Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Keith Robinson On New Netflix Special 'Different Strokes,' Surviving 2 Strokes, Comedy Idols + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning,
- 0:05Speaker 1: Everybody is the j n V. Just hilarious. Chelamaine the guy.
- 0:09Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
- 0:11Speaker 1: in the building.
- 0:11Speaker 2: That's right. The other new Netflix special, New Netflix Stand
- 0:14Speaker 2: Up Special plus is just a very very great story man,
- 0:18Speaker 2: Keith Robinson, what's happening?
- 0:20Speaker 1: And the Netflix special is different strokes.
- 0:22Speaker 3: That's right, Keith Robinson Bocos, Yes, sir, how are.
- 0:25Speaker 1: You feeling this morning?
- 0:26Speaker 3: Brother? I'm feeling good man. I'm doing my thing. I'm
- 0:30Speaker 3: driveling here, almost getting into mind the whole fights in
- 0:35Speaker 3: a car?
- 0:36Speaker 2: Who is you fighting with?
- 0:38Speaker 3: I'm a car, you know what I mean? And a
- 0:41Speaker 3: guy rolled past me and almost hit my damn car.
- 0:45Speaker 3: You know, I'm like, you know, what's up? But I
- 0:48Speaker 3: know I can't. I can't fight, So I was just
- 0:53Speaker 3: hoping he ain't get out the car. You know, I'm like,
- 0:56Speaker 3: what's up? And I told him get out the car?
- 1:00Speaker 4: Why would you say that?
- 1:01Speaker 3: Because it felt good the same you know, well you
- 1:05Speaker 3: know it does feel good. Yeah, well, you know it
- 1:09Speaker 3: seemed like blacker. So I was hoping, man, what's the plaquer?
- 1:14Speaker 2: Like a decalism?
- 1:15Speaker 1: Handicap.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Okay, okay, handicin Yeah, de count.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Called a handicap, decal handy cap.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Black.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Oh ain't a black blacker? Yeah, yeah, I used to.
- 1:25Speaker 2: I ain't gonna say I used to have one, but
- 1:26Speaker 2: you or nothing? Then somebody would give me one.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely did.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Definitely get a good parking space. You know, if you
- 1:37Speaker 2: have an amazing story, you're clearly here for a real reason.
- 1:40Speaker 2: Because you survived having a stroke twice. Yes, I started
- 1:45Speaker 2: this day. You survived multiple strokes, but that's not the gate.
- 1:48Speaker 2: So so you survived having a stroke twice.
- 1:51Speaker 3: Yes, the first one I wasn't in the film too.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Then you know what I mean. I'm like, man, this stroke, man,
- 1:59Speaker 3: and then number one one more and I'll know for
- 2:01Speaker 3: sure him Man, he's.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Looking so so the first stroke that you got, what happened?
- 2:14Speaker 1: What were you? And did they know why? Or is it?
- 2:17Speaker 3: Yes? It was my fault, both strokes? Was my fault?
- 2:21Speaker 2: Was it your lifestyle? I read that you said you
- 2:24Speaker 2: took biagra?
- 2:25Speaker 3: Absolutely? Who don't take bagla only you're only fifty key,
- 2:32Speaker 3: I'm not fifty. Oh you don't worry about it. I'm annoying.
- 2:37Speaker 3: I'm annoying, calmly for forty years. Damn okay, I'm forty five,
- 2:43Speaker 3: get to now close to sixty?
- 2:46Speaker 2: Yes, okay, got you. So when you start taking.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Bagra, I was, man, I want to choke Viagara and
- 2:52Speaker 3: falling twenty huh if I was twenty years old, I
- 2:56Speaker 3: want to took Why because in an it's enhancement.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I don't gonna keep joking that.
- 3:05Speaker 3: I'm not joking.
- 3:06Speaker 2: I heard the bagger story, befo. I heard that you
- 3:07Speaker 2: said you took a bagger. I said, what led to
- 3:09Speaker 2: a stroke?
- 3:09Speaker 3: Yeah that's true. No, well maybe maybe I was a
- 3:15Speaker 3: hands on. What happened on like twenty twenty November twenty third,
- 3:23Speaker 3: right there, Thanksgimming.
- 3:25Speaker 1: So we were in COVID during that time.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Yes, this girl wanted me to come under aaronsoner. So
- 3:31Speaker 3: you know, man, can't mess down on that. I'm wanting
- 3:35Speaker 3: this girl for twenty years. So I decided they go
- 3:40Speaker 3: let me go to aaronsoner and Thing nine ship every
- 3:46Speaker 3: time I leave the house. I checked my blood pressure
- 3:50Speaker 3: this time, and then I get on the flight first class.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Of course you know I'm not going you know, to
- 3:58Speaker 3: it stroking.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Before you go to that floor. Shut up.
- 4:02Speaker 4: That's no, no, let.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Him right go ahead.
- 4:06Speaker 5: That was ask because you said you check your blood
- 4:07Speaker 5: press every time? Why why do you check your blood press.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Every time to make sure? You know what I mean?
- 4:12Speaker 3: It's right, okay, it's regularly.
- 4:15Speaker 2: I checked mine yesterday because I take I take a Staton,
- 4:17Speaker 2: you know, and and I had high blood pressures. I
- 4:19Speaker 2: take my regular regular too.
- 4:21Speaker 3: Yeah, so winning and popping and take So I want
- 4:24Speaker 3: to flight when I'm drinking, you know, first class, and
- 4:28Speaker 3: give me all the good stuff.
- 4:29Speaker 2: You took a bag before you got on the plane.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Now, okay, okay, I'm drinking, drinking, drinking. I'm drunk, all right,
- 4:36Speaker 3: I'm drunk. Twenty minutes, twenty minutes now flying uh with
- 4:45Speaker 3: a guy that fly the plane and violid the folly him.
- 4:49Speaker 3: They made an announcement man, he said, twenty minutes and
- 4:53Speaker 3: left in the flying and I know it was ten
- 4:56Speaker 3: minutes of the girl to the girl's house touring on
- 4:59Speaker 3: thirty minut this you get it? What takes thirty minutes
- 5:05Speaker 3: to kick in? You pop that vi pop that boy
- 5:09Speaker 3: born and landing. I was a little dizzy, you know
- 5:13Speaker 3: what I mean. I was like, oh ship and I
- 5:18Speaker 3: getting over I'm like, oh man, my heart's beating fast
- 5:21Speaker 3: and all that, and I'm like, okay, I have to
- 5:25Speaker 3: make this decision. Shall I go to the girl's house
- 5:30Speaker 3: and get lame? I shall go to the hospital and
- 5:34Speaker 3: then so of course I'm knocking on the girl's door.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Huh to man, I.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Know you did it. You chose.
- 5:53Speaker 1: So you had it. You had a stroke at her house?
- 5:55Speaker 3: Well, I had two strokes her, you know, and one
- 6:00Speaker 3: stroke and half a stroke, and I got a couple
- 6:07Speaker 3: of pumps before.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Not that stroke. So you had the physical stroke, no
- 6:16Speaker 1: physical stroke, sir.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Yes, there you go. No, I mean I was chilling
- 6:27Speaker 3: and I'm spending the night. Damn well. When I woke up,
- 6:31Speaker 3: I couldn't walk. So they called the Amblets one time
- 6:36Speaker 3: a hospital, and for some reason I felt a little better,
- 6:41Speaker 3: and I flew back to New York. And that's when
- 6:47Speaker 3: I want the hospital.
- 6:49Speaker 2: So did they tell you when you were in Arizona
- 6:51Speaker 2: that you had just gotten the stroke and you still
- 6:54Speaker 2: got on a plane that flew back.
- 6:55Speaker 3: I'm Hawaiian man.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Listen, you know T K Kirkling and Sherry Sheppard. I
- 7:01Speaker 2: heard it with TK first. TK tells the joke. It's
- 7:04Speaker 2: not even really a joke. It's actually real. He was like,
- 7:06Speaker 2: the old do we get you need to be with
- 7:07Speaker 2: a woman that can recognize the signs of a stroke.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Did the woman you was with recognize the signs of
- 7:14Speaker 2: a stroke?
- 7:15Speaker 3: No, not at all. No, no, but I have one
- 7:21Speaker 3: who one of them recognized it. But I'll flow out
- 7:24Speaker 3: to him, you know, come on, man, And that's real thing.
- 7:32Speaker 3: Every man and I know has put that life on
- 7:36Speaker 3: rent one way.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Or another to get some when we were kids. No, no, no, ok, thirties.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know, like I remember, sold nothing right,
- 7:51Speaker 3: I want to rent and I on housing projects and
- 7:55Speaker 3: one in the morning. And at that time in the anies,
- 7:59Speaker 3: weren allen low. There's a night and you're going in
- 8:04Speaker 3: at that time in the morning. There's ninety nine percent
- 8:09Speaker 3: chance you get rob m mean or work. But that
- 8:14Speaker 3: one percent was all I need. I'm going, you know,
- 8:19Speaker 3: so we all do stupid stuff. This was domb I
- 8:23Speaker 3: have nothing until on COVID, and I want to like dumb.
- 8:27Speaker 1: So did she think she put it on you so bad?
- 8:29Speaker 1: That's why you could get out of the bed. That what
- 8:32Speaker 1: she thought?
- 8:32Speaker 3: Though? No, no, no, she's a one whatever.
- 8:36Speaker 1: But you don't speak to her anymore.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Yes, you still speak to and tell him coming back.
- 8:43Speaker 3: I'm coming back one more time to make sure and
- 8:49Speaker 3: no stroke this time. You're still sucking absolutely okay, I'm
- 8:54Speaker 3: still probably blues.
- 8:56Speaker 4: No, man, cut it out.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Key.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Did the doctor say the vice Act was the reason?
- 9:01Speaker 3: No, No, he ain't.
- 9:03Speaker 1: No hand ain't telling him.
- 9:05Speaker 3: I ain't telling him, dogy man. One thing, the fucking.
- 9:10Speaker 1: You need the alcohol? You did every ding?
- 9:12Speaker 3: Yes, so I don't know what it why.
- 9:16Speaker 2: It probably could have been lifestyle leading up to that,
- 9:19Speaker 2: eating not eating right.
- 9:21Speaker 3: No, I mean before I've a box I'm boxing, gym
- 9:26Speaker 3: boxing for a long fan. I'm boxed him too, but
- 9:31Speaker 3: one train for selling. I've seen it there a couple
- 9:35Speaker 3: of times, and you.
- 9:36Speaker 4: Know, getting as kick you don't get his ask kicked.
- 9:38Speaker 3: I seen him heavy man, Okay, one and good. But
- 9:46Speaker 3: that was then in the first fund I called when
- 9:50Speaker 3: I'm in the hospital.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Can okay?
- 9:53Speaker 4: Because you are for people who don't know.
- 9:55Speaker 2: If you know anything about Kevin Hart, if you read
- 9:57Speaker 2: Kevin Hart's books, you know that Keith Robinson is a
- 10:00Speaker 2: mentor Kevin Hart. You call him a little dumb.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Ass, Yeah, little dummy. So I called him up and
- 10:08Speaker 3: I told this on Mark Twain Award. I call Can, like, man,
- 10:16Speaker 3: they're gonna put me in the COVID section and can
- 10:20Speaker 3: who know how to board showing the best of them?
- 10:22Speaker 3: Oh no they won't. No, they're not. Let me make
- 10:26Speaker 3: this call. Yeah, that's talking about and he hung out,
- 10:32Speaker 3: Wait a minute, who the fuck is he gonna call
- 10:36Speaker 3: doctor foux well talking about? So I ended up in
- 10:41Speaker 3: in the COVID section. I ain't there from Kevin until
- 10:44Speaker 3: I got out of the covid hilarious, and.
- 10:46Speaker 4: I was like, God, damn, Now you are a mentor
- 10:49Speaker 4: to Kevin Hart?
- 10:50Speaker 2: What did you see in Kevin early that that maybe
- 10:53Speaker 2: everybody sees now?
- 10:56Speaker 3: And took a while, but I asked can, I told
- 11:00Speaker 3: Cas should I say? He got it in the video tape?
- 11:06Speaker 3: So he made me like, um, sixteen video tapes Like
- 11:16Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, no, But I found him wrong.
- 11:20Speaker 3: That one was a ship. I said, this guy can
- 11:23Speaker 3: mean something, and uh, I put uh when we did
- 11:29Speaker 3: that tape and and started going around and a guy
- 11:34Speaker 3: named Dave Vitel gave the tape to him. Dave Becky
- 11:41Speaker 3: and Dame Becky had seen that tape and that was
- 11:44Speaker 3: beginning a little dummy and he stopped going up and
- 11:49Speaker 3: nothing and not and and boom.
- 11:52Speaker 2: So you knew he was gonna be a stuff.
- 11:55Speaker 3: You never know, but I was like, this guy has
- 11:58Speaker 3: something special. And then people were like when if you
- 12:02Speaker 3: want to talk about calv and all that, he had
- 12:05Speaker 3: to work, come around all the comics, mean streets O'Neill
- 12:11Speaker 3: or he had to work. We gave him help, you know,
- 12:16Speaker 3: we were telling him to get on stage. They weren't
- 12:20Speaker 3: throw books at him and throw books like.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Yeah he got two yellow pages that.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Yes, so cal went through hell, he drove up and
- 12:34Speaker 3: down the turnpink me. We're sleeping hand and hand almost.
- 12:40Speaker 3: Cavin put the work in.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Do you feel like comedians put the work in like that?
- 12:45Speaker 2: Now?
- 12:47Speaker 3: Uh No? Because the internet it's easy just to go
- 12:52Speaker 3: on the internet. We ain't go on the internet now,
- 12:56Speaker 3: you know. That makes it a lot easy. And you know,
- 13:05Speaker 3: like I've been listening to you guys a lot with
- 13:07Speaker 3: a comics so on and all that, and a lot
- 13:10Speaker 3: of comics like I know bomb, I know bomb, Well,
- 13:14Speaker 3: we don't bomb. You're probably a joke, thief or a hack,
- 13:22Speaker 3: but coming is a continual experiment. You're try and ship
- 13:28Speaker 3: out and you can be good if you're afraid to
- 13:34Speaker 3: be mad. And that's how that's old school. But olde
- 13:41Speaker 3: is always classic, and classic is what works. You've gotta
- 13:46Speaker 3: work out, you know. And I feel like a lot
- 13:50Speaker 3: of comics just making funny face on the Internet and
- 13:54Speaker 3: get thousands of views and they, you know, become to money.
- 14:00Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting you talked about driving up and
- 14:02Speaker 2: down the turnpike, you know with keV. Kevin talks about
- 14:04Speaker 2: that and his uh, his first book. You know, you
- 14:07Speaker 2: can't make this up. When you heard, you know, Kat
- 14:10Speaker 2: Williams say that basically Kevin didn't put the work in
- 14:13Speaker 2: Nobody who keV was in La California.
- 14:15Speaker 4: What did you think about that? Being that you were
- 14:17Speaker 4: there from the.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Right, I was there from him again and and you
- 14:20Speaker 3: know I knew that just wanting that makes sense. keV
- 14:28Speaker 3: had to put them works, not main sure, then like
- 14:32Speaker 3: you have Matris and all Phil Barring, all them around
- 14:36Speaker 3: you rinch Falls, you know, Colin Quinton, you got him
- 14:40Speaker 3: putting them work. And you know a lot of you
- 14:45Speaker 3: don't realize they had Montreal and that's the Lion's Bank.
- 14:50Speaker 3: Then you're going to Montreal and you're gonna deal. Like
- 14:56Speaker 3: Chappelle got a lot of deals on a Montreal. I
- 15:00Speaker 3: got a deal a lot of Montreal, you know. So
- 15:04Speaker 3: when Caen went to Montreal, he got a deal. That's
- 15:08Speaker 3: where that came from. And that's when you get the money.
- 15:11Speaker 3: And all of agents and execs are there from Disney
- 15:17Speaker 3: or m mec AMC. And that's how that works. And
- 15:22Speaker 3: I think Kat knows how it works, you know. And
- 15:26Speaker 3: you know, but cav like from sure, but a lot
- 15:31Speaker 3: of work.
- 15:32Speaker 2: What do you say to people who said Kevin tried
- 15:34Speaker 2: to sacrifice you twice for the illuminati to gain more.
- 15:37Speaker 3: Successful illuminati And that is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
- 15:43Speaker 1: I think he just made that up. I never heard
- 15:44Speaker 1: that my life. He just made that up.
- 15:46Speaker 4: He just made that.
- 15:49Speaker 3: I've never heard dumbest ship in my life, But he did.
- 15:56Speaker 3: He tried to sacrifice me. Yeah, and for more ship,
- 16:01Speaker 3: you know. But you know, yeah, but that's my that's
- 16:06Speaker 3: my young fella, one of Sykes. That's my girl.
- 16:10Speaker 4: Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer, that's my girl.
- 16:13Speaker 3: You know. Amy does a lot for the folks.
- 16:19Speaker 2: You know, you you rode on train wreck.
- 16:24Speaker 3: I mean, John Cena, what's going at you know, hey,
- 16:28Speaker 3: Mark Wahlberg, you know and all that, but yeah, whatever, Amy,
- 16:32Speaker 3: and then she puts me in. She Amy is good
- 16:37Speaker 3: for a lot of stuff, and she puts a lot
- 16:40Speaker 3: of black folks and a lot of things.
- 16:42Speaker 2: How did you develop that relationship with Amy? Well?
- 16:47Speaker 3: I met her, you know, and at the seller, at
- 16:51Speaker 3: the Comedy Seller, and when you started hanging out and
- 16:55Speaker 3: when asked him was going boxing to work trained? And
- 17:00Speaker 3: and you know when you developed a nice relationship from
- 17:03Speaker 3: there and you know when inspired a little bit just no, no,
- 17:13Speaker 3: but you know, we just hang out and have fun.
- 17:17Speaker 3: And the Comedy Selling is like a Mike family. Everybody
- 17:21Speaker 3: hangs out there and have fun and all that.
- 17:24Speaker 2: So yeah, and you wrote onpel show too, right, yes, yeah,
- 17:28Speaker 2: what catches did you write?
- 17:29Speaker 4: What did you write?
- 17:30Speaker 3: Well, it was the third season, the third season. You know,
- 17:36Speaker 3: it's funny. On that season we wrote now being bem
- 17:47Speaker 3: I and d experiment. That one's called the Black Men
- 17:53Speaker 3: in Dresses experiment, you know, because we saw first and
- 17:58Speaker 3: was siphilist then now to being towards some wall, being
- 18:03Speaker 3: the eye and whatever black men dresses And that's why
- 18:08Speaker 3: I line of that crazy ship and started.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Oh so when Yeah, So when Dave was getting to
- 18:14Speaker 2: the point where he wanted to walk away, it was
- 18:16Speaker 2: because of that.
- 18:17Speaker 3: Well yeah, and while wall but why.
- 18:20Speaker 4: Would but it was a sketchy all rode. So I'm
- 18:22Speaker 4: sure he had a perspective.
- 18:24Speaker 3: No, while I was thinking about you know, we were thinking,
- 18:27Speaker 3: but Dame just left complain.
- 18:30Speaker 4: Well, oh so you wrote that after he was gone.
- 18:33Speaker 3: No, we told him we didn't want to write it.
- 18:36Speaker 2: Okay, okay, what cat I mean?
- 18:39Speaker 3: Can? Dave was in and out, back and forth, and
- 18:43Speaker 3: when like, all is he going to stand? He's going
- 18:46Speaker 3: to lean and they laught. Wow.
- 18:50Speaker 4: What do you think drove him to that point?
- 18:53Speaker 3: I guess fresher, the fresher and the man I mean
- 19:01Speaker 3: am I am? I going to match mild and seasons
- 19:05Speaker 3: and the fresh white black and white black gets you
- 19:10Speaker 3: all the time every time, like people will call I
- 19:15Speaker 3: ain't saying, well maybe that Saint Charlemagne is a sellout.
- 19:20Speaker 3: You'll get that if you're on a radio long enough
- 19:22Speaker 3: with an opinion, sooner or later somebody black gonna call
- 19:26Speaker 3: you a.
- 19:27Speaker 2: Sellout, especially with the success.
- 19:28Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, but that's what happens. So that man, man,
- 19:35Speaker 3: that's what Dave too, and like, am I throwing it right?
- 19:39Speaker 3: Or black people are happy, but you can't worry about that.
- 19:43Speaker 3: We're gonna make mistakes, we're gonna do whatever, but you
- 19:48Speaker 3: know it'll work out, you know. And Dave is so
- 19:53Speaker 3: dope man, they like he's definitely one of the.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Best absolutely genius out.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Question that Dave told me in joke rank when and
- 20:07Speaker 3: the Chapelle Show, You're gonna tell me in joke? And
- 20:10Speaker 3: I'm like, oh man, that's funny, he said, Keith, that's
- 20:15Speaker 3: your joke. I'm like, he wrote the joke better than me,
- 20:19Speaker 3: you know, but he's that good. And like I respect Chappelle,
- 20:26Speaker 3: Chris Frock won the thanks. They worked like never before
- 20:33Speaker 3: and keep coming out with stuff all the time. So
- 20:38Speaker 3: we know who the guys are. You ain't got to
- 20:41Speaker 3: look for me. You know where they are. Dave Wanna,
- 20:45Speaker 3: Frince Cat, got cats up there, and you know all.
- 20:49Speaker 3: It's just like I like to see that. I like
- 20:56Speaker 3: to see us give folk credit that deserve credit. And
- 21:01Speaker 3: those guys keV has been doing for so long and
- 21:06Speaker 3: they're still doing it. That takes a lot. Richard Pryor,
- 21:11Speaker 3: who is the best, absolutely my top guy without a doubt,
- 21:18Speaker 3: you know, but after that you got you know, Dave Frish.
- 21:24Speaker 3: I say Wanda all the time because she don't get
- 21:27Speaker 3: the love that she deserves. But yeah, we got it.
- 21:33Speaker 3: We got a good thing going. And when people roll,
- 21:37Speaker 3: the comics are at each other. Everybody's at each other.
- 21:42Speaker 3: But the main thing. When I got sick, all the
- 21:45Speaker 3: comics helped me out. Chris Frug you know what I mean,
- 21:50Speaker 3: Winder Force, that's my sister. We were roommates, all of them.
- 21:57Speaker 3: John Avatow sign faultis as he came. People don't even
- 22:02Speaker 3: know all that.
- 22:03Speaker 4: You didn't want to do a roommates?
- 22:04Speaker 3: Yeah wait ninety two? Wow?
- 22:09Speaker 2: Yeah, how'd that happen?
- 22:11Speaker 3: Wow? It happened through like me and cried like Chris Frock,
- 22:17Speaker 3: we were on be t together, but I didn't like
- 22:20Speaker 3: him and all that one I'm gonna get him.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Why why did you like him?
- 22:24Speaker 3: Well? Because when I went to audition that time College Strip,
- 22:29Speaker 3: a guy named Dev Sweeler, he said, uh, when I
- 22:34Speaker 3: thought it good and it was eighty six, I thought
- 22:38Speaker 3: I killed But he's like nah, and one of the
- 22:42Speaker 3: good you see a guy named Chris Frock. I'm like
- 22:47Speaker 3: Chris Frock.
- 22:48Speaker 2: He was jealous.
- 22:49Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I finally got the meat press on
- 22:56Speaker 3: Bee T eighty eight and I'm like, yeah that we're
- 23:03Speaker 3: talking and a woman asked us on being a team,
- 23:07Speaker 3: what's your process? I said, well, in Philadelphia, lift my shoulders,
- 23:13Speaker 3: you know what I mean. We do, we work out,
- 23:16Speaker 3: we're trying to get better. Then Chris came up. He said, well,
- 23:22Speaker 3: I knew he had something. He said, well, in New York,
- 23:28Speaker 3: we're actually working for something HBO, NBC saying nah, And
- 23:38Speaker 3: I stroked more and more of my chairs listening to that,
- 23:43Speaker 3: and then I answer that I'll call one. He said,
- 23:47Speaker 3: we got to move to New York, and that's how
- 23:51Speaker 3: we moved to New York. And then ten years later
- 23:55Speaker 3: Chris picked Wanna for stretch show.
- 24:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:01Speaker 3: So you know, like a lot of people don't know
- 24:04Speaker 3: what everybody does and a connection. A lot of people
- 24:09Speaker 3: don't know your connection, your connection, who hooked out and
- 24:13Speaker 3: all that. They don't know that.
- 24:15Speaker 2: They just think, you know, they think it's some industry ship,
- 24:18Speaker 2: but they don't realize, like, no, these real relationships.
- 24:21Speaker 3: That ford the relationship, yes and grinding out and all that.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Why was upset? When you know how you know a
- 24:31Speaker 3: lot of things and when Chris Rock rought on the
- 24:34Speaker 3: show that chains Arkham and everything and Chris rockins got
- 24:41Speaker 3: a lot of people want in and people don't know that.
- 24:45Speaker 2: You think about that Chris Rock Show, Chris Rocket, Wanda Sykes,
- 24:48Speaker 2: Lewis c K. Who else is on that show? Dude
- 24:51Speaker 2: that play Poody Tame. What's the brother name? I can't
- 24:53Speaker 2: remember the name Lance Lance? Yes, yeah, they saything with Dave.
- 24:58Speaker 2: You watch Dave Show now so many people. That's somebody
- 25:01Speaker 2: that was all over Chapel Show, Bill Bird episode Rogan
- 25:06Speaker 2: Ye who is done? Now?
- 25:08Speaker 1: That'll rawlers man?
- 25:09Speaker 3: Stop it down that one. Let me tell you something.
- 25:11Speaker 3: It's not now.
- 25:14Speaker 2: He bugged me, donell he bugs me? Now, let's talk
- 25:18Speaker 2: about it.
- 25:18Speaker 3: Now we're gonna talk.
- 25:19Speaker 1: That's him right there.
- 25:20Speaker 5: You see him right there with getting Aggie's right there.
- 25:22Speaker 3: Talk about it.
- 25:23Speaker 2: He bugs me?
- 25:23Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about like he bugs all of us?
- 25:26Speaker 3: Now, this is this is kind of funny. I guess
- 25:29Speaker 3: he was in a movie, right, Which movie? I don't know.
- 25:33Speaker 3: It's When Cameron or something.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Oh, Death of a Dynasty one of the movies.
- 25:37Speaker 3: What those stupid movies was? But I handed him so
- 25:41Speaker 3: bad the movie I was rooting for him they get shot, Yes,
- 25:47Speaker 3: I was rooting. I'm kid him, get him.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Yes.
- 25:53Speaker 3: And then when he finally got shot, he still was
- 25:56Speaker 3: hammering it up, pop back up, I'm like I called him.
- 26:05Speaker 3: I said, I can't stand you. I was rooting for
- 26:08Speaker 3: you to get shot.
- 26:11Speaker 2: And how much I'm gonna use that one on him?
- 26:14Speaker 3: Now He'll tell you, well, why do love him? Now?
- 26:21Speaker 3: That's why I love down now? Ninety four ninety five,
- 26:25Speaker 3: I didn't shown in the projects, well, you know, mainly
- 26:32Speaker 3: for my boy. Nain't singaptary, but you know he had
- 26:36Speaker 3: passed away. But it was always asked me to door
- 26:39Speaker 3: shown in the neighborhood. But I wanted to, you know,
- 26:44Speaker 3: be the guy and come back triumphant and then happen.
- 26:48Speaker 3: So when when he died, I was like, whoa, We're
- 26:54Speaker 3: gonna do this show, right, a project And I brought
- 26:57Speaker 3: down now well Simmons in that one's and wrench falls
- 27:03Speaker 3: and one Dare and Donell killed so hard. He wasn't
- 27:09Speaker 3: mob back then. He was good now now, but he
- 27:22Speaker 3: killed so hard they still talk about him. You're talking
- 27:27Speaker 3: about a guy named Fat Timmy on the bank, on
- 27:31Speaker 3: Fat Timmy on Tommy. It was so funny and everybody
- 27:35Speaker 3: in the name one still remember Donald from that juontcause
- 27:41Speaker 3: there was that powerful and that's the only reason I
- 27:44Speaker 3: like that.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Now they said, well, I don't have a reason to
- 27:48Speaker 2: like he done. Is one of the best stand ups
- 27:51Speaker 2: doing it. You got you gotta give him his credit
- 27:53Speaker 2: because he'll say that we didn't get give too much credit.
- 27:56Speaker 2: But he's one of their best stand ups doing it
- 27:59Speaker 2: absolutely now.
- 28:00Speaker 1: At one time they said, you lost your voice.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Yes man, And after the stroke, my voice was gone,
- 28:09Speaker 3: my voice box and all that, and I got a
- 28:12Speaker 3: contraption on nine thousand dollars I'm putting in my mouth no,
- 28:24Speaker 3: and contraption stopped the air from escaping from my nose,
- 28:31Speaker 3: you know, and I end up losing it. But I
- 28:35Speaker 3: had enough confidence by that with my voice coming back
- 28:41Speaker 3: to go on. And I needed that one minute confidence
- 28:46Speaker 3: because that was mostly one the confidence I cann it.
- 28:52Speaker 3: And when you can talk and it's so frustrated and
- 28:57Speaker 3: I do it joking, and it's special. Different strokes about
- 29:03Speaker 3: going through the drawing room. And when you go through
- 29:07Speaker 3: the drawing room when you can talk clear, they barely
- 29:11Speaker 3: understand what you're saying. And they were like I was
- 29:14Speaker 3: at and I said the Chick Filang. I was at
- 29:18Speaker 3: the Chick Filane, and I was like can I and
- 29:21Speaker 3: so we don't understand you, and we don't understand I'm like, old, no,
- 29:28Speaker 3: your chick Filane. You saw nothing but chicken. Guess what
- 29:34Speaker 3: I want, you know, and just figure it out. You
- 29:40Speaker 3: ain't got nothing else chicken, That's it. And you know,
- 29:45Speaker 3: and that was a frustration, And it really was frustrating
- 29:51Speaker 3: when people don't understand you. You can't curge some my help,
- 29:56Speaker 3: but they gonna want, you know, they talk ship.
- 30:02Speaker 2: So did you ever think you lost your funny? Or
- 30:05Speaker 2: did you or did you ever lose your funny? Meaning
- 30:07Speaker 2: like you didn't find anything humorous?
- 30:10Speaker 3: No? Not, no, you know I found a lot of
- 30:14Speaker 3: stuff funny that happened, you know, because that's what it is,
- 30:22Speaker 3: you know. But like I said, when Chris, when I
- 30:26Speaker 3: went back to the cellar, Chris Rock his first thing
- 30:30Speaker 3: on hey stroking Robinson. I love like that. But that
- 30:37Speaker 3: let me know A was back. That's right, that's right.
- 30:39Speaker 3: You know, I ain't getting mad. I was back. I'm like, yes,
- 30:44Speaker 3: that's it.
- 30:44Speaker 1: What did you say back to him?
- 30:45Speaker 2: Though?
- 30:47Speaker 3: Not? I was laughing, Okay, anyone to understand anyone because
- 30:51Speaker 3: my voice was still messed up. So he like something
- 30:55Speaker 3: he said, stroking Robinson.
- 30:57Speaker 4: I'm like, my man, you know, did you say to
- 31:00Speaker 4: Chris after the Will Smith incident?
- 31:03Speaker 3: You know, I'm from feeling one from feeling you know, Charlie, Mike,
- 31:10Speaker 3: I know him and all that. I just didn't like it,
- 31:13Speaker 3: you know, because Chris is like, you know, I love
- 31:19Speaker 3: that guy, and you know I ain't me well, I lot,
- 31:25Speaker 3: but you know in pheeling, so I got I had
- 31:27Speaker 3: feeling love for him in the way. But man, that hurt.
- 31:32Speaker 3: And see that because there was you know that that
- 31:37Speaker 3: moment it was just it wasn't not I didn't laugh.
- 31:42Speaker 3: I didn't you know. I'm like, I wasn't.
- 31:45Speaker 4: It wasn't nothing funny about him.
- 31:47Speaker 3: I found funny and everything, but not not that. Maybe
- 31:51Speaker 3: it was somebody else I was like, but it was Chris,
- 31:55Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And that that doubt me
- 31:59Speaker 3: a little bit. You know, it's over, hopefully.
- 32:04Speaker 4: You know what did you say to him? Did you
- 32:05Speaker 4: say anything to him?
- 32:06Speaker 2: No?
- 32:07Speaker 3: I mean I would ride. I had a joke, but
- 32:14Speaker 3: it was just a one time joke. I ain't funneled
- 32:17Speaker 3: on nothing. Chris called me struggling Robinson. I'll call him
- 32:22Speaker 3: slapping white. You know that's a little, you know, a
- 32:27Speaker 3: little corny joke, but you know, saluted them.
- 32:30Speaker 2: What qualities do the greats like Kevin, Dave, Chris, what
- 32:35Speaker 2: qualities do they have that make them.
- 32:36Speaker 4: Who they are?
- 32:41Speaker 3: Ryan? They're working out, you know when we got there,
- 32:46Speaker 3: I'm coming, guys, young boy, and you shatz it's my
- 32:51Speaker 3: guy coming, you know, Michael Change coming, you know, And
- 32:58Speaker 3: I like to see that. I never was jealous him.
- 33:02Speaker 3: Anybody you're jealous of Chris. No, I wasn't jealous of him.
- 33:07Speaker 3: I was fake, man. I was kind of man with
- 33:10Speaker 3: somebody saying, hey, get out there and you should meet
- 33:15Speaker 3: Chris Rock. I mean, the guy was looking back on it,
- 33:19Speaker 3: the guy was absolutely right. But you know, yeah, like
- 33:27Speaker 3: I bring a lot of comics in, like the at
- 33:30Speaker 3: the end of my special, you see all the comics
- 33:34Speaker 3: around me when the credits rolling, But that's all the comics,
- 33:40Speaker 3: you know, you bring in. And I think every comic
- 33:45Speaker 3: bring another damn coming in. Stop talking and happened. I
- 33:52Speaker 3: loved what Tiffany had said, shah, they ready bring comic sins.
- 34:01Speaker 3: Stop from playing in the winding about you people, make
- 34:06Speaker 3: everything about themselves. What the common You keep bringing them
- 34:12Speaker 3: in and then you know it helps out. So you
- 34:17Speaker 3: have all the commons. Wait, man, you have all the comics,
- 34:24Speaker 3: and it's like and that keeps it going, you know,
- 34:29Speaker 3: like I said, and your show, Michael Chang, other folks
- 34:35Speaker 3: round your conquest from Roe Martin and Derek Ganges, Thin
- 34:40Speaker 3: and Am Johnson a name meana of money. All those
- 34:46Speaker 3: folks bring them in and you know, and then you
- 34:51Speaker 3: see it keeps going and going and it never stops.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Kevin did that for you with uh back of the
- 34:59Speaker 2: bus backing a bunch of funny Yeah, that was your
- 35:01Speaker 2: That was your first special. That was That was a
- 35:03Speaker 2: Kevin Hart persition.
- 35:04Speaker 3: Yeah, but Kevin knew better. What you mean he knew better?
- 35:09Speaker 3: I socked him, he didn't.
- 35:10Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what did more for you? That special back then?
- 35:15Speaker 2: Or that this one now? That Netflix?
- 35:17Speaker 3: This one?
- 35:18Speaker 2: Okay?
- 35:18Speaker 4: Why said that.
- 35:20Speaker 3: You can feeling you can feel one and ten you
- 35:25Speaker 3: know the ecosystem. Yeah yeah, yeah, you know and different strokes.
- 35:31Speaker 3: Now that one is doing great because it's back on now.
- 35:35Speaker 3: They brought him but on every platform. Excuse me, that's
- 35:40Speaker 3: ten years every platform. Back in the bunchet keeps going.
- 35:47Speaker 5: What made you want to do this special? What made
- 35:50Speaker 5: you say, you know I want to do it? Did
- 35:51Speaker 5: you feel like I don't know if I want to
- 35:53Speaker 5: put this out there?
- 35:54Speaker 3: No, I wanted to put that out here before before,
- 36:01Speaker 3: and when I was holding didn't even reform. I was
- 36:04Speaker 3: talking to Charlie Mack on the phone. I said, now what,
- 36:08Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a special and I'm gonna call it
- 36:12Speaker 3: different Strokes and he said what Yeah, he said, well,
- 36:17Speaker 3: what about different stroke And that's that's Charlie's then foot
- 36:21Speaker 3: shut up, Charlie. But yeah, I knew I wanted to
- 36:27Speaker 3: do something. And then when I got back on stage
- 36:30Speaker 3: for the first time, it was like I was nervous
- 36:35Speaker 3: because I didn't know my voice was list so I was,
- 36:40Speaker 3: you know, but and one one pretty good, and I
- 36:44Speaker 3: kept going and going. I called one to psych something.
- 36:48Speaker 3: I said, wanna, I'm ready to go on the road
- 36:53Speaker 3: and wanted to win a road and stop building and
- 36:57Speaker 3: building and building, And that was it.
- 37:01Speaker 2: I heard you say that you don't want audiences to
- 37:04Speaker 2: pity you. You know you want their laughs. How do
- 37:07Speaker 2: you know you're not getting pity laughs?
- 37:09Speaker 3: Oh? I know, okay, because I do my best, Like,
- 37:13Speaker 3: you know, they look at me when I see them
- 37:17Speaker 3: penny in man, you know, I'll throw something in there
- 37:21Speaker 3: and throw them all when they got this guy in
- 37:25Speaker 3: an asshole, and I'm saying, you know, I'm newing handicapped.
- 37:32Speaker 3: I was never a handicapped for when I'm doing this
- 37:35Speaker 3: shit but only thinking about it. Sometimes I'm forgetting that
- 37:39Speaker 3: them a handicapped when I find myself laughing and handicapped people,
- 37:46Speaker 3: so they like they gone that I give them those shots.
- 37:50Speaker 2: I feel like you can do that though it's like
- 37:52Speaker 2: a black person saying the N word, like we can
- 37:55Speaker 2: say it because we're black. I feel like you can
- 37:58Speaker 2: make handicapped jokes and laughing handicap people.
- 38:00Speaker 3: Because you know, there's what happened. People will be in
- 38:05Speaker 3: the handicamp, all in line right and feel coming and
- 38:09Speaker 3: look at me like this guy's a fraud. He wasn't
- 38:15Speaker 3: born handicap. We're born this way. And then look, you know,
- 38:20Speaker 3: I bought the person looking at me. He was asking
- 38:27Speaker 3: for it. This nigga was asking for it.
- 38:31Speaker 4: So there's a beef between naturally born.
- 38:35Speaker 3: So you like a you like trans handed Jesus Christy,
- 38:43Speaker 3: that's funny.
- 38:48Speaker 2: So this handicap and.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Trans handicap.
- 38:54Speaker 1: My goodness, you trans handicap.
- 38:57Speaker 5: Do you look at did you look at handycap people differently?
- 39:01Speaker 5: Because you know, because you know one time you would
- 39:05Speaker 5: just hayy cat'spot, just take the spot, just what it.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Is, you know what I mean? Do you look at
- 39:09Speaker 1: the handicap people differently?
- 39:10Speaker 3: And no, I mean I see what they go through now,
- 39:15Speaker 3: you know, And I'm more aware when I see a
- 39:21Speaker 3: guy want a handicap thing and he's walking with no problem.
- 39:26Speaker 3: I get it. Kind of I don't get kind of angry.
- 39:30Speaker 3: I ain't want to come on, man, look at me living,
- 39:34Speaker 3: you know what I mean, I get it.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Do you have any like stroke awareness, Like do you
- 39:41Speaker 2: tell people, like you know, other comedians or just people
- 39:44Speaker 2: in general, things that they can change now, so maybe
- 39:48Speaker 2: have some preventive measures to not have a stroke.
- 39:51Speaker 4: No, damn, I don't.
- 39:53Speaker 3: Give it down. No, No, I you know what. No,
- 39:59Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want them to do
- 40:01Speaker 3: that walk around the stroke.
- 40:05Speaker 5: Okay, but but you know, like because people should know, like,
- 40:09Speaker 5: you know, we talk about up here about men's health.
- 40:11Speaker 5: He always talks about, you know, getting a colonoscope. So
- 40:13Speaker 5: I was just questioned, like, you know, you you made
- 40:15Speaker 5: fun earlier about the you know, the the biabra, But
- 40:19Speaker 5: do you know what the reason was it?
- 40:20Speaker 1: High blood pressure? Was it the way that you ate?
- 40:22Speaker 1: Was it not sleeping?
- 40:23Speaker 2: Was it?
- 40:24Speaker 3: Yeah? Probably all that all on Bob, And you know
- 40:31Speaker 3: me in a coming I'm never going to do that
- 40:33Speaker 3: all right anymore? Run a month all time. You know
- 40:39Speaker 3: when I say, if there's something going wrong and you're feeling,
- 40:45Speaker 3: go down the hospital, I joke. I mean I was
- 40:51Speaker 3: a jackass. I won't. I would be still able to
- 40:56Speaker 3: box if I don't want you in the hospital still,
- 41:03Speaker 3: but I got lad. No, you do if if there's
- 41:11Speaker 3: something that you feel you gotta go to the hospital,
- 41:15Speaker 3: what the hell it is? Because you never know, you know,
- 41:20Speaker 3: and I knew, actually you know, I won't you know,
- 41:26Speaker 3: walking around like letting being like, oh ship, what's going on?
- 41:32Speaker 3: I'm probably asking like that was going you know what?
- 41:37Speaker 3: God was with me through all that, And you.
- 41:42Speaker 4: Know that is you think you're funnier now or funnier
- 41:44Speaker 4: before the scrouke?
- 41:47Speaker 3: Now? I think, you know, I actually think I'm funnier
- 41:50Speaker 3: now because I'm more in the pocket and more word
- 41:55Speaker 3: economy and I weren't like I'm painting man. And now
- 42:01Speaker 3: let me look at back in the bus. It's funny.
- 42:05Speaker 3: I was all over the place, moving around and can jive,
- 42:11Speaker 3: and I felt some movement can help out the jokes.
- 42:15Speaker 3: Moving now can't help out the jokes. Now and now
- 42:18Speaker 3: I have to express exactly one of the ends towards tea.
- 42:24Speaker 3: So I think her named me better now. But I
- 42:27Speaker 3: was always pretty good.
- 42:29Speaker 2: I remember you and Amy had that podcast or Three Girls,
- 42:32Speaker 2: One Keys. Yeah, I stopped doing that? Was that after?
- 42:36Speaker 3: Yeah? Why the first strike? That was the first struck? Okay,
- 42:41Speaker 3: the first struck? I was still moving. You know. We
- 42:44Speaker 3: did a thing Faull. Was I onder the thing? Was
- 42:51Speaker 3: I wrong? Now I'm gonna ask you guys, was I'm wrong?
- 42:56Speaker 3: This girl called me from New York? Right she was
- 42:59Speaker 3: in She said, Ky, come to filling up here and
- 43:06Speaker 3: let's gonna ride swim got something? I said, Well, I'm
- 43:10Speaker 3: coming from New York. I'm not coming for no reason.
- 43:16Speaker 3: Come on, now, you know what I'm saying. She said, no,
- 43:19Speaker 3: I got it. So we go to Red Lobson that's
- 43:22Speaker 3: when Red Lobster was a ship, and I go there.
- 43:27Speaker 3: She say, belting right, I said, well, we want to
- 43:35Speaker 3: go to this hotel, said no, I kind a headache.
- 43:39Speaker 3: I said, okay, okay, And so I said, oh this dessert,
- 43:45Speaker 3: I'm going to the bathroom. I mean, right back down
- 43:51Speaker 3: in my car and drove home. What was I'm wrong?
- 43:56Speaker 4: That woman when she heard about you on the scroll,
- 43:57Speaker 4: she said that was your carme.
- 44:03Speaker 3: Wrong?
- 44:04Speaker 2: Uh no, because you told her from the beginning.
- 44:07Speaker 5: You should at least paid your half paid jab. It
- 44:09Speaker 5: would have been that bad. You should have paid.
- 44:11Speaker 4: Jabb wasn't wrong, but you wasn't.
- 44:13Speaker 2: You wasn't wrong. You told her from the beginning.
- 44:15Speaker 4: You know what I mean, You're gonna pay his half.
- 44:16Speaker 4: It's like you know what I'm gonna.
- 44:17Speaker 2: Tell you something.
- 44:18Speaker 4: Keep Pussy has ruined your life.
- 44:20Speaker 3: You should be gay?
- 44:24Speaker 4: What That's what I've gotten from this whole conversation.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Pussy is absolutely ruined Keith Robinson's see now you're thinking
- 44:37Speaker 2: about it.
- 44:38Speaker 3: Maybe we're wrong.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Well, the Netflix special Different Strokes out right now.
- 44:45Speaker 4: Man, it's a pleasure to meet a legend like you.
- 44:47Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining us this morning.
- 44:49Speaker 3: Man.
- 44:49Speaker 2: Absolutely watch Different Strokes on Netflix right now. Man, Keep Robinson,
- 44:54Speaker 2: it's the breakfast Club.
- 44:55Speaker 3: Wake that ass up.
- 44:56Speaker 2: In the morning Breakfast Club