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Jo Koy Reveals How He Built His Comedy Career From Nothing · Get TO The Point

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Get to the Point. I'm your host, and
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  Speaker 1: I got my other host right here, Chris Spencer. This
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  Speaker 1: is Terrell Owens, and we have a special guest. All
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  Speaker 1: our guests are special, but we have Joe Coy in
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  Speaker 1: the building. I'm going to find out a lot about Joe.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot about him.
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  Speaker 2: I do, like, five years old.
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  Speaker 1: Joe, I want you to tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of something. Give us something that we don't know about you,
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  Speaker 1: because all I know is you're from Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: You have one son. You like to shoot up the
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  Speaker 2: club like I do. You're not athletic.
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  Speaker 3: He is athletic.
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  Speaker 2: We already did some research. We found nothing. Did you
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  Speaker 2: play sports?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't play any sports.
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  Speaker 2: See what I'm talking about? I've done my research on you, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Not athletic. And maybe you're funny. Maybe you're funny.
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  Speaker 1: But by the end of the show, we will come
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  Speaker 1: to a conclusion with that.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I mean, with that intro, I can only
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  Speaker 4: be happy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, minimum, we know he could dance his ass off, right?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought you hooped or something in high school.
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  Speaker 4: No. No. I can play.
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  Speaker 2: Quit trying to make him athletic, Tom.
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  Speaker 3: No, well, stop trying. He always wants to be the
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  Speaker 3: only athlete. You know what's crazy?
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  Speaker 4: If someone like, you know, T.O. says you're not athletic,
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  Speaker 4: you try to accept that.
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  Speaker 5: If it was Dalai Lama, she'd be like, fuck you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm like, I'll beat you. Right. But if
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  Speaker 4: he says you're not athletic.
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  Speaker 3: But he does that. He doesn't realize there's levels to
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  Speaker 3: being an athlete.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he just so happened to be way up there.
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  Speaker 3: There's some of us down here that are the shit.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the only place you can be, Chris, as
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  Speaker 4: far as athletic. I'm helping you. Don't help this motherfucker.
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  Speaker 2: He's just confirming.
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  Speaker 3: Same team.
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  Speaker 4: No, yeah, we are on the same team. That's the
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  Speaker 4: only thing. Exactly, see?
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  Speaker 3: This is Hall of Fame shit. This is different.
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  Speaker 4: When people talk sports with someone that actually plays sports,
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  Speaker 4: it's the most annoying thing to watch. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why we keep going to the media to watch that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care about the guy that's never played his opinion.
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  Speaker 4: And look how he's still in shape. I know.
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  Speaker 3: You can see his abs in a fur coat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I can see his chest through this cashmere sweater. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Terry Crews.
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  Speaker 4: That's hilarious. So do that. Since you guys are wearing
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  Speaker 4: the same outfit.
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  Speaker 3: We're glad to have you here, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Thank you. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm sure you're going somewhere around the world this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm shooting this thing with Martin Lawrence. Really? It's amazing. Martin...
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  Speaker 4: is producing it, and I'm hosting it, and it's the
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  Speaker 4: most amazing thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the thing with the amateur comedians?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh, talk to us about it. Well, they're not,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just, they're comics that haven't had shine yet. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So similar to the Kevin Hart funny AF? Yeah, funny AF.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And there's not too many of those, so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: thank God Kevin's doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: The difference between Kevin's and ours is, I told Martin,
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  Speaker 4: I go, I don't want it to be a competition. Right. Like,
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  Speaker 4: let's let everybody shine, because... comedy is subjective. Just because
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  Speaker 4: you're a stand-up comic doesn't mean everyone's gonna like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's like there's country, there's rap, there's rock. Same thing
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  Speaker 4: with stand-up. There's political, there's storytellers, there's puppeteers. So it's
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  Speaker 4: like I wanna give everyone a chance to shine and
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  Speaker 4: Martin agreed. you know, initially he wanted it to be
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  Speaker 4: a competition. Right.
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  Speaker 3: As is everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, but we did that last comic
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  Speaker 5: standing and all those other shows.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And like, and one thing I had to convince Warren,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, bro, you gave us Def Jam and
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  Speaker 4: you gave us a billion dollars worth of talent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Hollywood is still banking off of the talent
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  Speaker 4: that came off of Def Jam. So let's do that.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do, let's give these cats that opportunity to shine.
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  Speaker 4: I still remember Bill Bellamy's set from Def Jam. I
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  Speaker 4: still remember Bernie Mac's set from Def Jam. Even though
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  Speaker 4: he did all this stuff, I still remember Def Jam's set.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a little small known fact. Chris Tucker, that leather
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  Speaker 5: vest he has on.
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  Speaker 4: I love this story.
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  Speaker 3: I told you that, right? That's my vest he's wearing.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. I had just met him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you should have kept it because he's funny.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: What do you say? I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: I can't even protect you. I want to defend you,
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  Speaker 4: but then I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: What's funny is, I was like, we need to get
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Marshall to be my co-host.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but nonetheless.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that kind of hurts.
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  Speaker 3: That don't hurt him at all. He loves himself too much.
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  Speaker 3: Only two words hurt.
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  Speaker 4: You?
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  Speaker 5: He's like Brandon Marshall. I thought you were coming with
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  Speaker 5: something a little better than that. I'm judging the Jerry
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  Speaker 5: Rices and Randy Mosses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Carter.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I hate Chris.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't stand him.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Strong dislike.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: As a person or as a receiver?
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  Speaker 4: Both. Really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Strong dislike.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, let's get a good sound bite. What happened?
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  Speaker 4: No, now.
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  Speaker 2: You want it now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So then we can have them on the show and
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  Speaker 3: then you guys can make up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is okay. Obviously, I'm playing with San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an emerging receiver behind Jerry Rice, J.J.
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  Speaker 2: Stokes. I can't remember if this was the- J.J.
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  Speaker 4: Stokes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, UCLA. Yeah, I can't remember if this was the
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  Speaker 1: year that J.J. was hurt, so I played a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm in the playoffs. We go into the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and we're playing the Vikings. I don't know what round
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  Speaker 1: it was, but we played them.
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  Speaker 2: I go off.
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  Speaker 1: I scored like one or two touchdowns, and we beat
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  Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. So after the game, I go
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  Speaker 1: into the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: I'm undressing.
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  Speaker 1: The reporters are already over into the loser's locker room.
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  Speaker 1: They've already talked to them. So he comes back over
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  Speaker 1: to our locker room, and he's interviewing me. And he
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, I just left the locker room with
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings. And he said, man, did you hear what
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  Speaker 1: Chris Carter said about you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, nah.
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  Speaker 1: He said, yeah, Chris Carter basically said that– Their DBs
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  Speaker 1: made a mediocre receiver look like a pro bowler today. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: never forgot it. Never forgot it.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen him since?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Have you said stuff to him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Let me finish my story. So fast forward, that year
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  Speaker 1: I make the Pro Bowl. Back then the Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 1: was over in Hawaii. We stand at the luxurious Ihilani Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: So all the players we go in for this meeting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the players come in. And they do
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  Speaker 1: like the little, all the everything. Everybody's filling into the room,
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  Speaker 1: the ballroom. And so I end up just sitting down
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  Speaker 1: and then he end up sitting next to me. And
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  Speaker 1: he started to communicate with me. And I'm like, I'm cool. Like,
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  Speaker 1: why are you even talking to me? I said, remember,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a mediocre receiver, but where am I? I'm right
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  Speaker 1: here with you. So I can't be that mediocre.
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  Speaker 2: So after that, we had our little words. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: said anything to him since. And here I am.
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  Speaker 4: Here I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised for you.
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  Speaker 2: So here I am.
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  Speaker 4: Chris! Chris!
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  Speaker 2: Come on in.
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  Speaker 4: I drove him. That's why I'm late.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on in. Come on in.
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  Speaker 4: Chris!
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  Speaker 1: And granted, like, I'm a Hall of Fame receiver. Eclipse,
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  Speaker 1: all his stats, this and that and the other. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, that was early on in my career,
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  Speaker 1: but I always remembered it. It was another one, too,
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  Speaker 1: over in the Bay Area, that wore number 81 with
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  Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders, Tim Brown. He had some little snippy
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  Speaker 1: stuff to say about me, too.
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  Speaker 2: I let him know, too.
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  Speaker 3: Nonetheless, Chris Tucker wore my vest on Def Jam.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But fuck that.
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  Speaker 2: That's just short.
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  Speaker 3: This is not a sports show.
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  Speaker 4: Can I jump on that and elaborate? Is it because
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  Speaker 4: they hated the fact that you were so, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: not doing this because I'm on your pod. Is it
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  Speaker 4: because you were doing some pretty superhero shit and they
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  Speaker 4: never did that? Because I still remember you ripping your ankle,
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  Speaker 4: wasn't it the ankle?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tore my ankle.
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  Speaker 4: And what you did with Philly, it was things that
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  Speaker 4: we've never seen before. Seriously, what is this man doing
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  Speaker 4: right now? And it's like, do you think it's because
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  Speaker 4: who you're saying is Tim Brown and Chris Carter? It's like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't recall them doing superhero shit like that.
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  Speaker 1: And the Tim Brown thing is because look in the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area, you had some dynamic receivers in that Bay Area.
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area so it was almost like the battle of
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  Speaker 1: receivers but not but not really he wore 81 I
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  Speaker 1: wore 81 yeah and then I was the emerging receiver
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  Speaker 1: like I started to like really just kind of really
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  Speaker 1: burst onto the scene yeah and then like I said
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  Speaker 1: when I was scoring the tell the touchdown celebration then
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  Speaker 1: it was making SportsCenter every weekend and I guess it
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  Speaker 1: was just maybe overshadowing things that he was doing but
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  Speaker 1: I never paid any attention to what the Raiders were
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  Speaker 1: doing but I was making SportsCenter pretty much every weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And so maybe it got under his skin, but they
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  Speaker 1: had some negative things to say in the newspaper and
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  Speaker 1: things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I got wind of it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, I've never been a person to hate
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  Speaker 1: on anybody because I knew how I got to where
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  Speaker 1: I got.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't known as the speedy, fast receiver, great hands,
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  Speaker 1: didn't go to a power five school. There was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of uncommon things that I did that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: possess that I brought to the table. And I became T.O.,
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  Speaker 1: right in front of, you know, right.
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  Speaker 2: Up under their noses.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about your rise. Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a good segue.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have.
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  Speaker 5: Adversity like that with people saying he's not funny? Or
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  Speaker 5: he shouldn't be on this show? Or why are you
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  Speaker 5: paying him that much?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't even know how to say this
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  Speaker 4: because we came in a different time. So, like, to
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  Speaker 4: explain this to the newer generation is kind of like
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  Speaker 4: talking to a wall. They're not going to understand this.
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  Speaker 3: No, but explain it to them. That's a whole different
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  Speaker 3: way you came up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, because racism was huge, right?
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  Speaker 2: So don't say it was it's still I mean it
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  Speaker 2: still is but it.
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  Speaker 4: Was blatantly bad when we came up like he you.
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  Speaker 7: Know everyone knows that Chris Chris hosted one of the
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  Speaker 7: greatest shows of all time which was called Chocolate Sunday
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  Speaker 7: like understand the definition of that word Chocolate Sunday it's
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  Speaker 7: a black night on the Sunday night why is it
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  Speaker 7: a Sunday night?
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  Speaker 4: Because that's the night that they can't sell tickets. That's
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  Speaker 4: the night that usually the comedy club turns off the lights.
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  Speaker 4: So you know what? Since there's a demand for black comics,
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  Speaker 4: but we don't want to put them on the white nights,
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  Speaker 4: which was the Friday and the Saturday shows, which is
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  Speaker 4: the prime show, which was always stacked with white comics,
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  Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and turn on the lights on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: and give it to the black guys. And that was
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  Speaker 4: called Chocolate Sunday. Let's start it off with some free
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  Speaker 4: tickets because, you know, they won't pay. End up getting
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  Speaker 4: two shows on a fucking Sunday lying down the street
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  Speaker 4: and still fucking turning out the biggest comics that are
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  Speaker 4: still to this day making the most money for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: But still doesn't get the shine or the glory or
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  Speaker 4: the recognition that of what happened. I mean, Kevin Hart
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  Speaker 4: blew up because of Chocolate Sundae. He didn't blow up
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  Speaker 4: on Friday and Saturday, but no one's gonna talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So like, that's my generation. Like,
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  Speaker 4: trying to explain that now, everyone's like, oh.
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  Speaker 3: But we're all the same.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, no, man, we weren't all the same. If
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  Speaker 4: you talked about your family, just for half a second,
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  Speaker 4: the immediate response was like, hey, that's too specific. hey,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they're gonna understand. Look who's sitting in
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  Speaker 4: the audience. We don't know what chicken is. What are chopsticks?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing a very blatant stereotype, but that's how they
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  Speaker 4: were perceiving us just telling our story. And if you
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  Speaker 4: just tell your story and listen, then everyone relates. Has
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  Speaker 4: no difference between a black mom and a white mom.
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  Speaker 4: Broke has no color. Broke is broke, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: raise your kid Broke. So that was the struggle. So anyway,
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  Speaker 4: you asked me what my struggle is. It's like, here
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  Speaker 4: I am trying to find a way to tell my
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  Speaker 4: story that my mom is Filipino and let you know
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  Speaker 4: that I'm Filipino, but I don't want to go up
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  Speaker 4: there going, and Filipinos do this. And Filipinos run like this.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't doing that. I was just telling a story
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  Speaker 4: about my mom. My sister's getting kicked out of the house.
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  Speaker 4: My mom's Filipino. She's single. This is how she handled it.
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  Speaker 4: And then finally it caught up. People were like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: my mom does the same shit. But to get into
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  Speaker 4: those rooms, Tio, it was so fucking hard. And that's
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  Speaker 4: why I love Chris so much because every time I
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  Speaker 4: walked in on Chocolate Sundays, if I just walked in,
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  Speaker 4: I was never even on the show. I would just
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  Speaker 4: be up against the wall because I couldn't wait because
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  Speaker 4: I was like, yo, I heard cats coming. I swear
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  Speaker 4: to God, I heard cats coming. So I just like you,
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  Speaker 4: cat was like a God. If he showed up, you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to be there. So, you know, this is before
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  Speaker 4: the internet. So you just heard word him out. Yo,
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  Speaker 4: I hear a cat's going to chocolate sundae. I'll be,
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  Speaker 4: I'll be on the wall. And then Chris would see me.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, you ready for five? And he would always
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  Speaker 4: put me up. Guarantee, bro. One time I heard Eddie
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  Speaker 4: Murphy was coming. It was Eddie. I was there that night.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: One night I heard Eddie's walking around, right? And he's
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  Speaker 4: going to show up at Chocolate Sunday. So I show
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  Speaker 4: up at Chocolate Sunday. I forgot who told me. And
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  Speaker 4: then Eddie shows up, right? And then Chris Tucker shows up.
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  Speaker 4: Cat Williams shows up. And Dave Chappelle shows up. All
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  Speaker 4: of them are on TMZ right now. Dave's supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be in Africa because he's crazy. That's what the media said.
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  Speaker 4: Chris Tucker was in a lawsuit for something. You remember that?
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  Speaker 4: Chris was in a lawsuit for something. He's not paying
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  Speaker 4: his taxes. Was it that? And then Cat got into...
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  Speaker 4: Pick one. Yeah. All of them were on the news
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  Speaker 4: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And they were all there at Chocolate Sundaes. And Chris
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  Speaker 4: was hosting.
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  Speaker 2: And they all had something of yours. They was wearing
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  Speaker 2: something of yours.
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  Speaker 3: No, just Chris Tucker the best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. But that was the struggles that I had
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  Speaker 4: to go through because I was never found an opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: And I always, when I started stand-up, black comedy... embraced
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  Speaker 4: me so fast. Like I was part of the black
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  Speaker 4: college comedy tour. That's why I know Michael Blackson. Cause
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: he used to wear dashiki. I used to, that's why
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  Speaker 4: I know JB smooth. And that's why I was with
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  Speaker 4: Ian Edwards. Like I came up, I used to open
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  Speaker 4: for some more and Mike Epps and like, I can't,
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  Speaker 4: that's back in the nineties. So like I have, I
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  Speaker 4: have like this high praise for black comedy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, your flavor is kind of like us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So, and, and, and, and I might bastardize this or
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: say it wrong, but the Filipino culture, the Philippines were
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: invaded by the Moors, correct?
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: They were invaded by everybody. No one's more colonized than Philippines.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: So a lot of Filipinos have African in them.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: A lot of them. And I'm not even... Bro. There
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: are black Filipinos. There's an island where they have afros
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: in their dark skin.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: I've seen the flat noses, nappy hair.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: They got it all.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: And so... It's almost like- And can dress.
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Bro, and can dress.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: You can dress your ass off.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: I'm very good.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: I'm very good.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Just not today.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: I almost wore green.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Just not today.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: No, that's fucking fancy. Yeah. No, look, it might look cheap.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: That shit cost.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: $ 7, 000.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Right. It's $ 7, 000.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: You got to see the shit he wears in his specials.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: I'm like, where the fuck did he get that?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: So Joe, what has it been like? You talk about, obviously,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the genres of comedy. Your thing is storytelling.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Exactly, yes.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: What has it been like? Because you mentioned chocolate sundaes
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and you educated everybody.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: It got worse than that, T.O.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: There's worse than, there's like, it got so bad that
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: like there were other ethnicities that wanted shine and they
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: weren't getting it. So they had to create these off. Right.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: nights that were the nights where the comedy club would
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: turn off the lights because no one's coming. They were
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: called free ticket nights. Local Wednesdays. Oh, refried Fridays. That's Mexican.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Asian invasions. Yes.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: What was the one that I met and they even
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: made a tour? It was like the.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: Fortune, like, I don't know, man. Fortune Cookie Friday. Like,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: it was so bad.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: We're the bomb.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: And I'm not making this up. We're the bomb.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: And it'd be all Middle Eastern comics.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: Mo' Better Mondays.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Mo' Better Mondays.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: We the bomb show. For real.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Mo' Better Mondays. Tuesdays. Tuesdays, bro.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: There's nothing like that Tuesdays. Wipe down Wednesdays. Crack them
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: up Thursdays. We had to... Great.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Great. We had to create. They wouldn't let you in. And.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: And the people that worked on those nights wouldn't get
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: spots on the other nights during the week.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: At all.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I remember one time Red Grant was there at the
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: comedy store. This motherfucker is hosting Trippin' on Tuesdays. He's
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: a big name in the black community. And he went
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: to go park in the back because he was coming
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: to visit or pick up a check.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: And they kicked him out.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: He's like, I work here. He goes, yeah, not tonight.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Not tonight?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Not tonight, Red.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Jeez. Guy Torey's Fat Tuesdays, no one turned out more
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: shows than that. No one made more money for a
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: comedy store than Fat Tuesdays. And then if you look
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: at all the names that are written on that door,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: And by the way, they had to campaign for that,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: by the way, which was even crazier, that they had
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: to ask somebody to get these names, like a J.B.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Smooth and a Steve Harvey.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: So for those of you who don't know, on the
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Comedy Store on Sunset, they have names of famous, Richard Pryor,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Sam Kidderson.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Dice Clay.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Everybody signs the wall.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: And so what he's telling you is, you remember Guy
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: T had Fat Tuesday?
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Guy T. They had to petition. They had
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: to petition for those names.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: He shot a special on... eight-part series, six-part series on
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Fat Tuesdays. And then they had to petition to get
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: these people who carried the Comedy Store. Comedy Store was
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: dark almost every other night. Because of Tuesdays, it saved
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: the Comedy Store. And they had to petition to get
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: these people's names on the wall.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: And you gotta remember, Tuesday is a night where they
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: turn off, like, the entire town's closed on Tuesday. And
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: this guy had two lines going. He had an 8
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: o'clock and a 10, and then sometimes a 12. And
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: it was It would generate so much revenue.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Save the coffee store.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I didn't understand why they had to petition for these
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: names to get them on that wall, which is crazy.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: By the way, I'm on that wall. Yes. We don't
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: have a petition.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Man, so, yeah.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, just what is it like going from, like,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the small rooms to now the big stages?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Not even stages. This motherfucker is at the sofa.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: But, I mean, yeah, I mean, what is it like?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: That was crazy.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I cried when I saw you at the forum, by
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because, I mean, just listening to this, I mean,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: understanding your journey, I try to kind of, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: create some similarities, obviously, make it somewhat synonymous with football. Like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: starting from the bottom, you know what I mean? You know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: maybe a kid going to JUCO and going to college
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: or maybe not getting to the NFL right away, going
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to the CFL now.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: You know, they're taking a different route and then actually
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: making it. to big time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like, yeah, it sucks, man. I know
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: you say it sucks. There was a time when I
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: wanted to quit. I wanted to quit in 2015 because
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: for some reason no one was offering me an hour special,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: but yet I have plaques on the walls at the
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: improv with the most sold out shows, but yet my
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: openers were getting deals with Comedy Central for a special.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: They were opening for me. I'm not going to say names,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: but I'm just like, it would crush me because I
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: had to play the guy like, hey, congratulations, man, because
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I'm still playing the game. Right, right. But I'm not
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: understanding why I'm not getting signed. And then all of
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: a sudden, you know, Netflix.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, tell them how it happened.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: You shot your own shit first.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well, no, they said no to me first.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I said no to you, okay.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: So they didn't give me the deal. So then I
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: just said, screw it. I went and shot it. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: just was like, you know what? I got the money.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I'll shoot it. Why am I waiting? So I shot
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: the special. And then we still get a phone call
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: from Netflix and they're like hey we hear you're shooting
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: it we just want you to know we really don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: want it while I was shooting it This is a
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: true story. And then, uh, and then we cut it up. Yeah, seriously.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: And then we cut it up. And, uh, and I,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I knew I had, I knew this special was called
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: live from Seattle.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: It's fucking special.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: And by the way, I don't like, I'm not hating
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: on Netflix. They made a business decision and they're supposed
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: to like, that's a huge investment to put into somebody
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: and they're not sure. So I was like, whatever. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: just need to prove to you that I deserve to
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: be on this network. So no shade on Netflix. I
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: just had to work a little harder. And then when I,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: when I finally shot it, I, I knew I had it. Like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I was like, this is like live from Seattle was hot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Like this, this is my, my grail. And, uh, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I turned it in and I, they called me in
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: 30 minutes. So like, let's make an offer. You had
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: to create a, uh.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Sit ups in the driveway moment.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: It was your, it was your Rocky.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man. Cause I wanted to quit. Cause at that
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: age I was like, I was like almost 50 at
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that point. I think it was like 46. I'm like, Yo,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: why am I even trying? I'll just keep doing the improvs.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I'm done. I'm not going to even try and get
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: a special. I'll just do the improvs.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: What's crazy is that this motherfucker was selling out clubs
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: across the country.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: He'd walk in town.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: He never really performs in town, but if he said
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Joe Coy was in town, lines around the block.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: And so it just made no sense.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: But it's typical of Hollywood. It's not like sometimes not
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: what you do, how you do it. Sometimes it's all
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: about who you know, right?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But that's typical of Hollywood. You know what I mean?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And in business in general.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Even in football, I mean, you have guys, I mean,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I felt like I should have gotten some more opportunities
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: toward the end of my career that I didn't. And
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I look back and I see guys getting an opportunity.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well. I really feel sorry for football players.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Bro, it's brutal.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I hate watching how they treat you and mishandle you guys.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I think football, and I hate saying this to you
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: because you're a legend, but like, The way they treat
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: you guys is, it's like, can I say it?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Can I say slavery?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Bro, it's no, because we have no.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Because I really feel like they treat you guys like items.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Union is weak. The union is weak.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: But to sit there and act like you guys aren't
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: making billions of dollars every weekend.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Boy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: And put the caps on. You know what I'm saying?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: And then you see somebody in baseball making $ 700 million. Guaranteed.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, I get it. Yo, you guys
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: have whatever your justification is, but you can't sit there
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: and tell me that the biggest game on earth isn't football.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: You're not going to sit me and tell me that
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: the playoffs don't generate billions of dollars. And you guys
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: got to fight every week for your paycheck? It's crazy.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Number one, we have a weak union players association.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And even the guys that head off, they have a guy.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: In every team.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: That's the head of like.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: He's the representative for the team.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Those guys are doing a poor job.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Obviously.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Because what you just said, they know and they understand that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: The union is weak in itself.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And the ownership, just the NFL in itself, they have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: these players thinking that we need them.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: They need us.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: 100%. What you did in Philly should have been at
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the end of that game, the owner should have been like, yo,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: here's a $ 3 million bonus. Because one, you got eyes
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: on the goddamn game. Everyone wanted to see you play.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Because we all knew you were hurt. We all knew
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: you were coming back too early. And then the way
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: you played that game was fucking crazy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Like, crazy. Like, get someone that's healthy to play the
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: way you played that game. Insane, bro. Like, they should
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: have been like, my guy here, and you know what?
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Please retire here. We want you here. Like, you put
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: your blood on the field for us. Like, that's crazy, man.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: But I hate to talk. No, you're going to talk.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I almost felt like you did it because.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Because of the mentality that they set on you guys. Like,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: if I don't play, I might lose my job. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: they instill it. I know you're a fighter. Like, that's obvious.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is there's got to be that
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: burning thing. Like, motherfucker, I got to get out there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Because if I don't, this could be it for me
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: in football. Like, and they do that shit. Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't really have that thought process. I just
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: knew that if I didn't play in that Super Bowl.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: This is done.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: No.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd never have an opportunity to play in
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl again.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: And that was my only Super Bowl I ever played in.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So then on top of that, I mean, I'm from
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the South, raised in the church. I'm big on faith.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And I knew that with God, all things are possible.
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  Speaker 1: And the way that I took care of my body,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this is year nine for me. I knew that I
• 24:45
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• 24:48
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• 24:51
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  Speaker 3: That was crazy.
• 24:54
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• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the The game, Super Bowl was like the longest game
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: of the year. And dude, it felt like a regular season.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about early Joe Croy. I love
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: what you drove up in today. Fantastic car. You've got
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: to see this motherfucking car. But I remember when you
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: didn't have cars like that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: No, I didn't.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about that struggle.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Did you start off doing stand-up in Los Angeles?
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Vegas.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Vegas?
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Now, where would you open for big stars that would
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: come to town? Because there's not like a comedy store
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: type showcase.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so comedy clubs there, I would call all the time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: You remember Steve Chirippa? Of course, the Riviera. So he
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: was at the Riviera. But he became famous on... But
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: what was the? Sopranos. Sopranos. Yes.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I was blown away because I didn't know he was
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: an actor.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't think he knew he was an actor.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: And then he just became massive. But what was crazy
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: is I would literally call right out of high school.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: It was like 1989. I would call the Riviera because
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: he was the only club manager that would pick up.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I would call and make up names. And I'm like, yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I do stand up. Is there any way I could
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: just warm up the crowd before the show starts? No way. Yeah, buddy, yeah,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you need to get a tape. This is like after
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: the fifth time I called him, right? He goes, hey, buddy, yeah,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: you need to get a tape.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Sounded just like him.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you need to go to L.A., work the clubs there.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Then you get a TV set, and then you submit that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: And that's the proper way to get into a comic club,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: all right? It's the last time I'm going to pick
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: up the call.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, he knew it was you all those times?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, every time. He knew it was me every time.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: So I couldn't go to LA cause I'm broke. You
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: know what I mean? I'm working. Yeah. I'm just a kid.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: So it just started getting to the point where I was, uh, uh,
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: renting out rooms. Like I would rent out like a,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: a small club and then I sell tickets myself. 17, 16, 18, 19. Yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: And then it got to the point where it was
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: like really big. Like, uh, I was like renting out
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: massive theaters and, and, uh, I got, somehow I met, uh, God,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: how did I do this? I'm jumping. But what happened
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: was there's this huge convention called the Magic Convention, which
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: is the men's apparel, right? Okay, so this is back
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: in the 90s, right? I'm in love with black... uh, everything,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: anything black. Yeah. You know, if a black guy is
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: wearing it, I want that. Right. And this is before
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: the internet. Right. So Biggie had the, the Dada Scully on.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Remember the, the little tiny brim and tight on the head.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: LL wore it, but Biggie wore it.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: And I want this Dada hat. And I'm looking at
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the back of vibe magazine. You know what I mean?
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: And they have like an ad and it's like, Oh,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: here's the store you can buy it at. It's in,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: it's in Harlem. Right. But I'm in Vegas. So there's
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: no way you're going to get this shit. So I'm
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: working at a hotel front desk and, It's called Alexis Park.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: And I look at my check-in list late, right? And
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: it says Dada Supreme. And I'm like, no, this is
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: not happening. Like, they're checking in, right?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: They're checking in with cash, no credit card, right? So
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: it's this crazy thing where they have to put a
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: $ 2, 000 deposit on each room and pay for the whole week, right?
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: How many people? Oh my God, about 10. I mean,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: this guy dropped like 30 grand just to hold these rooms, right?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: No credit card, right? Like this, right? They were doing
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: it like that, right? And he walks up, young black guy, man.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: He must have been like 28 years old, right? And
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: he just walks up and he's paying. And I'm just
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: checking it and I'm holding it in and I'm just looking.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I'm like, how's it feel to work for Dada, man?
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: By the way, I got to also explain this to
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: everyone at home, all the young cats. This was the
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: inception of black culture. Clothing. Like black culture finally. Cross colors. EJ. Yeah, Mecca.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: And now white is looking at black, right? Now you
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: got Polo and Tommy Hilfiger like, oh, so street is
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: a thing. Oh, okay.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Make our stuff a little looser.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, we should have signed leaders of the new
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: school since they were wearing... tommy hill figure in the
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: video but we didn't want them to wear it because
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: that's not our demo oh so you guys went made
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: your own clothing and now you fucking now you're beating
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: us right oh okay but we won't talk about that
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: uh so now i'm just like you know i'm just
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: kid just looking i'm like yo how's it work how's
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: it feel to work for dada man it's crazy and
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: he's like oh it's it's amazing it's amazing man like
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a young company he's so dope man
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: he's like it's a young company man but uh It's blah, blah, blah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: I go, that's crazy, man. And I go, is the
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: owner cool? I go like that. Is he really cool, man?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: And he goes, I own it.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I go, what the fuck?
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Bro, I've never seen anything like this. Imagine seeing a
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: young black man saying he owns a company that Big
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: E's wearing your shit. And I'm like, how'd you do this?
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: He goes, me and my cousin were working for I
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: forgot the name of the company. I'll just say Pan
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Am or something. He was a baggage guy throwing bags
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: onto a plane. And he goes, I just drew this hat.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Like I was just writing on it on a Post-it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: And I show my cousin and we're like, yo, we
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: can make this hat. So we saved up our money.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: I guess they were going to college and I think
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: they took a loan out, like a college loan. Don't
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: quote me on it. And we had the hat made.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: And I go, so what'd you guys do?
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: So the hat was the first thing they did.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: They made the hat, right? And you got to see,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: it was the like 16 panel hat that they stitched
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: backwards and it was made out of elastic and it's
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: like a scully, you know what I mean? And he goes,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: so what'd you guys do? He goes, we had to
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: mass produce it, but it was too expensive in America,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: so we flew to China. So they flew to China.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: They weren't at the airport, so they flew non-rev.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I think that's what they did. And then they made
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: the hat and I think they had enough for like,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I'll make them a number again. Don't quote me on this.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: They made like 3,000 hats, okay? So they find out
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: about the magic convention that's in Vegas. Him and... They
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: can't rent a booth. These booths are expensive, right? So
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: their idea was they took business cards, stapled it on
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: the hat, invited no buyers... They saw which buyers were
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: going into the booths as they're walking out. They're like, hey, man,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: we have this hat. Just want to hand that to you, man.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: It's this hat. By the way, this is before Biggie
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: was wearing it, right? He said, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: These cats were going home.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: He said, by the time they handed out all 3,000 hats,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: they went back home to New York, making up the numbers.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Please don't quote me. 20,000 orders. They blew up like that. Wow.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Blew up.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: They.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Fucking Skyrock, Damani, by the way. And when I was
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: talking to her, I was like, that's when I was like, oh,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: like I'm the biggest fan, man, but there's nowhere here
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: in Vegas that sells it. Yeah, it's hard to get
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: it to these, you know, there's not too many places
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: that sell this, you know, because there were no urban stores.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: There were no hip hop stores. So I go, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: just want to buy that hat, man. And he goes,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I'm going to send my assistant down. I was like, yo,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: you got an assistant? He goes, I'm going to send
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: my assistant out with a whole bunch. What's your size?
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I go, dude, 2X, right? That's what you're wearing. He goes,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: what's your size shoe? I tell him the size shoe.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: This little Asian girl comes down. Stacks of Dada. Yeah, right?
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Brings it to me. And then he goes, what do
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: you do? I go, I do stand-up comedy. I rent
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: out these rooms. I go, man, I would love to
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: just be sponsored. You don't have to pay. Just give
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: me some gear and I'll wear it. He goes, Dumb, man.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: We've been wanting to do a comedy show. No kidding.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Swear to God, Chris. He goes, here's a number. He
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: gives me this phone number. He goes, call this number,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: all right? I call this number every single day. Number
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: picks up, right? So I'm like, you know what? Fuck this, man.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Fast forward a year later. They never pick up the
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: phone call.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: They didn't pick up the phone?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Never picked up the phone call.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: After they gave me a stack of clothes?
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he never picked up the phone number. The guy
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: that he gave me the number for never picked up.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: You should have called the Asian girl.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I should have. I waited a year. Took all
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: these pictures of me wearing the stuff on stage. I
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: know what their booth looks like. My boys are dancing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Style Elements, Remind and Crumbs. And they're at Tribal. So
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: they had the passes, right? So two would go in
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: and then one would come out with two passes and
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: put the other pass around me. And that's how I
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: got in. And then I gave my pass back to Remind.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: And Chris, I stood at that booth until I saw... Damani,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: like Damon, right? And I'm literally just waiting. It's a
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: four day, it's four days. He didn't come till the
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: third day. And the third day he walked in, I go, motherfucker,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: he's here. And I walked right into that booth and
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: he was already selling. He was selling to buyers and stuff, right?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: He was showing the new line and I go, hey,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I don't mean to interrupt you, man, but I'm Joe Coy,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: that comedian you met at the front desk. And he goes, yeah,
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: I remember you, man. Like, what's going on? I was like, yo,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: all that gear I wore on stage, I had a
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: bunch of shows I did, but I called that number
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: and they never picked up. He goes, what the fuck?
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: He goes, Los. Turns around, he goes, Los. And I
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: know you know him. I'm pretty sure you know him.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I know Los.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: You know Carlos? Of course.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Dude, he goes, Los.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: And Los stands up, he goes, what's up?
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: He goes, this is the motherfucker I told you about,
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: the comedian, man. You didn't pick up the phone? It's
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: the guy right here. And then he was like, oh,
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, man. They've been busy and all that shit.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: He was like, I've been busy, man. I'm sorry about that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Come to my office in LA right here on, you know,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: second street.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Second downtown.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, downtown. He goes, come to blah, blah, blah. This
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: is when I had a prelude with one missing headlight,
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: no taillight. I'm like, I've never been to LA before
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: in my life. I drove down and pull into their thing,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: their building. I've never seen so many black millionaires. It
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: was crazy. By the way, Dada was all black. All black.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: You talk about FUBU. FUBU was owned by a whole conglomerate.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? The face was black. All
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: of them were kind of owned by someone. But Dada
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: was black. The accountant was black. The designer was black.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Lance Simpson and Lovetta. the owners like, yeah, you remember? And, uh,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: and I go in there and I see rolls is,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: and I see everything I seen in a biggie video.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I've never seen anything like it before. Like I was,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe what I was seeing rims on a,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: on an escalate. Like I'm going in and I'm sitting down.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I had made this fake sheet of how much it's
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: going to cost for them to produce. I made it
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: all up. I went to Kinko's, I print all this
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: stuff up. And then, uh, And Lance walks in, Lance Simpson,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: you know, and he walks in and he sits down
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: and he's like, I saw, I saw your presentation, man. Yeah,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: let's do it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And I go, what?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: He goes, yeah, yeah, whatever. And I remember it took
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: me forever to come up with like $ 5, 800. I thought
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I was asking for too much. And then he was like, yeah, yeah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: let's do it. And I was like, oh, shit, I
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: should ask for more. And then we ended up having
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: this relationship, right? where he would give me his credit
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: card and I was booking comics that I knew from
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: the Black College Comedy Tour. So I would bring J.B.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Smooth out, Michael Blackson, Honest John, Joey Wells, J-Dub. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: brought them all to Vegas. That was all in the 90s.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: And I was being sponsored by a black millionaire.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: That's dope.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Like he would literally, I was buying tickets for everyone
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: on his credit card. I was buying rooms with his
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: credit card. When I did the Apollo, when I got
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: the Apollo, you'll see me wearing a Dada hat and
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: Dada paid for, they paid for me to fly to
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: New York and go on. Anyway, I know this a lot.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: No, that's crazy.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: I love hearing these stories because I'm only 20 plus years.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I knew none of this.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: It just shows, educated me, like the hustle.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah like everybody has like everybody has that hustle and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: then obviously it seems like you witnessed something you saw
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: something you went after yeah and now it's like okay
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: now you are where you are the things that you
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: did then to get where you are do you do
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: some of the same things now yeah and it's Yeah,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I think that's... He's going.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: To say some shit and you're going to go, no,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: the fuck you don't. If it's what I'm thinking.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Which one?
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: The fucking flyers.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. I'll hand out flyers all day. I'll still
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: do it. I just sold out SoFi Stadium. Let me
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: set up.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Let me.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: 20 second time out. Set up the size venues you
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: do now.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: SoFi was almost 70,000 and it was sold out. We
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: sold it out less than six months. Wow.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: 70,000.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I still have the record for the... Staple Center? Staple Center. No,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: for a forum. I'm the only comment to do it
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: six times. Wow. Yeah, it's crazy. But I'll still hand
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: out flyers. I don't care.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: This motherfucker.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: But why?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Just give me, give me, give me But no, don't
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: tell him you had a flyer. It's not like you
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: had car washers going like this. He'll go put them
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: in all the seats. Yeah.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: This is, whatever, 17505 is the forum.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: This motherfucker, you'll come sit down and go, oh, you know,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: he's going to be in Albuquerque next week.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: He still does this shit. Now listen, why don't we
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: make it even more?
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: It ain't like there's a whole bunch of, remember like
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Bobby Brown had a whole bunch of people that looked
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: like him walking around? It'd be him and some other
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: people putting it on the seats. It ain't like Joe
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Corey's minions, go! This motherfucker is, personally.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, man. Why? I don't know, when you get,
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know, when they say.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: No, Cause you don't have to. Cause you remember you
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: were that, that 18 year old kid.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: You met the guy that owned Dada.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: And he said, let me get my assistant.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I go get, and like, that would have been, I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: thought something that you would have done taking that blueprint.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Like, okay, I'm the boss. Let me go get my,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: my assistant.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: Cause it was a consistent battle of always like trying
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: to prove myself. Cause like, even though I did that,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: like the way I met honest John and honest John goes,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Hey man, Yeah, Bob Sumner needs to see you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: By the way, Honest John is white.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And this is the reason why. Because Bob, he goes,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Bob Sumner needs to see you, man. You a beast, man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: And Bob Sumner is the one that, you know, co-created
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Def Comedy Jam.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Booked everybody.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: And he was doing this whole thing where it was
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: on tour. And here's another thing of racism for you.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Here's some little racism bits for you. Even though Def
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Jam was selling out, None of the hotels on the
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: strip wanted it. They didn't want black nights, you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: the black comedy shows. This is the 90s. I'm not
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: even joking. So they had to go off strip. Like,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Def Comedy Jam was on Boulder Highway at a hotel
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: called Sam's Town. They wouldn't put him in Caesars and
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: all that. They were not going to put a black
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: show on the strip.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I swear.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Like, it's crazy to even say things like this. And
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: now I'm at Samstown. I live in Vegas and I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: on Boulder Highway and I'm like, Def Jam's in Samstown? Like, what?
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: And it was Rudy Rush, Pierre, Honest John, and I
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: forgot who the female was.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Ricky or Joe?
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: No, it was Rudy. Rudy was hosting.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Rudy was hosting, okay.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: And then, so Honest John's like, get that alley, man.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to tell Bob to put you on
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: for five minutes.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: So let me describe what Honest John looks like. He's
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: an older white guy who looks like granola. You know,
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: you've seen him before. He wears old flannel shirts, old pants.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Tie-dye.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: But he's only done urban rooms. He's been on Comic View.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: He's been on Def Jam.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: He's one of the funniest human beings you'll ever meet.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll only do urban rooms. And I love him, man.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: And he goes, he goes, I'm going to introduce you
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: to Bob Sunder, man. Like, there's no reason why you're
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: not on this Def Jam tour with me.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: I love you, Honest John. And, uh, I go backstage
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: to you, and here comes Bob Summer. I'm with my sister.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: She's sitting right next to me. And I'm standing there,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: and here comes Bob. And first of all, I'm always
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: just blown away when I see anything of power of
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: the show that I'm in love with, right? So now
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: this guy owns Def Jam, and he's walking towards me.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I'm an up-and-coming comic. And he's eating, just eating dirty, too.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Like the muffin shit's on his lips. You know what
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: I mean? Like so disrespectful. You know what I mean?
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: It's just like, so, um, uh, John says, uh, you're funny.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: All right. Um, all right. This is what we're going
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: to do. We're going to go ahead and let you
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: go on, uh, about five minutes before the show starts
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: while they're still sitting people. So, um, uh, we're not
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: gonna open the curtains up. So we're just gonna open
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: up a little, you just go through the curtains. Cause
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: you know that big, beautiful display, it says Def Jam.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: It's this big, beautiful stage. He doesn't want to be
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: a part of that. All right. So we're gonna leave
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: the curtains closed. You go through the hole. I had
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: to walk out like, you know, Kurt Burnett, when she
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: comes out and mops the fucking floor. And I had
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: to go through it. And he goes, five minutes before
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: we start the show, lights are going to be still
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: on and we're still going to be sitting people. And
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: then he goes, and don't say welcome to Def Jam.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: And when you say goodnight, just say goodnight. And then
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: we'll walk you through the curtains.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: And he's still eating dirty, man. All right, man. Have fun.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: And he walks out and I'm like, have fun? Like,
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: why the fuck am I here? I'm going to eat
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: my ass out there. Right? And the stage manager, he
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: heard the whole thing, man. And he walked in. I
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: looked at my sister. My sister was just like, you're
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: going to do good. Don't worry. Don't worry about it.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, that's bullshit. Like, why am I
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: even doing this shit?
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Like, this sucks.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: And then the stage manager, he's just like, he's like,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: you know what, man? We're at 75%. Oh, good. He goes,
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: we're at 75%. So I'm going to turn the lights down.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: We're not going to leave them on. They're not going
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: to be completely off, but I'm going to turn them
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: down to like 90%.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Make it still feel like a fucking show.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he goes, it's still going to feel like a show, man.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: So he goes, um. He goes, but I can't open
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: that goddamn curtain. I'll get fired. So I literally went
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: through the curtain. Literally, it's just rumbling. People are getting
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: to the seats. What's up, man?
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Still talking.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: And I'm literally like, hi, I'm Joe Coy.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you already look crazy. You've got this huge
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: urban show, and then this young Asian comedian comes up.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: And I walk out with a Caesar cut. It's so bad.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Glasses and a suit, because Eddie Murphy said I always
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: wore suits. Right.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: That's your hero.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: And I walked out and then, and I'm, first minute
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: I'm struggling. No one's listening to me, man. And then
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: I just got to like this one bit that I
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: always knew was going to, and they're just screaming. Like
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: there was bleachers and you can hear them stomping on
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: the bleachers.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Do you remember the bit?
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: It's Michael Jackson. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I'm doing the
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: whole making up the words thing.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: And, and I, right when I end that joke, I
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: was like, I'm Joe Coy. Good night. Ah, They're standing
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: and shit. And I walk through the curtain. Like, I'm
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: going into a doghouse. I don't walk back through the
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: curtain and close the curtain. And Rudy Rush is there, right,
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: with Bob Sumner. He's done eating, right?
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: But shit is still on his clothes.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. But it's all over his clothes. Just muffin
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: all over his chest. And, uh. And my sister's like
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: hugging me, like, I.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Told you, that was the shit joke.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: She's hugging me. And then Rudy's yelling at Bob, like,
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: why the fuck did you just put that up? And
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: now I got to go up and MC? Like, why
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: didn't you let me go out and then put him
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: on after me? He's like, I didn't know this motherfucker
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: was funny. I'm just John's friend. Like, they're having a
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: full-on argument. And you're right there. Yeah, right there. And
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: all my shows were with, you know, Dada. So, like,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: you know, I... I met Honest John through that. So anyway,
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: he goes, he's like, fuck, man. He goes, you ever
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: hear of the Apollo? I go, yeah, I love the Apollo.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: He goes, you're on. We're going to bring you on
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: next week. I have my producer's car. We're doing a
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: comedy showcase. I want you on that motherfucker. And that's
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: how I got.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: The Apollo, which I won. And then, of course, Dada
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: paid for me to fly out there for that.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: So for those who don't know, The Apollo is probably
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: the hardest.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: The most sacred.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Well, Kiki, this is Kiki Sheppard, right?
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kiki Sheppard, rest in peace. Rudy Rush, Steve Jesleff.
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: Steve Harvey. This is where they booed. Yes. Yeah, this
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: is where they booed everybody.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: And so, one of the premier theaters in the world.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: And it was a place where black... talent from Moms
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Mabley to Sammy Davis Jr., people who could not perform
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: anywhere else. This was like the mecca.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Of the Chitlin' Turkey.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: James Brown rubbed that. Yes.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Gladys Knight, everybody knows.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Everyone rubbed that.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: So the fact that you went there and killed and
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: won the amateur night is bananas.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: It's nuts.
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: With the same bit that I did on Def Jam.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Because Rudy told me to do it. He goes, you
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: got to do that. Yes. Do that bit. Of course.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: And that's why I did that.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: It's your bit.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Sometimes you're worried about, should
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: I do this? Not everybody has seen your act.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: Especially in front of a curtain in fucking Henderson or
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: wherever that was.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: That was Henderson. So anyway, you asked me why I
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: hand out flyers. Because I'm always those moments. They don't
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: know me, man. So I gotta let everybody know. I
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: don't care. Even at SoFi, I hand in a.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: So it seems like you're constantly trying to Prove yourself.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: And obviously you did that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: How and when did you know that you were funny?
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: You know what's crazy? Can I just say one more thing?
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: My new special is about to drop for Netflix. It's
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: called Blue in the Face. It's my favorite special. This
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: one's my favorite, hands down. Literally last week I told
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: my son, make sure we make 10,000 flyers. I swear
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: to God. That's why this is so crazy that we're
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: talking about this. I didn't even want you to bring
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: that up.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Because you're going to pass them up.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to make sure they go everywhere. I'm
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: going to put them in windshield wipers. I'm going to
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: put them everywhere. Car doors.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: And what's on the flyer? The future, your website.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: It'll stay blue in the face. It'll be Netflix. Make
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: sure it's streaming now, September 15th. And it'll say all
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: my information on the back. I don't give a fuck.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: And you're going to be putting this in Vegas?
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: I'll put them everywhere.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Any and everywhere.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: I do tours. So if I'm in... Omaha, Nebraska, I
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: will be at a parking lot. I'll put a whole
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: bunch out.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was joking saying he doesn't go to the
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: parking lot.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I go. Yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: So if you're on a plane, you carry flyers and you.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: No, I don't do it on the plane so much.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, not on the plane.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do it when... Because, you know, I get recognized.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? So that's kind of cheesy. Like, hey.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm... He does it when I can't see him.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: A hustler's a hustler.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I thought you were just.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: doing it like, okay.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: If he does it like this, then it's a conversation.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: If he can sneak it on a car and get
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the fuck back in his car. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: This is when I knew you were on a different level.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: What's the little pot that your mom used to clean her?
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: Which one? The thing.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: You talked about the little.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, tableau. Her tabo.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Tell them what this is. And then you're going to
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: go watch a special. This is how... Let me tell
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: you what makes you and Kevin unique. And this is
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: why you and Kevin are on fucking top.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: You talk about your family and you make us blush
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: without you guys blushing.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Tell them what the dabo is. Tabo, whatever the fuck
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: What is it? So, tabo. Tabo? Yeah. So, it's a cup.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: My mom always had a cup on the side of
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: the toilet.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: And that's how she would wash... She would wash herself.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: And I always found it to be very weird when
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I was a kid, especially because she would ask me
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: to fill the damn thing. Wash herself.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: She has a shower right there and a bathtub, but
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: when she's on the toilet, she'll wash it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: It's called a tabo, which is very common in our culture.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: But that's a cultural thing, right?
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but people, when I say it on stage, I'll
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: tell it. I don't do it anymore, but I used
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: to say it, and people go, ooh. And I'm like,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: you're ooh-ing. What are you ooh-ing? My mom's pussy's clean.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Your mom's wiping her shit.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Right. She got little fucking knuckles. Particles. She got tissue
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: paper balled up in her pussy. My mom is squeaky clean, bitch.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: What are you oohing? You're what? Because she's clean?
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: My mom pees in whistles.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: You got clitty litter in your mom's pussy. Get the
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: fuck out of here.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: So in this special, you talk about your stepfather, which
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: apparently must have been something that you kind of.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I love him so much. Right. And, you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: he passed, you know. So now you did it? No,
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: I just, I tried to do it before. It just
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: wasn't meshing right. Okay. And now it made sense. Like
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: now the story deserves where it's at. Yeah. Like the
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: other topics on the other special, and then all of
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: a sudden I'm making a hard left and I'm talking
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: about my stepdad. Right. Whereas this is like, it's a
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: through line. It's my childhood. It's me getting fired at McDonald's. It's,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: you know, my mom- Like, it's the whole me being
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: raised by, you know, Sergeant Fred Harrison and my mom.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: I don't hear about you doing spots.
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: Like, a lot of comedians, when they're gearing up for
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: a special, they'll go do 20 minutes here, 15 minutes here.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Are you writing your new special when you're in these
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: 10 and 15,000?
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Wow. That's when I do it.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: You don't work out anymore like that.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you're in town.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: It's crazy, though. Like, I don't know if you see
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: me doing the pop-ups. Like, I'll just be like, Hey,
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: I'm going to the improv, Brea. I'll see you there.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: It'll be sold out. So that's where I work out.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: And how do you come up with your material?
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: I just, you know, I tell my openers, like, just
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: say it, dude. Like, whatever it is that you're thinking,
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: just say it. If it bombs, oh, wow. You know
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: what I mean?
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: No, you can't do, oh, bomb.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: You can't just do that.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: But listen, sometimes it bombs, and you know in your
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: heart that this shit is funny. So that's what I'm saying. Like,
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: he goes to Brea at improv. improv to work out
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: what he thinks is funny that might have bombed.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: But you've got to wedge it, right? So you know
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: this is going to kill and this is going to kill.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: Let me sneak this in. If it doesn't do well
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: or bomb, then you know how to get into this.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: You know how to get out of it. But I
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: have to try it because I need to write. And
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: sometimes I'll tell the audience, like, hey, look, I'm writing,
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: because when this drops, when this drops September 15th, I
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: can't do any of that shit. I just posted the
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: trailer for it, and it's already crushing, and it's making
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: me sad, because it's my favorite joke right now. Yeah,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: the dog. It's my favorite joke. On tour, people request
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: it now, and it's like, I know once this drops,
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: I can't do it anymore. Really? Yeah, I can't. I
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: can't repeat that.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: But not all comics comedians do that. There's some comedians...
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: who will, after Special Drops, still will give you.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Tweak it?
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Or give you a variation of.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Or give you the best of and their new stuff. Yeah.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: Do you go from... Like, if the Special Drops, I
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: go see... The Special Drops on Sunday, I go see
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: you on Monday, even though I haven't seen the Special.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: You won't see anything.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: I won't hear not one joke from the Special.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: None of it. Really? Yeah, I'm already not doing the
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: dog bit. And it's crushing me. It's crushing me. Because
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: I could still do it right now if I wanted to.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: And it's crushing me right now. Wow. Yeah. Like, literally.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: It's just like I used to do this one bit
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: about accents. I used to do the different accents.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: The different Asian ones?
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: That shit was murderous.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: And I used to love it so much. And then
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: once it dropped, I literally stopped doing it. And, like,
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: I would literally hear people yelling out, accents! And I
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: had to ignore it and just.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: So he could do Chinese, Filipino.
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: Thai.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: All these different Asian accents.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: But the thing is, but the reason why I do
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: it is because it's not, the whole point of the
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: joke is like, this is how you tell them apart
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: if they had an accent. You can't tell us apart.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: And they're specific.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: Details in the accent that will let you know. And
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: I'm letting you know this is how. But don't go
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: up to a motherfucker and go, Vietnamese. And they're speaking
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: perfectly good English. Now you're just a racist. And I
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: love that bit. And the reason why I did that
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: bit is because one, my best friends growing up were Korean.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: So all I was doing was their dads. I always
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: made fun of their dads when I was a kid.
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: My next door neighbor was Vietnamese. His name was Vu.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: He could ball out. Like, literally, he was 5'2, T.O.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: And he would ball. He would cross me over. He'd
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: fucking hit. And when he'd hit, he'd have that accent like, game, motherfucker.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: That's it. Down, you down, motherfucker. Let's do next shot.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: Like there's someone else that can play ball. And literally
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: that accent was my boy V. His name is Vu,
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: but we call him V.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Wait, so why are you here?
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: Go back.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: How did the Vietnamese people sound?
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: How did the Vietnamese people sound?
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: They talk like that, like that. Gang, my fuck, sit down.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: No more.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: It's like when you go get a man.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: You got girlfriend?
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: Yes. That's what he's doing.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: And the Koreans sound like what?
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: Koreans very, very, you know.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: Koreans is like.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Like they're completely... So I'll tell you the joke. It's
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: so funny because when I was in Seattle, Steven came
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: to my show and the joke is his dad. So
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: it was a big show and we were in the
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: meet and greet and Steve was there and he literally
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: turned to everyone in the meet and greet. He goes,
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: I just want you to know that Korean accent that
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: he does is my fucking dad. And we both started
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: laughing because his dad owned a restaurant and they would
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: come home at three in the morning, but they would
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: just leave the kids a stack of money. Like literally
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: these kids raised themselves, right? So Stephen, like, so he
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: would just give them money. Every day they just had
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: money and they would feed themselves and cook themselves.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Do the dad.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: Huh? Do the dad. So he hated me because the
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: kids were smart and I was a fuck off, right?
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: Like I, like they, he knew I shouldn't have been
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: hanging around with the, the dad was right. Right. Right. So,
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: so he would get mad that, so when he would
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: come home, I would stay the night, but I would
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: go hide in the closet and wait for him to
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: fall asleep. And when he'd fall asleep, we'd go back
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: down into the rec room. They had, like, this rec
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: room with ping pong and all this shit, right? And
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: so we just had to wait for him to sleep, right?
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: So I'm in the closet, and you would hear him.
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: He just knew. Like, oh. I'm just in the closet, like, ah,
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: this motherfucker knows I'm here.
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: See how specific it is?
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: Very, very, very specific.
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: Are you full Filipino?
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: Half.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: Your father's?
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: White. White. Yeah, he's a Herbert. What's that? Herbert.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: That's what you guys call him?
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: No, that's his name. Oh.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: I thought that was like a Filipino slang for white boy.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Herbert.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Man, you've had some amazing stories, bro.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: I don't want to rap yet.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Man, we at the end, bro.
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: I don't want to. I'm with you.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: We're at the end zone.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Although we've come.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: We're in the red zone. We're going to ask you
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: four questions.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: Four questions.
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: First one is first down. It is one comedian who
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: deserves a bigger audience.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, man. Dude, there's so many. Dude, that's a tough one.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: We ask the tough questions here.
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: That's a tough one because there's so many. Damn, I
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: wish you didn't ask me that right now. I'll just say,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: because I want to shout out my peeps, I feel
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: like there's some female comics that deserve a bigger audience,
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: like Tara Conostrasi, Lulu Gonzalez. Lulu deserves a lot of flowers.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: What's her name?
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Angela... Johnson?
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah Angela Johnson Angela got a huge following yeah
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: I'm you know I'm talking about the girls that are
• 59:16
  Speaker 9: still trying.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: To get no no I get you yeah for sure
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: because they're beasts.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Are these the ones that you're going to feature in
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: the in the.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Right now I have I have Tara Tara Conostrasi Lulu Gonzalez,
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Crystal Marie. There's this one guy, Nicky Paris, I think
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: he's so funny.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Second down, second question.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: Something Joe Jr. does better than Joe.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: Man, he is very wise. I tend to impulse, and
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: now I've taught myself to ask him. How old is
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: he now? He's 23, and he tours with me. Yeah.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: He's right next to me.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like you may pass out flyers a little bit.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Better than you. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Third down, one thing fame or money cannot solve.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: Ooh.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, man. It doesn't bring that love that you generally seek.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: When people see you have money....
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: They ought to make you think you're happy and everything is.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. But sometimes I don't think you receive a lot
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: of fake love. And that hurts. And now I have
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: to decipher. And it sucks because I find that not
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: only with friends, but I see it within family. And
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: it hurts. I hate to be brutally honest, but I'm
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: at that point now where I'm really looking through a lens.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: It hurts.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: Especially from way on that hill.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it sucks, man. All right.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: We're at the goal line. Fourth and goal.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Okay. I'm running. What is... I'm not doing a slam
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: What does Joe want the Joe Coy name to ultimately represent?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: I want... I'm so sick of everyone putting everybody in
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: a box.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: And I feel like we're doing it to ourselves now.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: Before it used to be like, almost like propagandish, right?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: Like you get raised and you get fed these certain
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: stereotypes indirectly that you feel like, oh, okay, I have
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: to act a certain way, which is how my come
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: up was. If you watch old Hollywood shit and see
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: how Asians were depicted, not only in cartoons, but even
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: in Hollywood. as an Asian kid struggling with his identity,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: because I'm half white, half Asian, I'm just watching, oh,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: you guys laugh at that? Okay, so that's what you
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: want me to be. But now we're past that. But
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: for some reason I find we're putting ourselves in that
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: box for some reason. And saying things we don't need
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: to say anymore. Not just everybody. Like, you know, you
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: find out that I'm a Filipino comic and now you're
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: putting me in a box. It's like, bro, you don't know.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: I did black rooms. I do Latino rooms. I do
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: white rooms.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: I got specials.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: I sell out stadiums.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Funny is funny.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: Funny is funny, bro. That was a tour that I had.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: My tour was called Funny is Funny. Like, let's stop
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: that nonsense. You know what I mean? Like, we don't
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: need to say things like, man, I hope there's Filipinos there.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: It's like, I don't need Filipinos there. You know what
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: I mean? It's like, oh, Kevin Hart's going to be
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: in Nashville. Hope there's a lot of black people there.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Might be empty. Like, it's dumb. Like, we're not there anymore.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: Funny's funny. We all get it. I love that. That's
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: my line, too. Like, I love to say, you know,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: broke has no race. You know what I mean? We
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: have no race. You're identifying with the way my mom
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: raised me as a mom. And you're relating to it. Like,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with me being Filipino. So anyway,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: that's what I want. I want people to be like, yo,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: when I see him, I'm just identifying him as a comic.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? And not singling him out
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: or putting him in a box.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like obviously we have closing thoughts, but
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: that almost kind of like segued into our closing thoughts
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: about comics and, like you said, not being put in
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: a box.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Funny being funny.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Funny just being funny.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: I just want to ask him, and I know we
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: got to go.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: Producers are flashing us.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: You got that red light. That red light.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: I just want to know, what are your latest struggles?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: It's not the stand-up.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: You produced and wrote your own movie.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: Is that something you still want to pursue, doing more
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: movies and independent projects, TV shows?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: I just want to, you know, I'm happy now.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: This is what I dreamt about, you know, when I
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: pretended to be Eddie Murphy in my bedroom, you know,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: talking into my... my box, my boom box with the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: microphone that I plugged in, just acting like I was
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: doing stand-up. I'm at this pinnacle now. Now I want
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: to direct. You know what I mean? I want to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: shoot specials and really direct. I don't want to be
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: a shot caller and call myself a director. I really
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: want to hands-on help you write it out. Not write
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: it out, but just figure out the storyboard. Really create
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: with you and find out your voice, and then we'll
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: shoot that because I think that's so important. I love it. Yeah, man.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: It's great seeing you here, man.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: I love you back.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: You're the best.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it, man. We thank you, man. I mean,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: this is good, man.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: Wait till you watch these fucking specials, and.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: You'll see the growth. No, September 15th, right?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But I wish you could watch all
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: No, I'm going to give it to him in order.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, that'd be great.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: So you can watch all of them. You can see
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: his fucking hair go away.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: Can I tell one more story? I know you guys
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: got to go. But there's one more that I love.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: This one is truly like my favorite because Biggie was
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: such an inspiration to me. My first show ever in
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: New York, I forgot what it was called. It was
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: at New York Comedy Club. It was like a dungeon.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: It was horrible. I can't even remember the name of it. Anyway,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: I had a Walkman, the kind where you had to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: hold it like this because if you bounced too hard,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: it would skip. You know what I mean? It was
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: the yellow one. The yellow sports man. And Biggie just
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: came out. Biggie's double came out, right? The double CD
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: came out. And it was... Ready to Die? Yeah. No, no.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: The second one. Oh, yeah. No, not Ready to Die. Anyway,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: it's the double, right? And it's the one Mo' Money Mo'
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: Problems just came out, right? And I got that on.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: And once it ends, start right back over. Repeat, repeat.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: I'm just walking around New York by myself. You know, just...
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: killing time before I had to do this set and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: I'm just playing Biggie. Oh, oh, oh, right? Just nonstop, right?
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: So anyway, that's my New York moment. Now I'm shooting Brooklyn,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: my special for Netflix.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: Fucking dope.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: And I do this thing where I talk about my
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: son and his generation with the mumble and how I
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: still feel our generation is still the golden era, and
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: still to this day the best era, right? And I
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: do this thing where I'm battling with my son, that
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: I talk about on stage, and I do the differences,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: and then finally I drop the biggie beat, and I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: told my DJ, do not press play, because we don't
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: own the rights to it, I'll just do the bit, right?
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: My boy hit play, right?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: Fucking theater went bananas.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: Went bananas. I do the bit, but I know I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: don't own the fucking, I haven't gotten the licensing for
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: it yet. So I go backstage and I'm like, I
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: look at, you know, Joanne and all that. I'm like,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: I'll buy it. You know, I'll make sure to buy it.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: We'll get it in this thing. So anyway, I buy
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: the bit. I license the bit. You know, I need specifics.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: How much was that needle drop?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: That, for 15 seconds, it cost me almost $ 75, 000. Oh,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: that's not bad. Yeah, it wasn't that bad.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: I was thinking like $ 130, 000.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: No, we negotiated. I think it was almost like $ 80, 000. Oh,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: that's worth it. Yeah, yeah. It was worth it. So
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: I dropped the bit. It goes viral, right? Viral. Everyone's
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: throwing it around and shit. And to the point where
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: I'm on the phone with Mrs. Wallace, right? I'm on
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: the phone with Mrs. Wallace, and she's like, Thank you
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: so much for playing.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Wait, no, what did you make an accent?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: It's so hard, but so beautiful though. She talks so
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: soft like that. Thank you for doing this for my son.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: Everyone's going to know my son's name because his legacy
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: is going to be on Netflix forever because of you.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: So thank you so much for saying what you said
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: about my son. It means so much to me. I go, Mrs. Wallace,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: we all love your son. And of course it's going
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: to be on Netflix forever because you charge me so
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: much money. Joe Coy, ladies and gentlemen. Oh shit, sorry.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: There's one more. Oh, sorry. She gives me the rights
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: to his face. So, you know, the iconic shot of
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: him wearing the hat, the crown. So she gives me
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: the licensing, right? So big shout out to Rick. He owns,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: but he's part of that whole, you know, that whole
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Wallace Foundation thing. And literally I have the okay. Because
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: she passed after that.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: To do whatever you want with that.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: To make the shirt. So I wrote the quote on
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: the back of my shirt. And then it's his face.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: And it says, spread love. It's the Brooklyn way.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: And then it has my quote about Biggie on the back.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: And when you buy the shirt, we just donate to
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 4: the Wallace Foundation.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: That's awesome. Big shot. By the way, it's the last
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: collab she ever did before she passed. So I got
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: the last collab. So you see it. It says, notorious B.I.G.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: times Joe Coy. So I just wanted to shout that out.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: And you brought us some shirts?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's $ 45. No, no, no, I got you everything
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: you want. Yeah, I need one of those, bro.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, please.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: I would love for you to rock that. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, the Joe Coy.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, I love you. Thank you.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, bro.