenan and kel reunion of Good Burger and on his.
Speaker 3: Show, on his show. Yeah, just watched that this morning,
Speaker 3: So okay, So now all right, so go ahead. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that's where it started. Okay, go ahead, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Jay, Jimmy's part of it. So if behind you
Speaker 3: know the scenes.
Speaker 1: We had already a lot of whispers about, oh, we
Speaker 1: need to do good Burger too, we need a good
Speaker 1: burger too, and we were trying to get all the
Speaker 1: minds together from you know, the beginning of all of
Speaker 1: this and all that, to come together and try to
Speaker 1: put this together. We had done a few ideas, had
Speaker 1: the meetings about where it could go. But when it
Speaker 1: got real was when Jimmy did that and if the
Speaker 1: internet went crazy, even Keenan and I both and we talked,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this where I remember we
Speaker 1: were behind the curtain and we were like, man, yo,
Speaker 1: we've done people like a disservice, Like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, We should have done this way back, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But this is awesome. You know
Speaker 1: it's God's timing. Let's do this again. We need to
Speaker 1: figure this out, you know what I mean of you
Speaker 1: know this kend the kale world of good Burger or
Speaker 1: where we want to take it. Then the conversations I
Speaker 1: get more real. We started having you know, real script conversations.
Speaker 1: Some of it was like where they were taking the story,
Speaker 1: it was something would and then some of it was good.
Speaker 1: And then we finally found the right story for a
Speaker 1: dexter in for it because you know, now they're adults
Speaker 1: and where are they now?
Speaker 2: They have kids? What's happening? And it's the fun story.
Speaker 1: And we wanted, well, it was very important us to
Speaker 1: have Good Burger to stand on its own where that
Speaker 1: it can be its own movie, like you could see
Speaker 1: two and it'll be okay you need if you didn't
Speaker 1: see one, you know, And so that was very important
Speaker 1: to us. And then then I'm also making us producers
Speaker 1: on the project too as well, because that was a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing too.
Speaker 2: For a shot out to Paramount. Shout to Nickelodeon for
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 1: Just so that Ed wouldn't turn into something that the
Speaker 1: nineties kids would be like Edwin.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I had to make sure that the characters stayed
Speaker 1: to true to who he is. Yeah wow, yeah man.
Speaker 3: You know, so such a long period of time passes
Speaker 3: in between the two movies. How much communication did you
Speaker 3: and Keenan have during this really long period of time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, so it was like on and off, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But then I think because people, you know, people see us,
Speaker 1: you know, they still look at us as kids.
Speaker 2: They don't realize, like, you know, we have lives.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We experience different things, you know, but it's so beautiful,
Speaker 1: like because he was on the he's on the East
Speaker 1: Coast and I was in Los Angeles, and you know,
Speaker 1: different worlds.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But we try to stay in contact. Always explain it like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a friend you had in high school
Speaker 1: and then you all go off to college to different places,
Speaker 1: all these different things and try to stay in contact.
Speaker 1: But I remember us having a real conversation on the
Speaker 1: phone one time, and that was around the Gameshacker time,
Speaker 1: in the talent time, and we were like, look, man,
Speaker 1: let's stay in contact, you know, because it was a
Speaker 1: lot within that conversation where it was like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: let's talk about life and what went on back in
Speaker 1: the day and the crazy things people were telling us
Speaker 1: and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And it was cool to.
Speaker 1: Be able to experience each other's as adults now, which
Speaker 1: is great, and to have this friendship from when we
Speaker 1: were you know, man, eiighteen years old, you know, all
Speaker 1: the way down you know, forty five.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 5: That's so crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean I was thinking about it today watching some
Speaker 3: of your old stuff and thinking about your relationship. And
Speaker 3: I was thinking about the first time when I was
Speaker 3: working on NBC and he was working on NBC, And
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't exactly put it together, but it's
Speaker 3: got to be like early on for him, but like
Speaker 3: two thousand and five, two thousand and six somewhere in there,
Speaker 3: and I read that he started doing US and now
Speaker 3: two thousand and three, So you guys were done a
Speaker 3: couple of years before that, and it feels like so
Speaker 3: long ago.
Speaker 5: And yet you all have a lifetime before that. Like
Speaker 5: it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I mean, it goes to the staying power of you
Speaker 3: and him and the two of you together that after
Speaker 3: so many years and so much success, that you've birthed
Speaker 3: this thing again. I just think it's so awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a it's a blessing man.
Speaker 1: And I mean too, when we got the call that
Speaker 1: Good Burger was number one, you know, most streamed doing
Speaker 1: Paramount blessed us it launched, that was emotional time for
Speaker 1: us just to you know, because that many years you know,
Speaker 1: as an actor, sure as an actor, to go back
Speaker 1: to a character whereas you know it's been that long.
Speaker 1: That's that's awesome, man. And then to to open it
Speaker 1: up to another generation. There's kids that are five or
Speaker 1: six years old and good Burger birthday parties and actually
Speaker 1: Keenan and Keale and you know, all these shows cool
Speaker 1: and experiencely with my kids like my you know, my
Speaker 1: two youngest, Honor and Wisdom are in the movie.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean as kids. So that's just awesome.
Speaker 3: Did you have any hesitance going back to it after
Speaker 3: so long?
Speaker 2: To ed? No?
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, we launched the Return of All That
Speaker 1: and so we brought it, brought it back, and so
Speaker 1: I jumped on there with the kids. Even though I
Speaker 1: was producing. I did some of the characters like Coach
Speaker 1: Creeden and it and brought them back. So I was
Speaker 1: kind of in the shoes of it again already, so
Speaker 1: it didn't feel too crazy a few years later to
Speaker 1: be doing it again. It didn't really kick in until
Speaker 1: I want to say, the week before it came out
Speaker 1: like it was. It was kind of like, okay, we
Speaker 1: are how was they going to respond to this? And
Speaker 1: that's what it kicked in. But man, thank god, everybody
Speaker 1: loves it. Man, And they're digging and.
Speaker 2: They're on this journey with us, and I think that's
Speaker 2: what's cool.
Speaker 1: I kind of compare it to like New Addition, you know,
Speaker 1: for me, like I grew up with New Addition, you know,
Speaker 1: I followed them along the journey since they were kids too,
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that where people kind of
Speaker 1: grew up with us here.
Speaker 3: You've done a lot of voiceover and animation work, you Clifford,
Speaker 3: the Big Red Dog of Note for sure, Pink Panther
Speaker 3: and Pals, Wild Gardeners.
Speaker 5: Do you enjoy it the voiceover work? Dude?
Speaker 2: I love the voiceover world. It's so great. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know you can you can go do it in
Speaker 2: your pajamas if you wanted to.
Speaker 5: I just I just did this morning.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know, it's great man, and and but it's
Speaker 1: because it takes some real, some real work and comedy
Speaker 1: work too.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I was blessed to be on a show with Chrese Summers,
Speaker 1: which is like, I mean, she's like amazing legend legend
Speaker 1: in the voiceover world, and so she was able to
Speaker 1: give me a lot of advice. And you know, you're,
Speaker 1: you know, really going all out with these voices. You know,
Speaker 1: with your voice can still you know, so I I
Speaker 1: enjoyed doing it. Man, it's fun, especially doing character work.
Speaker 1: It's a bleast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a freedom that you have, you know, I
Speaker 3: haven't done a sketch show like you're as where you're
Speaker 3: you're you're able to play a variety of characters within
Speaker 3: you know, one show. But having that freedom of just
Speaker 3: using your voice and creating characters, I find truly like
Speaker 3: really fun.
Speaker 5: I just love doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: And then I'm in the animation too, because you know,
Speaker 1: I go to the comic cons and I love you know,
Speaker 1: all the all the animation in animated cartoons. You know
Speaker 1: that helped with my comedy too as well. So, and
Speaker 1: I love the Muppets that's not animation but voice.
Speaker 5: Well, that's true.
Speaker 3: How is it for you being so hugely associated with
Speaker 3: children's programming, Like do you love that? Do you wish
Speaker 3: that you had more opportunities I don't know for an
Speaker 3: older audience? And do does the fact that you have kids?
Speaker 3: Does that influence for you any of the types of
Speaker 3: projects that you're interested in doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's really what I feel, you know when
Speaker 1: I'm reading the script, because I have done adult stuff.
Speaker 2: I've done a very deep period period.
Speaker 1: Piece with John Sales of course all honey dripper, But
Speaker 1: it's something about I love family entertainment, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, just in general, because the whole family can
Speaker 1: enjoy it together. So it is really cool for me
Speaker 1: to put a smile on, you know, my kids face
Speaker 1: and then also other kids' faces. And I think too
Speaker 1: when you do that. What I started to notice was
Speaker 1: working a family and chairman for so long. You grew
Speaker 1: up with the parents, and then your kids grow up
Speaker 1: with you too. Yeah, so you kind of you stay
Speaker 1: you know where. It's like you have these new fan
Speaker 1: base every time because you're being introduced over and over again.
Speaker 1: And I see that family timan not so not so
Speaker 1: much in the adult space as much as I do
Speaker 1: in the family space, which is which is cool.
Speaker 2: It keeps you timeless, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you are the recipient of truly a huge award,
Speaker 3: a Kid's Choice Award also a kbe Ace Award. But
Speaker 3: those Kid Choice Awards are so much fun and it's
Speaker 3: a significant and noteworthy honor. Is that something you're very
Speaker 3: proud of?
Speaker 2: Of course? Man? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: When that happen and you know it was it was awesome.
Speaker 1: You know, to be in a category with so many
Speaker 1: great other comedians, and every time if there's an award
Speaker 1: that happens, it's always a humbler feeling and an awesome feeling,
Speaker 1: you know, to get that award, you know, he be nominated.
Speaker 1: You know, even through all those different things, it's been great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny. Adults can fake laugh. Kids don't fake laugh, right, Like,
Speaker 3: like you have to really make them laugh and make
Speaker 3: them make them love you because they're not going to pretend.
Speaker 3: Now I'm witnessed to it every day when I think
Speaker 3: I'm hilarious and a dead stare comes back at you.
Speaker 5: So it'll a way you have. You have conquered the
Speaker 5: greatest critics in the world.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, man, yeah, man. Kids keep it real. They
Speaker 2: keep it all the way one hundred and that's what
Speaker 2: I do. Man. Like even here, like I tell a joke,
Speaker 2: see my kids the crack up.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, I'm like, oh yeah, that'll work. That'll that'll
Speaker 3: that'll work, that'll work. You're an accomplished musician. I did
Speaker 3: want to ask you about your time on all that.
Speaker 3: I mean, much like the structure of SNL a music group.
Speaker 3: You mentioned it before every week. Did you learn anything
Speaker 3: from them or was there anything about your experience working
Speaker 3: with them? And as you mentioned, so many of them
Speaker 3: wanting to be in in the Good Burger sketch at
Speaker 3: the time. Getting to know them, how do you think
Speaker 3: that that affected and potentially help your music career?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Seeing these performances, the type of team that they had
Speaker 1: that they came along with, the preparation before they perform,
Speaker 1: you know, the artists that were laid, the artists that
Speaker 1: were on time, the artists that you know, practice their
Speaker 1: dance moves on the stage, practice with us, the ones
Speaker 1: that were talkative and cool, and the ones that weren't,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you just got to
Speaker 1: It really prepared me for what I wanted to do
Speaker 1: as far as like in entertainment, how I wanted to
Speaker 1: be perceived. Those moments of you know, dance battling against
Speaker 1: Cisco or dance battle against Usher TLC, hanging out with
Speaker 1: me and my siblings and you know all this and
Speaker 1: we're still all in contact now, Like this is awesome, man,
Speaker 1: Like you're talking about walking through Chicago streets on my walkman,
Speaker 1: listening to these people, and then like a few months later,
Speaker 1: I'm kicking it with them, hanging with them, have their
Speaker 1: phone numbers. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a new single out fairly recently, go time.
Speaker 3: You've been writing making music for a long long time,
Speaker 3: and in fact, you did the theme song to Good
Speaker 3: Burger We're All Dudes Now? Did you have that in mind?
Speaker 3: Was there a secret room where you got the nod
Speaker 3: and pulled in and someone told you to do the song?
Speaker 5: Like how did that come about?
Speaker 1: So it was like, you know, when all that sketches
Speaker 1: was start, there's a bit of like the camera would
Speaker 1: pan in on for d so it was a moment
Speaker 1: of dead air. So I used to say, like, okay,
Speaker 1: what is it doing at that moment? You know how
Speaker 1: sitcoms people walk in and have this ridiculous improv conversation.
Speaker 2: Like you just dat an orange?
Speaker 1: So I did this little ditty like m dude, he's
Speaker 1: a dude, and I was bang on the register and
Speaker 1: it became part of the sketch that little Diddy needed
Speaker 1: to turn into a song, you know.
Speaker 2: And so it had already had.
Speaker 1: Success with doing the immature song and all this stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and then when we did the movie, it
Speaker 1: was like, let's make I'm a dude, a song, an actual,
Speaker 1: like for real song. And I remember Brian because his
Speaker 1: mind is just like he's ready, like right then and there,
Speaker 1: he's like, kill write the song. After you write the song,
Speaker 1: we're having a meeting at Paramount for Capitol Records what
Speaker 1: so like, I wrote it, literally wrote it versus to
Speaker 1: this hook that was already you know, all the kids knew,
Speaker 1: and I wrote the hook. I drove over there. I
Speaker 1: had not sung the song out loud. I remember we
Speaker 1: were all out dinner at the Bataramount lunch and he
Speaker 1: said sing it, and Solar had to singing in front
Speaker 1: of everybody, and they loved it. They said, oh, this
Speaker 1: is awesome.
Speaker 5: And Brian hadn't he hadn't heard it yet.
Speaker 2: He hadn't heard it.
Speaker 5: Well that's confidence right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had trusted me because yeah, I was in music.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Bryant. I rocked it within there. I
Speaker 1: knew how important this was. You know, he's like a
Speaker 1: big brother to me. So I was like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it. And then after that it was less than
Speaker 1: Jake was on Capitol Records, and so at that time
Speaker 1: they were a sky band and next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I'm flying to Florida because I was in La at that.
Speaker 2: Point, to to Florida, did the song with them, and
Speaker 2: it just took off. Man, that's inredible. It took up. Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have another career outside of entertainment. You're a pastor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Does music play a big role for you in your ministry? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, I you know, being how I played before with
Speaker 1: the whole Brat pack, and I'm into all of that
Speaker 1: and also within my faith everything that I'm involved in
Speaker 1: the same thing, because just like you said, with the teens,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like they're very very real with.
Speaker 2: You, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So if you want to reach them, you got to,
Speaker 1: you know, reach them and let them know, Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been through the same things you've been through. I know,
Speaker 1: understanding type of music you listen to and all these
Speaker 1: different things, and introduce faith to them in that way too,
Speaker 1: because they're bombarded with so much, you know, as far
Speaker 1: as the social media, and so within my music, within
Speaker 1: my summons, within all that I do, it's relatable to them,
Speaker 1: but then also leads them to their faith and knowing
Speaker 1: that they're beautifully and wonderfully made by God.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: So I've been I've been doing that for years, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean behind the scenes as well, be
Speaker 1: doing that for years, and you know, people started to
Speaker 1: get a wind of it, you know at my church,
Speaker 1: which is has been awesome man, and I love doing it.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of my teams now they've graduated,
Speaker 1: they're in college now, and you know, it's it's cool
Speaker 1: to see them, you know, hit me up, send me
Speaker 1: letters and go, hey, man, thank you Pastor Kale for
Speaker 1: the things you told me years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm still utilizing it today. So it's been awesome, man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Is there gonna be a good Burger three?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I say it at the end because Keenan
Speaker 1: and I are like, yo, look, let's been Diesel, this
Speaker 1: thing bro gid Burger in space fast Burger's like whatever, man,
Speaker 1: So people want it. I mean, if they want it,
Speaker 1: let's let's give it to them. We're not gonna make
Speaker 1: them wait another twenty six years though, but that might
Speaker 1: be funny.
Speaker 3: At a certain point, it's gonna be really difficult. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be really difficult. Maybe not in twenty six years,
Speaker 3: but in fifty two years, it's gonna start getting tough
Speaker 3: for the physical comedy for sure, as good as you
Speaker 3: are at a certain point. Yeah, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 3: be tough for you know, it's so funny about this genre.
Speaker 3: I have an eight year old and she is watching
Speaker 3: in Living color, no joke, after what I have been
Speaker 3: watching and reminding myself again over the next twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna show her Keenan and Kel because it's probably
Speaker 3: even better. But there's something so incredible and fun and
Speaker 3: spirited about the physical comedy that you and and really
Speaker 3: everybody was doing. And my daughter loves it watching it
Speaker 3: in living color.
Speaker 5: Jim Carrey and.
Speaker 3: All those guys just going nuts. It's just funny, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, like they're used to fully produced digital streaming entertainment,
Speaker 3: you know, with what you know back in the day
Speaker 3: would have been twenty five million dollar budgets, and yet
Speaker 3: she's sitting there on YouTube watching these old, kind of grainy,
Speaker 3: rusted out clips from in Living Color and just has
Speaker 3: marized by just the theatricality of it. I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like in entertainment we've lost that sort of boldness
Speaker 3: of performance, you know, having that I'm excited now to
Speaker 3: show her can she watch Good Burger too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: of course, yeah, okay, yes, total it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's PG. So she'd be good, she'd be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny, man. But yeah, this is the legends
Speaker 1: I tell comedians outsid go back and and then watch
Speaker 1: them because those guys are like legendary, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, and show you so much. You know, I
Speaker 1: was inspired by Living Color and SNL and all the
Speaker 1: physical comedy and you know, Tommy Davis and Jami five,
Speaker 1: all these guys.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: So yeah, man, were you watching in Living Color? Yes,
Speaker 3: while you were doing this, you were watching it.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because the Living Color was before I even
Speaker 1: got on all that, and I was like a staple
Speaker 1: in my household. And so Jim Carrey, you know, Tommy Davison,
Speaker 1: Keenan Avy, Waynms and then to now you know know
Speaker 1: the Waynes hang out with them, you know, it's awesome,
Speaker 1: and we were doing Keenan mc keil. They were doing
Speaker 1: the Waynes Brothers show around the same time. So it's awesome.
Speaker 5: Awesome, dude.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, I appreciate you coming and talking to all of us,
Speaker 3: and good luck with Good Burger two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 3: How many Fast and Furious but seven? I think there's
Speaker 3: at least nine Good Burgers. I wish you all the best, congratulations,
Speaker 3: good luck, and yeah, I'm not giving you lip service here.
Speaker 3: My eight year old is gonna be watching Good Burger well,
Speaker 3: I mean it's a school day, but by the end
Speaker 3: of the weekend she'll be watching it, so you'll have
Speaker 3: another viewer.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Kel, Thank you brother, thanks for having
Speaker 5: me on.
Speaker 2: Man cheers.
Speaker 3: Kel, Thank you so much for coming on. It was
Speaker 3: great getting to know you a little bit. And yes,
Speaker 3: congratulations on all your recent success. Listeners, if you want
Speaker 3: a little nineties nostalgia or well just a good laugh
Speaker 3: with you and maybe your kids, watch Good Burger two
Speaker 3: on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 5: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be back next week with another episode
Speaker 3: of Off the Beat. I'm going to have a great
Speaker 3: week this week, I can tell. I hope you do too.
Speaker 3: Off the Beat is hosted and executive produced by me
Speaker 3: Brian Baumgartner, alongside are executive producer lingg Lee. Our senior
Speaker 3: producer is Diego Tapia. Our producers are Liz Hayes, Hannah Harris,
Speaker 3: and Emily carr Our talent producer is Ryan Papa Zachary
Speaker 3: and our intern is Ali Amir Sahed. Our theme song
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