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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Eating Wall Broke. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Colleen Witt, and today we have one of the top

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Speaker 1: funniest people in Los Angeles, the original bad girl of comedy,

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Speaker 1: comedian and actress Lunel is in our kitchen today. That's me.

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Speaker 1: And I take issue with that top people to watch

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Speaker 1: comedians in Los Angeles. I prefer to say under the

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Speaker 1: top people to watch in the country. I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that in the country. Play that back now.

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Speaker 1: It's a good do you have us eating today? All right?

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Speaker 1: So when I was young, sometimes on Friday nights, you know,

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Speaker 1: Black people like the fish on Friday nights with sometime

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Speaker 1: we didn't. And an old tradition in my house, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's an American thing. It's a good old

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Speaker 1: regular sloppy Joe for you newly web to lyd and

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Speaker 1: said you could cook and you can't. If you could

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Speaker 1: just do this, that will make them happy. Ingredients are

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Speaker 1: very simple. We have the lean ground meat right here

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Speaker 1: or not so lean, because you know, you really need

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Speaker 1: a little something to keep the meat from sticking to

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Speaker 1: the pant or a good non stick pan, which is

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Speaker 1: what I think we got ready here and then I

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Speaker 1: have some uh, sloppy Joe sauce, which if you really

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Speaker 1: on a budget, you can use edge aloud of sauce whatever,

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Speaker 1: but I thought you could use you can use if

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Speaker 1: you really broke broke. If you broke broke, so then um,

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Speaker 1: this is also the sloppy Joe how to mix, which

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Speaker 1: you usually use one or the other. Um, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: use the liquid sauce they on my add a little

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Speaker 1: powder for look, okay for actually kick and if we

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Speaker 1: were really not stressed for time, I would toast those bunts.

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Speaker 1: But that's been very bougee because regular trailer parkway is

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Speaker 1: just to eat the sloppy Joe on the white bunt.

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Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: right now that when I saw you we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: sloppy Joe, I immediately smiled like it's an old school classic.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's a lot of storry people who forgot

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Speaker 1: about the sloppy or well, you can go ahead and

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Speaker 1: start cooking it up. Okay, let me see a pot

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Speaker 1: holder apprehiated this skillet and she has long nails, so

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely intrigue to watch this and you cook all

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Speaker 1: the time, and your nails is the jewelry. Honey. I

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Speaker 1: should took that though, but anyway, um, okay, so always

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Speaker 1: if you have a hand like this and you gotta

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Speaker 1: metal handle, no that that thing gets up too. So

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Speaker 1: that's why I got the pot. Oh good, this is

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Speaker 1: what I wanted. Okay, Now I can turn it down

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Speaker 1: a little bit, all right, So you're taking me, get

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Speaker 1: your a little fatulor thing here. Just dump here. Oh

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Speaker 1: there's a little water. I'm gonna put that on here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: go for it. Do what they gotta do, real ne do,

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Speaker 1: real ship. Okay, so there we go, Bama. You don't

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Speaker 1: want that water, it's gonna it's gonna make enough juice. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wipe that little up. That was just a

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Speaker 1: little defrost, honeyway, but then break it up, keep it

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Speaker 1: moving around. It smells good too, already not turning it down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it does. You don't smell that beef. So the

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Speaker 1: last time, oh wow, it's been years since I actually

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Speaker 1: had a sloppy joe actually, so I'm sort of looking

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Speaker 1: forward to this kind of nostalgic. I started with it hot,

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Speaker 1: as you saw, but then you turned it down, okay,

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Speaker 1: because this ain't quite as non stick as I thought,

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Speaker 1: but if you keep it moving. So when you were

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Speaker 1: eating Sloppy Joel before the last couple of years, like

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Speaker 1: what was going on? I think that when I was

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Speaker 1: eating Sloppy Joe's, I was living in the suburbs of Oakland, California,

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Speaker 1: place called Castle Valley. Were one of the few black

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Speaker 1: for crustodians for Hayward Area Recreation and Practice trick. Mom

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Speaker 1: isn't the good one. I've never done it with the powder. Look, kid, Okay,

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Speaker 1: in I was living in the suburbs, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: And there was always like these movies not movie A,

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Speaker 1: the movies. I would always watch me get Sloppy Joe.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes get French fries so you can get you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're on a budge, you can you I like

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Speaker 1: ca so flavored ruffle ridges take the chips. Ruffles were

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Speaker 1: so I've never even seen that. Mommy south of ten

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Speaker 1: So if you're a daughter of a nurse, a nurse

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Speaker 1: and a constodian, where does comedy fit into all of this?

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Speaker 1: Like nowhere it was tragic, but out of tragedy comes

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Speaker 1: to a comedy, right. So um, I had, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's important to break your meat up to you don't

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Speaker 1: want the biggest clumps. And one of my roommates, well,

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Speaker 1: hear me talking around the house and stuff, and he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're really funny. If you lift this soon

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Speaker 1: with the top one for a minute, if you, um,

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Speaker 1: do you want to turn it down? Na down? If

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Speaker 1: you if you want to come to this club I

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Speaker 1: work at this club. If you want to come to

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Speaker 1: this club where I work at, I'll let you go

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Speaker 1: up to minute that you come in. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be no comedian. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: sing background for Luther Vandro's. I spoked a lot of

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Speaker 1: that never happened obviously, but that's what I wanted because

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Speaker 1: of way. Well, UM, me and my girls, after you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't tell jokes, I tell stories, so

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Speaker 1: you know, some things that happened to me that I

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Speaker 1: I already knew what I was gonna say. I went

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Speaker 1: He was funny, little bit after your first My first card,

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Speaker 1: and that was Robin, Robin Williams, Robin Harris, Robin Harris,

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Speaker 1: the Great Robin here all right, now, all the meat

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Speaker 1: So that's yeah, the first time I ever did I killed.

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Speaker 1: So it was destiny. I followed where you hoped from there,

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Speaker 1: like passion Wise Donna entertainment before the because I had

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So right now we've mixed some of

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Speaker 1: the sloppy Joe sauce in with the meat. Now here's

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Speaker 1: You don't want too much meat and not enough sauce,

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Speaker 1: because that just is a crumbled up hamburger, and you

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Speaker 1: then it's really sloppy Sloppy Joe. Okay. Also, I'm very uh,

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Speaker 1: But the original Sloppy Joe didn't have no cheese. So

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Speaker 1: this is the original. You know what, that sounds fantastic?

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Speaker 1: I never thought of that. The original Sloppy Joe never

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Speaker 1: would taste amazing with cheese. Okay, So just let that

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Speaker 1: So you get this card? You are you follow up?

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Speaker 1: You go to your second club? I assumer. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: went to the Comedy Act Theater in the creen Shaw

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Speaker 1: this is before comic View, I Believe and Out of

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Speaker 1: Comic View and Fat Tuesday documentary on Amazon Prime right

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Speaker 1: now between uh, the where Robin was at the Comedy

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Speaker 1: Act and I was a comedy store. That's when people

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Speaker 1: Comic View. Okay, yeah, this looks good to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But for those who original Sloppy Joe eaters, we don't

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Speaker 1: Gordon ramsay and then say, now, the point is the

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Speaker 1: Now do you keep yours piled high? Or do you

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Speaker 1: little hit though a little corner field. Thank you, okay,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make mine. Then we're gonna do it

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Speaker 1: like muck bang has been food porn the baby. When

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Speaker 1: I eat mine, it's all of a finger licking things.

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Speaker 1: Do you watch those videos on Instagram where the person's

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Speaker 1: like eating lobster and crab and they're sucking all the

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Speaker 1: two is out. I did until I saw a woman

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Speaker 1: of a certain nationality about the head off a turtle.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, where did you get those crab legs? And

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Speaker 1: The noise I'm here? Oh yeah, I like that. I

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Speaker 1: it was under five minutes. Yeah, you have to be

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Speaker 1: not gonna be too hot. No, it might be a

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Speaker 1: little hot. I got a little forks on the side

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Speaker 1: just in case we got to always have to scoop

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Speaker 1: let's see what we got the bus to protect this? Right,

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Speaker 1: that's a classic. That's a great classic. And you did

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Speaker 1: it way better than I've ever done the African American.

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Speaker 1: I've been here twenty years now. He told me that

424
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Speaker 1: I'll keep the baby. Just don't go down there bullshitting,

425
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: and you know I didn't. That was cool. Yeah, he

426
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: was a good guy. So then you came down here

427
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: and you didn't play, you came kill. I don't know,

428
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: it just happened. You know, there's no it's hard to

429
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: go step by step with what happened. But I started

430
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: being nicer. Did you ease back on drinking and smoking?

431
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: Or or did you are you still like? I didn't

432
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: sell that, but um, yeah I did. I had to

433
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: because the more work you get, you don't have time

434
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: for hangovers. You can't be being a don't nobody want

435
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: you get tired. My desire to work was stronger than

436
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: my desire to drink or do any dope. So that one.

437
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: So you're doing stand up, where does the pivot into

438
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: acting come into play? I did acting before I just

439
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: stand up, because before I left Oakland the first time,

440
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: I had already done my first movie, which was shot

441
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. So I married an actor, Maty Where,

442
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: which is mc meyer's first movie before he started any

443
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: of the Austro power stuff. Then I also filmed the

444
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: movie that got me into the screen Actors Guild, I

445
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: mean San Francisco. I filmed The Rock with Sean Connery

446
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: and Nicholas k on Alcatrad. So I did that before

447
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: I ever came to l A. And I did that

448
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: before I was doing stand up. I was doing theater then.

449
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: And I thought you said that you wanted to be

450
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: a singer at one point, Yeah, I told you drinking

451
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: from Uncle Love. So no, but I had that musical

452
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: theater too. I did just show in San Francisco for

453
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: three years called Peace Black Babylon, and it was a

454
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: musical cabaret as long as you can google as the

455
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: longest and in cabaret show I think in the world,

456
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: because they ran for like fifty years and it would

457
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: change them and stuff. You had to be able to sing, dance,

458
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: act to be in that show. So to do it

459
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: for three years, you know, I used to concern good

460
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: until I start howling like a lunatic going to stage

461
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: doing all this goddamn stand up. So when did you

462
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: realize in your career that you had arrived. Was there

463
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: a pivotal moment where you were like, I hit the

464
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: tipping point. Not yet, not yet? No, not yet? Wow?

465
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: Is that because you keep moving the ceiling, you keep

466
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: moving them? Maybe? Maybe maybe maybe that? But I just

467
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: have so many more things to offer and to do,

468
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: and so many more goals to reach that I haven't reach. Ship.

469
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: You know, you make a goal, you meet it, then

470
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: you should make another goal. Meet that. So I've made goals,

471
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: but I still got goals to go. So I don't

472
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: think that. Do you feel a sense of tentment every

473
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: time you reached the goal, or do you feel like, yeah,

474
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: but I've expected it, you know, the Lord ordered my

475
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: steps crazy to make found and I foresaw all this

476
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: if I just got a chance. If I got a chance,

477
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: I mean I used to do stuff like you get

478
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: a National Enquirer right then there's a gossip section National Inquired,

479
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: and it may say stuff like Leonardo DiCaprio was seen

480
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: at Boa last night. With that. So I had a

481
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: phone book, so I would write down Boa and then

482
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: I would call Information when you start died for one

483
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: one and I'd say can I get the address to

484
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: Boa in Beverly Hills And then they would give me no,

485
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: can I get the phone number? You get the phone number,

486
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: then you call them and then you get the address,

487
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: and then you reference who goes there. So I had

488
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: a whole book saying like Leonardo di Caprio goes to Boa,

489
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: here's the address is front. What would you do with

490
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: the information? Though, I would come down on here and

491
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: if I could get somebody to bring me to Hollywood,

492
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: which was very rare, I would just walk around. But

493
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: when they did and I took the bus, I would

494
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: come up Western to sunset and then come down sunset

495
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: and get off, and then just walk around and look

496
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: at the stuff, look at the palm trees, and look

497
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: at the hills and look at the houses and the

498
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: buildings and feel the vibe and feel what it's like

499
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: to be in Hollywood and walk down to Beverly Hills

500
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: and feel what that's like and look at those houses,

501
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: and I'm manifested at all. Would you ever go inside

502
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: bow and just eat? Just to know that I was

503
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: on the bus. Remember, I ain't had no ball of money,

504
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: but I walked by it like you know these places

505
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: on on sunset now that I eat that I used

506
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: to walk by and go, God, look at them. Wow.

507
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: Now was there ever a point in your career where

508
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: you felt a little bit of doubt or like questioned

509
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: several times, was the time that you could like remember A,

510
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: That's when I probably had tape like excuse me, like

511
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: my third pilot excuse me that I thought was really

512
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: good and it got passed on and ship I'm like,

513
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: this is some bullshit. These motherfucker's not gonna let me in,

514
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: you know. And I still have not gotten into where,

515
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't haven't had my own show.

516
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: I've never been a regular on the series. I've never

517
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: had a series. I've never been you know, I had

518
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: a parking spot and all that stuff except very few times,

519
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, And my goal was to be the next

520
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: black woman in late night. I wouldly think that I

521
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: suit late night. You know, I don't want to do daytime.

522
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: I want to do late night. Plus, the snow snow

523
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: blizzard of white men in late night right now is

524
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: in gross need of revision. You know, they need to

525
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: have some Latinos. They need. They had George Lopez show

526
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: was amazing. Why they take the funk that off? Why?

527
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: Because it was great? You know from the moment you

528
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: hear low riding, he comes out and breaks it down

529
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: like an essay and then all these guests. Why they

530
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: take that off? Why didn't take our senior offter We

531
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: just had the Netflix since the Joe Comedy Festival here,

532
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: and they're like, and our senior filmed live and interviewed

533
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: Cat and interviewed Snoop and stuff. Why did you take

534
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: it off in the first place? So you know, you

535
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: got two white men named Jimmy. I mean it's enough already,

536
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Like there's somebody in so we'll see how that goes.

537
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna, you know, keep doing trying to do

538
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: that until n tell it happens. So what are the

539
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: dishes in your house now that you're arrived? Like, what

540
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: is it like if I went to your house yesterday

541
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: or today? Like? What are you eating when you're not

542
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: on the road with Cat Williams or whoever? I tell

543
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: you eat kind of lavish when we're on the road,

544
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: on the road lavish, like what well, you know, if

545
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: we're in Maryland, I'm gonna have crab and stuff like that.

546
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: If we're in you know, Atlanta, I'm gonna have so food.

547
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: We're in sant San Antonio, I'm going Mexican foods. I

548
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 1: try on the cuisine, dammit, and my house I try.

549
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: I have a cousin who lives with me, but she's

550
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: a comedian as well, so she goes on. But when

551
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: she's oh, she she's a total gour mate. She I

552
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: just you know, all kinds of ship when she's When

553
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: she's gone, then I go back to my green juices,

554
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: robotic this. Oh I want to know, I'm not going

555
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: to your house. That's what I got. It's healthy. Well

556
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: for the grits and the potatoes and running bagon Jimmy

557
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: Dean Sully a ballot because I might wake up in

558
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: the wanting and do a smoothie or get that I

559
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: say you boy, or whatever like that. Most of the

560
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: time I want some grits and potatoes, but I might

561
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: do that just as a balance from when she's gone,

562
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: because I know when she's there, I don't eat like

563
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: a queen, you know, so I try to eat like

564
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: a pauper, a little healthy paper one when she's not there. Well,

565
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: before we close out, what advice would you give to

566
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: a median actor someone getting into a career like yourselves,

567
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: besides being kind, which I think is great advice, Well,

568
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm kind, but I'm not no punk, so they also

569
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: know that too. So you know, I have been known to,

570
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, pop off. So um, I would say, don't

571
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: be a drunk. That's a big, big thing in comedy.

572
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: People like to drink. And if you're old and established

573
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: and you know how to handle your look at what

574
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: to do or how to do your thing, that's one thing.

575
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: But if you're young and excited and sloppy drunk, people

576
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: remember that really really for a long time. And then also,

577
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: don't fool yourself. If you can't sing, stop trying to

578
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: be a singer. Okay, if you're not fucking funny and

579
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: you don't have it in you, don't try to be

580
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: a comedian. Maybe you could write for a comedian, or

581
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: maybe you could you know, you might end up being

582
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: a I said director. Everybody wants to be holding stuff

583
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: out in front of the camera, but the people that's

584
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: important to the people behind the goddamn camera. We need

585
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: more black directors and women directors. And the movie Block

586
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: Party that I got coming out of June eighth is

587
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: Don Willkers. That was our director of Black Female from Canada. Yeah,

588
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: come back June. Speaking of June, where else can we

589
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: find you at? Like? What else are you doing that

590
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: we can Okay? Like I said, Black Party comes out

591
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: June eighth. I don't know when this is gonna hit,

592
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: but June eight in five theaters and on b Et

593
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: Plus called Block Party. The star is Mark Margaret Avery,

594
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: who was Sugar Avery in the original color Purple. So

595
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: I kissed her feet constantly and she's amazing. She's funny,

596
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: and she's sexty and she's great. And then there's a

597
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: bunch of new names that are really killing it that

598
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: you will get to know and myself and I wear

599
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: five different wigs in the movie. It's amazing. I want

600
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. It's gonna be

601
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: very great. So I got that. And then, um just

602
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 1: finished touring with cat uh for the last nine months,

603
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: and I'm out on the road now doing my fresh

604
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: out of favorite comedy tour it myself, uh comedians. So

605
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: you sulk at my cousin and the one who's the cook,

606
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: the assassin, the Kassian assassin, and then at real Aaron Thompson,

607
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: Aaron Thompson, the three of us, uh, you know, under

608
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: road doing a thing back in the club. Because when

609
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: I was with k it was Arena Arena, arena AA

610
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: arena five teen seven, twelve, thirteen thousand people. But this

611
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: is you know, more like three hundred, four hundred people max.

612
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: And so I'm doing that and uh, you know, like

613
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: I'm said, being ready to shoot this pilot and hopefully

614
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: this one's gonna get it, get a chance to yeah, yeah,

615
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: this one's gonna get it, and and and and you

616
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: can just had a million on Instagram. I guess that's

617
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: a big thing. That's a huge deal. Well, I don't know,

618
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: Butterfly saw my asser, I hit a million nin but

619
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: under the opportunities whatever, we'll see. But um so that's

620
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: at lu new on Instagram, at l U E N

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Speaker 1: E L L heylu now dot com my website. If

622
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: you want to get merchandise and stuff on my YouTube shows,

623
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: just hey lu now sixty two episodes of Binge watched.

624
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: It starts way back before my Aubrey or any of that,

625
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: and it just goes deep and then it comes back

626
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: out light and it's really I'm proud of that show.

627
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm just tooling around doing ship animated

628
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: voice over and blah blah blah I do. I'm blessed

629
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: that in that capacity. Well, I I let me tell

630
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 1: you something I was. I'm here with you. I don't

631
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Speaker 1: know what. Oh yeah, sorry, my triping my polis is

632
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: over there going yeah, I didn't know what I'm doing.

633
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: That means Hacks, because I'm also on that show on

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Speaker 1: to be best friends, and we already are, so that

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Speaker 1: chemistry has been very good. You guys the role, No,

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Speaker 1: and um You're amazing and cute is a button and

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