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Best Of 2024 Full Interview: Bruce Bruce Talks Comedy Upbringing, Bernie Mac, Katt Williams, Social Media Comics + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby, Welcome.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: How you feeling.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Everything's good, man, everything is good. Yeah, man? Why are
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: was read.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: I was early, Bruce Bruce.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: on time, you're late. Damn.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: That's fact.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: So you got to be on time. But then the
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: traffic here is a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: the lane up here. Nobody, the buses, police, nobody. They
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: just drive like they want to. And what's crazy, They
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: got lanes, some of them got their own lanes. Right. Yeah.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Now, this is the first time Bruce Bruce has been
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: on the showf And I want to you know, when
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: I when sometimes when when somebody comes to the first time,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: I want to start from the beginning, right, Okay, Now
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: I know your story because I've been studying you.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: I've been following you.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: get into comedy? And I want you to explain your
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: job before comedy.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go,
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: I used to always be funny. So I hired this
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  Speaker 1: guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: an older guy, old guy, and he said he used
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: to watch me in the kitchen when I first start,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: need to go, you need to go on stage. And
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: I ain't paying to his to He said, imnna bring
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know,
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian,
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said,
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: I waste your time on this job and you need
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: to go on stage. And know what I did. I
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: quit because I had a family. I was young, man
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: had three kids, and man I went and started working
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: for Freedo, a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: whole time I'm selling potato chips and on the doc
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  Speaker 1: I'm just funny, acting crazy. So good old white dudes say,
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: you know you need to go study. That's a year
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: every morning, you know, study you fronny, I look comedians
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  Speaker 1: every frauds there or not, you know, and he gonna stay.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: And when I took that step, man, I knew that's
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: why I should have been my whole entirelight. And what
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: made me take that step. I was going through a divorce,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And my x yfe said
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: you would never make it. I'm like, what why did
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: you tell you that? So I just looked at it
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: and say, I see you on TV. You know what
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it's been gone there. I've been doing
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: it now thirty five years.
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: And what made you? What made you get married? If
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: she wasn't supportive because you said.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: You know, we're young. I was young, you know. You
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: know I'm from Atlanta, Georgia in the South. You know,
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: you get a girl pregnant, you know you got to
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: marry all this crazy something. And I did the same thing.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: My oldest son is forty three, man, my baby boy's forty,
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: my daughter's thirty eight. Wow, you've been going. I've been laying,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: didn't pull out games till you know what I'm saying
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: it was pull pull out games till I was just
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  Speaker 1: laying that. It was crazy. Man. You know, I just
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: didn't think just doing it. You know, when you're young,
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: you just do that until you get somebody old and say, hey,
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: you need to watch yourself, you know what I'm saying.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: And that's what we need to start doing as older
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  Speaker 1: guys and let him know, Man, this ain't no game.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Who taught you how to cook? My uncle?
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  Speaker 3: Uncle?
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  Speaker 1: Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul, he about
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  Speaker 1: five feet tall, a by the ninety eight in the waist.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: You hear me playing like egg better on, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He was my pocket, though bad and
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: he raised me and he taught me about you know, life.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: He taught me about how to treat women. He taught
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  Speaker 1: me about being on time because you know, he was
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: a baker. He's delivered cakes. He we got to be
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  Speaker 1: there on that. But he was he would never ever
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: drive on the highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: back rolls, but they'll ring your deil over on that highway,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And he was he was
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: real superstitious. I never did believe in that, you know,
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: he see a black cat walk the street, but he
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: gonna turn around. You know, you put your hat on
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: the bed. Oh no, you can't do that sweeping street.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: You gotta spit the brew. You know, he was rated superstitious.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Don't never let a woman touch your wallet. You know
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: you ain't gonna never have no money. Man, ain't nobody
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  Speaker 1: believing in that woman buy shoes? Oh yeah, your life.
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  Speaker 1: Watch you know, you know the time is out your life?
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  Speaker 1: You know. Oh, he was real superstition. But other than that, man,
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  Speaker 1: he was a great, great guy. Man.
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  Speaker 4: You remember the first dish that you learned to cook?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, stay was I can stak make a
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: joke of cry white supposed to be clapping? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my white fos to be clapping. Black people be hollering, yay,
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: how you get the capital for the barbecues? But well
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: I was. I started down with Joah, I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you how my mother. It's just me and mother. I'm
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: the only child my mother ever had. And we was struggling,
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: and we was living the hood. And it was in
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: an area called Bluff it was, and man, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you man, she needed some help. So I went
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: and apply for this job. This guy knew worked at
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and I told him
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  Speaker 1: I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you know what I'm saying.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: So I was working, man. I was clean up. So
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: I had been there about three months and this old
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  Speaker 1: white guy named EdWay. I said, let me ask you something.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: He was the man. He said, how old are you really?
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: He said, you work good and everything. He said, but
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  Speaker 1: you not seventeen. I said no, I said, I'm fourteen.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: He said, why are you working? I said, well, I
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: got to help my mom. He said, I tell you what.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be our little secret. You know. He kept
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: me because I was a good worker. Everything he told
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  Speaker 1: me to do, I did it. And I just kind
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: of followed in and started watching this guy's cooking and
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  Speaker 1: I knew how to cook him. My uncle had been
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: showing me out do everything. Next time I know, man,
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: I was running the pit. Man. I was cooking barbecue
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: and everything at like sixteen years old. Oh so you
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: didn't own it. No, No, I was working there man.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: Now you also mentioned that you were an only child.
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  Speaker 2: Only child, your father left at the age of five.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: Force and he was a Madican Air Force and he
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: was he flew choppers and airplanes and when he when
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: he got out, he was an antety geologist.
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  Speaker 3: Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed
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  Speaker 3: or I did?
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  Speaker 1: I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for
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  Speaker 1: him for? You know, because they be mad. But my
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: mother really ran him off, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: She was just ring him off and she was off
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  Speaker 1: monster man. You know what did you say that?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I just like, man, this dude is cool. He was
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  Speaker 1: really cool, you know, But she's like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to know everything he tried to do. She just knocked
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  Speaker 1: it down, like but she was listening to a girlfriend's
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  Speaker 1: That's why I tried to tell all these young girls,
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to no woman that ain't got no man.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: You don't see what I'm saying. If you got a woman,
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  Speaker 1: if you got a girlfriend, you got a husband, she
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  Speaker 1: know how to trut a husband. But a woman that
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  Speaker 1: don't have a man, she can't tell you nothing. But
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  Speaker 1: he I mean, he just he left and he never
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  Speaker 1: ever called us ever. And my mother didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: she was divorced. He did a non contested divorce because
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  Speaker 1: my mother just worked, come home, never went anywhere. So
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: when she said, I think I'm going to get a divorce,
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  Speaker 1: and when she went to do it, said you already divorced.
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  Speaker 1: No uncontesta. You put it in the newspaper for thirty days.
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  Speaker 1: You don't answer the ad, Bam you divorce. He was
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  Speaker 1: already gone. He was gone. He was gone. And I
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  Speaker 1: got married three more time. And I found it when
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  Speaker 1: I was like forty years old.
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  Speaker 3: So he knew who he was.
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  Speaker 1: He knew exactly who I was. He knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I looked like. No, my son looked like him. Though,
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: how I dip over, you know what I'm saying. But
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I met with him and we talked and we stayed
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: in touch, and he ended up passing away about seventeen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, you
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  Speaker 1: and your mom ever have to talk? Did you ever
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: she said, you know I was wrong. She said I
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: didn't care shed about I had the other boyfriend. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my mama food around. See parents don't tell you. They
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: try to tell you the right thing, but they'll do
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: the wrong thing in front of you. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Those old UDEs she used to go with
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  Speaker 1: named Dave, you know, had platform shoes with taps on.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: You remember platform, He had taps on platform shoes. He
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  Speaker 1: come up the steps, clock out, how your mama doing?
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  Speaker 1: And then he'll tell me, hey, come in, let me
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: give a few dog go down and get your cocola,
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  Speaker 1: you know something like that. I know what you're finna do.
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  Speaker 1: Finna get his some tail, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets you, gets you, I run right out
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  Speaker 1: of the house. You know, I know what he's finna do.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want no food, you know what I'm saying.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: But he was cool. He was cool to me. He
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: treated me very nice. But she had this one boyfriend
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: she's just crazy about. I don't know what's up with
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: women with this one dude that they like. And he
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: ain't nothing. I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: dogged my mama. Man, he was he was married. She
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: didn't know he's married. She's older. He's over there every
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: day every day eating. Yeah. Yeah, God is a good guy.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: You know how I'm yeah, God is a good gul
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: And wan tell you what happened. When I was in
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: high school, four of us used to hang together and
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: we saw him in his truck and my buddy say, man,
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: that called you. You're my my boyfriend with your mom.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: I said no, I said, that's my mom boyfriend. That's
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: not my mom. It was another lady. So I got
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: out the car, looked at him and say, hey, you
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: know I see you right? He said, oh, hey, how
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: you doing? Play it? Come on to my mom house.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: I told my mother seeing him with another woman. He
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: looked me dead at mind. He said that was not
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: he did not see me. And my mother believed it.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: With the reason she believed it because I didn't like him,
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: so she just kind of figured I made up a
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: story about him and she let it go. But it
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: took her girlfriend or hers to see him. Say I
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: saw that dude with another woman. You know what I'm saying.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: And they took her to tell me she dated him
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: like sixteen years man, and that I know how to
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: tell you, my mother, I don't want to get married.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get Okay, you don't want to
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: get married, but this dude's already married, so you can't
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: marry this dude. When she found out, she was like,
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: she was toe up. Yeah, I heard her. You grew
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: up in the bluff.
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: Hold you how close the reality was was snow on
• 9:04
  Speaker 5: the bluff the movie?
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was real close that that was
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: the heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: told me, if you touch it, o kid. So I
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: was most scared of my mother than the guys in
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: the street, you know what I'm saying. So I never
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: touched it. I watched him do it. I watched him
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: shoot up every time. I can't do that, bro, Now
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. My mother is great. My mother
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: is a raftler. I'm telling you. She had been on
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: WW I know what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: So you know that's why. And that movie was really
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: really serious. But you know it was so funny in
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: the hood, being in the hood, because you know, the
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: crackheads come. I said, hey, man, dude had bought a
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: video camera. You know, he was feeling people and everything.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Crack heads said, man, I got a camera like that,
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: he said, bigger, but it's got a two on it.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: I said, what are you talking about? He done stole
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: the camera off the Channel two news truck. The dude
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: was getting ready to do some news in the area.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: He just walked off with the car. So we saw
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: the white guy panicking walking around. I said, you're looking
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: for your camera and he said yeah. I said, I
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: know it is. I said, you're gonna have to give
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: some money to get it back. He said, I get anything.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: He's all you can. He's how much you think hundred
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow? And the
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: dude brought it back to him just walked off with it.
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: I got a camera like that has a number two
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: on it.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: So two on it had Channel two on it, right, Man,
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: these dudes in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Walk down the street with the dresser. Dude make way
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: about one thirty. He said, I got the mirror the
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: two nights stands in the bed. Y'all need it. We're like,
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: what somebody? Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: The dude told me said, man, I got I got
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: a I got a typewriter like that. The only thing
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: mine difference, it's got a TV on it. He didn't
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: realize he had a desktop computer. He's I got a typwriter,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: but he's got a TV on it. Like TV. I know.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: Back then, brothers had to press you to try to
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: get in the street.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Though. Oh yeah, man, they you know they talk about you.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: You're scared, you're punk. All this croudby man, I'm gonna
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: have to be a punk because my mom didn't play
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: My mom and aunt, the neighbors, they didn't play Man anything.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: He was about six y five, black, real black, with
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: royal blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: to call your granddad? No. She would get him on
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: the phone. He'll say, hey, do I need to come
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: up there? All I do was here his voice. I ain't, no, sir.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: She's let me get another phone call and see what happened.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: That joker didn't play Man six ' five, black, one skeleton, nothing,
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: roy your blue eyes, and you look at him, you'll
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: drop your head like a runaway slave player. You know
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: when I got older, I realized he was really cool.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: He was a cool dude, but he just believed a
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: child staying in the child place. That's right.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: as comedy because he was the funny.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Oh man, he was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: got help me with this lie? Everybody? Hell did I
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: tell him?
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he told me.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Everybody help me with this lot. But he was one
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: of the best bakers in the world. He practically raised
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Gladys Knight back in the day. And they used to
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys Knight knew him.
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: His name was Paul Henson Junior, and he went by
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: the sweetbread Man because he was the baker in Atlanta, Georgie.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: He was the man, and he talked about Gladys all
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: the time. But Gladys and I was really raised on
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: the same street. The street was Chestnut Street. They changed
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: to James Preet Brawley. I was on four fifteen. She
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: was on like seven eighty five or something like that,
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: just right up the street, like two blocks. You know, no, no,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: I I was a little kid, but she lived at
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: when her first husband. You know what I'm saying. But
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Gladys is a girl.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: Wow, how were you able to translate your funny to
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: actually make a career of it with somebody like Uncle Paul,
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: who was funny, couldn't.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: to go and say he was scared. See see black
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: people back in it, they had the skill to do everything,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: but they were scared to do it. They had so
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: much fear. So like young kids not that do it.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: They I don't care, I'll do it. So I just
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: took it and ran with him. My uncle one of
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: the best bakers in the world. He wouldn't get bakers
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: from France and Italy, you know, from England, and he
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: beat them all out, you know what I mean. Then
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: he went that he had a cheesecake that he made.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: It was one of the best cheesecakes in the world.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: And they tricked him out of it and didn't have
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: sense enough to get a lawyer and everything, and gave
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: him like ten thousand dollars day clapping. He was all
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: happy with yeah when he could have got one hundred million,
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But just didn't have a
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: sense and the knowledge to do that at the time.
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I wanted to know as a child
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: was Bruce Bruce Big as a child.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: No, man, it was a little bit. He used calling
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: me little Bruce. Man. I didn't I didn't get fat
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: till I got may I don't know why I got married.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. I wouldn't eat it.
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: I was just a little bit of dude, just run round,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: just messing with it. But I was a little bit
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: of kid, man. But when I got married, I got fat.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: You know, that's what happened to us as black man.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: We get complacent that, we get complacent with jobs. We
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: get a job and let's just say jeral motives, we
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: make a little money. Oh man, that's a good job.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I don't care nothing about a good job. It's about
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: getting out there getting it, because it's more than that
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: than getting a good job.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: I ain't like that question, by the way, what you mean,
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: I ain't like the question. Do you ask me what
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: with Bruce? Bruce little as a child?
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: He was he a big child? I wid what you
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: wanted to Yeah, he thought I was just couldn't clap
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: my hands. Fat kid could clap his hand, and y'all
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: clap my hand that. But no, I was a little kid,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a little cute joker man, and I'm messing with everybody,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: and you know we we seem to lose focus. And
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: that's what happened. You lose focus, you start eating crazy.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: But now I'm back at man, I'm sixty two years old.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Man, Wow, is that is that where the comedy came from?
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Because when Bruce Bruce does a show and somebody's in
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: the audience says something, or somebody's wearing something outfit, Bruce
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Bruce has no problem of attacking. This is that where
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these camera.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: You know when I was, when I was younger, I
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: was real scary. Know most kids won't admit that. I
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: was real scared to do anything. So people just talking
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: about talking about him back. That's how I learned it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: I used talk about this girl. Man, this girl, man,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: she had a ponentail vail body, that long look with
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: a rubber band around it. I want behind, I said, girl,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: how did they do that? Do it? I said, make
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: the oxtail right there? I said, I said, you can
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: stand on your head, your hair still won't touch the floor. Man,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: this girl, So I'm gonna beat you. Man. You know
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm like what man, I broke out
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: and running. You know, I didn't know she was a
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: track star. Man. This girl caught me and beat the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: brakes off me. Man, I didn't care because I was
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: raised not to hit women, so I didn't get She
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: beat me up. She laid me on the ground, throw
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: my homes you know, I need to throw your hos
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I She said, what's up now? I said, your hair
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: still shocked. So then she said, you're gonna beat my boyfriend.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: So I had to be her boyfriend walk her to
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: school every day. That's when I realized I had something now,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: you know. I joned her out and talked about the bed.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: But she did like me, and my uncle told me
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: said that, man, that girl like you. That's why she's
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: what she wants you to be a boyfriend. She like you.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that, but I thought she hated my guts,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: But she really didn't. Man, she actually laughed about Then
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: she grew up and be drop dead gorgeous. You know
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: she did y'all. Still Oh no, no, no, no, I can't.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I can't do it no more. Man, I I ain't
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: got it. But that's laughter, though, you know you can
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: make it. Say if you can make a girl laughs
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: and man, you make them laugh. They got him. Most
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: women they just want to laugh. You make them laugh.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: A lot of guys when they see women, when they
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: see good looking women, fine women, nice body. Instantly, most
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh, she ain't gonna
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: holler me she will You ever see a real, fine
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: pretty girl with an ugly dude? You know what happened
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: because he said something to it. He wanted to, hey,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: how you doing? You look goods like you're for real? Yeah,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: for real? And he will have You're like, how did
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: this ugly? Because I know I got some ugly partners?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I got some dudes scaled cold at
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: your eyes when you look at the fool, you have
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: to wipe you out. My god, bro, what happened? You
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But they got the baddest women
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you ever want to see. But everybody got to understand
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: though it's really nothing to it. Just talk to him,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that's all they want.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: What's the most difficult city Because you're on the road,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: what five days a week, four days a week, every
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: you know, every week, what's the toughest.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: City for you? And why if there is one?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I never had a tough city, man.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I've had some tough crowds. When the comedy clubs hold
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: these people hostage, you know, like let's just say, first
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: show is at seven, second show is supposed start at ten,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they let the first show run over. These people are
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting. So
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you got
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: to really go to work to make them laugh, you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: or go and or say something like this, say y'all
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: have been at working, they want to be there. They like, yeah,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I say that's why I feel now you know what
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when you break the ice with them,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you got them. Once you get them, you got them.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: But you got to run the clubs on time. And
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: it's hard dealing with us. It's black people. It's hard
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to deal with a lot of black people, man. But
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the white clubs they be on it bam, damn, damn
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: because they realize the money they can make in the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: short length of time. Why is that with us, man?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's hard to doing business
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: with us. I had one dude at the club man
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was it was in November and it was cold and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he had people outside. I say, man, people are standing
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: outside the show's suppos to start an hour ago. He
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, I don't give a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: what they do on I said, I'm like what, so,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, I don't even do his club anymore
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: because you don't have respect for the people. But we're
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the one working hard for it to make him laugh,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: because it's hard to get black people to laugh. You know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: when they're mad, they better be funny. It better to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: be funny, especially when they're mad. You know, white people
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: laughing at anything. Oh, he's hilarious. He's great. You could
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: be terrible. You know you're good. You're going to be
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: great because white people have a different way of saying no,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Like when you auditioned for a show, like how did
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you like him? Well, he's a good looking guy. He
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: has great hair. That's a no. See, people don't realize
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: that when they want you, they want you to get
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you checks the sign. But when they breathe hard. You know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I was looking at him and smart guy, smart guy,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: But no, I'm like, we do it. That said no,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and that's what we all got to realize.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: You know you, just maybe you think about when it
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: come to doing business with black people and white people.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Because I love doing business with with with my people, right,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: but I don't think we often look at it as
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: a business like it should be a personal transaction.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Right. It's always because people people call my manager and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: be like, man, Bruce, go back fifteen. I don't even
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: met him at the gas station. End up, you don't
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: know me. Bro. Maybe I come across like you do
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: know me, but you don't know me. They'll call and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: be like, we discussed the deal and he said he
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: would do it for this. That's not true because I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they always
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: think it's like a partner thing when it should just
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be business.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Do you remember your best show and you remember your
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: worst show?
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, I can remember a lot of them, but
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the people don't know it. I know it. I can
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: remember my first I mean, I come off sat Temp
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a guy like that show. Well, people thought it was great,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: but I'd be like, I didn't like that show.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: What was your what was your worst show? Because they
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: said you don't write things down, it's just awful.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Come out a couple. One time, I was in Houston, Texas,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and uh they I was doing this show and I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was joning everybody out, and this dude came up and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: jooned me and he was funny. But he said, go
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: up there, you know, go up there and jone. He said,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I look like a pickle jaw, you know, And I saw, like, damn,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that's funny. B I said, I'm gonna keep that, you know.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He sell me like a pickle jaw. I was like,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: oh my god, that's funny. But the crowd loved it
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: because I took it so well. I didn't go off,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I exactly. It was really funny when he
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: said it. And I ended up seeing him like ten
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: years la. He said, you remember game on stage? Man,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I saw you, so you love pickle jo I said
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that was you. Let me take a picture with you. You
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But it's cool. But the best
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: show I ever did, it was years and years and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: years ago, is when Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Mack was super hot. And it's a it's a part
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of Georgia called Macon, Georgia, and it's about an hour
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: from Atlanta and Bernie was performing. He had ten five
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: thousand seater and the feature didn't show up. And the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: guy said, hey, man, my feature did't show Can you
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: come down opening up for Bernie Mac? I said, yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you know I had been in the ain't there about
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: five years? Yes? And I drove down as quick as
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I could, and I was on stage, and I can
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: remember Bernie Mack had his arm folded looking at me.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: He said, who's that dude? Right there? They said, as
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Bruce was. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in my whole entire life. May couldn't. And then I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: worked with in Columbia, South Carolina on time. That's it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: But Bernie was a bad dude man, And people don't
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: realize when he did I'm not scared of you on
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: death chair. He made that up right then because everybody
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: was coming up. They was having a car a hard
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: time here in New York. Damn jam. They was getting
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: it to him. You know, New York. You know, they
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I ain't scttering them. And he went up and did
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: him and Capri went together on it and he ripped it. Man,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Bernie was.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: A bad Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: No, man, I know some funny comedians now, like Tony
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Robinson is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: who Tony Robbers? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he used dated girl. Her breath was so bad it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: smelled like a horses hiccups. So who think of that?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Who think of a horse's hiccup? You know what I'm saying.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Capps is one
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of the dude I trained back in the day. Mike
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: used to be on the road with me. Mike moved
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: from Indiana to Atlanta, and I used to take him
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: on the road with me. And then he moved to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: New York and he called me one day, said, man,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: they want me to audition for Fridays. And I said,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: what you waiting on? I said, looking for somebody like you?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And he called me a week later. I got the part.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I said, you're on your way day. They that's my man's.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you said something earlier when you talked about the
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: pickle Jos joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: so comedians do cover jokes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: him that. But no, you like I taking comedians, just
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: take bits and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: do that and I see it, I know exactly where
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you got it from. I've been in this business so long.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know exactly what you got. I know who said
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and how they said it, and when you said it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: But no, I don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I saw Bernie.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernnie Mack and
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: he was saying, don't say your joke around or have
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: you a new comedian?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And see a lot of comedians now the veterans will
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: look at the new jacks and take that stuff. And
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: then it looked like the new jack stole it from them.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But that's not cool. That's not cool to do. Now.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: We've seen Cat Williams pulled out his chop a couple
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of months ago. He was fired at everybody. What was
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: your thoughts because you know a lot of that stuff
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: was inside that became outside.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I Cat just told how he felt man And
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: what's been going on in his life for real, and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: he just got fired up with it. You know when
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: people when people dog you out, let's just say this.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I used to tell people. I had a club in Atlanta,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: It's called Club five five nine, and I used to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: tell my securities. I said, listen, when you have an
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: You don't be forgot about them. So if you throw
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: them at the club, throw them on their head and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: they'd be like, I'm not gonna forget that. They won't
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: forget you. But you forgot who that was. And you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: had to go store with your woman shopping, you run
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: up all you remember me. You're like, no, you have
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to be careful. So Kat just went through some things,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: stuff that he never forgot that was done to him,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and he's coming back retaliating and he just told it
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: like it was.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: things you could take from that conversation. But the thing
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: like it put black comedy in a a in a
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: new light. Yeah, like people started paying attention to the
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: old geez like yourself.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Tony Robbers like they. I don't know. I just felt
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like it just shine earthquake and shine the light on
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the on the people who've been doing it, and people
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: got to understand something about Kat Williams. Kat Williams is
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: not a dummy. He is very smart. He's very smart.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all remember when he had altercation
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta with one of the smill f one v
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: one O three if you ever noticed it, never lost
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: his composure. He stood there and drunk his coffee and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: he was killing her the whole time. And he's just
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: cool like that. He's very smart. He's a smart guy.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Now we always talk about the role at L played
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: in rap? What role did it play in comedy?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. You like rap? You said rap?
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: You know, I thought you were gonna say with with
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: outcasts and you know I did videos. They liked my
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: little homies. I'm like they og They called me O
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: G and with too short, made the song shake that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: monkey with a little jung gun and then no it
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: was too short, and then Little John came back with
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's just love. Everybody
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: show love in Atlanta, Everybody show love like when I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: did the movie I had Awhile with Outcasts. It was
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: gave to me. You know, it wasn't a movie I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: had to audition for. And then I did the movie
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Who's Your Caddy with a big boys, a role that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: was gave to me because they just have that kind
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of love for me. You know what I mean. We're
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: all cool and I stay in my lane. Man, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: don't get out. I don't do crazy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: You talk about something about but before we go, how
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: did you feel about all these artists mentioned you and
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: their songs.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, But you have.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: A surprise that you here before when you heard let
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Bruce Bruce hit it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That God, I just hate when dude said it. You
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like we let Bruce bro You
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: should be saying that your girls should say it, but
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: not not me, not you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Brother said that on the text this morning. Did it
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: because our producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Is already we were on the way, yeah, and so
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: he goes.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Well, entertain them and let Bruce Bruce hit it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I was joking.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I forgive you, that's what he said. I forgive you.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: That's inside stuff.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Man. I just I just thought it was stupid, you know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: He I felt he felt we cool.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: So he just told me and our producer told him
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: that was he was going to h.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: It's that breathe hot. Why did you do that?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Why did you? Yeah, Biggie, Biggie mentioned you and hypnotime.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time you heard what happened?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Floyd. I never forget this,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet him so bad because I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: was a fan of Biggie, you know. And man, he
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: came in and I was on stage cloud and I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was joning people. I mean, I asked to do it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I said that shirt sill because it's I say, is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it's silky behind it too much? You know, something like that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: He walked in, he said, just due this funny because
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he didn't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: really smile that much, you know what I'm saying. He
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: just always had that look like this nun should look.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: He smiled on the video when he was on the boat.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: When he was on the boat and he started smiling,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: he said, wanna put you down for it? And when
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I heard it, I'm like, what what was like? That
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: was People were debating whether he yeah, what did he
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: say that? Yeah? It was like Bruce, Bruce, who do
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: something to us? Talk goes through us? Girls do us
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: one of those screwls who meet Poppy and and Puff.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: It was just love he show. But he was a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: cool guy man. And I actually saw him smile and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: laugh because I never saw him smile. He just always
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: had this like heart look, like you know, he read
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the fight. But he was really funny. It was fun
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to be around.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: So he told you he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: that's how you know.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: It was Yeah, but I heard him like what I thought?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I heard you know what you did on the rate.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, and Shorty show. They called me the comedian
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Church he said, Man, Biggy just said your name, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I listened to it over and though I
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: just kept coming back, I just I just kept repeating it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Listen to it on. That was love. That was real love.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: I guess you answered the question because when I said
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: what role did atl play in comedy?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: For you, like, what role did Atlanta play in the comedy?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, everything, I think that's it. Well you
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: know who did it?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Who started. It was Chris Tucker and Chris Tucker when
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: he did Friday's first of all, he didn't do Friday's first.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: He did house party. Yeah, when he came to it,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he's the same time, man, you're gonna give you the money,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the same time it was. It was it immature. The
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: group called immature and he went to the door to
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: get some money. I'm looking for such and such. Man.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He just had that one scene at the door, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: then he did Fridays, and Fridays took off way better.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And they thought it thought it would. It took off
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: way better than they thought it would. And Chris, he's
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a good dude too. Man, he's a good guy. I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: used to be on the road with him. But he
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: fired me though, man, you know, he fed me. He
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: didn't fire me, but he fired me like if I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: was on the road with him back in ninety four
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: ninety five. And then he said, man, I'm gonna take off.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna come off the road for about three months
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: because their presidents get ready to come out, you know.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And that's when that's okay. When he went back on
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the road, he just didn't bring me back here. So
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that's that's firing ass. You know what I'm saying. But
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: then cool, it's still my body. But he did come
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: back in the policy say hey man, I didn't do
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like, cool, man,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I work, you know, I get down.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: And you said you was a salesperson for FREEO label.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they used to make you tell jokes when
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know everybody on the dock, you know, you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: we used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: go from soda store deliberations. So we delivered. We were
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: on the dock. I'm joning everybody. I didn't care who
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: they was. And we had some good old boys. Y'all.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Ain't got no good old boys. I'm trying. Yeah, you know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all. Monk's going up.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: But I was born to y'all. Okay, But you know
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: we got the ma. You're a comedian. We love it.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: You know, we got divorce. Like they'd be so impressed.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So you're a commeledian. Oh yeah, we love that's their word.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But we had but one thing about good O balls.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: When they like it, they like it. When they don't,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: they don't, and it ain't a black white thing. It
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: could be a white white thing. If they don't like it,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: they don't like you, you know so. But I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: seeing racism everywhere. Man, It don't bother me.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: You remember your sales pitch, my sales pitch.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: On the potato ye oh yeah. Man. Let me tell you.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I had a Walmart. They had just opened this Walmart,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and in order to I wanted to dress up as
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Chester Cheatah, remember the Chester Cheeta Tiger. In order to
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: do this, you got to you got to sell this
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: huge display, to get the carstume, the costume. You know
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because the company was charging different branches
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: money to use cars. I was the biggest Chester Cheetah
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: they have ever said that. Like, look, man, I was
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the fattest. One guy said he must do eight dollar Cheetos.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: This is bitch as big as a house. But I sold,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: like I think it was, if I'm not mistaking, like
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in Cheetos. That's why they sent the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: uniform to us. And it was great, and it was
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a Walmart and it was a guy managed to wal
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: My name James Pike, White dude, the matter he gets
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the lord he talked, so you know, he said, when
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I tell you to do something, you'd be like, what
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: what did you say? But he was cool. Everybody thought
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: he was old red Nick, but he was really cool.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He ran that store. But he let me bring ten
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: dollars war Cheetos in that store. That was my man. Hey, man,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: just me being funny. I walk in and I say, man,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I need to seals. I need to sell some chips.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: If not, I'm gonna start back stripping. And if if
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I started back stripping, the church mumb is really going
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to be hard on me about this. I said, you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: don't want to see me naked. Trust me when I
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: tell you that, you know what I'm saying. And their
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: bus I laughing got.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Him in order. He wasn't really atrip.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: No. If I was my stage name be stretch Marks.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: then you know. But if I was stripped today, I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: go by heart Candy, hard Candy. This is a good name,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: hard Candy, asking I don't want to hear why heartcare
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: like something behind it, like you know the church, old
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: lady in the church with hard candy Church, that'll be
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: living pound cake I'd be limiting living.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Pound now out of Depth, Comedy Jam, Showtime May the Apollo,
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: and Comic View.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Which one had the most impact on you? Coming view
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start, and come
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons, I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: mean big up for him. Depth Jam was good. But
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: when I did Comic View, see Comic View started out
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll remember
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that they used to go. They used to come out
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to your city and come to a club and film
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you and then take it back. And d L was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the host and he was like, look, went all the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: way down to Atlanta at a club called the Comedy
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Act Theater, and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: then showed me and I did the coach co when
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: they first started. But I never forget the year that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I host. It was probably the best year for me
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: that I have ever experienced in my life. They went
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers and
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: it was great for me. It was it was good.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I made some money. They gave me money for wardrobe.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: That's why I dressed in all them suits because I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: thought I was a pimp, you know what I'm saying.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I thought I was a straight up pimp. How'd you
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: get to gig? They called me. I mean I had
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: been doing comany like seven eight years, and go I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: say call me one day, say I would you like
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The host comed view said I would love that because
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do it and I wanted to do
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: it before then, and it just won my time. But
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: when my time came, it was perfect. It did well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It did very well.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Was that the moment that you know that that was
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: your big break, like, oh this is really going to happen.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Then we did. I did more shows than anybody. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: did like four to five shows a day, so I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: was changing suits, changing suits, and I was working five
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: days a week, so on the days and it was
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: off Sunday Monday, so I was shooting commercials for them.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And I did this one commercial. I like gatas alligator
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: skin shoes. So I told his capture, I take me, man,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I need to get me some gators and he took
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: me to a real creek with alligator's walls. That was
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the joke of it, and he dropped me off, and
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what wait, man, this is a real alligator.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It was real alligators coming out of the water. And
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it was really really funny. That was a scene that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I wrote, but yeah, it was. It was fun. So
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I still wear gata shoes. I'm old school man, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like the old player. So y'all can still wear
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: suits with ten and shoes. I can't do it now.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I can't do it, player, I can't do it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: I never felt like Apollo was good for comedy, man.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: It's just I think what it was with Apollo. Those
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: people are there all day sitting, so the first two
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: shows you're gonna get love. But like the third, fourth,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and fifth show, they wore out. They boo and everybody.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: They booed me the first time, and I didn't care.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I just started talking about people. It was a dude
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: in the front, dressed like a I don't know what
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the hell was going on him. I said, bro, what
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: is your problem? Yeh? He was just like a woman
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and a man on one side. A woman on the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: side said, break are you slow before time? Yeah? And
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: before the time, but it was it was and jo
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: on them. They laughed, But then I went back and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: did it again, and then it went, well, y'all did
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: it with Mark Curry first and then back with Steve Harvey.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Is it too sensitive now for comedy?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Depending on what subject you touch on, because if you
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: if you don't, like, let's just say gay people, you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: can't you can't touch on that. You can't say anything disrespectful.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know. When I
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles, you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: so we'd be riding these that go sweet Pickle. I'm like, well,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: well we knew what it was. We were like, what
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the world you know? But but the thing is, I
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: mean I don't do any bashing of anything of sorts
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: like that, but I see them all the time. Like
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I remember one time I was doing the show at BT.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: It was in California, and the makeup artist is two
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: of them. They did makeup and hair and they was gay,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: gay dudes and everything. So you know, one dude walked in, man,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: hold on, no bags, do it my makeup? They do
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: got really emotional, so sick, so tat I don't like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to tell you start packing and stuff, go and leave.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So I walked in the room. I closed the door
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: on them. He looked at me, like what I say, Man,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I said. If you're comfortable
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: with who you are, I said, be that. I said,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: but if you walk out on this show, they're gonna
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: blackball you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: want to work for nobody? I said, jill out, dry
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: your tears up and this, I said, do my makeup.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I said, but if you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: walk out, they're gonna do it. I said, nine time
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: out of ten. At the end of the night, that
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: same dude to be hollering at what if you would
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: have said I had run out of that. I had
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to run out of that. I had to run full speed,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then after the end
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: of the night, he was like, he said, thank you,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: thank you so much what you did because he was
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: GEMM ready to go. He was emotion and everything, and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: to the dude. I said, Man, chill out and don't
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: do that. You know they got feelings too, that's just
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: who they are.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Why do you help so many comedians? Comedians talk about
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that you helped someone so many comedians in their in
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: their career and their life. What gives you the energy
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: because a lot of people be like, I ain't helping
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: him because he might get bigger than me. But you
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: you talked about so many communities.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yeah, but so many helped me. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: never forget when I first when I was in the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: comedy act there in Atlanta, and John Witherspoon came to
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Atlanta and he looked at me and he say, you
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: got it. He said, you really got it. He said,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I like you. So he started telling me what to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: do and what not to do, and he helped me.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: He took me u from his Wien Rinaldo. Ray did
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: same thing. He helped me in on BT when he
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: was my calls. People don't realize that Ronald Ray was
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a college professor before he started doing comedy. He was
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: extremely smart. And he would tell me sometimes he said,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: turn your body to the right a little bit. When
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: you tell that joke, it'll work better. And I'm like,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: how's that gonna work better? And it worked better. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: then the last of the Mohicans who really told me say,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you won't have to find them and they will find you.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend Paul Mooney.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: He told me that Rdney Winterfield, y'allmer rightningy Winfield, that
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: my man took me. And he said a lot of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: these juggles don't like you just because you're funny. He says,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: keep being funny. You're gonna be alright to call me
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: do shows with him. You know, you know back in
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the day, man, somebody say, man, we got to show
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: paying three hundred dollars. I'm like, let's go. You know
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: these new kids now he say, Man, I got a
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: show for you. How much you're paying? Hold it? Play?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by TV much
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: less on TV. So what is you talking about how
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: much they're paying? If I tell you about the show,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that something
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you think social media helped the Hurt Comedy, Oh, it
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: helped it. I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: media thirty five years ago. The only thing we had
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: was going this city early do radio, try to do
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: TV to get people in there. Social media is a
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: platform that really helped a lot of young comedians now
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: now veteran comedians like myself. They get pissed because all
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the new young comedians are coming up faster. I've been
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: doing comedy for twenty five years, thirty years, and he
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: ain't been doing coming with three months. I tell him
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: like this, you can't beat them joan and then winning,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: so you might as well fall in the footstep they
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: are winning.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: they're asking how much? Right, because they following.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But then the only thing about Charlamagne is when
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: they do get booked, the only thing they got to
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: say is what they did on social media. You got
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: to bring out more than that, right, you know you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: got that. That's seven minutes, you got oh, it's five,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: But what about this other twenty minutes they need you
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: to do. You can tell when a person is bombing
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: because they start talking real positive. You know, we need
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: to take care of these kids, man. You know, hey man,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: support these women, man, hey man, these women need to support.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: They need your respect. They're bombing like hell, they're trying
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to get positive.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: That's a favorite part of a commeds show. It is
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: I like, I like you know what it is. I
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out of
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: a hole. Oh my god, if you see me laughing
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: really hard, it's probably because.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You up there thinking. Because I remember seeing you, because
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I watch you guys all the time. I remember seeing
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: you on Ridiculousness. Right and Chanelle West Coast, she made
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: her so mad. You was coming, you say, I never
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: seen you on anything. I never seen you rap with.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I rapped stip, she got, they went to commercial. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: think it happened twice right now. I was the one.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: That's what she was. But do she wrap? Yeah? I
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: think she did. Okay, okay, but I didn't know it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: But I looked at you, and I'm like, oh my god,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: she's pissed. She got pitsed. She moved that hair back
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the commercial commercial, and she came back. She was gonna come, yeah,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: we're back here, trying to tossed her. I never seen
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: your nothing. I never seen you snoop, I never seen
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: too short. I never see you. She was pissed. I
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: laughed so hard. A dad, that was so good. How
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: do you feel about the rebooting? Rebooting comic view? I
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: just I like it, but I think they're trying to
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: do a new way. I think they should have rebooted
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and did it the old way. I think they should
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: have had the host and introduced the show like we
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. Because if you
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: remember when that show was on, everybody watched it from
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: your mom, your mom, your dad, your dad, your grandma
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: and your granddad uncle. You know, I saw your DV.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: They love it. So I think we need to go
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: back to that platform. They doing a new thing now
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: where you know they wanted all hip hop and all that.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: That's cool, but we need to go back to the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: old way.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Now, you were a huge car enthusist. I am in
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: classic cause yeah, we got you into that. And how
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: many cars you have back.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: In about twenty seven. I collect buicks buicks. I like
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: buick buicks. Man. My granddaddy told me, say, look at
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you buy nothing but a Buick. You know, Old Joe
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: he's have a road Master with three speed on the column.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I thought he was a genius. When you change the
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: gears on the column. He was a bad dude. You know.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: He put it down the first, then go to second.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: He looking at you talking, then he go to third.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Get your buick, baby, you know. So I always like
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: buicks and I like Skylight's Buick was a really good
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: muscle car too. People don't realize it. I got like
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I got a seventy Rivera.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I got a sixties Rivera. I got a sixty nine Rivera.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I got a six a Duce on the quarter. I
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: got a six eggs Skylart convertible. I got a six
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: egg Skyllart full speed. Got a sixty five Skylight convertible.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: So that's your addiction.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like for Trump. I love Ford Trunk.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: So you don't drink, you don't smoke.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I used to. I let it go when my baby
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: boy was born. He's forty. I stopped forty years ago.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I used to get so drunk, man nvy. I used
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: to get so drunk when I when I get home,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I couldn't walk to I have to crawl. I used
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: to knock it in the bottom of the door. And
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: my exife say it gon be me and the alcohol.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: One of us has got to go. And I showed it, misser.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I did. I missed the hell out of her. Who
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: got a better couselection? Oh J got the car. But
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you know my man MB got some car I got.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I've had everything for what ever made, from the Lincoln
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Blackwood truck to the duel Is to the saline truck.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I got a saline truck. I got two Lightnings, I
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: got a Rapture, I got a super Snake truck. I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: don't have the Ford GT. You know, the one like
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: a Ferrari. I had all that. You yes, sir, really yeah?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I did you know why I sold it?
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Because you couldn't fit it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: No, I fit in. I'm gonna tell you why I
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: sold it, because when I did get in, it felt
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: like four people sitting in there with me.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Michael straight had had it and asked Michael Straan why
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: he got rid of this. He said, because I couldn't
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: finit it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: No, I could fit in it. But it was tight.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But when I sold it, it was it was six
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two hundred
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: miles on it, and I had it for seven years.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: So when I.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Said, she ain't selling that, because if you sold that
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: a triple quad.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: But it's like six hundred thousand four now. But what
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I saw, I bought it for two hundred thousand. I
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: sold her for two hundred and fifty thousand, and a
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: guy in England bought it. It was canary yellow black stripe. Yeah.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: And when I tell you it had the power, it
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: had the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: one you wanted to hold on to. The No, I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: don't miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I wanted to know what it sold for, like six
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: seven hundred thousand.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I sold it for two fifty back then, but
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I could have got five six h if I kemp it. Absolutely.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: How big of a deal is it now for a
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: comedian to have a special does?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Well? Let me you know, it's funny you said that, man,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: specials are good. I just got signed for Netflix specially okay.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And the reason, the reason I just took it, I
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do. I was gonna do it myself, like fimit.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Make them buy you know what I'm saying. But they
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: offered it to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: do it. I think around August so in Atlanta. No, no, no, no, no,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go somewhere
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: saying in Atlanta, I'm just average man, you know, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: see me. But I'll go somewhere like Chicago, Texas. Oh
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: my god, that's why I want to go. You know.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: In Atlanta, it's my city. I love it. I still
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: live there. And uh, I had a place in l
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: A for like thirty years. And La just La. You pay,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: They make you pay for the weather, you know what
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I mean. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: But it's high here in New York.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: You especially don't need one.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: It's not I mean, it don't validate you in no wise.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I want to do a tour myself. I'm always on
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: somebody else's tour. I want to do it too. I
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: got two guys that open up for me who is hilarious,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: and nobody know them. So I want to introduce them
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: and bring them out and then they can start out
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: doing their own thing. That's what it's all about. Man.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: There used to be a kick for comedians.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom Like
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: I don't feel.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: You need none of that no more.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Some people who got them, they can't sell out.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Can't sell a ticket. You know what I'm saying. They
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: can sell people in the garage, but they can't sell
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: a ticket. You know, back in the day before Kings
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: of Comedy, that's what you had to get. You know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: you do real good, then they offer your sitcom, then
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you do your sitcom, then you go on tour. And
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Bernard Mack was like the only comedian that could sell
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: out by hisself. He was about, now, Kat Williams could
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: do it. Kevin Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a good guy. But Cat can do it. Like when
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: he did that interview, that podcast went crazy. He just
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: started saying everywhere and well he got something to say,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and I think he should said, I agree he doing.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: They're doing a live Netflix special with Cat.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: But you know what they Cat made everybody get on
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: their toes. Though people like I thought, you're gonna say
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: something about you. I never had any conflict with Cat.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: We always been cool. He called me one time he said, man,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I want you go on the road with me, and
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I said this exact word. I said, I would do it.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I said, but why do you need me on the
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: road with you? I said, you got it. They're coming
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: to see you. He said, well, it's a big crossover.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: You got a crowd. I got a crowd. But cat
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: is he's a smart dude, and he take care of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: his people. That's what I like about it, said, he
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: take care of his people, and that's what it's all about.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Can't keep the money, man, You just think you're gonna
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: work people to death and not pay him. You got
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: to pay these people. We got families, we got kids.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: You know, I got grand kids, and I mean, you know,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: grand kids. That's who I work for. Now. They're cool.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: You've been getting money for a long time, been in
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: the game thirty When did you start seeing the like
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: that real real money that you know?
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: When I when I when when I when a joker
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: was giving me a thousand dollars a show. I thought
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: he was crazy because it was so easy to me
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: a thousand dollars to be on sage for ten to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Oh this is where I need to be.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Take the trip. Trump got to go. I tell you
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: how I quit my job. I took a leave of
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: absence and I told him. I told my supervisors. I say, man,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I said, I'm going through divorce. Man, I say, I
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: just need some time and get my head together. Can
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I get a thirty day leave absent? He got it approved.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: When he got it approved, we was inventory in the truck.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: He said, man, you're coming back. I said, I want
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you to look at me real good. And next time
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: And what's crazy?
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Back in the day we had beepers anybody I left.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I had my cousin and picked me up. On a Friday.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I said, man, take me by the back and I
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: got twenty dollars in the bank. That's all I had
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: in the bank. I went and got the twenty dollars
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: out to give him for gas. And as soon as
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I gave the money, my beeple went on and I said, stop, man,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: let me used to pay for him and I called
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: it was the club owner in the COMMUNYCT Theater in Atlanta.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: He said, Man, what you doing tonight? I said, I'm
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: working for you. I ain't look back.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: You do a lot of manifestation, Bruce. You will see
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: me on TV.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's telling man, you got to speak stuff. You know,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: when people don't realize you have to speak stuff into
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: your life. And when people be speaking the wrong stuff
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: in their life. The wrong stuff is gonna come. Oh,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sick as a doll. Okay, we're gonna be sick
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: as a doll because you're gonna be sick as a dog.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I love her depth. She'd be dead about three months,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: so you can't. You know, you got to love her
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a life. Whatever you speak, the tongue is very powerful.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying. So people
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: hollering by church Ford, but they be telling the truth.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know you say you're
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be rich, You're gonna be rich. Just just keep
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: you got to believe it what you I'm saying. So
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I've always told peop you'll see me on TV. I'm
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: not gonna work this truck all my life. I'm not
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be delivering chips all my life. I'm gonna be
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: doing stuff I.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Like to do.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: What's your manifested nine? What do you My key thing
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: now is to make sure I make enough money and
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: save enough money to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I don't plan on going anywhere right now anytime soon,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: but you know, I just want to make sure they're
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: straight when I leave because that's where it's supposed to be.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: I know a guy now, he's been married, white dude.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: He got married in nineteen sixty two. His mother and
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: father gave him a house that he still live in.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: He never paid a house note because the house were
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: paid for, didn't and then the property was on like
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: sixty acres with three lakes. So he living the life.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: They're lefting money. That's where it's supposed to be. You
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: always leave your family and position where they don't have
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: to suffer and be in a strain. That's why we
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: need to get insurance. Oh my god, you have see
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: somebody to die. They do gofund me. Then the brother
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: in law take all the money, He take everything but
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: sixty dollars. They had already thirty thousand. They didn't give
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: us sixty dollars. Man, you know they left more than
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: sixty dollars. And that's what we should be. We should
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: always put ourselves in a position to live a good life.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Also leave a good life for our family. I've got
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a couple more questions. There's a stigma about black comedians
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: wearing dresses to be funny, having the wear addressed to
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: get to that next level. What's your thoughts on that? Well,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be honest with you, man, I
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: did it. I did it. It's funny you said that
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I did. I did a TV show that I take
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: one time, never came out. It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: and we did this scene. I was a bounty hunter.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I played a bounty hunter. I played a preacher called
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Reverend Get Money. It was Reverend Get Money. And I
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: played a mother named Mother Marshall, which was crazy, but
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Mother Marshall was a real lady in my church that
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I mimic. I cop it off for and I also
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: played I did it in Indianapolis, and I did not
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: feel comfortable in that dress, you know what I'm saying
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: at all. And some people could do it, some people
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: if it worked for you. Flip Wilson did it when
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: he did Jeraldine. You know, because Flip Willson show was
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: a variety show, which I love because it wasn't a
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: black show. It was a show for everybody, and that's
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: what people got to understand. But if they want to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: dress up in a dress, do you think you know?
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: But that's not my thing. Yeah, But you know, Tyler
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Perry made it big. He's one of the best. But
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: to me, I love Tyler Peerry, but Joe is funny
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: than Tyler Peerry, than my deal. When he plays Joe Joe,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: it's funny. Joe had an oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: and I say, thank you Jesus. You know what I'm saying.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: So when he plays Joe, Joe is the funniest dude.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: You know, that's just me. I think. Yeah, I love
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: my dear, but oh my god, Joe's.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: And see back then when we used to see people
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: in the dresses or even see like when they used
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: to do men on film on a living color, it
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: was just funny.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Thought nothing of it. Men on film was the thing
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: when they talked about Moby Dick, Moby Dick that gets
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: two snaps and the kids and around about yeah the twist. Yeah.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: How would you define this point in your life professionally
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: and personally?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I want anybody to know, professionally and personally,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: this is me and this is how I do business.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I don't act, I don't put on So if you
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: see me on and off stage, this is Bruce Bruce,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm the same every day man. You know, I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: have problems just like everybody else. I have. I get
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: a cold like everybody. You know, everybody. Everybody think when
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: you're in the entertainment, things are just perfect, noise or not,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: and your family members and your friends are the worse.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: The Bible speaks. If it ain't your family, watch your
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: closest friend, they gonna get you. I got a cousin now. Oh,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just going through so much. I said, keep having
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: some birthday, You're gonna go through some more shit. You
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: you to rescue them and fix them and not pay
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you back. Who thought of that one?
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know who thought of that one. I don't know.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: They don't think. But if it was Flip, if I
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: owe them now, y'all know he owns money. He ain't
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: gave me my money yet. But when you owe me,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I saw to be able to understand when you got it. Yeah, exactly,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be telling you. I told m I ain't seeing
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a rich man with extra money. Never. Why do you
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: have to say your name twice? I call my Mommy
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: just called me twice. My mama said, if I call
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: you the third time, I'm gonna kill you. So my
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: mother said, if I call you three times, you're gonna
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: die today. And my mother was a little one about
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: one forty. I mean, she was just but loving and
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: knew how to make a way out of no way.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: do get successful and you start making money, make sure
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: you take care of mom. And one thing you got
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: to realize it don't take much like you think it does.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: People think like, well, I got to do it. Your
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: mama don't want that much. She just want to make
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: sure she's okay, she's comfortable, and she got a little money.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: My mother last twenty years of her life. I made
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing. But
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying. But
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: then when your family members found out about it, they
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: started trying to use you too. You know, my mom,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going through something. Well that's your mother, this one
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: is mine. Books. We appreciate you for joining us, no,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: thank you, and you're going to do it right now
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: right yeah, yeah, I'm gonna show tonight and you know
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: next week I'm in town. But we got that I'm
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: in Tacoma, Washington. We got through that. I mean, Raleigh.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I'm booked every week. If I'm not booked every week,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: somebody gonna lose their job. Ain't nobody gonna be sitting
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: at home drinking lemonade when I'm sitting at home. I
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: need to go to.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Work, That's right. Yeah, well, let you have it. It's Bruce, Bruce.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: you as a.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: As a comedy legend. Man, trying to give you an icon.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: So salute you, Bruce, Thank you for coming. Respect.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: in the morning.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.