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INTERVIEW: Ron Taylor Talks Winning 'Funny AF' , Kevin Hart Roast, Stand-Up Comedy Tour + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Finish for y'all Dune.
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  Speaker 3: Morning. Everybody is the j en Vy Jess hilarious, Charlamagne
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  Speaker 3: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a
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  Speaker 3: special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 1: We do.
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  Speaker 3: He recently won the winner of Kevin Hart's Funny as
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  Speaker 3: Fuck competition on Netflix. Ladies and Gentlemen, comedian Ron Taylor welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Good brother, sweet ladies. How are you you know? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen the silk.
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  Speaker 4: Also a lot you know he Dominican.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've heard.
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  Speaker 3: And now he see right, Let's start from the beginning. Well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, congratulations away. Now you're from Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: That just correct?
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  Speaker 3: What up?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? What upright? Knew right?
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  Speaker 3: Now? What got you into comedy? Let's start with your
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  Speaker 3: your love of comedy?
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  Speaker 2: How that started? Man? Long story short, I was funny
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  Speaker 2: in school. Everybody say that, you know, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what else did that? You know? They say, ain't nothing
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  Speaker 2: else to do but be in school. I was funny
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  Speaker 2: in school and then uh, actually I had a second
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  Speaker 2: hour start. I don't know if y'all had that. So
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  Speaker 2: everybody went to school at eight. I went to school
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  Speaker 2: at nine because my because my first hour was lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Why was your first hour lunch?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess it's some Detroit stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, wait, yeah, for so you walk into school,
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  Speaker 4: there's lunch, my breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, there's lunch prepared. Correct. Well, no, that was just
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  Speaker 2: the period I had. They had breakfast food. But his
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  Speaker 2: first period was that person.
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  Speaker 4: First time was Jim he had.
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  Speaker 3: His first period was lunch.
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  Speaker 1: No offense. But was it like, were you like special
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  Speaker 1: need kids?
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  Speaker 3: What he just said were you were a special needs
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  Speaker 3: class lunch?
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Heard that before, so I didn't know if it was
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  Speaker 1: like a special program.
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  Speaker 2: You skipped all of Detroit just being weird and went
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  Speaker 2: to me being in the special class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's not really weird. It's it's special things
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  Speaker 1: for special needs kids.
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  Speaker 2: And we thought, like I was in advanced policement classes.
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  Speaker 2: I was special program.
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  Speaker 1: I left it open for you to tell me special
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  Speaker 1: lunch was advanced.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy. I had merit and honors class. But that's neither
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  Speaker 2: here nor there. Okay, The point is I didn't have to,
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  Speaker 2: but I had little brothers, so I would take them
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  Speaker 2: to school. I didn't have to go in till like
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  Speaker 2: nine o'clock, so I would sit in the car, eat
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  Speaker 2: donuts and drink coffee and listen to Ricky smiling and
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  Speaker 2: the kid when you say it like that, Yeah, year.
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  Speaker 3: Old, listen to Ricky smiling.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, listened to Ricky smiling in the morning and Steve Harvey. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So by the time I went to my second hour,
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  Speaker 2: which was physics, right, I'd just be in there joking
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  Speaker 2: around and stuff. I was on the swim team, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they'd be like, hey, say that thing you
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  Speaker 2: said again. And then eventually I heard Dave Chappelle say
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  Speaker 2: something that made sense where he said, being funny is
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  Speaker 2: a marketable skill, So let me go ahead and market
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  Speaker 2: this skill. That's how it get started. How was your.
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  Speaker 3: Family when you said, you know, you were special classes.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, I'm gonna need you advanced classes.
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  Speaker 3: You were in advanced classes, right, And what did your
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  Speaker 3: parents say when you said, after these advanced classes, I
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  Speaker 3: want to be a comic.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, but you know what, my mother is not gonna
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  Speaker 2: like this, but hey, you know it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: My mother was not a fan, not at all all.
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  Speaker 2: She was big time not a fan. Uh. My mama
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  Speaker 2: kicked me out the house. Okay, she took my car
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  Speaker 2: somehow she took the money out of my account right
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  Speaker 2: and kicked me out the house. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: that already. Now let her tell it it was for
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  Speaker 2: some other stuff, and I'm sure it was. But all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff happened around the same time, and the reality
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  Speaker 2: is just I wasn't doing what they thought I was
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  Speaker 2: going to do. You know, they didn't necessarily I say
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  Speaker 2: they my mother and father, They didn't necessarily have a
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  Speaker 2: plan for me, right, and said, what's y'all plan? We
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  Speaker 2: will know? Okay, Well, then don't worry about what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I went to college for theatre arts because again I
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  Speaker 2: heard Dave Chappelle say something about theatre arts, but just
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  Speaker 2: that deviation from what they thought. You know, they weren't
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  Speaker 2: big fans of it, but it didn't take long before
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  Speaker 2: they got on board, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And that ma, did you go back to the house,
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  Speaker 4: were you able to get back in the house? And
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  Speaker 4: did they give you your money back?
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  Speaker 2: I think my mother did give me my money back.
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  Speaker 2: I never got the car back, and I think I
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  Speaker 2: started living with women after that.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they said you were living in your cause.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Heart when he was up here, said that it
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  Speaker 4: was something like that, like you were homeless and trying
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  Speaker 4: to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: That So that was afterwards, So all of the Detroit
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  Speaker 2: stuff in the school, that was when I started, right,
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  Speaker 2: So it's like twenty ten, come twenty and sixteen. I
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  Speaker 2: bought a van and then I drove to LA and
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  Speaker 2: I lived in it until like twenty twenty three or
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  Speaker 2: something like.
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  Speaker 3: So you lived in the vent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you shower?
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  Speaker 3: I was asking you in event It's like, you can't
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  Speaker 3: be going up to stinking Oh I did not, especially
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  Speaker 3: men on the road.
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  Speaker 2: La Fitness was my goal to the one on Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: by that CBS. Okay, that's my goal to Planet fitness sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not a monster this Planet fitnesses. Planet Fitnesses. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's not where.
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  Speaker 3: It about a bunch of white guys walking around with
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  Speaker 3: small pps.
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  Speaker 1: Just you see how it goes back to I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Just asking yes, sorry, it's cheap and it's twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 2: so you get worse or the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a truck stop kind of yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And if I had to would you'd be surprised
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  Speaker 2: how like well this works. I would have I'd buy
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  Speaker 2: wet wipes in bulk and I just do the Denzel
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  Speaker 2: from what was that movie book at Eli and.
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  Speaker 3: Just oh wow, okay, little bird Bath.
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  Speaker 4: So now because everything is like, yeah, are you kind
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  Speaker 4: of used to it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still getting used to the fact that, like.
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  Speaker 3: Well before you get there? What was the big break?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry how they find you for Funny AF?
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  Speaker 2: I think I just auditioned to tell you the too,
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  Speaker 2: or sent it in a tape. My reps might have
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  Speaker 2: sent me something and I just but I had been
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  Speaker 2: around for a while and said that rep.
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  Speaker 4: So what got you signed? Like, what were you doing
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  Speaker 4: that was big enough for you to even get signed
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  Speaker 4: before Funny?
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  Speaker 2: Just being in the clubs every night, being in the
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  Speaker 2: clubs talking stuff, Yeah, being in the comedy clubs and
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  Speaker 2: just you know, just trying to do something Like when
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  Speaker 2: I was in my van, I did like a show
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  Speaker 2: in my van where I would cook a meal and
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  Speaker 2: like podcast interviewer person. So people enjoyed that.
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  Speaker 4: Big was very innovative, Like you made you know, you
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  Speaker 4: had a little bit to work with, but you made
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  Speaker 4: it work it out of something.
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  Speaker 3: Just he had a kitchen in the vator?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, is it like one of the like vintage like seventy.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like RV No. No, no, it was a
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  Speaker 2: Eve one fifty. That's an econno line that is yet
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and two. So I gutted it and I
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  Speaker 2: did what they call a no whole conversion. That's where
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  Speaker 2: you don't drill no holes, you just start hanging stuff up, right.
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  Speaker 2: So I just put a bed in there and a cooler.
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  Speaker 2: I had a little bunching crack burner. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it made it work. They don't know what it advanced.
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  Speaker 2: People be stealing kids, and you know it is in
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  Speaker 2: the vans. Was wonderful. People enjoyed it. You you go
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  Speaker 2: out and you had a company in the vent. Brother,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you listen, it's people out here getting
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  Speaker 2: busy outside. Hello, Okay, I got a bed and a
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  Speaker 2: cooler full of wine. Who ain't trying to spend some
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  Speaker 2: just hanging up.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, how did they find how
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  Speaker 4: did they find you? For funnyf that was another question.
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  Speaker 1: They saw the van.
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  Speaker 2: I wish that my van got confiscated, But that's a
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  Speaker 2: whole nother story. I'll get another one now. I think
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  Speaker 2: I can. I probably afford it. No, yeah, yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I put I put in like, like I said, an application,
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  Speaker 2: and then I did the first round in Chicago, then
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  Speaker 2: the second round was in l A. And then it
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  Speaker 2: just continued forward. But it was kind of like an
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  Speaker 2: open casting call to everybody. So I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: my reps pulled some strings that I'm unaware of. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just did the application and had kind
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  Speaker 2: of been around already, like I said, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Just maybe you just stood out because I noticed on
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  Speaker 4: Funny the Judge the judges took a liking to you,
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  Speaker 4: like straight off the rip. And then Kevin said when
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  Speaker 4: he was up here, he like instantly liked you. It
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  Speaker 4: was something about you that stood out to me, like
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  Speaker 4: young Norman, hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: I love the microphone bush yo, I told you that
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  Speaker 1: on the Red Car. But at the roast, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Why you wann't hurt my feelings like that?
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  Speaker 1: Man look even more like norm Bits.
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  Speaker 4: But no, but listen, absolutely loved style and everything. But
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  Speaker 4: you stand out and that's what I feel like you
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  Speaker 4: got to do in comedy these days because the comedy
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  Speaker 4: industry is very oversaturated.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're very original.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I try to be. It's funny
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  Speaker 2: that just wearing my hair the way it grows. Like
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  Speaker 2: all black people's hair grow like this, most black people hair.
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  Speaker 1: You should ain't have yet to grow.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, like I'm glad that it stands out.
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  Speaker 2: And you're absolutely right. Comedy is I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: call it oversaturated, but it's definitely super saturated. Like but
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the nature of the Internet, right, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is actually a great thing. You get a bunch
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  Speaker 2: more of all the different versions of comedy, but you
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  Speaker 2: get like unlimited amounts of all the comedy. But it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, as a consumer, it's your job to
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  Speaker 2: siphon through and find what's what, and it's our jobs,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, comedy producers, to stand out exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a lot of the same types of comedy.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I mean. Like you stood out, you still
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  Speaker 4: stand out, you know what I mean. So I really
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  Speaker 4: like that, That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean like like I mean, like, I'll take
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  Speaker 2: it wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Now, who was your favorite comedian coming up? Was it
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Art? Was it Dave Chappelle? You kept saying Dave?
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  Speaker 3: Like who was who was your inspiration?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, in no particular order, Okay, Bernie Mac I see it,
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  Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Patrise O'Neill, and then I'll throw
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  Speaker 2: a throw Lewis c k in there. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those were my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I see that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean like that, it's only so many
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  Speaker 2: black comedians to even look at from that era. I've
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  Speaker 2: had people tell me that, you know, I sound like Dave,
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  Speaker 2: I sound like Chris. Matter of fact, David Pale said,
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  Speaker 2: I look like Bernie Mack. I think that's just the
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  Speaker 2: hair in the era.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you said Bernie Mack court, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's only so many of us, but those are
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  Speaker 2: those were my guys.
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  Speaker 4: So what from your life has been like the biggest
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  Speaker 4: thing that has changed since winning funny m h.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good question. Probably just buying flights early.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that is such a love right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I know a lot of people do
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  Speaker 2: that already.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, but I know what you what you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like man, that like trying to God, trying to
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  Speaker 2: call my mother to ask for money to borrow.
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  Speaker 3: Jeez, Louise, it's just whens the last time you called
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  Speaker 3: your mam master?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I mean when was when was funny af
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  Speaker 2: of a day? Funny if I won the fifth the
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  Speaker 2: week before I was talking to my mama about the money. Yeah? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well she support up? Did she understanding at this point?
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  Speaker 3: Was she's still on some you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, she enjoys having me gravel, which really is kind
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  Speaker 2: of why I stopped. You know, if I'd be like, hey, mom,
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  Speaker 2: can I get twenty dollars? Now? You need twenty dollars?
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  Speaker 2: How does it feel? So? Yeah, not having to do
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  Speaker 2: that has been wonderful some people knowing me already, I
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: live life like a bum. I'll tell you the truth, right.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy being able to get on the bus, not
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  Speaker 2: have my hair combed. But what's been happening now is
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  Speaker 2: like people like, hey, are you the guy from so?
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  Speaker 2: I guess I gotta, you know, look more presentable nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's not getting on the bus.
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  Speaker 2: You don't ever get on the bus.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like I'll be doing especially not in New York.
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  Speaker 4: I do not be doing that, right, Okay, but if you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to still, you can do the bus if you want,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can get a van Honda otse primium.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: That's a humble enough vehicle, you'd be good. Yeah, I know,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: you get that one hour Netflix special. So are you
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  Speaker 4: already getting your material together for that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well, you know, kind of the nature of
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  Speaker 2: comedy is you're always writing, at least you should always
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  Speaker 2: be writing. So you know, I've I've prepared, I've collected
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  Speaker 2: jokes over the years. I've been doing this for sixteen years,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I've got a bunch of material. But
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  Speaker 2: once you're doing a special, you want it to be special.
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  Speaker 2: So whether I go from developing things that are already
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  Speaker 2: got or just coming up with new jokes, I'll take
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  Speaker 2: the time to like make sure that this special is
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  Speaker 2: as good as I can make it. You know.
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  Speaker 4: So and you try and you had you rehearse all
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  Speaker 4: of your material only in la or do you travel
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  Speaker 4: and do it like.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know you are all over the place, but preparing for
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  Speaker 4: your special because some people don't take their special the
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  Speaker 4: jokes that they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on their special everywhere, right right right, It's just
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  Speaker 1: like certain places.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not at that level because the.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: People record and all of that stuff you want to
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  Speaker 4: save you don't want to burn your That is fair.
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  Speaker 2: You are right, And I have run into that. I
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  Speaker 2: ran into that at the Netflix is a Joke Festival
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  Speaker 2: and I'm up there just talking about god knows what,
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  Speaker 2: and people get their cameras up and say, hey, lady,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: put the camera down. She's smiling keeping it up. Put
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  Speaker 2: the camera down for real. But I never had that
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  Speaker 2: issue before, So I'm not gonna let that stop me
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  Speaker 2: from like going out and like preparing the material. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just wherever I can get up, that's where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like comedy is and I said this just
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  Speaker 3: all the time, it seems like they let the I
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  Speaker 3: would say, the hand comes off a lot more recently,
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  Speaker 3: right before, I seemed like comics were kind of nervous
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  Speaker 3: to say certain things because I think society was so
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  Speaker 3: quick to cancel. Did you notice that at all?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I think it's just like fun to have
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: people be in trouble. You know, we just just as
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  Speaker 2: a society is like if we can point and wag
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: the finger, we will so like so like the Kevin
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  Speaker 2: Hart Rose that just took place, correct, I was there, right.
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  Speaker 2: All of those people are either friends or associates of mine.
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  Speaker 2: And none of these people are like going around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bothering black people. Right, this is just their job. But
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: the fact that we can say, oh he's a racist,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: or this person is sexist or whatever, it's like this
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: as a society, we enjoyed doing that. What did you
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: think of George Floyd jokes? Well, to tell the truth,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that it was what it was until afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: I just heard something something George Floyd. It wasn't until
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: afterwards when I heard the looking up at us I
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: was like, oh god. But again, this is Tony Hinchcliff.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he got paid to do. If he
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  Speaker 2: didn't do that, that'd be an issue. Now, if you
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: don't want what Tony does, you don't hire him. But
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: you know, here we are, what two weeks after, three
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  Speaker 2: weeks after, and we're still talking. I know Tony, he's
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  Speaker 2: a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: You can't say that after the George Floyd joke, But
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I will say this. You know, do you think that
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: people took that roast and look at more of what
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Tony said opposed to what the whole reason of the
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: roast was.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But again, like I said that, that's what we do, right,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: We we nitpick just as human beings, not the best
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: of us, the worst, but just as human beings, we go, oh,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: this is something I don't like. Like people call into
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the radio to complain about something. You don't call in
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and say, hey, I love that song. It's not what
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: people do. People call in to complain. So the people
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: that are the most vocal are the people who did
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: not like, there's probably more that enjoyed it. They're just like,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: onto the next thing. But you know the jokes, there's
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: people out here really doing this stuff. Nobody got mad
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: or did anybody think about what's the name Derek Chauvin,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: how's he doing well?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: They actually, yeah, there was a they just held a
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: moment of silence.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Of silence Republicans. I thought he was when they said
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: moment of silence.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: But George his family actually said a wrep for the
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Gianna of Floyd and George Wlait organization said that they
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: felt like the roast actually led to that moment because
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: it made people feel like it was cool to do
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: to support racist racist or racism.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Is he dead? No, they held the moment of silence.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Oh in jail, well, monkey flip them, you know whatever,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: it'd be all right, monkey flip Jesus correct.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Is there anything that you stay away from with your comedy?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: It's like, you know what, I'm not gonna do politics,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: so I'm not going to do this. Is there something
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: that you avoid?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: There's things that I don't do right now for whatever reason.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I don't avoid anything, but like politics. You know, I'm
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: not extremely versed in politics, you know, so I don't
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: do that. It's it'd be difficult for me to talk
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: about a family because I ain't got one, right, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I came from one, but I don't have Yeah, I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: ain't got no woman, i ain't got no kids, So
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: it's difficult to talk about that. Relationships. I ain't really
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: had too many of them. Said you got girl?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Girl was laughing right out there, drawing, So he was
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: living with them girls, and y'all want to even a relationship.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: These are situation chips.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: What's your sign?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I'm Alie b.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: He was looking for shelter.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Laurence like what you were saying and what you like.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: You know, you can't help to pay the bills. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: just care for you so much to just come in
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: here and you're not even in a relationship.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Come in here and make me laugh. Listen and sit
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: down there we eat.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I was I was throwing beef, talking about rowls draws.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: They play like your name? Did you walk around with
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: little shrimps?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Listen?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: He ain't got that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Little beef around.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I was in my twenties. I said, I had all
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the energy in the world. I was breaking stuff, you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: but we got it together at the right time. In
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: my thirties, you know, the energy start to decline.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: He played too much. Are any of those women nights
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the sill of your life today?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: All of them? Yeah? Especially now? Yeah? They hit me up?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: How you do?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Shut up whatever they're trying to get back in my life.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I love him too, I don't care. I love him
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: some more beef.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how was the tonight show?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Tonight show was great? You know this entire like, what
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: did you call it? Run? I guess ascension has been wonderful.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's like, there are different things that I thought I'd
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: be doing. I just didn't know I would feel how
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I feel right now. When I was doing them, I
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: envisioned myself being on the breakfast club, right but in
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: my mind, I don't know. I was taller, I had
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: a six pack you know, I was cussing people out,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: trying to defend god knows what.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you think, like a controversial mom.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but that's just in the shower. What
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: you're thinking, like I tell you something, Charlotte Mayne, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: all that stuff exactly, but more than that, like I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: just here and it's talking about the little shows I've
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: done and what it's turned into. So when I was
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: at the tonight show, it's like I didn't know that
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: i'd feel that, I want to say, nervous, but like
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: all of this stuff is such a production. You see
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: it on TV and it's like backdrop blah blah blah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: but there's like people, there's people's jobs to like hold
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: your hand and stuff like that. I kind of felt
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a certain way when I did it, but I watched
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: it yesterday it came out great.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so oh yeah, I guess I am a profession
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: right overthinking, Yeah, you know, you're a star. Are you
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: shocked with your success?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: It sounds like it shocked. No, not shocked, it's more
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: so like, oh.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, I mean I'm here.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I guess I guess it's here.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Is it hard for you to accept that you're here.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no no. I mean because
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: obviously anything can go any way at any time.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you just needed twenty dollars last week from you.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's more interesting to me is keeping it and like,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: you know, doubling up on it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Right, so anybody can I want a contest, you know. Now,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I had somebody tell me like, hey, don't let anybody
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: let you feel like you're a contest winner. All of
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the work you did up until this point allowed you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to succeed in that contest. Well that was Dave Chappelle.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Now I feel that. But all so, I want to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: contest period. So it's like I gotta keep going, you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: like I'm here now, Like I don't want to be
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: on lad TV explaining some controversy after this. I want
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to keep going.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: The week after week after week.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: What's the conversation with Kevin Hard Like if you have conversations.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Uh, Kevin is He's just a just a magnanimous guy,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: you know. Like people were asking me like how short
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: is he? And I'm not, as the kids say, gleazing
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: right now, but like he you don't feel that he's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: that short, right, because yes, he's wearing you know, just jewelry,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: and he's just saying all this important stuff and he's
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: swinging around like I want to change your life like this,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and then he does. So he's just a great guy
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and you can tell he's like he's just a smart dude,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: just a smart dude. So the conversation we had was like, hey,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you're on right now. I'm gonna make sure I have
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: a that's the interest in you. You failing is not
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: good for me. All of you all doing good looks
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: good on me. So I'm gonna make certain that you're good.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: And then here I am.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: So yeah, he said, he's swinging around.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Now, if there was one thing you said, you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: you dreamed of taking a shower and cursing L Charlamagne,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: what would you curse him out about? Is this something
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: that he did to you to pick you up because
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: we can, we can jump him right now.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, there was nothing in particular, like
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I said, you know, I just I just thought. I
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: didn't really think. But I don't even know what to
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: call it. But like when you just envision yourself places
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: like I'm explaining something I don't know why I just
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: put myself in trouble, right. But you know, I've been
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: a fan of the show forever. The only thing I
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: ever you know, which this is old news, but I ain't.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I ain't like what he did the little Mama.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: That was sometimes I cry for her.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, him and Little Mama's going back
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and forth with each other. That that's how it started.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: But it just it looked like a jumping. It looked
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: like looked like Charlott Mayne had full arms, like that
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: was the way he gat at her.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Was just like, oh god, Mama's dad was gonna shoot
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: me over that one. Yeah, I tell that another day.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I was on the street one day and you know
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: he was he was working construction, and I was outside
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: of my car and all of a sudden I heard yo, y'all,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, all this construction worker started
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: coming out and I'm like, I'm not paying it no
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: mind whatever. Maybe they know who they want a picture.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I see him go in the car because his calls
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: parked in front of me, the cause water from me.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: And then I seen him put a pistol in his pocket.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh boy, and he walked. He was like
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: He's like, I'm a little mama's dad. You know what
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm not Charlet, I'm not Charlotte, but I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: that's another story for another.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Envy's van and was like, listen, he was talking about
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: my daughter.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: He was, he was serious, he was, he was de serious.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's a hell of an intro. I'm a little mama's dad.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: First of all, brother, what's your name? Right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: But if he said his name is Charles, I wouldn't
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: be like, I'm like, all right, Chae. No, that was
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: the right intro.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And the fact that he's work in construction, it's like, brother,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: get back to work. So many factors involved in that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: But I'm glad you're okay.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Man. Has there been a date set for your special No?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Not really. You know, we're looking at time frames, and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: of course like the closer the better. What was more important,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: especially to me, is making sure that it's done, making
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: sure it's as good as I can have it be,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: because I don't want to turn in a subpar thing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: So if that's next year, spring, summer, fall, then you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: so be it. But right now I'm just on the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: road trying to make these jokes I've never had to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: make jokes in a small window of time. I've had
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: sixteen years to make all the jokes in the world.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: But now let's just say it was sometime next year. Okay,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: now you gotta make I've never done that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, what you got this?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: How can people check you onto? I know you onto.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I was gonna name some of your dates, but you
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: got so many talking about people? He says, yeah, talk
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: about people. I can follow you and definitely check you
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: out on the road. Brother, Yeah, you.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Can follow me at comedian Ron to you on Instagram,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Facebook and Twitter. Actually not on Twitter. I got kicked off.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I have no idea why did you get What did
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: you say? I don't know. Yeah, I got no I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: never even use it. They just kicked being who knows why.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Thought she was like a little bit fan page and
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: they don't be like we're banning this.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I told you that hurts my feelings. Who knows why.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm on there. My website actually just launched,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: which is what is comedian Ron Taylor dot com? Boom
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: there it is comedian Ron Taylor dot com.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm such an old sol y'all.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: On there you can find all of my dates and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: what now, I'm out every week into the end of
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: this year. This is the I ain't asked my mama
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: for nothing to her.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Get that money back. I ain't manage it your dates.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: She been coming out to everything, every sense of funny
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: af she's been coming out like a super fan. Okay,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that's my son. Whatever.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: She just needed you to get to a fast Well, yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: You know what. You're absolutely you're absolutely correct, but you
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: know you can't you can't rush, can't rush, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: but you're right. No, she she put the greatness in me,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: you know, her in my in my father. So you
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: know they're doing great, but still come on out every
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: weekend for the rest of this year so that I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: an't ask my mama for nothing to her, I ain't management.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, it is Ron Taylor, and we appreciate
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: you for joining us. You better come back were you
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: in New York? You better come back up on Star
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: next time you're up here. All right, All right on
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: a good brother, sweet ladies. Let you know, just abody's
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: like you got West Nyack City, Yeah city, writery father,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: there you go. It's the Breakfast Club. Is Ron Taylor
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: hold every day?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: A week ago.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Click your glass up the breakfast club you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Don't finish for y'all, Dune