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CHRIS SPENCER & SEAN ELLIOTT - Full of Bologna · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest actor, comedian, writer, producer Chris Spencer is in
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  Speaker 1: the building along with his I love that along with
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  Speaker 1: his business partner Sean Elliott from Elliott Brothers presents Comedy
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  Speaker 1: Block Party. I can't forget the comedy block Party. I've
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  Speaker 1: been to them. They're pretty amazing, full of energy. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a family. It literally feels like a block party,
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  Speaker 1: but very fair. You can feel the love in the
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  Speaker 1: It's not like your traditional comedy show, and you feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's all family.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: But tell me what you guys were eating when you
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  Speaker 1: were broke.
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  Speaker 2: To start our famous burnt ballooney sound. I like everything
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  Speaker 2: well done.
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  Speaker 1: I like that Chris isn't burnt because he's cooking for
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  Speaker 1: us today.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's great about this. You get to pick what
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  Speaker 3: you want. Yes, he likes his burnt around the edges.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I like my medium, well.
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  Speaker 1: Medium, well, so the ingredients are what for the.
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  Speaker 3: There's good old American singles. Pick a card and we
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  Speaker 3: got some good old fashioned I always wondered why they
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  Speaker 3: said balloonee and it's really bologna. It's really bologna. And
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  Speaker 3: so we got this. I hope I don't die eating it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I feel.
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  Speaker 3: I never knew what was in it. Here we go chicken,
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  Speaker 3: pork and beef added added to what? So that mean
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  Speaker 3: this was something else? And then they said, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: let's posed to meet in there. This is what we see.
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  Speaker 1: I have a feel and it's just the remains of
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  Speaker 1: whatever animals that were. Nah, you know what, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I don't eat beef, So I'm taking one for team.
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  Speaker 1: I love how you were specific about the wonderbread. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't too sure if they still made it. They
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  Speaker 1: we found it, Yes, And then and then you asked
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  Speaker 1: for dorito and pool aids so you could go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and start. I feel like I'm back.
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  Speaker 3: It's a metrosexual that we wanted to see a pitcher
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  Speaker 3: career and some water and but is it a pound
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  Speaker 3: of sugar? That was the whole fun then, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I guess I'll get started in some capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, get started.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have an electric solve when we were broke.
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  Speaker 1: That okay, So take me back to what air is
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  Speaker 1: the sandwiches.
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  Speaker 3: We grew up aniga with California, and I once saw
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  Speaker 3: a map of LA and it broke down comped in
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  Speaker 3: Long Beach and how everybody situated. And it made me
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  Speaker 3: laugh because it said Inglewood was gang bangers with both parents.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it said on the mountain said gang beggers
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  Speaker 3: were both there. So we grew up in Englewood, which
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  Speaker 3: was segregated by middle class, upper middle class, and then
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  Speaker 3: we had an area called the Bottoms, which was anything
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  Speaker 3: you wanted you could get in the bottoms, from cocaine
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  Speaker 3: to firecrackers. And so we all went to school together.
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  Speaker 3: We all loved each other and didn't love each other,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just how we grew up. So you would
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  Speaker 3: think somebody who lived in what we would call the
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  Speaker 3: avenues where we lived might have been some punks, but no,
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  Speaker 3: because they had to prove something more to the people
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  Speaker 3: who lived in the bottoms, because you'd get tested.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, So is this sandwich air from high school?
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  Speaker 3: This is from high school. You come home, you want
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  Speaker 3: something to eat, right, you want something to eat, and
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  Speaker 3: your mama ain't gonna necessarily make you something to eat.
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  Speaker 3: So this comes from that era when you come home
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  Speaker 3: and then also after you move out of the house
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  Speaker 3: your mamma, you don't you don't have money to necessarily
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  Speaker 3: buy something, so you get something like meat with added
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  Speaker 3: you have you have a material with added meat. Here
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  Speaker 3: we go story to get hot. I'm glad you got butter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. See that's what I see. Sean was saying you
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  Speaker 1: needed oil.
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  Speaker 3: I'm as good.
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  Speaker 2: But butter's funnier because I was still making it maybe
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  Speaker 2: four months ago. I get hungry and go to the
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  Speaker 2: ghost like I'm craving up a lonely sound and go
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  Speaker 2: get it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is it like a comfort meal for you?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Nah? It just bring back some memories. And it was
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  Speaker 2: set up with a cook nine minutes you done?
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  Speaker 3: Did y'all do your butter like this?
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  Speaker 1: I do butter like that. Every day I cook. I
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  Speaker 1: probably go through ten sticks of butter a week.
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  Speaker 3: Unsalty, no salted.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know if your food tastes
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  Speaker 1: really good, it has a lot of butter in it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you go to a restaurant and you're like, dang,
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  Speaker 1: this taste.
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  Speaker 3: Unsalted butter, yes, you might as well put vasseline unsalted.
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  Speaker 3: Love All right, I ain't done this in a whiles.
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  Speaker 3: I do know the bologney was first.
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  Speaker 2: God, this is gonna cut it.
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  Speaker 1: When was the last time you ate this?
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  Speaker 2: What year is this? How old are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm forty.
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  Speaker 2: Where here are you born?
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  Speaker 1: Eighty four?
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  Speaker 3: That's the last time I had eighty four? Eighty four? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's when he graduated high school. All right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: act like I'm being requisite with a knife. Oh my god, usually, Chris, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. I feel like I'm in jail right now.
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  Speaker 3: I to jail, never to jail. But I think this
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  Speaker 3: is what they ate too. Usually what you want this
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  Speaker 3: to get a little hotter, But electrics don't get as
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  Speaker 3: hot as the regular gas though. But I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 3: it in there. I know you said only make two,
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  Speaker 3: so you could only have a little bite because I
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  Speaker 3: know you're a pescatarian or scorpio or something. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make three because it's three of them.
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  Speaker 1: Go for it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't cut the splits in them.
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  Speaker 3: You cut the split when it gets right, when it raises.
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  Speaker 3: Remember you cut yours early. No, the funnest seeing in bubble.
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  Speaker 3: If you cut it now, I ain't gonna bubble. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll steal are we gonna cut yours? What is yours?
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  Speaker 2: Here? You cut it?
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  Speaker 3: It ain't gon bubble, I don't think. Well, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: He oh. On the side, you're making a little tent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's supposed to have a bubble in it, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna make it bubble. So now, but we're
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  Speaker 2: using electric, so it might be different. Then with the
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  Speaker 2: gas we turn this.
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  Speaker 3: Up a little hotter.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are funny.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I'll put some splits in the shop. I
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  Speaker 3: thought you mean split the top or he Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Now you take a cooking advice from Sean.
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  Speaker 3: Sean's older than me.
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  Speaker 2: He give me all the time. You know. He a writer,
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  Speaker 2: so I can say something another way and he'll say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you really meant to say this, but you just changed words.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you got me last.
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  Speaker 3: I said that for last.
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  Speaker 2: Night when I told you you said we're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: use that certain word.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I said, we're gonna do the act. Shant
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  Speaker 3: is a trickster. You'd be like, stop asking me for sugar.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be like, okay, he said. Then they'll say do
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  Speaker 3: you have any sure? So did you just say sugar
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  Speaker 3: and Spanish? That's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: So take me back. You guys were high school friends.
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  Speaker 3: Or elementary elementary just since the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys know you always wanted to get into
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  Speaker 1: entertainment and business?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not, No, this didn't happen until late I started
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  Speaker 3: doing comedy in college. I went to UCLA and it
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  Speaker 3: still does rise. Can we get a zoom?
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  Speaker 1: I guess we used to have the overheads, but.
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  Speaker 2: We removed damn it.
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  Speaker 3: Neil took it. I started doing comedy in college, and
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  Speaker 3: so it was after college did I started doing traveling,
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  Speaker 3: acting movies, directing, producing a couple of comedies and then
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  Speaker 3: and Sean and Derek would always come to my shows.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we followed him. Seany was taking it from here
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  Speaker 2: because as we followed him from Usel followed him from
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  Speaker 2: UCLA to everywhere he went. When he was hanging Jacoline Sundays,
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  Speaker 2: when he was hanging with the WANs, we would go
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  Speaker 2: to their house and play basketball with him. We was everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Chris was everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Now was that as just you guys just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: show him that you supported him? Or why were you guy?
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  Speaker 2: We was brothers from the beginning. We grew up on
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  Speaker 2: the same street in Inglewood, And when Chris moved to
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  Speaker 2: win in eighty three, my mom still took us to
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  Speaker 2: his house every weekend in SOUTHLK in Pasadena.
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  Speaker 3: Y'alldn't used to drive, Nope, not at that time.
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  Speaker 2: I remember. And then my cousin Melinda, she started taking
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  Speaker 2: us over chris house because she had a crust on
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  Speaker 2: Chris and I wanted our friends. My cousin Melnda that
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  Speaker 2: had the blue.
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  Speaker 1: Camer you why are you actually you just found this
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  Speaker 1: out right now?
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  Speaker 3: She had a crush. I would have did it to her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so she started driving us from Pasadena.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you had no idea this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know Melanda is. I can't remember Melinda
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  Speaker 3: she got she.
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  Speaker 2: Was older than us. No, it was Melinda, but she
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  Speaker 2: grew up on one hundred and six off of Western.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: It was her dad was seeing me, the skinny dude
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  Speaker 2: that used to be over there with my dad, the
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  Speaker 2: tall skinny one.
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  Speaker 3: They had the best house because their family would cook
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  Speaker 3: every weekend, and there'd be so many cousins and uncles
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  Speaker 3: and I would kiss all his cousins.
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  Speaker 2: It was great. And Chris would go to San Digga
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  Speaker 2: with us every time we went. Yeah to my mom said.
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  Speaker 3: It was always fun. I'd have any brothers him, Derek
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  Speaker 3: and as a younger brother. Junior actually was the impetus
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  Speaker 3: for Comedy Black Party, which shining to get into later
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  Speaker 3: got turned over.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, they would have spat right there. Oh so
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  Speaker 2: growing up on the same street in Inglewood, we just
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  Speaker 2: immediately clicked. We was brothers, you know, and then came
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  Speaker 2: about our sister. My sister young.
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  Speaker 3: But I had no brothers. So whatever they did, boy,
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  Speaker 3: I was down there doing you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I love how you guys all stayed
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  Speaker 1: together through the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're talking over forty. I'm fifty seven, you
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  Speaker 3: fifty nine, fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. So you're doing Comedy Brothers.
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  Speaker 3: One stand up and then his brother passed away, and
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  Speaker 3: then we wanted to do it wasn't a benefit, but
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  Speaker 3: something in commemoration of Junior's death. And then that's when
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  Speaker 3: Sean and Derek came up with Comedy Black Party.
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  Speaker 2: How it really came up with comedy block party.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, let's get a twenty second time. Usually I put
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  Speaker 3: the cheese on now right, no flip it over. You
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  Speaker 3: have done some more Oh that's yours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sean wants he wants black and blow it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not doing you accurse. You got to wait till
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  Speaker 2: that middle start beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, I'm not broken anymore. It does smell good, right,
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  Speaker 3: it does.
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  Speaker 2: It does, but us so it's about two more minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be great.
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  Speaker 3: And then are we gonna make it like we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make it an oppresses what they call it now?
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  Speaker 2: But no, you just put the cheese on the bread.
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  Speaker 1: You wait, We're not gonna put it in the.
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  Speaker 2: You put the cheese on the bread.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm trusting y'all. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you. I'm trusting them too. No, because it
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  Speaker 2: is stick. The cheese is stick to the skillet, so
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  Speaker 2: you don't need that. Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Good, But I'm talking about don't you toast the bread?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one looks.
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  Speaker 2: That one is good. That that one looks. That's how
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  Speaker 2: I supposed to look, dude.
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  Speaker 3: So I can put this on your on my.
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  Speaker 2: Bread yep, and then give them a slice of cheese
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  Speaker 2: yepos and then that's.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna milk anyway, right yep?
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  Speaker 2: Bam.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that and it looks like tank camera
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  Speaker 3: like shine yep, okay, man, can have your plate. Look
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  Speaker 3: it up. This actually smells really good.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't make you want to go home and have one.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think about it when you get home on the
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  Speaker 2: late night.
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  Speaker 3: This is quick and it's feeling there. We go bamn nice.
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  Speaker 1: So wait, we're not going to toast the bread.
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  Speaker 3: At all, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: But that's your personal that's your person.
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  Speaker 3: But I could put that on there and press it
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  Speaker 3: and make it like that's what I used to do.
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  Speaker 3: Mine would be like a grilled cheese. You want the
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  Speaker 3: cold white bread?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, mine is good right here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah okay, so me and you, yeah, we're on the
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  Speaker 1: same page.
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  Speaker 2: So how I came up with comedy block party was
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  Speaker 2: Chris was hosting and we didn't to carry names and
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  Speaker 2: inside jokes.
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  Speaker 3: Chris, that's the first place inside Joe before the comedy yeh.
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  Speaker 2: At the Chinese Theater, we were like, okay, after each
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  Speaker 2: show we started doing a party. VI I p upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, man, were giving comedy and we're having
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  Speaker 2: a party. That's what comedy block party came from. Ever
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  Speaker 2: since those parties at the Chinese Theater and we would
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  Speaker 2: do the birthday cakes, everybody start going to party with
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  Speaker 2: us come through the show every show, every show.
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  Speaker 1: And thinking I was like, man, is it every time
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  Speaker 1: I show up that you guys do a birthday.
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  Speaker 3: Cake every every and we used to do a birthday dance,
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  Speaker 3: but now we have so many people on stage it
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  Speaker 3: would take too long. Like before when we were at
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  Speaker 3: the Comedy un and the Chinese Theater, six stay birthdays.
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  Speaker 3: Now it'd be fifteen to twenty people. Our cake used
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  Speaker 3: to be this big. Now it's this whole thing right now.
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  Speaker 1: I saw It's like a yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. So you started at the theater. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how are you guys covering the expenses on all of
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  Speaker 1: that anymore?
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  Speaker 3: No, we have sponsors, shout out a couple of sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: Our sponsors are fifty one twenty entertained.
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  Speaker 3: How you get more money kids?
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  Speaker 2: We have fifty one twenty entertainer K Meets Inc. We
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  Speaker 2: have the Roilroad Group, we have Morris Trucking, the Diamond Bank,
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  Speaker 2: kW Productions, Raw Development, Progressive Parents on the purday.
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  Speaker 1: You remember this is.
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  Speaker 2: They are important vehicle to us moving to different spaces
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  Speaker 2: of where we need to go.
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  Speaker 3: You said, what about jewelers, Diamond Bank, that's Diamond Bank.
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  Speaker 2: So if any of you guys need some jeurery from Valentine's,
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  Speaker 2: they come up Chris Capri at the Diamond Bank downtown
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  Speaker 2: on Hill Street.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you this as a just a snippets
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  Speaker 1: on the show them, all right, So you're doing that,
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  Speaker 1: you're producing these shows on the regular. You have notable guests.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tell them some of the notable guests we have had.
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  Speaker 2: So we had the privilege to partner up with Live
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  Speaker 2: Nation Urban and brought BT Weekend with Live Nation Urban
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  Speaker 2: to the Miracle Theater in Inglewood. We had Michael Blaxing.
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  Speaker 3: You want the toast.
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  Speaker 1: Darker than you or you like it like darker than me.
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  Speaker 2: So we have Michael Blaxing, d Ray, Corey Holcombe, Tiffany Hatters,
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  Speaker 2: Justine Valentine. It was so many people.
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  Speaker 3: Earthquake, CPS, Camacho.
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  Speaker 2: James mcquarie, yes, everybody, name Lynn, Buddy Lewis. It was
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  Speaker 2: so many people.
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  Speaker 3: Corey holcome, you guys do this and any like this
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  Speaker 3: weekend or not knowing when this comes out. We have
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  Speaker 3: Dunnell Rollins. Last month we had Cole. We have Tiffany
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  Speaker 3: Hattish as a regular. What we did what we've done
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  Speaker 3: is brought Bill Bellamy, We brought Hollywood to Inglewood. And
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to your point where you're
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  Speaker 3: saying it feels like a family everybody, and let me
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  Speaker 3: see not everybody. So if we hold four hundred people,
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  Speaker 3: a hundred of them went to school with us or
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  Speaker 3: or some kind of way our one degree of separation.
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  Speaker 3: So when we say it's a block, it's like a
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  Speaker 3: family block party. And we always and there's always somebody
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  Speaker 3: we haven't seen it. We thought they were dead or
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: in jail. It'd be like yo when you get out.
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  Speaker 3: And so every time listen, literally I see people from
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  Speaker 3: second grade, third grade, who I was a cup scout with,
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  Speaker 3: who I played at the YMCA with, Darby park Rogers
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  Speaker 3: Parkers from Lawood and every week and then when we
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: come on stage, so unlike most comedy shows, you can't
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  Speaker 3: really touch the comedians. We're a family environment. Everybody in
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  Speaker 3: there loves each other. Half of them are packing, so
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  Speaker 3: nothing's gonna happen. So so after the show, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times people come on stage and people have come
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  Speaker 3: up and hug me. It'll be like my seventh grade teacher,
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  Speaker 3: It'll be the pee coach it's really a family environment.
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  Speaker 2: He made a real cheese maloney sounds like, that's all making.
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  Speaker 1: Sure this sandwich looks like, Yeah, that one looks the
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  Speaker 1: right color.
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  Speaker 2: Colleen, that is a real cheese baloney sound.
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  Speaker 3: It's the color of your husband.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks all, you're gonna hook me up.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: This is the color of my wife right now.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I need to my wife.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rican's Puerto Rican?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Did you think I was Puerto Rican?
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: When first I thought you were other? Thought your Dominican?
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Dominican. I get Dominican, Puerto Rican. Yes, I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: get every race because when you're mixed, you're just racially ambiguous.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Exactly depends on city. Went if you're in here, if
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: you're in New York, they think you're Puerto Rican, you're
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: in Florida. Is your wife from New York, New York
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Puerto Rican?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, I already know I would. So take me
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: back to let's go back to the college days you're
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: pursuing comedy, Chris, Take me through that journey, because I
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: want to get closer to you, actor, producer, writer, director.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: So taking there's a group of guys on campus that
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: have a comedy group. Right, so we formed a club.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: These guys were comedians and we would do shows for
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: we started we cut our teeth with the fraternities. The
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: White friends would have rush Week and they would try
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: to have they would have prospective place. I just come
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: in and then they would have entertainment and that would
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: be me and these group of guys. Suleie McCullough, who
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: you know from the Jamie Fox Show and Don't be
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: a Menace and he's a hell of a writer producer,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: was my roommate and he was also here's the reason
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I actually became a comedian. We were talking with a
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: group of girls and they're like, what do you want
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to do when when you get out of here. I'm
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: gonna wait, toll get out here. I'm gonna be a
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: standup comedian. And they were like, oh my god. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: love stand up. I love Eddie Murphy, I love Damon
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: WANs Oh. And then they're looking at me, they're like,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: what about you. I was like, stand up comedian? And
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: literally that's how I became a stand up comedian because
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I saw the attention he got and I was like
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I need that attention. And from there we were doing
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the friend houses. Then we would do shows on campus,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: and then we would have big headliners come on campus
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: and perform for us. So at the time, Rob Schneider,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Jerry Seinfeld, how are you.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Getting these headliners to perform for you?
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Guysla Man, David.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You'll be switching on and off. Yes, hold on, guys,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do a sample of this you're cooking before
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: it gets cold.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: You're gonna get a knife shot, I'm gonna pick it up.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Here, here's a knife.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna act like I'm still from Inglewood like that.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't cut it either? Okay?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Is it good?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: It's fantastic.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Doesn't make you want to eat it again?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely no me. I will be eating it again sometime.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: What's missing is the dorridos, though, which I remember when
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: his brother that was his favorite. There loves blue.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You know, my favorite thing to do since eating while
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: broke someone I forgot which guests cups chips in their sandwich.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I have not been able
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to eat a sandwich without chips since anytime. I'm always
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: looking for a back. Have you tried him? Of course,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it's amazing.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what that's what My father, who was Jamaican
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: like your family. My dad would always put stuff in
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: other sandwiches. He would put a fish filet and a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: big mac.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: That sounds like my mom and.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Smash it down like Scooby dooe. I I like the
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: way you bite that. You don't really like it, kind
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: of whenever people bite stuff with their front teeth.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of baloney. Plus, technically it has
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: beef in it. I don't even beef. I'm sacrificing tails.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I'm allergic to beef and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: oxtails was the hardest thing that in short rip, it's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the hardest thing to give up. That's the best meats,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and I would sacrifice. I'm like, you know what, if
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: it I'll be sick, but I'm going to have it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: But now I'm like, no, I'm not doing it anymore.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: This meal is sponsored by kool Aid. It ain't the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: same kool aid we grew up.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It does taste like sgar free.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you call it?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Like those sweeteners?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Would you? It was like it's cool added with st Yeah, it's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Like using it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It shouldn't be an aftertaste.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, it definitely has it culgar all right? So
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: do you feel like you're back in your time?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I feel like they say the same blogage I had
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: grown up.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I literally got the original one. It's an original.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Do you think that's the original one?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: That's he eats it more offay.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: So, but you know what, I like to go to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the meat market and get the thick one.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So they had the thick cute. I didn't know.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It's not Oscar Mayer. No, it was mine, but it's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the thick one.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: They had thick, and I just thought maybe you guys
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: wanted the original we did?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Did?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: That?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Was great job, Great job cooking your blogna sandwich.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Bologna sandwich. I want to see you eat the whole thing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Chris, Oh, this is delicious. This is the meal.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Sean likes it. Sean really likes it. You got the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: kool aid right there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: It needs something it needs. I can't watch a cool.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I feel like it needs something like, not like a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ketchup for some kind of something because it's very dry.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: The kool aid is weird.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Do you usually make it like this at home?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Actually, you're supposed to have mayo or miracle whip on it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: One y'all both slipping no dig.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Put it in didn't.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Derek asked me that I want Male America, and I
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: was like, I don't think I used to put that
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: in there, but now that I'm tasting it there, that's
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: what's missing.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's definitely like super Dry.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: And now what was miracle whip?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I don't we just love the wear miracle whip taste.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I like Mayo more than a miracle that zing.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's miracle whipping the kool aid.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. So take me back. So you're booking
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: these guys because it's U C l A. But what
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is your pitch to get them? Hey, we don't have
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to do anything.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: This is this isn't what they weren't. This is pre
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Jerry Seinfeld's show. So this is just Jerry Seinfeld. This
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: is David Spade. I think I don't know if he
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: had been on Sunday in Life yet life. Yeah, but
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: these were name headliners. And when you're a comedian, you're
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: going to perform anywhere and everywhere. That's gonna give you
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a check, got it? And so they were coming to
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: headline our show, so it would be us young guys.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: And then said headliner And it was always a treat
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: because we would have these fend those people would draw
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the audience, you know what I mean.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But now, going back, you said you decided on the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: whim because of the ladies liked the comedy idea. When
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: you first start going out, were you going out hitting
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: home runs right away?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I started off my first show was I was like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: this shit is easy? What is this struggle? They speak up?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: And then the second and third show, I was like, oh,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I'm had to write some shit. Yeah, because I'm cursed
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: and blessed with the same gift, which is my wit,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and so I could just freestyle a whole show. And
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: so the first show I freestyled and I was like, oh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: this is easy, and the second shot time was oh
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I think it was less black people on the show
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the next time. So when I said Murray's greens and
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: they're like, is he talking about oh, I said a
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: do rag or something. I was a black reference. So
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, now only do I need to
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: write material. I need to make material less universal because
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: there's stuff that works in one room that may not
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: work in any other room. So I need to figure
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: out stuff that works in all rooms. And then sometimes
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: if you're in a black room, I'm gonna give them, Yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But it goes in for
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: not just the color of our skin. It goes for
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: whatever the room dictates. So if I'm doing a show
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: for the Girl Scouts, I'm gonna have Girl Scouts jokes.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: If I'm doing jokes for the mayor, I'm gonna do
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: stuff with that's more political and intellectual. Possibly, so you
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: cater to your room. If I'm doing a party for
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: some Rolling Sixties, I'm gonna do some jokes for them.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: So you're producing these shows and you're opening up for
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: these bigger I would say at the time, bigger comics, right,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and then are they catching wind of your guys talent
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and pulling you out they.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Could care less? Okay, No, Actually, Souley actually got signed
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: by the same manager that Jerry Seinfeld had, so he
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: had his career went to a different level because of
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: that signing.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you're producing the shows and then Sean at
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: this time, you're showing up to everything that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Sean is making money. Now, I haven't seen Sean. I
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: won't see Sean. Sean doesn't know even know I'm doing
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: comedy at this point after high school, by the time
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I went to college. They may come to see me
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: once or twice, but everybody's living on nobody's gonna go
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: visit somebody in college.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: So he said they were. They said that. Sean said
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he was following you.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is he saw it wasn't like he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: coming to l who y'all got coming?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, And I'm assuming Sean, you were doing entrepreneurs stuff,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: because I know you have other businesses outside.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Of the doing. We would go visit and hang out
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: with Chris, and then we creating different avenues for us
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to continue to make money and different stuff like that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: And then as Chris start filming different shows, that's what
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I got more success. Need to be here with me.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: So we started being at the tapings the filmings wherever
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: he was. We stopped being more there with him, and they.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Actually produced one of our first tapings that Tisha Campbell directed,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: which is called Get Up, Stand Up, which was with me,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Daryl Heath, Alex Thomas, and Suley McCullough. And we shot
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: it at this little club in the valley, and I
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: think that was their first taste in Hollywood. Could be fun, yeah, okay,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and then that was your first after graduation, that's around
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: ninety three four or something like that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Was that your first big, your first TV big? I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: just said first, that was your first though.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I think so I might have done some smaller stuff,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: because no, I've done stuff before. There were shows back
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: then that they don't have now, like Evening at the
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Improv and Comic View and stand Up New York, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: so I think that stand up there, there's a show
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: like that. There was a lot of shows. That's when
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: we got the impatist to go, let's create our own show.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: This is pre depth, you know, and so we started.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: We did that in lieu of selling it. But I
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: don't know what happened. I think it's it's out there somewhere.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: And then that's when he first got the bug. And
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: then lives happen, people get married, have kids, do stuff,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: and then they would always come to support my shows.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: And then when Junior passed away in two fourteen is
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: when he really stepped one into stand up comedy full time,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: him his brother Derek.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And then how did that feeling come feel after once
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: you guys started really working together, how did it feel?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: It was easy because Sean is our point guard. He's
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: actually running this show. All right, I see if this
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: was basketball, Sean is magic, Derek is James Worthy. I'm sorry,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you're too young. Let me go back. Sean is Steph Curry, Okay.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, sewn' Steph Curry. Okay, okay, yes, thank you,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: thank you for got it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Derek is Draymond Green okay. And I'm the owner of
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: the team.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, I.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Want to do Sean is the owner of the team.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I'm Steph Curry and no, Sean is Draymond Sean, I'm
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Steph Carry. And you know what, we're the trotters.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: We all we do it all okay, okay, got it?
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Like Sean is the one that keeps us on point.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Taket sales a low, Kevin Hard ain't call back, But
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: he's the one that keep me and Derek. If we're
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: flowing through life going the show's Wednesday will be okay,
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Sean ain't gonna be Okay, we need some more sweatshirts,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: but yeah, he keeps shipping.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Was he the one that at the last show, you
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: guys all almost came out in the same exact outfits.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Sean is the designer of the common.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: But it's the crazy part. Chris got a light blue
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: one earlier that day, and I wasn't even thinking about it.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I'm glad I fifteen of us in blue.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: He had orange, right, And when Mifphis we got that one,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I forgot he had even purchased that one, so I
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: knew what I was wearing that You didn't tell me
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: if it's will to wear it that night? Yeah?
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, show Can you stand up and just show
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: them what the.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Well you're not wearing?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You just take it over your neck. This is part
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: this is part.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Is it tight?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah? This is one from started stead up in twenty fourteen.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: This was one of the first logos that we desired. Okay,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: now we have more multiple logos under the umbrella, and
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: comedy Block Party is the most significant one. Yeah, everybody
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: buys that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, I have my sweats.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I saw you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: It's not ritten on the pants.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: You know some different pints.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: This ain't the pants.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: They all right, take me through some of the hurdles
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and the upsides, the behind the scenes of you making it,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Chris to where you are today because you've been in
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the industry how long now.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Hold I've been at thirty plus, and there's always you're
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: hot and then you're not. But what allowed me to
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: sustain thirty years is not relying on my pretty face.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I've actually gone behind the scenes and wrote and produced
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: for a lot of your favorite comedians. So what I
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: tell young comedians is you're all gonna get opportunities. Some
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: people's opportunities are gonna be bigger than others. And your
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: friend is going to host the MTV Movie Awards. They're
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: gonna give him a group of writers to write the show,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and then he's gonna need people who know his voice
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: to write for him. And so I've done that for Jamie,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I've done that for Mike Eepps. I've done it for Kevin,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I've done it for Cedric, I've done it for Dion,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and they've done it for me. Not those guys, but
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: other people. And so you just have to stay close
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to this. If this is what you really want to do.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You may not become Eddie Murphy, but you could become
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Kenya Barris, you know what I mean. You may not
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: become Kevin Hart, but you might become Chris Spencer. There's
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: all types of ways to skin a cat for lack
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: of a better word.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And then you have a lot of relationships too. I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: think your relationships also play a key to your success.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: With my relationships are better than my talent, meaning I'm cool,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: but my roller decks. That's before your time.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my snapchatchat forty, I'm forty zero.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know I have quite a few friends because
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: we all came up together. Some of us were eating
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: boloney sandwiches together, you know what I mean. And now
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: you know they're doing caviaar and I'm back to fucking balogney.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: But nonetheless he's a laughing some of this stuff. Okay, ladys,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: she's looking at me so seriously.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: But now, okay, I just recently I told you I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: recently did an interview with Nick. So I'm gonna take
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you back when I bounce you back. All right, you
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: were one of the key players, if not the key
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: player behind walling out.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Not the key player. Nick Cannon is young, youthful, had
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: this great idea for a show. He showed it to me,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and I was like, this is dope, but we could
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: make it better. And so I gathered a group of
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: writers and come we enhanced it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Wait when he showed it to you, did he take
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you to an actual improv picture?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: To me a verbally pitture? Not even he verbally pitched me.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: And then we collaborated with his people and my people
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: and made it a presentation at the Comedy Union where
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: we also did Comedy Block party, and then they picked
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: it up, and then we did another pilot and then
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the rest is whatever. Twenty one years of making magic.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Now he was in his twenties. What made you jump
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to support him? Because I know he was in his
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: He's had to been like twenty.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Five or something. I can't support people younger than me.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: No, I'm curious.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: He was my friend.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. He was the young guy that everybody
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: was talking about in the clubs and he was, for
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: lack of a better word, he was did he Puffy?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Did he's in trouble? Puffy wasn't in trouble. And he
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: was very creative and he was also the guy that
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: could put talent together and create things. He was always creating. Yeah,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you can't wait on Hollywood, they're not creative. You have
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: to actually chew the food and put it in their
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: mouth for them to get it. And that's Nick was doing.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: And when he came up and wanted out. I was like,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I would absolutely do whatever it takes to make this
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: thing fantastic. And I was the head writer for the
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: first year, and then I had a child and things
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: went this way and I got another job. He went
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: on to do whatever. Twenty years of success. We're still differends.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: We still work together to this day. And so that
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: opportunity was really great more great for him. But it was.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Now when you say head writer, what does that? What
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: did that entail? You wrote for every comic on there.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: There's a room for writers, right, and I'm in charge
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: of the materials that are going to be presented to
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: for the show. Sometimes we would have a board like
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: this and I would see what everybody is read the
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: scripts that everybody's created. Say, we're gonna do some stuff
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: about blooney sandwiches. Give me all the bloney sandwiches joke.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: We put it up here. We'll all aside which was
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: the best, and that will go into the packet. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: then that packet would go to the higher ups to go, oh,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: this is we only sketch. It's funny. And so I
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: was the liaison between the higher ups and the writer's room.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: So it's my job to maintain both of these relationships.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, and that wasn't your first. Now, how far
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in before you start with doing the wilding out head
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: writing stuff?
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Was I a writing?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I was already writing. I started writing around two thousand
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: when Jamie Fox hosted the MTV Music Awards, and then
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: from there I just started getting writing gigs because, like
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I said, when said comedian gets a gig, there's going
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: to be the people that write for the show, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: then there's going to be his people who know his voice.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: And I had the opportunity of doing that several times
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: before the Well and Out show.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: And then when you got into acting, were you taking
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: acting class?
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: I was acting that whole time. Matter of fact, the
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: writing took over when the acting got slow, you know, So.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: You didn't sit still during any of the No.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Remember I had a late night talk show too. There's
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: no you can't stop. And that's what I love about
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: this generation. They're not waiting. They will shoot a whole
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: movie on an iPhone.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean? And you like that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of people some people hate on it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Their haters, I love that, you know what I mean
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of them are hating.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Of that.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: A lot of us are old school now evans still
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: only where it's fitted baseball hats. Sometimes you're set in
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: your ways, trust me, calling right now. You could have
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: sixteen diamonds on it and be worth ten million to be.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I aware of that shit. And that's how we are,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Sometimes we're setting their ways
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: because that was his generation. I love singing it all,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I love what kay Sinat
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: is doing.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I love well, you like what he's doing too, Okay.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: This is it. That's like my mom being mad at me.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Turn off that goddamn hip hop. Hip Hop is the future,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Kaysat is the future. Yeah, I love all of it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I love entertainment and comedians love each other. So when
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: you said why did I help Nick, it's because Nick
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: is a comedian. I love comedians. Let me tell you
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: the story, Robin Williams, I did a show at Caroline's
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: in New York and I was doing the midnight show
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: and Jeff Garland was doing the ten o'clock show or
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: eight o'clock showed. I was doing the ten o'clock show,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and for some reason, Jeff Garland let Robin Williams go
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: on first, the paint was peeling off the walls. You know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: they have like pictures of famous comedians on. They were laughing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Charlie Chaplin was dying, May West whoever he's murdering. So
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: after he gets off stage, Jeff Garland goes on and
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: it's not good. I mean, he had to work to
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: get him. He's a professional show but he had work
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: to do. But Robin came in the back, and I
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: don't know if there was a pied piper or something,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: but all of a sudden it went from ten to
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: eight comedians to four hundred comedians were in the back
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: listening to Robin Williams talk shop, tell stories, and he's
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: talking to us and he's asking questions. We love each other.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: This fraternity runs deep. I don't care. I don't care
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: who you are if you tell something, unless they're an asshole.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: But if you talk to a vet comedian and telling me,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: you stand up. They want to know what's it like? Now?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: What's going on? Are you at the comedy store? Do
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: you go to the laugh factory? I remember this time
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and you share stories? One time I was writing for Laughing.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: You remember show Laughing? You do it? She's too young,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: it was the fifty year reunion of Laughing. I got
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: hired by a comedian named a writer named John Max
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: who writes. He think I write for award shows. He
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: writes for all the award shows, including Presidents, Governors. He's
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: the man, John Max. And so I'm writing for Laughing
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: and Billy Crystal and Jay Leto are in the room.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: So we're talking about rehearsal because they're gonna do something,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: and then they start telling jokes. I'm like, I gotta
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: say something, and I said, you guys ever heard the
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: one about that? They just fuck it turned around and
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: then now meet Billy Crystal and Jay Lenore sharing jokes.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: I love that comedians love comedians.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love it and I can see
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: why when I go to the shows they feel the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: way they feel. Yeah, is there any stories behind the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: scenes that you did bring up with Robin Williams? That
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: is like a very memorable standout.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Even with Robin Williams. So I say to Robin Williams,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: how can you don't come to the comedy store anymore?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: He goes, Oh, No. One time I drove up and
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: these two these black guys came up to me and
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: They're like, what the fuck are you doing here? And
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: he was like, I'm performing. I'm doing a show in
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the main room. And they were like, get the fuck
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: out of here, and I left. I said, Robin, that's slang.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: He's what are you talking about? I said, when they
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: said what the fuck are you doing here, they couldn't
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: believe that fucking Mark from Orc Missus Doubtfire is right
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: there in front of them. They're like really then, and
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: then I said, when they said get the fuck out
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: of here, you saw fucking Johnny Brasco get the fuck
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: out of here like that. He was like, no shit.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: The next that was Saturday Monday, La Times reads Robin
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Williams returns to the Comedy Store and over whatever twenty
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: seven twenty eight years.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: No, I'm Forrest gumpany ship true story.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: That's a great story. That's that's gonna be a whole
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: clip that's going virals indefinitely. Well, do you have any more?
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: I got a million stories? Yeah, name a comedian Kevin
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Harry to sleep on my couch.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I believe that we did it. I did.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: It was one day, but still he slept there.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Did he sleep there? Because he needed to.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: He needed to, He had to. He hadn't slept there
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: for a couple of days. Russell Peters when he would
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: come to town with st step on.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: My couch, tell me something about the Waynes.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Comedy family, their royalty. They put me on.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Oh they put you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Sure, if you go back and look at all the
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: old Wayms movies, you'll see me. I did Blank Man
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: with Damon, I.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Did am I Loved Blank Men, Low Down, Dirty.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Shame with Kenan. I did Don't Be a Minister of
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: South Central Will Drinking a Juice with Sean and Marlon.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I wrote a book with Sean. I did The Sixth
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Man with Marlon. I used to think I was warning.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I used to walk around with this wearing a vada
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: cause that's all they used to wear.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I thought I was waaring until one day that was
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: a true story. I told us on a couple of podcasts.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: But I found out I wasn't family because one day
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: we were in front of that just Damon and Seawan
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: and I just did a show with the airprov We
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: came out. They're sitting in the front seat and they're whispering.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, they're like, oh, Chris could you step out
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: real quick. We talking about family.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you covered your mic too while
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you do that, I'm family and so did you really
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: feel that I was hurt?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I spent Thanksgivings with them, Christmas, you know what I mean.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not family and so.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Then but they run tight.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: API took my spot, and the rest of the movies
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: after that really.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Are So that's the only that's only Wayne story you got.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're trying to think. Eddie Murphy,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I know them all.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Any good getting on a Martin Laurence story. Okay, you
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: know what's good when they laugh before they.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Say so, before anything. Martin was like the hottest comic
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: in the world, right. And one night we were at
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: a club glam Slam for those of you who are
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: from La Prince had a club called glam Slam. I
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: got a funny glam Sam story too, real quick, we're
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: glam Slam. And it's always the baddest woman in the world.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: In La has the baddest females in the world. And
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: it's not because they were born here, but a lot
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: of them come from other places and decide to live here.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: And find out that they wasn't shit. I one time
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: saw this girl walking short hair jeans with the ass
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: cheeks out. I was like, yo on top. My boy
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: was like look and then and my boys like, yeah,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: what's up? She turned around. It was Prince with a lollipublic.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Why does prince have his ass out?
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: True story?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: So one night I just got that at the very end.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Yes, one night, Martin Martin and his girl at the
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: time and who was a friend of mine and Sulie
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: mcculluugh and I were walking out. I was a little
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: drunk and I had on I was very stylish and
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: fashion forward. I do on this lumberjackshirt. We called him
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Pendletons bankers high gang bankers. Pendletons teed up and had
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: on some like these I forgot with these little construction
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: boot They wouldn't love, they wouldn't timberlands, but they were
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: the boots at the time. Look up, Jodasy and I
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: needed to laugh at some of this, and so Martin
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: was like, what the fuck you got on with that
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: lumberjack shit? He was drunk. I was like, what you
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: heard me? Mother? And saw me and him got into it.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: And then the next day he called me and apologized
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: with my dear friend Bentley Evans, who's now's uncle, and
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I got hired to be Martin's standing on the Martin Show.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why did he call you apologize? He felt bad?
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: He felt bad. I'm a wonderful person.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: That was nice to Cris Spancer like that. That was nice.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: So that was one of my first jobs in Hollywood,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: which was weird because I'm like, how am I gonna
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: be Martin Standing? So whenever you saw Grandma, if you
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: look at the pilot, you'll see they had to shoot
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: the back of the head, so you saw the Grandma's
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: back of their head, which is me in a wig,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: and then Martin and then you see in my back
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: of her head to see Martin when he's not just
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: So that was one of my first jobs. I've had
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: an incredible I've had an incredible life in Hollywood.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: One of my.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Weirdest jobs is I Diana Ross was having a photo
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: shoot and they wanted a comedian to entertain her, and
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: she went to different spaces on this studio lot. So
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: I have to walk in and tap dad. She'd be
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: like that, and then she walked the next room. But
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: before I got the job. Now, when I got the job,
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I thought Tracy got me the job because Tracy and
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: I was friend Tracy. I was wrong, and she calls me, goes,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: what the fuck is going on? I go, what You're
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: gonna be a comedian? From my mother? I go, I
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: thought you got me the job. No, I didn't get
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: you a job. What are you the toy?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Did her mom know who he now?
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: And I bombed all day? Imagine she would they say
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: this room was the polar room, and she it was
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: all white and she wore white and as a fur
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and there's some fucking little penguins and shit, and I'm
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: up there doing jokes and shit and her handlers are like,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be like fucking And it wasn't until the
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: last setting whatever it was, that I finally made her laugh.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I said, listen, you got me upside down, boy, you
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: turned me. I said some jokes with her songs in it,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: and she goes, that's funny. You're very funny. I said,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: you should have fucking laughed earlier.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: But is that harder that? That would must be a
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: lot harder to make one person laugh though, right.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was more people in the room. But if
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: the King ain't laughing. Ain't nobody laughing? Yeah, so every
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: now the cameraman and them were shaken because its fucking funny,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: but they're not laughing loud because she ain't laughing, you know.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: All right, cool, all right, awesome. I'm trying to think
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: is there anything that I left off the table when
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: it comes to your guys story.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Your rise, we're killing?
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: What year is Sean twenty twenty five?
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: What year for comedy black?
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Oh? This is eleven?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's eleven, Mark, I think it was longer than
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: March seven. Eleven years is a good time.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: It's a great run.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And then why did you guys end up moving from
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the Chinese Theater all the way to Inglewood? Is it
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: because you just wanted to keep it home based.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: That the opportunity for Inglewood, which is our home, came
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: up and we're like, this is easy. It was also
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: because a lot of people would be like, yo, man,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: I gotta get to work, and they would leave early
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: and come back this way, and we're like, you know what,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: we need to spot down here so they can stay
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: throughout the whole show. And literally the show stays until
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: we say you have to do the birthdays.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: So you do the birthdays and it's like a whole thing.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: It's a whole we're gonna start streaming this year.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Really, are you guys gonna do something with fifty one twenty?
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Quite possible? Yes, that's our people.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, the crazy j Parker, the crazy part Colleen. When
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: people call for their birthday, they say, I want my
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: name on the cake please?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Do you guys do it?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, today my tickets to the show.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: I love that morning on the cake.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: And they pictured on the fly as well, and we
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: promote them as well, celebrating their birthday with comedy Black
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Party every month.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Now, are those the people that sit in the very front, they're.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: All over, they're all over, they're all over.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Those are VIPC just a birthday.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah okay, so those are special VIA seats.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: No, that's special. They paid for a bottle.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I always wonder about those
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: seats in the front.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: So, like some rolls after every show, those people pay
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: for that role in advance for every show, all seventeen
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: seats and the VIP tables, three tables are already five
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: tables are already paid in the advance already. Every show,
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: every show, and.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: What do you do to promote the show showing because
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: it sounds like you're the one that's always the most stressed.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very stressful. It's social media. When you go
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: places with Chris or different venues, you have to have
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: your brand on and marketing your brand. And as when
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: I go to the places with Chris, I'm usually standing
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: off in the cut and somebody come say to me, oh, man,
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: we need to doing that show. Man, I see y'all
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: killing it over there? Man, what's going on?
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: And it's easier than passing out cars to everybody. He
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: wears the cop They go, oh, you're Sean Elliott. Oh
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: that's Derek Ellie. Their names are like it's almost like
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: seeing Tupac. They heard of them, and you guys are
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Elliott brothers. And so now they want to They know
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: that our shows aren't regular shows. So the fact that
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: now they get to talk to Sean and Derek can
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: find out how they can bring their office, their boss's birthday,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: their birthday, just they just want to come celebrate because
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: it's a different show, you know what I mean, It's
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: not like any comedy show in the world.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Now, if comics watch and want to get on your show.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: What's the process? How do they go about it?
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: It's usually you gotta be recommended. You just can't. We
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: ain't watching no tapes. It's usually somebody says, yo, you
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: gotta check out this dude named Darius. He's hysterical. Or
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: when I'm out at the comedy store, I'm still in
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: the streets. I'm still in these comedy streets. So I'll
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: meet a young guy. He goes, you're gonna be in
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: the belly room, and I know you're the main room,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: be in the belling room in seven minutes. Can you
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: come watch it. I'll come watch and I'll go.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I love how you're back. But you keep it up,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: young man, We're about to be like I love how
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you support it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: We started the entity of comedy Black Party from Chris
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: from twenty fourteen. Wherever he went, if he went to Ontario,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: I was there building the brand every night, he said,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I got to introduce you to all the people that
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: no matter where he was, I was there every night.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, building the brand.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: And then do you guys both stay in Inglewood?
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: No, we both live in God God, okay?
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: And then do you how far in events. Do you
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: know who's on your show lineup?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: We already know, like now, from March, April, April.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Do you know who will be airing in Yes, April
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and May.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: We don't know. We haven't April.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: So we always have a name person because we argue
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: about all the time, but we can have to because
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: these are working class people and if they're gonna not
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: if they're gonna be late for work or stay out,
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: it's got to be somebody a little special for them
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: to see. We've tried, and we still tried to do
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: a regular show with just people that we see on
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: these regulations, but we always have to have something a
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: little bit enticing, some more enticing. That's why we have
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: the Deon Coles, the Tiffany's and blah blah blah, and
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: those are usually our later bookings. The other people are great.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: The first three or four are yeah, because these other
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: people are working now. Sometimes we get them early. If
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: they say I can't do March, but put me for April.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: So in April we want May, I just want April.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: We have Eddie Murphy.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, guys, you heard it here first.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Eddie Johnson, Eddie Johnson, guys, Eddie Johnson's in the building
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: in April, because I'm trying to think of the release schedule,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: so I'm trying to see. So right now, you guys
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: have Donald Rowlings coming out in Rowlings, and then you
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: have March March. Who you guys have coming out we
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: haven't to be determined, but in April we have Eddie
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Johnson for sure. Guys come out to Comedy Block party,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: followed Darren Elliott, Sean Elliott and Elliott brothers and Chris Hosts,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Chris Spencer and it's a real it's a real family environment.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: At the end, everyone gets up on stage is the
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: whole everyone.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Everyone.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: We got security, but the family.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: And I don't feel like security of.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: The of the birthday people.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, I not walked up on stage, but I think.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Because you and your family are so pretty, I don't
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: mean the bride. But whatever. Anywhere me and my brothers gone,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: we get in and we get free drinks. Girls be
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: throwing their drawings at them.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: We get it. You know what's the funniest part, Colleen,
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, whenever I be out without Chris,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: people just come on through me. And talk to me,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: and I'll be like, who is this? I was looking
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: around like sh man, You and Christian with your brother
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: them y'all killing it. I'll be like who. I'll be like,
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: who is this? We'd be like okay. They'd be like,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: he got my phone number.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be like okay, and thank you.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: You know what. I am humbled and grateful that us
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: three is back together and we're keeping Junior legacy live
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: through laughter because it's all about him. That's why you
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: see his logo, his picture on our logo that stands
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: out and the thing with us, it's brotherly and his family.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: No one is no bigger building this brand higher.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Right here and it's just a bonus to have our
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: brother with us full time now outside of other works
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: that he do.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that love. I love the bonding and
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: the brother and I'm sure you and Derek, you guys
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: don't have the brotherly conversations until Christa. I'm messing with
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the Waynes. It's not money more than I'm sorry you
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: guys never do that. You guys do that, Chris.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: We're talking about family. I'm gonna take you what we do.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: We be on the phone for hours at a time,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: all of us be on the phone, Me then Chris.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: We'll be on the phone for an hour or two,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: coming up different ideas, different things. We might have disagreements
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: here and there, but it's all love is. We have
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: to make it to the middle point and then we
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: all agree on what to do next.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I know one thing for sure with siblings is every
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: once in a while there's a beef that breaks out,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: and then usually siblings start rallying other siblings to take
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a side. Has that ever happened? You guys never beefed
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: and then said, hey, just what happened?
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: None of that? Oh yeah, none of that.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: We just say shine, you're right.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I tell them, because I make sure we
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: run this like a well driven truck. Because Derek has
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: other things going on, Chris have a lot of other
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: things going on. So I'm the one that's watching everything,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: making sure it's right, letting them know who on board,
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: whom not on board. This from that, so we got
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: to treat it as this Fortune five hundred company and
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: let people know we aren't forced to be wrecking with
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: you guys. We're here to stay. You guys are yeah.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: All right, cool? Thank you? So much for feeding me
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: this baloney sandwich.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: I need to take another bank.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: You only took little bit. I love my Let's take it.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Come on, let's let's close out with a bike on.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Oh well, they're like you the front teeth.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Peace out, guys, thanks for tuning in, and keep up
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: a comedy block party anywhere on socials where are you
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: chewing your blooney sandwich? Come on, Chris, come out.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: My my own private one which is not private, but
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: my own personal which is at the real Chris Spencer.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: And then we have at comedy block party e n T.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: No, that's what he was in the weblink told the
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: website that's Comedy Block Party e n T dot com.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: And I G is at Comedy Underscore block Underscore Party.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: And then you have d Elliott Business b I Z
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  Speaker 2: N E S S.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Got it all right, guys, Peace out. For more Eating
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