Latest / The Breakfast Club / Best Of 2024 Full Interview: Donnell Rawlings Explains His Issue With Being Called A 'Mild' Comedian
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Breakfast Club, Donald, tell him you call him back. Hey,
- 0:10Speaker 2: y'all got on cameo today.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Come everybody.
- 0:15Speaker 4: It's DJ M V Jesse, Larry, Charlam and the God.
- 0:17Speaker 4: We are the Breakfast Club. We have a special guest
- 0:19Speaker 4: in the building. He has a Netflix specially that's out
- 0:21Speaker 4: right now. Now familiar with the old ridd in law.
- 0:23Speaker 5: Love your friend, and this unwritten companion hate your enemy.
- 0:27Speaker 5: I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemy.
- 0:29Speaker 5: This is from Matthew fifty five forty three forty eight.
- 0:32Speaker 5: That's why y'all religious me. I'm telling you to lose
- 0:35Speaker 5: love your enemies, let them bring let them bring out
- 0:38Speaker 5: the best of you, not the worst. When someone gives
- 0:40Speaker 5: you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer.
- 0:43Speaker 5: Look at God, for then you are working out of
- 0:47Speaker 5: your true selves. Your God, create creative selves. This is
- 0:50Speaker 5: what God does. He gives his best, the sun to
- 0:53Speaker 5: warm and the rains of nourse to everyone, regardless the
- 0:55Speaker 5: good and the bad, the nights of the nasty.
- 0:57Speaker 1: If all you do is love.
- 0:58Speaker 5: The lovable, to respect the bonus, anybody can shut the
- 1:02Speaker 5: fuck up.
- 1:03Speaker 1: While I'm talking about God is wrong with you.
- 1:06Speaker 5: They're gonna praying Nigga and anybody can do that. If
- 1:10Speaker 5: you simply say hello to those who greet you, do
- 1:13Speaker 5: you expect a medal? Any run of the mill center
- 1:16Speaker 5: does that. In a word, what I'm saying is, grow
- 1:20Speaker 5: up your kingdom. Subjects now, live like that, Live out
- 1:26Speaker 5: your God created identity. Live generously and gracefully toward others
- 1:33Speaker 5: the way God lives towards you.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I love you, I love you.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Scripture.
- 1:40Speaker 6: You texted me because you text me. Matthew five five Happy, Happy?
- 1:46Speaker 6: Are the mild tempered? Since they will inherit the earth?
- 1:50Speaker 6: That's Matthew five five, Welcome, Welcome. How are you feeling, brother,
- 1:56Speaker 6: I feel very mild. In fact, I'm gonna tell you
- 1:59Speaker 6: this is how mald I. I've looked at the careers
- 2:01Speaker 6: of a lot of people, right, and some of those
- 2:03Speaker 6: people that are super hot.
- 2:07Speaker 5: That aren't that mild. Let's just say they're not doing, uh,
- 2:12Speaker 5: the same thing that the mild performers are. I don't
- 2:16Speaker 5: use names. I'm not talking about anybody. I mean, we
- 2:18Speaker 5: could get to it. I mean it's not listen. I
- 2:20Speaker 5: had a conversation with a very close friend of mind.
- 2:22Speaker 5: And they said they knew that I was doing the
- 2:23Speaker 5: breakfast club right, And they said, Donelle, don't do it.
- 2:29Speaker 1: This is what that person says breakfast. They don't do
- 2:32Speaker 1: what I'm not used to.
- 2:33Speaker 5: They said, don't do what they're going to try to do.
- 2:37Speaker 1: You always he said, don't do it.
- 2:39Speaker 5: And the reason why he said, here's the thing you
- 2:42Speaker 5: could say, it's this thing is I'm giving light to
- 2:45Speaker 5: somebody that doesn't deserve light. All right, I'm giving energy
- 2:50Speaker 5: and pumping up something that doesn't have to be pumped up.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Now we could talk about the situation. I see that sinister,
- 2:56Speaker 5: nasty light skin looked at you're having.
- 2:59Speaker 1: You look very light.
- 3:00Speaker 5: You look very like lighter than normal setting like you
- 3:05Speaker 5: look like like tsha like light lighting is the thing is,
- 3:10Speaker 5: I know it's your business as a fake journalist, as
- 3:13Speaker 5: immediate personality, you have to get to the bottom of thisss.
- 3:15Speaker 5: You have to get to what people talk about in
- 3:17Speaker 5: the street. I don't want to do that, but we can't.
- 3:20Speaker 5: I want to hear special and then talking about wait, wait, wait,
- 3:23Speaker 5: what's special?
- 3:24Speaker 3: A new day?
- 3:25Speaker 1: Know what platform?
- 3:26Speaker 3: Netflix?
- 3:27Speaker 5: Not on the YouTube, not a podcast? Continue Netflix. I'm
- 3:31Speaker 5: just saying there's.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Levels of this. All right, yes, way, that's what we do.
- 3:39Speaker 5: I'm still in the top ten. That's what we call from.
- 3:40Speaker 5: People don't understand that to look for clips. This is
- 3:42Speaker 5: called in this business of it's called charting.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Okay.
- 3:45Speaker 5: Now, there are a lot of shows on Netflix. And
- 3:48Speaker 5: here's when the world, just not just a podcast, sees
- 3:52Speaker 5: you when you chart. When my special dropped on the
- 3:54Speaker 5: twenty seventh, the next day it was charted at number two. Now, no, no, no, no, no,
- 3:59Speaker 5: let's talk about it. Don't try to congress. He was
- 4:05Speaker 5: the scared of ship and if you're andre Ward, give
- 4:07Speaker 5: me the same as Nigga as on the Punk asked questions,
- 4:11Speaker 5: so who do you think was gonna fight next? All right,
- 4:14Speaker 5: who's the greatest? Who's the greatest fighter you ever seen? So?
- 4:17Speaker 1: Who do you think it's the greatest? Nigga?
- 4:18Speaker 5: Answer real question? Who do you think is the greatest?
- 4:21Speaker 5: Would you ever fight scorpion balls? How big a scorpion balls?
- 4:25Speaker 5: There's a story in Las Vegas where some of the
- 4:28Speaker 5: guy balls got bit fight scorpion. Hey, andre would you
- 4:31Speaker 5: ever fight a scorpion? Can give me the same respect.
- 4:34Speaker 5: I don't needulation, I don't want your mother fucking congratulations.
- 4:39Speaker 1: I want to talk about the facts.
- 4:40Speaker 5: I have a respectful question that Before that, I have
- 4:43Speaker 5: to answer his question. First Special dropped. That's a question
- 4:47Speaker 5: you and you were getting there. It charted number two, Yes, right,
- 4:51Speaker 5: and it held on to number two for three days.
- 4:53Speaker 5: It went to number four for a couple of days.
- 4:55Speaker 5: It went to number seven. I'm not really sure even
- 4:57Speaker 5: if it's charging right now, but to have a Net
- 5:00Speaker 5: Special to come out as many programs that are Netflix,
- 5:04Speaker 5: just to get recognized in a top ten, it's a
- 5:07Speaker 5: big joint. It's a big deal, and it's the reason
- 5:09Speaker 5: why I support any comic that want to follow my
- 5:11Speaker 5: lead and be mild.
- 5:13Speaker 1: You should do it.
- 5:14Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. And to address that, here's my thing.
- 5:17Speaker 5: All right, we'll say it. I don't want to get
- 5:19Speaker 5: into it. I don't want to get into it because
- 5:21Speaker 5: I don't want to be messing. No, but no, no,
- 5:23Speaker 5: I got to say this. It it's in your face, nigga,
- 5:26Speaker 5: You sinister nigga.
- 5:30Speaker 1: That's the type of nigga you are.
- 5:32Speaker 3: I don't get this.
- 5:33Speaker 6: You've always been such a mild mannered comic. What is
- 5:36Speaker 6: setting you off about this situation?
- 5:38Speaker 5: The thing's setting me up about the situation. It's being
- 5:40Speaker 5: called mild. All right, I'm gonna tell you why. It's
- 5:43Speaker 5: the same issue I hear with you for a person
- 5:45Speaker 5: that I'm bringing you back in. When I want to
- 5:50Speaker 5: bring you back into this, I'm gonna pray for you,
- 5:54Speaker 5: dear father, help this nigga.
- 5:57Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna makeing it. What was the point
- 6:00Speaker 1: of can you keep you on track?
- 6:02Speaker 7: Just what is the point I was making why you
- 6:04Speaker 7: don't like to be called a mind?
- 6:05Speaker 1: The reason why?
- 6:06Speaker 5: And it's I say the issue I had with you,
- 6:08Speaker 5: and I said, okay this mother for keep on trying
- 6:10Speaker 5: to create the narrative that he's not funny.
- 6:12Speaker 1: You don't understand it's not true. To begin.
- 6:14Speaker 5: Let me say this. Let me talk to a comedian.
- 6:17Speaker 5: You know the in word for us not funny and corny.
- 6:23Speaker 5: As much success as you've had, and I know that
- 6:26Speaker 5: if you've dealt with nay sayers and everything, and you
- 6:28Speaker 5: could brush it off, your numbers don't lie. It's still
- 6:31Speaker 5: something personal about somebody saying that and you want to
- 6:35Speaker 5: say fuck you.
- 6:35Speaker 1: I know I'm not.
- 6:36Speaker 5: And the reason why I'm gonna say that, and I'll
- 6:38Speaker 5: address this First off, you got to ask who's judging me,
- 6:42Speaker 5: who is saying you mild?
- 6:44Speaker 1: And if that.
- 6:44Speaker 5: Person is now on a level of what I've done,
- 6:47Speaker 5: when you talking about what your mouth saying resume even
- 6:50Speaker 5: on a level, it's not even fair for you to
- 6:52Speaker 5: make an assessment of what you think my motherfucking career
- 6:54Speaker 5: is because I could do I can do the resumes and.
- 6:58Speaker 1: This is what I could do. The resident. You could
- 7:00Speaker 1: say the rest.
- 7:01Speaker 5: I know you saw scorpion balls. I know I'm gonna
- 7:04Speaker 5: deliver yourself. You know what I'm saying. It's like, Okay,
- 7:06Speaker 5: who's judging me? And then when somebody's judging you're making
- 7:08Speaker 5: a critique of me, what are you doing? What are
- 7:11Speaker 5: you doing to your career? But sit back trying to
- 7:13Speaker 5: ship on the motherfucker and I take offense to anybody
- 7:16Speaker 5: say not funny because I know after thirty years, that's
- 7:19Speaker 5: not what the streets are saying.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I'm not funny.
- 7:22Speaker 5: About you, about you? Isn't that the sign of a narcissist? Yes,
- 7:31Speaker 5: always bringing it back to you. It's not about you.
- 7:34Speaker 5: But but did you open me? This interview is me?
- 7:39Speaker 1: That's right, a new day, a new doing, and I'm
- 7:41Speaker 1: feeling good. But you opened up for him that night,
- 7:43Speaker 1: right left? Actory what what what you say?
- 7:46Speaker 3: First off?
- 7:46Speaker 1: First off, you know what ship no crazy? That was crazy?
- 7:57Speaker 1: That was crazy?
- 7:59Speaker 5: No, I didn't, Okay, no, m I think it's very
- 8:05Speaker 5: petty for comedians, and I'm not gonna say names because
- 8:10Speaker 5: all it's just getting more. I think it's fucked up
- 8:13Speaker 5: for comedians to try to be critics of comedians when
- 8:17Speaker 5: you're in the same field.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Nobody does that. Athletes nobody do that.
- 8:22Speaker 5: You'll never hear Lebron James going out saying that Jay
- 8:26Speaker 5: Morant is whack. I'm better than him. Okay, joh, whatever
- 8:30Speaker 5: it is. I'm making my point. You guys can con them.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Look at you. I'm gonna get you when I say this.
- 8:36Speaker 5: You'll never have any other field where when you actively
- 8:40Speaker 5: doing the same thing, you're gonna be a critic of
- 8:42Speaker 5: that person and what they do is leave it on
- 8:45Speaker 5: the court. You're not gonna Lebron may have a certain
- 8:49Speaker 5: issue with certain players, but he was like, I'm not
- 8:50Speaker 5: gonna be like, oh, I'm better than him, Like this,
- 8:52Speaker 5: I'm gonna dunk on you. Michael Jordan never went out
- 8:56Speaker 5: and said what I'm gonna do to somebody. He went
- 8:58Speaker 5: out and did it. So if you want to fight me,
- 9:01Speaker 5: fight in the fair arena. You can't fight me on
- 9:05Speaker 5: Netflix because you ain't in that league.
- 9:08Speaker 1: So if your criticism.
- 9:10Speaker 5: Of me is of what your opinion is, and even
- 9:13Speaker 5: with this situation, somebody said, don't talk about it. You
- 9:15Speaker 5: know what, I'm a very petty person. I've been ryding
- 9:17Speaker 5: y'all motherfucker's pause for eight years. I can be petty, right,
- 9:21Speaker 5: I could be petty. Didn't want to be petty, I said.
- 9:24Speaker 5: And the reason why I didn't want to be petty
- 9:26Speaker 5: because I started listening I go through the comment. I
- 9:28Speaker 5: started listening, and I was saying, wait a minute, I
- 9:30Speaker 5: don't got to fight this motherfucker. I'll let them fight it.
- 9:34Speaker 5: I don't need just fight. You have to use mild forfanity.
- 9:37Speaker 5: Don't edit this shit, yes, editor shit, but I got
- 9:40Speaker 5: you with mifanity because we don't want to have the
- 9:43Speaker 5: edit too much.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
- 9:44Speaker 5: What I'm saying is, if you want to fight me,
- 9:46Speaker 5: fight me in the right arena, you know. And the
- 9:49Speaker 5: thing is where you want to fight me or criticize me,
- 9:51Speaker 5: I've already done that. I've already done that if you
- 9:55Speaker 5: check my resume, and I know you guys have because
- 9:57Speaker 5: you always want to have some inside on me.
- 9:59Speaker 1: If you check my resume and my career goes.
- 10:01Speaker 5: Over thirty years, I started in the same place that
- 10:04Speaker 5: everybody started, probably even worse. So when you try to
- 10:07Speaker 5: put out there what you think comedy is and getting
- 10:10Speaker 5: in front of the munch, I guess what.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I've been through the mud. But who still want to
- 10:13Speaker 1: keep playing in the dirt. Eventually you got to elevate yourself.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I don't want to do that.
- 10:17Speaker 4: Why being so spicy dow We know like you are funny,
- 10:19Speaker 4: like we were like, we know you funny, like, so what.
- 10:22Speaker 5: You're trying to do down is like I'm being honest,
- 10:24Speaker 5: Like how many times if I came to issue.
- 10:26Speaker 3: This is gas flighting?
- 10:26Speaker 6: Your gas lighting because he's getting your gast.
- 10:31Speaker 1: You started it.
- 10:33Speaker 5: I don't trust you. I'm just I'm keeping it real.
- 10:37Speaker 5: I like you, but I don't trust you. And I
- 10:39Speaker 5: have the same situation with certain names whatever. But it's
- 10:43Speaker 5: like it's like this and now look at this, and
- 10:45Speaker 5: I know the question is, well, what's up with all
- 10:48Speaker 5: this comedy beef or whatever?
- 10:49Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate who got that question.
- 10:52Speaker 2: I had that question.
- 10:54Speaker 1: There's an elephant in a row.
- 10:56Speaker 7: We do, and we asked every other comedian that everyucking
- 10:58Speaker 7: comes up here that question. And I was gonna get
- 11:00Speaker 7: to that. How you feel about the comedy beef and
- 11:04Speaker 7: the climate that it's in. Let's take away a nigga
- 11:07Speaker 7: with a podcast who talks about everybody to get attention.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Let's take away that talk.
- 11:11Speaker 1: About No, No, I'm.
- 11:14Speaker 7: The climate in what comedy is? You know our comedy?
- 11:19Speaker 5: I answer this way is to do you got to
- 11:20Speaker 5: like the comics, white commons, black commics, whatever the thing
- 11:24Speaker 5: is in our community. We feel like it only could
- 11:26Speaker 5: be one black person on top of one time. Nobody
- 11:29Speaker 5: wants to share the stage. They feel like Hollywood picks
- 11:31Speaker 5: this person, but everybody can win. Everybody wants to be Batman,
- 11:35Speaker 5: but it's gonna be more Robbins than anything. We're not
- 11:37Speaker 5: supportive of each other, very very selfish, very competitive, but
- 11:42Speaker 5: not the point of everybody though. We see we're not
- 11:44Speaker 5: talking to you. Sorry, I'm talking to a comedian. Do
- 11:47Speaker 5: you want to do comedy? You can start like we did.
- 11:51Speaker 5: We can do open mics. I know you have a
- 11:53Speaker 5: platform and you think you can do anything. All right,
- 11:56Speaker 5: do we interrupt like this? Imagine me interfering when you
- 12:01Speaker 5: talk about one of your podcast cards. Sorry, continue, We
- 12:04Speaker 5: don't do seminars for houses anymore.
- 12:08Speaker 1: I'm so glad that times.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, he doesn't do open mic.
- 12:12Speaker 3: He doesn't open houses.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Open houses.
- 12:13Speaker 5: The houses closed like shit right there anywhere on mindness.
- 12:17Speaker 1: The question is it's and it's it's an.
- 12:20Speaker 5: Out were very very very very hateful and as bad
- 12:23Speaker 5: as the climate has been in comedy, this is the
- 12:26Speaker 5: common denominator with everybody that's been a subject of discussion.
- 12:31Speaker 5: From the shell, let's keep it real from the shea
- 12:33Speaker 5: and if you all these names that came up, the
- 12:35Speaker 5: one thing that's common with everybody is that we all
- 12:39Speaker 5: started from nothing. There's not a story of anybody's names
- 12:43Speaker 5: going up that didn't come from uh one family house.
- 12:48Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Nothing.
- 12:50Speaker 5: Everybody, everybody they talk about had a dream and they
- 12:52Speaker 5: turned their dream into reality. So my thing, if you
- 12:55Speaker 5: want to be critical of that, then be same use
- 12:59Speaker 5: that saying criticism and talk about the come up, talk
- 13:03Speaker 5: about the people that have done it, and let people
- 13:05Speaker 5: know that this is something that you can focus on
- 13:07Speaker 5: and you can do it, you can be good at it,
- 13:09Speaker 5: and you make it successful. The only thing right now
- 13:12Speaker 5: in our comedy community is that people are trying to
- 13:15Speaker 5: sell controversy. Now. They don't want to sell jokes anymore
- 13:18Speaker 5: because they know what moves the needle.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Every podcast platform.
- 13:22Speaker 5: I did a whole media run and everybody, as soon
- 13:24Speaker 5: as I walked in, they wanted the controversy.
- 13:26Speaker 1: I heard so much that they want to oh, I.
- 13:28Speaker 5: Heard this because they know that our society, we gravitate
- 13:32Speaker 5: toward negativity more than anything. That's why you look at news,
- 13:36Speaker 5: the news, whatever New York news, you look at it.
- 13:38Speaker 5: A person was murdered in Brooklyn, person was murdered in Bronx.
- 13:41Speaker 5: Because we gravitate toward negative stuff. It's unfortunate where we
- 13:45Speaker 5: ever get where we have these positive stories, never because
- 13:48Speaker 5: that don't move the Dow. So you got people here
- 13:50Speaker 5: trying to move a dow with podcasts whatever. And the
- 13:52Speaker 5: way I'm trying to move a dow is by what
- 13:54Speaker 5: I'm doing. I don't have to talk about it. I'm
- 13:57Speaker 5: not cocky about my Netflix special. I've been doing this
- 14:00Speaker 5: thirty two years and anybody you know, you know my history.
- 14:03Speaker 5: Anybody they know my history. I put the work in,
- 14:05Speaker 5: so when you try to discredit that, I'm going to
- 14:07Speaker 5: defend that.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Again.
- 14:09Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about it because there's the
- 14:11Speaker 5: thing I make a conversation all right, because somebody told
- 14:16Speaker 5: me we didn't have now it's a missig fuck them.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it.
- 14:23Speaker 5: I was trying not to say that. I was trying
- 14:26Speaker 5: to say, I swear God, don't do this. I just
- 14:31Speaker 5: give me. That's what I want to say. That's what
- 14:35Speaker 5: I want to say.
- 14:36Speaker 3: You serious question.
- 14:36Speaker 6: Yeah, if sucking three dicks get you a movie, what
- 14:40Speaker 6: do the sucking six six dicks get?
- 14:42Speaker 1: Well?
- 14:43Speaker 5: Uh, that's a question for you, because I know you're
- 14:46Speaker 5: you're very serious about it into the acting world, right,
- 14:49Speaker 5: And when I came up here, I was like this,
- 14:51Speaker 5: you know what out of all this discussion on flatio,
- 14:54Speaker 5: and she was like, who better to audition for three movies?
- 14:58Speaker 1: It's Charlotte Mane.
- 14:59Speaker 5: So maybe that's what you're the one carries about how
- 15:03Speaker 5: the movie and that's a trigger. I've been in over
- 15:06Speaker 5: three movies and I've never and with that, I've kept
- 15:09Speaker 5: my career dick free.
- 15:10Speaker 1: So I've done it. It's been a.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Struggle for some people, right, But I've stuck to my
- 15:16Speaker 5: guns get the dick out of here so much then
- 15:20Speaker 5: I moved to Ohio just to get away from the
- 15:23Speaker 5: traps of the dick.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Ohio. They ain't nobody suning dicta rose. You know what
- 15:30Speaker 1: I'm saying.
- 15:31Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that's I mean, you know it's happening
- 15:33Speaker 5: out there, but that's not you know, that's not a
- 15:35Speaker 5: thing of mine.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Do you practice like gentle or mild parenting?
- 15:41Speaker 5: I'm very very mild, very mild and gentle parent. And
- 15:44Speaker 5: I think that's because I'm an older, older parent. Like
- 15:47Speaker 5: I think I'm old enough to be my son's grandfather
- 15:49Speaker 5: and father at the same time. So he's being raised
- 15:52Speaker 5: with grandfather energy, all that discipline stuff. I don't really
- 15:56Speaker 5: do that. Like when he was younger, he cried, I
- 15:58Speaker 5: just give him lollipops. I didn't try to give no
- 16:01Speaker 5: life lessons. I'm like an old head dad. So yeah,
- 16:03Speaker 5: I got a gentle, kinder parenting style. He's eight, Okay,
- 16:08Speaker 5: Hio is good. I'm want to roll my little more
- 16:10Speaker 5: to road than anything. Ohio is great.
- 16:12Speaker 4: It's mild weather there all the time.
- 16:14Speaker 1: It's my weather.
- 16:14Speaker 5: That's why I leave because I need to go to
- 16:16Speaker 5: more spicy weather. I need to go to a climate
- 16:18Speaker 5: where they get it from the mud, you know, And
- 16:21Speaker 5: I gotta Here's the thing about it, I gotta keep
- 16:23Speaker 5: it real, right, that's what society says.
- 16:25Speaker 1: But the irony of that.
- 16:26Speaker 5: When I did Chappelle Show, one of the sketches that
- 16:28Speaker 5: connect with people, residents so much was when keep the
- 16:31Speaker 5: Real goes wrong. So it was a situation I had
- 16:34Speaker 5: with keeping the real goes wrong. Guess who wrote that me?
- 16:39Speaker 5: So I knew how keeping it real could go wrong.
- 16:41Speaker 5: Next question, sketch, next question. There's a lot of things
- 16:44Speaker 5: you don't know about Chappel Show.
- 16:45Speaker 1: I did.
- 16:45Speaker 5: Do you know the character Beautiful did? I played Beautiful
- 16:49Speaker 5: the pimp? That not the pimp the Jerry kill. You
- 16:52Speaker 5: didn't know about this was that character was not on
- 16:54Speaker 5: the paper. They didn't write that. And this is how
- 16:57Speaker 5: hateful of a sketch that was. I asked Neil Brittan,
- 17:00Speaker 5: I said, what's the next sketch I'm going to be on?
- 17:02Speaker 5: He said, player hate his ball. So the next day
- 17:04Speaker 5: I look at the car sheet, which would tell you
- 17:06Speaker 5: what you planned and everything, and I saw that I
- 17:08Speaker 5: wasn't aaughty and I asked Neil. I said, I was
- 17:10Speaker 5: supposed to be a player hahitter his ball. Why am
- 17:12Speaker 5: I not player's ball? He said, oh, I'm sorry, b
- 17:14Speaker 5: I forgot. I was like, all right, he said, we'll
- 17:17Speaker 5: just come up with something so that character. If you
- 17:19Speaker 5: look at the original script, he did not exist on it.
- 17:21Speaker 1: I went home.
- 17:22Speaker 5: My hair has been ball for years, and I was like,
- 17:24Speaker 5: I want to do a different look. Everybody know this.
- 17:26Speaker 5: I was like, now there's an opportunity for me to
- 17:28Speaker 5: grow hair. So I went to the makeup. I said,
- 17:29Speaker 5: I want a Jerry Carroll wig. I went to props
- 17:32Speaker 5: and I said, I want a bottle. I want some
- 17:34Speaker 5: curl activator, right, but I wanted to be in a
- 17:37Speaker 5: champagne bottle, but they said that I'd be too sloppy.
- 17:39Speaker 5: So I said, give me an aerosol, can wrap it
- 17:41Speaker 5: around with some platinum gold look or whatever. I'm going
- 17:43Speaker 5: to do that, right. This was the night before I
- 17:45Speaker 5: told him that. And then Five Heartbeats was one of
- 17:48Speaker 5: my favorite movies, so I said, I wanted to be
- 17:51Speaker 5: dressed like Eddie Kane Jr. If you look at what
- 17:53Speaker 5: beautiful was wearing at it almost looked like the DA
- 17:57Speaker 5: You know, it looked like that. So I went with that.
- 18:00Speaker 5: I know this bores you because I'm making sense. So
- 18:02Speaker 5: you can leave the interview if you want. I see
- 18:05Speaker 5: you're not making an eye contact. No no, no, no, no,
- 18:08Speaker 5: you're distracted. I'm not focused on me. Can it be
- 18:11Speaker 5: about me right now? Anyway back to what I was saying, Yeah,
- 18:17Speaker 5: so I'm here, So I said, I wanted to Eddie
- 18:23Speaker 5: Kinge Jr. Look, so this guy did didn't exist. So
- 18:26Speaker 5: I got to Jerry Carroll. I got the outfit and everything,
- 18:29Speaker 5: and I'm walking around and I didn't have a name,
- 18:31Speaker 5: and I was looking in the mirror. I didn't have
- 18:33Speaker 5: a name. I said, Neil, what's this character name? He said,
- 18:35Speaker 5: I don't know. Be just make up something. So I
- 18:37Speaker 5: walked past the mirror and I was like, damn, I
- 18:40Speaker 5: feel beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I said, Neil, my name is beautiful.
- 18:47Speaker 5: He said, well, that's a lie, but it's a funny
- 18:50Speaker 5: name geeze. And if you look at it. No, everything
- 18:54Speaker 5: I said in my mouth was an improv It was
- 18:57Speaker 5: that character did not exist. That was my contribution into that.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Wow, can I ask you a real question?
- 19:02Speaker 1: No?
- 19:03Speaker 4: When you got into the I said no, when you
- 19:05Speaker 4: got into the mild disagreement.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Why didn't you leave the first time?
- 19:09Speaker 4: Why you kept leaving and coming back and leaving and
- 19:11Speaker 4: coming back and leaving and coming back.
- 19:12Speaker 5: First off, what you don't understand is that I didn't
- 19:14Speaker 5: leave and come back.
- 19:15Speaker 1: I stay.
- 19:16Speaker 5: Here's another thing about that situation. That night, there was
- 19:19Speaker 5: three shows at the last factory, one when it's a
- 19:22Speaker 5: three day weekend. Since y'all want the fucking truth, I'm
- 19:25Speaker 5: not going to bash anybody. In fact, I've never won
- 19:27Speaker 5: time said anything bad about this guy. If you want
- 19:31Speaker 5: to say his damn promoter, you can, I'll call him
- 19:33Speaker 5: this guy. I've been called ugly Larry, I've been called
- 19:36Speaker 5: all this stupid shit. Funny, Yo, Listen, it's not funny.
- 19:40Speaker 5: The reason why it's not funny because I know why
- 19:41Speaker 5: ain't the best looking nigga. When I was fucking fifteen,
- 19:45Speaker 5: I looked in the mirror and said, this face has
- 19:47Speaker 5: to be rich and famous. Yeah, you didn't have to
- 19:51Speaker 5: agree so quick. Yes, I'm not just saying certain faces
- 19:54Speaker 5: look like you got to add something to it, Okay,
- 19:57Speaker 5: you know, And what's your question?
- 19:58Speaker 1: Why did I keep leaving? Whatever?
- 20:00Speaker 5: That day, I closed three shows, first show, second show,
- 20:04Speaker 5: late show, a midnight show. I didn't want to go there.
- 20:06Speaker 5: I was tired, you know, but I didn't want to
- 20:08Speaker 5: let Lonnie down. Shout out to Lonney shocking Factory. I
- 20:10Speaker 5: wanted to commit to it. So I came to the
- 20:12Speaker 5: show right and I don't mingle with comics. I don't
- 20:16Speaker 5: go over there and do all the pow wow shit.
- 20:18Speaker 5: I don't look at the lineup. I just know that
- 20:19Speaker 5: I'm gonna go in and call, and I'm gonna go
- 20:21Speaker 5: up my name called went up there, destroyed the show,
- 20:25Speaker 5: ripped the show. But also know that I had to
- 20:27Speaker 5: make an announcement about my special, and I wanted to
- 20:32Speaker 5: say something that was real. So I had the crowd
- 20:35Speaker 5: up here. I could have said good night. I took
- 20:37Speaker 5: it down and I explained what this special was meant
- 20:40Speaker 5: to me, how it got here, and it was a
- 20:42Speaker 5: very hard film. If you listened to that video, you
- 20:44Speaker 5: could tell people's ride with me. I didn't have to.
- 20:47Speaker 5: I ain't got to get on standing though. Right there,
- 20:49Speaker 5: I said, I made my points, and I knew I
- 20:50Speaker 5: was gonna use this, so I thought that they was
- 20:52Speaker 5: giving me the light. I'm like I'm the last one.
- 20:55Speaker 5: Everybody else's been kind of weak. I was wondering why
- 20:58Speaker 5: they was stretching it right. I was like, for me
- 21:01Speaker 5: just to do ten minutes out to people been waiting
- 21:03Speaker 5: for the room out to make no sense. So I
- 21:04Speaker 5: did go a little bit over my time. I would
- 21:06Speaker 5: over my time, not knowing that anybody else was on
- 21:08Speaker 5: the show. I thought I was closing.
- 21:10Speaker 3: They ad to get you off the stage for the headline.
- 21:12Speaker 1: No, there wasn't. You're not paying I'm so focused.
- 21:15Speaker 5: Yeah listen, Well, no Corey with headlining, right, So I'm
- 21:24Speaker 5: I knew what off my time, but they would let
- 21:26Speaker 5: me do that. I didn't do it this long enough.
- 21:28Speaker 5: If I want to run the light a little bit,
- 21:29Speaker 5: I can do it.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:30Speaker 5: Okay, I'm down there Orleans, right, so I'm leaving. Good night,
- 21:34Speaker 5: good night. And then they said we got one more
- 21:37Speaker 5: guests coming up from from the thirty thirty podcast or
- 21:42Speaker 5: whatever number it is. Yeah, yeah, And they said blah
- 21:45Speaker 5: blah blah, And I was like, oh.
- 21:48Speaker 1: I want to listen to this.
- 21:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:49Speaker 5: And the reason why I wanted to listen to it,
- 21:51Speaker 5: I had already wanted to talk to this guy. Why
- 21:54Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you why, because I was fed up
- 21:58Speaker 5: and like a lot of comedians, up with the antics
- 22:01Speaker 5: of why everything that comes out your mouth has to
- 22:04Speaker 5: be negative and shit on people. I wanted to have
- 22:06Speaker 5: a conversation, not just for me, but for the comedy community.
- 22:10Speaker 5: Why is it that you always have to talk shit
- 22:15Speaker 5: about people? And nobody asked you. I could see if
- 22:18Speaker 5: you go on somebody platform and said what you think
- 22:20Speaker 5: about so and so? But you volunteering this negative information?
- 22:23Speaker 5: And you know how close I am with this guy?
- 22:25Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, I know how close I am with
- 22:28Speaker 1: Day And he made some comments about Day and you
- 22:30Speaker 1: could go on your.
- 22:30Speaker 5: Platform and you could say, I'm just I'm just telling
- 22:33Speaker 5: that you I'm afraid what is the purpose of saying that?
- 22:37Speaker 5: Making a comment? And I understand this? And I heard
- 22:40Speaker 5: you on your podcast or Dave he be bombing all right?
- 22:44Speaker 1: First off, not you.
- 22:47Speaker 5: I'm saying I listened to The Brilliant Dummies or whatever
- 22:49Speaker 5: the name of that show is, right, and like, and
- 22:53Speaker 5: you're like, he'd be bombing. First off, if you see
- 22:59Speaker 5: Day Chappelle in a comedy like night like d ray mondays, right, yeah,
- 23:06Speaker 5: that he's not in there practicing for a special This
- 23:08Speaker 5: is what I was trying to make He's not in there.
- 23:10Speaker 5: You know why he's in there because he's black. He
- 23:13Speaker 5: loves black people, and he want his black people to
- 23:17Speaker 5: feel that I'm still accessible, to feel that I could
- 23:20Speaker 5: pop in to feel like, Yo, the guy who is
- 23:24Speaker 5: you call a goat still wants to hang out with.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Y'all, which I experienced myself.
- 23:28Speaker 5: Yeah before you know what that is and you going
- 23:30Speaker 5: in there just what people understand. This is why when
- 23:32Speaker 5: I asked him about that, he was like, hey, be
- 23:33Speaker 5: by him. I was like, it's a workout. It's a workout.
- 23:37Speaker 5: Guess how you get new jokes by jokes not working.
- 23:41Speaker 5: You think that Dave Chappelle or anybody's going to go
- 23:44Speaker 5: into these nights, especially with the phones running and everything,
- 23:47Speaker 5: and go up there and give you a show that
- 23:50Speaker 5: he charges five and six hundred dollars for. He's going
- 23:53Speaker 5: up there to do what to be Dave, to sit
- 23:56Speaker 5: up there, They're going to smoke a cigarette if you
- 23:58Speaker 5: want to. He going up there the chill and who
- 24:00Speaker 5: are you to sit in.
- 24:01Speaker 2: The dark with the mic?
- 24:04Speaker 1: What in the dark?
- 24:05Speaker 5: The critics like, oh, he ain't so and so if
- 24:07Speaker 5: you want to if you really want to test the
- 24:10Speaker 5: motherfucker to go to an arena show when we performing
- 24:14Speaker 5: for twenty and twenty thousand people and we set and
- 24:18Speaker 5: stuff for flame that those rooms are designed for people
- 24:22Speaker 5: not to be critical.
- 24:24Speaker 1: That's what those rooms for. But why you let it
- 24:26Speaker 1: bother you?
- 24:26Speaker 4: Because you know we've been in those rooms. You know
- 24:28Speaker 4: I've seen you in a small venue and I've seen
- 24:30Speaker 4: you in huge venues. I said, we've seen Davids. Why
- 24:31Speaker 4: did I let what bother me? But why are you
- 24:33Speaker 4: letting what he said bother you?
- 24:34Speaker 1: Because you know what it is? You know you you
- 24:36Speaker 1: don't know I'm sensitive. I'm sensitive, okay, and then I'm sensitive.
- 24:41Speaker 7: And then even with you, you know, outside of being sensitive,
- 24:45Speaker 7: this is a person that always does this shit like
- 24:48Speaker 7: all the time.
- 24:49Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, It's the same thing.
- 24:50Speaker 7: And the only way that you can actually ever get
- 24:53Speaker 7: to him, to talk to him, is if you pop
- 24:55Speaker 7: up on him. Because even in my experience, I mean
- 24:57Speaker 7: I'm talking about this person has talked about me years
- 24:59Speaker 7: and year, yars and years. Try to apologize through another comedian. Nah,
- 25:02Speaker 7: I don't send me Dray to apologize to me. I
- 25:05Speaker 7: want you to apologize to me as a mother because
- 25:08Speaker 7: of the ship you said about my son and what
- 25:10Speaker 7: I'm saying this is when you and then then I
- 25:13Speaker 7: had to call you. I'm talking about block my number
- 25:16Speaker 7: out to call you, and you answer the phone like
- 25:19Speaker 7: who you know what I'm saying, And then you apologize,
- 25:21Speaker 7: And then I would have never made those those comments
- 25:24Speaker 7: about you had I knew you were a comedian?
- 25:26Speaker 5: What that?
- 25:26Speaker 2: What that got to do with me being on a meeting?
- 25:29Speaker 7: Apologized before he has on the phone, And then later
- 25:32Speaker 7: and later you get on that mic again, on on
- 25:35Speaker 7: on the show whatever, on your podcast show, which is
- 25:38Speaker 7: like the only thing you have, you know what I'm saying,
- 25:41Speaker 7: and you.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Talk about me again, you talk about me, and you
- 25:43Speaker 2: talk about.
- 25:44Speaker 7: So he cannot leave our names and the names of
- 25:47Speaker 7: the greats and the name of the people that he
- 25:48Speaker 7: cannot beat on a Netflix, on anything else, in any
- 25:52Speaker 7: other realm out of his mouth.
- 25:54Speaker 2: He can't do that.
- 25:54Speaker 7: So that's all he has is that mic and that
- 25:56Speaker 7: Dorna and in that cold corner, you know, anybody.
- 26:00Speaker 5: Without anybody being able to respond, without having an opinion
- 26:03Speaker 5: of anybody. And here's the thing, whether you know or not,
- 26:05Speaker 5: it was so many comedians that called me and said
- 26:08Speaker 5: thank you. And going back to your question, is that
- 26:11Speaker 5: I look at that question. I listen, Yes, you asked questions.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Back to your point is that uh him like I'm
- 26:18Speaker 5: a good friend. People want to say all this ship.
- 26:20Speaker 5: Well even with that, he was like when I had
- 26:23Speaker 5: a special or Dave Chappelle put him on. What you
- 26:25Speaker 5: don't know is Netflix had already agreed to do a
- 26:31Speaker 5: special with me produced by Dave or not.
- 26:34Speaker 3: So what what if Dave didn't put you on?
- 26:36Speaker 6: So what what I'm saying, I'm.
- 26:38Speaker 5: Answering like dumb questions. You know what I'm saying. And
- 26:41Speaker 5: this is what people don't understand. And this is what
- 26:43Speaker 5: the law came.
- 26:44Speaker 6: They a just handing out specials that are very deserving it.
- 26:47Speaker 5: That's the point I'm making. But people don't understand that
- 26:49Speaker 5: any success somebody get hard work.
- 26:51Speaker 1: Whatever.
- 26:52Speaker 5: They wouldn't say you had to do so and so
- 26:54Speaker 5: so you dismissing work ethics, you're dismissing going hard, you
- 26:57Speaker 5: dismissing god. I just think take people see no, I'm
- 27:02Speaker 5: not saying you know, I'm just saying this.
- 27:03Speaker 1: But it just makes sense.
- 27:04Speaker 4: It's like if I wanted to do a podcast, right,
- 27:07Speaker 4: Why wouldn't I go to Charlemagne who has his own podcast, right,
- 27:10Speaker 4: that's my.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Guy, and he's gonna hopefully look out the best interest.
- 27:13Speaker 4: Even when I was doing my book, I called Charlamagne
- 27:14Speaker 4: and say, yo, these are the terms for the book.
- 27:16Speaker 1: What do you think he's done it before?
- 27:18Speaker 5: My next question is if you written more than three books,
- 27:22Speaker 5: did you have to give relationship for three books? Or
- 27:24Speaker 5: is that just in the book hand out? I knew,
- 27:26Speaker 5: I knew it. What's up sexual hand yo? But again
- 27:28Speaker 5: going back to it, when I when I spoke out
- 27:32Speaker 5: and I will do I will do this. There's an
- 27:35Speaker 5: unwritten move that comedians not supposed to heckle. And it
- 27:38Speaker 5: wasn't a heckle right when I when I said what
- 27:40Speaker 5: I said, I felt like I did that, not just
- 27:42Speaker 5: for myself, but for so many comedians.
- 27:46Speaker 1: That's like, enough is enough. It's not gonna change anything.
- 27:48Speaker 5: You're gonna listen to this and you're going to figure
- 27:51Speaker 5: out how to make some content out of this, and
- 27:53Speaker 5: you're gonna be your respond Yeah, but what are you
- 27:56Speaker 5: What is he gonna respond to? Just like even when
- 27:58Speaker 5: responded what he said, he ugly and here's the thing
- 28:01Speaker 5: you want to be Okay, I'm ugly, so well, okay.
- 28:03Speaker 3: I gotta agree with him on that.
- 28:05Speaker 5: I would say, I'm guess who I'm not trying to
- 28:08Speaker 5: impress with my looks. You nigga that you here's the thing,
- 28:13Speaker 5: here's the thing. Everything with that situation, thank you, everything
- 28:17Speaker 5: with that situation, Like you're this, you're that, all right,
- 28:19Speaker 5: So you're judging a man like you looked at me
- 28:22Speaker 5: and said, I'm ugly, So who's fine to you me?
- 28:26Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you.
- 28:28Speaker 5: If you want to criticize somebody, look like, oh he's ugly,
- 28:31Speaker 5: so just tell me who you think is fine. So
- 28:33Speaker 5: that means you you're looking at dudes. But that's when
- 28:35Speaker 5: you that's when you go, oh no, no, Donnelle ugly,
- 28:37Speaker 5: But guess who fine?
- 28:38Speaker 2: Y'all?
- 28:39Speaker 5: Are you going to say that next? And then and
- 28:41Speaker 5: then at the end of the day, this interview was
- 28:43Speaker 5: not supposed to be about this, but at the.
- 28:45Speaker 2: End of the day. But at the end of the day, please,
- 28:48Speaker 2: I'm not well.
- 28:50Speaker 3: Can have the question?
- 28:51Speaker 6: Could you and Corey ever get on the same page?
- 28:53Speaker 6: I think him and just what you were different because
- 28:55Speaker 6: what I need to get on talking about.
- 28:58Speaker 1: But could you will say this. He was with me,
- 29:01Speaker 1: he was for me.
- 29:02Speaker 5: I respected him. You know, everybody don't agree with his
- 29:05Speaker 5: style of comedy. And I've said this to people before,
- 29:09Speaker 5: like to be able to have the skills set, and
- 29:10Speaker 5: I say, Patresea O'Neil was like this, to have a
- 29:13Speaker 5: set skill set where you can have people like angry
- 29:16Speaker 5: wanting to leave, like this is disgusting, and then one
- 29:20Speaker 5: joke you got him laughing. There's something to be said
- 29:23Speaker 5: about that dark comedy, you know what I'm saying. And
- 29:25Speaker 5: that's why I've always showed him that I don't talk
- 29:27Speaker 5: to comedians. I don't hang out with comedians. He was
- 29:29Speaker 5: one of the guys that when I see him out, I.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Like, what's up.
- 29:32Speaker 5: We would talk, we would talk, we would talk. So
- 29:34Speaker 5: it was kind of taught. It was kind of interesting
- 29:36Speaker 5: to me that when this hits like this, let's keep
- 29:39Speaker 5: it what it is. You know, like the situation you
- 29:41Speaker 5: would have with him, I was like this, I fight
- 29:43Speaker 5: you all day.
- 29:44Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You talking to me hi
- 29:47Speaker 1: figuratively speaking.
- 29:48Speaker 3: Yeah, please, we've grown.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Come on, Donnell, you're what I called him, a provocator.
- 29:52Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. Let's just let the interview stand on.
- 29:55Speaker 5: We're not gonna fight this. We will fight, you know
- 29:57Speaker 5: what'll how we'll fight. We'll fight on success. We'll fight
- 30:00Speaker 5: on what we're doing. You know what I'm saying, I know.
- 30:02Speaker 1: How to beat certain people.
- 30:04Speaker 5: Just keep just keep going. I don't I don't have
- 30:07Speaker 5: to do. That's the subjective to though. Yeah it is, yeah,
- 30:10Speaker 5: but I know what he wants. Want you want what
- 30:13Speaker 5: everybody else has mm hmm. But what you're going to do,
- 30:17Speaker 5: and then you paint the narrative that the only way
- 30:19Speaker 5: you can get that is to do a certain thing.
- 30:22Speaker 5: You don't have to do that. Work ethics still win.
- 30:25Speaker 5: As much crazy as it is, work ethics still win.
- 30:28Speaker 5: I remember, years ago, it was me, we were at
- 30:31Speaker 5: the Uptown Comedy Club. You laughed because I said that.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Transition was crazy.
- 30:37Speaker 3: Let make everything sound so sad.
- 30:42Speaker 5: Okay, so what you said, I'm a walking You're not
- 30:45Speaker 5: need negro college from commercial.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Yo, do.
- 30:52Speaker 3: And white with sad music.
- 30:55Speaker 5: I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, oh man, all right,
- 31:01Speaker 5: damn it uto. Years ago, this is an example of
- 31:04Speaker 5: how you fight. Years ago, were at the Uptown Comic Club.
- 31:08Speaker 1: It was me, Dave.
- 31:10Speaker 5: We were in the backstage on in the loading dock area.
- 31:12Speaker 5: It was me, Dave, Me, Dave, Tracy Morgan, Mike Epps
- 31:19Speaker 5: at that time, Tracy Morgan, for whatever reason, they was
- 31:21Speaker 5: beefing each other. Beef go way back, just like Tracy
- 31:24Speaker 5: Morgan and Mike Epps. All right, they were beef on
- 31:27Speaker 5: each other right to the point where they was getting ready.
- 31:29Speaker 5: We were back here on this loadan doctor and they
- 31:30Speaker 5: was getting ready to fight. Interesting enough, Dave was there
- 31:34Speaker 5: and Dave, they was getting ready to go at it.
- 31:36Speaker 5: And Dave got between both of them and he said, yo,
- 31:39Speaker 5: don't fight right here. And it was it happened to
- 31:41Speaker 5: be a TV back in the stage right and he
- 31:44Speaker 5: pointed to the TV. He said, this is where y'all
- 31:46Speaker 5: need to fight. Get a TV show. Fight with your success.
- 31:50Speaker 5: That's why I could go back and forth with this
- 31:52Speaker 5: with him. But I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna
- 31:54Speaker 5: continue to walk my walk. I'm gonna continue to do
- 31:57Speaker 5: what I do. And I realized sometimes you gotta let
- 31:59Speaker 5: up the people fight your battles. I don't. The fans
- 32:03Speaker 5: have spoken. The fans have said, what it is My
- 32:06Speaker 5: special is a good special. No, it's a great special.
- 32:11Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, all right, it's a great special.
- 32:15Speaker 5: It's a great special. When I say that in a
- 32:16Speaker 5: sense of what I wanted to do. Comedy is subjective
- 32:19Speaker 5: to whatever style you like. But I tell everybody, I
- 32:21Speaker 5: even told all my people did I work with. I said,
- 32:24Speaker 5: people going to be able to rageous however they want.
- 32:26Speaker 5: I said, but what you can deny is that the
- 32:28Speaker 5: special feels good if people.
- 32:30Speaker 3: Are watching it. Have you seen any change?
- 32:32Speaker 6: And like, I know it's only been a week, but
- 32:33Speaker 6: have you seen any change in like, you know, you
- 32:36Speaker 6: your career since this came out.
- 32:38Speaker 5: I feel like the thing that was really in my
- 32:41Speaker 5: favorite that I've had, I had momentum before this special
- 32:45Speaker 5: came out. I started seeing my ticket sales. This is
- 32:47Speaker 5: just from the grinder. I started seeing that, even my
- 32:50Speaker 5: manager and everything. This is like a two year process.
- 32:52Speaker 5: And everybody was like, when it's special, when it's specially
- 32:55Speaker 5: come out? I said, can we just say my special
- 32:57Speaker 5: is never coming out?
- 32:58Speaker 3: Right?
- 32:58Speaker 5: I said, let's just work like, say it's never gonna
- 33:01Speaker 5: come out, because it's easy to work and now we
- 33:03Speaker 5: got a tool to work with. Let's just keep on
- 33:05Speaker 5: our path of it's never gonna come out right. But
- 33:08Speaker 5: what I do know is it's only been like two
- 33:10Speaker 5: weeks or a week sends out when I did a
- 33:13Speaker 5: couple of shows. Here's another thing about the grind and
- 33:16Speaker 5: the mud. The day did my special came out, next day,
- 33:18Speaker 5: I was charted too right following day for people to
- 33:21Speaker 5: talk about he couldn't handle certain rooms. The next day
- 33:24Speaker 5: I did t I room in Atlanta. Yeah, and that
- 33:28Speaker 5: room is a room that would destroy you. They weren't
- 33:33Speaker 5: even thinking about comedy. They was ready to wrap and
- 33:35Speaker 5: everything winning that joint. You know them clubs where you
- 33:38Speaker 5: can't get a market read the machine you fuck. You
- 33:40Speaker 5: may be funny and all that, And for me, maybe
- 33:43Speaker 5: I'm weird. I could have been like, oh, I'm too
- 33:44Speaker 5: good for this. It took me back to when I
- 33:47Speaker 5: was doing comedy the first two years, when every comic
- 33:49Speaker 5: was going up there they was bombing and whatever.
- 33:51Speaker 3: And then we're proud of you doing talking about right now,
- 33:56Speaker 3: but we're proud of you, and we got you to
- 33:59Speaker 3: get back.
- 34:00Speaker 6: We got down to a nice gift basket is to
- 34:02Speaker 6: get proud of him.
- 34:03Speaker 3: In his new special, new Netflix special, A New Day.
- 34:06Speaker 6: We got you cause I know you like to cook,
- 34:08Speaker 6: and I know you like to smoke, so we got
- 34:11Speaker 6: you something.
- 34:11Speaker 5: So when I went back to this ghetto room, right,
- 34:18Speaker 5: but you know I won't say this is my favorite?
- 34:20Speaker 3: Which one? Which one? Which one?
- 34:21Speaker 1: This green one?
- 34:22Speaker 3: Right?
- 34:23Speaker 4: We got him, You got you gott tell people what
- 34:26Speaker 4: it is.
- 34:26Speaker 3: Tell him you have him some mild green pepper sauce.
- 34:33Speaker 4: Okay.
- 34:35Speaker 6: We have the Sweet Baby Rays going made sauce, mild,
- 34:39Speaker 6: Buffalo wing sauce.
- 34:41Speaker 3: Okay. We have the Taco Bell mild sauce.
- 34:44Speaker 1: You are my favorites, that's right.
- 34:46Speaker 3: We have Kinders barbecue sauce, honey hot, mild. Okay.
- 34:50Speaker 6: We have the Ortega mild original Taco house. We even
- 34:54Speaker 6: got this is good too. We have the Peggy's Marinade
- 34:57Speaker 6: wing dips straight from Pennsylvania. We gotten to fight at right,
- 35:01Speaker 6: this is mild as well. And we have a lot
- 35:03Speaker 6: of black and mild black and black and mild cigars.
- 35:06Speaker 6: I know you like to smoke, Okay, okay, donell okay,
- 35:09Speaker 6: anything else, that's it?
- 35:10Speaker 3: All right?
- 35:12Speaker 5: Damn anybody, anybody I wanted to give some gifts. The
- 35:14Speaker 5: only place somebody go to the bathroom and give me
- 35:17Speaker 5: a wash rag for somebody's career.
- 35:19Speaker 1: That's washed up.
- 35:21Speaker 5: Do you got your hand to show the body wash?
- 35:25Speaker 1: Do you have some? Do we have anything washed?
- 35:32Speaker 3: Are you going to use these products? Wash? There's some
- 35:34Speaker 3: good stuff in there. We know we put some thought
- 35:36Speaker 3: into that.
- 35:36Speaker 1: Don Now you thought this was going to be a
- 35:38Speaker 1: hate gift, but it's not. I was not that.
- 35:41Speaker 3: Not a hate gift.
- 35:41Speaker 1: I know what you like. I like that. That was
- 35:44Speaker 1: very good.
- 35:45Speaker 3: It's thoughtful, very You like to cook? You always cooking
- 35:47Speaker 3: in Ohio?
- 35:48Speaker 5: Right, that's a great bomb. It was the last thing
- 35:50Speaker 5: I was saying before I was interrupted with.
- 35:52Speaker 2: It, and it took you back to your first two years.
- 35:53Speaker 5: But I went back after doing the Netflix thing, and
- 35:56Speaker 5: I went back to where I started in the in
- 35:58Speaker 5: the in the gutter. I did that show and I
- 36:00Speaker 5: felt accomplished with it. I was like, yeah, you can
- 36:01Speaker 5: say whatever you want, but I can still go in there.
- 36:03Speaker 5: And what I'll do is I don't have a beef,
- 36:06Speaker 5: but I will say the thing what I was saying earlier.
- 36:09Speaker 1: You could talk to me. You can be for me
- 36:11Speaker 1: as a man.
- 36:12Speaker 5: But this is the dirty, grimy part is when you
- 36:15Speaker 5: start throwing a person's family in it, and you've had
- 36:18Speaker 5: an experiences like this where you came out of your
- 36:21Speaker 5: normal self to defend your family.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Family.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Stop it, you know what it is.
- 36:26Speaker 5: If we're gona talk about it, talk about really don't know,
- 36:28Speaker 5: I'm not joking on Yeah, well, you know the greatest
- 36:32Speaker 5: comedian in the history of comedy said something about my family.
- 36:35Speaker 3: That's a comedian in the history.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Oh he's not He's not that great.
- 36:38Speaker 5: So I was thinking about somebody else, you know, had
- 36:42Speaker 5: to like when I did what I did.
- 36:44Speaker 1: And I have a.
- 36:47Speaker 5: I don't have no problem saying I shouldn't have yelled out.
- 36:48Speaker 5: I don't have no problem saying that. But it was
- 36:50Speaker 5: just pinned up. But you go on your platform and
- 36:53Speaker 5: then you want to talk about me. That's cool, your
- 36:56Speaker 5: looks and everything. You want to bring my family involved.
- 36:59Speaker 5: You want to involve my family. You want to post
- 37:01Speaker 5: and I know this stuff is Google, but on your
- 37:03Speaker 5: platform that's filled with hate. You want to put a
- 37:06Speaker 5: picture of my family, my baby, mother and my son.
- 37:10Speaker 3: First off, okay, I remember that. That's different.
- 37:12Speaker 1: That's very dirty.
- 37:14Speaker 5: Because now in a negative climate that your show is
- 37:18Speaker 5: people seeing that they got to be out in public.
- 37:21Speaker 1: You don't know how people are going to react.
- 37:23Speaker 5: That's the problem, And I was like, I don't want
- 37:25Speaker 5: to entertain this because it's too much good stuff going on.
- 37:28Speaker 5: But I have a problem. Keep it fair. You want
- 37:29Speaker 5: to fuck with me, fuck with me. Believe that out
- 37:31Speaker 5: of it. Have y'all spoke, Nah, I don't really have it.
- 37:34Speaker 1: I don't really.
- 37:34Speaker 2: But then you have to understand something too.
- 37:37Speaker 7: This man doesn't respect his own family, you know, you know,
- 37:40Speaker 7: he says things like, you know, fuck his daughter, fuck
- 37:42Speaker 7: his mom, and.
- 37:42Speaker 2: Shit like that.
- 37:43Speaker 7: So I at some point it's like, there's no making
- 37:47Speaker 7: up with a person like this, there is no trying
- 37:49Speaker 7: to understand, to sit down like that type of person
- 37:52Speaker 7: needs healing and therapy of his own.
- 37:54Speaker 5: And the think that's why I said that prayer earlier.
- 37:55Speaker 5: The thing is, there is no reason too for me
- 37:59Speaker 5: to do it. I've already started with limited contact, always
- 38:02Speaker 5: started with a mutual respect. But if you lose respect
- 38:05Speaker 5: for me, I lose respect for you. And even when
- 38:08Speaker 5: I said what I said on stage, Now one time
- 38:10Speaker 5: did I be rate him. That one time did I
- 38:12Speaker 5: say anything bad about his comedy? No, one time to
- 38:14Speaker 5: say anything about his family. That one time I say
- 38:16Speaker 5: anything bad about him. I explained to what I am
- 38:19Speaker 5: and I know that there's nobody gonna believe that I'm
- 38:24Speaker 5: a mild comic. There's nobody gonna believe that I'm not
- 38:28Speaker 5: so you think, here's.
- 38:29Speaker 3: A lot of people that don't know what you're even
- 38:31Speaker 3: talking about. Right now, That's what I'm saying, Like, why.
- 38:32Speaker 1: He got this? Somebody want, yes, go put that on
- 38:38Speaker 1: your scorpions.
- 38:39Speaker 3: Gonna be a whole hour.
- 38:41Speaker 1: Yes, it wasn't. We didn't.
- 38:43Speaker 6: You have a great special called a New Days on
- 38:45Speaker 6: Netflix right now?
- 38:46Speaker 3: Make it a new day done.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing, this conversation there wasn't.
- 38:50Speaker 5: This conversation wasn't specific to one's person that it was
- 38:55Speaker 5: a conversation about this industry and have people move and
- 38:59Speaker 5: like you it. Uh, it's a new day, it's a
- 39:03Speaker 5: new dawn. It's a new life for me. And I'm
- 39:06Speaker 5: feeling good down there. Rawlins Netflix special. It's still charging
- 39:11Speaker 5: on Netflix. And I want to say I appreciate this time,
- 39:14Speaker 5: appreciate it was good to see you. It's congratulations.
- 39:17Speaker 3: It's always it's always good to see you. Donel.
- 39:21Speaker 5: I want to say congratulations. I really I really appreciate you.
- 39:25Speaker 1: I really appreciate you.
- 39:26Speaker 6: I support you. I want everybody to get along. You
- 39:28Speaker 6: know what I'm saying.
- 39:29Speaker 3: I want you and Corey to make up words.
- 39:36Speaker 2: Don't have to say nothing.
- 39:40Speaker 4: You know, I appreciate you for joining us.
- 39:43Speaker 1: It's a new down Live for me alright. It's the
- 39:52Speaker 1: Breakfast and Good wake that ass up
- 39:56Speaker 3: In the morning Breakfast Club