Latest / The Breakfast Club / Best of full interview: A Very Serious Interview With Donnell Rawlings
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Every day a week ago.
- 0:03Speaker 1: Click your ass up the Breakfast Club, finish for y'all.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Done morning, Everybody's d j Envy just hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
- 0:11Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. You got a special guests
- 0:13Speaker 2: in the belting.
- 0:13Speaker 1: One of the most slept on comedians generations. One of
- 0:19Speaker 1: the most slept on comedians of our generation. Don l
- 0:22Speaker 1: Rowlins agree, Donelle.
- 0:24Speaker 3: How you feeling?
- 0:27Speaker 2: How you feeling?
- 0:27Speaker 3: I'm feeling good. I feel like I just got this
- 0:29Speaker 3: product and it works. Wonders. It's supposed to remove negative energy.
- 0:36Speaker 3: I don't know positive, but it's a polanto spray and
- 0:39Speaker 3: it works wonders for people that.
- 0:40Speaker 2: But how are you feeling?
- 0:41Speaker 4: Man?
- 0:41Speaker 2: How's your son? I've seen you on the river. I've
- 0:43Speaker 2: seen you really enjoying life. Man.
- 0:46Speaker 3: It's horrible. Really yeah, and it got even worse than you.
- 0:50Speaker 3: Uh recommended a therapist for me to go see.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you started going to you started going to therapy.
- 0:56Speaker 3: And uh he gave me horrible advice.
- 0:58Speaker 1: What was the advice.
- 0:59Speaker 3: It was a situation with me dealing with like baby
- 1:02Speaker 3: mama drama, Okay, And I say, sometime I get to
- 1:05Speaker 3: a point where I'm just frustrated. I don't know what
- 1:07Speaker 3: to do. And then he said, what would you do,
- 1:09Speaker 3: and what would you do if you were doing a
- 1:10Speaker 3: comedy show right and you wasn't the audience wasn't engaged,
- 1:14Speaker 3: what would you do? I said, well, I've had that
- 1:16Speaker 3: situation where I had to fall back, regroup, speak a
- 1:20Speaker 3: little slower, you know what I'm saying, to start all over.
- 1:23Speaker 3: And he said, why don't you do that in your relationship?
- 1:25Speaker 3: And I tried that and it still didn't work. So
- 1:28Speaker 3: thank you for giving me the worst therapists in the world, tost.
- 1:33Speaker 4: I'm not saying what happened when you tried it? Why
- 1:35Speaker 4: didn't it work?
- 1:36Speaker 3: It just it just it just didn't work. I think
- 1:37Speaker 3: we I don't know, it just didn't work.
- 1:39Speaker 4: I saw you post your son's birthday though, and it
- 1:41Speaker 4: seemed like y'all are.
- 1:42Speaker 1: But that's the son that's not the mother of this
- 1:44Speaker 1: child with her.
- 1:45Speaker 4: So I figured all the co parents and stuff was
- 1:47Speaker 4: going well, it.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Is going well. It's a tough thing, I tell you,
- 1:50Speaker 3: for anybody to do co parents, it's tough, especially when
- 1:54Speaker 3: you you still may have some emotions of all whatever.
- 1:57Speaker 3: But I will say this, I dated this SMOs No,
- 2:03Speaker 3: can we can we have rules? Can we have rules
- 2:06Speaker 3: of engagement? What do you mean, like you're gonna have
- 2:09Speaker 3: to raise your hand, You're gonna do something different? All right?
- 2:11Speaker 3: The way you communicate, I don't really like it. And
- 2:13Speaker 3: I was trying to explain. I dated this girl some
- 2:16Speaker 3: years ago, right, and she got separate. She was separate
- 2:19Speaker 3: her parents' divorce when she was young. Right. And I
- 2:23Speaker 3: also I used to always see.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Well, he said, raise his hand when you had a question,
- 2:27Speaker 2: but still.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Gotta let me finish. You have to let me finish.
- 2:30Speaker 3: It's just about the mother of your child or another one.
- 2:32Speaker 3: It's about what I wanted to be about.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yes, let just ask all.
- 2:37Speaker 2: Hairs together, guys.
- 2:39Speaker 3: So I used to see, uh, the women I used
- 2:42Speaker 3: to date, her parents were still together. They would do Thanksgiving,
- 2:46Speaker 3: they would do dinners and do all this type stuff.
- 2:48Speaker 3: And I used to say, they must be smashing, no
- 2:51Speaker 3: way that they're that connected to each other. But as
- 2:54Speaker 3: I got older or I had this situation in my life,
- 2:56Speaker 3: I was like, nah, they were just trying to give
- 2:59Speaker 3: or create the best family situation as a co parent
- 3:02Speaker 3: that could do. So that's what I do, and I
- 3:04Speaker 3: imply it in my life and we do do a
- 3:06Speaker 3: good job.
- 3:08Speaker 2: You know, So you don't have emotions, is what his
- 3:11Speaker 2: question was.
- 3:11Speaker 3: No, I don't. I mean I wouldn't like you. I
- 3:14Speaker 3: don't think she still likes me. But what has emotions?
- 3:18Speaker 2: Because you said this emotion is you said that, that's
- 3:20Speaker 2: what you said.
- 3:21Speaker 5: You said it can be he said, it can be
- 3:22Speaker 5: hard when emotion.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for the clarity.
- 3:27Speaker 1: You still have emotions. She still has emotions.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Nobody has emotions. We are raising a beautiful uh young man.
- 3:33Speaker 3: And I mean this one thing I say about my
- 3:35Speaker 3: co parents situation. A lot of times when mom and
- 3:38Speaker 3: dad are not together like that, it's it's separate. It's
- 3:40Speaker 3: like my mother, my father, you know what I'm saying.
- 3:42Speaker 3: But my son, whenever he talks, he speaks to speaks
- 3:45Speaker 3: on us as a family, still live as parents. It's
- 3:48Speaker 3: not like I'm going to my mother house or my
- 3:50Speaker 3: father house. So we're doing a good job with that.
- 3:51Speaker 3: And Austin's beautifulkid.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Do you regret at anything?
- 3:55Speaker 2: But do you regret anything in that situation relationship because
- 3:58Speaker 2: you said before that you were the one that messed up.
- 4:00Speaker 3: Correct, I didn't say, I was want to mess it up.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I can see that though, we can see you being
- 4:03Speaker 1: the one.
- 4:04Speaker 3: What were you saying?
- 4:05Speaker 6: So when you go on stage, do you talk about
- 4:08Speaker 6: you know, your past relationship or your co parents and
- 4:10Speaker 6: relationship with your son's mother on stage?
- 4:13Speaker 5: Oh yeah, has she ever heard about that?
- 4:15Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she like it.
- 4:17Speaker 3: No, no, it was I'm gonna tell you if she
- 4:21Speaker 3: knows me, my life is gonna go on stage, right,
- 4:23Speaker 3: she understands that. But sometimes when people get in your head,
- 4:26Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like what she throw was
- 4:28Speaker 3: the funny jokes. One of her girls come, huh, I
- 4:30Speaker 3: don't believe he did that, and he gassedlight and all
- 4:32Speaker 3: that stuff. We had that situation. But you know, I mean,
- 4:34Speaker 3: you dated a comedian. That's what's gonna be. My life
- 4:37Speaker 3: is gonna be on stage. But I'm always I never
- 4:39Speaker 3: would do or say anything to put her in a
- 4:41Speaker 3: bad light or anything, because at the end of the day,
- 4:43Speaker 3: she gave me the biggest gift for my life. So
- 4:44Speaker 3: I'm forever grateful for that. And I even say, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 3: it's a certain it's a certain amount for someone to
- 4:49Speaker 3: have your kid, it's a certain amount of love. I
- 4:51Speaker 3: think you're gonna always have that. Does that mean getting
- 4:54Speaker 3: back together or rekilling anything? It doesn't, but it's a
- 4:57Speaker 3: certain amount of love and respect I always have. The
- 4:59Speaker 3: next question, did you.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Ever ask, like how it affects herm when you go
- 5:02Speaker 2: on stage and talk about it, because that could bring trauma?
- 5:04Speaker 3: Did you ever like, I don't know, No, I don't,
- 5:07Speaker 3: I don't. I can't. Man if I said you care,
- 5:09Speaker 3: so if I care, but I don't care because.
- 5:14Speaker 4: That didn't come out of therapy.
- 5:15Speaker 1: That was that was disgusting.
- 5:16Speaker 3: That was.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Do you think they're calling yourself?
- 5:20Speaker 3: And my brother said the games don't really like you
- 5:22Speaker 3: the way you think they do. When you said that,
- 5:24Speaker 3: you know that's what he said. When you said, he
- 5:25Speaker 3: said get over yourself.
- 5:26Speaker 1: When you said dating a narcissist, speaking of not being
- 5:28Speaker 1: able to get over yourself. When you talk about dating
- 5:31Speaker 1: a narciss do you think that's triggering for the mother
- 5:33Speaker 1: of your child.
- 5:33Speaker 3: I didn't say that you don't know who the narcissist is.
- 5:36Speaker 3: You clearly how you know that's.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Mean because of what you just said, because she didn't
- 5:39Speaker 1: sign up for.
- 5:40Speaker 2: That part of it.
- 5:40Speaker 3: All right, what we're gonna do is we're gonna have
- 5:42Speaker 3: to slow down, all right, there's just too much going
- 5:46Speaker 3: on right now. All right, we're gonna slow down.
- 5:49Speaker 1: So either way it's triggering because whether or not she
- 5:51Speaker 1: had to date you the narcissist, or you're calling her
- 5:53Speaker 1: a narciss that is gas like.
- 5:55Speaker 3: It's up to this, up to the interpretation of who thinks.
- 5:58Speaker 3: I don't know who to the narciss I don't know
- 6:01Speaker 3: what the narcisses really is. All I know every time
- 6:05Speaker 3: I use it, it come up in my algorithms. The
- 6:09Speaker 3: minute we argue about something, it's always and the narcissist
- 6:12Speaker 3: woman would do this. I don't know what the fucking
- 6:13Speaker 3: narcissist is. I just think it's it's a word that
- 6:16Speaker 3: you use to sell books and make my money. On
- 6:18Speaker 3: the side, I feel from her because you just talk
- 6:26Speaker 3: you are the narcissists.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Yes, I know you've always been raw and unfiltered as
- 6:32Speaker 1: being too real ever cost you opportunities in this industry
- 6:34Speaker 1: and in your personal life.
- 6:35Speaker 3: Great question has been no, because I am who I am.
- 6:40Speaker 3: I don't act like on anybody else. And then with me,
- 6:43Speaker 3: it's what you like version of you. I don't really
- 6:45Speaker 3: care about what people like. If I'm presenting myself the
- 6:47Speaker 3: best way I can, and I'm putting it out there
- 6:49Speaker 3: like I want to. I can't care about people like
- 6:52Speaker 3: I can't let to. I can't let uh. I can't
- 6:54Speaker 3: let people control what I'm doing on stage or off stage. Yes, yeah,
- 6:58Speaker 3: do you think you know? You so?
- 7:01Speaker 4: I'm just.
- 7:05Speaker 7: Yes, you know, I'm just in here observing. I just
- 7:08Speaker 7: you know, it's been a while observing observing?
- 7:10Speaker 1: What do you see?
- 7:11Speaker 3: What is observing or observe?
- 7:17Speaker 7: I think he's having a hard time tracking because you
- 7:19Speaker 7: know as he gets up there.
- 7:20Speaker 3: To what is wow?
- 7:22Speaker 2: Get up?
- 7:22Speaker 3: What does get up there mean?
- 7:24Speaker 4: Up on the chair where you sat down at?
- 7:25Speaker 3: Okay?
- 7:26Speaker 2: What question do you think that? You know you lost
- 7:29Speaker 2: your edge now that you change you play pickleballs?
- 7:32Speaker 3: Do white things gives you? Do white ship? Nigga? You
- 7:36Speaker 3: was riding bikes with biker shorts on. So you did
- 7:39Speaker 3: that for your shoes and going to the thing we
- 7:45Speaker 3: were doing that. You know, the shoes that you put
- 7:48Speaker 3: inside the pen, the bike shoes.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I lost a little bit, that's my asking.
- 7:53Speaker 3: And you put that ship in the garage. You got
- 7:56Speaker 3: your photo of you probably got a sponsorship for that.
- 7:58Speaker 3: He was like okay, on to the next. That's what
- 8:00Speaker 3: you did, sir. But I don't lose, no edge, I
- 8:03Speaker 3: don't lose No.
- 8:05Speaker 1: You did that.
- 8:05Speaker 5: I saw you did the Chris Brown challenge.
- 8:07Speaker 3: My friend Givanta Robbers right there. That's my TikTok. That's
- 8:10Speaker 3: my TikTok. That's my TikTok.
- 8:12Speaker 1: I did it.
- 8:13Speaker 5: You did better than I thought you. Man, you killed it.
- 8:15Speaker 1: You ain't losing no.
- 8:16Speaker 3: I uh, I was horrible.
- 8:21Speaker 2: I wasn't that bad.
- 8:22Speaker 3: I wasn't not bad, but I wasn't. I mean, I
- 8:23Speaker 3: thought it was fun and it was like it's a
- 8:26Speaker 3: lot to I mean, the only I did that part right,
- 8:30Speaker 3: I did this part right, Yeah, I did.
- 8:34Speaker 2: I did that.
- 8:35Speaker 3: The only part I had was I had that. I
- 8:37Speaker 3: did that. I did that, and then I did this
- 8:40Speaker 3: part right here, and then I did that, and then
- 8:43Speaker 3: I did that. Then I did that, and and that
- 8:47Speaker 3: was it. That was and then I came back. I
- 8:48Speaker 3: did a roll by that then mix it up.
- 8:53Speaker 2: We were thinking about you earlier, thinking about something that
- 8:57Speaker 2: Charlamagne and I were talking about that you know, since
- 9:00Speaker 2: we got to this age is very enjoyable. Have you
- 9:02Speaker 2: ever thought about getting a bedet?
- 9:09Speaker 3: No? Why I just don't. No, that's not my thing.
- 9:12Speaker 3: That's the gateway, the gateway to clean. That's a gateway
- 9:18Speaker 3: to that's a gateway to your lifestyle, clean what it is.
- 9:22Speaker 3: You wouldn't be who you are right now if you
- 9:24Speaker 3: didn't for your first blue day. First of all, I'm
- 9:28Speaker 3: not here for all you Have you.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Ever been gave? Have you ever been gave? For? Adet? Oh?
- 9:34Speaker 2: You have gifts?
- 9:35Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry. This unfortunate. It's not a thing for
- 9:39Speaker 3: it's not a just right here. It's because I've had
- 9:43Speaker 3: and there's nothing no slight on the ladies in here.
- 9:45Speaker 3: But I've had a history with these guys for so
- 9:47Speaker 3: many years, and you.
- 9:49Speaker 4: Came up here with gifts for them people.
- 9:52Speaker 5: We didn't earn our gifts yet.
- 9:54Speaker 1: That's your question for open this box. Ask your question, told, Well,
- 10:03Speaker 1: that's your question. As a black comedian, how do you
- 10:06Speaker 1: balance being funny with being a cultural truth How do what?
- 10:09Speaker 1: How do you balance being funny with being a cultural
- 10:12Speaker 1: truth teller?
- 10:13Speaker 3: As a black comedian, how do you balance I don't
- 10:15Speaker 3: understand that question.
- 10:15Speaker 1: What do you mean? How do you balance being funny
- 10:18Speaker 1: and also being a cultural truth teller?
- 10:21Speaker 3: I'm a truth teller. That happens to inject human with that.
- 10:24Speaker 3: So I'm always gonna tell the truth, and if that
- 10:25Speaker 3: truth happens to be funny, that's what it is. I
- 10:27Speaker 3: don't really go looking for a joke. I just try
- 10:30Speaker 3: to recreate life and situations that that I come in
- 10:34Speaker 3: contact with and I'm putting on the stage. So my
- 10:38Speaker 3: people always say, Donelle, that joke that you told, was
- 10:41Speaker 3: that the truth. I don't lie on stage anything. I say,
- 10:43Speaker 3: it's really what happened in my life. So that's that.
- 10:45Speaker 3: If that answers your question, what is this?
- 10:48Speaker 1: What is that?
- 10:49Speaker 3: It's a gift.
- 10:51Speaker 4: So we can see what I have a question.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're a sensitive comedian?
- 10:56Speaker 3: Why is that?
- 10:57Speaker 2: Because usually comedians being able to take a joke and
- 11:00Speaker 2: give a joke, but sometimes I feel like, wow, oh.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Get a close up, get a close up, Yo, get
- 11:12Speaker 3: a close up look, get it close up.
- 11:15Speaker 1: You got.
- 11:19Speaker 3: My greatest moments.
- 11:23Speaker 7: That is sorry, I appreciate, now understand what me and
- 11:27Speaker 7: J just don't.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Have the time.
- 11:30Speaker 3: I do apologize.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Pink the pink.
- 11:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I got kill Evans out of Baltimore, guy side
- 11:37Speaker 3: of Baltimore.
- 11:37Speaker 1: He did thoughtful gift, but look at it but.
- 11:39Speaker 3: No, it's not. It wasn't supposed to be thoughtful, supposed
- 11:41Speaker 3: to I just wanted I want to try to see.
- 11:45Speaker 2: It's my birthday and I'm gonna I'm gonna wear them
- 11:48Speaker 2: this weekend.
- 11:48Speaker 1: These aren't even the same pictures on both of them.
- 11:51Speaker 1: That's crazy. This is amazing, this is very thought Thank
- 11:54Speaker 1: you for thinking.
- 11:57Speaker 4: I thought I saw Diddy on out side of it.
- 12:00Speaker 2: We would do.
- 12:01Speaker 1: D he would be on his because he sat between
- 12:03Speaker 1: Diddy's legs.
- 12:04Speaker 3: I didn't slip between. I slipped.
- 12:09Speaker 1: I slipped in the of what oil.
- 12:14Speaker 3: No I was. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna revisit that.
- 12:16Speaker 2: That's all. I'm not going to the juice. I thought
- 12:20Speaker 2: that was hilarious.
- 12:20Speaker 3: That was Yes, I'm gonna always be insulting to you guys.
- 12:24Speaker 2: I loved it, actually, mm hmmmm.
- 12:28Speaker 5: Don't know how frustrating is it?
- 12:30Speaker 6: Right when people are not taking you serious because you're
- 12:35Speaker 6: a comedian.
- 12:37Speaker 3: It's interesting because I really for what we do. I
- 12:42Speaker 3: don't really want people to take me serious. I want
- 12:46Speaker 3: them to find me to be funny. You know what
- 12:48Speaker 3: I'm saying. People take you to that that's not your question, that.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Your hand, no that's not true. You like to be
- 12:56Speaker 1: taken serious that you actually get very frustrated when people
- 12:59Speaker 1: don't take you serious. What makes you think I get
- 13:01Speaker 1: frustrated because you told me that, when you told me that,
- 13:05Speaker 1: when you yelled at me over the phone, and I
- 13:07Speaker 1: didn't realize that you were playing. I thought we were playing,
- 13:09Speaker 1: and then you were like, no, you don't ever take
- 13:11Speaker 1: me serious.
- 13:11Speaker 3: And that's that. That's a horrible impression interview.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Like every other.
- 13:18Speaker 3: No, it's a It's a gift and a curse if
- 13:22Speaker 3: you want to say, you know, because it's times you
- 13:24Speaker 3: want people to understand that you're serious. But at the
- 13:27Speaker 3: end of the day, it's a comedian. I don't want
- 13:28Speaker 3: people to take me that serious. I want people to,
- 13:30Speaker 3: you know, think I'm funny and laugh at laugh at
- 13:32Speaker 3: the jokes.
- 13:33Speaker 6: Yeah, but in times when you are really serious, you know,
- 13:37Speaker 6: like when you were talking about your dad, you know, and.
- 13:40Speaker 3: You're trying to you're trying to trigger something, I'm not.
- 13:43Speaker 3: I just want I just said the timing. Sometimes and
- 13:48Speaker 3: there's times that I have moments and I was having
- 13:52Speaker 3: a moment that went viral and you laughed and you laughed,
- 13:56Speaker 3: and I thought that was very insensitive what we laugh
- 13:59Speaker 3: at when I.
- 14:02Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying. When he had grew up?
- 14:09Speaker 2: He remember who's laughing at?
- 14:11Speaker 3: Not laughing? I said, I said, I remember when I
- 14:17Speaker 3: had I was trying to explain a part of my life.
- 14:25Speaker 3: And I think that was very insensitive.
- 14:28Speaker 1: But that's only because we laughed before you got to
- 14:30Speaker 1: the part about your uncle.
- 14:32Speaker 3: What about it was about it was about da dad uncle.
- 14:36Speaker 1: It was that was the part about you know. I
- 14:38Speaker 1: thought he laughed about your dad passing away another time.
- 14:41Speaker 1: But the other part, when you were talking about being
- 14:43Speaker 1: grown up.
- 14:44Speaker 3: I said, when I grew up, I was trying to
- 14:45Speaker 3: go back to a story of my childhood and it
- 14:49Speaker 3: was relating to the relationship that I had with my son.
- 14:51Speaker 3: And then when I was doing that, that's when y'all left.
- 14:53Speaker 3: But I you know that, Uh, I've gotten past that brother,
- 14:57Speaker 3: spend a lot.
- 14:57Speaker 1: Of time with more than you. Who's your uncle.
- 15:03Speaker 3: That First of all, my brother, who happened to be
- 15:12Speaker 3: a part of the letter community, said that the gays
- 15:17Speaker 3: don't like what is trade? Trade trade.
- 15:22Speaker 4: He comes off as like not but but he said, but.
- 15:25Speaker 3: He said, he said, you are not trade.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Well, yes you're not.
- 15:31Speaker 3: He said, you're not trade, and nobody is checking for you.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Trade is a masculine, potentially straight identifying man who engages
- 15:40Speaker 1: in same sex activity for various benefits like money, our companionship.
- 15:44Speaker 1: So what I've been told is that I'm not trade.
- 15:46Speaker 1: I'm actually a butch queen.
- 15:50Speaker 5: He sounds very trading.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Hello, whatever, So I have Charlamn here. He had a
- 15:58Speaker 3: question for you, Chuck.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Okay, good morning. No so you don't consider me trade? No? No,
- 16:10Speaker 1: what about what about a butcher queen?
- 16:13Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 16:13Speaker 6: Absolutely, Oh it's better, say absolutely.
- 16:17Speaker 3: But what is a what is a what is a
- 16:19Speaker 3: butcher queen? What the kids who called Charlamagne the y ends,
- 16:27Speaker 3: the y Ends would call them, not the old ones.
- 16:33Speaker 1: I don't know what down that would be a bear? Right?
- 16:37Speaker 3: What be? That's every if he said what is he?
- 16:43Speaker 1: I don't.
- 16:44Speaker 3: I don't really know what to put the light skinned people. Ah,
- 16:47Speaker 3: it's a whole different it's a whole different category because
- 16:50Speaker 3: of your complexion. Yeah, well, I guess what did you say?
- 16:58Speaker 1: This?
- 16:59Speaker 3: What are the rule through I'm given him to you? Okay,
- 17:02Speaker 3: I'm here to listen. What else you wanted you to?
- 17:06Speaker 3: Just ask me what Charlamayn would not be trained? With
- 17:09Speaker 3: butcher queen.
- 17:09Speaker 2: Absolutely Charlamagne on the top of bottom.
- 17:13Speaker 1: I'm a PowerTOP. Clearly that would be me. I can
- 17:22Speaker 1: see that, I can see me being flexible. Could you
- 17:27Speaker 1: leave your brother, Alona, tell.
- 17:29Speaker 6: Last thing, last thing his brother, I mean, tell your
- 17:32Speaker 6: brother that he loves doing tricks on the budet.
- 17:35Speaker 5: What is that, oh.
- 17:37Speaker 3: Charter man loves doing tricks on the budet? What is
- 17:39Speaker 3: that being prepared? Being well prepared? And I told him,
- 17:47Speaker 3: I told him that. I told him that was getway
- 17:49Speaker 3: the gateway, but the getaway the gate way. But thank
- 17:53Speaker 3: you for giving me a little bit more acknowledge on
- 17:57Speaker 3: who this motherfucker really is.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Thank you any time?
- 18:01Speaker 5: All right, take it easy.
- 18:03Speaker 3: I tried to be nice to you. This is what
- 18:05Speaker 3: I want to say. Why don't know, why don't you
- 18:07Speaker 3: just shut the fuck up? How about that? Have you
- 18:12Speaker 3: ever tried that?
- 18:12Speaker 1: That's a question.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Can you have your head shut the fuck up? Shut
- 18:18Speaker 3: the fuck up to.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Ask you a question about your son?
- 18:21Speaker 3: That is not a good trans transition, That is not
- 18:25Speaker 3: a good That was not a question.
- 18:27Speaker 1: All right? What what if your son watches your career
- 18:30Speaker 1: years from that? What's the lesson you want him to take?
- 18:32Speaker 3: Away that his dad tried everything to make uh, to
- 18:35Speaker 3: make people feel good about themselves. It's so funny because
- 18:38Speaker 3: my son he knows what I do. This is so interesting.
- 18:42Speaker 3: One day, it was over the summer. We were talking
- 18:44Speaker 3: and I don't think he knows like some of the
- 18:46Speaker 3: things I did, movies and stuff like that. So I
- 18:48Speaker 3: was like, you know, I said, you know, daddy is
- 18:49Speaker 3: dadd is somewhat of accomplished act or whatever. He was
- 18:52Speaker 3: like yeah. So I just started showing him different things
- 18:54Speaker 3: that I've done.
- 18:55Speaker 2: What's the first thing you should accomplished?
- 18:56Speaker 3: I showed her. I showed him a scene with me
- 18:59Speaker 3: on as the wire. It was a saying when my
- 19:02Speaker 3: character just got introduced. It was me in the back
- 19:05Speaker 3: room with Lieutenant Daniels and I'm in there talking trash
- 19:09Speaker 3: like yo, I would still this, I will still this,
- 19:11Speaker 3: And I said, my name is Damien Price, but I
- 19:13Speaker 3: mostly go by day day. And then on the other
- 19:16Speaker 3: end he says, my name is Daniels, I mostly go
- 19:19Speaker 3: by lieutenant. Right. So now I find out that it's
- 19:21Speaker 3: a copy there, right. So I asked my son, I said,
- 19:23Speaker 3: what do you see in that scene? He said, I
- 19:25Speaker 3: see somebody that's about to get in trouble me, right,
- 19:29Speaker 3: He said, Daddy, did you get arrested in that scene?
- 19:31Speaker 3: I said, yeah, So I'm just thinking as an actor.
- 19:33Speaker 3: I said, I want to show him the other scene.
- 19:35Speaker 3: He said, I don't want to see that day. I said,
- 19:37Speaker 3: you know, I'm an actor. I said, it's not real,
- 19:38Speaker 3: it's make believe. He said, yeah, but I don't want
- 19:41Speaker 3: to see my father getting locked up. And I you know,
- 19:45Speaker 3: I never thought that he's separated. He's like, he knows
- 19:48Speaker 3: I'm an actor whatever, but he's in no situation. He
- 19:50Speaker 3: wanted to see me get locked up. And it made
- 19:52Speaker 3: me think about my father, Like I used to actually
- 19:54Speaker 3: go visit my father, you know, and where was he
- 19:57Speaker 3: in Pete Louisbourge Louis in present? Yeah, and I remember,
- 20:07Speaker 3: this is what you did to me. You see that.
- 20:10Speaker 3: I'm traumatized. As soon as I say that, I remember,
- 20:17Speaker 3: as soon as I said, this is what this nigga
- 20:19Speaker 3: did to me. As soon as I say I remember,
- 20:22Speaker 3: I felt something traumatized.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Yeah, what you remember going to see your dad in jail? Yeah?
- 20:28Speaker 3: And I streak behind the glass and everything, and I
- 20:31Speaker 3: thought that was normal. And that's why I don't understand
- 20:35Speaker 3: how some guys put themself in a position where that
- 20:39Speaker 3: would be how you fucking not raise your kids or
- 20:43Speaker 3: be in that situation.
- 20:44Speaker 1: That's why we gotta start shaming people that's in the street.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I don't judge people for what they did during survival,
- 20:49Speaker 1: but we do have to start climing people when they
- 20:51Speaker 1: doing street stuff that can take them away from their family.
- 20:54Speaker 3: My father was a perfect example that. My father was
- 20:57Speaker 3: a heroine Kingspinn in DC some years ago, right, and
- 21:00Speaker 3: he's been he was he passed away, sorry some time ago, right,
- 21:06Speaker 3: but but close to the end of his life. Come
- 21:09Speaker 3: to find out, he was still in the streets. He
- 21:12Speaker 3: was still selling drugs, and he was selling drugs like
- 21:15Speaker 3: he was in the seventies. The code words they was using, Yo,
- 21:19Speaker 3: I'm at the place, how many nuggets do you need?
- 21:23Speaker 3: Like thirty one hundred, I'm like, how the fund you
- 21:27Speaker 3: When he passed, my dad was seventy two. Yeah, but
- 21:31Speaker 3: he was Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But that's when
- 21:33Speaker 3: when somebody say somebody's a born hustler, it's like, what
- 21:37Speaker 3: would make you jeopardize your freedom? Relationship? Would you have
- 21:40Speaker 3: your kids? Some people just built for the streets, and
- 21:43Speaker 3: that was it was unfortunate. But I'm like, when do
- 21:46Speaker 3: you stop?
- 21:46Speaker 2: That relationship? Wasn't it wasn't a close relationship when.
- 21:49Speaker 3: He passed it was no, we was. We were as
- 21:51Speaker 3: close as you. I mean he most of my life.
- 21:53Speaker 3: He was in prison, you know what I'm saying. So
- 21:56Speaker 3: we didn't have I don't have anything bad to say
- 21:57Speaker 3: about it. We just didn't have that type connection. But
- 22:00Speaker 3: you know, I was a young boy growing up just
- 22:03Speaker 3: like one. A relationship with his father didn't exist.
- 22:05Speaker 2: I had to get him out because you are accomplished,
- 22:07Speaker 2: you are doing well, to say, Dad, you ain't got
- 22:08Speaker 2: to do this no more. You can just raise stay
- 22:11Speaker 2: with me, raise your grandson. You stay with me, or
- 22:13Speaker 2: push him out the streets or you was just my.
- 22:16Speaker 3: Dad had too much pride to probably ask anybody for anything.
- 22:19Speaker 3: You know.
- 22:20Speaker 4: You know what's crazy. We see you want to go
- 22:24Speaker 4: down down now.
- 22:25Speaker 1: But have you unpacked any of this in therapy because
- 22:27Speaker 1: she's about to move on and not even care.
- 22:28Speaker 7: About any No, no, no, it's in relation to what
- 22:30Speaker 7: he's talking about his dad.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Have you unpacked any of them? No?
- 22:32Speaker 3: I mean I haven't unpacked it in therapy. I don't
- 22:36Speaker 3: know if I need therapy for that. I just look
- 22:38Speaker 3: at I look at my father, and I use that
- 22:41Speaker 3: as an example of what I don't want to do
- 22:43Speaker 3: with my son. That's why one of the things with
- 22:45Speaker 3: my son, I always like, make memories, make memories. So
- 22:48Speaker 3: I've instelled that in him, and then I just remember
- 22:50Speaker 3: when I do things with him, when I take my
- 22:52Speaker 3: son on the river, when I do trips and everything,
- 22:54Speaker 3: it just reminds me of things I didn't do with
- 22:56Speaker 3: my dad, and it makes me want to be more
- 22:58Speaker 3: aggressively in my my I was like, even though me
- 23:01Speaker 3: and Stephanie out together, like I'm like actively, like I'm
- 23:04Speaker 3: involved with my son life. Anybody to follow me? They
- 23:06Speaker 3: know that. Anybody know that know me? Know you want
- 23:08Speaker 3: to hug right now, I don't want to hug.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Did you let your son see your greatest role? Since
- 23:13Speaker 1: you are an accomplished actor, did you let him see
- 23:14Speaker 1: your greatest role ever?
- 23:16Speaker 3: What you considered to be my greatest role ever?
- 23:18Speaker 1: When you played uh, the Pizza Heights Guy Spider Man
- 23:21Speaker 1: Part two, The Pizza Heights.
- 23:23Speaker 3: That wasn't my greatest role, but it was for for
- 23:27Speaker 3: for a kid to be a part of that.
- 23:31Speaker 2: Probably see it.
- 23:34Speaker 3: So it's, ah, what's the Spider Man nigga name man? Yeah, Toby,
- 23:44Speaker 3: Like he's working for this piece of company, right, and
- 23:47Speaker 3: every day he's delivering these pizzas. He's late. He's late,
- 23:50Speaker 3: and then they tell him, they said, yo, if you
- 23:52Speaker 3: if you, if you're late one more time, you're going
- 23:54Speaker 3: to get fired for your job. So he's driving down
- 23:56Speaker 3: the street, you know what I mean, he looked at
- 23:58Speaker 3: the clock. He's gonna be late. So he gets off
- 24:00Speaker 3: the bike, he goes in the alley and then he
- 24:03Speaker 3: comes back as Spider Man with a pizza box and
- 24:07Speaker 3: he's like, whoa, he stole that guy's pizzad I've always
- 24:19Speaker 3: let me tell you, no, let me tell you something
- 24:21Speaker 3: interesting story about that. When I got that role for
- 24:24Speaker 3: a Spider Man, they do what you call audition, it's
- 24:27Speaker 3: called reaction audition. Like they'll just give you a scenario.
- 24:30Speaker 3: They'll just be like this, you're in the elevator, Spider
- 24:32Speaker 3: Man comes in there. How are you gonna respond? You
- 24:34Speaker 3: walking down the street, how are you gonna respond? They
- 24:36Speaker 3: audition you and just see what your improv reaction is
- 24:38Speaker 3: going to be. So when I before I got that roll,
- 24:41Speaker 3: it was. That was some years ago. I was supposed
- 24:43Speaker 3: to do Man on the Street for BT Awards, right,
- 24:45Speaker 3: and at that time, from my generation of comments, it
- 24:48Speaker 3: wasn't a lot of opportunities, so being a part of
- 24:50Speaker 3: BT anything, it was a big deal. So I was
- 24:52Speaker 3: excited that I was going to be this Man on
- 24:54Speaker 3: the Street guy. The guy who was directing it, he
- 24:58Speaker 3: wanted me. But the producers were still got you about it.
- 25:01Speaker 3: So you know, we had talked, We had talked and
- 25:03Speaker 3: up until Friday. That Friday we did a wardrobe. I
- 25:07Speaker 3: had got a wardrobe fitting and all that, and I
- 25:10Speaker 3: was supposed to go to work that Saturday morning for BT.
- 25:13Speaker 3: I get a call at night and they said the
- 25:15Speaker 3: producers wanted to go in a different direction. They was
- 25:18Speaker 3: like the road that I thought I was gonna have
- 25:19Speaker 3: the Man on the Street it just disappeared. And this
- 25:21Speaker 3: was like not even I mean within twenty four hours.
- 25:24Speaker 3: So I wasn't fucking with BT. I was like they'd
- 25:27Speaker 3: be on some bullshit. I was upset about that. Then
- 25:30Speaker 3: the next morning I get a call from my manager
- 25:33Speaker 3: and he said, we got a call from the Spider
- 25:35Speaker 3: Man team. They want you to come to work, right,
- 25:38Speaker 3: and that was so crazy. And the crazy thing about
- 25:41Speaker 3: it was where the location where I was supposed to
- 25:44Speaker 3: do the BT situation. It was literally right around the
- 25:48Speaker 3: corner from the Spider Man set. So I had to
- 25:50Speaker 3: walk past the BT set and Niggas was looking at
- 25:53Speaker 3: me like, did anybody tell me?
- 25:56Speaker 8: Like?
- 25:56Speaker 3: I walked past, and Sam Rainy he came up to me.
- 25:59Speaker 3: He said, Downhill your you're my favorite actor in New York. Well,
- 26:03Speaker 3: you're the only actor I know in New York. And
- 26:05Speaker 3: what they do is I didn't know what I was
- 26:06Speaker 3: going to do. He's got a stick right here with
- 26:09Speaker 3: an X on it, he said, he tells you the situation.
- 26:11Speaker 3: He said, So, Donille, this is this is uh Toby right.
- 26:16Speaker 3: He goes through the alley that he does like this
- 26:18Speaker 3: to see your eyeline, he said, and he comes out
- 26:20Speaker 3: as Spider Man. He said, what are you going to say?
- 26:23Speaker 3: And I just said, whoa, He's told God's Pizza And
- 26:25Speaker 3: that was then improval line and he kept and the
- 26:27Speaker 3: rest of the day that's all he kept saying for
- 26:29Speaker 3: the rest of that So it just worked. It was
- 26:30Speaker 3: It's funny how one situation got shut down and it
- 26:33Speaker 3: opened up because nobody would have remembered me doing a
- 26:36Speaker 3: Man on the Street stuff for BT. But I go
- 26:39Speaker 3: down to history being a part of that brand, and
- 26:41Speaker 3: I had one line, but it.
- 26:42Speaker 1: Was because of that one appearance in Spider Man two.
- 26:46Speaker 3: I didn't get any cheeks from it, but I made
- 26:50Speaker 3: my friend's kids very happy. Like one of my friends,
- 26:55Speaker 3: it was a funny because you know, dad's always gonna
- 26:57Speaker 3: try to be proud. My friend, Brooklyn Mike right the time.
- 27:00Speaker 3: His daughter was young at the time, and he said,
- 27:02Speaker 3: you know, uh, my daughter said, can daddy, can you
- 27:06Speaker 3: introduce me to Spider Man? Can Donnelle introduced me to
- 27:09Speaker 3: Spider Man? And of course he been a dad, he said, well,
- 27:12Speaker 3: you know, I know Spider Man too, and his daughter
- 27:14Speaker 3: looked at him and said, I know. But Donelle worked
- 27:17Speaker 3: with Spider Man. So anytime I got to flex for
- 27:20Speaker 3: kids or whatever like that. But I never got no.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Absolutely any of these stories happen because there's one little
- 27:23Speaker 1: line of Spider Man too.
- 27:25Speaker 4: I believed adjacent you got.
- 27:29Speaker 3: Nega Spider Man that what you know over that was
- 27:35Speaker 3: I probably got about two three thousand dollars or even
- 27:38Speaker 3: with the royalties and a no. I mean it constantly comes.
- 27:40Speaker 3: But after a while. You know, it's not like crazy amount,
- 27:43Speaker 3: but you get paid a little.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Say.
- 27:47Speaker 3: I'm just said, do you feel.
- 27:50Speaker 1: That the industry rewards the comedians who take risk or
- 27:53Speaker 1: the ones who play in safe.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I don't think it's the industry that uh that that
- 28:00Speaker 3: is the connection. It's the audience, you know, it's the audience.
- 28:05Speaker 3: At the end of the day. All were trying to
- 28:07Speaker 3: do is build a fan. We could be in film
- 28:09Speaker 3: and TV all all we want, but real for real comedian.
- 28:13Speaker 3: That's a real comedian. At the end of the day.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Your biggest concern Can I put my name on the
- 28:17Speaker 3: market and can people come and check me out telling jokes?
- 28:20Speaker 3: So I don't get caught up in what the industry does.
- 28:22Speaker 3: I'm a part of the industry, but I make a
- 28:25Speaker 3: living without it. If I don't ever get another film
- 28:27Speaker 3: or TV gave for the rest of my life the
- 28:29Speaker 3: fact that I can make money telling the jokes, it's
- 28:31Speaker 3: a win.
- 28:31Speaker 1: So I look at like that you're telling jokes this weekend.
- 28:34Speaker 1: Actually yeah at the stress factor.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Yes, speak speaking of stress factory. I don't trust your face.
- 28:45Speaker 3: I'm just say, it's just like you holding back. It's
- 28:49Speaker 3: like your face is holding back some type of negativity.
- 28:52Speaker 3: And the funny thing about it is that let's get
- 28:55Speaker 3: let's get to the real Let's get to the real deal.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Let's get to the Let's get to the real deal.
- 29:00Speaker 3: This is not how you talk to me. Off off.
- 29:02Speaker 3: You called me for advice? Do you not? Do you not?
- 29:07Speaker 3: Do we have conversations? Do we have conversations? When you
- 29:10Speaker 3: told me, you said, Donnie, I want to invest with money,
- 29:12Speaker 3: you told me you you said you wanted to open
- 29:15Speaker 3: up a gate club in South Coloinia.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Comedy club.
- 29:18Speaker 3: You know, you said the gay comedy You said, because
- 29:21Speaker 3: the cocks. You said, the cocks are strong down you said,
- 29:24Speaker 3: the Cox is popping down there in South Carolina. Yeah,
- 29:29Speaker 3: to get whatever Cox is copped.
- 29:30Speaker 1: And you club funny would be dope for a gay
- 29:33Speaker 1: comedy club.
- 29:34Speaker 3: But I don't know how to say this. Man. I'm
- 29:38Speaker 3: sick of you. Man, I'm really sick of you.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Would you like a biscuit?
- 29:44Speaker 3: I don't want if what I'm telling you?
- 29:50Speaker 2: What?
- 29:51Speaker 3: No, I'm good. I'm good on that. You know know
- 29:53Speaker 3: that got some skeep magic what you're doing. Nah, I'm good,
- 29:58Speaker 3: I'm possible.
- 29:59Speaker 2: Look, hey, sir, now you've been in the game for
- 30:01Speaker 2: a long time. What keeps you motivated to still hit
- 30:03Speaker 2: the stage? What motivates Donelle and what makes Donell laugh
- 30:07Speaker 2: at this time?
- 30:07Speaker 3: Bill's motivate me to go on stage? Yeah, but it
- 30:10Speaker 3: just I really, after thirty plus years, I still enjoy
- 30:13Speaker 3: what I do. You know what I'm saying. You got
- 30:15Speaker 3: a couple of people to go to a show. It's
- 30:16Speaker 3: speakle that need to laugh and the people that want
- 30:18Speaker 3: to laugh. When I do a show and people come
- 30:20Speaker 3: up to me and they're like, you know what, I
- 30:22Speaker 3: was having a bad day, I lost my honor or
- 30:25Speaker 3: something I didn't expect to go out. Everybody said, come
- 30:27Speaker 3: out and enjoy yourself. And when I talk to those
- 30:30Speaker 3: people and the like, you remove me from the things
- 30:33Speaker 3: that I was dealing with, you know, for at least
- 30:36Speaker 3: forty five minutes. That's what kind of gives me motivated
- 30:38Speaker 3: to do it. And every year I try to evolve
- 30:41Speaker 3: and get better. I really, really genuinely enjoy what I'm doing.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Are you chasing legacy or chasing checks?
- 30:46Speaker 3: Don I'm not. I'm definitely always going to chase checks
- 30:51Speaker 3: because that's what I do. But I don't know what
- 30:54Speaker 3: my legacy will be. You never know you think people can, well,
- 31:00Speaker 3: you don't never know people like this wheld we live
- 31:02Speaker 3: in now, People gonna talk shit about anything. As much
- 31:05Speaker 3: as you try to do the right thing, it's always
- 31:07Speaker 3: going to be some negative energy. And as long as
- 31:09Speaker 3: we try to not focus on that, we've.
- 31:11Speaker 2: Been because you're quick to respond to negative energy, negative
- 31:15Speaker 2: things said to you, and it seems like you're the
- 31:17Speaker 2: person that continues to do it, which keeps the motion continuing.
- 31:19Speaker 3: It's hard for me. It's the hardest thing. And it's
- 31:23Speaker 3: easy for you to say you just don't give a fuck.
- 31:25Speaker 3: It's hard not to give a fuck. So it really is.
- 31:28Speaker 3: And to certain I'm getting a little stronger with that.
- 31:31Speaker 3: But at some point you like, you comments, I shouldn't
- 31:34Speaker 3: be in the comments, but you've reading the comments and everything.
- 31:36Speaker 3: You're like, oh, this ship is popping, this feels good.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Feel And then it's that one person that could throw
- 31:41Speaker 3: you off, You know, one person you like, how don't
- 31:44Speaker 3: why don't you feel like everybody else feel? But I
- 31:47Speaker 3: realized social media is just a it's just a playground
- 31:51Speaker 3: for people to be negative and nasty. You just realizing
- 31:53Speaker 3: that today no, not today, no, not today. I'm just
- 31:57Speaker 3: it's just it's a.
- 31:58Speaker 1: Constant thing your therapists about why these comments bother you? Like,
- 32:02Speaker 1: why everything gotta be about unpacking trigger triggering everything?
- 32:06Speaker 3: I don't want to unpack. Why the fun is that?
- 32:08Speaker 3: The new word? Is it?
- 32:09Speaker 1: Comedian people?
- 32:12Speaker 3: Do you get like when you do therapists? Do you
- 32:13Speaker 3: get words of the day, like you have to use
- 32:16Speaker 3: calm down? I'm not upset.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Do you want to hold down? Yo? You do?
- 32:23Speaker 2: Do?
- 32:24Speaker 3: I don't want to? You do know that, you do
- 32:27Speaker 3: know what you're doing, right, you do know what you're doing.
- 32:29Speaker 3: You're fucking breathe.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Regular people that do this to you. Other comedians.
- 32:36Speaker 3: No, comedians don't fuck with me. No, don't. They don't.
- 32:40Speaker 3: They don't like him.
- 32:41Speaker 2: He means they don't like him. Commedians don't like him,
- 32:43Speaker 2: He says, they won't.
- 32:43Speaker 3: Say it to me. Yes, well no, when tell me us?
- 32:48Speaker 1: I don't want to bring up old I don't want
- 32:49Speaker 1: to rehashow.
- 32:51Speaker 3: Yeah. But what I'm saying is anybody can be boisterous online,
- 32:56Speaker 3: but like face to face, it's a whole different story.
- 32:59Speaker 3: And you get me an example of anybody that had
- 33:02Speaker 3: an issue with me, had had brought it to my face.
- 33:04Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. I don't want to.
- 33:06Speaker 1: I would love you don't want to. I don't want
- 33:07Speaker 1: to talk about it. No, this is a good time
- 33:09Speaker 1: for you to unpack.
- 33:10Speaker 3: No, I won't believe it will well? Well, hold, you
- 33:17Speaker 3: try to start some ship with nas J when you
- 33:20Speaker 3: called me, you try to make it seem like I
- 33:22Speaker 3: called it something like that, and I got nothing but
- 33:24Speaker 3: respect for you.
- 33:26Speaker 5: Tried to you try to start, You start in beef?
- 33:28Speaker 5: What comedians?
- 33:29Speaker 3: Now, unpack it?
- 33:32Speaker 1: That's not what happened.
- 33:34Speaker 5: What is he talking about? You started something between him
- 33:36Speaker 5: and Jay?
- 33:37Speaker 1: What's something? What's something you learned about yourself recently that
- 33:40Speaker 1: surprised you?
- 33:42Speaker 3: Nothing? I don't be learning it about myself. Nothing, that's
- 33:49Speaker 3: the problem.
- 33:49Speaker 2: But if you weren't a comedian, what would you be
- 33:52Speaker 2: doing right now?
- 33:54Speaker 3: I will probably be I wanted to be a car first.
- 33:56Speaker 3: I wanted to be an architect, but I wasn't that
- 33:58Speaker 3: nice and math, so I'll like, that's not gonna be
- 34:00Speaker 3: a good thing. Then I would have probably been a carpenter.
- 34:03Speaker 3: You'd be a chef. I yeah, I would have been.
- 34:07Speaker 3: I would have been definitely something something blue collar, for sure.
- 34:12Speaker 3: You don't think you've been a chef. I would have
- 34:15Speaker 3: been a chef. I wouldn't have been a Sioux chef.
- 34:17Speaker 5: Does somebody give carpenter Lauren?
- 34:19Speaker 7: They just they got stories, They got a toolbox they
- 34:22Speaker 7: walk around with they they come in your house.
- 34:26Speaker 3: How blue collar get the most? You want to know
- 34:31Speaker 3: who fo daughters in the community. Uh, I'm gonna tell you.
- 34:36Speaker 3: Football coaches and handyman handy man. I know, Uh, football
- 34:40Speaker 3: coaches and handyman football coach, especially in the inner city
- 34:44Speaker 3: because there's so many fatherless kids out there. Coach Johnson
- 34:49Speaker 3: is fucking all of the mothers just because they spend
- 34:52Speaker 3: time to do kids.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Coach that amazing. Yeah, I mean that's not a real name,
- 34:56Speaker 1: but I just put it out there, Richard. What Johnson
- 35:01Speaker 1: out there just fucking everyone? The others children?
- 35:05Speaker 6: When you look at the state of comedy today, right,
- 35:08Speaker 6: the climate of comedy, right, what pisses you off?
- 35:11Speaker 5: And what makes you proud?
- 35:12Speaker 2: Great question?
- 35:12Speaker 3: Yes, nothing, nothing pisces me off. I used to not
- 35:19Speaker 3: understand certain things, and I would just say that, for example,
- 35:22Speaker 3: like I've been doing it for a very long time,
- 35:24Speaker 3: people that haven't been doing as long as I have,
- 35:29Speaker 3: like yourself, you came along, you had different tools to
- 35:32Speaker 3: advance yourself. You know, It's like a lot of the
- 35:35Speaker 3: older comments, well they're on social media whatever. But those
- 35:37Speaker 3: are tools that exist, Those are tools that they they
- 35:42Speaker 3: sharpen their toolbox to do that. But I do say
- 35:45Speaker 3: with that, with all the success like some young comedies get,
- 35:49Speaker 3: like like in the moment, I would really appreciate if
- 35:54Speaker 3: people took the art form of stand up to be
- 35:57Speaker 3: good at it and that just like, Okay, I got
- 35:59Speaker 3: this fire, is a fame, whatever, people come to see me,
- 36:01Speaker 3: but really give a fuck about being a dope stand up.
- 36:04Speaker 1: Do you think social media comedians are watering down the
- 36:06Speaker 1: art form.
- 36:07Speaker 3: I don't think.
- 36:08Speaker 2: I don't.
- 36:08Speaker 3: I don't say watering down. It's comedy. It's evolving the definition.
- 36:14Speaker 3: I remember some years ago I was talking to this
- 36:16Speaker 3: girl and she was like this, I'm a comedian. I said,
- 36:18Speaker 3: let me see some of the stuff. She said, I'm
- 36:19Speaker 3: on YouTube, and she said if she started showing me
- 36:22Speaker 3: some skills, I said, that's not a comedian. She said, yes,
- 36:25Speaker 3: it is. Because when I think of the idea of commedian,
- 36:27Speaker 3: I think of stand up and stand up. But if
- 36:29Speaker 3: you really look at the definition of comedian, it says
- 36:32Speaker 3: one who entertains an audience through humor. So what used
- 36:36Speaker 3: to be the definition of a comedian, it has changed
- 36:39Speaker 3: and it's evolved.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Wasn't a comedy? Why wasn't What wasn't a comedy? By
- 36:45Speaker 1: your logic, that makes no sense.
- 36:47Speaker 3: I don't understand what you're saying.
- 36:48Speaker 1: And you said, she showed you sketches, and you said,
- 36:50Speaker 1: this isn't comedy. No stand up?
- 36:52Speaker 3: No, no, no no, Because when she said comedian, I
- 36:56Speaker 3: was just thinking stand up comedian, you know what I'm saying,
- 36:58Speaker 3: not thinking that just somebody making media. Yeah, it could
- 37:00Speaker 3: be a sketch comedian, but that's say that.
- 37:02Speaker 5: She just said she was a comedian. In his mind
- 37:04Speaker 5: automatically reverted.
- 37:05Speaker 3: It went to like stand up, but she's a comedic actor.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Whatever you do.
- 37:09Speaker 7: Those comedians you talk about get their stripes, then, like,
- 37:12Speaker 7: what is it that they do, because not everybody that
- 37:14Speaker 7: is online does stand up?
- 37:16Speaker 3: Where do you get they stripe A lot of people.
- 37:18Speaker 3: They first off, they want to know how they can
- 37:20Speaker 3: get some more money. You know what I'm saying, It's
- 37:23Speaker 3: like this, Okay, I got this fan base. You know
- 37:25Speaker 3: what I'm saying. People follow me, they see me doing sketches,
- 37:27Speaker 3: but I want to turn that into something else. So
- 37:29Speaker 3: eventually it turns into you doing stand up because house
- 37:32Speaker 3: if are you going to get the other check if
- 37:34Speaker 3: you don't go go go perform? So it just it
- 37:37Speaker 3: just turns into that, I have my hand up. Can
- 37:45Speaker 3: I ask a question? I don't know what it is,
- 37:47Speaker 3: but I just don't trust you, man, Just a question.
- 37:49Speaker 2: I'm having a real commisation trusted you.
- 37:52Speaker 1: You need to really impact that.
- 37:53Speaker 2: I'm just asking.
- 37:54Speaker 1: In this little career that you had.
- 37:56Speaker 2: You know, you've done stand up, you've done skits, you've
- 37:58Speaker 2: done comedy, you've done TV, you've done more than radio.
- 38:02Speaker 2: Out of all the things that you did, what would
- 38:03Speaker 2: you say is your biggest mistake that you've ever made
- 38:06Speaker 2: that you think back and like that was wrong or
- 38:08Speaker 2: I apologize.
- 38:09Speaker 3: I'll tell you what my biggest mistake was the first
- 38:12Speaker 3: time I ever came on this show.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Why do you feel that way?
- 38:15Speaker 3: Because look at what this created, It's created monster. I
- 38:17Speaker 3: gotta come up here, I gotta look at you. I
- 38:21Speaker 3: gotta worry about unpacking ship with this nigga over here.
- 38:24Speaker 3: And then wherever I go, people like, well you let
- 38:26Speaker 3: would you like that? And I don't. That's probably the
- 38:29Speaker 3: biggest mistake in my career was actually coming up here.
- 38:32Speaker 4: Keep coming back.
- 38:33Speaker 1: I got, first of all, we don't funk with you
- 38:36Speaker 1: like that's that is such a false narrative.
- 38:39Speaker 5: So why wouldy'allt him come up heref y'all don't funk
- 38:41Speaker 5: with him?
- 38:41Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, I mean like, we don't
- 38:43Speaker 1: funk with him. That nobody messages with donell Oh you think.
- 38:51Speaker 3: You love I don't even I used to like you.
- 38:59Speaker 3: I didn't notice, I wouldn't. I was, Yeah.
- 39:00Speaker 5: I think it's the thing.
- 39:01Speaker 3: When I come in here, I don't know what they expect.
- 39:04Speaker 4: Start well beyond measure chains.
- 39:07Speaker 3: Oh that's nice, thank you.
- 39:09Speaker 4: He knows true fashion. You don't get a sweater.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Another question, when you were in the Air Force, right
- 39:13Speaker 2: and you were stationed in South Korea, what.
- 39:16Speaker 3: Did you mean by that?
- 39:17Speaker 5: What did you I like your sweater?
- 39:19Speaker 4: It's what what did you What did you.
- 39:22Speaker 2: Learn in South Korea that you still use in today's Trust?
- 39:25Speaker 3: Trust nothing but button in this Chris. But what was
- 39:29Speaker 3: what you say?
- 39:30Speaker 1: What I said?
- 39:30Speaker 2: When you were stationed in South Korea in the military,
- 39:32Speaker 2: what did you learn there that you still use in
- 39:34Speaker 2: today's business or in comedy.
- 39:36Speaker 3: It was a phrase, and I'm saying in Korean, pog
- 39:40Speaker 3: o mayo?
- 39:41Speaker 5: What do that mean?
- 39:42Speaker 3: How much for the pussy?
- 39:44Speaker 6: Oh?
- 39:44Speaker 5: Pogi o mayo?
- 39:46Speaker 3: Pogi o mayo?
- 39:47Speaker 2: So you bought vagina in Korea South Koreba.
- 39:49Speaker 3: No, I didn't buy it, but I need Did you
- 39:51Speaker 3: know that because it was a phrase, pog o mayo?
- 39:53Speaker 3: You had to know that if you have to know
- 39:55Speaker 3: that if you weren't buying them, Okay, all right. I
- 39:57Speaker 3: was eighteen years old and I was over there station
- 40:00Speaker 3: in their career. I was eighteen years old. I was
- 40:02Speaker 3: on a remote base. A remote base means that for
- 40:04Speaker 3: every for every one female, she has fifteen or twenty
- 40:08Speaker 3: guys to choose from. And I wasn't in nobody top five,
- 40:12Speaker 3: So I had to learn how to say pogi.
- 40:14Speaker 7: On my other Your issues don't come from the breakfast club.
- 40:16Speaker 7: They started back when you were over there, and you were,
- 40:18Speaker 7: but I didn't.
- 40:19Speaker 3: But I had a girlfriend over there. But is it
- 40:20Speaker 3: true called yobo? It's called yo yobo? Is like a
- 40:23Speaker 3: girlfriend for a year?
- 40:24Speaker 8: Is it like?
- 40:24Speaker 3: Is didn't have like a reglar lady? Pretty much?
- 40:27Speaker 1: Boys?
- 40:28Speaker 3: Is that I didn't traffick her. I was in the country.
- 40:31Speaker 1: You leased the lady?
- 40:33Speaker 3: Yeah, you can lease some yobo.
- 40:34Speaker 2: Was she fool lady?
- 40:35Speaker 3: Yeah she was.
- 40:37Speaker 4: She had to think about it.
- 40:39Speaker 3: I have to think about everything on this show because
- 40:43Speaker 3: I don't know the energy and where it's coming from.
- 40:45Speaker 3: But yeah, I had a relation. I was in a
- 40:46Speaker 3: relationship over I thought so for a year?
- 40:49Speaker 4: You thought so?
- 40:51Speaker 1: How much did you pay the Lisa?
- 40:55Speaker 3: Did Miles matter?
- 40:57Speaker 1: It's a great question, did miles matter? Was she a
- 41:00Speaker 1: hole there and you didn't know?
- 41:01Speaker 3: No, she was a whole. She was a yobo. What's that?
- 41:04Speaker 3: That just your partner for a years, somebody to take
- 41:07Speaker 3: care of you and make sure you're all right and
- 41:09Speaker 3: make sure you get all the all all your needs
- 41:11Speaker 3: taken care of. But she wasn't a lady boy, No,
- 41:14Speaker 3: she wasn't a label. That's what I was asking.
- 41:16Speaker 6: Do you have any favorite comedians these days? Like any
- 41:19Speaker 6: any newcomers and you got any favorites the internet that
- 41:23Speaker 6: you'd like to look at.
- 41:24Speaker 3: One of my guys is here right now, Adrian Washington.
- 41:27Speaker 3: He just had uh he did the bucket pull on
- 41:29Speaker 3: kill Tony Show. I've been working with him for like
- 41:31Speaker 3: a year. I think he was voted in Minneapolistes one
- 41:37Speaker 3: time because we.
- 41:38Speaker 1: We we we we loted out your podcast host, Yeah.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Roberts one time. And he's been sitting here for forty
- 41:49Speaker 2: minutes because.
- 41:50Speaker 1: We know what we do. Ignore each other.
- 41:54Speaker 3: No, it'll be the right time for it.
- 41:56Speaker 1: Ignore each other.
- 41:57Speaker 3: It's the collective. I started this new thing. I realized
- 41:59Speaker 3: that I've been I've had a lot of influence in
- 42:01Speaker 3: this business. I know a lot of people, and I said,
- 42:04Speaker 3: you know, uh, I wanted to do something where I
- 42:07Speaker 3: got a group of creatives that we come together, we
- 42:11Speaker 3: have like creative retreats. Uh, we create content and we
- 42:16Speaker 3: pretty much hit all types of areas in this business.
- 42:19Speaker 3: And I was like, instead of it's not like I
- 42:21Speaker 3: represent anybody, but you have a group of people and
- 42:23Speaker 3: it's going to I'm going to start this thing. It's
- 42:25Speaker 3: a raw edge collective where we come together as a crew.
- 42:28Speaker 3: And if somebody's like, oh, we need somebody to chore
- 42:31Speaker 3: choreograph this dance routine. But the first thing I'm thinking
- 42:34Speaker 3: about is Javanta. You know, huh, why do you need
- 42:38Speaker 3: choreographed dance routines? Yeah, I'm not saying for myself. I'm
- 42:41Speaker 3: saying if somebody had a situation like that, I'm going
- 42:45Speaker 3: to be a TikTok sensation.
- 42:46Speaker 1: You'll see, you'll see.
- 42:50Speaker 3: That's right.
- 42:50Speaker 2: You said you influenced people. What have you influenced people
- 42:53Speaker 2: stealing your stuff? If that's me?
- 42:55Speaker 3: No, Like I've helped a lot of comics. I've helped
- 42:58Speaker 3: a lot of comics get to certain levels.
- 43:00Speaker 1: Why don't they give you credit?
- 43:02Speaker 3: That's just part of the business. Well, I mean they don't.
- 43:05Speaker 1: Get their credit. Like Dave gets his credit all the time,
- 43:08Speaker 1: rockets credit all the time. People you know, like those
- 43:10Speaker 1: guys get their credit. Why don't did Donnelle rolland get
- 43:12Speaker 1: his credit? If you're helping people.
- 43:13Speaker 3: Like this, it happens sometimes sometimes people say thank you,
- 43:17Speaker 3: Uh times they don't.
- 43:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never heard that Kevin Harg gets his credit.
- 43:22Speaker 4: Who have you helped?
- 43:24Speaker 1: Good question?
- 43:24Speaker 3: A lot of people know who who? Right? I do
- 43:28Speaker 3: want to talk about it because then I don't want
- 43:30Speaker 3: to talk.
- 43:30Speaker 5: He helps me all the time. It gives me great advice.
- 43:32Speaker 1: I call him.
- 43:33Speaker 3: I had a group of years ago. I'm sorry, it's
- 43:39Speaker 3: hard for me to stay focused.
- 43:40Speaker 1: Just I'm sorry that raised their hands and saying help.
- 43:47Speaker 6: That's all I'm saying, you just helped me, you know,
- 43:49Speaker 6: just giving me inspiration and you know, mentoring me and
- 43:52Speaker 6: things like that.
- 43:53Speaker 5: Just great advice.
- 43:54Speaker 3: I appreciate.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Forget you're one of the best. You're one of the
- 43:57Speaker 1: best stand up comedians that I really, I.
- 43:59Speaker 3: Really, I really I appreciate you. And I said all
- 44:03Speaker 3: the time, and I probably repeat myself. I remember years
- 44:08Speaker 3: ago you had reached out to me in a DM
- 44:10Speaker 3: and this was when you was first starting. The only
- 44:12Speaker 3: thing you want to know is like what I need
- 44:13Speaker 3: to do? And I didn't. I didn't give you. I
- 44:15Speaker 3: don't think I gave you any advice I.
- 44:17Speaker 1: Might have said.
- 44:18Speaker 3: I think I might have said get on stage. I
- 44:20Speaker 3: think I might say get on stage. Everything you're going
- 44:21Speaker 3: to learn is going to be from them, from what
- 44:24Speaker 3: you do as a performer. And it's interesting because I
- 44:27Speaker 3: know people go at you or whatever, right, And the
- 44:28Speaker 3: thing that fucks me up the most, like if you
- 44:30Speaker 3: don't respect anything about you, respect your hustle. You know
- 44:34Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like people think it's easier. I know
- 44:36Speaker 3: you get it all the time. Oh, because she got
- 44:38Speaker 3: these followers, But those followers just don't come out of nowhere.
- 44:41Speaker 3: They come from putting the work in. I've seen you.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I seen you grow as a stand up when we
- 44:46Speaker 3: just did that show where were we.
- 44:48Speaker 5: Were when Californ Sacramento.
- 44:50Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was like, I was like, why don't
- 44:52Speaker 3: they talk about this? You know what I'm saying. I've
- 44:53Speaker 3: seen you captivate the audience, did the way you acted.
- 44:57Speaker 3: You just had that orders in the palm you had,
- 44:59Speaker 3: And I'm like, I know you get a lot of
- 45:02Speaker 3: dumb ship, but I look at you like this is
- 45:04Speaker 3: an example of somebody when you work hard as something
- 45:08Speaker 3: and you put the work and you'll get the results.
- 45:10Speaker 3: You know. So I always shout y'all, even not even
- 45:12Speaker 3: when ship is happening, you know, I just call you like, yeah,
- 45:18Speaker 3: I don't have any more questions. I don't think this
- 45:22Speaker 3: went the way I wanted why.
- 45:26Speaker 1: I was just just walked my attention of comment that
- 45:29Speaker 1: somebody posted you were on kill Tony. I was yesterday
- 45:32Speaker 1: with Rob Snyder, nice and me and.
- 45:35Speaker 3: I went back.
- 45:37Speaker 5: Made up everything made up.
- 45:40Speaker 3: We know, I never had an issue with kill Tony.
- 45:42Speaker 1: It was really bad for you on there.
- 45:43Speaker 3: At one point it wasn't bad. It was you got
- 45:46Speaker 3: booed and nigga, what are you talking about. I didn't
- 45:51Speaker 3: get booed on kill Tony. I got on roads battlest get.
- 45:57Speaker 1: You walked off and kill Tony.
- 46:00Speaker 3: I removed my negative motherfucker situation that guy was. I
- 46:05Speaker 3: didn't say I had a gout the walk the job,
- 46:07Speaker 3: please stop.
- 46:08Speaker 1: You walked off because the guy was killing you so bad.
- 46:10Speaker 1: I did not want what happened? You read move that time.
- 46:14Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Gavanta, what happened? I didn't come here, gavan
- 46:17Speaker 1: to come to the mic.
- 46:18Speaker 4: He crashed out?
- 46:20Speaker 1: What what happened? Okay? So why did you want? If
- 46:32Speaker 1: you need I just don't.
- 46:34Speaker 8: I just don't want to come on here and act
- 46:36Speaker 8: like I love you so much.
- 46:38Speaker 3: You helped me as well. He's a great representation if
- 46:42Speaker 3: you need help.
- 46:43Speaker 1: And not last night, but the time before when he
- 46:47Speaker 1: walked off.
- 46:48Speaker 8: Well, he has a tendency to crash out.
- 46:51Speaker 5: And so at that point was at the point he
- 46:56Speaker 5: was already gone. He was already gone.
- 46:58Speaker 2: Look at me and jests okay, he was they gone
- 47:00Speaker 2: and he walked up.
- 47:02Speaker 1: Happened at the last one, the last tape, because there's
- 47:04Speaker 1: really negative comments that I'm about to read.
- 47:06Speaker 8: Killed this last night.
- 47:09Speaker 5: Yeah, he killed it, killed it was, there was nothing
- 47:11Speaker 5: wrong with it.
- 47:11Speaker 1: There's a comment that says, Donnelle Rawlings branded comedy is
- 47:15Speaker 1: so bad to me, like watching a train wreck. Charlomagne
- 47:17Speaker 1: is gonna have a field day tomorrow.
- 47:18Speaker 5: D Esus, wow, jesus.
- 47:21Speaker 3: But see, those are your type of people. They're negative.
- 47:25Speaker 3: Nothing negative, You're they're negative. Those are your type.
- 47:29Speaker 1: You love that nothing to do.
- 47:30Speaker 3: You went through everything, you went through, every showed.
- 47:33Speaker 4: Me this, and then all I did was your name
- 47:36Speaker 4: and it was top of the I didn't even.
- 47:42Speaker 1: I was.
- 47:43Speaker 4: I was type your name it on X and and
- 47:45Speaker 4: it just was like probably like top three tweets.
- 47:47Speaker 2: At least he didn't get booed. He didn't get booed. Again,
- 47:49Speaker 2: that's the that's the moment stage. Okay, I don't like
- 47:52Speaker 2: him them, Okay.
- 47:55Speaker 3: The thing is I did kill Tony some years ago,
- 47:59Speaker 3: yes five years ago actually, and I was on that
- 48:02Speaker 3: stage for two and a half hours and I had
- 48:04Speaker 3: something to do, and I told Tony, I'm not going
- 48:07Speaker 3: to be here forever long time. It's a very very
- 48:10Speaker 3: long time.
- 48:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 48:10Speaker 2: A sushi date.
- 48:12Speaker 3: I just didn't have a sushi date. It was one
- 48:14Speaker 3: of those sushi spots where it takes a year to
- 48:17Speaker 3: get a reservation. They sit six or eight people. It's
- 48:19Speaker 3: not like going to sushi Sombo Sushi stopped like to go.
- 48:23Speaker 3: It was one of it. I don't even know the
- 48:25Speaker 3: name of it. It's a speakeasy joint. I wish I
- 48:27Speaker 3: would feel bad that it's It's one of the best
- 48:30Speaker 3: places in Austin, Texas. I had to go. And what
- 48:32Speaker 3: happened was they did a video where they showed me
- 48:37Speaker 3: having going at with this comic. If you look at
- 48:40Speaker 3: the video, you'll see it's one shot one comedian, it's
- 48:43Speaker 3: another shot. So they edit.
- 48:44Speaker 2: I know you explained the last time.
- 48:45Speaker 1: You know. If you're explaining, you're losing. I just want
- 48:47Speaker 1: you to know that. No, no, it does this comment
- 48:53Speaker 1: right here says what do you say? It says somebody
- 48:56Speaker 1: named allegedly Drew. I don't know who that is. You
- 48:58Speaker 1: have to check. Mark said you were hilarious, but Donnelle
- 49:00Speaker 1: Rawlings is the worst guest I've ever seen. Stereotypes are
- 49:02Speaker 1: so real. That's what you said.
- 49:04Speaker 3: But that But the thing is that base and I
- 49:06Speaker 3: will say Tony has created a platform for people to
- 49:08Speaker 3: get on. That's one of the biggest YouTube shows. Whatever
- 49:11Speaker 3: but the people that watch that, they just like they
- 49:13Speaker 3: just they are a lot of them. I say seventy
- 49:15Speaker 3: five percent of people. They are trolls. They live for
- 49:18Speaker 3: moments like that. They live to try to get on
- 49:19Speaker 3: your skin, and they do every time.
- 49:21Speaker 4: Does the troll will never get on your nurse. So
- 49:23Speaker 4: it does. You said they do.
- 49:25Speaker 3: Sometimes, but I'm getting better. Do you want to ignore it?
- 49:28Speaker 6: No?
- 49:28Speaker 3: I don't want to hug.
- 49:34Speaker 5: Well, I love you.
- 49:35Speaker 3: I don't know what I want.
- 49:37Speaker 6: You have shows a distress factory Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
- 49:43Speaker 5: Six shows.
- 49:44Speaker 3: It's two shows Friday, two shows Saturday, and one show
- 49:47Speaker 3: on something I do well in that club. I'm pretty
- 49:49Speaker 3: sure it will sell out out.
- 49:51Speaker 2: Before you became a BA talk about this.
- 49:53Speaker 3: Okay, Well that's Gary always fuck is y'all. I don't
- 49:55Speaker 3: give a fuck.
- 49:57Speaker 4: Rapper came out, y'all.
- 50:02Speaker 3: Yeah somewhere I'll give the so what fuck them all's?
- 50:08Speaker 3: You sell your tickets away, You sell your tickets, and
- 50:11Speaker 3: I will sell my tickets away. I sell my tickets
- 50:13Speaker 3: like the next.
- 50:14Speaker 1: Question, like the new fashion forward?
- 50:16Speaker 3: My fashion never been backwards. Niggas, You don't want to
- 50:19Speaker 3: need a stylist, nigga, do you ever look at the
- 50:20Speaker 3: pictures at you?
- 50:22Speaker 4: Do you ever look at youlas?
- 50:23Speaker 1: I like the fashion forward done that.
- 50:26Speaker 2: We appreciate you doing.
- 50:28Speaker 1: Yes, you dress like August I feed a boyfriend at
- 50:32Speaker 1: the bottom, cool teacher.
- 50:34Speaker 3: The fact that you have all these gay references just
- 50:37Speaker 3: ready anything gay. You got a whole speech about that
- 50:41Speaker 3: ship top bottom. You don't even say pause and pause situations, sir.
- 50:45Speaker 3: That's how free you are with yourself. You would just
- 50:48Speaker 3: let it go, and you are you were only they
- 50:50Speaker 3: gotta know what un pause or pause.
- 50:52Speaker 1: Do you think comedians are afraid to joke about sexuality
- 50:54Speaker 1: because they're scared of how people will label them.
- 50:55Speaker 3: I'm pretty yeah. One thousand. They are scared to talk
- 50:58Speaker 3: about That's why you in touch with yourself. That's why
- 51:00Speaker 3: when people call you and it's me it's fruity tooty
- 51:04Speaker 3: or booty bandits, which I'll do, it don't affect you
- 51:06Speaker 3: because you in touch with your sexuality, booty tot rudio,
- 51:11Speaker 3: whatever it is.
- 51:12Speaker 1: Do you think black men in comedy get boxed into
- 51:14Speaker 1: certain stereotypes about masculinity and sexuality more than others?
- 51:17Speaker 3: One hundred. I believe, But I also believe that you
- 51:22Speaker 3: know that people's way of thinking have evolved. You know
- 51:28Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like, you know, black men period are
- 51:31Speaker 3: just for the most part, naturally homophobic, but now.
- 51:35Speaker 1: We live not true. Don't generalize all black men like that.
- 51:37Speaker 1: You just gave me props for being in touch with
- 51:40Speaker 1: my sexuality, so don't label all black men as being homophobic.
- 51:44Speaker 3: You're not a regular niggatos. So he does his eyebrows.
- 51:50Speaker 1: No, I don't, Yes, you definitely do. You know what.
- 51:53Speaker 4: I don't believe that you just naturally wake up, which
- 51:57Speaker 4: I don't get mad.
- 51:57Speaker 1: At me because you gotta feel your other than everyoneing.
- 51:59Speaker 3: Wow, But I just think I just think the way
- 52:04Speaker 3: people think it's totally different. Now at some point you
- 52:07Speaker 3: gotta be like, who gives a fuck? You just keep
- 52:10Speaker 3: it moving.
- 52:10Speaker 1: What's the wid is assumption people have ever made about
- 52:12Speaker 1: you and your sexuality and how did you handle it?
- 52:15Speaker 3: I've never had no wild situations by my sex reality.
- 52:19Speaker 2: That's a lie. Pictures somebody throld you, uh, somebody thought
- 52:27Speaker 2: you a game before.
- 52:28Speaker 3: I don't know who that could be.
- 52:30Speaker 1: Where'd you find.
- 52:32Speaker 3: I've been doing? I'm sorry, I've been knowing her for
- 52:40Speaker 3: how long we've been doing? Your twenty something. Yeah, she was.
- 52:46Speaker 3: She was working for this internet what's popp and what
- 52:48Speaker 3: was the name of that show? Yeah, she was a
- 52:51Speaker 3: host of it. She was very young. And how did
- 52:56Speaker 3: we reconnect that to that?
- 53:00Speaker 4: I got.
- 53:05Speaker 6: At a comedy show and John Rawlins heckled your date figure.
- 53:11Speaker 1: How you got Oh? So he was with an ugly
- 53:15Speaker 1: dude with the comedy on the hollow when somebody did that?
- 53:19Speaker 1: Did you?
- 53:19Speaker 5: And then Javansa got to.
- 53:21Speaker 3: Talk to her. I hope so career, no, no, let
- 53:27Speaker 3: me explain something.
- 53:28Speaker 5: She was a s no effort. Key, can you sit the.
- 53:47Speaker 3: Just sit on the couch for a second.
- 53:52Speaker 1: Do you remember you remember some of your moves?
- 53:54Speaker 2: Hold on, let's let's give her own Mike, show.
- 53:56Speaker 1: Me one move that move over a missy move withra move.
- 54:01Speaker 1: You got to sit over there, yes, Javana Roberts right, okay.
- 54:08Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, back that's down there for joining us.
- 54:10Speaker 3: Okay, this is this is what I'm saying, this is
- 54:13Speaker 3: the legend. I'm not patrick to back then, I'm not
- 54:17Speaker 3: this can I just want to be clear. This is
- 54:19Speaker 3: part of the collective giving people opportunities and microphone I.
- 54:25Speaker 1: Know you called it about her.
- 54:32Speaker 8: Tackling me at the at the.
- 54:34Speaker 3: First of all, Wait, no, no, no, let me no, no,
- 54:36Speaker 3: let me say. A lot of people I wanted to say,
- 54:46Speaker 3: I'm saying part of the collective, like you said, of
- 54:49Speaker 3: course you invited her to the mic. I invited her
- 54:52Speaker 3: to the show. That's how the collect.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Didn't even introduce her when you walked because the reason
- 54:58Speaker 1: why I didn't go.
- 54:59Speaker 2: Ahead, good mantas.
- 55:01Speaker 8: You know what a part of a part of what
- 55:04Speaker 8: people don't see about Donnell. He's so altruistic.
- 55:07Speaker 2: He's so giving.
- 55:09Speaker 3: No, he's giving.
- 55:11Speaker 8: He's done so much behind the scenes, and we don't
- 55:14Speaker 8: really get to see that part of him.
- 55:16Speaker 3: So I appreciate so much.
- 55:18Speaker 8: Over the last fifteen years or so, I've learned so
- 55:22Speaker 8: much about work ethic. He's like one of the hardest,
- 55:25Speaker 8: hardest working comedians I know.
- 55:28Speaker 1: And said, he said, he said.
- 55:32Speaker 2: He was what altruistic?
- 55:34Speaker 1: That means showing a disinterest and selfless concern for the
- 55:36Speaker 1: well being of others.
- 55:38Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, he's selfish.
- 55:44Speaker 1: I'm selfish. Okay.
- 55:44Speaker 8: Ok he's giving like he'll give he selfless, he'll give
- 55:48Speaker 8: the last like the last thread of the last thing. Okay,
- 55:54Speaker 8: So I was yeah, I was on a date, and
- 55:56Speaker 8: the day got nervous because after he was heckling the day,
- 56:00Speaker 8: I had mentioned that I wanted to do stand up
- 56:02Speaker 8: to what do you say to the date? He was like,
- 56:04Speaker 8: you know, how did you how did you get her?
- 56:05Speaker 8: Like how did you end up with her? And he's like, oh,
- 56:08Speaker 8: she wanted to stand up. So then Donald brought me
- 56:10Speaker 8: on the stage, but he didn't remember that I'd already
- 56:12Speaker 8: interviewed him. So cut to I got on a stage.
- 56:16Speaker 8: I killed it, Remember I killed it? And then and
- 56:20Speaker 8: then I would go I was about eighteen, and I
- 56:22Speaker 8: would go to Dona's house and I take notes and
- 56:24Speaker 8: I was just like legitimately trying to be a stand up,
- 56:27Speaker 8: but I was also dancing with missy Ella and Shakira
- 56:30Speaker 8: and that was not very demanding. So I couldn't balance
- 56:33Speaker 8: the stand up life and my career.
- 56:36Speaker 3: As as a as a dancer.
- 56:38Speaker 2: Here's stage on stage And then I did yeah, and
- 56:43Speaker 2: he was actually there.
- 56:44Speaker 4: I was dancing with the dream too, and he was
- 56:46Speaker 4: the warm up.
- 56:47Speaker 3: She was stand up. She did this is she says,
- 56:49Speaker 3: this is this is a story. She did stand up right,
- 56:53Speaker 3: And I told her, I said, whatever you do don't
- 56:56Speaker 3: go up there talk about being pretty beautiful or any
- 57:00Speaker 3: of that. I said. The reason why, I said, you
- 57:03Speaker 3: look better at most of people that come to the show,
- 57:06Speaker 3: and women are so fucked up they will hate you
- 57:08Speaker 3: for cut to She did exactly what I told her
- 57:11Speaker 3: not to do it.
- 57:11Speaker 2: Oh God, let me tell you.
- 57:15Speaker 3: She said something. I was like this, right, and then
- 57:19Speaker 3: she came up to me at the end of the show.
- 57:22Speaker 3: She was like this, she said. She said, this was
- 57:24Speaker 3: only second time. I say. She said, what do you
- 57:27Speaker 3: do when they're not lasting? I said, if you are
- 57:32Speaker 3: going to cry about this situation, I advised you to
- 57:35Speaker 3: quit stand up right now. And that was the last show.
- 57:38Speaker 5: She okay, but that was great advice though.
- 57:42Speaker 3: But I mean, I liked the fact that she was
- 57:45Speaker 3: curious about it and she did it, and she tried.
- 57:47Speaker 3: She had the little notepad and she was doing the thing.
- 57:49Speaker 3: But you know, it's a certain like to for to
- 57:53Speaker 3: have if you want to say some success and then
- 57:56Speaker 3: all of a sudden it's different. Some people can't handle it,
- 57:58Speaker 3: and that's when you get stronger when you go act
- 58:00Speaker 3: and you challenge yourself with this person.
- 58:03Speaker 1: Stress factory this week.
- 58:04Speaker 3: No, she she'll probably be hanging out.
- 58:06Speaker 8: But now I'm on Beating Black on Netflix and then
- 58:13Speaker 8: that's my show. I just booked a series regular, so
- 58:16Speaker 8: that'll be coming.
- 58:20Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you, like I've been knowing her
- 58:22Speaker 3: for the longest time, one of my closest friend. I
- 58:24Speaker 3: consider her to bring my daughter.
- 58:28Speaker 1: Around. Yeah, anything, when did this happen? You look at it,
- 58:32Speaker 1: if you.
- 58:32Speaker 3: Look back at the history of my podcast whatever, she
- 58:34Speaker 3: was one of my first cot we've had relationship with.
- 58:36Speaker 3: The thing that I really appreciate about her and everybody
- 58:40Speaker 3: has ups and downs in their career, right She's been
- 58:42Speaker 3: through it. She has some highs and some lows. But
- 58:43Speaker 3: the thing I respect the most she never she never stops,
- 58:46Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. Even when life is fucked up,
- 58:49Speaker 3: and life can be fucked up, she never stopped. That's
- 58:51Speaker 3: why I said. I told her, I said, I'm going
- 58:53Speaker 3: to be as supportive as possible. You know. We went
- 58:55Speaker 3: to the Caribbean of Caribbean Music Musical Wards the other
- 58:59Speaker 3: day and it was something she really wanted to go.
- 59:01Speaker 3: We went, we went, We had a good time. But
- 59:04Speaker 3: that is like my whole idea of what the collective is.
- 59:08Speaker 3: Just if you're in a position where you could look
- 59:10Speaker 3: out for somebody or throw somebody a bone, or give
- 59:13Speaker 3: them a platform and the shine. I think you're supposed to.
- 59:14Speaker 5: Do it, and I think and you have a life
- 59:16Speaker 5: outside of here.
- 59:17Speaker 6: So although you never said anything, we didn't know about her,
- 59:20Speaker 6: we know about her now because she's with them.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not a long time, never seen.
- 59:28Speaker 2: And we appreciate you for joining.
- 59:30Speaker 3: Thank you so much, so much.
- 59:33Speaker 2: Appreciate was great.
- 59:38Speaker 3: Thank you because is.
- 59:40Speaker 5: The show right now.
- 59:42Speaker 1: I do have one more question from mister Wrongins. At
- 59:45Speaker 1: this stage in your career, do you feel like you've
- 59:46Speaker 1: gotten everything you deserve or are you still fighting for
- 59:49Speaker 1: your flowers.
- 59:50Speaker 3: I'm not fighting for my flowers, because whatever flowers is
- 59:52Speaker 3: going to happen, it's already it's already laid it's already
- 59:56Speaker 3: laid out. I'm not fighting for anything. I'm not I'm
- 59:59Speaker 3: not fighting for for any more fame or any of that.
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: I just like the path that I'm on. I like
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: the fact that I've been doing it over thirty some years.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: I still can pull an audience. I'm still funny. You
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: got some people that come in and go, I'm still
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: still standing. I'm still one of the you know dopest
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: comics out there that you are.
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody really gave it somebody.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: Well, we appreciate you to donw thank you for us
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: this morning.
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: Give you a flower.
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: That's my guy and I don't even mentioned them one
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: time because because we.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: Didn't, we.
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: Said, we know what we did.
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: These beautiful sneakers that you gave us.
- 1:00:47Speaker 5: This is crazy.
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: Look that's that's.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: Look at this one crazy.
- 1:00:55Speaker 4: Oh my, you got your daughters on there. That's cute.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: That's not my daughters. That's me and Sean me.
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: Oh s.
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: Bust the breakfast club.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: It's down own rollings.
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: Ladies, gentlemen, hold up every day.
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: A wake, wake your glass up the breakfast club. You're
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: finish for y'all done