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Breakfast Club Classic: Wanda Sykes Talks 'Undercard,' Comedy Career; Chris Rock; Oscars Slap · The Breakfast Club

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