Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Marlon Wayans On "Good" Grief, Ugly Baby Trauma, Trans Son, United Airlines + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's te j n V.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Charlamagne, the God, Laura l.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Roossa. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special
- 0:11Speaker 1: guest in the building.
- 0:12Speaker 4: We got Marlowayan's gang Gang looking at like because I'm like,
- 0:17Speaker 4: I don't see the Wayne's there. No, ain't he's gonna
- 0:21Speaker 4: be on that when you've been saying that last time
- 0:25Speaker 4: two years.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Man.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Kevin Hart there showing the picture looking like this.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Is what this wall supposed to be. I don't know
- 0:33Speaker 2: why he's take us so long, but this is this
- 0:34Speaker 2: is what he got you.
- 0:37Speaker 1: They got me.
- 0:38Speaker 4: It's look dog and a look dog animal. Not even
- 0:41Speaker 4: a handsome picture of me. Ain't that something y'all made
- 0:45Speaker 4: Kevin heart talk and y'all can't get a handsome picture
- 0:47Speaker 4: of me. He has a grown ass face. Kevin looked
- 0:53Speaker 4: in the face like he should be six five.
- 0:56Speaker 2: In the face.
- 0:58Speaker 5: Man, this is the one thing about you, Marlon. You're
- 1:00Speaker 5: doing another comedy special.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Man.
- 1:02Speaker 5: You want to run like Lil Wayne was with music,
- 1:05Speaker 5: Gucci Man was with mixtapes.
- 1:07Speaker 4: Man, I feel like you know how you know, I
- 1:09Speaker 4: feel like I feel like I feel like nas and
- 1:11Speaker 4: Buster I feel like, oh the second half. Now, this
- 1:17Speaker 4: is when you really come into your own first thirty
- 1:20Speaker 4: years you learning.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Now it's like, oh, I'm executing. I don't have to rehearse.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Special for two years to get to know the special. Wow,
- 1:27Speaker 4: I ain't got to take that long to write it.
- 1:28Speaker 4: I've written movies since I was seventeen years old, so
- 1:32Speaker 4: writing is just something I do. So I know how
- 1:34Speaker 4: to write a movie. I can remember a script. So
- 1:37Speaker 4: when I'm writing stand up, I didn't even write it
- 1:39Speaker 4: down no more. I just write it in my head
- 1:40Speaker 4: and I put it away in the catalog inside my
- 1:42Speaker 4: head like tapes, and I now, I just know and
- 1:45Speaker 4: that I make it.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Things happen.
- 1:47Speaker 4: I go, this is what God wants me to do,
- 1:49Speaker 4: and I do a special. So I'm doing my fourth special,
- 1:52Speaker 4: Good Grief. Fourth Special Good Grief at the Apollo sold
- 1:56Speaker 4: out two shows. Yeah, Mama, we did it. I think
- 1:59Speaker 4: I was gonna two shows in Halem. Times is still
- 2:01Speaker 4: rough in Harlem. Everywhere else the world is thriving.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Halem.
- 2:09Speaker 4: Gentrification stopped in hallm Like, ain't gonna work here, yo,
- 2:12Speaker 4: do that ship out of a place.
- 2:14Speaker 1: And we like regular coffee.
- 2:15Speaker 4: We don't want those Starbucks so sold out two shows
- 2:19Speaker 4: at Halem and then uh yeah, man, I'm in Nayak
- 2:23Speaker 4: tonight and then after that, I'm gonna be where am
- 2:26Speaker 4: I next week? Craig Oh, New Year's I'm gonna be
- 2:28Speaker 4: in Atlanta. I got two shows at the Roxy Theater
- 2:31Speaker 4: New Year's. Get your tickets. I'll have a brand I
- 2:33Speaker 4: have a brand new set, so I'm gonna do the
- 2:35Speaker 4: set up there, Apollo, I'm gonna retire this set. I
- 2:39Speaker 4: don't keep doing it until the special comes out. I
- 2:41Speaker 4: retire the set the night that I do it.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Good Night. That's my good six months ago. With a
- 2:46Speaker 1: new set, it's another new set. I'm a monster. So
- 2:49Speaker 1: why is it called good Grief?
- 2:50Speaker 4: Because it's about how I'm dealing with grief and what's
- 2:54Speaker 4: good about grief and how you could it's either bad
- 2:57Speaker 4: grief or good grief. I've lost fifty and people I
- 3:00Speaker 4: love in the last three years, but I still I've
- 3:03Speaker 4: been through it. I've been at rock bottom, I've been
- 3:06Speaker 4: in darkness. I've been in dark times. People don't know
- 3:09Speaker 4: what I've been feeling. They don't know the pain that
- 3:11Speaker 4: I've been going through and what's happening in my life
- 3:14Speaker 4: because I always find my smiles.
- 3:16Speaker 1: But when you lose fifty seven people.
- 3:18Speaker 4: That you love, fifty seven, damn fifty seven.
- 3:21Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about like you know, people you knew, like.
- 3:24Speaker 4: I'm talking about people I love, like John Witherspoon, my mom,
- 3:28Speaker 4: my dad, and I take the grief and I go, Okay,
- 3:31Speaker 4: God got me here for a reason.
- 3:33Speaker 1: And so I make people smile with the things that
- 3:37Speaker 1: I'm hurting with and then I heal.
- 3:39Speaker 4: And I want people to know that you can heal too.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Find it funny, find it. I like the fact that
- 3:44Speaker 4: y'all laugh about your situation you're supposed to because without that, man,
- 3:48Speaker 4: it's hard to just be in it. When you get laughs,
- 3:51Speaker 4: it make you come out of your own funk. And
- 3:54Speaker 4: I've learned that the audience is there.
- 3:56Speaker 1: They're my therapist. I've been staying on the stage.
- 4:00Speaker 4: Last three years because every time they laugh, I feel
- 4:03Speaker 4: like I'm getting oxygen. It lets me know that I'm alive. People,
- 4:07Speaker 4: it's okay to laugh and everything's gonna be okay. And
- 4:10Speaker 4: so it's called good grief and it's dope. So it's
- 4:12Speaker 4: dedication to my mom and dad.
- 4:13Speaker 2: I would say it's intentional to do it in Hall.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Yeah, my mom and dad is born and raised in Harlem.
- 4:17Speaker 4: My mother actually performed at the Apollo with a sister's
- 4:20Speaker 4: amateur Night and they won with the Green Sisters, they
- 4:23Speaker 4: won two times in a row. So I wanted to
- 4:25Speaker 4: return to the most famous stage, to the greatest city
- 4:29Speaker 4: that raised the two greatest people I know, and do
- 4:32Speaker 4: my best show and dedicated to them in their memory.
- 4:36Speaker 6: How's preparation for this show going to be different with
- 4:38Speaker 6: all of that? You know what I mean?
- 4:40Speaker 4: No, it's the same. Everything's the same when you do
- 4:42Speaker 4: your reps, everything's same. I'm not tripping. I'm not putting
- 4:45Speaker 4: too much on it. I know I'm gonna be a
- 4:47Speaker 4: little bit more emotional when it's done. You know, I'm
- 4:50Speaker 4: gonna feel like Michael Jordan when he had that when
- 4:53Speaker 4: he pop passed and he was holding that trophy and
- 4:55Speaker 4: crying on the floor.
- 4:56Speaker 1: I'm gonna feel like that because there's a vict three.
- 5:00Speaker 4: And honoring your parents and I had them with me
- 5:02Speaker 4: for so long and being able to talk about them
- 5:05Speaker 4: every day on stage was great, but also hard. So
- 5:09Speaker 4: retiring that is also retiring some of the memory of them,
- 5:13Speaker 4: and it's gonna be emotional night, and I have a lot
- 5:16Speaker 4: of family in the house. But this set, the set
- 5:20Speaker 4: is crazy. I was funny, it got heart, I got
- 5:24Speaker 4: it's dark.
- 5:25Speaker 1: It's special.
- 5:27Speaker 4: If it was whack, I would tell y'all if I
- 5:30Speaker 4: feel like it was garbage, if I ever feel like
- 5:32Speaker 4: it's garbage.
- 5:33Speaker 1: But then again, as artists, we never think it's garbage.
- 5:35Speaker 6: I want to say, you're still go on a stage.
- 5:37Speaker 6: If you thought it was.
- 5:37Speaker 4: Garbage, I wouldn't put it out. I wouldn't do it special.
- 5:40Speaker 4: I'm not rushing to do it special for what I'm
- 5:42Speaker 4: only doing. I'm doing specials when it's special, and I'm
- 5:45Speaker 4: doing special because I'm not gonna sit on material for
- 5:50Speaker 4: five years doing the same set. When I go to
- 5:53Speaker 4: your city, I want you to know, yo, he got
- 5:54Speaker 4: a brand new set. Every time I go to your city,
- 5:56Speaker 4: which is once a year, he got a brand new set.
- 5:59Speaker 4: That's the kind of artists I want to be. I
- 6:01Speaker 4: want to drop album after album after album, like you said,
- 6:03Speaker 4: like Lil Wayne, like it's an album. That's what the
- 6:06Speaker 4: comedy show. It's an album. So I'm dropping albums and
- 6:09Speaker 4: I want people to see my progression from wokush so
- 6:12Speaker 4: you know what it is.
- 6:13Speaker 1: To God loves me to good grief. Every year you're.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Want to see my progression as an artist. And then
- 6:21Speaker 4: one day you were like, yo, where did he come from?
- 6:23Speaker 4: I've been here, y'all just discovered me.
- 6:25Speaker 3: I was gonna ask, is there any pressure? Because since
- 6:27Speaker 3: it is so close, he heard about your family. You
- 6:29Speaker 3: got family members coming, and I'm sure the closest people
- 6:32Speaker 3: that will teach you the most is your family members.
- 6:35Speaker 1: You know. No, I think my brothers trust that I
- 6:38Speaker 1: do the work right.
- 6:39Speaker 4: It was one thing when they were older and when
- 6:41Speaker 4: I was when they were when I when I was younger,
- 6:43Speaker 4: and they were trying to protect me and they know
- 6:45Speaker 4: you do you know what you're stepping into.
- 6:47Speaker 1: But I think after God loves me.
- 6:49Speaker 4: The last special about the slap about you know, Chris
- 6:52Speaker 4: Rock and Jada and Will. After they saw that, that
- 6:55Speaker 4: was the first time in thirty years that my brothers
- 6:58Speaker 4: was like Damon said to Keene, he said, Yo, I
- 7:02Speaker 4: saw Marlins stand up. He said, what you think? He said,
- 7:06Speaker 4: it was brilliant that little ugly nigga is on or something.
- 7:11Speaker 4: He said, why because I've never seen it done. I
- 7:15Speaker 4: never seen somebody take one little stupid topic and do
- 7:18Speaker 4: a whole arrow about it. But it wasn't about them.
- 7:21Speaker 4: It was about him and Keen and Sony. So okay,
- 7:25Speaker 4: let me see then Keen and Sodny goes, that's all
- 7:28Speaker 4: your special Damon was right, it was brilliant.
- 7:33Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. You changed the game.
- 7:35Speaker 4: And from there that gave me a level of confidence like, Okay,
- 7:38Speaker 4: now I know not their process, so then you discover
- 7:42Speaker 4: your own process. You come into your own. I wanted
- 7:46Speaker 4: to break the mold so that I found what is Marlin.
- 7:49Speaker 4: I have my own identity as far as what I'm
- 7:52Speaker 4: doing in terms of specials and what my skill set is.
- 7:54Speaker 1: I don't look at the next man. I don't want
- 7:56Speaker 1: to do.
- 7:57Speaker 4: What anybody's doing, with none of my peers or people
- 7:59Speaker 4: before me. I just want to do the best Marlin
- 8:03Speaker 4: that I can, and Marlin at so many different levels
- 8:06Speaker 4: because I'm an actor, I'm a writer, I'm a producer.
- 8:09Speaker 4: I do drama, I do comedy, I do characters. So
- 8:11Speaker 4: I just I just be Marling and I feel like
- 8:14Speaker 4: these are my best years. People have been watching me
- 8:17Speaker 4: for thirty years. It's hard to see somebody grow when
- 8:19Speaker 4: they're in your house every days when they go away
- 8:22Speaker 4: and you yo, you shot up.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 8:24Speaker 4: The weird part for me is they people been watching
- 8:26Speaker 4: me grow for thirty years, and now I'm finally at
- 8:30Speaker 4: that place where I feel like I'm that dude.
- 8:33Speaker 2: I'm shocked that you ain't milking it.
- 8:34Speaker 5: And what I mean by that is like, you know
- 8:36Speaker 5: you got the special Good Grief.
- 8:38Speaker 2: You could tour that for two years.
- 8:39Speaker 5: You could have tought any of these specials for two years,
- 8:42Speaker 5: got paid like I'm up again, then did the special.
- 8:44Speaker 4: Yeah, but does that make me a great artist or
- 8:47Speaker 4: does it make me a better artist and a better writer?
- 8:49Speaker 4: If I let material be disposable and create from what's new.
- 8:54Speaker 4: I can't hold on. You can't hoard material, you can't
- 8:57Speaker 4: hoard life. Life brings you so much drama. Ever every
- 9:00Speaker 4: day I can't. I only got that much storage space.
- 9:02Speaker 4: So I want to hurry up and talk about this
- 9:04Speaker 4: because I got so many other things to talk about.
- 9:06Speaker 4: There's so many I got a great special about my
- 9:09Speaker 4: brothers that I want to do.
- 9:11Speaker 1: I got a call ugly Baby. I got my I
- 9:13Speaker 1: know my next three special. I got a special. It's
- 9:17Speaker 1: called ugly Baby.
- 9:18Speaker 6: You can't just get over it like we got.
- 9:21Speaker 1: Was an ugly ass baby.
- 9:22Speaker 4: That's been my production company is Ugly Baby Production, because
- 9:25Speaker 4: I was an ugly ass baby.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Sean was a pretty baby. I was ugly for Sean.
- 9:29Speaker 4: Me and Sean used to have a two bang of stroller
- 9:31Speaker 4: and when they see Sean, they'd be like, Oh, that
- 9:33Speaker 4: baby's so beautiful.
- 9:34Speaker 1: I want one, and then I would move and go,
- 9:36Speaker 1: oh my god, I want that. I think it's the
- 9:39Speaker 1: after birth wearing oscsh I was. I was ugly baby.
- 9:44Speaker 4: So I talk about me being the youngest of all
- 9:46Speaker 4: my brothers in the journey of being the young Prince
- 9:49Speaker 4: of Kings, and it's a beautiful hour and a dedication
- 9:53Speaker 4: in the roads and toast of my brothers. I'm gonna
- 9:55Speaker 4: do that one after see I go, what's my story?
- 9:59Speaker 4: And then I'm a do that one. That's after I
- 10:02Speaker 4: do my next one, which is gonna be either probably
- 10:06Speaker 4: called Skittles or Rainbow Child, And it's about what Yes, wait.
- 10:10Speaker 6: Can before you go to how long were you ugly for?
- 10:13Speaker 1: How long were you ugly? For the ugly baby? You
- 10:16Speaker 1: can't rinse all the ugly off, you know, I got
- 10:18Speaker 1: most of it away.
- 10:19Speaker 6: You know, like it's like middle school not ugly, A.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Weird stage in middle school when your teeth get big
- 10:26Speaker 4: and looking like a rabbit in your arms.
- 10:29Speaker 6: Baby ugly at the first lockers, as ugly as a baby.
- 10:31Speaker 4: Then I got cute at like six, I was a
- 10:33Speaker 4: bad little six year olds, Like I was so pretty.
- 10:36Speaker 1: A six year old.
- 10:36Speaker 4: I'm surprised somebody, somebody, I swear I was, you know
- 10:42Speaker 4: what I mean? Like like one time I was watching
- 10:48Speaker 4: Oprah and I was watching Tyler, and Tyler was talking
- 10:51Speaker 4: about documentary, his documentary.
- 10:53Speaker 2: That's coming out.
- 10:53Speaker 5: What he does is he talks about these dark things
- 10:56Speaker 5: in his life and then shows.
- 10:58Speaker 2: How he did it. In my dal movie brilliant. When
- 11:01Speaker 2: people see the dock, they're gonna get it.
- 11:02Speaker 1: They like, Oh, that's what.
- 11:03Speaker 4: I do it stand up, I take the worst things.
- 11:05Speaker 4: I used to go, what's funny about pop culture? What's
- 11:08Speaker 4: funny about race?
- 11:09Speaker 1: What's funny?
- 11:09Speaker 4: That's that was wolkish. That was the first time I'm
- 11:11Speaker 4: telling the joke. I'm learning to tell jokes. And then
- 11:14Speaker 4: and you know what it is, I was like, I'm
- 11:15Speaker 4: gonna tell some jokes, but I'm gonna tell some truth.
- 11:17Speaker 4: And I talked about me getting caught cheating on a
- 11:20Speaker 4: boat because that happened and it messed my family up.
- 11:22Speaker 4: So I was like, what's funny about that? And so
- 11:26Speaker 4: that show grew into that, and then the third one
- 11:29Speaker 4: was like the Slap. That wasn't about Chris will and Jenda.
- 11:32Speaker 4: That was about my journey knowing all of them and
- 11:35Speaker 4: all the painful things that I went through in that situation,
- 11:38Speaker 4: and that God really is always an individual experience for you.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Whatever happens in the world is really happening for you
- 11:46Speaker 4: as an individual.
- 11:46Speaker 3: You never wanted to go back to the Slap now
- 11:48Speaker 3: that she wrote the book, because I'm shure the material
- 11:52Speaker 3: I could.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Do four more hours on it after that tour she did.
- 11:55Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Book was amazing. Though she talked about your brother and
- 11:57Speaker 2: the book.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Lot, Keenan was done.
- 11:59Speaker 4: My family has been nothing but love and positivity. And
- 12:02Speaker 4: Keenan used to always tell her how great Sheeese could be.
- 12:04Speaker 4: And Keenan had sit down with j Lo. Why do
- 12:07Speaker 4: you think we are doing what we do because Keenan
- 12:10Speaker 4: putting our head, this is what you can do if
- 12:13Speaker 4: you work toward it. Deniable force of nature.
- 12:16Speaker 1: He did.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Keenan's that dude, and Jada is a friend, and Will
- 12:20Speaker 4: is a friend, and Jada's more of my friend than Will.
- 12:23Speaker 1: But I feel like.
- 12:24Speaker 4: This, everybody mind your business, everybody always, and everybody business
- 12:29Speaker 4: like yo. Social media has allowed people to creep into
- 12:32Speaker 4: your business. That's not your fucking business. My life ain't
- 12:36Speaker 4: your business, you know what I mean? Like, it's really not.
- 12:39Speaker 4: I get my jokes is your business. What I let
- 12:42Speaker 4: you see is my business. But that's their marriage. Whatever
- 12:46Speaker 4: they choose for their marriage and whatever they want to share, great,
- 12:50Speaker 4: but it's not for us to watch their life like TV.
- 12:53Speaker 1: This is people's lives.
- 12:56Speaker 4: So I'm more and I think I did something right
- 13:00Speaker 4: when I did my special because I didn't get no
- 13:02Speaker 4: calls from Will, I didn't get no calls from Jada,
- 13:05Speaker 4: I didn't get no calls.
- 13:06Speaker 1: From Chris, and Jada just did this tour. I didn't
- 13:10Speaker 1: hear she had nothing.
- 13:12Speaker 4: No why because Jada knows I love her. Jada knows
- 13:15Speaker 4: I came from love. But she also know that nigga
- 13:18Speaker 4: crazy Molin.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Just he off. He just gonna say what he gonna say.
- 13:22Speaker 4: But it's always with love, So it's not about I
- 13:26Speaker 4: wasn't being hateful, angry or bitter I was just telling funny.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Truths ugly babies might be off you to do because
- 13:32Speaker 2: the brothers got to be there.
- 13:33Speaker 1: Right, So I'm so all them niggas.
- 13:37Speaker 5: They're not pressure them actually sitting there watching you.
- 13:40Speaker 1: No, they ain't gonna be there.
- 13:41Speaker 4: I hope we do a tour together and I get
- 13:43Speaker 4: to do my set with about them with them there.
- 13:46Speaker 4: So I mean, they they know I love them, and
- 13:49Speaker 4: when I do it, they gonna they know it's love.
- 13:52Speaker 4: It's gonna be truth, It's gonna be funny, but it's
- 13:54Speaker 4: gonna be love. And then Skittles or Rainbow Child is
- 13:57Speaker 4: about my my daughter, a daughter that transition into a son.
- 14:03Speaker 4: My daughter my is now Kai and so yeah, and
- 14:08Speaker 4: so I talk about the transition, not her transit, his
- 14:12Speaker 4: their transition, but my transition as a parent, going from
- 14:16Speaker 4: ignorance and denial to complete, unconditional, loving acceptance. And I
- 14:22Speaker 4: think there's a lot of parents out there that need
- 14:24Speaker 4: to have that message, and I know I'm dealing with it.
- 14:27Speaker 4: It was a very painful situation for me, but man,
- 14:32Speaker 4: it's one of the best funniest hours I probably could
- 14:36Speaker 4: ever imagine.
- 14:36Speaker 3: I can't see that child come up to you and
- 14:38Speaker 3: ask you because you joke too much. So I can
- 14:40Speaker 3: see a child say, Dad, I'm thinking of transitioning, and
- 14:43Speaker 3: I can just see you take nothing serious.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I always joke. They know. I told my daughter and
- 14:48Speaker 1: I said, nigga, you transition into your brother.
- 14:50Speaker 4: You look just like him. I can't tell this like
- 14:53Speaker 4: I swear to God twenty three and twenty one. But
- 14:59Speaker 4: they're brilliant, don't change, brilliant, most well read, the smartest wigs,
- 15:04Speaker 4: smartest hands down.
- 15:05Speaker 1: This this.
- 15:08Speaker 4: My dude, my nigga. I'm still working on the program.
- 15:18Speaker 6: Change.
- 15:21Speaker 1: They let mean, you know, they know, they know I
- 15:23Speaker 1: love it. They see me try and they're like, I'm happy.
- 15:31Speaker 4: But I got to respect their wishes right, and and
- 15:34Speaker 4: and and that takes as a parent.
- 15:38Speaker 1: I just want my kids to be free.
- 15:41Speaker 4: I want them to be free in spirit, free and thought,
- 15:44Speaker 4: free to be themselves. The more you know yourself, the
- 15:47Speaker 4: more you can govern yourself, the more you live your truth,
- 15:51Speaker 4: the happier your existence. So if they can't get that
- 15:54Speaker 4: in the household with their father and their mother, how
- 15:57Speaker 4: the fuck do I send them out into the world to.
- 16:00Speaker 1: With that kind of confidence.
- 16:02Speaker 4: And I'm just so proud of them for being them,
- 16:05Speaker 4: but that don't mean that they ain't got jokes. I
- 16:10Speaker 4: did this, I did the set in front of I
- 16:13Speaker 4: was at I went this thing for William Marris and
- 16:16Speaker 4: it was all these world leaders.
- 16:17Speaker 1: It was like people like it was.
- 16:19Speaker 4: Part of the government, people that are five star generals,
- 16:23Speaker 4: and it was like the c I A there.
- 16:25Speaker 1: There was people.
- 16:26Speaker 4: There like if I bomb Nigga, I would have been dead.
- 16:29Speaker 4: They would have killed me, you would have found my body,
- 16:30Speaker 4: they would have poisoned me. There it was that big
- 16:34Speaker 4: of a crowd and I felt like, I want to
- 16:36Speaker 4: do this set right here because it's.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Important to me.
- 16:39Speaker 4: What's important to me comedy, what's important to me my children,
- 16:43Speaker 4: what do I love? And what's important is change? And
- 16:46Speaker 4: so all you world leaders is Kevin this summit. I
- 16:49Speaker 4: want you to think about these people and this synapse
- 16:52Speaker 4: and how to be inclusive of this next generation because
- 16:55Speaker 4: I see a lot of gray hair here, but these
- 16:57Speaker 4: kids that were dealing with they're different and we can't
- 17:00Speaker 4: have our old ways and expect to do new things.
- 17:03Speaker 1: So please embrace the new.
- 17:04Speaker 7: When you first said that, the first thing I thought
- 17:06Speaker 7: of was like, oh my god, you say the wrong thing.
- 17:08Speaker 7: And it's like whoo, what's gonna happen next? But thinking
- 17:10Speaker 7: about it the way you just put it, we need, like,
- 17:13Speaker 7: we need comedians to be able to do that type
- 17:15Speaker 7: of thing, absolutely because laughter kind of opens up conversations.
- 17:18Speaker 7: But people, you know, people a little scared because I
- 17:20Speaker 7: just got scared for you when you told when you
- 17:21Speaker 7: just said it, like I wasn't even there watching it,
- 17:23Speaker 7: but literally listening to you. I'm like, people will take things,
- 17:26Speaker 7: they will twist things, they will misinterpret things, and you
- 17:29Speaker 7: got world leaders in the room and all that stuff.
- 17:31Speaker 7: But how do you think comedy gets back to that?
- 17:35Speaker 1: I think it takes people like me.
- 17:36Speaker 6: It is not bad. People are still like.
- 17:38Speaker 4: Chappelle, people like you know, Chris, you know, people that
- 17:42Speaker 4: don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck. I
- 17:44Speaker 4: said it, I meant it. If you cancel me, good.
- 17:48Speaker 4: I didn't want your answer my show anyway, because real
- 17:51Speaker 4: ones don't cancel you. The people and you say it,
- 17:54Speaker 4: the people that love you, they come into your show
- 17:57Speaker 4: and they bringing a friend. So discancel culture started when
- 18:01Speaker 4: social media started, right, social media is not real people.
- 18:06Speaker 4: These are bots from other countries sitting behind computers taking
- 18:10Speaker 4: away our first right as Americans.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Which is freedom of speech.
- 18:15Speaker 4: They're attacking us, and we're so stupid that we pick
- 18:19Speaker 4: up on it, and the media picks up on it,
- 18:21Speaker 4: and then they make this a story. And then now
- 18:24Speaker 4: the corporations get scared, and the people that the sponsors
- 18:27Speaker 4: get scared, and then they want to take away your.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Job, my job.
- 18:30Speaker 4: They want to take away our job because they want
- 18:32Speaker 4: to take away our mouthpiece, because they want to kill
- 18:34Speaker 4: our freedom of speech.
- 18:35Speaker 1: And we are all stupid sheep.
- 18:37Speaker 4: That are following this damn thing. And I'm just like, yo,
- 18:39Speaker 4: fuck that. I'm gonna say what I gotta say because
- 18:41Speaker 4: I know I'm saying it with love. I miss the
- 18:43Speaker 4: seventies when you could just say I miss I like
- 18:45Speaker 4: mild racism, I do.
- 18:49Speaker 1: I love when the.
- 18:49Speaker 4: Puerto Rican talks a bad about the Dominican. It makes
- 18:52Speaker 4: my dad. I like what they call them souio. Yes,
- 18:56Speaker 4: because they are.
- 18:58Speaker 5: Feel like the world was a place to me when
- 19:01Speaker 5: everybody was more free with their speech, the world like
- 19:03Speaker 5: a better place.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Yes, I think everybody bullshit each other.
- 19:05Speaker 1: Now I agree everybody scared.
- 19:08Speaker 4: I say, take it back to the block, man, and uh,
- 19:10Speaker 4: let's get back to laughing.
- 19:11Speaker 1: And I have a bit in my set that I'm
- 19:14Speaker 1: gonna do. It's dark. I have some dark.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Jokes, like, but it's okay because I feel like if
- 19:19Speaker 4: i'd say one day, a dark joke is gonna save
- 19:23Speaker 4: your life because you're gonna be in a bad place
- 19:25Speaker 4: in your life and the only way to get.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Out of it is to look at it.
- 19:29Speaker 4: And find humor and laugh your way out of it.
- 19:32Speaker 4: Because depression is real, you know. And like I look
- 19:36Speaker 4: at the like when like will slap Chris, I got
- 19:40Speaker 4: scared because I seen somebody snap. I mental illness. You
- 19:48Speaker 4: put the world on you. Check on your strong friends,
- 19:51Speaker 4: check on your strong friends. That was a snap moment.
- 19:54Speaker 2: I was like, oh, he ain't laughed in a while.
- 19:56Speaker 4: Right, right, so we should be concerned. And instead of
- 20:01Speaker 4: frying people, it's like, hey, dude, are you good? Like
- 20:06Speaker 4: we don't. People go through things and we put so
- 20:09Speaker 4: much on us, but you don't know how I'm feeling inside,
- 20:13Speaker 4: you know what I mean? And sometimes like you joking
- 20:15Speaker 4: with him, yo, you'd be like not now.
- 20:18Speaker 1: But PARTY was like, yeah, that's good. I need that.
- 20:22Speaker 1: I need that.
- 20:24Speaker 2: That's the problem.
- 20:25Speaker 1: He ain't gonna have him a scandal. He's doing so awesome.
- 20:31Speaker 1: I had a million. Nah, I need you to do
- 20:34Speaker 1: something dark. I need something dark. Come on, now, you
- 20:39Speaker 1: and these white collar crimes, I need some dark ship.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Come on. Your name is Charlamagne. Shoot somebody.
- 20:47Speaker 5: Now, what about when you got into the situation that
- 20:48Speaker 5: United Airlines were damn niggas.
- 20:52Speaker 6: He said, you like a little bit of my racism.
- 20:55Speaker 4: But it was But see that was targeting, right if
- 20:58Speaker 4: I'm a first class customer. I went on the plane.
- 21:01Speaker 4: I was minding my business. I had a hat on,
- 21:03Speaker 4: so he didn't know it was me. You know, I
- 21:05Speaker 4: had I was mining my business. I had my three bags.
- 21:08Speaker 4: One was empty, because just in case I get an
- 21:11Speaker 4: asshole like him that goes, you gotta put that bag
- 21:13Speaker 4: with that bag, or I use that bag to take
- 21:16Speaker 4: my clothes when I'm going from show to the hotel.
- 21:19Speaker 4: So he's like, he had three bags. He's like, you
- 21:22Speaker 4: can't come on here with three bags. I said, listen,
- 21:24Speaker 4: I'm first class. I don't care what class you're in.
- 21:27Speaker 4: You can't come on with those three bags. I said, okay, cooch.
- 21:29Speaker 4: He goes, you're gonna have to ego, You're gonna have
- 21:31Speaker 4: to condense those So I took the bag. I complied.
- 21:33Speaker 4: It's all on video. I complied, I said, cool, I said,
- 21:37Speaker 4: and then he looks at the bag, goes. I said,
- 21:39Speaker 4: now it's two bags. He goes, yeah, well, now that
- 21:41Speaker 4: bag looks a little big. We're gonna have to check that.
- 21:45Speaker 4: I looked at this, nigga, I said. I looked at
- 21:47Speaker 4: my ticket.
- 21:48Speaker 1: I said, see, now, you just fucking with me. I
- 21:51Speaker 1: grabbed my ticket and I walked on the plane. He
- 21:53Speaker 1: tried to jump on my back.
- 21:55Speaker 4: I just went like this and he fell off to
- 21:57Speaker 4: the ground, looking silly and goofy, and I went on
- 21:59Speaker 4: the plane, try to jump on your back, jump my back,
- 22:01Speaker 4: and I just was like whatever, and I didn't push nothing.
- 22:04Speaker 4: He tried to say I assaulted him, and the cops
- 22:07Speaker 4: was like yeah. They was like, this is not, sir.
- 22:11Speaker 4: For your clearly, this is not assault. We watched the video,
- 22:16Speaker 4: but they went and they got me off the plane.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I didn't make no funk, no nothing. Can I talk
- 22:20Speaker 4: to you, sir, sir, I complied. I talked to them
- 22:23Speaker 4: and they was like, you know, he wants to press
- 22:25Speaker 4: the charge, and I'm like, how does he get to
- 22:28Speaker 4: press charges on me when I didn't do anything. He
- 22:30Speaker 4: was messing with me and I was being harassed and
- 22:33Speaker 4: so I didn't like it. And so what I did
- 22:35Speaker 4: was I used my mouthpiece. I used my social media
- 22:39Speaker 4: to be like, yo, this is unfair. And they watched
- 22:42Speaker 4: the footage and then the Denver City District Attorney they
- 22:47Speaker 4: saw it and they was like, yeah, this is nonsense.
- 22:49Speaker 1: They dismissed the case.
- 22:51Speaker 4: United owes me some compensation because they're human resources called
- 22:55Speaker 4: me up and try to defend their policy. Well, you
- 22:58Speaker 4: know you can't have three bags, bitch. I didn't have
- 23:01Speaker 4: three bags. I condensed it to two. You can't, I said,
- 23:06Speaker 4: when what happened with the customer is always right? I said,
- 23:09Speaker 4: y'all treating me like I did something bad and I
- 23:11Speaker 4: have not gotten conversation, and I'm like, yo, I got
- 23:15Speaker 4: white on them.
- 23:16Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna write a letter
- 23:18Speaker 1: to the CEL That's what I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm
- 23:22Speaker 1: gonna DN the CeAl, dear mister United Airline.
- 23:26Speaker 6: But even they realized who you.
- 23:28Speaker 1: He didn't DM me back, but you know it's cool.
- 23:31Speaker 7: They still didn't like, like, what do you so I
- 23:34Speaker 7: know that in the filing that you recently followed you
- 23:35Speaker 7: talked about like there's there's arrows pointed to all the
- 23:38Speaker 7: white people that were able to get on the plane
- 23:40Speaker 7: before you were able to write with three bags exactly right,
- 23:43Speaker 7: and your filing.
- 23:45Speaker 6: What are you looking for from this? Like what's justice
- 23:47Speaker 6: for you in the situation?
- 23:48Speaker 1: Like, I don't know something.
- 23:48Speaker 4: First of all, they made me miss a show too,
- 23:51Speaker 4: and I hate that, And I mean, there was a
- 23:52Speaker 4: lot of disgrunto fans, and I get sad for them.
- 23:57Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, whoever missed that show? Y'all need
- 23:59Speaker 4: to go s those people on free, on a free
- 24:01Speaker 4: trip somewhere. You need to gather all those people up.
- 24:03Speaker 4: It was only like, I don't know, seven hundred people.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Gather those people up and give them free vouchers somewhere.
- 24:09Speaker 4: That's first and foremost. And then I don't know, we'll
- 24:12Speaker 4: talk about me. Y'all owe me some money, and uh,
- 24:15Speaker 4: I should know. I should be first class for life.
- 24:16Speaker 4: They should get me a seat when they're playing in
- 24:20Speaker 4: the back of the damn uh first class. I want
- 24:23Speaker 4: to now I'm love the first.
- 24:24Speaker 1: First I hate that. Why didn't even do that?
- 24:29Speaker 4: Why I like that when I sit first class up
- 24:34Speaker 4: and that I put my feet on the wall.
- 24:36Speaker 1: And then but I feel real, real suspect doing that,
- 24:38Speaker 1: and the.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Thing about it's uncomfortable, and then yeah, so uh yeah,
- 24:46Speaker 4: I mean they owe me some conversation, they owe me
- 24:48Speaker 4: some some talk. It was unfair, and uh, it's unfortunate.
- 24:52Speaker 4: I stopped dragging the airline and then they just kept
- 24:56Speaker 4: getting in trouble by themselves. So I just, you know,
- 24:59Speaker 4: I hope it it gets remedied.
- 25:01Speaker 1: I'm not trying to go to war. I just I
- 25:06Speaker 1: go to war for what's right. And I was. I was.
- 25:08Speaker 4: That was definitely wrong, and I stood up for myself.
- 25:11Speaker 4: You know, I'm not a trouble maker.
- 25:12Speaker 1: I talked to you. I'm not a trouble maker. I
- 25:13Speaker 1: don't get in trouble. I'm not. I'm not that dude.
- 25:15Speaker 1: I don't.
- 25:16Speaker 4: I don't get rowdy if I get in a fight.
- 25:18Speaker 4: I want you to know I really felt threatened. I
- 25:22Speaker 4: really felt threatened because I know how to I know
- 25:24Speaker 4: how to fight.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Look like you boked up too, man.
- 25:26Speaker 1: I know how to fight. I do my moy time
- 25:28Speaker 1: I don't.
- 25:29Speaker 4: I'm only gonna do it if I feel threatened, or
- 25:32Speaker 4: if you're feeling like my family's threatened. Other than that,
- 25:35Speaker 4: or you hit me. Now we gotta fight. But other
- 25:37Speaker 4: than that, I could walk away. Man, I'd rather shake
- 25:39Speaker 4: your hand and keep it love. Man, It's all good
- 25:42Speaker 4: in my band. I didn't mean step on your Jordan's
- 25:45Speaker 4: about you knew one.
- 25:46Speaker 5: You was here over the summer alland you ain't sweat
- 25:48Speaker 5: one time. But now it's the fall and you sweating.
- 25:50Speaker 5: I don't understand.
- 25:51Speaker 1: It's this room. It's the hot seat.
- 25:53Speaker 4: This woman asks me, Angela. She she asked me, I'm sorry,
- 25:59Speaker 4: but ask you all these questions about you not and
- 26:03Speaker 4: the and the white man. What they want to crash
- 26:06Speaker 4: my plane? You know what I mean, nervous, And you
- 26:09Speaker 4: asked me about skills. I know your baby, I'm I
- 26:12Speaker 4: was breaking the stars, you said, Angela.
- 26:14Speaker 2: She like, that's not her pronoun. You just respecting her.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Pronoun because they're good.
- 26:21Speaker 6: It's a good. I'll put.
- 26:25Speaker 7: Something like lotion but dry, like really a good temperature
- 26:30Speaker 7: moisture to you. But now I was asking about its
- 26:34Speaker 7: Palmer's cocoa butter.
- 26:37Speaker 6: Oh my god, I was saying that I was asking
- 26:40Speaker 6: about this because when ladies, if.
- 26:41Speaker 4: Your man, oh god, you have dry hands, and he's
- 26:46Speaker 4: in your presence, you don't love that nigga.
- 26:48Speaker 6: That means he works hard.
- 26:52Speaker 4: You ain't gonna be like Boo, come in and get
- 26:54Speaker 4: some lotion off your hands and put it on this
- 26:57Speaker 4: part of his hand.
- 26:58Speaker 6: If you know what that's that Ashy.
- 27:02Speaker 1: You don't know.
- 27:02Speaker 6: And no, I'm not dating nobody that Ashley.
- 27:04Speaker 2: She's from Delaware. I don't believe that.
- 27:06Speaker 1: First of all, Sometimes with ugly feet, I just make
- 27:08Speaker 1: win socks.
- 27:10Speaker 6: No, when we do it, were socks so good the
- 27:14Speaker 6: whole time.
- 27:15Speaker 1: I won't to see them.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Feed say check him out this weekend, but the shows.
- 27:25Speaker 4: So oh, I'm gonna be New Year's I'm gonna be
- 27:28Speaker 4: in Atlanta Roxy at the Roxy come rock with me.
- 27:32Speaker 4: And then I'm gonna be in Portland on December I
- 27:34Speaker 4: think seventeenth.
- 27:36Speaker 1: I'm at a club in Portland. And nobody got any
- 27:38Speaker 1: information where.
- 27:39Speaker 2: We go to Marl and Wayne's official dot com.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Yeah, mall Wayne's official dot com and for more information.
- 27:45Speaker 4: Good Grief will be out Mother's Day on Amazon and.
- 27:49Speaker 6: And it's released on Mother's Day.
- 27:52Speaker 1: And I thank y'all audience for rocking with me.
- 27:56Speaker 4: I promise you y'all y'all watched me for thirty years
- 27:59Speaker 4: my best year ahead of me. I've been to start
- 28:01Speaker 4: thirty years superstardom. We're gonna sell out these stadiums. That's
- 28:04Speaker 4: what we're trying to do.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Let's go from the ladies and parents, and we appreciate you.
- 28:09Speaker 1: You you're good. Brother.
- 28:10Speaker 2: People don't know.
- 28:10Speaker 4: But you and you know you're good.
- 28:15Speaker 1: It's every time I morning here. He knows because I
- 28:18Speaker 1: don't know what he gonna say.
- 28:19Speaker 4: He got whole beefing issues with me ever since I come.
- 28:24Speaker 4: You got beefing issues with me?
- 28:26Speaker 1: He started? Was that you started? Joe Budden started too.
- 28:31Speaker 4: I gotta go on his show. He started with me.
- 28:35Speaker 4: He started with me. I'm online. He's like Marla Wayans
- 28:38Speaker 4: is not funny.
- 28:39Speaker 1: I said, well, hold on, hold on, no reason. Not
- 28:42Speaker 1: a nigga with one song gonna talk to me.
- 28:47Speaker 4: I know who it is. Didn't say something to me.
- 28:51Speaker 4: Oh let me get me and right, said Fred on
- 28:54Speaker 4: the phone.
- 28:57Speaker 1: So we would have at it.
- 28:58Speaker 5: Man.
- 29:00Speaker 4: So I mean, but that was then. You know now
- 29:02Speaker 4: I'm over. We all we all grown, and I'm proud
- 29:05Speaker 4: of everybody.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Doing anything making their money. We don't.
- 29:08Speaker 4: People don't need to see us fight. People need to
- 29:10Speaker 4: see us fight, and people need to see us heal
- 29:12Speaker 4: and make up because I think black people we need
- 29:16Speaker 4: to learn to move differently. Let's stop holding these grudges,
- 29:20Speaker 4: start building bridges and stop burning them.
- 29:23Speaker 1: Keep them burnt.
- 29:24Speaker 4: They make we burn down our bridges, and that's what
- 29:27Speaker 4: fucks our community up. We have a bunch of great
- 29:29Speaker 4: people to support each other. We need to talk long,
- 29:32Speaker 4: we need to heal more, and we need to do
- 29:35Speaker 4: more business together.
- 29:36Speaker 1: It's time.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Relationship.
- 29:39Speaker 5: Oh that's my brother, right, y'all did that Daily Show together.
- 29:43Speaker 5: I was like, man, I don't know. People watch saw
- 29:45Speaker 5: that interview in particular, it was something special about that
- 29:48Speaker 5: conversation between y'all on the Daily Show.
- 29:50Speaker 4: Because that's my that's my that's my brother. I love
- 29:53Speaker 4: that man to death. And uh, you know we still,
- 29:56Speaker 4: you know, like uncles to each other's kids. And you know,
- 29:58Speaker 4: today we we're writing projects together and you know, I'm
- 30:02Speaker 4: just so proud of him. And you know what's funny
- 30:05Speaker 4: is they don't know how funny Omar is. People don't
- 30:07Speaker 4: know Omar apps. He's fucking funny. Like he did stand
- 30:11Speaker 4: up one day in my house and he was so funny.
- 30:15Speaker 1: It was like quarantine. And we just had like forty
- 30:18Speaker 1: people over. We wasn't really quarantine.
- 30:20Speaker 2: If you told me one time, I couldn't sell out
- 30:21Speaker 2: a living room, Oh wow, you couldn't sell.
- 30:26Speaker 6: I was wrong.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Now look at your show. How about that. I'll come
- 30:31Speaker 1: to me your podcast. Well, did you do the daily
- 30:34Speaker 1: shot to gun? Yeah?
- 30:35Speaker 2: Did they last week?
- 30:36Speaker 1: He came fun good.
- 30:38Speaker 2: I felt like playing with the Warriors.
- 30:41Speaker 4: Aren't they great? Like that system works. It's like all
- 30:44Speaker 4: you gotta do is spot.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Up shoot fou Yeah, yeah, all right, good. I'm glad
- 30:49Speaker 1: you had a good time. I had a great time
- 30:50Speaker 1: doing it. But Omar great dude, He's funny.
- 30:54Speaker 4: And the people don't really know about me is I
- 30:57Speaker 4: have a great, really dramatic side. Like I'm a really
- 31:00Speaker 4: strong dramatic actor. And so one day we're gonna do
- 31:04Speaker 4: a comedy with drama.
- 31:06Speaker 1: In it together, and that's what we're writing right now.
- 31:08Speaker 2: It's gonna beautiful, absolute to Oma Wall.
- 31:11Speaker 3: We appreciate you, brother, I appreciate you all. Golood Morlon
- 31:14Speaker 3: Wayne's It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, yes, sir, wake
- 31:17Speaker 3: that ass up in the morning.
- 31:19Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club