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Speaker 5: Hello, Welcome to another additional Club Shahe. I am your host,
Speaker 5: Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of Club Shashe and
Speaker 5: the guy that's stopping by today for conversation on the
Speaker 5: drink is one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: He's a multi dimensional comedian.
Speaker 5: Actor, author, and his bio says he's a Crispy Krean connoisseur.
Speaker 5: He's the rock stunting double in the businesses for over
Speaker 5: thirty five years. He's the mayor of Comedy, the legend,
Speaker 5: the homie from Atlanta. Now, but if you really know,
Speaker 5: you know you got Cascade Roll, You got College Point,
Speaker 5: you got East Point, you got Doug and then you
Speaker 5: got the Swaps. But this man is from none of those.
Speaker 5: He's from the blook, my homemade, the big homemade.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 1: How you doing, man, Bet? I'm good.
Speaker 2: How you being?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be. I feel so sexy today. You feel sexy?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: This is so sexy to me?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 1: La?
Speaker 2: I mean leaving the A coming too, la. That's what
Speaker 2: makes it cause it feel sexy. Man, you don't like
Speaker 2: like when I used to strip. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: When I was stripped. The reason I stopped. The church
Speaker 2: members came down so hard they came on your home.
Speaker 2: But they was at this show.
Speaker 1: Got whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 2: I was getting in too him, Get into him, you
Speaker 2: get it to it. I had a g straight and
Speaker 2: signs of a jump rope. Let me tell you it
Speaker 2: was actually breathtaking because when I put it on, actually
Speaker 2: took my breath.
Speaker 1: But look I had fun doing it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Man, Man, look here you.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I used to come see you all
Speaker 5: the time, all the time uptown comedy. You don't have
Speaker 5: a problem make in fun of yourself when it comes
Speaker 5: to weight.
Speaker 2: Wow, Man, I just I just can't, man, because and
Speaker 2: then when I do make fun of myself and I
Speaker 2: do see a big dude out there, I'm gonna make
Speaker 2: fun of both of us.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: He don't realize it's really about him, right, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really on him. Right, I'm a big dude. You know,
Speaker 2: we ain't gonna believe I work out, believe it or not. Man,
Speaker 2: I don't you know, I don't know what's happening, but
Speaker 2: I ain't. Nothing happening. But I do work, I gotta train,
Speaker 2: I do everything. But we have fun. But you just
Speaker 2: got to be comfortable within yourself and believe in yourself.
Speaker 2: Because most big people won't even go anywhere because they big.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They won't go to church
Speaker 1: because they'll sit there and look at it on the internet.
Speaker 2: But get out and do something. Don't care about you,
Speaker 2: get up and walk. I do everything. I got to
Speaker 2: the age.
Speaker 1: I got grandkids, you know, and I just, man, I
Speaker 1: just be everywhere with them.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: But at one point in time, you were heavier, you
Speaker 5: lost the weight, and then you you rebound it and got.
Speaker 2: It back some somehow it came back. I don't know
Speaker 2: way it came from. So so why did you who
Speaker 2: the wait to start with just just doing See? Can
Speaker 2: I do it? See if you do? And I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it again, I'm gonna do it again. I'm doing
Speaker 2: it now, man, I am for real. I just got
Speaker 2: to cut out, you know, the snickers and and the
Speaker 2: hershes with almonds.
Speaker 1: But other than that.
Speaker 2: But I'm not a.
Speaker 1: Junk eater that much. I love vegetables.
Speaker 2: I tried vegan. It didn't work, man, it's so much
Speaker 2: sugar and vegan. You be eating that vegan food. Either
Speaker 2: they eat chicken that it tastes like chicken.
Speaker 1: No, it don't.
Speaker 2: It do not taste like chicken. It tastes like some
Speaker 2: fruit with some sugar on it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And you done Friday and try to make it look
Speaker 2: like chicken. So you just got to do the right thing,
Speaker 2: you know, eat the vegetables. You gotta eat your salads,
Speaker 2: and then you gotta be careful with salad dressings because
Speaker 2: most salad dressings is full of sugar. You gotta use
Speaker 2: the low calorie. I had to learn all that, you know,
Speaker 2: because the only thing black people is French dressing. That's all.
Speaker 1: We had our French.
Speaker 2: We didn't know that about no blue cheese, that French dress,
Speaker 2: and it got more sugar. It's like ketchup. They got
Speaker 2: more sugar in anything. So you have to learn these
Speaker 2: things as you go along on how the most important
Speaker 2: thing going to the doctor, and then the doctor will
Speaker 2: educate you.
Speaker 1: Look, we need to cut this act right because I go.
Speaker 1: I don't like to go, but I go.
Speaker 2: I do. I don't like to go, but I go.
Speaker 1: So you go to the doctor and the doctor says, Bruce,
Speaker 1: you're love to have your side.
Speaker 2: We need you to lose fifty We need you to
Speaker 2: lose one hundred pounds over say the next year and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 3: I do it.
Speaker 2: I do it.
Speaker 1: And I got a female done. And she don't play
Speaker 1: no games. She don't play no game.
Speaker 2: But it seems like she want to check me every
Speaker 2: time I go in for this prostact thing. You know, look, man, god,
Speaker 2: I got a problem with that finger. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And you know, and we don't the way she do it.
Speaker 2: We ain't.
Speaker 1: She ain't asked me how to eat or nothing. She
Speaker 1: just you don't go in it. And it's y'all.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, that feel good. Twist her hand ground.
Speaker 2: I said, wait a minute, if if you put both
Speaker 2: hands on my shoulder, it's gonna be a problem in it.
Speaker 1: You understand, let me say that it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: problem in this room.
Speaker 2: I said, But but she said, I feel good, and
Speaker 2: she told me what it was because I asked questions
Speaker 2: and she said, I be feeling for lung pol ups
Speaker 2: and she says smooth, and I like when it's smooth.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, long, I said, cause I thought it
Speaker 2: was something you back to Holland, Oh yeah, this feel good.
Speaker 2: I say, this don't feel good to me. Now. It's
Speaker 2: this pressure. And they put so much jail right, Oh
Speaker 2: my god. I get to the counter. Man, Look I'm loosening.
Speaker 2: I can't even stand straight. Come, my butt's so loose.
Speaker 2: They think I'm up there to counter hunching the people
Speaker 2: sitting in, you know, waiting to see what you do.
Speaker 2: I'm not hunting. I'm trying to move that jail from back.
Speaker 2: And I thought I hadn't got it all out, you know.
Speaker 2: Then I get in the car and I just slide
Speaker 2: down to seat. Man, so much jail, but it's important
Speaker 2: to go, you know, I didn't like to go on
Speaker 2: and I tell every man, Now you know, I'm sixty
Speaker 2: years old, right, you know what I'm saying. And you
Speaker 2: got to going it's changing your body. How long did
Speaker 2: it take you to get comfortable with being this? Have
Speaker 2: you always? I didn't even realize it, you know, like
Speaker 2: I was so active and I'm still so active now.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize I got big into one. My daughter said, Daddy,
Speaker 2: she seen the picture, say who's that leaning on the
Speaker 2: back of your car?
Speaker 1: And the picture I was leaning.
Speaker 2: I said, that's me. And I didn't realize how that big?
Speaker 2: You know, you know what I'm saying, and she it
Speaker 2: kind of brought something to my attention, and that's what
Speaker 2: made me just start watching on everything that I do. Man.
Speaker 2: You know, but I'm good. You You're healthy. You feel good? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Healthy feel Were you a big kid? No, not at all.
Speaker 2: Used to call me little Bruce, Little Bruce Man. I
Speaker 2: used to mess with everybody. See when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: See, kids don't know how to have fun.
Speaker 2: Of mine. I had fun, right, you know, I was
Speaker 2: ten years old, eleven years old, A little bitty dude.
Speaker 2: Dudes be on the corner trying to see you know,
Speaker 2: anywhere you go somebody who I used to run between
Speaker 2: them and slap off for them. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: She got because I want them to run at me, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And they beat me up,
Speaker 2: but I didn't care. They didn't beat me up to
Speaker 2: hurt me. They just beat me up. But I didn't
Speaker 2: care because they knew it. They said, oh, he come, Bruce,
Speaker 2: we know something that right. And as a kid I
Speaker 2: was just looking at when I graduated high school, I
Speaker 2: was gorgeous, dropped the head, gorgeos dropped head. Yes, sir, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you knew you're gonna be a movie. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was gonna do. I knew
Speaker 2: I had to help my mother.
Speaker 1: And I was my mother.
Speaker 2: I was the only child she ever had, and we
Speaker 2: just I'm not gonna tell you it was homeless. We
Speaker 2: wasn't homeless. I'm not gonna tell this. Everybody tell the
Speaker 2: story I was when.
Speaker 1: We went home.
Speaker 2: We just lived in the hood, didn't have nothing, and
Speaker 2: we just had to make do. So only thing when
Speaker 2: I got out of high school, I had to make
Speaker 2: sure we was okay. You know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 2: I knew my mother was going through something. She didn't
Speaker 2: tell me. But when she sit up in that apartment
Speaker 2: and just sit down all day, all day, she was
Speaker 2: going through something, you know. But I understood that and
Speaker 2: I just helped my mother and then God just made away.
Speaker 1: When you were growing up, what did you want to be?
Speaker 1: Did you play sport?
Speaker 2: I mean every day I did everything, play sports. I
Speaker 2: joned everything I did. I joned everybody everything, and were
Speaker 2: on the football field. I'm joning somebody the basketball field.
Speaker 2: I'm joning somebody.
Speaker 1: I got beat up. I had a girl beat me down.
Speaker 2: I didn't I did a girl beat you because I
Speaker 2: told her she had a ponytail about that and look
Speaker 2: look and they had a rubber band around. So I
Speaker 2: walked behind and say, how did they do that? She
Speaker 2: didn't do what I said, make that little oxtail right now, girl,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kick your tail. And man, I said, you
Speaker 2: ain't gonna do that. Man, that girl beat me now.
Speaker 2: I was laughing, but I didn't care. And then she
Speaker 2: made me her boy She said, you're gonna beat my boyfriend.
Speaker 2: So I had to be her boyfriend and carry her
Speaker 2: books every day. After she don't beat you that she
Speaker 2: don't beat me now, I mean she put them hands
Speaker 2: only too, right, But I didn't care. Right.
Speaker 1: So you played sports, were you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 5: You said you joned everybody? So you always were funny always?
Speaker 5: Is that how you made friends?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I was always fun I had an uncle man. Okay,
Speaker 2: my uncle was a He was a baker. He taught
Speaker 2: me how to cook years ago. He was about five
Speaker 2: two five one by this wife like humplety dump. He said,
Speaker 2: teach something gonna stick with you for the rest of
Speaker 2: your life. He was the funniest man of a man
Speaker 2: in my life. He was so funny. And he make
Speaker 2: wedding cakes for people. And people come over and say,
Speaker 2: we want to get married and everything. They pick out
Speaker 2: a wedding cake and then he look at him, say,
Speaker 2: why the hell y'all want to get married? Right? You
Speaker 2: look like he trying to talk about it. But he
Speaker 2: was joking. But at the same time he was serious.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And he said, well, I'm gonna make this cake for you.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: He was the baddest dude. He used to go by
Speaker 2: the name of the Sweet bread Man, and he was
Speaker 2: a bad dude. Man and he was just the funniest
Speaker 2: dude I ever know. And that's who I kind of
Speaker 2: mimic after my uncle because he raised me. My dad
Speaker 2: left when I was five, and my uncle said, you
Speaker 2: ain't got to worry about your dad. You got our uncle, right,
Speaker 2: And I never thought about my dad, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Did you ever reconnect with you? When I
Speaker 2: was forty? I found him when I was forty. Was
Speaker 2: he in He was in a he was in there,
Speaker 2: he was I knew he was extra military. He was
Speaker 2: in the Air Force and he was a medic. And
Speaker 2: then but I found he was an NC geologist, he
Speaker 2: was a doctor, and we we connect and he was
Speaker 2: on the defense. You know when I met him, he
Speaker 2: was on the defense. I met him down the Gladys
Speaker 2: Chicken and Wall and you remember that. And he looked
Speaker 2: like he was just ready for me whatever I want
Speaker 2: to throw at him.
Speaker 1: He was ready. I said, man, how you doing good
Speaker 1: to see her? Just did he know who you were?
Speaker 2: He knew exactly who I was, And I said, I
Speaker 2: just want to see I said, I got three kids,
Speaker 2: you got three grand kids. So I came at him
Speaker 2: in a way. Yeah, he thought the situation man, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then I can see him just getting relieve. He
Speaker 2: just he said, Man, I'm so proud of y'all. Don't
Speaker 2: know what to right, man, I said, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to see you. Man, I just wanted to see didn't
Speaker 2: want nothing, you know what I'm saying. And he was
Speaker 2: cool and I stayed in touch with him till he paid.
Speaker 2: He passed away about maybe see my mother's been paying
Speaker 2: dead thirteen hundred and dead about seventeen years.
Speaker 1: And I connected with him and we was cool.
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Speaker 2: The Crown is yours.
Speaker 5: High school? You Jon, and you play sports. When did
Speaker 5: you realize that comedy was gonna be your ticket out?
Speaker 2: Let me tell you this.
Speaker 1: I got a job.
Speaker 2: He used to always be in restaurant and I was
Speaker 2: a young manager man. I was eighteen years old. We're
Speaker 2: not surprised by that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was
Speaker 2: a bad dude. And I can cook like you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I could throw down what yes, son? Not
Speaker 1: only can I eat, I can cook it. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: What I was eighteen, I hired this guy. Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: never forget this. That's why I'd be telling people. When
Speaker 2: you believe in God, God will put people in place
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: I hired this guy.
Speaker 2: And older guy he said he used to work for
Speaker 2: the company years ago. It was a barbecue restaurant. So
Speaker 2: I'm in the kitchen clown and I'm in there with
Speaker 2: the dishwaser on clown. I'm gonna manager the youngest man.
Speaker 2: He kept staring at me. You have to look at
Speaker 2: me all the time. And I said, what's wrong? He said,
Speaker 2: you need to go on stage like that. I like
Speaker 2: go say, he said, I'm telling you so he said
Speaker 2: im gonna bring you something tomorrow. He brought me an
Speaker 2: album and it was him. He was a commedie what
Speaker 2: and he was a community with another guy. He went
Speaker 2: by Reverend Mule, and the other guy went by Doctor Arrowhead,
Speaker 2: and it was called Reverend Mule and Doctor Arrowhead and
Speaker 2: the name of the animals called so you want to
Speaker 2: know baseball? And you standing there with a tree in
Speaker 2: his hand like a baseball bat right, and Aaronhead was
Speaker 2: in the catcher's position, and he said, I'm telling you
Speaker 2: he was ex Navy. He said, don't waste your life.
Speaker 2: He said you can get away from me, and he
Speaker 2: said you need to go on stage. And that's when
Speaker 2: I knew it was time for me to make me.
Speaker 2: And he wrote my first set for me. Really, he
Speaker 2: wrote my first set. And his name was Revermue, but
Speaker 2: his real name was Willie Dismute. And I'm talking about
Speaker 2: to extremely frond it. He said, don't stay around his restaurant.
Speaker 2: He's gonna say. He said, you're gonna be owning off
Speaker 2: a planes. I can see it already, and and my
Speaker 2: life is here. So you were you nervous? Of course
Speaker 2: I'm nervous now. Really, Oh, I'm never gonna go on now.
Speaker 2: But once I hit that stage something happened. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Some I'm just clicking my mind.
Speaker 2: I just enjoy performing in front of people and make
Speaker 2: and people that some people, a lot of people you're
Speaker 2: not going to please, especially when you change your style
Speaker 2: a little bit. You change the style when people get mad.
Speaker 2: Lady got mad at me and fort out of there
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and I but I did.
Speaker 2: We reached out and I apologize. I said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: but it is what it is, right, you know, So
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. But she was fine.
Speaker 1: She just I think she just wanted me to give
Speaker 1: us some.
Speaker 5: So where was the first one? What was it like
Speaker 5: when you got up there for the very first time?
Speaker 5: You say you're nervous?
Speaker 2: Did you like? Man?
Speaker 1: I sure hope they don't, do I hope they like?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you go through that.
Speaker 2: Man. When I first started going on stage, I was
Speaker 2: going to a comedy club in Atlantic call the Comedy
Speaker 2: act Theater. It was on p Street and eighth that
Speaker 2: condos are now, and it was they had this host
Speaker 2: that he never ever liked me. You know, he looked
Speaker 2: at me when he first saw me.
Speaker 1: He just didn't like.
Speaker 2: He never would put me up. We had to come
Speaker 2: in and you signed the list one through ten. You
Speaker 2: do five minutes each and then the feature come up,
Speaker 2: then the headliner right, and they'll be like, hey, we'll
Speaker 2: be here all week. So I signed number four. You
Speaker 2: skip over me every every week. This went on for
Speaker 2: like six months. He skipped over me. I went to
Speaker 2: him and say, hey, man, I come here every week
Speaker 2: and signing this, why don't you put me up? Now?
Speaker 2: I'm working a job. I'm working at Freedom a potato
Speaker 2: chip driving the truck down there. Then s bowl to
Speaker 2: drive the truck down there. I got the truck parked
Speaker 2: out of the front of the cover club because from
Speaker 2: a car broke right and Doun carry said, I don't
Speaker 2: know who's driving that potato chip truck and death they
Speaker 2: gonna find your ass, you know, oh DC.
Speaker 1: And this dude never would put me up.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I went to him like a man.
Speaker 2: I said, you never put me up? What's wrong? Man? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 2: what's up? And everybody come in. He just brushed me off.
Speaker 2: He said, look, am, I gonna have to go to
Speaker 2: the man on you because I'm coming to you as
Speaker 2: a man. So what he did. He waited till they
Speaker 2: put the ten comedians up. Then the featured in the
Speaker 2: headliner to feature. The headliner did about five minutes each.
Speaker 2: Then everybody got ready to go. He say, hey, we
Speaker 2: got this fat dude coming up here.
Speaker 1: Come on, broke god.
Speaker 2: I said, wait a minute. Say he got a hundred
Speaker 2: buns in his pocket, all killing me. When I came
Speaker 2: in and stated, he killing me right, And so I go,
Speaker 2: I say, I walked to said, I said, everybody, don't
Speaker 2: leave it only it's like four hundred people there. They
Speaker 2: came back and said that. And he used to go
Speaker 2: by this name of the Chocolate Hippie, and and uh,
Speaker 2: I say, man, because nobody would never jone him back.
Speaker 2: I always joned it back. But I challenged. I came,
Speaker 2: I said, man, you know you go by the chocolate Hippie.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm looking at you. I'm from this bluff
Speaker 2: right here on bank here, you like a chocolate sister
Speaker 2: to me, like whoa? Because nobody had never challenged him.
Speaker 2: And I got on and so I went on stage,
Speaker 2: and this dude came up and said, Hey, look at
Speaker 2: this fat dude here in the front row. And I said, man,
Speaker 2: is that shirt silk use you ironed it too much.
Speaker 2: That was a joke, and theverybody like, oh, this dude
Speaker 2: is funny. So then I went into the truck drive.
Speaker 2: I do a truck driver. I can't read. I used
Speaker 2: to do church jokes about preachers. You know thist's first,
Speaker 2: Like I told you the comedian that wrote for me here,
Speaker 2: he wrote a joke about a pigeon, a midget up
Speaker 2: under the pool, pigure reading for the preacher, right, and
Speaker 2: the preacher couldn't read, so the midget would read for him.
Speaker 2: And I did that joke and I ripped it from
Speaker 2: there on, and man, it was, it was. It was
Speaker 2: really good. And then he come. When I get I'll
Speaker 2: say he gonna come back. He had, Man, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you, man, you're really funny.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I said, look, man, let's cut something up. I said,
Speaker 2: let's cut some up. I said, you don't like me,
Speaker 2: and I don't like you. I said, the only thing
Speaker 2: I want you to disrespect me when I come and
Speaker 2: signed it, just put me up right. It's just that
Speaker 2: I ain't got to be your friend, but I just
Speaker 2: want to go up. But I could have easily walked away.
Speaker 2: Shatnon I could have eased one and say, you know what,
Speaker 2: forget this. I ain't gonna be no comedian. But I
Speaker 2: had that tone of vision. Man, I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do this right. And I knew it was for me
Speaker 2: when I went on stage that first time, I knew
Speaker 2: that's why I should have been in my whole entire life.
Speaker 2: So when you, how were you when you? Oh my
Speaker 2: gosh was I? I think I was married to my
Speaker 2: first wife.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: She was putting me through. She said you never make it. Huh,
Speaker 2: she said you're She doubted you. Yeah, she said you number.
Speaker 2: I said, again, I see you on TV. I said,
Speaker 2: if you ever see me waving, I'm waving at you, right.
Speaker 2: But you can't let people dictate your life. You can't.
Speaker 2: You ain't got to accept what people tell you, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, I'm right. So I went
Speaker 2: up and uh, but when I was going up, she
Speaker 2: came down to see me. One time. People laughing at you.
Speaker 2: They laughing at you because you fed. I said, no,
Speaker 2: they're not. They laughing at my jokes. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. But it didn't work out with us, and
Speaker 2: it's good. We got three kids. They're very grown now,
Speaker 2: very grown kids. I love them, and I had to
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 1: What was it like when you got that very first
Speaker 1: laugh you're on stage? Is that is that the drug?
Speaker 1: Is that the high that you changed from that moment on?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 1: That was the hot man?
Speaker 2: I mean? And I thought about it all night, you know,
Speaker 2: when you get that first laugh, And I got home like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, oh my god, it was so good.
Speaker 2: So when I started doing I started taping myself. Brought
Speaker 2: a little tape recorded radio check, didn't have no money,
Speaker 2: and just start listening to it. I'm driving the Freedo
Speaker 2: lay truck and I'm critiquing myself and I'm listening to
Speaker 2: what people laugh at in the hardest. So I know
Speaker 2: how to go with the truck and take my voice
Speaker 2: upright right right, and.
Speaker 1: I look at and listen to it. And so I
Speaker 1: used to let this lady at a convenience to listen to.
Speaker 1: Her name was Carol.
Speaker 2: She's up north. She said you're funny, and she was
Speaker 2: a white lady and she said you're very funny. And
Speaker 2: she said, I like the joke about such ship, but
Speaker 2: do this. Do that. She was helping me, and every
Speaker 2: time I go down on stage every week. Everybody said, man,
Speaker 2: what you got a joke machine at home? I said, no, man,
Speaker 2: I'm just reviewing everything I do to try to make
Speaker 2: it better, right and better, you know, And it's worked out, man,
Speaker 2: And things just started happening. Things just started happening, man,
Speaker 2: and it's been really good for me.
Speaker 5: So cadence is to set off the cadence in which
Speaker 5: you get ready to deliver. You raise your voice, melt,
Speaker 5: and then you fail, kill them and see people got
Speaker 5: down on stage. You deliver in your character, and it's
Speaker 5: just how you deliver a joke.
Speaker 2: I can tell a joke right here, and I can say, like, man,
Speaker 2: you need your ass kick people are having I said,
Speaker 2: but if you get you need your ass get.
Speaker 1: So if I put that emphasis on it, people, oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 2: You know. So you just got to know when to
Speaker 2: use it and how to use it. In order to
Speaker 2: learn that, you got to be on stage. You got
Speaker 2: to be on stage to listen to the crowd. Because
Speaker 2: most people, most COMMUNI is go by how many women
Speaker 2: in that, and women incause they want to do their best.
Speaker 2: You know, having sex with a girl, joke.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 2: It don't matter if it's funny, it's funny, right, People
Speaker 2: gonna laugh no matter how you look. You could be
Speaker 2: the otherest do in the world. If you funny, people
Speaker 2: are gonna laugh. So, growing up in the neighborhood, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to do something. I want to help my mom.
Speaker 2: Did you know what you wanted to do to help
Speaker 2: your mom? You just knew you wanted to do something. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I knew I had to do something man to help her.
Speaker 2: And one thing, I just did the very best I could.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to quit my job. Work at their
Speaker 2: freedom lady. You know, you know you sell a bag
Speaker 2: and eat three bags and everybody man. Because black people
Speaker 2: are so stuck on a good job, right, yeah, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, you got a good job while you want
Speaker 2: to leave it. And I quit that good job.
Speaker 1: Good job.
Speaker 2: My aunt took it to the Lord and prays Lord Jesus,
Speaker 2: he get ready to quit that good job, I said
Speaker 2: in the morning. In the but my mother says something
Speaker 2: to me that made so much sense. She said, if
Speaker 2: you quit your job, you can always get another job. Right.
Speaker 1: I didn't think go like that. She said, You're not
Speaker 1: no dummy.
Speaker 2: And when I quit, I tell you when I quit, man,
Speaker 2: and I took a thirty day leaving Asser. I had
Speaker 2: to use a strategy right because I just couldn't quit.
Speaker 2: I say, I'm telling I got to approved of my
Speaker 2: thirty day leaving Abser. And I was transferring my truck
Speaker 2: to my supervisor and he said, Man, let me ask
Speaker 2: you coming back. I said, I want you look at
Speaker 2: me real good. I said, next time you see me,
Speaker 2: I'll be on TV. I said, no, I'm not coming
Speaker 2: back right. And I had twenty dollars in my pocket
Speaker 2: and I had thirty dollars in the credit union. I
Speaker 2: told my budd, I said, come get me, stop me
Speaker 2: by the bank machine. I'm gonna get you twenty dollars out.
Speaker 2: And you just dropped me off. He said, okay, we
Speaker 2: go by the bank machine. I get the twenty dollars out.
Speaker 2: I gave him the twine. A beeper went off back
Speaker 2: then to young kid. My beeple went off. Dude called
Speaker 2: me and said, Man, where you working at this week?
Speaker 2: So I'm working for you. I ain't never looked back. Wow,
Speaker 2: I ain't never looked back. It's been great for me, man,
Speaker 2: and I have helped so many comedians.
Speaker 5: When you writing, Bruce, when you're writing a set, how
Speaker 5: do you go about sitting down and like, Okay, whether
Speaker 5: you got thirty minutes forty five minutes. Normally you headline
Speaker 5: a lot, so you're probably gonna do somewhere between thirty
Speaker 5: and forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you go about sitting down writing that set? Actually,
Speaker 1: I don't do it. I just restyle it. I go
Speaker 1: on stage and do it.
Speaker 2: See. All the person I know can really sit down
Speaker 2: and write is done. DC Curry one of the best
Speaker 2: writers I've ever met and been friends with for the
Speaker 2: last thirty five forty years. He can sit down and
Speaker 2: write it, man. But me, I go on stage and
Speaker 2: I just work it out. Really, yeah, I just go
Speaker 2: work it out. I think of something in my head,
Speaker 2: but then I go on stage and just work it out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Like like I was telling my sister in law another day,
Speaker 2: how I had to use the bathroom right, you know,
Speaker 2: I had took a laxitive and then I went and
Speaker 2: got me a smoothie with Alma milk in it, and
Speaker 2: Alma milk make you go player, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting close to the house and I couldn't. Hey,
Speaker 2: I couldn't hold it. I'm I'm breathing like I'm pregnant.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep it together. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When I get to the house, she got dom clue.
Speaker 2: You know, we hear it.
Speaker 1: Good glue, glue.
Speaker 2: They were laughing and then you got that. Look that's
Speaker 2: all you got, you person, good good glue. I'm holding
Speaker 2: on to the walls and everything. Then that's all it coming.
Speaker 2: So like that, I can, I can milk it. I
Speaker 2: can make a joke because it's fun. It's real life, right,
Speaker 2: So is that?
Speaker 4: What is that?
Speaker 5: What comedians do? They take real life situations and make
Speaker 5: them funny. But the thing is, but Bruce, I'm listening
Speaker 5: at you and you say, well, I don't write anything down.
Speaker 5: I just like you memorize things that have happened to you,
Speaker 5: maybe that day, maybe that week, maybe that month, and
Speaker 5: you go up and you just like, okay.
Speaker 2: Here I go do it. Man.
Speaker 1: It's either gonna work or it's not. But you can
Speaker 1: make it work.
Speaker 2: Now. What I do? I kind of I forget stuff
Speaker 2: sometimes so I record it on my phone. Racist dude
Speaker 2: in Rath grocery store. And when I say that, and
Speaker 2: I hear it, I know where to go with it,
Speaker 2: you know, because you know in the South, you know
Speaker 2: you're from the South.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of racism, and racism is stupid, you know.
Speaker 2: I remember I went to buy a bus one time.
Speaker 2: Look at the bus. My white guys, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't have the key to the bus. I said,
Speaker 2: what your calls helm you this is your lot. He
Speaker 2: did not want to show it to it, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But right then I knew, you know,
Speaker 2: we need to go on the exit and go some one.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna argue with this dude because he's stupid.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Racism is nothing that's in you.
Speaker 2: It's something that's taught to you. You and it's nothing
Speaker 2: like when I was in restaurant years ago, just real quick,
Speaker 2: I had a manager named Jared Fowler. He had had
Speaker 2: like the old Ridge balls, Jeorde ash members on the jacket,
Speaker 2: cowboy boots. You know that he had a little son,
Speaker 2: him and my son was the same age. And he
Speaker 2: was a white guy. And his son and my son
Speaker 2: got along so well, right, and they didn't see color.
Speaker 2: They saw two friends. So his son get home one
Speaker 2: night and say, Daddy, can ask you something. He said, Antoine,
Speaker 2: Antoine is my son. He says, that my cousin. Because
Speaker 2: he didn't know, right, but he knew they got along.
Speaker 2: He said, No, that's not your cousin, that your soul brother.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And because we need to Twitt quit teaching our kids
Speaker 2: this racism, because when they grow up, they learn the truth, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. That's why you can get
Speaker 2: a white ben and a black baby right now. Put
Speaker 2: them in the room there, play all day, thank they
Speaker 2: cousins until the ret they coming up. Get that baby
Speaker 2: out of here. Don't you bring them in here?
Speaker 1: No more than I mean that, Like where y'all taking
Speaker 1: my cousin?
Speaker 2: So people are people, you just got people got to
Speaker 2: understand it's bad and good in every race of people.
Speaker 5: So where are you on them? Because a lot there
Speaker 5: have been a lot about jokes stealing. Oh my god,
Speaker 5: I see it all the time.
Speaker 2: If I if somebody steal someone's joke and I see them,
Speaker 2: I know who they got it from. That's that's how
Speaker 2: long I've been in the business. That's how I Sometimes
Speaker 2: I have to remind comedians of their jokes. They ain't
Speaker 2: did it a long time, like Arnie's Jay Funny jump Around.
Speaker 2: I said, you don't do that joke by saying he said, man,
Speaker 2: I forgot about that joke like that. I said, start
Speaker 2: back doing it. It's funny, right, you know.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Because he used to do a joke about somebody smelling
Speaker 2: real bad, right you know, and like, damn, what the
Speaker 2: fuck you didn't watch your hand, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And then he saw and uh, he went and did it.
Speaker 2: He did all racist people. He did like a red nag,
Speaker 2: then he did a Spanish dude. Then he did an
Speaker 2: African dude, and he said, it's it you, but it's
Speaker 2: just me, you know, because right he didn't know what
Speaker 2: you wanted him to stay and he brought that back.
Speaker 2: And it's funny because a lot of comedians they get
Speaker 2: they get tired of the joke, but everybody hadn't sold
Speaker 2: the joke, right, you know what I mean, So they
Speaker 2: just need to keep doing it.
Speaker 5: And what about now, though, Bruce, you used to tell
Speaker 5: a joke and you could tell that joke down there
Speaker 5: for a year, yes, because there was no social media,
Speaker 5: and they only saw you when you came to that town.
Speaker 5: So now with social media, you basically gotta puitch flip
Speaker 5: that joke weekly because everybody is take they take your
Speaker 5: said when you come there, and the internet is gonna
Speaker 5: pick up everything.
Speaker 1: So you know that joke last week, get a new joke,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It could be that one person Ye just say I
Speaker 2: heard that before and it's not the same joke, It's
Speaker 2: just something that was similar to it, right, and they
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, he did say that before. They just
Speaker 2: jump on the ran way, right. But the thing with
Speaker 2: social medias with these new comedians, what I want to
Speaker 2: encourage them to do. I know you funny on the
Speaker 2: internet and everything, but have more than you see on
Speaker 2: social media. Have more than that five minutes, right, because
Speaker 2: when people come out and see you, they want to
Speaker 2: see thirty five forty minutes, and a lot of comedians
Speaker 2: they can do thirty five to forty minutes, But are
Speaker 2: you funny that whole entire time? Right?
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So a lot of them have got on them, like
Speaker 2: like Country Wayne, he started out and he's doing very well, right,
Speaker 2: and this show is very good, and I'm proud of it.
Speaker 1: But a lot of them just got that ten minutes right.
Speaker 1: And that's that when you come out and seeing you like,
Speaker 1: is it on social media?
Speaker 2: Way a minute?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: But we spend money for.
Speaker 2: This, right, you know, so we just got to keep creating.
Speaker 2: You know, your dude is watching new I knew. I know, comedian,
Speaker 2: he'll read the paper before you do the show. Here,
Speaker 2: read the paper and just do everything. He just reading
Speaker 2: paper every time. That's how great he was, you know.
Speaker 2: And I worked with some of the greats, with the
Speaker 2: Ray Moore, you know, and a lot of young people
Speaker 2: don't know abody that you know, Bernie Mackett, Bernie oh
Speaker 2: my god. Ronaldo Ray, who was my mentor on BT Comedy,
Speaker 2: help me do a lot.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I do a joke. Ronaldo said, look when you go
Speaker 2: ahead there, he said, turn your body to the right
Speaker 2: a little bit. He said, look that way and tell
Speaker 2: the joke. And I swear it worked every time, every time.
Speaker 2: That's how great he was. And so it's good to
Speaker 2: experience his experience. Ronaldo Ray and John Willerspoon grabbed me
Speaker 2: up under their wing and he took me because they
Speaker 2: saw something in me. And that's what I do I
Speaker 2: you know, I get comedians and keep him encouraged. Because
Speaker 2: we people got to understand, especially to parents. You all
Speaker 2: have got to saying certain things to your kids because
Speaker 2: you you're questioning their dreams. You know, you qustion that spirit.
Speaker 2: Like said, it's gonna be a doctor, but it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lawyer. I knew I wasn't gonna be no doctor.
Speaker 2: Damn well, I'm gonna be no lawyer.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: My huncle said he gonna be a damn food right.
Speaker 2: My uncle was my partner, but he knew.
Speaker 1: But I knew that.
Speaker 2: But quit telling these kids what they can't do.
Speaker 5: That's what they want you to be. You know, somebody
Speaker 5: tell you you can be that that's what That's not
Speaker 5: what I want to be. That's what you want me
Speaker 5: to be. Right, When did your big break come? I
Speaker 5: don't even think I got it yet.
Speaker 2: Man, Like they say you have fifteen minutes of fame,
Speaker 2: I still think I got two momnutes I got too.
Speaker 2: I said, I have so much fun just making people
Speaker 2: and selling shots out. It's just the best thing ever
Speaker 2: happened in the world to me. I can remember when
Speaker 2: I was working for Fredo lay and I looked at
Speaker 2: the magazine. I saw Bernie Mack, and Bernie Mack was
Speaker 2: he had on a pink suit with black and and
Speaker 2: with sharp I said, oh my god, I want to
Speaker 2: be just like that, dude, you know, I want to
Speaker 2: be like Bernie. He was selling shows and I had
Speaker 2: saw him in person and he was he was doing
Speaker 2: very well. And you know, they didn't say at the
Speaker 2: time he was getting like ten grand or show him
Speaker 2: like ten grand, brother, give you ten grand to stand
Speaker 2: on stage and damn Joe, right, and I'm like, this
Speaker 2: is unbelievable, but it's here, right, it's here.
Speaker 5: You uh, the audition of Death Comedy Jam showtime at Apollo.
Speaker 5: So what was the auditions like on that? Because you know,
Speaker 5: if you knock it out the park here.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, Depth Jam, you was smooth sailing you
Speaker 2: you you rip it on Depth Jam. You're you in
Speaker 2: the air man, right, And I was so scared, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I was scared.
Speaker 1: Why we so nervous because you had already done you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why, Shannon.
Speaker 2: You know, like we Southern boys, alright, but when you
Speaker 2: get up north to New York, first thing like this
Speaker 2: country mother, but they say that you know this country,
Speaker 2: and I like, I say, lookait man, I ain't got
Speaker 2: I'm country, but let me do my thing. I know
Speaker 2: what I'll never forget when I did the Apollo and
Speaker 2: Steve Harvor was hosting, right, and I walked out and
Speaker 2: Steve so i'mna let y'all know. Now, y'all better put
Speaker 2: your seatbelts on with this guy right here, because I'm
Speaker 2: letting you know, he gonna let you have it. And
Speaker 2: I was known for like messing with the crowd. And
Speaker 2: I came out there and all this he said, Now
Speaker 2: all this country, mother, I want that I killed him.
Speaker 2: I mean after I rubbed that log, when I rubbed
Speaker 2: that log, when I came up yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Steve came up out he uh huh uh huney y'all
Speaker 2: wasn't ready for him, right, But they gave me the
Speaker 2: respect I had to earn it, right. But they automatically
Speaker 2: gave people from up north love well if you say
Speaker 2: Birmingham and Lanta, Florida, Tennessey, Oh, this country money and
Speaker 2: they got to understand it's not like that in the South.
Speaker 2: We still living in Red Clay Mudge. You come down,
Speaker 2: We're not doing the people living in mansions in the South.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Bruce, you wanted a few comedians.
Speaker 2: You chop it up with, you chop it up with
Speaker 2: with the audience.
Speaker 1: You get on them. I have to man here with you.
Speaker 2: That's to leave him now expecting because the one one
Speaker 2: lady got mad at me. I was in Greenville, South Carolina,
Speaker 2: forget this, and she kept talking out loud. And the
Speaker 2: way this.
Speaker 1: Stage was I was on the stage.
Speaker 2: Stage was an oval shape, right, and it was seats
Speaker 2: all the way around the stage, and then it was
Speaker 2: the tables and stuff. But she kept talking out loud, so.
Speaker 1: You can hear a while you stay.
Speaker 2: And so I ignored. I'm doing my jokes and I said, can,
Speaker 2: I say, can you hold it down? I said, I'll
Speaker 2: be up shortly. I said, how did you learn how
Speaker 2: to whisper in the helicopter? She like my husband talking
Speaker 2: to me like that, and she said something she said,
Speaker 2: I called her a bitch, and I didn't because I
Speaker 2: don't do that to women, right, I never and I
Speaker 2: never used the N word.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And uh, I say, I
Speaker 1: call you bitch.
Speaker 2: I said, If I did, I'm sorry, I said, but
Speaker 2: let me be the first to shake your hand to
Speaker 2: call you bitch, and I made it.
Speaker 1: I flipped it on her, but she kept talking. I
Speaker 1: kind of gave my cruel seat.
Speaker 2: I said, get out of here because she just kept
Speaker 2: talking and I had to just get out of that.
Speaker 2: But like I apologized to I said, I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: your money back and everything, but this time I want
Speaker 2: you do don't ever come to a show again if
Speaker 2: you're gonna do all that loud talking in front of
Speaker 2: because it's disrespectful, right, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's good man.
Speaker 2: I have fun. But so where are you now?
Speaker 5: Are you afraid after what transpired a couple of years
Speaker 5: ago at the Obscuits? Are you afraid about people running
Speaker 5: up on stage if you work to say something, take
Speaker 5: you something that's channing.
Speaker 2: Come on now, I'm gonna do you like you didn't
Speaker 2: come on, come on now, channing, come on, come on,
Speaker 2: come on that. It wouldn't have happened to him, brother
Speaker 2: Will Smith would have never ran up on trick Daddy
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: If trick Daddy was saying the same thing, said the same,
Speaker 1: he didn't. He hesitated.
Speaker 2: So you you don't run up on no food trick
Speaker 2: Daddy on the chair. He could have ran up on
Speaker 2: me or you like that now.
Speaker 1: And Chris Rock is my boy.
Speaker 2: I love him with Chris book thirty, Yeah, I know
Speaker 2: nine many about thirty when you put your clothes on,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. But he took it and
Speaker 2: he kept it professional, right, But I bet something in
Speaker 2: his mind was like you lost your in mind, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And Will, when Will slapped it,
Speaker 2: he went across. He didn't go like it was from
Speaker 2: the shoulders all the way to the floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And he wouldn't have did that to me because it
Speaker 2: had been a fighting that I'm gonna tell you how
Speaker 2: to put him in a to put him in a sleephole.
Speaker 2: And if I got that second win, he'd went out.
Speaker 2: You can't do a man like They could have handled
Speaker 2: that in a better way, I believe it. And actually
Speaker 2: I thought Will was coming up to joke with him
Speaker 2: the way it looked. It looked like he was gonna
Speaker 2: come up with joke with him, because and then because
Speaker 2: Chris said, here come.
Speaker 1: Richard like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he thought he was joking, right, and we'll
Speaker 2: po copt him, right, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 2: he apologized later. But and I never met Will, don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong. And only thing I've heard about Will
Speaker 2: was great things. I've heard great things about it. But
Speaker 2: when I saw that, whooo, even the white people are like,
Speaker 2: oh no, we don't do that at the Oska. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. And you lost a lot of
Speaker 2: money behind it. Of course he lost a lot of
Speaker 2: right behind it. But I had to come back that
Speaker 2: suit player, you know, if I had took seat on.
Speaker 5: So you don't worry about it. So you don't worry
Speaker 5: about it anymore, because, like I said, you do chop
Speaker 5: it up with the crowd. You would get on what
Speaker 5: people wearing, what their hair looked like, what the shoes
Speaker 5: looked like. So you don't worry about that. No, not
Speaker 5: at all, not at all bad. See there's comic view.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know I was the host coming year.
Speaker 1: But see what is that way you say? That's what
Speaker 1: really put.
Speaker 2: Bruce Bruce into the statis comic grew broke the ice
Speaker 2: for me. And then the thing was, I was I
Speaker 2: supposed to got it years before. See I say this
Speaker 2: all the time. Everything is done in divine order. I
Speaker 2: was supposed to did it like seven years before. I
Speaker 2: didn't get it. I was upset about it, but I say,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna keep it moving. The year
Speaker 2: that I got it was the best year. It was
Speaker 2: the best ratings. I made more money than anybody on
Speaker 2: that show. They gave me money for my clothes to
Speaker 2: be made, which they have never did right, And it
Speaker 2: was the best year. And then Ronaldo Ray was was
Speaker 2: like the best coach I ever had in my life too,
Speaker 2: to guide me and do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And it broke the ice.
Speaker 2: And I know for after I did that, for the
Speaker 2: next ten years, I was doing nothing but sellouts from
Speaker 2: Comic View. And then the next year they came back
Speaker 2: with the Colliente and I was the party guard in
Speaker 2: New Orleans and with Colliente and it wasn't going so well,
Speaker 2: and they called me back to do it again. And
Speaker 2: I did that, and I say, where's Renaldo Ray And
Speaker 2: they say, you want him? I said yes, And the
Speaker 2: next day he was getting out the car he said,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you bringing me back. And it did well,
Speaker 2: and then I did BT coming to the stage when
Speaker 2: I hosted that when the new comedian was being introduced
Speaker 2: and I host that show. They did well, so bt was.
Speaker 2: I got to give them thumbs up even for my career,
Speaker 2: even if they never do nothing with me ever. Again,
Speaker 2: I give them my aid because they put me on
Speaker 2: the mapp.
Speaker 5: Do you think something like that would would rate again?
Speaker 5: Could they do something like a deaf comedy jam with
Speaker 5: comic view? Absolutely absolutely, and I think it'll work too.
Speaker 1: I think of the word. But the comedians gonna have
Speaker 1: to bring their a game, right.
Speaker 2: They can't. They can't do all this crazy. See, comedians
Speaker 2: do a lot of things now that you have to see.
Speaker 2: Back in the day when we was coming up, we listened, right.
Speaker 2: We used to listen to che We listened to Bill Colls.
Speaker 2: We listened to Red Fox Kids and I'm in the hood.
Speaker 2: Kids thought I was crazy because I used to listen
Speaker 2: to Milton Borough because I Milton was quick, he was witty,
Speaker 2: and he'll sit there like he'll just laugh and laugh
Speaker 2: and on the road store. Then when it's time for
Speaker 2: him the roads, right, he will bring the noise. Is it?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: You look at a lot of comedians now, a lot
Speaker 2: of they're are skit based. Yeah, yeah, you the old comedian.
Speaker 2: You guys don't really do skits now, you just you
Speaker 2: just you just bring it.
Speaker 1: From from the top.
Speaker 2: We're gonna make it funny, man, just like I do
Speaker 2: a joke about when they give away food at them
Speaker 2: all on two pic. Yeah, right, and I keep walking
Speaker 2: past the lady. You know I did it, walk past
Speaker 2: about twelve times. She said him.
Speaker 1: You been here as the lady.
Speaker 2: Shut up? The food is free, right, you know, you
Speaker 2: giving the food the wave doesn't matter who gets it right.
Speaker 2: But people couldn't relate to that because they know every
Speaker 2: time you and them all they got the little bourbon
Speaker 2: chicken up right. And I just walked by and then
Speaker 2: came to making a different face like I'm somebody else,
Speaker 2: making a different face like somebody else. They said, you've
Speaker 2: been here, don't worry about it. It's fool's free. So
Speaker 2: that's kind of stuff. I like you mentioned Steve when
Speaker 2: you went to the Apollo and he was the host.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Steve, I've talked have a lot of comedians
Speaker 5: on and everybody speak of this man in glowing terms
Speaker 5: of how he's helped them. Quake talked about how he said,
Speaker 5: look Quake on the Comedy Club. He had Steve Harvey
Speaker 5: and blah blah blah, and the ticket sales wasn't what
Speaker 5: they're supposed to be, he said. Steve told him to
Speaker 5: give everybody their money back. Just what we're gonna do
Speaker 5: in the morning. So they read on the radio show
Speaker 5: the next morning, brought everybody donuts and coffee, and they
Speaker 5: promoted the show.
Speaker 1: Uh said.
Speaker 5: The entertainer told us, Hey, Steve got me on TV. Says,
Speaker 5: I want this guy right here. He's a buddy of mine.
Speaker 5: Did Steve partake any wisdom?
Speaker 2: What is what Steve? Sir? Yes, sir, let me tell you.
Speaker 2: And Steve was straight up. I mean it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: was straight no chase, and I never forget. I went
Speaker 2: to the pollo and Steve said, this is an I
Speaker 2: want you to do. He said, when people come out
Speaker 2: and see you give him something back. And he said,
Speaker 2: I want you to start dressing and suits. He said,
Speaker 2: you're a big dude. He said, you look good in suits.
Speaker 2: And I had on Sean John sweatshirt. Yeah, he said, man,
Speaker 2: that stuff right. The good When you're traveling, he said,
Speaker 2: you getting on the plane, you go into those seats.
Speaker 2: You can be comfortable, he said, But on stage, he said, no,
Speaker 2: that's why I started wearing suits. And he took me
Speaker 2: up in his dress room. He showed me the suits
Speaker 2: he had, he gave us he had on the floor.
Speaker 2: I said, well, I guess I can, and I I was.
Speaker 2: I was like, I ain't gonna wear no suits on stage,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And he said, just do
Speaker 2: it now. I kept listening to him, listen to him,
Speaker 2: and I did it, and it just changed my whole life.
Speaker 2: And he and he always gave you a wisdom on
Speaker 2: how you should do, how you should dress, how you
Speaker 2: should handle yourself in public. And Steve always kept good
Speaker 2: dudes around him, you know what I'm saying. Like he
Speaker 2: got a body guy named Boomer has been with him
Speaker 2: for years and years and year, and Boom like, hey man,
Speaker 2: just listen to what he got to say and everything
Speaker 2: you go, I'm gonna do it. And when I did it,
Speaker 2: it just changed my whole life. Right, So I got
Speaker 2: to get big up to Steve man. You know, I
Speaker 2: call him on Steve and he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 2: And it's proven facts now, because Steve can really do
Speaker 2: more than that on family few but he can't do
Speaker 2: that much because some stay his face will tell you
Speaker 2: everything you don't want to say, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: because people say.
Speaker 1: Some stupid stuff on the YouTube.
Speaker 2: He was like, what did he just say?
Speaker 1: But family few and have not been the same since
Speaker 1: Steve started hosting that. When you got your your first
Speaker 1: big money, what did you splurriage on?
Speaker 2: You know, like call Shannon right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I love Buick's, Okay, I collect old you. I
Speaker 2: got collection of Buick. I got a bunch of cars, okay.
Speaker 2: And I got Grandnational Yeah yeah I had, I got it.
Speaker 2: But I got a sixty three River color Store. I
Speaker 2: got a sixty nine River, I got a seventy River.
Speaker 2: I got a six seventy wild Cat convertible. I got
Speaker 2: a six eight skylout Come brother, I got a six
Speaker 2: eight sky out hard top. I gotta do in a
Speaker 2: quarter six do something you can't drive? You crack it up,
Speaker 2: you out of your appeltaty deduce in the quarter the
Speaker 2: seat so being like you're sitting on the sofa. Yeah
Speaker 2: that too old. The don't know about that. Lets you
Speaker 2: two twenty five? Oh they gotta do to the call. Yeahducing,
Speaker 2: My granddaddy said, douce in one call. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, but I got these calls are fully restored, right,
Speaker 2: and I keep him and people don't even know I
Speaker 2: have them. But it's for my pledge, right, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And is that something that you always wanted?
Speaker 1: Always wanted?
Speaker 2: My grandad used toll me to look at brother, you
Speaker 2: get your cut, get your building, Yeah, get your an
Speaker 2: old player. My granddad was black, like the ace of
Speaker 2: Spade would raw your blue eyes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And we didn't know he was a player until he died,
Speaker 2: because it's by twenty chilling shoulder. My grandmother sitting there
Speaker 2: with that purse, you know, not they had that purse, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's clothing closed in the middle.
Speaker 1: You all remember that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But he you know, he was a player. He about
Speaker 1: six five, good looking Joe's but he was. He was
Speaker 1: my man.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 5: How competitive is the community of the comedy business?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Are there any backstabbing going on? Not that I know of,
Speaker 2: because I don't participate, Right, I come in and I
Speaker 2: do a job. And are you friends with any of them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, friends with all of them. I'm friends with everybody.
Speaker 2: Everybody used to always try to say, me and Lavell
Speaker 2: Crawford had beef. We never had beef, right, never had beef.
Speaker 2: And uh, one time he got mad about something and
Speaker 2: he commented on social media. So I ended up seeing
Speaker 2: him in Vegas and I was doing the Shack All
Speaker 2: Star and they say, lavel I said ten to come here,
Speaker 2: and he wonked and said, what's up?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: I said, look, pull out your phone. He pulled that
Speaker 2: phone and I said, put my number in your phone,
Speaker 2: and he put his number in. I said, now, if
Speaker 2: you ever have a problem, just calm, I said, because
Speaker 2: people blow stuff out of proportion. And I say, none
Speaker 2: of this is true. I said, so just calm. And
Speaker 2: ever since then we've been tight as a drawn, tight
Speaker 2: as a druw.
Speaker 1: And he finny, Yeah, hey, level problem with my side now?
Speaker 2: Hey man?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know. He's still a bigger than you.
Speaker 2: He's my mother. He still he funny though all the year.
Speaker 2: He's still he'd be very funny. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: a question. If I say, Bruce, I need you to
Speaker 2: give me your mott rush more Comedians. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: let you go because it's it's I think it's a
Speaker 2: little bit difficult because you know you got the old era,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna let you do the old era, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you lose this gin. So if you
Speaker 2: if I give you my rushmore the old school, who.
Speaker 1: You put be?
Speaker 2: Richard Prior, Red Fox, Red Bill Copy, Milton Borough, Miltonburg.
Speaker 2: That's all you get. You get mom's name. You don't
Speaker 2: get vote. That's my first You get here, okay? With school?
Speaker 1: You and you was good at school?
Speaker 2: Math not that good?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I didn't change class. I just stayed
Speaker 1: in the room, did y'all?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: This generations? Who makes me laugh?
Speaker 2: Tony Roberts okay, DC Young Flyer okay, Mike Himps okay.
Speaker 2: And one more he's not old, but he's not new,
Speaker 2: but he's old school. It's DL Huberty. Yeah. I love
Speaker 2: DL Man.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean, but you get, I mean,
Speaker 5: these guys are the comedians now man, they just but
Speaker 5: when you you're the first guy that came out here.
Speaker 5: Because normally when I have comedians, and I've had quite
Speaker 5: a few, I think I have about six or seven
Speaker 5: RESI had about six or seven on They.
Speaker 1: Always talk about Chappelle.
Speaker 5: How is Chappelle being able to do and go to
Speaker 5: the heights. He walked away from his show. He said,
Speaker 5: I just needed a break because I found out they
Speaker 5: were laughing at me, not with me. And he came
Speaker 5: back and he's bigger, double quadruple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what he was when he left for Deave Chappelle
Speaker 2: is very clever and he's not a dummy, very smart.
Speaker 2: Now the walking away, you can walk away when you
Speaker 2: got fifty me in the back right okay, yeah, if
Speaker 2: you ain't got no money, he ain't walking away right back.
Speaker 2: You walked to the microphone and say, you know, why
Speaker 2: did the chicken.
Speaker 1: Cross the road? So I love Dave, were good friends.
Speaker 1: Dave have came and saw many different shows I've seen Dave.
Speaker 1: Dave is brilliant. Yeah, and he's brilliant at what he do.
Speaker 1: The way he could tell a story.
Speaker 5: His monologue Saturday Night Live might have been the greatest
Speaker 5: monologue I had ever seen on that show.
Speaker 2: And they was trying to barcot him like he was.
Speaker 2: He did some I think he did a joke on
Speaker 2: the on the was it was it the gay crew
Speaker 2: of yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, we don't want him on that show.
Speaker 1: And then he went on that and just ripped it.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 1: He lets nothing bother him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if he do, he never let us because they
Speaker 5: can't take anything that's important from it, not at all.
Speaker 5: Because he walked away, like you said, he walked away
Speaker 5: from fifty million. And if he does the show, he's
Speaker 5: gonna sell out in five minutes anyway. So everything that
Speaker 5: you could possibly take, you could take, Hollywood, he don't
Speaker 5: want it.
Speaker 2: That's right, he had it.
Speaker 1: He need walked away from him. He walked away from
Speaker 1: fifty million, but he also had fifty million in the.
Speaker 2: Bank, so he eased to come back. If you got
Speaker 2: fifty million, you could be like, you know what, fuck this?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And he was just winning, regroup and got itself together, right.
Speaker 2: But it's just like Lebron James. I met Lebron when
Speaker 2: he was seventeen in high school. But if something is
Speaker 2: bothering Lebron, you don't know it. He never shows it.
Speaker 2: He does it. I'm sure at home, Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 2: at home his wife see him break down and why
Speaker 2: why why? But in the public, Lebron don't even he
Speaker 2: don't even phase it. And I'm a Lebron j Ain't fan,
Speaker 2: die hard me too, die Hard Meal. They gonna talk
Speaker 2: about him and the fog. He played the whole forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes and hit forty points. He can't do it
Speaker 2: by himself, right, he he just didn't show up. I
Speaker 2: think he needs trimmed little bit. If he trimmed thatever
Speaker 2: just a little bit, just a little bit, that he
Speaker 2: could separate it his eyes open. I hope we don't
Speaker 2: get very back then I won't see this.
Speaker 5: I look at the com and it started way back.
Speaker 5: You look at Cosby, Uh did TV? You look at
Speaker 5: Red Fox? You saw Prior. You see all the top
Speaker 5: comedians do television set the attainer d deal hugely, Steve Harvey,
Speaker 5: a lot of the guys.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Do you think your weight held you back?
Speaker 2: I think so. That's a very good court. I think
Speaker 2: so because people think you can't do it, but you
Speaker 2: have to. We have to prove ourself right, to prove us.
Speaker 2: Just like it's like black people.
Speaker 1: We have to be overqualified to do a job.
Speaker 2: Do you get the marginal job right? And I think
Speaker 2: it have And I think people are scared and well,
Speaker 2: I hope you don't fall out on stage, But what
Speaker 2: about the skinning? People fall out on stage right. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. But I'm gonna create mom and
Speaker 2: making mom right because that's all you. I mean, you've
Speaker 2: been You've been the wash with with Snoop Dogg and
Speaker 2: Doctor Dre And when I did that movie, let me
Speaker 2: tell you, I was so scared. I don't know, that
Speaker 2: was my first movie. Didn't know what to do. But
Speaker 2: I wanted to be more agile in that movie, right
Speaker 2: he want Snoop was like him, do you know I
Speaker 2: want to roll on the ground like I was a
Speaker 2: super cop? You know what I'm saying. But they kind
Speaker 2: of just now, we don't want to do that. But
Speaker 2: Snoop and Drake was like, let him right, man, let
Speaker 2: it be him. But I was very nervous when I
Speaker 2: did that movie. And if I ever get a chance
Speaker 2: to do it again, I'm gonna wrap it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: rip it.
Speaker 5: You look at I'm talking about commercial star that's become
Speaker 5: I'm talking about like a Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean ka hardest he the man, and I
Speaker 2: can remember he was getting ready to quit. It was
Speaker 2: getting to a point where he said, man, nothing is
Speaker 2: happening for me. I say a lot of time, it
Speaker 2: don't happen on your time. I say, just hanging at
Speaker 2: it's going to happen for you and probably within the
Speaker 2: next year. He just plopped. He just blew up.
Speaker 5: But he deserved it. Kevin is a good guy. He
Speaker 5: a hard worker. He's a great guy. Yeah, Chris Rock
Speaker 5: the special, What did you think about it?
Speaker 2: I like it, man, I didn't like they cut out
Speaker 2: the part will They showed it the very first time,
Speaker 2: but then afterwards they cut the part I will. She
Speaker 2: let him tell the story, right, it happened.
Speaker 1: It happened the whole world. It's kind of like, kind
Speaker 1: of like they banded any books. They don't want to
Speaker 1: tell the history. It happened. It happened. That's right.
Speaker 2: It happened.
Speaker 1: Because you cut it out, don't mean it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I had a friend in Europe come and sadn't did
Speaker 1: he just slap him?
Speaker 2: Right? Understand because they saw first the time he said,
Speaker 2: did it just us? Yeah, it just happened. Show it,
Speaker 2: let him talk about it. And and and I think
Speaker 2: Wheeler come around. I think it's gonna come around here
Speaker 2: and and and apologize. When when you got a woman
Speaker 2: that don't that don't really.
Speaker 1: Like you, you got all old time about You're not
Speaker 1: the first man that said this.
Speaker 2: I'm on them.
Speaker 1: I don't think she does. I think the damn why
Speaker 1: they're gonna be married all these years? At some point
Speaker 1: in time, you get.
Speaker 2: I think she liked the lifestyle. Now, who's she gonna
Speaker 2: mad with that much money? Oprah opraak gonna happen? You
Speaker 2: gonna see what I'm saying, I mean? And then she's
Speaker 2: she's she's mean? Is she Well? I don't know anything,
Speaker 2: so I'm just I don't know to think about it.
Speaker 2: I could just see it in her face for her
Speaker 2: to sit there, See a real woman would have say, hey,
Speaker 2: don't don't get up. Don't you miss this money?
Speaker 1: No, don't don't get.
Speaker 2: Up and do that? Talk to him after the show? Right,
Speaker 2: She wanted him to go up there and do that,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And he did it, and
Speaker 2: then he yells at keep my wife name. You should
Speaker 2: have been talking to your wife when she be messed
Speaker 2: with a young boy.
Speaker 1: Did I bring that up.
Speaker 2: Over? Canon?
Speaker 1: Word he might send for you.
Speaker 2: He can't slap me, though, I'm telling you, I'll put
Speaker 2: him in the figure fole first time. I will reflat him.
Speaker 2: I hit him in the eyes, you know, re flap
Speaker 2: when you do that. I'm going to the figure pole.
Speaker 2: I'm going to the fig.
Speaker 1: Do you would you write jokes for another comedian? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm actually good at that. What if you get somebody
Speaker 1: that joke that you're like, damn, I should have kept
Speaker 1: that for my say, no, I just I would do that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember a comedian by name
Speaker 2: of Small Fry, you remember her well? She she's she
Speaker 2: used to be on the road, he is going. I
Speaker 2: used to write for her. She's young, and she was
Speaker 2: she used to look so innocent, like a little girl.
Speaker 2: And I wrote a joke for and it was about
Speaker 2: she said she was at church and the preacher told
Speaker 2: her he's gonna pray for it. And she said, he said,
Speaker 2: put your hands up, and he said, God got something
Speaker 2: in store for you. And she said, you know, he
Speaker 2: didn't tell me what store was in, you know, because
Speaker 2: she right, she didn't realize that he was talking about
Speaker 2: in a spiritual mar She said, he didn't tell me
Speaker 2: what store was in. And that used to write little
Speaker 2: because she looked so innocent, right, she didn't need to
Speaker 2: do no hardcore jokes. She needed to do a little
Speaker 2: simple jokes and they weren't good for in the church
Speaker 2: right when she did the church because I like the
Speaker 2: church people is the easy people may laugh, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: easiest people in the world. You know, you could just say,
Speaker 2: you know, Lord did scream? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Well, you know I do a lot of church stuff too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you travel with a lot. I mean, you've been on
Speaker 5: the road with Lenelle. You've been on the road with
Speaker 5: some more, and I love some more. There givings. I
Speaker 5: don't know if Cheryl Underwood travel tours like she wants,
Speaker 5: not as much, but she you know, she's doing the
Speaker 5: TV show doing very well. But share is a monster
Speaker 5: on the stage. Yeah, she's a monster. So I like
Speaker 5: some more some more, But so what what is it
Speaker 5: about her? What is about her comedy that seems to
Speaker 5: be Most people say, well, it comes to female comics
Speaker 5: right now, she's worse.
Speaker 1: At well, the thing was some more. She doesn't.
Speaker 2: Most female comedians bash men. They bashing talk about them sexually.
Speaker 2: She she don't really go there. She do totally different
Speaker 2: stuff and some more stays in her lane. You ever
Speaker 2: notice you don't hear anything about some more doing crazy stuff,
Speaker 2: and she stays in her lane and she stayed focused.
Speaker 2: And I've been to oh yeah, I've been on tours
Speaker 2: since January. We just ended in May. And let me
Speaker 2: tell you, man, she's top notch. She's top notch, man.
Speaker 2: And I've been on small for years and years. And
Speaker 2: her husband keeps everything in place. She's she's really focused,
Speaker 2: and she's really good at what she do.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite city? Detur, Oh my god, A bunch
Speaker 1: of them, but Houston, Texas.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, man, they come out Houston,
Speaker 2: come out in Detroit, Detroit. I don't care rain, sleet,
Speaker 2: or snow. Detroit is coming out, right. They And one
Speaker 2: thing about Detroit. If you're good, you're good. If you're not,
Speaker 2: they're gonna let you know, right, They're gonna let you know.
Speaker 1: But they come out. I mean it could be a blizzard,
Speaker 1: it will sell out, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what's some of the wildest stories you can tell
Speaker 1: us about being on the road.
Speaker 2: I tell you I was in Flint, Michigan one time,
Speaker 2: and I'm on stage. As a matter of fact, it
Speaker 2: was Valentine's weekend. It's cold, so cold, I see the
Speaker 2: statue with a cold on. Now that's cold. Yeah. When
Speaker 2: you see a statue of a cold on, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's trembling. But I was on stage. I had to
Speaker 2: do like forty five minutes to an hour, and shows
Speaker 2: packed and I had did like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm here ready to wrap it up. And this dude's
Speaker 1: was drunking front.
Speaker 2: Fat dude, Man, you ain't funny, I said, Man, actually
Speaker 2: I'm very funny, I said, because everybody's you see men,
Speaker 2: it's very funny. And this dude jumps on stage. So
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the security off the stage. Security this way,
Speaker 2: I'm looking and they laugh. They laughed on. I said,
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna have to handle this myself. So we
Speaker 2: jumped on stairs. Look now you done jumped on stage.
Speaker 2: I say, the security ain't gonna do nothing. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to handle you myself. I said, now I can
Speaker 2: handle you, no problem.
Speaker 1: Or what did you gonna do?
Speaker 2: By the time security came. So this dude that did
Speaker 2: to show. The promoter kept stressing that I do this
Speaker 2: after party, and that's something I don't like to do.
Speaker 2: I don't do after party, go to the hotel, pray
Speaker 2: do goes to this after party. I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: stay about thirty minutes. And so I was telling these
Speaker 2: securities about how this dude jumped on staying. Now, these
Speaker 2: boys played for Alabama Michigan and they about six six sixteen.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, hands bigger. He want to
Speaker 2: do something to let you know right now, he come
Speaker 2: in here, We're gonna let him have it. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. I said, Well, I said, I ain't
Speaker 2: trying to get nobody to beat up. And I said,
Speaker 2: but he jumped on stage like he wanted to find me.
Speaker 2: And he said, I'm telling you, if you come in here,
Speaker 2: we got him. Man, were just stitting there talking. I'm
Speaker 2: sitting there, looks down on the door. Here come the
Speaker 2: dude coming in with his three friends. I told the
Speaker 2: I say, man, that's the dude that was on show
Speaker 2: that jumped on stage on me. So he said, he
Speaker 2: said one word, I'm gonna knock and smooth out. And
Speaker 2: it was now on the ground and everything, and the
Speaker 2: dude walked in and spotted me. He's, oh, here this
Speaker 2: motherfucker like here, that's crucial. Bust him dead in the
Speaker 2: faith I'm talking about before, I can't even say, they
Speaker 2: just put him aside on like they DRUGGI my side.
Speaker 2: He was laying that, I like this on the ground.
Speaker 2: I walked that side. I just got the car left,
Speaker 2: so you know, I don't see him some crazy stuff. Man.
Speaker 5: We see the health scare with Jamie, and I don't
Speaker 5: know how well you on Jamie Fox and got a
Speaker 5: health scare right now dealing with some things, hopefully with
Speaker 5: Jamie with your speedy recovery.
Speaker 2: Yes, back on your feet soon.
Speaker 3: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Are you a trade?
Speaker 2: I mean it's we don't know what really happened, but
Speaker 2: do you I mean you're on the road nine months,
Speaker 2: You're doing you know, three, four or five shows a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's something I enjoy. It keeps me a lie.
Speaker 1: And I have to give Jamie.
Speaker 2: I had to commend him for not letting everybody know
Speaker 2: what's wrong with him, because it's not good to let
Speaker 2: everybody know what's wrong with me because people are talking
Speaker 2: against you, and talk is real. Whatever come out your
Speaker 2: mouth is real, right, So yeah, I'm glad they're keeping
Speaker 2: it closed when no one can know what. Just let
Speaker 2: him keep guessing, you know what I'm saying. Just let
Speaker 2: him keep guessing, but big up to jam I used
Speaker 2: to hang with him back in the day when he's
Speaker 2: come to the cogniaciated and Atlanta used to take.
Speaker 1: Him to the hood malls.
Speaker 2: He want to go to Green bron You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, You want to go to Wesley And I
Speaker 2: used to take him.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, but he's big up to it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. And I'm a fan of Jamie Foxx.
Speaker 1: I really am talent. He turned into Ray Chard's Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean when he did well, he did like Ray
Speaker 1: would do.
Speaker 2: I think, you know what you tell the baseball team,
Speaker 2: I buy my.
Speaker 1: Whole new uniforms.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: He turned into Ray And then when he came with Jangle,
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I mean Jangle was the best movie.
Speaker 2: And Sammy and Jackson, I loved you. He should have won.
Speaker 2: He should have won. He ain't gonna Sama said, they
Speaker 2: didn't come here for no man, dingo, they come for
Speaker 2: that gal let me say it. Yeah, he said, thank you, Steven,
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Gavin and he sipped on that. Remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he said it was a snaky would have been me.
Speaker 2: Sammy and Jackson was excellent. He was excellent.
Speaker 1: What about food on too? I mean you what what
Speaker 1: do you when you go to the promoter, what do
Speaker 1: you tell the promoter, Bruce, this.
Speaker 3: Is my writer.
Speaker 2: Bake fish, bakefish, baco, grilled fish, wild rice, uh, green vegetable,
Speaker 2: mixed veestivals, and corn, and we do all water. I
Speaker 2: do no solder drunk sold in twenty years, right, you know?
Speaker 2: And I do have Hennessy there for my guys because
Speaker 2: I don't drink. No, there ain't be known no more.
Speaker 2: You just need to right there, right here. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: it all right, don't you need that right there? Okay?
Speaker 2: But if I give him that they're drinking, I know
Speaker 2: they would just fold the dragging the kid and Hennis
Speaker 2: like one, dude, it tastes like grape juice. I'm like,
Speaker 2: wait minute, this hen is don't taste like great? This
Speaker 2: nice and smooth. Ain'tngry to burn going down?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Yeah. I stopped drinking years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my well, my baby boy was born, I stopped drinking.
Speaker 2: He's thirty nine now and my baby girl is thirty
Speaker 2: seven old son forty two. You you you got it
Speaker 2: at the early as I was laying it down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh boy, when I put the hump in my back.
Speaker 2: When I got through, the hump was in up back.
Speaker 2: I had to go do it again to get my
Speaker 2: hump back. Right, I'm talking about right? So what what
Speaker 2: have you ever had a promoter? You said, Okay, you're
Speaker 2: gonna do this set. You know you're going thirty minutes,
Speaker 2: forty five minutes, and then the pro the promoter try
Speaker 2: to stiff you. Oh your mama, god, you you hitting
Speaker 2: close to home. Let me tell you something. Did a
Speaker 2: show in Atlanta, Georgia, civy telling you know what city
Speaker 2: you've been there in the promoter he kind of worked
Speaker 2: me a little, allright, So he wanted me to do
Speaker 2: this radio that I have no problem because I know
Speaker 2: how to do it. So the show sold out the
Speaker 2: city sitting on seat, but like forty five hundred right
Speaker 2: sold out. So when it's time to subtle, he brings
Speaker 2: the paperwork guy and says, your people made a mistake
Speaker 2: on the payout. I say, impossible. I said, I'd have
Speaker 2: never been at this show tonight if they made a mistake,
Speaker 2: mam said. He looked me, damn my eyes. He said, personally,
Speaker 2: I do not think you're worth the money To ask him.
Speaker 2: I said really. I said, it's really funny because your
Speaker 2: shows are sold out. I said, I've been doing the
Speaker 2: show was on a Saturday. I said, I've been doing
Speaker 2: radio all day Thursday for you and all day Friday
Speaker 2: to sell your shows. He tried to give me less
Speaker 2: than what I what do you agree to say? I said, look,
Speaker 2: I'm not the man. Did argue with you or nothing
Speaker 2: like that. I said, well, it's two things gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You're gonna give it to me now, are You're gonna
Speaker 2: give it to me later.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna give it to me right. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I call my people and they like Bruce, he
Speaker 2: is totally lying everything. He ended up paying me the
Speaker 2: money later. But the crazy day he called back to
Speaker 2: try to book me on another show and all money
Speaker 2: and good money. I said, thank you, but no, thank
Speaker 2: I'm good. I said, I'm not worth the money. Remember wow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I've been there. I had guys to pay me
Speaker 2: and they said, man, they got your check right there
Speaker 2: on the table. That's that's that. These are bad taste
Speaker 2: in my mouth. Why you didn't give it to me?
Speaker 2: And when I got it and took it to the bag.
Speaker 2: It was fake. It was a fake cash your check,
Speaker 2: So so how you get your money back? We had
Speaker 2: to get a lawyer and get it back. We got
Speaker 2: the money back, but he could never say, hey, I
Speaker 2: gave it to him and he left it on the table,
Speaker 2: so I can get it myself.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: It's all kind of slick stuff. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you heard t I. Haven't really heard a whole lot
Speaker 1: of t II, but t I.
Speaker 2: T I.
Speaker 1: Everybody know he the king of this He called himself
Speaker 1: the King of the South. I love t I.
Speaker 5: He's been on the show. How how difficult is it
Speaker 5: what he's doing. He's really good at one thing and
Speaker 5: he branches off into your world.
Speaker 2: Okay. I did the City Winery in Atlanta last year,
Speaker 2: first time they never did comedy there and I sold
Speaker 2: the whole show, did five shows, sowd him out, and
Speaker 2: t I came down and did some time, and he
Speaker 2: wanted me to critique his set, and I watched him.
Speaker 2: I told him, you're good, but you're gonna get better
Speaker 2: the more, the more you're on stage, and he's actually
Speaker 2: doing very well.
Speaker 1: He's doing very well. But when it comes to rapping, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's the man.
Speaker 2: What if I can give me. I think I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about trying to do a little. Well, you need to
Speaker 2: just help me you, you know, you my dog. I
Speaker 2: help you do anything. Man, you you don't want to
Speaker 2: do no comedy. I thought about it. I thought about that.
Speaker 2: I really did you care? I mean, you're good looking too,
Speaker 2: built like right daddy, Because you know one thing I
Speaker 2: want all the young guys. You know, I tell my
Speaker 2: nephew this all the time. It ain't nothing to it, right,
Speaker 2: it ain't to it nothing to it. To women, if
Speaker 2: they like you, it's a done deal, right. But if
Speaker 2: they don't like you, you're not getting it. And I
Speaker 2: used to hear my cousin say all the time. I
Speaker 2: used to mess with what I be on my bicycle said, ooh,
Speaker 2: you can go get him to She's like, I don't
Speaker 2: like him like that.
Speaker 1: Now I know what she's talking, right, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So we got to understand a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of women live a life that they can't even afford,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. They need a man to
Speaker 2: buy supplement, you know, and they look good. But that's
Speaker 2: a life you got to live all the time. Shut
Speaker 2: them when I'm out, I'm just like this, mensing with
Speaker 2: my cars. I don't do no work. I got a mechanical.
Speaker 2: You call me the superviowl. You the superviowl. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But I just enjoy it and that's where my joy
Speaker 1: come from. Yeah, but if you could go back, what
Speaker 1: is one thing? What would you do over again?
Speaker 5: If you could go back and say, you know what,
Speaker 5: go back to a twenty twenty four year old Bruce Bruce.
Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you what I did.
Speaker 2: If I got back around eighteen, I would continue to
Speaker 2: be working out and not stopping and the tent and
Speaker 2: look like you, you know, and you know been a
Speaker 2: model now, been modeling underwear for seers or maybe jac
Speaker 2: bruceie and you might have had ten kids, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did want to ten, but I didn't
Speaker 1: want them by that wife.
Speaker 2: Good god. I was married to the Devil's little sister.
Speaker 2: Did you hear me?
Speaker 1: Good God about it? But but yeah, but I said,
Speaker 1: you got one of your favors. You're married again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it didn't it didn't taint you, It didn't sour
Speaker 1: the taste the way got into I stayed divorced like
Speaker 1: twenty five years right, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: one I got there.
Speaker 2: Ooh she just fashioned. Oh I like it here where
Speaker 2: you go? Whoo, who I see you again. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: hit you right in the mouth. We be the mall
Speaker 2: oo lord like everything right, everything, but don't want to
Speaker 2: pay for nothing. Oh she get an account and move
Speaker 2: right to the right.
Speaker 1: She set up there and lied to the right. You
Speaker 1: need to slide right back.
Speaker 2: To the left. But you know, you know.
Speaker 1: So how was it raising three kids?
Speaker 2: Well, it was the best thing I ever did in
Speaker 2: my life because I was young and my kids was young, right,
Speaker 2: and I always was with my kids, So it's almost
Speaker 2: like I was raising my sisters and my brother right.
Speaker 2: And but I kept disciplining them. But I didn't let
Speaker 2: anybody keep my kids. If it were my mama, her mama,
Speaker 2: me or her, nobody could keep them. They they was
Speaker 2: you say something like kid, they look at you like
Speaker 2: your crazy. They'll speak, but let me hold that baby.
Speaker 2: Not know they knew, they knew, not going nobody, and
Speaker 2: I don't. I didn't trust church members because church members
Speaker 2: don't tell you everything, because they keep crazy people at
Speaker 2: their house that you never see the Eastern and they
Speaker 2: got a sounder about thirty six years old with some
Speaker 2: baby shoes.
Speaker 1: He got a living room table Bible Eastern. Sudden, hey,
Speaker 1: my name is Ju. You'd be like, who is that?
Speaker 2: Where has he been? And you look at her like
Speaker 2: I told you he's somebody crazy in the basement. So
Speaker 2: turn remember, don't tell you everything right, you know. And
Speaker 2: you can't not leave your kids with everybody, man. And
Speaker 2: I just refused to do it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: And I used to go.
Speaker 2: I used to be in a hold in this church,
Speaker 2: you know, and appreacher, you know, we was all clothing. Man,
Speaker 2: I want you to come to try and say, well,
Speaker 2: my me or her, I'm not letting nobody keep my
Speaker 2: kids right, you know. And it took them a long
Speaker 2: time to understand that. But I didn't trust nobody, you know,
Speaker 2: I ain't. And my kids are great kids. Man. My
Speaker 2: daughter's one of the best mothers I've ever seen. She
Speaker 2: got three kids, and her kids are super smart, and
Speaker 2: she's just a great mother. And I tell her that
Speaker 2: because we're so quick to bash our children right and
Speaker 2: do something stupid.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. I be like I called them one.
Speaker 1: I said, I just called tell you son. She said,
Speaker 1: what's her?
Speaker 2: Daddy? I said, you know, you're the best mother I
Speaker 2: ever seen them, and she almost went into she said,
Speaker 2: thank you daddy, because you have to let people know,
Speaker 2: you know, whether it's good or bad. You have to
Speaker 2: let them know.
Speaker 5: And she does a great job with kids. Man, sports,
Speaker 5: you did the Shack All Star comedy. You like you
Speaker 5: like roasting athlete, You like roasting famous.
Speaker 2: Man, you know? And I like shack Man. But I
Speaker 2: like him because Shaq has a good sense of human himself. Yes,
Speaker 2: and he's like a big kid. And the most thing
Speaker 2: I like about Shaq he will help anybody, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And he's able. He's able to do it,
Speaker 2: but he don't mind doing it right, you know.
Speaker 1: I seen him ask a little boy.
Speaker 2: He said, you want to bycy He was in Walmart
Speaker 2: and the boss said yeah, he said, Nega, ask you mama,
Speaker 2: can you have it? And little boy he said, this
Speaker 2: guy want to buy it? He said, can get it
Speaker 2: if he wants to.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I love it about him.
Speaker 2: Man, He's just good person and he's gonna last forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whenever you take whatever you give, ever you give, you're
Speaker 2: gonna get it back. You're gonna get it back.
Speaker 1: You and I were talking off camera about Freaknick. Freaknick.
Speaker 5: You know the documentary is supposed to be a documentary
Speaker 5: coming out about Freaknick.
Speaker 1: What is your recollection of free.
Speaker 2: See it All back? But you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: why these mothers gonna be so ashamed of what they
Speaker 2: did when they were younger that that's in your path, right,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, but I know
Speaker 2: some of them did crazy. Let me tell you I
Speaker 2: Freak Nick was so crazy shatne. I used to see
Speaker 2: girls on the back of a pickup truck. This guy
Speaker 2: had to pick up truck. Here, three girls on the back.
Speaker 2: They had on long t shirts with no underwear, no
Speaker 2: bro okay, quite natural. Dudes say, hey man, some girls
Speaker 2: gonna pick up truck with no draws though. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody got their cameras and they was at the red
Speaker 2: light because it's packed.
Speaker 1: The streets are packed. Jam panel, you can't get them. Dude,
Speaker 1: he got his video.
Speaker 2: Ken We say, baby, you know you ain't got no
Speaker 2: pants on. Let me see that thing. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. She's like, I don't know you like that.
Speaker 2: And now they on the back of the pickup, right
Speaker 2: he's he's saying on and she's like, he said, let
Speaker 2: me see. He said, you ain't got no dro Let
Speaker 2: me say you got that, you must want to show it,
Speaker 2: you know, well she got to show a little bit
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite club in the ninety Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: I didn't do too much clubing, but you know I
Speaker 2: used running club called Club five five nine and.
Speaker 1: Two Bullet Mill. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: You know we we we know what a crows then.
Speaker 2: You know, Crowsness was the joint crows now and I
Speaker 2: knew what's twelve one twelve and one twelve your mama
Speaker 2: Ciscos and Marco's No, I don't okay, Club seven twenty
Speaker 2: uh club Illusions. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 2: were talking about good clubs, man. But I didn't do
Speaker 2: too much clubbing, but I was in them, you know,
Speaker 2: I was in them. And the club in Atlanta scene
Speaker 2: was just maybe five five nine. It's the joint. Oh
Speaker 2: my god. You know we have we have we have
Speaker 2: this compassion like eight hundred people, you know, we got
Speaker 2: twenty five hundred. Now, you know, you can't dance, you know,
Speaker 2: dunkers moving like that. So the fried chief will come in,
Speaker 2: you know, with his ticket book hitting on the side
Speaker 2: of his pants. Hey Bruce, how many things he got
Speaker 2: in there? I say, I said, I think you about
Speaker 2: eight hundred? You know, I said, we left five inn
Speaker 2: and five out. Every time five come out, we left
Speaker 2: five in. We got twenty five hundred people. Now now,
Speaker 2: so I say, look, I see you, Homery. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. He said, well, yeah, I get these
Speaker 2: chicken WANs or something. I said, I give my girl
Speaker 2: to fix some of limon pepper, some fries and a
Speaker 2: beer and and I'm gonna tell you how. I don't
Speaker 2: want nobody to take this, but this is how we
Speaker 2: used to do our business. And we get in the
Speaker 2: office and I had to own it. And I say, hey, man,
Speaker 2: did you ever send that money to that church that
Speaker 2: we supposed to sponsor?
Speaker 1: He said, no, I didn't send it. I said, what
Speaker 1: church you go to?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: The fire chief? He said, I go to First Baptist
Speaker 2: Church of Roswell. I said, we look, we were gonna
Speaker 2: get five thousand dollars to this church before they are acquired,
Speaker 2: to get some robes and stuff like that. I said,
Speaker 2: I said, what, I just write the check and you
Speaker 2: just put the name of your church on that. Every
Speaker 2: time the check come back, his name was on it.
Speaker 2: But he knew what I was doing, right because he
Speaker 2: could have wrote me a check for fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: that I had to pay. But he hit me like
Speaker 2: every three months.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: I didn't think he got in there. He liked. I said,
Speaker 2: I don't know about eight hundred names. Man, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But I knew what the city. I
Speaker 2: knew the game to play. And he always say, that's
Speaker 2: a good man right there, because I knew what I
Speaker 2: was doing. But you have to play the game.
Speaker 1: Man. What's that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: That club on Ponts Punslon was it?
Speaker 2: I remember?
Speaker 1: Strip Club?
Speaker 2: Was it Strip Club?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 2: Dougans?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Not do where you got to wing walk? You know
Speaker 2: U with the old women that the old woman be
Speaker 2: there on Pussely Yeah, on Punts. Wow. I can't think
Speaker 2: it's right on the tip of my top because we
Speaker 2: know we got the famous what if you know you
Speaker 2: got you got Magic, got Blue Flame, you got Strokers,
Speaker 2: you got Nickis, Nickles Nicholas on Ella Street, you got
Speaker 2: body tapped, you got a Filey's, you got pink pony,
Speaker 2: you got cheetah man. What's the name of that? Was it?
Speaker 1: German club?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 1: But but they had like they got like eighty year
Speaker 1: old in there stripper. Yeah, she ain't got no cane,
Speaker 1: got no TV.
Speaker 2: I ain't got no TV.
Speaker 1: That might kind of good right there? Yeah, yes, google
Speaker 1: that red Quick Pumpy c j Yo man.
Speaker 2: Do you see ja? I can't. It's on.
Speaker 1: It's on punts, Ponce Leon Gentlemen club on pints. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about, don't you. He know
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. Hit up at Down, I'll
Speaker 1: been there, had I had to see him. I had
Speaker 1: had this climb, my round climb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know.
Speaker 1: He ain't never talked me. Yes, you heard what he
Speaker 1: said to me. He wished He ain't want you to hear.
Speaker 2: It used to be a whole hotel.
Speaker 1: The Clara BoNT he whispered it. I mean him got
Speaker 1: talking with me. He never talk with that.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: Bruce, you are real popular with the rappers.
Speaker 5: Too Short put you in the song remember Magic City,
Speaker 5: before Freaking Negg, before police started, Get all Weeks, all
Speaker 5: the big girls get loose with it.
Speaker 2: All the skinny girls. Let Bruce Bruce hit it. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: Biggie had a song and hypnotized. He said, Bruce Bruce,
Speaker 2: who do something to us? Talk gos to us? Girls
Speaker 2: want to do us? Screw us?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 2: He and puff? That was Biggie Rest in Peace. And
Speaker 2: I met him in Jacksonville, Florida, and I was on
Speaker 2: stage messing with the crowd as usual, and he said,
Speaker 2: this dude is funny man. And he told me, so,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you down. And you know you don't
Speaker 2: think nothing of it. You know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 2: we hear the song and it was Biggie, why have
Speaker 2: you become such a cultural hit with the rap? Because
Speaker 2: people love me? And then I know them and I'm
Speaker 2: friends with like outcasts, outcasts. Let me tell you, outcasts
Speaker 2: put me on the map. If I tell anybody anything different,
Speaker 2: I'd be lying. When we did So Fresh and So
Speaker 2: Clean did a video with him, and I'm going across
Speaker 2: stage with the lave of the suit and everything, not
Speaker 2: knowing what this video is going to do for me.
Speaker 2: But when I when they called me for the video,
Speaker 2: my managers like, how much we're gonna charge him. I said,
Speaker 2: absolutely nothing, I said. He said why, I said, because
Speaker 2: first of all, I know them. I said, Second of all,
Speaker 2: they're hot. They're gonna show this video every day for
Speaker 2: the next six months, ten times a day. I said,
Speaker 2: trust me when I tell you, we're gonna get paid.
Speaker 2: Probably not up front, but on the back end, we're
Speaker 2: gonna get paid. And when I when I did that
Speaker 2: for outcasts, it was the best thing I ever could
Speaker 2: have did. Then I end up by me not charging them.
Speaker 2: I did a movie with them called Who's Your Caddy?
Speaker 2: Idlewo was first, and then I did idlewhole I mean,
Speaker 2: and Who's Your Caddy?
Speaker 1: And they put me on the map again.
Speaker 2: Which was great, and I met great people I never
Speaker 2: get when I met missus James Avery then played the
Speaker 2: fresh Prince but one of the best guys I ever
Speaker 2: met in my entire life. Friendly and we just kicked it.
Speaker 1: Off so good.
Speaker 2: We was joking the whole time. But our cast big
Speaker 2: up to them. If they do a Who's Your Caddy? Too,
Speaker 2: I want to be there. Yeah, I want to be down.
Speaker 1: You got anything you want to promote, you got a
Speaker 1: tour coming up, you got to drink.
Speaker 2: I didn't want the church rooms know anything about the
Speaker 2: stripping thing. I'm thinking about going back at it. So
Speaker 2: if you see me out there, I'm letting you know
Speaker 2: your buck gonna be out there. But nah, you know,
Speaker 2: the whole month of just go on Bruce bus My Instagram,
Speaker 2: Twitter and Facebook is at mine, Bruce, Bruce, at mine,
Speaker 2: Bruce Bruce, and tell me your likes and your dislikes
Speaker 2: because there's something you dislike.
Speaker 1: I can fix it.
Speaker 2: Bruce. Love appreciate it. Thank you man, Thanks for your.
Speaker 3: Time, all my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle
Speaker 3: pad the price, want to slice, got to brow the
Speaker 3: dice to swap all my life.
Speaker 2: I've been grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all.
Speaker 4: My life, sacrifice, hustle pad the price, want to slice,
Speaker 4: got to brow the dice to.
Speaker 3: Swap all my life.
Speaker 2: I've been grinding all my life.