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INTERVIEW: Chris Spencer On Comedy's Main Ingredients, DropTV + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day a week, clicks up.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club, finish for y'all done morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is the j n V. Just hilarious.
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  Speaker 4: Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. Law La
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  Speaker 4: Rosa is here as well. We got a special guest.
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  Speaker 1: In the building.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, Ladies and gentlemen, comedian actor Chris Benson.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome brother.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: How you feeling?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Gonna push your little plaus button holding everything anyway.
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  Speaker 6: You hear it?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, how you feeling? I'm incredible. Life is incredible. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good. I love being in New York.
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  Speaker 5: You you never stopped getting the check man.
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  Speaker 2: Every time.
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  Speaker 3: I have two kids, they want to eat every day.
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  Speaker 5: You're doing everything.
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  Speaker 4: You're doing your comedy special, you're hosting, you're acting. You
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  Speaker 4: stay with a check.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think people understand how much of like a
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  Speaker 7: whisperer you off for.
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  Speaker 2: So many people.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, man, thank you, Yes, No, it's it's I
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  Speaker 3: mean I've been blessed, you know what I mean a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times when we're in this business, you only
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  Speaker 3: have one path. If you're doing stand up, you just
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  Speaker 3: continue to do stand up. You do the clubs, you
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  Speaker 3: do the and you travel. I've been lucky and blessed
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  Speaker 3: that I've created TV shows and been able to write
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  Speaker 3: for award shows like we're gearing up right now to
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  Speaker 3: do Kevin Hart's roast that came out of nowhere. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Kevin betterhead called me, but it came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: So I am blessed with these different opportunities that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of other comedians don't get a chance to do.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think the longevity is there? Because it's
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  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes you see comedians and they struggling and
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  Speaker 4: they do things that they necessarily don't want to do,
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  Speaker 4: but it seems like for you, it just continues to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I've always been a nice guy, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: And so every iteration of comedian, like you know, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: gonna get their opportunity, whether it's Jamie Fox or Kevin
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  Speaker 3: or Mike app So they're gonna get hired to host
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  Speaker 3: X event. So there's it was gonna be a group
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  Speaker 3: of like white writers to write the show, and then
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna want somebody who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Your voice to write for you.
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  Speaker 3: So that's happened for me time and time again with
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  Speaker 3: Mike Abs, Tivity Haddish, Anthony Anderson. So there's the show,
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  Speaker 3: and then there's the people that you need, who know
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  Speaker 3: your voice, who's not afraid to say to the powers
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  Speaker 3: that be, he ain't doing that joke.
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  Speaker 1: I've always been that guy.
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  Speaker 7: One of the first times I remember seeing you was
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  Speaker 7: it like right after a Sinio left.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, vibebe late night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was like they were trying to find all these
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  Speaker 2: different black people.
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  Speaker 1: Me and Keenan.
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  Speaker 3: Me and Keenan came out the exact same day, same time,
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  Speaker 3: same day, same time, same day, same time.
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  Speaker 1: Racism atter, No, that's racism. But it was the same day,
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  Speaker 1: August fourth, nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 3: Like that. I should have been rich by now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it was a great opportunity, but it was It
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  Speaker 3: was kind of whack that they did that. So then
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  Speaker 3: Keenan and I came out the same time, and I
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  Speaker 3: got fired, and then Sinbad came, and then they got
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  Speaker 3: rid of Keenan, and then Magic came and then there
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  Speaker 3: was none of us.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, black people can't talk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that phone call when they called you to.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I have it on recording.
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  Speaker 7: What did you think though, because those were such It
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  Speaker 7: wasn't big shoes to feel because you weren't replacing us before,
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  Speaker 7: but just that void that existed.
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  Speaker 2: It right, It was no, it was It was thrilling.
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  Speaker 3: It was exciting that, you know, I was chosen from
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  Speaker 3: Quincy Jones personally to be this guy. But the problem
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  Speaker 3: was the fact that Keenan and I were at the
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  Speaker 3: same time. We're over to look at who's Keenan's guests. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: we gotta get somebody different or somebody better than that,
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  Speaker 3: And it was just it was messed up that we
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  Speaker 3: had this this void that was in our culture wanting
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  Speaker 3: this show, and now you got two people competing for
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  Speaker 3: the same audience. So I never really got my fair shot.
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  Speaker 2: Were you intentional about stepping away?
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to say stepping away, but like I
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  Speaker 7: feel like that's when you started to be more behind
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  Speaker 7: the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: Well I got fired. I don't know if you remember
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  Speaker 3: that part. There's no step away from black people. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta go so so. But then you know, as the
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  Speaker 3: acting and stuff dried up, I started doing more writing,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was fortunate when real husbands came that
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  Speaker 3: came from a sketch on an Award show and then
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  Speaker 3: that blew up and then other opportunities kind of came
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  Speaker 3: my way.
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  Speaker 5: Now you said you roasted to Kevin Hard.
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  Speaker 4: Are there any jokes that haven't been said about Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Hard as yet?
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  Speaker 3: I we'll find out. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: My My my goal is to arm Kevin Hart.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Because you know these these
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  Speaker 3: white boys are.
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  Speaker 5: So you got a fire back at that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like how to roast Tom Brady Rose?
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  Speaker 3: So I wrote on that one and I helped Kevin
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  Speaker 3: with that one, and now they're going to roast Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody on the days is going to go at
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  Speaker 3: Kevin and then Kevin is going to have his day
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  Speaker 3: and correct.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to help the whole show. But my goal
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  Speaker 1: is for Kevin to be the best.
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  Speaker 2: I love Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 3: Three hours, yes, yes, yes you remember that? You remember
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  Speaker 3: that Shack roasts? Yes? Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Will you write for shows like that?
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  Speaker 6: Like is it each writer has like a person they're
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  Speaker 6: writing for, or like is everybody across full show? Because
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  Speaker 6: how do you make each joke and moment feel different
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  Speaker 6: if one person's working on multiple things.
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  Speaker 3: But it depends like in this case, they've hired the Blacks,
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  Speaker 3: the Plastic Basic Me and the Plastic cup Boys and
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  Speaker 3: my boy I edwards to focus on Kevin. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They have a big old.
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  Speaker 3: Room of these incredible writers writing for the entire show.
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  Speaker 3: Our focus is Kevin, but we definitely will go. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I got this for Shan Gillis as the host. I
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  Speaker 3: got this for you know, if Snoop comes on or
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Fox comes on, whoever, these other roasts are where
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  Speaker 3: we're we're also hired to write for the show.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't get some of the black black other black comedians,
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  Speaker 7: especially the ones they'll be there. Yeah, I just about
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  Speaker 7: the ones that have like notoriously hated on Kevin too.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta get some surprises.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you're gonna be like yo, I was here, they
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  Speaker 3: hate each other. I didn't say that at all. But
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be some people you're gonna be like you
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  Speaker 3: just said he was.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta give Mike EMPs a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, there's gonna be some people on there.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna be like so, we hope, because that would
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  Speaker 3: be a real roast, you know what I mean, to
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  Speaker 3: really bring out your the people that you've been combating
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  Speaker 3: with for these last couple of ten years or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So I can't say Mike and Cat are gonna be
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  Speaker 3: on it, but there's gonna be some surprises like that.
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  Speaker 8: So all surprises that y'all don't write for them, they
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  Speaker 8: come with their own stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, They've been ready, they've been writing these jokes with
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  Speaker 3: ten years. They're like, I get to roast Kevin?
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  Speaker 2: Is it anything that's too far?
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  Speaker 3: Because yes, yes, yes, Like even with the the Tom
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  Speaker 3: Brady Rose they were like, don't do any Robert Kraft jokes,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Because he was going through
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  Speaker 3: the thing with the massage parlors and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, but you don't want to see these.
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  Speaker 3: So there's some things, you know, they want you to
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  Speaker 3: stay away from. I'm sure Kevin will have some things
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  Speaker 3: that they probably tell the other guys not to talk about,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything yet. You know, you've been doing
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  Speaker 2: comedy for decades, Chris.
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  Speaker 7: What's something about the craft that you understand now that
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  Speaker 7: you completely misunderstood early on?
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  Speaker 3: So I have a gift and a curse, which is
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  Speaker 3: my wit, right, and so instead of focusing on my
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  Speaker 3: act and doing my act every day all day, for
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  Speaker 3: months and years and then putting on special. I would
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  Speaker 3: always I would always go, you know, some of these
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  Speaker 3: people have seen me already, so I'm always trying to
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  Speaker 3: think of something new. I mean that, like the word
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  Speaker 3: crowd work now is like this positive thing that was
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  Speaker 3: me back then. So everything was fresh, and so I
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  Speaker 3: wish I would have focused on creating my act, putting
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  Speaker 3: that out as a special, and then having a new
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  Speaker 3: act and just continue to build like that, Like that's
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  Speaker 3: the way you become great. Chris Kevin Epps Cedric Like
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  Speaker 3: George Lopez, you do your act over and over and
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  Speaker 3: over again until you're tired of it. You put out
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  Speaker 3: a special, and then you move on to a new hour.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do that because I hosted a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I host it Chocolate Sundays, Fat Tuesdays. I have a
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  Speaker 3: room in Inglewoo right now. I do call the comedy
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  Speaker 3: block party. So a lot of times it's the same people.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do the same act, so I'm always and
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  Speaker 3: so that wit has also been my curse, because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the most exciting thing for a comedian is his newest joke.
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  Speaker 3: Like literally, I'll be at home gown. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: going up and I go, oh, I just wrote that
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gone. So that was always what I was
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  Speaker 3: doing as a host, you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 3: always got to come up with something brand new.
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  Speaker 7: Truly focused on yourself as a writer, though, because you're
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  Speaker 7: always giving so much away to other people, because you ever.
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  Speaker 1: Just know, I'm so good.
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  Speaker 3: No, because if I'm writing for you, I'm writing for
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  Speaker 3: something specific, you know what I mean. I'm not giving
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  Speaker 3: you like material that I would do. We are writing
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  Speaker 3: for this award show, we are writing for the SPI's,
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  Speaker 3: we are writing for the BET Awards, so you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then whatever our theme is, I say, our theme
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  Speaker 3: for like one year we did for Kevin it was
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  Speaker 3: all these English actors taking all our roles. So I
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  Speaker 3: wrote to that That's not really something that I would
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  Speaker 3: do in my act but it was. That was the theme.
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  Speaker 4: With all these camera phones, do you get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to to, I guess, feel out your jokes, right, because
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  Speaker 4: nowadays it's like I was doing. I went to some
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  Speaker 4: me and my daughter went to some comedy spot. It
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  Speaker 4: was like a hole in the wall, right, she went
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  Speaker 4: to NYU hole in the wall, Dally Go and I've
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  Speaker 4: seen a bunch of comedians that I know, but I
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  Speaker 4: can tell they were feeling out their jokes. Some hit
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  Speaker 4: something in land, right, that's what it was about. The
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  Speaker 4: camera phones ruined it?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, I mean they they usually tell people do
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  Speaker 3: not have your phones out, and they do a great
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  Speaker 3: job at, you know, kind of making sure people don't,
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  Speaker 3: but not not for me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of times, with.
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  Speaker 3: The way social media is, you almost want some of
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  Speaker 3: that stuff to get out. Chris, that joke didn't work,
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it goes viral and
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  Speaker 3: then you go, come see it now, and now the
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  Speaker 3: joke works.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if I've ever heard of comedians say that.
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  Speaker 3: I just made that up right now, it's probably not
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  Speaker 3: a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: At what point does a comedian get to the point where, like,
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  Speaker 6: I guess not ego, but you're okay with having the
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  Speaker 6: writer's team Because a lot of comedians I know to
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  Speaker 6: they it's like them they want everything themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So what happens with the word writer's team.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like they wake up and they go, Kevin
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  Speaker 3: try this, or you know, or Dave tried this.
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  Speaker 1: You have what you want to do.
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  Speaker 3: What you need them for is to remember what you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to do, Like you might do a joke on
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  Speaker 3: tonight about fifty cent and.
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  Speaker 1: Then tomorrow you forget it.
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  Speaker 3: I got to go remember how fifty cent killed in
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey? Do the fifty cent joke, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. So we're here then, and they're here to
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  Speaker 3: help you orchestrate and structure at least, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the camps that I've been in, Jamie Fox,
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  Speaker 3: we just did.
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  Speaker 1: I helped him produce what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Was Jamie is a monster.
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  Speaker 1: But I gotta go. Jamie, you said it like this
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 3: You said it like that.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way you did it last night, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So we're there to make sure that our star is
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  Speaker 3: in these parameters and doing the things that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we think are the best.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, yes we could.
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  Speaker 3: We also punch up, and we might come up with ideas,
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  Speaker 3: but we're not writing that person's act. Nobody's writing my act,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I have people who help
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  Speaker 3: me embellish, exaggerate, make funni or punch up. And a
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  Speaker 3: lot of times with the comedians, we love comedy so much.
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  Speaker 3: Like when I get off stage, other comedians all go
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  Speaker 3: you might if I get you something, be like sure,
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  Speaker 3: and then they give you something right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great fraternity.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny. Charloamane said it earlier.
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  Speaker 4: You never think about like when you're writing for somebody,
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  Speaker 4: helping somebody up, Like, nah, I'm gonna keep this for myself.
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  Speaker 4: And you said we want to make our star star.
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  Speaker 4: But when is Chris be like, nah, I'm keeping.
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  Speaker 2: This with myself.
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  Speaker 3: I've done this, like they didn't take it, and I go,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'll just take it back, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Like they didn't use it. But my goal
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  Speaker 3: is for that operation, that project, is to give him
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  Speaker 3: my best and so I'm not thinking, nah, I can't
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  Speaker 3: keep this. I'm gonna give it to him.
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  Speaker 7: You've seen multiple eras of comedy, right, like the deaf
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  Speaker 7: comedy Jam. You know social media now you got to
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  Speaker 7: scream in Like, which era do you think actually gave
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  Speaker 7: comedians the most freedom?
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  Speaker 3: It was back then? Back then they created stars, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like, Yo, there's this young dude,
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  Speaker 3: Oh I saw at the Comedy act Theater. Got to
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  Speaker 3: you gotta come see him. And then the industry would
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  Speaker 3: come to South central LA to come see this guy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's like they have to already beat somebody before they
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  Speaker 3: get a chance, you know, before the book them, Like how.
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  Speaker 2: Many followers he got?
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  Speaker 3: What you got?
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  Speaker 2: Anything viral?
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's book them before. It's like, yo, we
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  Speaker 3: found this thing, like almost like in Blue Chip when
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  Speaker 3: they found shack and at some barn dunking on people.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't like that no more. It's everybody's already established.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what make these guys, these younger guys great,
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  Speaker 3: because they've known how to create an empire of their
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  Speaker 3: own and then.
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  Speaker 1: They get discovered.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of them turned down TV because they're doing
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  Speaker 3: so well on their own. It's almost a pay cut
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  Speaker 3: for them to come to TV, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Why would Kaisen not do a sitcom?
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  Speaker 2: Not a comedian?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just saying, but I'm saying people like him
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  Speaker 3: the country wanes of the world.
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  Speaker 8: But Drewski is creating his own sitcoms.
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  Speaker 2: Issue exactly, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, but even with like his God could have
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  Speaker 6: been loved like yeah, but like he is doing commercials
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  Speaker 6: on regular tell right, But.
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  Speaker 3: They still do mainstream stuff. But it's not like the
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  Speaker 3: old days where I would get a deal, or Mark
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  Speaker 3: Curry got a deal and did Cooper, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: Martin got a deal and did the Martin You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. It's not like that anymore where they
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  Speaker 3: find this he's in. You got to come see this
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  Speaker 3: kid in Saint Louis named Cedric. Oh, Cedric's great.
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  Speaker 1: We give him a deal. That show didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put him on the Steve Harvey Show, and then
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  Speaker 3: he'll branch off and do something else. Those things don't
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  Speaker 3: happen like that anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So why not?
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  Speaker 3: Though I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it should.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 2: As big as somebody like a Drew Ski is, there
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  Speaker 2: is another level. There is other things to exactly Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and I think he's so talented he'll be
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  Speaker 3: great as if he had his own sitcom, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know if that's his path.
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  Speaker 7: Even artistically, right, because, like you know, I think Drewski
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  Speaker 7: is one of the best character you know actors ever, right.
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  Speaker 7: Would imagine if somebody was taking that pen to exactly
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  Speaker 7: create and.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: I think he's in the process of doing that. I
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: think he's like, Okay, I've done this. There's a lot
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: of people coming at me to do this, I'm gonna
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: need some help get so drewski is eight one eight.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Do you ever get offended ive a comedian doesn't take
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: it joke or says not a joke is tragedy.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: No, you have to have thick skin because a lot
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: of times they're gonna butcher your joke, and a lot
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: of times they're gonna go, that's not that's not that
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: because I write dark, so a lot of times they go,
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Like when I was writing from Uh for the imagery
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: for the Golden Globes for Nicki Glazer, I gave her
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: some stuff that we would like it. She's like, Chris,
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't. Like. I gave her a joke
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: about Cynthia Rivo, you know, and I'm saying that they
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: were giving the other girl attention and she should say listen,
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: green lives matter.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: And she's like, they will kill me if I do that.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: I can't. I picture it every day.
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: I'm like, try it getting killed though, it's okay to
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: take Take a couple of stats exactly.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at our best and brightest are at
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: the top of their career because of a lot of
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Kevin and Chappelle. I mean these people, there's this whole
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: cancel culture thing. I haven't seen it with us yet.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. You can't say this, I said, Well,
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: we end up saying it, and then there's a group
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: that might stop watching. But there's a whole another group
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: that's like, he's saying what I think.
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: They proved that one of the shows. I love that
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: you did that. I feel it and get a fast shake,
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: white famous man.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Oh well I got fired before, yes, before you talk
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: good about it. Yes, I'm my friend Buddy Lewis and
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I created that show, and it was a different show.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: If I showed you the script, you'd be like, yo,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: this will still be on the air. We got fired.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: They hired the guy from Californication to write it. So
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: you have this white guy who thinks he knows black
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: culture and he wrote that what you saw. But if
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I showed you what we had because in reality, as
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: a black comedian, you this is what it was supposed
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: to be about. You get pulled in different ways. It
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be like a black entourage, right. It's
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: from me being in all these camps and so I've
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: been a fly on the wall and see how everything operates.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: So I was my character is gonna be like his manager,
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I'm Marcus King or whoever.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: You know, these young like Eric Rohan for Cedric. You
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: see what happens.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: And so you see Saturay Night Live saying yo, come
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: do this, and he's like yo. But there's a deaf
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: jam tour, and there's this push and pull of him
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: trying to be mainstream. What I said in my pitch
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: which sold the show was he wants the people in
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Brentwood to learn his name, but he has to make
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: sure that people in Inglewood don't forget it. So there
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: there's always this pushing pull with your with your people,
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: your public as your agent, and that's what the show
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: was supposed to be. He was supposed to be a
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: little bit further ahead than the way they had him
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: and him struggling, you know what I mean, him being
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: in a big, big, mainstream film and they go through
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the red carpet and they're like, oh, yeah, you know
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: what I mean, and then Zach Galfanaka's where somebody comes
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: in they push him out the way. That's what the
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: story was supposed to be, more of him being trying
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: to be white famous like he can go to Roscos
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: and get in line free and they send him air
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: force once to his house all the time. But if
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: he goes to the Governor's ball at the Oscars, like
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I don't, we don't know youating Hollywood.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: That's not what they said when they said you fired.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know you got fired.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I just I saw your name is created, so they
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: had to keep my name on there. Yeah, no, you
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: can get fired from anywhere tea. I remember one time
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I did a commercial, uh for Domino's pizza. That's how
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: old it is, and and they would add another they
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: would It was like they made two commercial, two products
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: with one and block and Blockbuster Domino. So Domino's Pizza
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: and you ran the Star Wars and you read so
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I got checks for every movie they did, right, So
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: they brought it back and they made and they were
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: they wanted to do some voiceovers.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: They made me auditioned to be me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: What so that you see? And Montel Jordan got it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Montel if you watch that, Montell Jordan when I saw
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: my Lida's out, how you doing me?
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah? That's crazy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I have so many stores, so many literally, I had
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: the audition. I remember one time I went to an
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: audition and they said they're looking for Chris Spencer type.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And I got there and I was like, and they
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: were looking at me.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Like this, how are you?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I said, I'm I'm him, Chris. We're looking for a
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer type. And these people that know I was
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Wow, did you get it?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Montell Jordan again, what was.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It about you that they don't? They wanted you, but
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: didn't want you.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: They want you.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: Was it were you trying to go to like black
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: experience for them?
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. I just think they heard the word
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer and they're like, we got to get a
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer type.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: No, I mean for I'm talking about the white famous.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, mine was real, real, real, real real.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: They made some superficial version of what they assume what
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: that would look like. But mine was coming from being
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: in these camps, you know what I mean?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And I don't know. You never know why you get fired.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Is comedy still a place for truth telling?
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: It just turned into survival, Like you say, just enough
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: so you don't get I think it's.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Become a little bit too more, too salacious and gossipy
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: for some of these people.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But no, it's it's still great.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: There's still some great comedians, some great young comedians out
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: there that are doing their thing.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Hold on, you know what.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: You know why he's gotten sold gods to be in
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: solations because the comedians are doing this instead of standing
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: up to yes, like don't start a podcast, right folks?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: They want likes instead of laughs too, you know what
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I mean?
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: But isn't that a hard place to be in though?
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Because you said do you go in rooms and people
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: are like, how many followers you have? So like, what's
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: the happy medium?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Then getting some followers.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Literally like there was there was a pushing pull with
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: the old cats and the young cats like and then
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I was like, hey man, how you make them little
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: videos you'd be doing?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I was gonna ask, what's more fulfilling to you? Do
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: you like the comedy specials? Do you like the writing,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: or do you like hosting?
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: You do all of them?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Right, I love hosting, I love roasting.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: But when you're when you do, when you're up there
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: by yourself, you're the star, the director, the producer, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the writer. And one of my favorite things to do
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: is not it's not the laughs. It's when I get
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: the room quiet, you know what I mean. Damon Williams
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: told me a long time time ago, you won't be
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: a great comedy until you can appreciate this silence. And
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: what makes Dave so great is all of a sudden,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: it's like this, then he goes and throws.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: A good nag boom. That's high, you know what I mean.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of comedians that are afraid of that,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: that silence because it's it's scary, you don't know what's
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: gonna happen. But I'm addicted to that now, and so
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I think I've become a better comedian because I've been
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: able to appreciate the silence. No one, I'm in control
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: of this whole situation.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: That's It's like that when you're doing interviews and stuff too, right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: I tell people tell them that all the time, Like
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: sometimes you might ask a question and it might get
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: silent for whatever reason, you get uncomfortable.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I don't, but like a lot of people that exactly
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, a lot of people.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Only because I think it's like you feel like if
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: it's conversation or if you're doing something, it's supposed to
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: invoke something from people. And so when people are quiet,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: it's like, I don't know, it's like an insecure feeling.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that silence is magic.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you learn.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: If I ask you something and you ain't said nothing,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's that's.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: You know, impactful, you know what I mean?
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: M hmm.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And then to know that my next sensus is going
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: to make you laugh is a power. It's almost like
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: a minister what he's in front of his congregation. He
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: knows I got this in my hip pocket. I'm gonna say, oh,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: this is gonna be quiet, and I'm gonna drop him
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: with I'm I'm hit him with this.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: What made you?
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: What makes you pull somebody's I guess Cotel publicly, I
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: know you do a lot of it privately. I saw
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: you on fifty one fifty show with Corey What made
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: you go home? Fifty one fifty show and have that
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: conversation with Corey publicly?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So Corey, I saw him on Laura Kenny.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: He's driving this incredible like convertible Cadillac, and I complimented
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: him and then he called me and then we just
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: started talking, and then I just started telling him about himself.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: He said, really, I said, you don't know this. You
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: don't know this about yourself. He said, Mackey, you come
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: on the show and talk to me about that. I
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: said absolutely. So he purposely called me to come on
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the show and tell him these things about his shortcomings
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and how he's become this mean comic and he really
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: appreciated it. Did he change I'm sure?
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: But the episode aired, Yeah, no, he got some time.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so okay, he asked for that. He asked for that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: He said, come on here and talk to me.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: Does that change your view of it, Betty X for
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: it or not?
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: I actually respect it even more the fact that y'all
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: had that conversation.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: You know, privately, and he was like, no, let's have
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that publicly.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, our comedian is still allowed to be wrong publicly.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Or to today's culture, expect perfection all the time.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: They're going to be wrong, whether they like it or not.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I think we're all human, you know what I mean,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: And so we're gonna make mistakes. We're going to say
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: stuff that we think people want to hear, and a
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: lot of times we're you know, we're miseducated, misinformed, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: that's when a lot of apologies start to happen. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. But so yeah, I mean, our
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: goal is to be funny. That's what also has stopped
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: happening is a lot of people are trying to be uh,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: gossipy as opposed to funny. Like That's why I was
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: telling Corey. I said, between you back then and now
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: is before you would say something mean, but you make
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: a little Corey face or do something silly and we
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: would go, oh, he's being funny. Now you're just mean,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And you're not like that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: That's not the guy I met. And I think your
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: audience that you've built with the fifty one to fifty
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: show encourages that behavior.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I told him, you're like Dice Clay, you know what
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I mean. Dice Clay probably didn't start off as that guy,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: but then that audience was like, yo, we love when
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: you do the and he became more of that. Not
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: that he's a caricature, but if your audience is feeding you,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: then you want to, you know, entertain them.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Playing Devil's advocate about that, right, not like condoning the
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: stuff that he does. But when comedians go to the
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: rooms and you test out the jokes and then jokes go, well,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: you're like, all right, this is going to work when
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: these comedians are online and their audiences are like yes, yes,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: yes for them, don't you think it correlates the same
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: as like, Okay, now this is working. So I lean
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: in even if it's a blind spot and it shouldn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: be word they're leaning.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Into like it's possible. You know. I can't answer for everybody,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: but a lot of time times like if they love
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: when I talk sex, or they love when I talk
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: bad about other comedians, then I'm going to continue to
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: do that because that's helping me sell tickets when I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: go live. You know what I mean, so bad or good?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to judge anybody, but that's
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: that's what's feeding them.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Some of it is bad. A lot of it is bad.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean us breaking each other down and talking
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: bad about each other. I don't like you know what
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, Like you and Donnelle when you guys go
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: at it, it's humorous, it's fun.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It's mean as shit.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Am I allouted to say that, Oh it's mean, but
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: it's there. There's humor in it. I'm serious about it though,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I know, but it's still funny.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: You could be serious and funny one crying.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: This was years ago. This was about six seven years ago.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: You know how you're going back and forth with somebody,
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: but you don't realize that they're series. So me and
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Donnelle was going back and forth, steady fucking with it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: It took me at.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Least forty five minutes to realize he was really upset
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: about something.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you guys get y'all get so personal.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: It wasn't what I said. He was upset that. He said,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I don't take him seriously.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm wearing so down.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: He was like, I see you up there. You'll go
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: up there with the Marlon Wayns Kevin Hart and you
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: get him a serious for me. Yous want to jo say.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Something y'all have so just like just like you know
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: what's funny and me and him were talking about there's
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: got to be a way for you guys, for people
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: to get paid for like stuff that's like you're in him,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: y'all laughing Here they showed that after damn near everything,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: it should be a checker. And his foul has become
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: real popular. So I don't know who needs to look
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: into that. There's gotta be a union. But you guys
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: should be getting a check for some of that stuff
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: that would.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Have made a million off rich bitch know a long
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: time ago. Yeah, so something is there's something missing? What
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: is what is drop TV?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Dropped?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Drop TV is basically Patreon had a baby with twob Right.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: We have created a network for content creators to monetize
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: their content, but at a larger substantial amount than these
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: other places, and so there's an app.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: There's also fast channels.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: And as a matter of fact, you could have a
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: twenty four hours charlottage channel if you want to, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: you could talk directly to your people and give them
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: exactly the content that they want, but not these little
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: fractions of a dollar that you're getting over there. Of course,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: we'll be taking a good percentage, but it's a smaller
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: percentage than everybody else is taking from you.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Did you do drop tv because being behind the scenes,
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: you got tired of seeing the monetization going other places
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: and people not being allowed to do certain stuff.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Well, actually I was brought on okay right a guy
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: named Earl Scott and Harry Hall Russell Clark. These guys
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: had this thing, and they're like, you know, we need
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: to bring somebody fantastic.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: No, so they brought me on because.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: They brought me on to help be a mouthpiece for this.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And you know, I have a channel. I have a
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: show on there as a matter of fact called La
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Stories is a gang of them, which is my podcast
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: where I'm gonna be talking to people like you guys
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: about your your your stories. That because everybody has an
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: l a story, whether they were robbed or they met
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: this girl and whatever. So I want to talk to everybody.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: It originally started from I lived. I grew up in Inglewood, California.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I moved February of eighty three. Crack pulled up March
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: of eighty three, and so I seen what it did
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to my friends and family, and I always wondered who
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: would I have been? You know what I mean?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I was at a funeral. I just sold it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sold it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: No, That's that's what I just saw.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: How it's how how my.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Community got was treated, you know what I mean. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: saw people get rich, I how people go to and
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: not that I would sell crack, but I just wondered
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: who would I have been in this world? So like,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: as a matter of fact, when I was at a funeral,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: some guy came up to me. I was like, didn'
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: you used to live a nigga wood. I was like yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: He said, then you moved to some white neighborhood or something.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I didn't recognize this dude. He goes, yeah,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: thank god you moved. You would have been a kingpin.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I was like, that was the greatest compliment. At the
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: same time, I was like, but I was too scared
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to be a kingpin. But I could have been a
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: dude that'd been like, there's some niggas over there that
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: need some.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: Correct Are you talking about your intellect and your organizational skills?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah? You bring people together. Yeah yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: But it was just it was just I didn't know
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: this guy. He was older than me. I don't know
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: how I was like white, What made you say that?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: He says he was always smarter than these dudes. I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: was like, so, I always wondered what my That's why
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: LA stories came about about. I want to talk to
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the people from that life as well as people were
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: indigenous to LA. The Tivioty Handish's is the Anthony Anderson's,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: the George Lopez's Jenny Buss, What was it like growing
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: up like that? And then I want to talk to
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: people who've transplanted, the shacks, the magics, and I just
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: want to talk to everybody, crips, bloods, drug dealers, judges,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: a little bit of everybody, a little bit of everybody.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Meemi Brown, just snucking.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: From La Chris from l A see all the time.
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: So you were just talking about all the things that
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: you would talk to people about.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Is there anything you wouldn't joke about?
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: And like, what what's off limits anything?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna talk if you have, like I do,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: do a joke about that. I mean, you you know
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: in your gut, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: not gonna especially somebody's going through something that's the best time.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna talk about your kid as cancer. That's
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: about I'm just trying to.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Mean that low.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: But yes, well no, like if you fall off a
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: building or something like that, it's my comedic duty to
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: talk about you. But no, I mean, you know you
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. I'm not gonna be doing age jokes,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: What there's some good roast, you see what.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I would never would laugh at I would never roast magic.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: There's a couple of people that are off limits in
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the black community. I realized Kobe Magic, well, I mean
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Kobe Pathway. Yes, even then though I had I had
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: a joke about Kobe. I tried on two different TV
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: shows that they didn't error.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I tried it on Deaf Jam and Comic View. I
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: had a joke about how Magic, how Kobe was so
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: greedy with the ball. I said, Coche, you remember this, right,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I said, Magic had a note look past and Kobe
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: had a no past look. So Kobe would look at
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: you and go You'd be like, I'm opening look, I
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: see you. And I tried it twice.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Everybody made jokes about Kobe not passing the ball.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: They wouldn't let me do it. What they love Kobe.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: So it's Kobe Magic. Who else is on the.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: List, Michelle Obama and Martin.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Luther King, Deaf.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know about Martin, definitely Michelle.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: No Oprah, oh.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: No, you can talk. I mean she's not as relevant
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: as she But there's people did Oprah jokes back then.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: But I'm just telling you, when the room gets silent
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: and a black crowd, you don't.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Know if there's a post to laugh.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: People have made mad Oprah jokes and I'm saying Oprah,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: they joke about those I'm saying before Michelle Obama, know
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: somebody else Marrin Luther King mad Martinluther King jokes. Yeah,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: but it was with Martin Luther King. It wasn't like
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: it was like Martin Luther King got bitches. You know
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: what I mean.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: You can't shop that broke.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: My That was in a movie. It was more about
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Rosa Parks, you know what I mean. It's I'm just
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: telling you how the room gets sertless. People will laugh,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: but like you can't do when you can't talk about
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Jesus with black people.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Who can't talk about Jesus. Jesus that's a little different.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: But it's crazy because the church folks love good comedy. Though, yes,
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: don't know how you do it, but you.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Can't say there is no Jesus.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes I'm.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Telling you you asked me. I'm telling you what we
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: can't do.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: But white boys do it all the time. They could
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: go up there and brag about being atheist, like we
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: can't even if you are a black atheist, you can't.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: We know they white devils. That's the difference.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Bel Yes, Calon says, you're doing really good in the church.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's so funny, he's.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: So real good with it. He like toasted the line
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: a bit.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we had a roast one time for a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: guy name to hear More and Kevin ke.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: I used to do uh digital with him.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's so funny. So we had a roast one
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: time in Kevi on stage, Tony Baker, that whole little
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: young cir. I love those guys. Those guys are making
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: an empire of their own. They're not waiting for Hollywood,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: So I like that, didn't do a tour together or something?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, social yeah, whatever.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: A moment you thought about walking away from comedy, I
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: wouldn't know where to go. I have a degree in sociology.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: I'd have to go back to grad school and then
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: get another doctorate. And you know I would always my
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: walk away was this behind the scenes stuff I'm doing.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I stopped when I started. When I started having children.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, I want to be home to
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to have a nanny.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Take my son to go get his first haircut and
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: missed basketball games and baseball games. So I decided let
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: me take a back seat. Actually with the uh. Conversation
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: with my wife was like, you probably just stay home.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: And so I started doing more of that when the
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: kids were babies and so, and then it became fruitful,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: and then I was like, oh, I'm here. But now
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to make that transition back because when I
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: see my friends in the airport coming from all these
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: incredible country club I'm the country club comedy clubs and
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: telling the stories I missed that, you know what I mean,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Like I am a comedian. I have all these other slashes, director, producer, writer,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: but I am a comedian.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And I always say like, if we.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Walked it, if this was high school and we walked
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: into the cafeteria and I look over here and there's
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Shonda Rhymes and Kenya Baris at one table. And I
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: look over here and it's f Gary Gray and Malcolm
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Lee at that table. And I look over here and
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: it's Mike Epps and Kevin and Dave and Chris.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to naturally go over here, this is who
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Naturally I could do those things, and those are fun,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: but I am a clown, you know what I mean?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: And that's why I'm glad I did It's special. So
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: now my comedian slash is in front of writer, producer, director,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean to go to Jason. Yes, yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: And that name came from I was in a comedy
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: club in La Damn prov actually, and I walked in
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: and some kid goes, Chris Spencer the Goat. I said, no,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not the goat. I'm going to Jason. And I
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: walked away and I was like, that'd be a pretty
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: good name for a comedy special. So it's on Hulu
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: right now and it's doing pretty well, and I'm very
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: proud of it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: What's the difference between being respected in comedy versus being popular?
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: Because we mentioned a lot of people, right, we know
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: they got followers and stuff like that, but they're popular.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: They not necessarily funny to me, right, you know, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: like funny.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I like, who's funny to you?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Who's funny to you?
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: New like who you go spend fifty dollars hundred dollars
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to go see?
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, Chris Rock easily, Chappelle easily, people like George George Carlin.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Right, No, I like it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: That's what I like.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So you like writers, like you like to be able
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to think.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: I mean I like writers, so like you have spend
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: time with Rodney Bonds, of course, who's funny than Rodney, Who's.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Funny, genius. Our kids are best friends. So yeah, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I'm right on all the Awards shows with Roddy. He's
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: a he's like you look at him and go, how'd
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: you think of that?
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: And just regular conversation exactly, And it's dry, yes, because
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: he's serious.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, but I like that's what I like. Yeah, that's
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: that's funny.
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: But then there's some people who don't want to think.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Some people just want to go to comedy club and
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: just you know, and they're they're they're, they're they're there
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: not to think about how this joke connects with this joke.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: They just want to laugh. So it's all it's all
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: you know about what you want and what you like
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: and what you want to pay your money for.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Are there any Oh?
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: What's the difference though, between you know, actually being a
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: comedian that's funny and just being popular.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: You be respected and popular. I'm respected and I'm popular
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: with the people that know me. Over fifty anybody who
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: got anmanization shot on their arm, know me, Like all
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the ladies at say you're like, I saw you last night,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: and then the younger TSAV girl, I don't know who
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: he is? Who is that? Yeah?
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: Is there any online comedians or that y'all watch that
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: you feel like could get to the respective point because
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: everybody who just named I feel like like who up
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: today would be like respected?
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: No, A lot of those guys are respected, you know
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: I think Drew Skik, would you consider.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: My online guy?
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, respected, Deasi Banks, Ryan Davis. Like, what's great about
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: those guys is they took the art of stand up seriously,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: DC Young Fly. I used to watch DC.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they would come to the comedy clubs and watch
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: us you want.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: To go on? No, no, no, no. There were being students
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: and because they knew they were getting opportunities and I
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: think they were getting their ass handed to him early
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: because they had the name. And then they'd be like,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: come do an hour at chuckles, and they'd be like,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I don't have an hour, but they would go for
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: the money and then they were like, you know, I
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: need to really become a comedian, and so I watched
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: these young guys just grow and become incredible.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Even guys like Andrew Scholtz Gels all them guys like that,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: those guys are They're actually funny. Yeah, on stage absolutely.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Asks that because as you step back into comedian role,
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: even though you're still going to write, producing.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: And I never stopped being a stand up, but I
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: just made sure I did a special called go to
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Adjacent on Hulu.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: But when you're developing your specials and you're doing your specials,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: you're not putting as much time to direct it and
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: all that stuff, are you.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not on this. I'm fifty eight so
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and I like being home. The couch is fantastic. So
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I'm out on the road as much as I probably
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: should be to become To become great, I need to
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: be doing an hour fifty forty five.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Weeks a year, you know what I mean.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: But I have those other things that I'm doing, so
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know how great I'll become.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't need to be Dave, you know
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: what I mean. I wouldn't mind just being Dion.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: In terms of selling out, he's still selling out theaters
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: as opposed to Kevin and I'm doing arena. Dion is
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: probably going to go to arenas, but I will be content. Yes,
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: he's one of my favorites. Three five thousand seats. The
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: city is suffice. I just want to play golf and
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: dress nice. You know what I mean?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: What's still scared you on stage?
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: If anything? I've never been scared on stage. It was
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: always a natural thing for me. I was always I
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: was always an entertainer as a kid, you know what
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: I mean. Like company would come over, I would dress
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: up and lock and do Michael Jackson and I thought
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I was a magician. I told you, I thought I
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: was Black Wudini. I would have people tie me up
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: and stuff and I could get out of it. So
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I've always been an entertainer. So I've never been scared
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: on stage. I've had bad sets, I've bombed, but I
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: was never scared, you know what I mean. You always
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: hear I hear some of the greatest comedians talk about
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: stage fright and how they almost want to throw up,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: like Willie Beeman any given Sunday before they go on.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'm like, really, I've never been nervous before I go
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: on stage.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I often wonder how how well number one. What makes
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: it special?
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Special because there's a lot of specials that aren't special, right,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: I think when you take the time to really put
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: together this well crafted hour as opposed to just going
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: up there and being fun.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Because a lot of times.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: We know a lot of people who are incredible at
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: the club and incredible at the theater, but then when
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: it comes to making this package called a special, it
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: doesn't feel special. And so it's hard, you know what
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, It's hard? So what what something? Something that
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: might be special to you might not be special to her.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: So I think it's objective, subjective, pick one of the
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: words objective, that's the subjective.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Now that's funny too. I want to throw downe out.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite human beings in the world
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: because if you don't because he's actually.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Funny, No he is, but he is. He is super
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: dup funny. But I also think about what specials, right,
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: like how often she he's doing? What do I mean
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: by that? The thing that George Colin said in his
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: specials Now people are still catching up to in twenty twenty,
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: that thinks Chris Rock said, and stuff like bring the pain,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: Like I think niggas versus black people.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Should play every day.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: I think black people should have to watch that every
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: day because we different required reading in school.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: So should a person even just do a stand up
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: special when they're ready?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? A lot of times people
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: put them out too early and they weren't ready. Like you, like,
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: you don't want to ever hear that the other one
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: was better than the new one. You shouldn't go out
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: until you feel like this is better than that. I
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: have grown as a comedian, so I got to show
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: you this new hour, you know what I mean?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go Man, that was good, but the.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: One you did ten years ago, whoa, that was my favorite. No,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: your whole goal.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Is to continue to grow and make sure.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Your next your next game is better than your last game.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: But isn't that hard? Very hard?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: That's why you can't just be doing it every every year.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: To me, probably haven't a team that you're talking about
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: that like structure.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: And that enhances and helps. Yes, even Richard Pryor had
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Paul Mooney.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You know you need somebody, and David Banks's manager was
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: also funny. They were there for you. You need that support.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you know they might not they might want a
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: half ass one night, and that's where your team goes. Hey,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: my man, we you know half assed in an hour
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: and twenty minutes after you get off stage. That's what
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: your team is there.
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: For you around you, like Buddy Lewis like off people
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: that like why tell me the importance of like making
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: sure that when you have that team that they help
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: you get to the next level.
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: Because every time I.
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: See you, all the younger comedians, they always say your name.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: You've always just had like I.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Pay them them, that's what I steal their jokes and
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: then I give them their money.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: It's just important because I like to keep the youth
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: around me so I don't feel old on stage. You know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: I don't want to go up there every what's up y'all?
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Is it live in here? Or what they'd be like, Oh,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: we don't say live anymore, you know what I mean? So, yes,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: all right, we'll give me some skin. We don't do
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: that anymore. So I always keep the youth around me
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: so I can know I'm not so I'm not dressing
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: too young or acting too young, or dressing too old
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: and acting too old. So you always have to have
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: them around you. That's and that's what's great about my kids.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: They will let me know that you can't say that
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: or you can't wear that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: If comedy is therapy, what are you still healing from
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: on that stage?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: What am I healing? What a great question. Yeah, I
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: know you just have Barbara Walters. Let me think.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I kind of and this could be why I'm not
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the superstar I should because I didn't really come from
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: a lot of pain, although, but I am discovering there
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: was pain there that I didn't know about as of late,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. You know, my parents were
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: divorced at an early early age, so I always said
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: to myself, if my dad would have rebounded for me,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: I could have made it to the Division one basketball.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: But him not being around, you know, we wanted these things.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: So I'm starting to kind of joke about that. Although
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: that didn't get to laugh You guys got real sad.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I thought I was laughing camera man. No, I'm just saying,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: but the pain plus time equals comedy. So I think
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: about those things, like, Wow, what would have been like
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: if I would have had him in the house, You
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: know what I mean?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, You know, I often wonder, uh, what would have happened?
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: If you know the stuff I'm talking about, Like if
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: I had I stayed in Inglewood, what would my life
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: be like? You know what I mean?
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Had I married this woman?
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: What would my life have been like? Okay, I don't
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: think about that. I'm just I just ran out of topics.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe I should Texas delete that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Do you think pain is still the main ingredient for comedy?
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Painless time equals comedy. Think about day Jamie's last special
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: that was all pain, you know what I mean, Kevin
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: talking about you know, his father being on crack h
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: you know, Mike kep you know, the whole last run
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: of his special was him talking about his pain.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Like we really endeared to that, you know what I mean.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: It's like, Wow, I'm going through some of these things,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: or my aunt or my uncle or my brother or
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: my sister's going through these things. I'm so glad that
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: you're talking about it and making it light and making
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: me feel better, you know what I mean. So painless
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: time equals comedy is always the combination.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Wow, you've had a lot of longevity.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: Man, When it's all said and done, what do you
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: want your legacy and comedy to be not that you're
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: going anywhere anytime.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I'd like to ask that question.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm glad you do. So I want to.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Me and my wife are doing projects together and we
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: have a comedy series out called Black Comedy in America
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: that you know about it. I co host with Tivity
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Hannish and Ryan Davis. We did a ten episode. We
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: did ten episodes on the history of black comedy, starting
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: from the Chitlin circuit all the way to social media people.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: We have episode Eddie Murphy. We have Will Smith, Dave Chappelle,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: eighty sitcoms, and so I want to continue to I
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: want you to be able to watch TV. Like you
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: watch Tyler Perry. You can go that's a Tyler Perry show.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Or you watch Woody Ellen. Go see Them Old Man
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: with Them Little Girls. That's a Woody Allen movie. So
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: I want you to be able to I want you
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: to be able to watch TV or film and go
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer did that?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: And I get it kind of already.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Like when people watch award shows, in the middle of
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: the show, they'll call me Turk Stevens right here. He'll
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: call me and go, you wrote that joke, didn't you.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I'll be like, we know we wrote he goes, I
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: know you too well, you wrote it. Good job click
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So people know my voice
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: and I want to continue to create projects where you
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: will go. That's Chris and Them on Drop TV.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Chrispencer tell him what to follow you mate.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: I am on Instagram, the real Chris Spencer, Facebook, just
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Chris Spencer for your older audience, my Space Spencer and
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: then oh yeah some of the older people Black Planet,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: yes tonight, but this ship is eron next week, go
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: to Jason. Oh but we got the Sobe's Music Fest,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: uh uh. Andv's gonna be there usually, which is in
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: curosle this year, Baby Face, Jo Tosy Me and Dion Cole, Spinderella,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Jazzy Jeff and on the island of Curasell.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure none of you guys have been there.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: What I'm talking about?
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Everybody, Yes, that's it, everybody, everybody all everybody there takes
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: a nat before they come out of Yes, and like
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Dione Coles joke, he says, all the old black dudes
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: sit on the aisle because they know they got a
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: peace soon.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: How did they get tickets for that?
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Is it sold beach dot com or something?
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Good, probably sold beech Music dot net organization something.
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: But Mark Akins the Beach Music Festival, Yeah, that's sold
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: Beach dott.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, some beach talking mat and Mark Adkins, who is
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: actually Simbad's brother, is the one that produces it. Simbad
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: used to do this, some of you guys remember. It
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: used to be in Jamaican and so funny. When I
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: got fired from Vibe, Sindbad took my spot and now
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Simbady used to do this, and now I took his spot.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: So we're even got your back some bad.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: It's Chris Bency, y'all. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club