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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Everybody's the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We
- 0:08Speaker 2: are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
- 0:10Speaker 2: the building. Yes, indeed he's back, Ladies and gentlemen. Riggy Smiley, Hey,
- 0:14Speaker 2: thank you all for having me.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Don't you got your own show?
- 0:18Speaker 3: Yeah? I got on early record of the prank phone
- 0:21Speaker 3: call sending her slide.
- 0:22Speaker 4: Don't over here, folks, man, Riggy, I would laugh so
- 0:25Speaker 4: much watching your special Man.
- 0:27Speaker 1: I was telling him that this morning, you saw it.
- 0:30Speaker 1: What you mean I saw it?
- 0:31Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, you knew you was gonna be with it. Man,
- 0:36Speaker 4: I laughed so hard. You know why, I could have
- 0:38Speaker 4: felt warm? Right, you know what I'm saying. Regardless of
- 0:41Speaker 4: what you said that people might get be offended by it,
- 0:44Speaker 4: just felt like it was coming from a good place.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be all right. That's the problem, man. The
- 0:49Speaker 3: comedy is just everybody is too sensitive right now. We
- 0:53Speaker 3: need to get back to the nineties when comedians did
- 0:55Speaker 3: what they did. Eddie Murphy Robbers still funny. I don't
- 0:58Speaker 3: get offended that nothing. Eddie Murphy Delirious is funny. Fox
- 1:03Speaker 3: Jamie Fox Martin Arni, those specials, Mark Curry, all of
- 1:07Speaker 3: those specialist are still funny.
- 1:08Speaker 5: Man?
- 1:09Speaker 3: Are we just in a counsel culture? And on this one,
- 1:12Speaker 3: I just say what the hell I want to say
- 1:14Speaker 3: and just have fun with the audience. The audience that
- 1:16Speaker 3: came out to see you, they say we want you,
- 1:19Speaker 3: and that's what I gave them want.
- 1:20Speaker 4: I wouldn't want a young kid to watch Eddie Murphy
- 1:22Speaker 4: Rod deliver, especially a young Remember the LGBTQ.
- 1:27Speaker 1: You got to ease into that one. You can't just
- 1:32Speaker 1: turn that one on now. But is that why it
- 1:34Speaker 1: took you ten years to do another special? No, man,
- 1:37Speaker 1: you know what happened.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I got in the radio, got in and raising the kids.
- 1:42Speaker 3: I was still performing on the weekend. You just have
- 1:44Speaker 3: to give yourself some space, give yourself a cushion to
- 1:47Speaker 3: have a balanced life. You know, do radio, you know,
- 1:50Speaker 3: do shows or whatever. But then uh push the kids
- 1:53Speaker 3: on the swing set and just have some fun and
- 1:55Speaker 3: enjoyed life and sit on the beach a couple of
- 1:58Speaker 3: a few weekends instead of shows on a Saturday, two
- 2:01Speaker 3: shows on a Friday. And it ain't the shows, it's
- 2:04Speaker 3: the end between shows. Just you know, the two hours,
- 2:07Speaker 3: the two and a half, the three hour wait for
- 2:10Speaker 3: you to go back on stage in between shows, sitting
- 2:12Speaker 3: in a room with comedians and we run out of
- 2:14Speaker 3: things to talk about and your voice gone, and it
- 2:18Speaker 3: just that was kind of I just needed I just
- 2:20Speaker 3: needed a cushion. So I didn't put pressure on myself
- 2:23Speaker 3: to do another one. I just kept performing in David
- 2:25Speaker 3: Talbert and Land Talbert. It's like, hey, man, you need
- 2:28Speaker 3: to do another special. You haven't done one in years.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I said, okay. We put it off and we was
- 2:33Speaker 3: on the boat swimming with sharks. He said, man, excuse
- 2:36Speaker 3: me my life. He said, I want to put some
- 2:37Speaker 3: cinema on your zid like that you curse. I currently said,
- 2:41Speaker 3: say I'm gonna put some cinema on your ship. I said, okay.
- 2:44Speaker 3: He said, when you look at Eddie Murphy, raw, Eddie
- 2:45Speaker 3: Murphy delirious, He said, I want to shoot your you know, say,
- 2:48Speaker 3: you haven't been presented the right way. You did comedy
- 2:51Speaker 3: specials on Comedy Central and on all these other shows.
- 2:54Speaker 3: He said, but man, we got that. We got to
- 2:55Speaker 3: do you right. So I was like, cool, and we
- 2:57Speaker 3: did it. We shot it, did three shows, and uh,
- 3:00Speaker 3: it was fun. I had a good time. If I
- 3:03Speaker 3: had one critique, I just felt like I, I don't know,
- 3:05Speaker 3: it just kind of felt like I had something to prove.
- 3:07Speaker 3: And I think I should have just took a deep
- 3:09Speaker 3: breath and just relaxed a little bit. When I go
- 3:11Speaker 3: back and look at it, you know, you your own
- 3:13Speaker 3: worst critic. You hear yourself on the radio, You're gonna
- 3:16Speaker 3: turn the station. You ain't gonna sell and listen to you.
- 3:18Speaker 3: I can't stand and listen to prove to you. Just
- 3:21Speaker 3: felt like you just have something to prove, like you
- 3:24Speaker 3: coming out like like that nigga come down.
- 3:28Speaker 1: It was like a walking apark.
- 3:29Speaker 6: He was like an uncle at a cookout like you.
- 3:32Speaker 6: That's why I was gonna ask you, did you write anything?
- 3:34Speaker 6: It just seemed like you just had it and it
- 3:36Speaker 6: was just it.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Was there, like yeah, just I had been working on
- 3:40Speaker 3: some of that material for years and it was just sharp.
- 3:44Speaker 3: It was developed. I had did it in comedy club.
- 3:46Speaker 3: I had reader Brent, comedian special k Big shun LeVar Walker,
- 3:52Speaker 3: you know, you know, helping me out or whatever, giving me,
- 3:55Speaker 3: you know, punching up the stuff, making it funny and
- 3:57Speaker 3: performing it. You know, so when you perform the stuff.
- 3:59Speaker 3: You know, just when we did shows together. You know
- 4:01Speaker 3: how many time I'll pull y'all to the side and said, hey, look,
- 4:04Speaker 3: you make a mistake right here, do this right here,
- 4:06Speaker 3: and then flip that, do that right there. I wish
- 4:08Speaker 3: I could coach comedy definitely needs some. I will tell her.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I was on beat some on ass one night. I said,
- 4:17Speaker 3: why did you do that? I bought it to the
- 4:19Speaker 3: dress and I said, you need to do this like this.
- 4:21Speaker 3: She said, for real, she said, I just really appreciate
- 4:24Speaker 3: you even taking the time.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Are they receptive?
- 4:27Speaker 5: Though?
- 4:27Speaker 6: The comedian, well, I'm sorry, but she was because she
- 4:30Speaker 6: did exactly what he because we were all on the
- 4:34Speaker 6: same exactly what he told her to and she got
- 4:36Speaker 6: a bigger response.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Sure did yeah. And man, when she came off State, man,
- 4:39Speaker 3: we jumping and hugging everybody, like what's going on? I said,
- 4:42Speaker 3: we had made a critique and I said, hey, you
- 4:45Speaker 3: should do this like this or what the thing with
- 4:47Speaker 3: the cell phone had everybody light that. I said, don't
- 4:49Speaker 3: cut that off. You got to keep that moment you
- 4:52Speaker 3: got the bill off of it, and then boom, boom boom,
- 4:54Speaker 3: and she did it the very next night. In Houston,
- 4:56Speaker 3: and we were just going crazy about it because you know,
- 5:00Speaker 3: I take the time to coach them. I pulled just
- 5:02Speaker 3: to the side and say, hey, let's do this like
- 5:04Speaker 3: this or what do you think or do you think
- 5:06Speaker 3: this will work better? I'm trying to tell him what
- 5:08Speaker 3: to do. But that's that's our job because we was coached.
- 5:11Speaker 3: You know, you couldn't make no mistakes, Steve, I tell
- 5:14Speaker 3: you that story. No, man, I was dressed like el
- 5:17Speaker 3: cooj one night on the show with Steve. Yeah, and
- 5:22Speaker 3: damn right, man, you have to you have to. You
- 5:24Speaker 3: have to respect that somebody put think enough of you
- 5:27Speaker 3: to pull you to the side, because most people are
- 5:28Speaker 3: not gonna say nothing.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Can you coach people when they not funny?
- 5:34Speaker 3: Yeah? Hey, hey, just don't don't go back on now.
- 5:41Speaker 1: You can't write jokes.
- 5:42Speaker 3: You can't write funny, but they have to know how
- 5:44Speaker 3: to perform it or whatever. Are you just have to
- 5:46Speaker 3: find that find that whatever that niche is and bill
- 5:49Speaker 3: from there or whatever. Yeah.
- 5:51Speaker 1: So is it okay for comedians to have writers?
- 5:54Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 5:55Speaker 2: Okay, so because you know some people like now, I
- 5:56Speaker 2: wreck my own jokes. I do my own stuff like
- 5:58Speaker 2: you see that so much. But now today rappers got writers.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Now they help with certain things.
- 6:02Speaker 7: Is that okay?
- 6:03Speaker 3: Or is it one of those things that you gave
- 6:04Speaker 3: them your concept? You said, sometime I have a punchline.
- 6:08Speaker 3: I said, here's a punchline. I tell you what I
- 6:11Speaker 3: tell you another story, Saturday entertainer wrote, Little Daryl, No,
- 6:17Speaker 3: I didn't know that's the true story. Wow. Now you
- 6:20Speaker 3: know you know the hotel in Atlanta when you get
- 6:23Speaker 3: off on Fourteenth Street by Georgia Tech. That that that
- 6:26Speaker 3: that that married out right there next to the four Seasons,
- 6:29Speaker 3: right there on fourteenth Street. We were staying at the
- 6:30Speaker 3: hotel because we open up Uptown Comedy Club that was
- 6:34Speaker 3: behind Houston's where we was doing the very open the
- 6:36Speaker 3: opening weekend. And I said, say it, I ain't got
- 6:39Speaker 3: this this joke about this kid saying this Eastern speech.
- 6:43Speaker 3: And we was in a seventy nine couple that's driving
- 6:45Speaker 3: up Peachtree. He said, oh man, I said, what should
- 6:47Speaker 3: I name it? He said, oh man, he was going
- 6:50Speaker 3: through that. He said, little Darryl. He said, litt Darren.
- 6:52Speaker 3: He said, yeah, he's saying the Easter speech. And he
- 6:54Speaker 3: said my name Little Daryl. And Liz said set entertainer
- 6:57Speaker 3: pretty much helped me develop that entire joe that changed
- 7:01Speaker 3: my entire career. I did that that joke on Comic
- 7:04Speaker 3: View in my career took off. They still talk about it.
- 7:08Speaker 3: People weren't even born. Well, I don't know if you
- 7:11Speaker 3: was born when I did, but I know exactly, I
- 7:14Speaker 3: know it right, right, said said developed that joke.
- 7:18Speaker 4: You're saying things in the specially that people need to hear.
- 7:20Speaker 4: For example, tell his brother Nvy why he shouldn't die
- 7:23Speaker 4: his bed.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't don't die because don't that that just
- 7:27Speaker 3: for men or whatever. I got. I got a little
- 7:31Speaker 3: dying there. But I let the little great seep out
- 7:34Speaker 3: a little bit because women like that, right you are, Zaddy, Okay,
- 7:39Speaker 3: be one. If we got to get off that van,
- 7:43Speaker 3: we got to get off that van with them ogs,
- 7:46Speaker 3: with them great beers, with them sung if we got
- 7:49Speaker 3: to get off the van with my little just a
- 7:51Speaker 3: little bit, I like my little just let the little
- 7:52Speaker 3: great come on out. Women like, yeah, now I got
- 7:56Speaker 3: the little gray coming out or whatever. But I took
- 7:58Speaker 3: an eyeliner that the little mascaron and kind of breast
- 8:02Speaker 3: over this part or whatever. But you got to make
- 8:04Speaker 3: sure you got a nice blend. Like I'm young, but
- 8:07Speaker 3: the great shows the wisdom. You know what I'm saying.
- 8:10Speaker 3: You do that and you take your two honey packs
- 8:12Speaker 3: and have them sticking out of your pocket, still clapping
- 8:17Speaker 3: them cheeks, Clap them cheeks.
- 8:23Speaker 4: That shorty low hit too, man when you came out, Man,
- 8:27Speaker 4: why you wanted to use that song?
- 8:28Speaker 1: And called a special foolish?
- 8:30Speaker 3: My producer my morning show. We did a live broadcast somewhere,
- 8:33Speaker 3: and she said, I was all over the place because
- 8:35Speaker 3: you know, I go find winos and crackheads and put
- 8:38Speaker 3: them on stage and let them sing, and I let
- 8:40Speaker 3: people people get it out. You know what I'm saying,
- 8:43Speaker 3: Like I put them on. I got a surprise for
- 8:45Speaker 3: you later on. No, I got surprised you wrong. I
- 8:48Speaker 3: got a surprise you.
- 8:49Speaker 1: You're a good dude.
- 8:50Speaker 3: I got something you that's gonna bless your life. You too,
- 8:54Speaker 3: just I got something you. Just stay with me.
- 8:57Speaker 1: We right here.
- 8:59Speaker 3: I got something for y'all. Last is morninga y'all comedian.
- 9:01Speaker 3: This is gonna bless your life. Oh no, no, you
- 9:06Speaker 3: you you got a whole lot of counting you and
- 9:08Speaker 3: down there rollins, y'all be cracking me. Up or whatever. Yeah,
- 9:11Speaker 3: you got you in you in the comedy family. So
- 9:13Speaker 3: yeah you you wander We need to plague them. Yeah yeah,
- 9:16Speaker 3: yeah he's gonna get.
- 9:18Speaker 1: I want to ask about butterfly.
- 9:20Speaker 2: You still have butterflies when you when you perform on Stade.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Hell yeah, you do it so much. Man, if you're
- 9:24Speaker 3: not about the if you don't have a bubble in
- 9:26Speaker 3: your you're about to fart, like you, Brian, you got
- 9:28Speaker 3: passing gas, you know, just you ever you ever farted
- 9:32Speaker 3: like headed to the microphone.
- 9:33Speaker 6: I'm talking about like told taking ship like right before,
- 9:37Speaker 6: like twenty seconds before you got going.
- 9:39Speaker 3: You feel it right at the tip.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Like he's done that here? How about that?
- 9:42Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah yeah. Jess and Mike Jesson, Mike Epps
- 9:44Speaker 3: don't care. They'll blow up anybody's bathroom. What Mike Epps
- 9:48Speaker 3: took a ship one time, Michael Mike Epps started on
- 9:52Speaker 3: the set of Friday After Next and we had to
- 9:54Speaker 3: stop taking no. Yeah, it was in the little house
- 9:57Speaker 3: where we were doing the scene with the Mike Epps
- 10:02Speaker 3: let one go that day they said we got to
- 10:06Speaker 3: take a break. It wasn't enough, It wasn't it wasn't enough.
- 10:10Speaker 3: Spray it wasn't it was something in there. I don't
- 10:12Speaker 3: know when Mike Epps eight, but him and just they
- 10:14Speaker 3: don't care. They didn't blow they blow up bathroom. I
- 10:18Speaker 3: got sick.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I was so nervous.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Uh oh, Donnelle Rodinds low down ass Oh, I don't
- 10:25Speaker 3: know if you did that show when when the Martin
- 10:27Speaker 3: Lawrence tour was in Atlanta, I don't know if you.
- 10:30Speaker 3: I think it was beat some on.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:32Speaker 3: So COVID had just came out. Donnelle Rollins goes on
- 10:35Speaker 3: stage and man, he started doing this stuf. He took
- 10:37Speaker 3: the hand sanitizer on stage and and you know that
- 10:40Speaker 3: was when COVID first started, because two weeks after that
- 10:43Speaker 3: they canceled all the shows tour because COVID had got
- 10:46Speaker 3: dangerous and he had the hand sanitizer and he was
- 10:48Speaker 3: pumping the skin of hand sanitizer everywhere on stage. The
- 10:52Speaker 3: freaking audience was going crazy on on side of saying yeah,
- 10:55Speaker 3: not realizing that I was next. Yeah, my roma say hey,
- 11:01Speaker 3: Rick you next. You need to get your ship together
- 11:03Speaker 3: because look what he doing. Man, he did a twenty
- 11:05Speaker 3: six thousand standing ovation, hovering many people that are rented
- 11:11Speaker 3: twelve twenty thousand whatever. The state farm a rented a.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Full house, got a stand out vision.
- 11:19Speaker 3: No, no, we ain't gonna do that. We ain't gonna
- 11:22Speaker 3: do that.
- 11:22Speaker 1: You gonna do that?
- 11:23Speaker 3: That's my guy.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I got. She get mad though, gets mad. I have
- 11:32Speaker 1: a standing over.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Oh you should have been there.
- 11:33Speaker 1: I got funny.
- 11:35Speaker 3: Yeah, tell Benja Brown to send you the video. Benji
- 11:37Speaker 3: Brown got it on tape the video. Yeah, shut out
- 11:40Speaker 3: to benjam Brown. So I was next. So I have
- 11:42Speaker 3: a playbook Charlemagne. So I have acts one through nine.
- 11:46Speaker 3: So it's not different jokes, but it's the order that
- 11:48Speaker 3: I do. The joke depend on what happens before I
- 11:50Speaker 3: go on state. You know what I'm saying, I watched
- 11:52Speaker 3: Nick Saban's speech before I perform. Oh okay, you watching
- 11:57Speaker 3: Nick Saban or coach Prime speech, you can you can
- 12:00Speaker 3: transformed that into comedy in order to get motivated. I'm
- 12:04Speaker 3: not lying that football.
- 12:05Speaker 1: So what had Nick Saban a Prime said that you
- 12:07Speaker 1: actually what your mind that you remember that.
- 12:09Speaker 3: You go out there like he always talk about winning
- 12:12Speaker 3: and being your best and just it just builds you
- 12:14Speaker 3: up to where you need to be to do whatever
- 12:16Speaker 3: it is that you need to do. Even though we're
- 12:18Speaker 3: not playing football. So here Downielle Rollins on stage, and
- 12:22Speaker 3: you got all of the bloggers on the first two rolls,
- 12:24Speaker 3: all the celebrities on the first two rolls. And if
- 12:27Speaker 3: you have a bad show in Atlanta, es, you can
- 12:32Speaker 3: kiss comedy period. Let's just kiss and say goodbye. Your
- 12:37Speaker 3: career is Oh, you're finna be in all the blogs
- 12:39Speaker 3: that they walk out on you. You're about to be
- 12:41Speaker 3: in the blogs. And he got a standingnovation and I
- 12:43Speaker 3: had to come with it. And I went on stage
- 12:46Speaker 3: and I put that work in and got a standing
- 12:47Speaker 3: innovation behind him.
- 12:49Speaker 4: And I saw the blog I saw when they wrote
- 12:51Speaker 4: about you getting the standing ovation in Atlanta, they ain't
- 12:53Speaker 4: mentioned don Eldo.
- 12:54Speaker 1: They did.
- 12:57Speaker 3: Now you're gonna have Now you're gonna have him showing
- 13:00Speaker 3: up at my show, standing up in the aisle, and
- 13:02Speaker 3: then it's gonna be a Donnell Rodinson Ricky smile instead
- 13:05Speaker 3: of done. Hey Donelle, Donelle, you know you my boy.
- 13:10Speaker 3: I'm I'm giving you props. Kick Charlemagne's ass, not mine.
- 13:15Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:16Speaker 3: So so and I went backstage and I was throwing
- 13:18Speaker 3: up and shitty yeah at the same thing, because there
- 13:22Speaker 3: was pressure. You can't get no standing ovation. Your career
- 13:26Speaker 3: is over everything you work for. If you don't have
- 13:28Speaker 3: a good show in Atlanta. Atlanta, you look at every
- 13:31Speaker 3: show like that, like you have to get that off. No,
- 13:34Speaker 3: that particular city. And Donnelle Rollins had did this COVID
- 13:39Speaker 3: joke that up that shot the crowd, and it was
- 13:43Speaker 3: so freaking funny. I don't even think he.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Rolle the.
- 13:48Speaker 3: He was like right, just yeah, and he did the
- 13:52Speaker 3: joke off the top of his head and he was
- 13:54Speaker 3: just in priv And that wasn't no written joke because
- 13:57Speaker 3: you can't. The joke was not developed right because COVID
- 14:01Speaker 3: that just came out, so it's fresh. So you off
- 14:04Speaker 3: the top of his head, he's ripping that. I'm seeing
- 14:06Speaker 3: drug dealers, nigga niggas with necklaces on, falling all on
- 14:09Speaker 3: the floor, crying, people getting up, slapping each other. You
- 14:13Speaker 3: ain't seeing that's in depth jam, not that kind of
- 14:16Speaker 3: each other. Yeah, black people got to be air. Yeah yeah.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Doing the special in Birmingham make you too comfortable?
- 14:25Speaker 3: Nah, okay, no, because I didn't even realize where I was.
- 14:29Speaker 3: Uh you know, you know you in Birmingham, but you
- 14:31Speaker 3: playing to the cameras. I'm playing to a national audience,
- 14:34Speaker 3: like y'all sit here and do this show. Yeah, you
- 14:36Speaker 3: see one hundred and twenty fifth Street, but you also
- 14:38Speaker 3: see Highway to eighty on Birmingham in ninety five in Miami.
- 14:42Speaker 3: When you on radio, you you see Baltimore. You see
- 14:46Speaker 3: see people driving.
- 14:47Speaker 1: On the toll way.
- 14:51Speaker 3: Absolutely so yeah, you you playing to the cameras you got,
- 14:54Speaker 3: you feel like you got something to prove because you
- 14:56Speaker 3: haven't done one in a while. So and then we
- 14:59Speaker 3: took about forty minutes off of it. I produced it.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Yeah, so you say at the beginning, he was like,
- 15:03Speaker 4: I'm about to be up here for two hours. At
- 15:06Speaker 4: the beginning of the specially use I'm I'm gonna be
- 15:08Speaker 4: up here for two hours.
- 15:09Speaker 3: I got it all out. You know, I usually be
- 15:11Speaker 3: trying to save jokes for the road.
- 15:12Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Man, I was like to hear it that, I'll figure
- 15:14Speaker 3: that other part out. Let me just give it all.
- 15:16Speaker 3: So I laid it all on the table.
- 15:18Speaker 1: That editing process got to be stressful, man. To cut
- 15:20Speaker 1: it down to an hour, Ye got a whole hour. Yeah.
- 15:22Speaker 3: It was a lot of stuff in there, a lot
- 15:24Speaker 3: of good stuff. I could take the leftover stuff that
- 15:27Speaker 3: I didn't use and do a whole nother thirty minute specially. Yeah,
- 15:30Speaker 3: I could, would you do that? Well, what we'll probably
- 15:34Speaker 3: do is just take some I get some advice from y'all,
- 15:36Speaker 3: because y'all good with stuff like that. I'll probably take
- 15:38Speaker 3: some of those clips and lick them on the internet
- 15:41Speaker 3: or whatever. But I owned the license and I take it,
- 15:44Speaker 3: and I walked it over to Hulu. Kevin Hard was,
- 15:48Speaker 3: you know, negotiating with him, and then Netflix said we
- 15:51Speaker 3: like it. We'll give you a date for twenty twenty
- 15:54Speaker 3: six because they already have comedians comedians lined up, and
- 15:58Speaker 3: Hulu said we'll take it now. And then I thought
- 16:00Speaker 3: that was cool because Bill Burr and then Roy Wood
- 16:03Speaker 3: Junior did their you know, roy Wood and we come
- 16:05Speaker 3: from the same station. We come from both come from Birmingham.
- 16:08Speaker 3: And I was like, well, that's a nice fit. They
- 16:10Speaker 3: doing comedy now. So they took it and here we are.
- 16:15Speaker 2: What's success to you when it comes to that type
- 16:17Speaker 2: of special or just getting it out?
- 16:19Speaker 3: Is that just making sure that it's special. That's the thing.
- 16:24Speaker 3: They called them specials. But the question becomes, you want
- 16:27Speaker 3: it to be special. You wanted to be one that
- 16:30Speaker 3: you and your mom gonna pull out on Thanksgiving like
- 16:33Speaker 3: like this special right here. I believe that they're going
- 16:35Speaker 3: to pull it out every Thanksgiving and every Christmas. We're
- 16:38Speaker 3: going to sit down and watch the special. Not a
- 16:40Speaker 3: lot of cussing, maybe one of two cuss words. You
- 16:42Speaker 3: can watch it with your kids. They can get by
- 16:44Speaker 3: that one or two cuss words that I use. And
- 16:49Speaker 3: you know, every Thanksgiving and Christmas, that's gonna be something
- 16:51Speaker 3: that people will watch, just like they watched Little Darryl
- 16:53Speaker 3: and How You do that there with the Basic Good Charlemagne.
- 16:56Speaker 3: I had that in there. We had to edit it
- 16:58Speaker 3: out because I couldn't get ten percent, so we'm own
- 17:01Speaker 3: ten percent of that song. We could not find them
- 17:04Speaker 3: to pay him wowow or whatever. But the Thanksgiving in
- 17:07Speaker 3: the Christmas part of it is my favorite. Tommy Davison
- 17:11Speaker 3: facetiming yesterday, still laughing at one joke about the midget,
- 17:16Speaker 3: and it just wiped him out. He went from we
- 17:21Speaker 3: was at the Mbrov in Hollywood. Tommy Davison went from
- 17:24Speaker 3: table to table repeating this joke while he was still
- 17:27Speaker 3: showing on the screen. He wouldn't sit his ass down,
- 17:30Speaker 3: and he was going from table to table just repeating
- 17:33Speaker 3: a joke and I just sat back to Tommy.
- 17:36Speaker 1: It's a lot of funny shit. I like, she call herself,
- 17:39Speaker 1: try and push it. That is so true every uncle.
- 17:49Speaker 3: Yeahl mamas don't play that. No white people say, oh
- 17:52Speaker 3: my god, my daughter's gay.
- 17:55Speaker 1: You know the black Mama's where Brianna?
- 17:57Speaker 3: She's not calling herself liking pussing.
- 18:02Speaker 1: That's how today ship though. So that's when you find
- 18:04Speaker 1: out about that.
- 18:07Speaker 3: All people missing because nobody asked you.
- 18:10Speaker 1: We asked where it is. Why does she have to
- 18:14Speaker 1: say them?
- 18:14Speaker 3: Why can't you just say she's in the back room.
- 18:16Speaker 3: Back then he's calling herself like yeah, Now that was
- 18:23Speaker 3: the moment they hit the floor.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Yes, that was funny.
- 18:26Speaker 5: Man.
- 18:26Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you something about Hulu.
- 18:28Speaker 4: Do you think the screaming platforms are changing the landscape
- 18:31Speaker 4: and stand up comedians?
- 18:33Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I don't. I don't know a lot about it.
- 18:36Speaker 3: I'm still learning as I go because my you know,
- 18:38Speaker 3: my agent, they have to kind of sit me down
- 18:40Speaker 3: and explain to me how this stuff works because you
- 18:42Speaker 3: think you shoot especially Okay, let's run it over to
- 18:44Speaker 3: bet because that's what I'm used to, That's what I
- 18:46Speaker 3: always done. I always done my comedy specialist on BT.
- 18:49Speaker 3: Shout out to BT for giving me my start. H
- 18:52Speaker 3: I'm excited about doing the UH Comic View Reunion in
- 18:57Speaker 3: LA with Chris Spencer, who did not show up to
- 19:01Speaker 3: my premiere. I talked to him on the phone all
- 19:03Speaker 3: day and my friend was Buddy Lewis riding around LA
- 19:07Speaker 3: with that.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Say Mark with me this weekend.
- 19:10Speaker 3: The last week his ass was into LA talking about
- 19:12Speaker 3: him and Buddy Lewis riding around Loney Love came your
- 19:16Speaker 3: shade on Christmas. You know he's the mayor of l
- 19:18Speaker 3: A absolutely much respect. I'm just throwing shade in it
- 19:21Speaker 3: because he's like my brother. And I never do anything
- 19:24Speaker 3: without talking to Chris Spencer. I get on his nerves,
- 19:26Speaker 3: he get on my nerves. But if I have an
- 19:29Speaker 3: idea about doing something, I never made a movie about
- 19:31Speaker 3: picking up the phone calling Christmins why Christ.
- 19:34Speaker 1: He just gives you a good direction.
- 19:35Speaker 3: He's just a good dude man. He's just a good
- 19:37Speaker 3: dude man. He ain't gonna screw you over, he ain't
- 19:40Speaker 3: gonna talk about you behind your back. He gonna always
- 19:42Speaker 3: give you the best advice man. And he's genuine. And
- 19:45Speaker 3: then he ain't gonna be on the phone with you
- 19:47Speaker 3: all day. You're gonna say we he got to say,
- 19:48Speaker 3: get his ass off the phone, and uh, and that's that.
- 19:51Speaker 3: I just really respect him, and I respect how other comedians,
- 19:54Speaker 3: and I respect him on stage, you know, Chris as
- 19:57Speaker 3: funny as him, but he didn't show up the mind,
- 20:00Speaker 3: you know how like when your dad is operating exercising
- 20:04Speaker 3: his visitation rights and you're on the porch and you
- 20:07Speaker 3: care about you know, all your cousins that y'all having
- 20:09Speaker 3: the fair reunion, but your your dad didn't come, and
- 20:12Speaker 3: then that that music come on. I was standing in
- 20:17Speaker 3: front of the Hollywood Improv and I hope when y'all shoot,
- 20:20Speaker 3: y'all do a split screen with Chris Spencer, and uh,
- 20:25Speaker 3: it was heard for just that thing. I bring it
- 20:27Speaker 3: up the therapy, but I got something for y'all.
- 20:30Speaker 9: Do you.
- 20:33Speaker 6: Do you ever feel like you have to reinvent yourself
- 20:35Speaker 6: with a new generation.
- 20:38Speaker 9: I did.
- 20:38Speaker 3: I did at one point, but I stopped doing that.
- 20:41Speaker 3: I just started feeling like I have a fan base.
- 20:44Speaker 3: I have an audience that loved me and love what
- 20:46Speaker 3: I do. And y'all don't ever forget this. Stick to
- 20:49Speaker 3: what you do. You don't have to fit in with
- 20:52Speaker 3: certain crowds and certain cultures and certain organizations. You don't
- 20:56Speaker 3: have to fit in. Do what you do. Why did
- 20:58Speaker 3: the people? Why do people come you? I don't care
- 21:01Speaker 3: who's funny and how funny they are. You might not
- 21:04Speaker 3: be as funny, do you. You know, God got you,
- 21:08Speaker 3: brought you here for a reason. God, like these last
- 21:10Speaker 3: two years have been the toughest two years of my life.
- 21:14Speaker 3: I wrote my son's name and birthday on the wrist
- 21:17Speaker 3: of my arm before I went on stage, because my
- 21:19Speaker 3: son was a comedian, you know, and my son is
- 21:21Speaker 3: on the special. So after I say good night or whatever,
- 21:25Speaker 3: in the credits roll and you gonna see a clip
- 21:27Speaker 3: of me and me and Brandon on stage and Brandon's
- 21:29Speaker 3: standing there performing he you know, it shows about five
- 21:32Speaker 3: minutes of his performance, you know, split screen with the
- 21:35Speaker 3: credits on the other side. So what a great way
- 21:37Speaker 3: to honor your son, you know, with us on stage
- 21:41Speaker 3: together like we was. I had him on stage when
- 21:43Speaker 3: he was seven years old, telling them Joes, and so
- 21:45Speaker 3: I would take him on tour, have toys in the
- 21:48Speaker 3: dressing room or whatever. I raised all my kids in
- 21:50Speaker 3: the they can tell you what every dressing room look like.
- 21:52Speaker 3: So it was a blessing to do that.
- 21:55Speaker 4: Yeah, and you always spoke about feeling brand in his
- 21:58Speaker 4: presence during performances.
- 22:00Speaker 1: So how does that spiritual connection your manifest on stage
- 22:03Speaker 1: for you?
- 22:04Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it's almost like you're doing it for him,
- 22:07Speaker 3: you know, you know, you're doing it for your son, now,
- 22:10Speaker 3: my son or whatever. He had his favorite comedians, you know,
- 22:13Speaker 3: you know, you know, your kids always want to grow
- 22:15Speaker 3: up try to be different from you. I don't want
- 22:17Speaker 3: to be like you. My son loved Eddie Griffin. My
- 22:20Speaker 3: son loved roy Wood Junior and stuff, and uh you know, uh,
- 22:24Speaker 3: he just had the different comedians that he liked or whatever.
- 22:27Speaker 1: You know.
- 22:28Speaker 3: So, uh, he had a whole different style of doing comedy.
- 22:33Speaker 3: His comedy was more yeah, kind of like thoughtful, a
- 22:35Speaker 3: mix between roy Wood Junior and Little Real. Yeah, you
- 22:40Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. That was that was his host.
- 22:42Speaker 3: He had a lot more He was a lot more intelligent.
- 22:44Speaker 4: So did the older comedians.
- 22:46Speaker 3: He just yeah, yeah he knew, but he just had
- 22:49Speaker 3: his had his own style you know, of performing whatever.
- 22:54Speaker 3: I enjoyed him. I miss him, But these last two
- 22:56Speaker 3: years was really really tough and uh uh, now I'm
- 23:00Speaker 3: at home being a dad. You got to meet my twins. Yeah,
- 23:03Speaker 3: they're a lot of fun. I got some real daddy's girls.
- 23:06Speaker 3: And God, just that was a blessing to my life.
- 23:10Speaker 3: And I thank God gave me those twins as a
- 23:12Speaker 3: distraction to my grief because I felt like I was dying.
- 23:16Speaker 3: I felt like I was dying in science. Yeah, I
- 23:18Speaker 3: felt like I feel like one of these mornings I
- 23:21Speaker 3: was not gonna wake up. That's how bad it is.
- 23:23Speaker 3: That's how hurt fun. You have a beautiful family, your babies, man,
- 23:28Speaker 3: And I don't wish that on nobody. I don't wish
- 23:31Speaker 3: that on my worst enemy. It's horrible, you know. So
- 23:34Speaker 3: shout out to all the mothers, all the parents out
- 23:36Speaker 3: there that had to bury your child and lost chime.
- 23:39Speaker 3: Keep your kids in sports, keep them in athletics. The
- 23:42Speaker 3: discipline and the structure matter. We got to learn to
- 23:44Speaker 3: give kids more of what we had as opposed to
- 23:47Speaker 3: what we did not have. That's what's ruining kids. If
- 23:51Speaker 3: you like who you are, then give the kids what
- 23:53Speaker 3: you had. You know what I'm saying. And I just
- 23:57Speaker 3: wish everybody the best, and I hope all of y'all kids,
- 24:00Speaker 3: it's a safe graduate college and going to be productive people.
- 24:04Speaker 4: I agree with all of that, but I will say
- 24:06Speaker 4: some of these kids need a little bit more than
- 24:08Speaker 4: going to the water fountain.
- 24:09Speaker 1: If you're dealing with.
- 24:16Speaker 4: Are you dealing with some type of like mental health
- 24:19Speaker 4: issues or emotion, you didn't need more than the water fountain, Ricky.
- 24:22Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 24:22Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't have medicine for eighty HD. It was going.
- 24:25Speaker 3: It was going to the water fountain. You know what
- 24:27Speaker 3: I'm saying. Send me in a classroom with those lights
- 24:30Speaker 3: like that going all the way across or whatever. That's
- 24:33Speaker 3: back before you started changing classes. He was in one,
- 24:36Speaker 3: you remember that elementary schooling.
- 24:38Speaker 1: I don't even know if they got that them wondered
- 24:40Speaker 1: they still got the trailers in the back No stop
- 24:42Speaker 1: trailing stop was one of those classes. Methic glassl to
- 24:48Speaker 1: stand that out.
- 24:49Speaker 3: Second.
- 24:50Speaker 2: He was on that show bus two for a second.
- 24:53Speaker 1: I don't know if they still got the short bus do.
- 24:55Speaker 1: I don't see him no more.
- 24:56Speaker 3: They put them on the bus with the regular kids
- 24:58Speaker 3: and now and know back then they go to lunch
- 25:01Speaker 3: at nine thirty. Yeah, yeah, they'renna lunch at nine thirty
- 25:05Speaker 3: comes they get out of twelve and uh I had
- 25:08Speaker 3: history class first period, and I could hit them running
- 25:10Speaker 3: down the street. I mean not down the street, running
- 25:12Speaker 3: down the hall at nine thirty when that little Now
- 25:14Speaker 3: that would be a short bell like dream Dream or whatever,
- 25:17Speaker 3: not a long bell like bring Brandon. You can hear
- 25:20Speaker 3: them because of the the It was like clicking the
- 25:23Speaker 3: noise of that, you know. Back then they wore the
- 25:25Speaker 3: shoes with the you know, with the steel on the
- 25:28Speaker 3: side or whatever.
- 25:29Speaker 1: And then all of them, not all, some of them,
- 25:31Speaker 1: and some.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Of them were run real fast or whatever. And I
- 25:33Speaker 3: would sit there and just crack the hell up. Lunch lunch, lunch,
- 25:39Speaker 3: running down the hall or whatever. You're going to hell,
- 25:46Speaker 3: but want we want to brain love that it's we're
- 25:50Speaker 3: going together on the show. Yeah we all we are
- 25:52Speaker 3: all going to hell and us it's time for us
- 25:55Speaker 3: to brain. And just I bought you a gift man,
- 25:58Speaker 3: Where is the gifts that right coming behind the couch?
- 26:02Speaker 1: About this is about that?
- 26:04Speaker 3: You got the music writing? Here you go hit the
- 26:06Speaker 3: music music.
- 26:26Speaker 1: There you go crazy, y'all crazy?
- 26:30Speaker 5: Give him a little dad, Hey dude, move out the way,
- 26:40Speaker 5: go ahead, Chris, you know, just love.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Of Chris now.
- 26:46Speaker 5: Yes, his name, Chris, Chris, don't give too much, Chris,
- 26:52Speaker 5: don't let up.
- 26:53Speaker 1: You ask for consent first.
- 26:54Speaker 5: Now he's going down like Chris, I don't know.
- 27:03Speaker 1: Sharlow Man next, Charla Man you next? Oh, y'all want
- 27:10Speaker 1: he said, I don't do niggas.
- 27:11Speaker 3: I don't.
- 27:12Speaker 1: I don't do man.
- 27:14Speaker 7: I know that right.
- 27:17Speaker 1: I thought you're going for bones. Dang, he said, dance
- 27:24Speaker 1: Chriss my guy.
- 27:27Speaker 3: Oh you gotta damn. I ain't nothing wrong with him,
- 27:36Speaker 3: ain't none wrong with him, y'all didn't mess up his chick, Chris.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Make sure he pay you now?
- 27:41Speaker 3: He paid you on Chris.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Here, he can talk.
- 27:50Speaker 4: You going, Chris, Chris, did he pay you? I hope
- 27:53Speaker 4: he gave you a down payment now before you got
- 27:54Speaker 4: up here, Chris.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta talk about this man now?
- 28:01Speaker 1: Who is that? I know you? I know you, Joe,
- 28:04Speaker 1: well not you so yes, Charlemagne, and you know and
- 28:10Speaker 1: you know where that is?
- 28:11Speaker 8: Who?
- 28:12Speaker 1: A female rapper?
- 28:17Speaker 3: That's just hilarious. I know.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Do you know him?
- 28:24Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 28:24Speaker 1: I know who that is.
- 28:27Speaker 7: I'm a butter right.
- 28:28Speaker 1: Though, say that, Chris, don't get down.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Watch all he watch y'all every day. We appreciate that. Yeah,
- 28:38Speaker 3: so we had to give you a look. You know,
- 28:40Speaker 3: they have to say it not so much.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Appreciate Christ. Make sure you pay you man.
- 28:49Speaker 7: On how quick? Yeah, I'm said, I got a song
- 28:55Speaker 7: from my brother, right?
- 28:57Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? What is it from my brother?
- 29:00Speaker 3: It?
- 29:00Speaker 1: You can do karaoke hit that country grammar one time.
- 29:04Speaker 1: You ain't never played this song on the radio. You
- 29:06Speaker 1: ain't never asked you to play it? When you ask you,
- 29:10Speaker 1: you do what.
- 29:13Speaker 3: I about to play my ship. I knew it was
- 29:17Speaker 3: gonna make your day. I knew it was gonna make
- 29:19Speaker 3: your day. Can you asking about He asked about you?
- 29:22Speaker 3: Laying about you up here?
- 29:26Speaker 7: My god.
- 29:27Speaker 1: I like your shirt.
- 29:29Speaker 5: I like you.
- 29:29Speaker 3: I like your shirt too.
- 29:30Speaker 1: How long you take the play records?
- 29:33Speaker 3: Man?
- 29:34Speaker 6: So look, did you write it or just off the
- 29:36Speaker 6: top of the head freestyle?
- 29:41Speaker 1: I will yes, sir, okay, little gold we'll tell you.
- 29:50Speaker 7: I'm gonna do it now. My brother mean I raised
- 29:53Speaker 7: you yellow the way he's a little baby. Yeah, I
- 29:58Speaker 7: write your little baby. Well he did, a little brother.
- 30:02Speaker 7: I'll got for you though, to hold for you.
- 30:04Speaker 1: You're gone.
- 30:05Speaker 7: You're going to little brother, he said to me, big brother, Christ,
- 30:10Speaker 7: my family, I love you, my go home.
- 30:13Speaker 1: My good song.
- 30:16Speaker 7: I wanted to something for him.
- 30:17Speaker 3: You know what, if they can't find a song, you
- 30:19Speaker 3: can just say something. You gotta saying that song. You
- 30:23Speaker 3: got to saying something, a good song for my brother.
- 30:27Speaker 1: Okay, how many girlfriend you got?
- 30:30Speaker 7: Chris got one right now?
- 30:32Speaker 1: Just one right now.
- 30:34Speaker 3: He talked about this girl named Kiky. She got with
- 30:36Speaker 3: somebody else though, Ma, you had before everybody called everybody on.
- 30:44Speaker 7: Want my friend to talk?
- 30:45Speaker 1: Yes, sir, her name, what's her name?
- 30:48Speaker 7: Nina?
- 30:49Speaker 1: Nina? Oh ninould talk. I don't know if you should
- 30:54Speaker 1: be shotting her out yet though she might have another man.
- 30:56Speaker 8: You sure my love?
- 31:00Speaker 3: Yet you hit it?
- 31:02Speaker 1: Stop it stop, you went down on.
- 31:06Speaker 7: You said there too.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Quick?
- 31:20Speaker 7: Way back yeah, and the way back to my family
- 31:24Speaker 7: he did it yeah, and the world back. I'm coming
- 31:29Speaker 7: clothes stir don he did it to me stock my
- 31:35Speaker 7: family's Yes.
- 31:36Speaker 1: Talk don't don't mean no joke, no no, no, no
- 31:41Speaker 1: no to talk to show that.
- 31:43Speaker 3: You should have your own comedians going on the road,
- 31:45Speaker 3: and you should hold shows.
- 31:48Speaker 1: To talk all over the country to talk, understand, to talk.
- 31:55Speaker 7: I gotta get back to no white girl out that
- 32:00Speaker 7: good night, don't do the work.
- 32:06Speaker 1: I'm gonna quick black Queens forever. Nobody's never.
- 32:12Speaker 4: Smacking quick.
- 32:17Speaker 1: I a you here, this be Christmas bab but you
- 32:21Speaker 1: man you let's go be. Chris ain't playing found Chris
- 32:26Speaker 1: laying it down? Quite?
- 32:28Speaker 3: Is it you hear me lay that.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Game that Chris, we got you.
- 32:37Speaker 7: I love you, I miss you.
- 32:48Speaker 1: This as a matter that you're a rabbit. Yeah, I
- 32:50Speaker 1: know about you had a video.
- 32:57Speaker 7: Christy playing no never end up, Paul No take big brother, No, No,
- 33:03Speaker 7: I love you, never gonna.
- 33:05Speaker 5: Live miss you.
- 33:06Speaker 7: Never been my half broken my eyes.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Tell look, you don't know miss you, don't love you.
- 33:13Speaker 7: Don't be my brother doing that. I never heard.
- 33:15Speaker 1: I don't know you can't heard.
- 33:17Speaker 7: On no, fellas said, turn a little truth, fella side,
- 33:21Speaker 7: never heard you, never missed you. They're never gonna I
- 33:24Speaker 7: love you, never be gon gonna do that. Let him No, No,
- 33:27Speaker 7: I love you.
- 33:28Speaker 9: You're gonna miss you.
- 33:30Speaker 7: Take me your toe now, brother stands yourn't never hood
- 33:33Speaker 7: on MESI Christ jet him Christy Chris Kim, Chris.
- 33:40Speaker 5: Kim, Christy get lord kidam Chris, Oh God.
- 33:45Speaker 9: Chris, I ain't godam christ gatty christ Chris Strow tell
- 33:53Speaker 9: me Chris, tell you christmagine No.
- 34:04Speaker 3: Tanging in sound.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Expagine you.
- 34:16Speaker 8: Know little hey, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen,
- 34:33Speaker 8: Chris Ricky smiling.
- 34:37Speaker 1: Then some fools and streaming. Start the show, Chris. Tell
- 34:48Speaker 1: him to follow you on social media. Chris, okay, okay,
- 34:53Speaker 1: because I know how to do this. Help him.
- 34:57Speaker 7: Oh my god, finding me age ground YouTube, I describe
- 35:04Speaker 7: me YouTube, Chris Big, Chris Meal, baby, Chris Smith.
- 35:10Speaker 3: Thank you all for.
- 35:13Speaker 1: About Chris. Thank you. It's the breakfast club.
- 35:17Speaker 7: I don't want to turn.
- 35:19Speaker 1: My life. Please tell long ass stories. Now you gotta
- 35:23Speaker 1: go ahead, Chris, do you go do your thing? Chris,
- 35:26Speaker 1: come on, hurry up.
- 35:27Speaker 3: You gotta tell me you don't want to eat, don't you.
- 35:33Speaker 3: That's right, Chris, take the story. Chris, what going on?
- 35:36Speaker 7: No touch out? I'll wear your story was back of
- 35:40Speaker 7: the day man and my brother and now I'm gonna
- 35:44Speaker 7: tell him met him. Yeah you know me, he on
- 35:48Speaker 7: he daddy, I turned out to smell. I'm gonna touch on.
- 35:53Speaker 7: I turned all my favorable clothing to go. Yeah you
- 36:00Speaker 7: so what god is I'm about?
- 36:02Speaker 3: Song? Yeah?
- 36:06Speaker 1: Yeah, my main life.
- 36:09Speaker 7: Well my man, free man, that's man.
- 36:12Speaker 3: Yeah, leave that we got them?
- 36:16Speaker 1: So is that song on streaming?
- 36:18Speaker 9: Services.
- 36:18Speaker 1: It's on uh after right now. Are YouTube go downloaded
- 36:22Speaker 1: on YouTube right now? You don't download on YouTube right now. Listen,
- 36:27Speaker 1: listen there you go, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, my god, Chris.
- 36:31Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris, you're real messy.
- 36:34Speaker 1: And christ it's the Breakfast Club.
- 36:37Speaker 3: And then we'll come back when you're here. Wake that
- 36:40Speaker 3: ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.