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Tommy Davidson · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: We are fun with Mario Lopez's up you old Mario
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  Speaker 1: Lopez joining me right now? Act in comic Hilarius, Tommy Davison.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 4: An old friend?
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  Speaker 1: That's right, an old friend. Always good to see you
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  Speaker 1: and this is exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Congrats was a spin off of Martin debut in September
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  Speaker 1: first on Paramount Plus, based.
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  Speaker 2: On your character from the show That's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: How did this come about? Actually, kid from Kid in Play. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He called me middle of the night and he says, Man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired of Jimmy and Jimmy late night because we're
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  Speaker 3: not seeing a lot of talent. You know, they're just
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  Speaker 3: picking who's hot or whatever. We need some good performances
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  Speaker 3: like Arsenna used to have, you know. Yeah, So he said,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you call Martin and asked Martin to reboot
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  Speaker 3: Varnel Hill is a late night talk show?
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  Speaker 4: Do it like Larry Sanders? Oh wow, Cliver, right dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So he said, you know, it'll be a late
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  Speaker 3: night it'll be a show about a late night talk
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  Speaker 3: show that's really a late night talk show.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody could be on it. Oh, we know everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, little Larry Sanders esque.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, and it happened. Man, Wow, what a trend.
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  Speaker 4: It's working just like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's so cool. And and Martin's in the show was
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  Speaker 2: out as well, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know it's ideal because I'm Tommy Davidson,
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  Speaker 3: but I played characters in a Living Color.
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  Speaker 4: He's Martin Lawrence. He played characters on Martin. Yeah, right, so.
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  Speaker 3: It's unlimited, yeah, you know. And then the guest stars.
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  Speaker 3: We man, we got all the hot people that want
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  Speaker 3: to be on TV, that want to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the storyline is great.
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  Speaker 2: That is so cool. And speaking of a lat Color,
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  Speaker 2: I hear Damon Wayne's is in it too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Damon, Damon. Damon is doing a sketch with Martin
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  Speaker 3: on the freaking show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so we have the capacity to have people
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  Speaker 3: coming and do guest star spots, but sketches too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's funny, man, that is great.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys, you and Martin, we're actually friends long
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  Speaker 1: before you all started working together and everything.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, oh yeah, man, we moved out here
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  Speaker 3: from DC, not together but different times.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we're both from DC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah okay, yeah, and me him and Chapelle met at
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  Speaker 3: the same club the same night.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, what a trip.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so we all moved out here eventually, and
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  Speaker 3: we're the only young ones out here. It was Eddie
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  Speaker 3: and all the rest of them but me, Chris Rock
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  Speaker 3: and Chappelle and Martin were new you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that did all.
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  Speaker 4: We just took the baton from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Well, congratulations, man, I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to check that out. And and Tommy you you also,
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  Speaker 1: of course voice a character on the Disney show Proud Family,
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  Speaker 1: Louder and Prouder. Oh yeah, fourth season just premiered. That's
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  Speaker 1: got to be a lot of fun, right. Voice work
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  Speaker 1: is so much fun, a lot of work.
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  Speaker 4: Though. I don't have to worry about how I look
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  Speaker 4: in voice work, so that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know berg you know what I mean, either look,
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  Speaker 3: try to look handsome or nothing, and I can just
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  Speaker 3: let it all hang out, you know. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's just and you know this, Mario, you know this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we come across something.
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  Speaker 4: That we really love.
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  Speaker 3: To do with what we do, and it's it's like
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  Speaker 3: a gift. You know, it's like a gift. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we know how to work right now. We know how
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  Speaker 3: to act, we know how to read stuff, we know
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  Speaker 3: how to narrate, we know how to do all this stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: But once in a while, something comes.
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  Speaker 3: Along that you want to do, right, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and we go around going, man, I'd.
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  Speaker 4: Love to do that, I'd love to do this. I
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  Speaker 4: love to do this.
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  Speaker 3: But when it comes you're just like, I don't have
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  Speaker 3: any comments, man, I just want to get to work.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we love, what we do too exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's the best man I'm having for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, And a lot of people may not know
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  Speaker 1: this about you, but you're also a singer and your
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  Speaker 1: new song heart Mine is Old just won an award
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  Speaker 1: for Best Jazz Song, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like John.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like John tesh Man, you know, because everybody's
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  Speaker 3: going like, oh, yeah, really you're doing it and I
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  Speaker 3: don't care, you know. It's it's it's really good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I got I got stuff with Earth Winding Fire.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just a payoff of how hard we work, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and how often we're around people that do the same
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  Speaker 3: thing we do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, I love the versatility though, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm obviously uh acting and you're singing and still doing
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  Speaker 1: stand up man, hitting the road and in hitting uh
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  Speaker 1: in hitting comedy shows across the country.
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  Speaker 2: What what are you talking about on stage right now?
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  Speaker 3: I talk about things I've always talked about us, you
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  Speaker 3: know everyone.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I talk about dogs, man, I talk about you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: don't be too hard on my latinos. I talk about
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  Speaker 3: everything that I think people are thinking. They're thinking in
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  Speaker 3: the same things I'm thinking, but don't have a way
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  Speaker 3: to say it without offending nobody. Yeah, I can. I
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  Speaker 3: can say it in a way that it's taken to heart.
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  Speaker 4: I can see that. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: How much how much singing do you incorporate into the act?
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  Speaker 2: You do impressions with this?
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  Speaker 3: It depends, it depends, It depends on It depends on
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  Speaker 3: on that audience.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I can You know, I can get away.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I remember You're Sammy Davis was my favorite package.
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  Speaker 4: I can get away with that, you know, at that
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  Speaker 4: like a fundraiser.
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  Speaker 3: You know, right, whether I'm hit, whether I'm wrong, No
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  Speaker 3: cat's gonna borrow this ebony star from singing my song.
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  Speaker 3: I always say that I'm Sammy is Ai.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all the best, that's the best.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you that Oh my gosh. And now you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: it before but in Living Color.
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  Speaker 1: Man, in a few years, it's gonna be the fortieth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of that show.
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  Speaker 2: That is wild.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that you're still working with the guys
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  Speaker 1: and still homies. Man, that time goes about like this,
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  Speaker 1: huh to.
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  Speaker 4: That make me bro right? Do what I bothe you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean. But we're still here.
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  Speaker 2: We're still here. That's what's important.
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  Speaker 3: That's the most important part. And we did it and
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  Speaker 3: we can play it. Pay a mortgage, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Try that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm so happy to hear that everything's going well
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  Speaker 1: for you, brother, and you're killing it out there. And listen, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to check out Tommy's new show, The var
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  Speaker 1: Nell Hill Show, premiere on September one on Paramount Plus.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for checking in.
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  Speaker 4: Man, got it. Man. How's your daughter? How is she?
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  Speaker 3: She's doing well, she's fifteen, she's fifteen, Okay, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she's fifteen, man, God, best you man, Thank you brother.
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  Speaker 4: When she came along.
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  Speaker 2: Man, yeah you've heard that, yeah, exactly, You've.
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  Speaker 4: Done so well.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I love you so much. Thank you brother, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I get to see you soon.
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  Speaker 4: Take care, you got it man
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez