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INTERVIEW: Wanda Sykes Talks 'Undercard,' Comedy Career; Chris Rock; Oscars Slap, Mike Epps + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Up.
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  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: Finished for y'all dun morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is the j en V just hilarious. Charlamagne the
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  Speaker 3: God we are the Breakfast Club. Laurna ROAs is here
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  Speaker 3: as well. We got a special guest in the building,
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  Speaker 3: Legend Wonder Sikes.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you than my energy. I got good energy right now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, right now, right now. Yeah, I'm sure I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to crash in about an hour all night. But
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  Speaker 4: you know I had a little day last night, uh
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  Speaker 4: a screening of the movie Under.
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  Speaker 1: Out right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I may have had a few drinks last night. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: did she have Little Kim. Little Kim come out.
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  Speaker 5: She had partisan Fontaine and with the hoodie.
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  Speaker 6: But she had a part where she gives out five
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  Speaker 6: thousand dollars to the person who can shake their ass
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  Speaker 6: the best, and so you won.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't try. He tried, you know, in these you
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  Speaker 2: know and these trying financial times. They was out there
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  Speaker 2: shaking that ass, that money.
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  Speaker 4: But I was upset because I slip the disc.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I got upset because it was all women.
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  Speaker 6: And then this guy came out there popping ass better
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  Speaker 6: than all of them, and he won, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: don't take war.
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  Speaker 1: That's not like that on him all night.
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  Speaker 2: You're taking money off the women's pockets.
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  Speaker 4: Had to do that, ass is ass.
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  Speaker 1: But this is one of this first time on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome it is wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, oh man, Yeah, I don't. I don't think I've
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  Speaker 4: never been in.
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  Speaker 1: I think you did one time on Zoom.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you called it doing the COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I did.
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  Speaker 4: I did the Zoom.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into Undercard, I want to start from
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  Speaker 3: the beginning, if you don't mind for people that don't
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  Speaker 3: know Wanda from.
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  Speaker 1: The seven five seven, How did you get into the arts?
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  Speaker 3: What made you want to get into the arts and
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  Speaker 3: comedy and and all of that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I grew up in that time where it
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  Speaker 4: was all variety shows was on, you know, like you know, philp. Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: even It Sullivan all back then. So and my family,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we watched all that, you know, watched all
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  Speaker 4: the all those shows, and and I just remember sitting
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  Speaker 4: together and laughing, and so that always stayed with me.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, my dad was in the military, and
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  Speaker 4: also I grew up where you go to school, you
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  Speaker 4: get a good education, You did a good job, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what I was doing, was working for the government.
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  Speaker 4: I worked NSA when I when I came out of
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  Speaker 4: I beloved Hampton University, I ended up at UH an
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  Speaker 4: essay and and I and I just got to a
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  Speaker 4: point where I was like, this is not where I'm
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be. I'm like, you know, the job is great,
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  Speaker 4: security and all, but I know something else I was
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be doing. I was like looking at my
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  Speaker 4: high school yearbook and everybody had written things like You're
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  Speaker 4: so funny. Even teachers were like you should be on stage.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna write some
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  Speaker 4: jokes and and I just wrote jokes and and UH
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  Speaker 4: went to UH the radio station was having a a
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  Speaker 4: talent competition and comedy was a category. So I was like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, audition and they said okay, yeah, And I
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  Speaker 4: got on stage and did it and and just like
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  Speaker 4: the lights came on for me right away.
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  Speaker 1: You knew.
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  Speaker 4: Win, but I just knew. Like I I felt like
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  Speaker 4: I was in my skin, like this is this what
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  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to be?
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  Speaker 8: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: What was the Chris Rock Show? What are your first
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  Speaker 2: big breaks?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely yes, absolutely right on Chris Rock Show. Was
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  Speaker 4: my my huge break. Yeah. Chris, uh, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: was doing Bring the Pain and I opened for him
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  Speaker 4: at Caroline's while he was working on that, and uh
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  Speaker 4: and he said, you know what I'm he just remembered me.
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  Speaker 4: So when he got show, I got a somebody calls like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: can you submit some writing materials? I was like, yeah, yeah, So.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all had a dream team. It was Lewis.
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  Speaker 4: Lance Crowser Yeah. Yeah, man. I was the only woman
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  Speaker 4: in there, but it was it was great. Those guys
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  Speaker 4: were those guys were funny. And Chris. What I love
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  Speaker 4: about Chris is he he just you know, he you know,
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  Speaker 4: he he's a great general manager, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: He put together a team and just let everybody be themselves,
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  Speaker 4: like it's it's quirky and out there, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: we were able to produce our own bits. You know.
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  Speaker 4: He he would look at something, put his thing on it,
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  Speaker 4: and hey, all right, you know, do this, do this,
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  Speaker 4: but just let us just let us going woman a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, you know a little bit. I just I
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  Speaker 4: felt like, Okay, I can't. I can't messed this up
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  Speaker 4: because they we ain't gonna hire another woman, you know what.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, that's that's how it works with us, Like
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  Speaker 4: you're getting the door, you got to make sure you
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  Speaker 4: leave it open or open a wire for somebody else
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  Speaker 4: to come through, like leave your mark. So a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: but they were very supportive. All the guys were real
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  Speaker 4: support especially Louis. Louis was real cool with me. I
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  Speaker 4: mean he drank off from it. I guess I ain't
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  Speaker 4: shake that ass.
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  Speaker 2: You feel left out? He was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, God.
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  Speaker 4: Damn, that was like right down there down it was
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  Speaker 4: my moster's only lance. And then Louis right there nothing
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  Speaker 4: but used to.
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  Speaker 2: Be on the phone. So yeah, sometimes he got quiet
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  Speaker 2: on the phone.
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  Speaker 6: But the thing I used to love about the Chris
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  Speaker 6: Rock Show it was it was just full of uncomfortable truths.
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  Speaker 6: Even now, that whole era was full of uncomfortable truths,
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  Speaker 6: right right, You think comedy is still allowed to be
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  Speaker 6: that honest will I wear in the air now where
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  Speaker 6: everybody wants jokes but they don't want the truth that comes.
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  Speaker 4: No, you know what, I think you're allowed to do it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just who wants to do it, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. It's like I think it's there. But
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  Speaker 4: I think people are you know, if I'm trying to
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  Speaker 4: fill an arena, you can't you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: You can't be that common. You gotta be You gotta
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  Speaker 4: appeal to the masses. And sometimes right now with the
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  Speaker 4: masses want to hear it's it's it's ugly, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, yeah, so yeah, so, but I think you
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  Speaker 4: can't do it though you still can do it good.
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad you said that. I'm gonna do it. Do it,
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  Speaker 8: do it, Just do it, Just do it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're funny, so just just do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But when I do, mean when I do funny, people
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  Speaker 8: be getting.
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  Speaker 4: Man who gives a ship. You can't do it for them.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta do it for you. You gotta say what
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  Speaker 4: you want and hey, if what I want to say
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  Speaker 4: and what makes me feel you know, good about my
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  Speaker 4: my gift that I have. If I'm only gonna get
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  Speaker 4: maybe maybe six hundred people, then that's those are the
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  Speaker 4: six hundred people that that you know you're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be speaking to.
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  Speaker 1: But do people get offended too fast?
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  Speaker 4: I'm but if you want, oh I want to you know,
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  Speaker 4: then then you got.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta rise but do people get offended too fast?
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  Speaker 3: Where it's like, you know, back then, jokes just flew.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. You made fun of everybody. It can
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  Speaker 1: be the cripple person that could be to this person,
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter. People laugh. Now it doesn't seem like they laugh.
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  Speaker 3: They look for a reason to say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna boycott your next show.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, everybody wants to you know, I even hate
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  Speaker 4: using you know, like everybody, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: like to, uh be the be the critic. They want
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  Speaker 4: to be the police. And you know. So it's like
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  Speaker 4: if you say something and it might offend you, but
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  Speaker 4: but you got to look at where that person is
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  Speaker 4: coming from. Maybe you know, maybe their life, their perspective
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  Speaker 4: is different from from what you know. Yeah, you offended,
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  Speaker 4: but you're not staying in my shoes. You don't see
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  Speaker 4: it from from my perspective. So I think that's what
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  Speaker 4: that's what we've gotten away from, is seeing it from
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  Speaker 4: I got it, you know, see where you're coming from.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta uh yeah, And I think the whole it's empathy. Really,
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  Speaker 4: it's empathy. We've we've gotten away from that. People don't
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  Speaker 4: don't get that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's more than one perspective on one you.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think there's a like when you talk about
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  Speaker 7: like empathy and people you know, having an opinion about jokes,
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  Speaker 7: I feel like the punching up punching down conversation gets
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  Speaker 7: brought up a lot in that, right. Do you feel
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  Speaker 7: like there's a fine line between that, Like, do you
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  Speaker 7: think somebody can punch down people still respect what they're saying,
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  Speaker 7: have empathy, and they have actual take or do you
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  Speaker 7: feel like that's always going to end in might have
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  Speaker 7: been upset and you've been trying to be trying to
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  Speaker 7: cancel you.
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  Speaker 4: I have no problem, but me, I always try to
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  Speaker 4: try to I always try to punch up because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like but but that's me, and I know the
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  Speaker 4: the and I always call it the gift, the gift
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  Speaker 4: that I have, and uh so I try to use
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  Speaker 4: that for not just myself, but before uh I mean naturally,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm in a position where I'm a black
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  Speaker 4: woman and queer, so I'm always coming coming from yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, going up. I gotta go up, you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, clown like how look like how.
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  Speaker 4: Always wash ride beautiful? I know? Yeah, but yeah, I think,
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  Speaker 4: but but if you if you punch down, if it's funny,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna laugh. But it's a difference. It's
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  Speaker 4: a difference to punching down and coming from a a
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  Speaker 4: perspective of a perspective of I I hate you or
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  Speaker 4: you being mean. You can punch down and be funny,
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  Speaker 4: but if it's coming from a place of love, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like one of one of Chris's uh good jokes, one
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  Speaker 4: of one of my favorite jokes is punching down. But
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  Speaker 4: what he says, uh uh about uh, I have my
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  Speaker 4: money in books? You know, niggas. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: You want to hide something from a black put in
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  Speaker 2: the book?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. But it's it's a funny joke.
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  Speaker 9: And it's also like, hey, to start reading.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever held back a joke in today's climate today?
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  Speaker 4: Now? Uh? I know I did. I wrote a joke
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  Speaker 4: on Chris on Chris Rock Show, and it's like, oh god,
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  Speaker 4: what was that? It was bad?
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  Speaker 2: And it was bad, got bad?
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  Speaker 4: It was bad. It was bad.
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  Speaker 8: Remember Ray Crews.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he shot his girlfriend who was pregnant and
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  Speaker 4: he had the baby and it was and I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know it was raised baby because it had his
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  Speaker 4: uh mama's eyes and his daddy's bullet.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, damn damn right, that might have been a little too.
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  Speaker 4: A joke.
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  Speaker 2: Did the room laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Killed a rehearsal and Chris was like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna do that joke. And he's like, damn,
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  Speaker 4: good joke. You know I ain't gonna do it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, and you shouldn't, but you know, you
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  Speaker 2: know what that's I love about?
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  Speaker 6: You want to you rep women's basketball so scrung like
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  Speaker 6: you a w n B A shirt on right now?
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  Speaker 2: Have you always been a fan of women basketball?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, yeah, I always loved basketball, and then when
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  Speaker 4: the women's game kicked off, Yeah, always been a fan.
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  Speaker 4: Did you play basketball? I did? And then I stopped growing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was like like, is this the band?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I guess the band? I played the drums, played drums
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  Speaker 4: in the band.
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  Speaker 2: You always supporting the game Cocks?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Oh, come on, Don Staley, that's my Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I love Dawn and that that whole squad and what
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  Speaker 4: she's doing her program is just incredible. She you know,
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  Speaker 4: she's she's like the the the the ground, the yeah
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  Speaker 4: for for the w she's the feeder to the w
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  Speaker 4: n B A. So yeah, she's a she's amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Now you got the new movie Undercard, right, yeah, and
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  Speaker 6: it's a it's a it's a drama. You know, you've
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  Speaker 6: been making people laugh your whole career. What made you
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  Speaker 6: say let me stop joking and give you some paint?
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  Speaker 6: Let me step into this pain real quick.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I was not looking for the role at all,
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  Speaker 4: but the director uh and co writer to Mika Miller.
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  Speaker 4: She came to me and she was like, look, I
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  Speaker 4: got this project. I want you all to I want
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  Speaker 4: you to check it out. I want you to do
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  Speaker 4: this role. And I was I read the script. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, it's a drama and I was like, so
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  Speaker 4: it was good, you know, And I just called out,
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  Speaker 4: said so what Queen Latifa said no that and She's like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I really want you to to play this part. So
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  Speaker 4: I didn't believe it at first, like can I pull
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  Speaker 4: this off? And yeah? She just talked me through it
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  Speaker 4: and how she wanted to shoot it and uh and
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  Speaker 4: casting she you know, was going to build around me,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt like she made me believe I could
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  Speaker 4: do I'm the worst at audition. I can't really, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I can't. Like my my agent I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: they want you to for this part. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: they say, so the audition. I was like, oh no,
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  Speaker 4: it's a past man.
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  Speaker 8: What what what about auditions?
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  Speaker 4: Let you know, I suck at auditions. I have actually
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  Speaker 4: been in a situation casting people and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: holding the script in auditioning, and they've they've actually taken
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  Speaker 4: the pages out of my hand and say thank you
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  Speaker 4: really really yeah. Well, I'm like I was like, now,
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  Speaker 4: what was that?
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  Speaker 5: That That that's recent?
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  Speaker 4: No, No, like a audition is not for me.
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  Speaker 9: Is a memorizing lines of getting nervous in front of
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  Speaker 9: the people is stiff?
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  Speaker 4: IM like, no, I just I'm just horrible at it.
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  Speaker 4: But if you give me the part, it's a real job.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna bring it
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  Speaker 4: because I'm like, hey, you know, I gotta, i gotta deliver.
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  Speaker 4: But if it's like I'm not good at trying out.
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  Speaker 6: Before you take the stage, because I would feel like
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  Speaker 6: that's kind of the same thing a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: No, not really, because yeah, I don't know. I mean
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  Speaker 4: I get a little butterflies before I go out but
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  Speaker 4: that's good. That's that's good. Yeah, yeah, it made something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know if you give me a script.
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  Speaker 9: I got audition in this movie Undercard where you're fighting
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  Speaker 9: the natural urges to be funny or was.
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  Speaker 4: It uh yeah, a little bit. I mean there was
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  Speaker 4: like some moments where I was like, oh, man, this
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  Speaker 4: would be real if I said this right now. Like
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  Speaker 4: there's a scene of beat scene where the little girl
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  Speaker 4: she runs out, you know, to the to the to
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  Speaker 4: the water, and I was like, hey, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: like meeke awake and I won't say, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: can't swim like you know, but but but no, and
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  Speaker 4: and also you know it's really go on tight budget
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  Speaker 4: and yeah type you know, on time. So it was
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  Speaker 4: like there was no room to you know, put around.
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  Speaker 7: Was there anything that you took from this character and
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  Speaker 7: like portray this character that you're taking back to the
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  Speaker 7: stage retiree even though it was the drama.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's a good question. Yeah. I think it's it's
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  Speaker 4: it's her where where you have to like, uh, you
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  Speaker 4: like forgive yourself. You know, her character she had to
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  Speaker 4: get to a point to where she had to really
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  Speaker 4: like forgive herself and and and to be accountable, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And so there's this's so there's moments on on stage
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  Speaker 4: with my comedy where you know, I find ways to
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  Speaker 4: to use that.
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  Speaker 7: I think, where are you forgiving yourself about for right now,
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  Speaker 7: like currently on stage?
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  Speaker 5: Like what what are the those thoughts?
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I think it's more about you know, like
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  Speaker 4: like you want to do better or or you know,
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  Speaker 4: be a better person, you know, a better wife, better mother.
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  Speaker 4: That too. Yeah, absolutely, yeah that. I can't believe. I
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  Speaker 4: can't even believe I said that. I repeated that, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's just those those moments. But hey, that's
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  Speaker 4: why we keep going though, because there's always the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to to do better the next day or connect with
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  Speaker 4: the next minute. You know.
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  Speaker 2: So when you saw the.
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  Speaker 6: Script for Undercard and you see it's not really no jokes,
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  Speaker 6: like did that scare you?
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  Speaker 2: Excite you?
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  Speaker 4: Scare me? Yeah? I was like, that is not one
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  Speaker 4: funny moment and not at all, you know, yeah it was.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: It was a little scary. It's a little scary, but
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I knew what I was signing up for and I
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: wasn't gonna I had too much respect for the writer
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: and director. So I wasn't going to try to they make,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe make it Wanda. No, I don't want
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: That into boxing boxing started.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, Actually I always loved boxing. You know, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: remember listening to fights on the radio. We listened to,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: we listened to the we listened to I listened to
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Cashius Clay fight on yeah on the radio. Yeah, yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: but yeah, We've always been a fan of boxing. And
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: now I'm like really into it. So I still still train.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: You train, Yeah, when I'm home, when I'm I'm in Philly,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: if I'm home for a week, I go in maybe
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: four days a week with the young people, or you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: he'll he'll throw me in a couple of times with
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: some with some younger people.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't gonna spark. It's nothing, sixty two year
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: old person. I can beat anyone.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: What did the movie bring out to you that that
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: you didn't know you had any before you did it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't know I could do drama. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: didn't know. I didn't I didn't know I could go,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: you know, go places where this movie required me to do.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know I could like actually step into a
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: roll and I feel that you know and and be
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: that that that character. You know. I think losing my
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: dog really uh helped me to be able to to
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: get em Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: How long would you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: How long ago? Riley passed? What like maybe six years ago?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Five six years?
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Wow?
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I had him for like almost eighteen years. Wow. Yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: that was I was my guy.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: The doing drama forced you to sit with emotions. You
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: usually joke your way out of.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Hell yeah, hell yeah, because that's what comics do. You know.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: We you know, we, I mean even just as as
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: as black people, we do that. We you know, we
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: always find a way to you know, make something, make
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: something funny, get out, you know, get get to get
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: out of it, not to just sit with it. But yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that's that's absolutely But.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: That the first time you grieved your dog probably right.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: You know, I hate it, oh man, you know, because
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I'm no I was, like, you know, I lost grandparents.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I'm blessed that both my parents are still alive. I know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I don't like so this is the first time somebody,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: this is the first time you actually.
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: I like, damn family, I got grandparents like my parents living.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: No friends, no family, just that dog.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Jesus.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Pretty much.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: You mentioned your parents, and I read something that at
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: one time you and your parents, they y'all didn't see
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: eye to eye. They didn't even come to your wedding.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: So how did y'all get back to where they will
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: understand what was going on? And how was those conversations?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: They realized that I was moving on with my life,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: and they realized that I was happy and that I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: was confident, and uh, you know it with with with
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: my life, and and I knew who I was and
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: and they were missing out. So they had to you know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: kind of like meet me where where I was.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: They reached out to you, You reached out to them.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: How was that?
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, we never like stopped talking, but.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Because if they didn't come to your wedding, I figured
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: be like, you know what, I'm not speaking to y'all again.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: No, I ain't cut them off like I'm just saying.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I never cut them off. I would call, but when
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: you know, the conversation would shift to you know you shouldn't,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I would go, Okay, I love you. I'm not gonna
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: have this conversation again with you, but I love you
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: and you know, talk to you later. Religious Yeah, I mean,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: but you know I'm not gonna say I'm so am
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I I mean, it's like, yeah, I love God and
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm a Christian. And I think they saw that
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: also that she's you know, her faith hasn't changed, not
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: only that my faith was stronger, it really I'm like
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: very close, uh and and my my walk with God.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: And so I think they saw that too, like oh,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: you know, we you know, we probably we're trying to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: put God in this box and yeah, yeah, and she's
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: over here living her life and God is blessing her
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: and she's you know, loves and they had to they
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: had to get to that place of you know, what
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: is the people are more concerned about what other people
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: think instead of what they feel. They were more concerned
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: about what what, what's what's my what's my church gonna say?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: What's my folks gonna say?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: When?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: And it took those other people, like I think God
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: sent them people in their church said oh my God,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: your daughter, I love what she's doing. I love this,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: you know, and send people in their lives like you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I had my child is gay and uh, struggling, but
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: what your daughter is doing really helped us and whatever.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: So they had to hear of these messages, So I
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: think God was sending them people to make them go,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: oh okay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: And I'm glad you said that because I think about
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: people who you know, I guess are deemed homophobic or
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: there against, you know, the gay lifestyle.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they really.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Truly feel like that or they just feel like that
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: because society and religion tells them they should feel like that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: They actually thought about it. Do you really care if
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: she would? Do you really care if you would have been?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: And why why don't you care? That's the only thing.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: It's like, why do you care? Like how does that
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: affect you? How does it affect you?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: How with your grand with your kids, with their grandkids?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: At first?
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Oh man, they my mom, she yeah, my whole family, everybody,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: they love the kids, love the kids. It's so funny
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: like early on, uh you know what kids like, you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: like babies like Onet wanted to whatever and uh and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: my mom was visiting and Olivia was crying and I
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: picked her up whatever and was like hold her and
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: she stopped crying and she like put her arms around me.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: And my mother was like, well she she just uh,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: it's like she just just it's like like just right
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: down with you, like I'm her mother, like.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Like you're not raising her anything.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: But you got to see her perspective.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: My mother what my mom. Mom's almost ninety Okay, so
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: she went.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Through she didn't even see segregation.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: She went through schools when they weren't segregated.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh god, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: So that's a big deal.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: The fact she trobably get real in depth, like at
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: certain points when you're trying to explain certain things, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: I explained. But just like when moments like that happened
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: and y'all talked through or do y'all just laugh about
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: it and move on?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: We I mean we kind of laugh. We laughed, you know.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: My mom says something. And at the time that she
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: said it, I was like the kind of you know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: throwback ante bellum South ship is that? But she she they, uh,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: you know in Virginia and they bought a house. This
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: is this was back in like maybe the eighties, nineties, yeah, whatever.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: They were house right on the water right in uh Portsmouth,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: and and she she said, you know what, I look
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: look around, like one of the only black families on
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: that street. And She's like, I look I look around
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: at these white people and I think I feel sorry
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: for them. I said, what do you mean she said,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: because you know, they're probably looking like it's a lot
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: for them. That because because they're like looking at us,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: like you know, we we used to clean these homes
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: and now we're living here, that that's a lot for them.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: And of course I'm like, look good in your face,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: good good. But she's right because because you look at
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the situation we're in, and what she was saying, what
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: her empathy was feeling their fear, and that's and that's
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: what we're dealing with now, a lot of fear. Like
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: these these folks they feel like they're losing their place.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And but I mean, it's assholes on them to feel
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: like that this should be their place, like they own everything.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: But what is she saying? She don't like living around niggas.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Even what she was saying that it must be hard
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: for for for like white folks to see, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: like you had it all and now we're right next
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: to you, and that must be must be scary.
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: And that was the time where we didn't have it
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: all and now we do and a lot of times
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: more than they have, right, And so I get what you.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, thank you, est you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: I noticed, like when you're struggling and somebody is really
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: really supposed to.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Help you, thank you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Every day, that must be exhaust Sometimes you do exhaust.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do on conversations about?
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Like? Because you're also very outspoken when it comes to politics, right,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: you don't hold back against Trump and administration. But your
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: mom comes from an era where it's like, who hold on?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: It's scary for her. She was wanted to I know you,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: you know, I just I just get nervous, you out
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: there saying stuff. Please don't you know, don't don't, don't
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: go too far. She will say that, And you know what,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I think I do hold back some some stuff because
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: really yeah, I mean yeah, I do. I think I
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: hold back tak it about about I do. I think
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: about my family, I think about my kids. I hold
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: back some. But then again it's like it's you know,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: it's who I am. But I know where the line is.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: You know, we've always, you know, you've always mixed comedy
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: with politics, but now it's like it seems too ridiculous
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: to even do satire on.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: And it seems too even too dangerous. Right, is there
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: funny in it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: You know there there there is Yeah, there, there's funny
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: there and I think people they want to hear it
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: because they need to lamp. I mean, I think when
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I go on stage, a lot of people are like,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: just give me some relief, help me get through this.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I need somebody, if it's not just to make it funny,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: but to give me some explanations that I need to
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: see a way out. Where's the light at the end
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: of the tunnel? But yeah, it's it's it's you know,
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: there there is a fine line and it's hard. It's hard,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: like it's some funny use words satire. Who's doing satire anymore?
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because you know Daily Show is supposed to be
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: like the satire, but they're actually probably one of the
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: most factual, one of the most fact journalists out there.
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, what led you to donate one hundred percent of
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: your online sales to supporting immigrants rights? And my voice
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: is gone because that's all Yes, I should have won
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: that five thousand dollars, But anyway, Yes, you donate one
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: hundred percent of your online sales to immigrants immigrants rights.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Because I you know, it's it's what's needed. You know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: they're out there just snatching people, snatching people. Man for
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: this was supposed to have been a you know, the
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: campaign whatever for getting violent criminals off the street. What
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: violent criminals show up for their court hearings? You know
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, like they hiding out at you know,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: home depots and stores on depots because because you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: violent criminals they love a good uh uh d I
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: y project that's what they you know, you know it's yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: so it's no yeah, so I the a c l U.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: They you know, they're they need the funds to defend
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: these people because right now, you know, it's there's there's
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: no oversight, there's nothing, you know, just there's so it's
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: so illegal what they're doing. Come on, how are you
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: gonna jump out of out of Ford focused and go
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: snatch people up?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on it look wanted to ask you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: I want to ask you about identity too, right because
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: you know you talk about we were talking about what
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: people think and what people feel. Even when I look
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: at the characters Cheryl and the undercard, did she have
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: to be called a butcher? Because it says a butcher,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: retired boxing champion and recovering alcoholic couldn't just be retired
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: boxing champion and recovering alcoholic.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Plays A jack butcher jack description, a lumber jack butch.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, I mean that doesn't bother me.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: I guess that doesn't bother me. Her character, you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: she was she was a former boxer. So I guess
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: it's the you know, if that's how the writer saw
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: the character. I'm like, okay, so I'm here, she was
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: in shape. I say, I say to that, thank you.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: When when does it for you right with playing characters?
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: When does it go too far when people try to
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: portray characters that are in the community right. Because we
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: had Mike Epps here and he had told us when
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: he was here that the upshaws the ending of it
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: was because they tried to write a storyline for your
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: character where there was like something like gay that would
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: come into your character. And we know that she wasn't gay.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: And I know that you've said that you didn't want
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: you wanted her to be straight for the full entire show.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: I think you know, I love Mike, I love Mike dearly,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: and I think it was like I like misunderstood what
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: he was saying. I think because that because because that
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: didn't happen. I think what Mike was saying. Honestly, I'm
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: not gonna say what I thought, Mike, but I know
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I think the show just like ran its course, the
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: kids got older. We you know, Mike is that the
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: show was his idea. He he came to me and
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: was like, Hey, I want to do the show about
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: a working class family in the Midwest. And that's what
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: we That's what we delivered. I think. Yeah, I mean that,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: you know, with with the writers and the show running Regina,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: we yeah, every it was all. It was all love.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: But everybody's gonna have a difference of opinions and sometimes
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: you know, voices get get you know, we we raise
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: our voices when you're passionate about what you're doing. So
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I think overall, we we all wanted to make the
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: best show possible. We just wanted to But it was
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: just a difference of opinions, that's all. But I think
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: what we delivered everybody was was was happy with.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: The and breathed by that show. Yeah.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: I love that show and I love everybody worked on
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: that show. I love what we did and I hated
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: to see it in but really, I mean it was
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: I thought we did a good job. And oh and
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I'm happy with the way, you know, we finished it.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: So you wanted to keep it going?
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: If if we.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Could have done another season, I would have. Yeah, I
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: would have signed up for another season.
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: Damn. I don't think nobody said that.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Absolutely that but but no, yeah, yeah, but no, I
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: think that Netflix, they were a great partner and uh,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: and I think it was and we knew, we knew
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: going into that last season that was the last season.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: So we got to we got to end it the
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: way we wanted to end it. Yeah, can you please
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: tell your engineer this yawning like.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: That, it's not.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It's not.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Now you filmed your your comedy special at Hampton Vers.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: How was that?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: How was that?
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I was cursing in Ogden Hall. Yeah, it was amazing,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: It was amazing. I it was so much pressure, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: it was yeah, because I didn't know, you know, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I had uh, I was doing the show in Jersey
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: and I had had, you know, some a lot of
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: my sorrows came to the show and uh, and I
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: was so glad that they came out. I said this,
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: this is gonna work and handle right. It was like, yes,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: it's gonna It's gonna kill and after So that made
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: me feel a little bit more confident. Yeah, yeah, because
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: I had a little test test run.
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: What was what what was the actual pressure about though.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Like going back to going back to my school, you know,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: in Hampton, and I didn't you know, and who's gonna
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: show up? And how you know is this material gonna
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: work because my audience, I would say, my audience is
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: probably like sixty percent white, yeah, maybe even maybe seventy Yeah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: you know, but I'm going back to my home and
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: my my HBCU. You know, is this gonna work with them?
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: While they you know? And man, I mean killed it,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: healed it, healed it. It was beautiful and Julie Dash
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: directed Yeah. So yeah, yeah, So because I wanted it
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: to be special, I was like this special. I need
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: a challenge and what could make it, you know, better
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: than the last one? And and I was like, let's
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: go home, let's go let's go home.
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: Whose idea was it to do it at Hampton?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Actually, my producing partner paid her what she said. She
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: was like, you should go go back to your school.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I was like, out your mind. She's like, no, you
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: really should. I was like nope. And then I thought
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: about it and the way this administration was attacking HBCUs
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: and then it made it, you know, it gave it
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: more of a reason for me. Yeah, that's so that's
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: why I said, Okay, now it's not just going to
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: be this damn you know. Now there's a connection for
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: me with the material and the place.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: How do you make a special special material wise? I
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: know you've told us how you made it special in
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: that way, but how.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Materialise push it, push, push the limits. Don't don't go
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: up and just do it. Chris Rock always told me
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: that from the jump, like from my first special, which
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: was a half hour, He's like, don't go up there
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: and do a set that make it special. So you
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: got to push yourself, polish it, you know, Uh, just
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: go go go to a place where, you know, challenge yourself.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Go go go to areas where people are gonna be
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: a little bit on this on their seats or or
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: like oh damn, she said that. I've been wanting to
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: say that, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, that's I.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: Don't think people realize how close you in, Chris, because
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: I remember that night of the OS because you were hosting,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: and I remember you saying you were physically sick and
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: everybody's like, why she physically sitting I'm like, but y'all.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Don't realize how close one then Chris right.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: Right, people, people don't. I caught a lot of flat
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: from that, like because I said, you know about how
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: I felt, But I'm like, y'all got realized. I was
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: working that night, Yeah, and I watched my coworker yet popped,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: you know, at work. You know what I'm saying. So
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: it's it's yeah, you're not that's not supposed to happen,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: and uh so, yeah, so I I really I was upset,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: like physically upset by that. And then and then it
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: just even sicking me more watching everybody just sit out
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: there and you know, and and not react. And then
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: to give that man an award afterwards, I was like,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I'm done with y'all. Really what I was like, done
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: with all this?
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: Will Smith reached out to apologize to you too for
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: overshadowing that night.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah he did. He called. He called, but you know what,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: I was actually physically sick. I had a nasty like
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: sinus effect, so I didn't even pick up. But he
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: left the message and yeah, have.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: You ever had an extensive conversation after.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: You know what, I was like, I received it, I accepted,
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I'm good. Yeah.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: What does your mama say about seeing people up in front?
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly? Lord, g why why why why they do
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: that wander? I was like, I know, my no, the
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: white people just looking at them. They ain't never gonna
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: give us nothing else.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Did you see when those favor reports were circulating that
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: Will Smith and Chris Chris Rock were supposed to sit
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: down together and do like one one. It was fake though,
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: it was fake and I cleared it up and reporting,
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: But I was wondering if you saw and if you
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: were like, ain't know when hell that's gonna happen?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, nah, no, no that yeah, I knew that.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know Chris, and I'm like, that's not
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: gonna happen.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: So you you would never really host the Oscars again.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I would never host again, but
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: I probably will never host again.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Traumatized in real life, I'm not gonna.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Say I'm traumatized in real life, but it's it's it's
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: a thankless job. Nobody. Yeah, yeah, and don't seem like
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: did a great job. Exactly. There's there's no yeah, mm hmm,
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: there's there's no uh yeah. I mean it would have
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: to be something like maybe you know what, maybe if
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: if somebody uh you know did uh uh you know
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: uptown Saturday Night did a remake and that's you know,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: and that's up.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Maybe that makes it when it's all said and done.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: What do you want one the Sikes to mean to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: to comedy?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, I want one of the Sikes to mean,
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: uh that you know, she she was a voice for uh,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: for those who didn't have a voice, that she was
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: you know, common sense, that she gave it her all. Yeah,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: and funny. That was funny.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: There already.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Then that's right.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: Appreciate you real quick.
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: I love to say I know you produced and you
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: create so much, and that you said recently that you're
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: very intentional about hiring women, absolute.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: Women, especially black women. I'll be acting.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: Sometimes, you know, and if you got anything coming up
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: I got.
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: I love the audition. You don't, but I do. Okay, yes,
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: actually I don't, but I will.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: I will.
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: I'm not gonna ask you because you don't be lying us.
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: So yes, I don't like auditioning, but I'm really, really
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: good at it and I.
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: Will do that.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: There you go, okay, so yes, I will be looking real.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I think I think you're very funny.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: And you told me that ten years ago I saw you.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I was in La.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: It was that.
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: This is after I did well, but I had like
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: no ten years ago, like eight years ago whatever, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: you told me that, like, you're very funny. You know,
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna see you again and on that, and I
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: was like, she's never gonna.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Call me, but did she go?
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: No, she didn't.
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: But she's here now and timing is everything right, and
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: I'm way better than I was then.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: So boom, want you tell her where your reel is? Huh,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: go find your real on TV. She can watch your
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: reel on She's being serious, I know, but I.
• 44:26
  Speaker 9: Asked, and I want to get back in front of
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: the cameras and I'm very serious about it.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: No for real, I mean you got ideas?
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: Let me? Yeah, yes, I did.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, definitely check out Undercard is out right now.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: We appreciate you for one. What's that video on demand?
• 44:49
  Speaker 10: Definitely check out ash Light is always.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: That thing I didn't need touch nothing. My kids always
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: taking my phone. The flashlight is Oh shoot, I ain't
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: need touch.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: It's one the sakes. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: hold up every day a week ago. Click your glass
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: up the Breakfast Club.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: You finishing, y'all done, I