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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.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God. We
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  Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.
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  Speaker 1: The building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome. How you feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is good, man, Everything is good. Yeah. Man. Why
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: our 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.
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  Speaker 3: I was early, Bruce Bruce.
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  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. That's fact. So you got
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: to be on time. But then the traffic here is
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in the lane up here. Nobody,
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  Speaker 1: the buses, police, nobody. They just drive like they want to.
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  Speaker 4: And what's crazy, they got lane some of them got
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  Speaker 4: their own lanes in spite of right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, this is the.
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  Speaker 2: First time Bruce Bruce has been on the show almost
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  Speaker 2: and I want to you know, when I when sometimes
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: when when somebody comes to the first time, I want
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  Speaker 2: to stall from the beginning, right, Okay, Now I know
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: your story because I've been studying you 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?
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  Speaker 3: And I want you to explain your job before comedy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I
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  Speaker 1: can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go,
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  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
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  Speaker 1: an older guy, old guy, and he said he used
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  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
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  Speaker 1: I ain't paying at this to He said, I gonna
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  Speaker 1: bring 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: always your time on this job and you need to
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  Speaker 1: go on stage. And know what I did, I quit
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  Speaker 1: because I had a family. I was young, man had
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  Speaker 1: three kids, and man I went and started working for Freedo,
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  Speaker 1: a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the whole time
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: I'm selling potato chips and on the doc I'm just funny,
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  Speaker 1: acting crazy, so good old white dude. So you know
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  Speaker 1: you need to stage. That's a year every morning, you know,
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: study you fronny, I look comedians, frauds there or nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you gonna stay. And when I took
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  Speaker 1: that step, man, was I knew That's why I should
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  Speaker 1: have been in my whole entirelight. And what made me
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: take that step? I was going through a divorce, you
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and my ex wife said you
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: would never make it. I'm like, what why did you
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  Speaker 1: tell you that?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: So I just looked at it and say, I see
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  Speaker 1: you on TV. You know what I'm saying, And it's
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  Speaker 1: been gone there. I've been doing it now thirty five years.
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  Speaker 3: And what made you?
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  Speaker 2: What made you get married? If she wasn't supportive because
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: you said, you know, we're young.
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  Speaker 1: I was young, you know. You know I'm from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia and South you know, you get a girl pregnant,
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  Speaker 1: you know you got to marry all this crazy stuff.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: And I did the same thing. My oldest son is
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: forty three, man, my baby boys forty. My daughter's thirty eight. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: you've been going wrong with I didn't pull out games
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: till you know what I'm saying it pull out games.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: I was just laying that. It was crazy, man. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't think just doing it, you know, And
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: when you're young, you just do that until you get
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  Speaker 1: somebody old and say, hey, you need to watch yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And that's what we need
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  Speaker 1: to start doing as older guys and let him know, man,
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  Speaker 1: this ain't no game. Who taught you how to cook?
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  Speaker 1: My uncle? Uncle? Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: he about five feet tall by the ninety eight in
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  Speaker 1: the waist. You hear me play look like egg better on?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He was my pocket or bad and he raised me
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  Speaker 1: and he taught me about you know, life. He taught
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  Speaker 1: me about how to treat women. He taught me about
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  Speaker 1: being on time, because you know he's he was a baker.
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  Speaker 1: He's delivered cakes here. We got to be there on that.
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  Speaker 1: But he was he would never ever drive on the
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  Speaker 1: highway ever. Ever. We gotta go straight back rolls. But
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: they ring your tail over on that highway, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And he was he was real superstitious.
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  Speaker 1: I never did believe in that. You know, he see
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  Speaker 1: a black cat walk the street, but he gonna turn around.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you put your hat on the bed. Oh no,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: you can't do that, sweepings fleet. You gotta spit the brew.
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  Speaker 1: You know he was rated superstitious. Don't never let a
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: woman touch your wallet. You know you ain't gonna never
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  Speaker 1: have no money. Man, ain't nobody believing in that woman
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  Speaker 1: buy shoes? Oh yeah, got your life? Watch it? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you know the time is at your life. Oh he
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  Speaker 1: was real superstitition. But other than that, man, he was
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  Speaker 1: a great, great guy. Man. You remember the first dish
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  Speaker 1: that you learned to cook? Oh yeah, man, stay, was
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  Speaker 1: I can steak? Make a joke of cry white supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be clapping? Oh yeah, my white supposed to be clapping.
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  Speaker 1: Black people be hollering, yay, how you get the capitol
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  Speaker 1: for the barbecues? But well, I started down with Joall,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you how my mother. It's just me
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  Speaker 1: and mother. I'm the only child my mother ever had.
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  Speaker 1: And we was struggling, and it was living in the hood,
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  Speaker 1: and it was in an area called Bluff it was.
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  Speaker 1: And man, let me tell you man, she needed some help.
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  Speaker 1: So I went and applied for this job. This guy
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  Speaker 1: knew worked at the barbecue restaurant, and I applied and
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: I told him I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I was working, man, I
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  Speaker 1: was clean up. So I had been there about three
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: months and this old white guy named EdWay. I said,
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: let me ask you something. He was the man. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know you really. He said, you work good
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  Speaker 1: and everything. He said, with you not seventeen, I said no,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm fourteen. He said, why are you working?
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, I got to help my mom. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what. It's gonna be our a little secret.
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  Speaker 1: You know. He kept me because I was a good worker.
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  Speaker 1: Everything he told me to do, I did it. And
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of followed in and started watching this
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  Speaker 1: guy's cooking and I knew how to cook him. My
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: uncle had been showing me. I do everything. Next time
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  Speaker 1: I know, man, I was running the pit. Man. I
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  Speaker 1: was cooking barbecue and everything at like sixteen years old.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: Oh so you didn't own it. No, Oh, no, I
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  Speaker 1: was working there man.
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  Speaker 3: Now you also mentioned that you were an only child.
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  Speaker 3: Only child, your father left at the age of five.
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  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
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  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
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  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 him off and she was off monster man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, did tell you that? No, I just like, man,
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  Speaker 1: this dude is cool. He was really cool, you know,
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  Speaker 1: But she's like, I don't want to know everything he
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  Speaker 1: tried to do. She just knocked it down, like but
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  Speaker 1: she was listening to a girlfriend's That's why I tried
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  Speaker 1: to tell all these young girls, don't listen to no
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  Speaker 1: woman that ain't got no man. You don't say what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. If you got a woman, if you got
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  Speaker 1: a girlfriend, you got a husband. She not how true
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  Speaker 1: a husband, but a woman that don't have a man,
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  Speaker 1: she can't tell you nothing. But he I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: just he left and he never ever called us ever.
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  Speaker 1: And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He
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  Speaker 1: did a non contested divorce because my mother just worked,
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  Speaker 1: come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm going to get a divorce, and when she
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  Speaker 1: went to do it, this said, you already divorced, noun contested.
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  Speaker 1: You put it in the newspaper for thirty days. You
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  Speaker 1: don't answer the ad, bam you divorce. He was already gone.
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  Speaker 1: He was gone. He was gone. And I got married
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  Speaker 1: three more time. And I found it when I was
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  Speaker 1: 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 what I was. He knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I looked like. No, my son looked like him, though,
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  Speaker 1: my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny
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  Speaker 1: how to dip over, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 1: I met with him and we talked and we stayed
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  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, did
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  Speaker 1: you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: ever have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she said, you know I was wrong. She said I
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: didn't care about I had other boyfriend. You know, my
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: mama food around see parents don't tell you. They try
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the right thing, but they'll do the
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  Speaker 1: wrong thing in front of you. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Those old dudes she used to go with named Dave,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, had platform shoes with taps on. You remember platform.
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  Speaker 1: He had taps on platform shoes. He come up the steps,
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  Speaker 1: clock oclock, how your mama doing, And then he'll tell me, hey,
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  Speaker 1: come in, let me give you a few dog on
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  Speaker 1: down and get your cocola, you know something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you're finna do. Finna get some tail,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So he gets you, gets
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  Speaker 1: your tato tips. I run right out of the house.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know what he's finna do. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want no food, you know what I'm saying. But he
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  Speaker 1: was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: very nice. But she had this one boyfriend she's just
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with
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  Speaker 1: this one dude that they like. And he ain't nothing.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He dogged my mama. Man,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: he was he was married. She didn't even know he's married.
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  Speaker 1: She's over there, he's over there every day, every day. Eating. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: God is a good guard, you know. Yeah, card is
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: a good girl and woman. Tell you what happened. When
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I was in high school, four of us used to
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: hang together and we saw him in his truck and
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: my brother say, man, that call you. You're my my
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: boyfriend with your mom. I said no, I said, that's
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: my mother boyfriend. That's not my mom. It was another lady.
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  Speaker 1: So I got out the car, looked at him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know I see you right He said, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? Play it? Come to my mom house.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: I told my mother see him with another woman. He
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: looked me dead at minde. He said that was not
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  Speaker 1: he did not see me. And my mother believed it.
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  Speaker 1: For the reason she believed it because I didn't like him,
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  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
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  Speaker 1: like sixteen years. Man. And I want to tell you,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: my mother, I don't want to get married. I don't
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: want to get Okay, you don't want to get married,
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: but this dude's already married, so you can't marry this dude.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: When she found out, she was like, she was toe up. Yeah,
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: I heard her. You grew up in the bluff.
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: Hold how close the reality was was snow on the
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: bluff the movie?
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was real close. That was the
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: heron cocaine, I mean crack area. But my mother told me,
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  Speaker 1: if you touch it, o kid. So I was most
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  Speaker 1: scared of my mother than the guys in the street,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I never touched it.
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  Speaker 1: I watched him do it. I watched him shoot up
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  Speaker 1: every time. I can't do that, bro, Now, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. My mother is great. My mother is a rastler.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. She had been on WWE. I know
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, this lady scrap man. So you
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: know that's why. And that movie was really really serious.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: But you know it was so funny in the hood,
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: being in the hood, because you know, the crackheads come.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, dude had bought a video camera.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: You know, he was fibbing people and everything. Crackhas said, Man,
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: I got a camera like that, he said, bigger, but
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: it's got a two on it. I said, what are
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: you talking about? He done stole the camera off the
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Channel two news truck. The dude was getting ready to
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: do some news in the area. He just walked off
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: with the ca So we saw the white guy panicking
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: walking around. I said, you're looking for your camera and
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: he said yeah. I said, I know it is. I said,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give some money to get it back.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: He said, I get anything. He's all. He's how much
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: you think hundred twenty dollars to get your camera back? Wow?
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: And the dude brought it back to him just walked
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  Speaker 1: off with it.
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  Speaker 3: I got a camera like that has a number two
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  Speaker 3: on it, Yes, so two on it.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: They had Channel two on it, right Man, these dudes
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: in the hood. Dude had a whole bedroom suit. Walk
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: down the street with the dresser. Dude make way about
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: one thirty. He said, I got the mirror, the two
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: nights stands in the bed y'all needed. Were like what somebody?
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody bought it? You know what I'm saying. The dude
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: told me said, man, I got I got a I
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: got a typewriter like that. The only thing mine difference,
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: it's got a TV on it. He didn't realize he
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: had a desktop computer. He's I got a tight writer,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: but he got a TV on it, like tight with TV.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I know back then, brothers had to press you to
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: try to get in the street though. Oh yeah, man,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: they you know they talk about your you're scared, you're
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: punk all this curb. Hey man, I'm gonna have to
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: be a punk because my mom didn't play My mom,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: my aunt, the neighbors. They didn't play Man anything. Oh
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: my god, my granddad. I was scaring him on anything.
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  Speaker 1: He was about six y five, black, real black, with royal
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  Speaker 1: blue eyes. So my mother said, do I need to
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: call your granddad? No. She would get him on the phone.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: He'll say, hey, do I need to come up there?
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: All I do was here his voice. I ain't no, sir,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: she's living. 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. You know what
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. He was just that dude. Man. But when
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: I got older, I realized he was really cool. He
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: was a cool dude, but he just believed a child
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: staying in the child place. That's right.
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: And you said your uncle Paul inspired you as far
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: as comedy because he was the funny man.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: He was funny. He tell a lot. Everybody got help
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: me with this line. Everybody he did, I tell him, Yeah,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: he told you. Everybody didn't help me with this line.
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  Speaker 1: But he was one of the best bakers in the world.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: He practically raised Gladys Knight back in the day, and
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: they used to call him the sweetbread Man, and Gladys
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Knight knew him. His name was Paul Henson Junior, and
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: he went by the sweetbread Man because he was the
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  Speaker 1: baker in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the man, and he
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: talked about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: was really raised on the same street. The street was
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Chestnut Street. They changed to James Street Broadley. I was
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: on four fifteen. She was on like seven eighty five
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: or something like that, just right up the street, like
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: two blocks. So you know, no, no, I I was
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: a little kid, but she lived at on her first husband.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But Gladys is a girl. Man.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, were you able to translate your funny to actually
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: make a career of it. But somebody like Uncle Paul,
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: 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 they'll 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. Uncle was 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 him all out, you know what I mean. Then
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: he went to 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 was a little bit. They was calling me
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: little Bruce Man. I didn't I didn't get fat till
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: I got man. I don't know why I got married.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wouldn't eat it. Man. I was
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: just a little bit of dude, just run around, just
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: messing with everybody. I was a little bit of kid man.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: But when I got married, I got fat. You know,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: that's what happened to us as black man. We get
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: complacent that we get complacent with jobs. We get a
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: job and let's just say jeral motives, we make a
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: little money. Oh man, that's a good job. I don't
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: care nothing about no good job. It's about getting out
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: there getting it, because it's more than that than getting
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: a good job.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: I ain't like that question, by the way, what you
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: mean I don't like the question? Do you ask me
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: what with Bruce?
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Bruce little as a child was a big child. I
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: want what you wanted to He thought I was just
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: couldn't clap my hands, could clap his hand, and y'all
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: clap my hand. 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 at attacking. This is that where
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: that came from? And I gotta start snapping at these kids.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: You know when I was, when I was younger, I
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: was real scary. You know, most kids wn't admit that.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I was real scared to do anything. So people just
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: talking about me, talking about him back. That's how I
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: learned it. I used to talk about this girl. Man,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: this girl, man, she had a pontail in the pail
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: body that long look with a rubber band around it.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: I want behind, I said, girl, how did they do that?
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Do it? I said, make the oxtail right there? I said,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: I said, you can stand on your head. Your hair
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: stell won't touch the floor. Man, this girl. So I'm
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: gonna beat you. Man. You know what I'm saying. I'm like,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: what man, I broke out running you know. I didn't
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: know she was a track star. Man. This girl caught
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: me and beat the brakes off me. Man, I didn't
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: care because I was raised not to hit women, so
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't get she beat me up. She laid me
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: on the ground and throw my homes you knowed to
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: throw your homes. I she said, what's up now? I said,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: your hair still shot? So then she said, you're gonna
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: beat my boyfriend. So I had to beat her boyfriend
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: walk her to school every day. That's when I realized
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I had something now, you know. I joned her out
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and talked about the bed. But she did like me,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and my uncle told me, said that, man, that girl
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: like you. That's why she she wants you to be
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a boy friend. She like you. I didn't realize that,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: but I thought she hated my guts, But she really didn't. Man,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: she actually laughed about it. Then she grew up and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: be drop dead gorgeous. You know she did y'all? Still
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I can't. I can't do it
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: no more. Man, I ain't got it. But that's laughter, though,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: you know you can make it. Say if you can
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: make a girl laugh, and man, you make him laugh,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I got him. Most women they just want to laugh.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: You make them laugh. A lot of guys when they
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: see women, when they see good looking women, fine women,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: nice body, instantly, most guys get intimidated. They'd be like, Oh,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: she ain't gonna holler me she will. You ever see
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: a real, fine pretty girl with an ugly dude. You
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: know what happened because he said something to it. He
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: walked in to hey, how you doing. You look good?
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: She's like, you're for real, Yeah, I'm for real, And
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: he would have You're like, how did this ugly? Because
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I know I got some ugly partners? Oh my god,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I got some dudes. Cold your eyes when you look
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: at the fool, you have to wipe you out. My god, bro,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: what happened? You know what I'm saying. But they got
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the baddest women you ever want to see. But everybody
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: got to understand though it's really nothing to it. Just
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: talk to him, 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.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: What's the toughest city for you? And why if there
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: 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 to start
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: at ten. They let the first show run over. These
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: people are coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: So that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: got to really go to work to make them laugh,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you know, or go and or say something like this,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: say y'all have been at working they want to be there.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, I said, that's why I feel now,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when you break the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: ice with them, you got them. Once you get them,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you got them. But you got to run the clubs
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: on time. And it's hard dealing with us as black people.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: It's hard to deal with a lot of black people, man.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: But the white clubs they be on it byam, damn,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: damn because they realize the money they can make in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the 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
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: with us. I had one dude at a club, man.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It was in November and it was cold, when he
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: had people outside, I say, man, people are standing outside.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: The show's supposed to start an hour ago. He looked
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: at me and he said, I don't give up what
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: they do on I said, I'm like what, so, matter
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of fact, I don't even do his club anymore because
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you don't have respect for the people. But we're the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: one working hard for it to make him laugh, because
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: it's hard to get black people to laugh, you knowply
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: when they're mad, they better be funny. It better be funny,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: especially when they're mad. You know, white people laughing anything. Oh,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: he's hilarious. He's great. You can be terrible. You know
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you're good. You're gonna be great because white people have
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a different way of saying no, Like when you auditioned
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: for a show, like how do you like him? Well,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he's a good looking guy. He has great hair. That's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a no. See, people don't realize that when they want you,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they want you to get you checks the sign. But
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: when they breed hard. You know, I was looking at
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: him and smart guy, smart guy. But no, I's like,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we do it. I said no, And that's what we
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: all got to realize.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: You know, you think about when it come to doing
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: business with black people and white people, because I love
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: doing business with with with my people, right, But I
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: don't think we often look at it as a business
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: 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 me and Bruce go back fifteen. I don't
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: even know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I met him at the gas station and up you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: don't know me, Bro, Maybe I come across like you
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: do know me, but you don't know me. They'll call
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and be like, we discussed the deal and he said
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: he would do it for this. That's not true because
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: always think it's like a partner thing when it should
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: just be business. Yeah.
• 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: they people don't know it. I know it. I can
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: remember my first I mean, I come out saint temp
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a guy. I didn't like this show. Well, people thought
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: it was great, but I'd be like, I didn't like
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that show.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: What was your what was your worst show? Because they said,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you don't write things down, it's just off.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: It 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, even go up there and jone.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He said, I like a pickle jaw, you know. And
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I started like, damn, that's funny. Bro. I said, I'm
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: gonna keep that, you know. He sent me like a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: pickle jaw. I was like, oh my god, that's funny.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: But the crowd loved it because I took it so well.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't go off, you know exactly. It was really
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: funny when he said it. And I ended up seeing
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: him like ten years lad. He said, you remember game
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: on stage? Man? I saw you, so you look a
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: pickle jo I said, that was you. I said, let
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: me take a picture with you. You know what I'm saying.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But the cool but the best show I ever did,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it was years and years and years ago, is when
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie Mack was super hot.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And it's a It's a part of Georgia called Macon, Georgia,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and it's about a hour from Atlanta and Bernie was performing,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: had ten five thousand seater and the feature didn't show up,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and the guy said, hey, man, my feature in the show.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Can you come down opening up for Bernie Mac. I said, yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you know I had been in the he ain't there
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: about five years? Yes, And I drove down as quick
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: as I could, and I was on stage, and I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: can 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
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in my whole entire life. May cern'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 scattering them, mom, and he went up and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: did him. And Capri went together on it and he
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: ripped it. Man, Bernie was a bad?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: 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: Robbers is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know who?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Tony Robber? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me he's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the date of 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 hic You know what I'm saying.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Epps 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 me. Mike moved from
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Indiana to Atlanta and I used to take him on
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the road with me. And then he moved to New
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: York and he called me when they said, man, they
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: want me to audition for Fridays, And I said, what
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you waiting on? I said, look 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.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: You said something earlier when you talked about the pickle
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: joh joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah, so
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: comedians do cover jokes, Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told him that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But no, you like I sent, comedians just take bits
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you do that
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and I see it, I know exactly where you got
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it from. I've been in this business so long. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: know exactly what you got. I know who said and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: how they said and when you said it. No, I
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because I saw Bernie.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernie Mack and
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: he was saying, don't say your joke around or are
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: you a new comedian us?
• 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.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Now we've seen Kat Williams pulled out his chop a
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: couple of months ago.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: He was fired at everybody. What was your thoughts?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Because you know a lot of that stuff was inside
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: that became outside.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Cat just told how he felt man
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and what's been going on in his life for real,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and he just got fed up with it. You know
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: when people when people dog you out, Let's just say this.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I used to tell people. I had a club at 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 4: I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: things you could take from that conversation. But the thing
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: like it put black comedy in a in a new life. Yeah,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: like people started paying attention.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: To the old gez, like you said, Tony Robbers, like
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: they I don't know.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I just felt like it just shine earthquake and shine
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: the light on the on the people who've been doing it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And people got to understand something about Kat Williams. Cat
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Williams is not a dummy. He is very smart. He's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: very smart. I don't know if y'all remember when he
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: had altercation in Atlanta with one of the smith phone
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: V one O three if you ever noticed it, he
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: never lost his composure. He stood there and drunk his
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: coffee and he was killing her the whole time. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: he's just cool like that. He's very smart. He's a
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: smart guy.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Now, we always talk about the role at L played
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: in rap. What role did it play in comedy?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. When you like rap me you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: said rap? You know, I thought you was finna say
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: with with outcasts and you know I did videos. They
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: liked my little homies. I'm like they og They called
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: me O G and with too short, made the song
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: shake that Monkey with with a little jung gun and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: then uh no, it's too short, and then Little John
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: came back with the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just love. Everybody show love in Atlanta. Everybody show love.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Like when I did the movie I had awhile with Outcasts.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: It was gave to me. You know, it wasn't a
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: movie I had to audition for. And then I did
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the movie Who's Your Caddy with Big Boys, a role
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that was gave to me because they just have that
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: kind of love for me. You know what I mean.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We're all cool and I stay in my lane. Man,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I 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.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Well, you have a surprise that you hear before when
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you heard let 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: shouldn't be saying that. Then your girl should say it,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: but not not me, not you.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Brother said that on the text this morning because our
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already his we
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: were on the way.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so he goes, well, entertain them. Then let
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. I forgive you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: 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,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I felt he felt we cool.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: So he just told me and our producer told him
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: that was he was going to hs that breath.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Why did you do that? Why did you? Yeah?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And Biggie. Biggie mentioned you and hitting the time.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time you heard what happened?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Florid. I never forget this,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet him so bad because I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: was a man and Biggie you know, and man. He
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: came in and I was on stage clown and I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was joning people. I mean, I has to do it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I said that shirt sil because it's I said, is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it's silky? You behind it too much? You know something
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: like that. He walked in, he said, just do this
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: because if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: didn't really smile that much, you know what I'm saying.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: He 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,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: he said, I wanna put you down for it. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: when I heard it, I'm like, what what was that was?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: People were debating whether he yeah, did he say that. Yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it was like Bruce, Bruce, who do something to us?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Talk goes through us, girls do us one of us
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: screwls who meets Poppy and Puff. It was just love.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: He showed me he was a cool guy man. And
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: saw him smile. He just always had this like heart look,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: like you know, he read fight. But he was really funny.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: It was fun to be around. So he told you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay, that's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: how you know it was Yeah, but I heard him
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like what I thought? I heard you know what we
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: did on the rate. I'm like and shorty show. They
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: called me the comedian Church. He said, Man, Biggy just
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: said your name. And I'm like, I listened to it
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: over and over. I just kept coming back. I just
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I just kept repeating it listen to And that was love.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That was real love.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I guess you answered the question because when I said
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: 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? Well? Who started it was Chris
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Tucker and Chris Tucker when he did Friday's first. Of all,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: he didn't do Friday's first. He did house party. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: when he came to it, he's the same time, man,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: you're gonna give me the money? The same time it was.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It was it immature, the group called immature. And he
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: went to the door to get some money. I'm looking
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: for such and such. Man. He just had that one
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: scene at the door, and then he did Fridays And
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Friday's took off way better than they thought it thought
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it would. It took off way better than they thought
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: it would. And Chris, he's a good dude too. Man,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: he's a good guy. I used to be on the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: road with him. But he fired me though. Man, you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he didn't fire me, but he fired me like 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 did presidents get ready to come out, you know.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And that's when I said, Okay, when he went back
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: on the road, he just didn't bring me back here.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: So that's that's firing ass, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But then cool it's still my body. But he did
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: come back in the policy. I say, hey, man, I
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: didn't do that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: cool man, I'm good. I work, you know, I get down.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You said you was a salesperson for Freeo label. Oh yeah,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: they used to make you tell jokes when you know
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: everybody on the dock, you know, I you know, we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: go from soa store deliberation. 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.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Monk's going up.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I was, y'all okay, but you know we got the man.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: You're a comedian. We love it. You know, we got
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the boys. They'd be so impressed. So you're a commeldian. Yeah,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: we love that's their word. But we had it. But
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: one thing about good O balls. When they like it,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: they like it. When they don't, they don't. And it
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: ain't a black white thing. It could be a white
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: white thing. They don't like it. They don't like you,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you know so, But I don't seeing racism everywhere. Man,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it don't bother me. Remember your sales pitch, my sales
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: pitch on the potato ye oh yeah, man. Let me
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: tell you. I had a Walmart. They had just opened
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: this Walmart, and in order to I wanted to dress
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: up as chester Cheata, remember the chester Cheeta Tiger. In
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: order to do this, you got to have you got
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to sell this huge display to get the carstume, the costume.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Because the company was charging
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: different branches money to use cars. I was the biggest
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: chester To Cheetah they have ever seen that. Look, man,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I was the fattest one guy. I said he must Cheetos.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: This 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 too. Its 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 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 dollars.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I want Cheetos in that store? That was my man?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Was your hey man? Just me being funny. I walk
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: in and I say, man, I need to seals. I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: need to sell some chips. If not, I'm gonna start backstripping.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And if if I start backstripping, the church mumb is
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: really going to be hard on me about this. I said,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you don't want to see me naked. Trust me when
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I tell you that, you know what I'm say saying
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: their bus I laughing got him in order. He wasn't
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: really come on. If I was my stage name be
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: stretch Marks.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, then you know. But if
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I was stripped with today, I go by heart Candy Hard.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: This is a good name.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: As I didn't want to hand why heartcare.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: It was like something behind it, like you know the church,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: old lady in the church with Hard Candy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Church, that'd be living pound Cake. I'd be living living
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: out of death.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Comedy Jam, Showtime, The Apollo and Comic View which one
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: had the most impact on you.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Comicview Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: come on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, big up for him. Depth Jam was good.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: But when I did Comic View, see Comic View started
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: out as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: remember that they used to go. They used to come
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: out to your city and come to a club and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: film you and then take it back. And d L
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: was see the host, and he's like, look went all
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the way down to Atlanta at a club called the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Comedy Act Theater and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and then showed me and I did the coach co
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: when they first started. But I never forget the year
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that I host. It was probably the best year for
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: me that I have ever experienced in my life. They
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: went from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: host and it was great for me. It was it
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: was good. I made some money. They gave me money
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: for wardrobe. That's why I dressed in all them suits
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: because I thought I was a pimp. You know what
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I thought I was a straight up pimp.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: How'd you get the gig. They called me. I mean
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I had been doing comedy like seven eight years and
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: got I say call me one day, said I would
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: you like the host comedy view. I said I would
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: love that because I wanted to do it and I
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to do it before then, and it just won
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: my time. But when my time came, it was perfect.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It did well, it did very well.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: It was that the moment that you know that that
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: was your big break, like, oh, this is really going
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to happen.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Then I did more shows than anybody. I did like
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: four to five shows a day, so I was changing suits,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: changing suits, and I was working five days a week,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: so on the days and it was off Sunday Monday.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So I was shooting commercials for them. And I did
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: this one commercial. I like gators at alligator skin shoes.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: So I told his capture, I was, 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 where alligators 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, it's a real alligator. He
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: was real alligator coming out of the water and it
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: was really really funny. That was a scene that I wrote,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: but yeah, it was. It was fun. So I still
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: wear Gator shoes. I'm old school man, you know, I'm
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: like the old player Ciaga still wear suits with ten
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and shoes. I can't do it now. I can't do it, player,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I can't do it. I never felt like Apollo was
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: good for comedy, man, It's just I think what it
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was with Apollo. Those people are that all day sitting.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: So the first two shows you're gonna get love. But
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: like the third, fourth and fifth show, they wore out.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They boo and everybody. They booed me the first time,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and I didn't care. I just started talking about people.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It was a dude in the front dresser like, I
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell was going on him. I said, bro,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: what is your problem? Ye had he was just like
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: a woman and a man on one side. A woman
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: on the side said break are you slow?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Time?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and before the time, but it was it was
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a jew on them. They laughed. But then I went
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: back and did it again, and then it went well, yeah,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I did it with Mark Curry first and then back
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: with Steve Harvey.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Is it too sensitive now for comedy?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Depending on what subj did you touch on? Because if
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: you if you don't, like, let's just say gay people,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you can't you can't touch on that. You can't say
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: anything disrespectful. And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: When I was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you know, so we'd be riding the Sweet Pickle. I'm like, well,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: we knew what it was. We were like, what the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: world you know? But the thing is, I mean I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: don't do any bashing of anything of sorts like that,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: but I see them all the time. Like I remember
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: one time I was doing the show at BT was
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: in California and the makeup artist is two of them.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: They did makeup and hair and they was gay, gay
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: dudes and anything. So you know, one dude walked in, Man,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: hold on no bags doing my makeup. They dude got
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: really emotional, so sickness, so tart. I don't like to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: tell you start packing this stuff you and leave. So
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I walked in the room. I closed the door on them.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: He looked at me like what I say, Man, let
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: me tell you something. I said, if you're comfortable with
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: who you are. I said, be that. I said, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: if you walk out on this show, they're gonna blackball
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who may
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: work for nobody. I said, jill out, dry your tears
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: up and this, I said, do my makeup. You know
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I said, but if you walk out,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. I say, nine time out of ten.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: At the end of the night, that same dude to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: be hollering at what if you would said that I
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: had run out of that. I had to run full speed,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then after after the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: end of the night, he's like, he said, thank you,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: thank you so much what you did because he was
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: commaded to go. He was emotion and everything, and the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk to dude.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I said, man, chill out and don't do that. You
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: know they got feelings too, that's just who they are.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Why do you help so many comedians?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Comedians talk about that you helped someone so many comedians
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in their in.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Their career and their life.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: What gives you the energy because a lot of people
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: be like I ain't helping him because he might get
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: bigger than me. But you 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 here 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 in from his wing. Rinaldo Ray did
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the same thing. He helped me in on BT when
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he was my co host. People don't realize that Ronald
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Rae was a college professor before he started doing comedy.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: He was extremely smart and he would tell me sometimes,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: he said, turn your body to the right a little bit.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: When 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
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: say you won't have to find her and they will
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: find you. His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Paul Mooney. He told me that Ridney Winterfield. Y'all remember,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Rightney Winfield that my man took me and he said,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of these jokers don't like you just because
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you're funny. He says, keep being funny. You're gonna be
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: alright yoused to call me do shows with him. You know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: you know back in the day, man, somebody say, Man,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: we got to show paying three hundred dollars. I'm like,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: let's go. You know these new kids now, he say, man,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I got a show for you. How much you're paying?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Hold it? Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: TV much less on TV. So what did you talking
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: about how much they're paying. If I tell you about
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the show, I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Something you think social media helped to hurt comedy, Oh,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: it helped it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social media thirty
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: five years ago. The only thing we had was going
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: this city early through radio, try to do TV to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: get people in there. Social media is a platform that
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: really helped a lot of young comedians. Now now veteran
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: comedians like myself, they get pissed because all the new
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: young comedians are coming up faster. I've been doing comedy
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Thirty years and he ain't been
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: doing comed for three months. I tell him like this,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you can't beat them showing them and then winning, so
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: you might as well fall in the footstep they are winning.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: they're asking how much? Right, because they following them.
• 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 to respect. They're bombing, like hell, they're trying
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to get positive.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: That's a favorite part of the Commiss show.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It is I like, I like, you know what it is.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of a hole. Oh my god, if you see me
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: laughing really hard, it's probably because you up there thinking.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Because I remember seeing you because I watch you guys
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: all the time. I remember seeing you on Ridiculousness right
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and Chanelle West Coast. She made her so mad. You
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: see you was coming and saying, I never seen you
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: on anything. I never seen you rap with I rap stupid.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: She got the commercial. I think it happened twice right now.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: It was the one that she was But do she wrap? Yeah?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: I 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 pitted. 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 to pissed her. I never seen your nothing.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I never seen you my snoop, I never seen you
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: two short, I never seen 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 what. I saw you
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: on TV. They love it. So I think we need
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: to go back to that platform. They doing a new
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: thing now where you know they wanted all hip hop
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: and all that. That's cool, but we need to go
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: back to the old way. Now.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: You're a huge car enthusist. I am in classic cause yeah,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: we got you into that. And how many cars do.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You have back in about twenty seven? I'm I collect Buicks, Buicks.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I like Buick Buicks. Man, My granddaddy told him, say,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: look at young buy nothing but a Buick. You know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: old Joe, he's have a road mester with three speed
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: on the column. I thought he was a genius. When
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you change the gears on the column. He was a
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: bad dude. You know. He put it down the first,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: then go to second. He looking at the talking, then
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: he go to third. Get you a Buig, baby, you know.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: So I always liked Buicks, and I like Skylart's Buick
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: was a really good muscle car too. People don't realize it.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I got like I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: got a seventy Rivera, I got a sixties Rivera. I
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: got a sixty nine Rivera. I got a six eight
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Duce on the quarter. I got a six eight Skylart convertible.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: I got a six egg Scyllart Folk Speed got a
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: sixty five sky Lot convertible.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: So that's your addiction.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like Ford truck. I love Ford Truck.
• 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 envy. 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 the crawl. I used to knock
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the door and my axe say
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: it go be me and the alcohol. One of us
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: has got to go. And I showed it misser. I
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: did mean. I missed the hell out of her. Who
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: got a better collection? You and J lino oh J
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: got the call. But you know my man MB got
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: some car I like I got. I've had everything for
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: what ever made, from the Lincoln Blackwood truck to the
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: duel Is to the saline truck. I got a saline truck,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I got two lightnings, I got a rapture, I got
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a super snake truck. I don't have the Ford GT.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: You know, the one like a Ferrari. I had all
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that you a g yes, sir, really yeah, I did?
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: 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 tre had had it. Asked Michael Straan why he
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: got rid it is? He said, cause I couldn't fit it.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: No, I can fit in it. But it was tight.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But when I sold it, it was it was on
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: six When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: hundred miles on it, and I had it for seven years.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: So when I said, she ain't selling that, because if
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: you sold that a triple quadrant, but it's like six
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand for it now. But when I saw I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: bought it for two hundred thousand. I sold her for
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand, and a guy in England
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: bought it. It was canary yellow, black stripe, yamn and
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: when I tell you it had the power, It had
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the one
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: you wanted to hold on to. The No, I don't
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to know.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: It sold like six 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 hundre if I kempt it. Absolutely.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: How big of a deal is it now for a
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: comedian to have a special? Does? Well? Let me you know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: it's funny you said that, man, specials are good. I
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: just got signed for Netflix special. And the reason, the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: reason I just took it, I won't gonna do I
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: was gonna do it myself, like fim it make them
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: buy you know what I'm saying. But they offered it
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I think around August so at no, no, no, no, no,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go someone,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying. Atlanta,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I'm just average man. You know they see me in
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: But I go somewhere like Chicago or Texas. Oh my god,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: that's why I want to go. You know, in Atlanta,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: it's my city. I love it. I still live there.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: And uh I had a place in l A for
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: like thirty years. And La just La.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: 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 how here in New York te it is.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: You especially don't need one. It's not I mean, it
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: don't validate you in no way shape before.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: want to do a tour myself. I'm always on somebody
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: else's tour. Now 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.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: There used to be a Kicks for comedians.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom like
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Feel you need none of that no more. Some of
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: the people who got them, they can't sell out, can't
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: sell a ticket, you know what I'm saying. They can
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: sell people in the garage, but they can't sell a ticket.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: You know, back in the day before Kings of Comedy,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: that's what you had to get. You know, you do
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: real good, then they offer your sitcom, then you do
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: your sitcom, then you go on tour. And Bernard Mack
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: was like the only comedian that could sell out by hisself.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: He was about, now, Kat Walliams could do it. Kevin
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is a good guy.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: But Cat can do it. Like when he did an
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: interview that podcast went crazy. He just started selling everywhere,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and well he got something to say, and I think
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: he should said, I agree, they're doing a live Netflix
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: special with Cat. But you know what, the Cat made
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: everybody get on their toes though people like I thought,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you're gonna say something about you. I never had any
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: conflict with Cat. We always been cool. He called me
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: one time he said, man, I want you to go
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: on the road with me, and I said this exact word.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I said, I would do it. I said, but why
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: do you need me on the road with you? So
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: you got it, they're coming to see you. He said, well,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: it's a big crossover. You got a crowd. I got
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a crowd. But Cat is he's a smart dude. And
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: he take care of his people. That's what I like
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: about it, said, he take care of his people, and
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Can't keep the money, man,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: You you just think he's gonna work people to death
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: and not pay him. You got to pay these people.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: We got families, We got kids. You know, I got
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: grand kids. I mean, you know, grandkids. That's who I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: work for. Now. They're cool.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: You've been getting money for a long time, been in
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: the game, thirty When did you start seeing the like
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: 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: one thousand dollars to be on stage for ten to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Oh, this is where I need to be.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Potato trip Trump got to go. I tell you how
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I quit my job. I took a leave of absence,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: and I told him. I told my super bowers. I say, man,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I said, I'm going through divorce, man, And I say,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I just need some time and get my head together.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Can I get a thirty day leave absent? He got
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: it approved. When he got it approved, we was inventory
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: in the truck. He said, man, you're coming back. I said,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I want you look at me real good, and next
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: time you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: And what's crazy? You know? Back in the day we
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: had beepers. Anybody beepers. Of course I left. I had
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: my cousin and picked me up on a Friday. I said, man,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: take me by the back and I got twenty dollars
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: in the bank. That's all I had in the bank.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I went and got the twenty dollars out to give
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: him for gas. And as soon as I gave them money,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: my beeple went on and I said, stop, man, let
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: me used to pay for him and I called it
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: was the club owner in the Comuni Act, Theaty 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. You do a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: lot of manifestation. Bruke ya. You will see me on TV. Yeah.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: 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 dog. Okay, we're gonna be sick
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: as a doll, because'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 Peo 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 like to do. So what's your manifestation? Nine?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: What do you think? My key thing now is to
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: make sure I make enough money and save enough money
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone. I don't play.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: I don't go anywhere right now anytime soon. But you know,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure they're straight when I leave,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: because that's where it's supposed to be. I know a
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: guy now he's been married, white dude. He got married
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. His mother and father gave him
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: a house that he still live in. He never paid
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: a house note because the house were paid for didn't
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: and then the property he was on like sixty acres
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: with three lakes, so he living a life. They left
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: him money. That's where it's supposed to be. You always
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: leave your family and position where they don't have to
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: suffer and be in a strain. That's why we need
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: to get insurance. Oh my god, you see somebody to die.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: They do gofund me. Then the brother in law take
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: all the money, he take everything but sixty dollars. They'd
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: raised thirty thousand. They didn't give us sixty dollars. Man,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: you know they left more than sixty dollars. And that's
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: what we should be. We should always put ourselves in
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: a position to live a good life. Also leave a
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: good life for our family. I've got a couple more questions.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses to be funny,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: having the wear addressed to get to that next level.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on that. Well, you know, I'm gonna
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: be honest with you man, I did it. I did.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: It's funny you said that I did. I did a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: TV show that I take one time never came out.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters, and we did this scene.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I was a bounty hunter. I played a bounty hunter.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I played a preacher called Reverend get Money. It was
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Reverend get Money. And I played a mother named Mother Marshall,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: which was crazy, but Mother Marshall was a real lady
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: in my church that I mimic. I copy it off
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: for and I also played I did it in Indianapolis,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and I did not feel comfortable in that dress, you
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying at all. And some people could
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: do it, some people if it worked for you. Flip
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Wilson did it when he did Jeraldine. You know, because
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Flip Willson' show was a variety show, which I love
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: because it wasn't a black show. It was a show
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: for everybody, and that's what people got to understand. But
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: if they want to dress up in a dress, do
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: you think you know? But that's not my thing. Yeah,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: but you know, Tyler Perry made it big. He's one
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: of the best. But to me, I love Tyler Perry.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: But Joe is funny than Tyler peerr than my deal.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: When he plays Joe, Joe, it's funny. Joe had an
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing, and I say, thank you Jesus.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So when he plays Joe,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Joe is the funniest dude. You know, that's just me. Yeah,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I love my dear, but Joe, oh my god, Joe's fighting.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: And see back then when we used to see people
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: in the dresses or even see like when they used
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: to do men on film on a living color, it
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: was just funny.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: I never thought nothing of it. Men on film was
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: the thing they talked about, Moby Dick, Moby Dick that
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: gets two snaps and the kids and around about yeah
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: the twist. Yeah.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: How would you define this point in your life professionally
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: 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 and
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: not 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: you're going through so much. I said, keep having some birthdays.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: You're gonna go through some more shit. You know what
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect you to
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: rescue them and fix them and not pay you back.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Who thought of that one? I don't know. I don't
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: know who thought of that one is. 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 some money. He
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: ain't 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 him, I ain't seeing
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: a rich man with extra money. Dang. Never, Why do
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: you have to say your name twice? I call my
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: mommysed called me twice. My mama said, if I call
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: you the third time, I'm gonna kid 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 point forty. I mean, she was just but loving
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and 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
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: though people think like, well, I got to do it.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Your mama don't want that much. She just want to
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: make sure she's okay, she's comfortable and she got a
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: little money. My mother last twenty years of her life.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I make sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: But it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: But then when your family members found out about it,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: they 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.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: No, thank you, and you do it right now right Yeah. Yeah,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show tonight and you know next week I'm
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: in town. But we got that. I'm in Tacoma, Washington.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: We got through that. I mean Raleigh. I'm booked every week.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: If I'm not booked every week, somebody gonna lose their job.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody gonna be sitting at home drinking lemonade when
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting at home. I need to go to work.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, well they you have it. It's Bruce Bruce.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: you as a as a comedy legend.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Man. Give you an icon, So salute you, Bruce, Thank
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: you for coming. Respect.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.