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Jay Pharoah Reveals the Secret Behind His Impressions · Get TO The Point

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something. Where do you get this
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Speaker 1: fantastic gear from? My trunk.
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm just saying, but is this LAV? No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: Some stuff I buy off the rack. You know, sometimes
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Speaker 3: I have stuff in the closet. And yeah, I just
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Speaker 3: kind of just put stuff together. I really, you know,
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Speaker 3: with the show, you really don't know what you want
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Speaker 3: to wear.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm just noticing like.
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Speaker 4: You've always been kind of a fly dresser. Even back
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Speaker 4: in the Steve Harvey suit days when you was in
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Speaker 4: the 90s, you had some fly-ass suits.
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Speaker 3: I will attribute my fashion sense to my mama.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: When we were growing up, she was a seamstress. In
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Speaker 3: our city, it's a small city, everybody worked at Russell Athletic.
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Speaker 1: And so... That was the big factory in the town?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the big textile factory. Back in the day when
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Speaker 3: they were doing MLB.
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Speaker 3: All the collegiate jerseys, high school jerseys.
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Speaker 1: NFL, NBA, yeah. All of that was made in my town, bro.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, I didn't understand manufacturing. I didn't know what that meant.
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Speaker 3: My fashion sense, I think I got it from her
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Speaker 3: because she made, like even still today, my kids, she's
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Speaker 3: made their clothes.
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Speaker 1: When I grew up, she made me and my sister.
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Speaker 3: And brother their clothes, everything, costumes for plays and stuff
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Speaker 3: in school.
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Speaker 1: She did that.
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Speaker 4: Welcome to Get to the Point with Chris Spencer and T.O.
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Speaker 4: And I'm learning about my man's fashion sense. Apparently he
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Speaker 4: got it from his mama because he wears some dope shit.
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Speaker 4: And a lot of the stuff, I mentioned the name L.A.V.
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Speaker 4: That's a friend of ours. And he's always dressing fly.
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Speaker 4: And I'm trying to figure out, I'm glad you told
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Speaker 4: me because he makes his own clothes sometimes.
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Speaker 1: This he bought off the rack, he said. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And so I'm glad to know that you do shop
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Speaker 4: with us regular folk. Yo, if you're watching our show,
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Speaker 4: That's our show, Get to the P, Get to the
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Speaker 4: Point podcast. Sometimes I butcher it, all right? But this
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Speaker 4: is very early on in the show. Our guest, one
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Speaker 4: of the funniest human beings in the world. And if
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Speaker 4: he's not one of the funniest human beings, he has
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Speaker 4: the ability to imitate other funny human beings.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: No doubt.
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Speaker 4: Six seasons on SNL. Quiz with Balls, which is a
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Speaker 4: weird name for a game show, for a straight game show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called Quiz with Balls.
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Speaker 5: Pause.
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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk more about his resume,
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Speaker 4: the Jay Pharoah.
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Speaker 1: What's up, baby? What's going on with you? What's up
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Speaker 1: with you, T? Listen, what's up with you, T? What's up, Chris, man?
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Speaker 1: Been watching for years. The first time meeting you, of course.
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Speaker 1: We've seen each other multiple times, worked with each other.
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Speaker 5: On projects that should have gone further than they did.
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Speaker 1: That's what that is.
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you a story, just a little quick,
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Speaker 4: some Hollywood tidbit. I created a show called White Famous.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 4: We had big plans, me and Buddy Lewis, with Showtime.
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Speaker 4: And then I got fired.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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Speaker 4: But the show kept going. And they hired this young man,
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Speaker 4: Jay Pharoah.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: And then a white 65-year-old showrunner ruined it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but shout out to Tom Capanos. He's done some
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Speaker 1: exquisite work. No, he's done some great stuff. This just
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Speaker 1: wasn't the right project for him. Hollywood is funny. We
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Speaker 1: got fired before we hired Jay. Okay. And the problem
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Speaker 1: with the show was that, like he's saying, there were
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Speaker 1: no black writers in the room when we were spitting
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Speaker 1: out the episodes.
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Speaker 4: It's a show about a black comedian, and it was
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Speaker 4: written and created by two black comedians, myself.
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Speaker 1: And Buddy Lewis.
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Speaker 4: And then they gave it over to the guy who
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Speaker 4: created Californication, which was an incredible show.
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Speaker 1: Yes. For white people. Yes. It was a great white show. Yes.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I was trying to go.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, man.
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Speaker 1: So it's like white. People were trying to make potato salad.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh. Yes. A lot of raisins. A lot of raisins.
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Speaker 1: They threw some raisins. And some walnuts was in the show, too.
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Speaker 1: Some walnuts. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I picked up what y'all were putting down.
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Speaker 6: So, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So when I watched the show, it was just like,
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Speaker 1: my words. These aren't my words. But, yo, your career
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Speaker 1: is flourishing.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Congratulations on everything else.
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Speaker 1: By the grace of God.
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Speaker 3: You know, when people sit down, I kind of fill
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Speaker 3: out their attire.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I know when people are making it. Right.
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Speaker 3: When they start having letters on their shirts, these hot designers.
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Speaker 4: Limit L's and V's.
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Speaker 1: Right, right. Is that velvet? Yes. What is this, velvet? Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's very soft, nice and suave. Look at this. This
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Speaker 1: is Louis Vuitton. It is Louis Vuitton.
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Speaker 8: I have sneakers like this, but I did not even
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Speaker 8: buy them.
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Speaker 1: This is at the level of fame I've got to Pharrell.
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Speaker 1: Gave them to me. Shout out to Pharrell. whoa, that's Pharrell.
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Speaker 1: He'd be screaming, yeah, clap your hand. You know, got it.
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Speaker 1: That's Pharrell right there. Let's just get into it.
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Speaker 4: What was your first impression and how old were you?
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Speaker 1: I was six, and it was a Jewish white guy
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Speaker 1: named Gilbert Gottfried. That was my first one. Gilbert Gottfried.
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Speaker 1: That was my first impression.
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Speaker 3: I did Celebrity Apprentice with Gilbert.
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Speaker 1: Did you really? Yeah, West in Peace, man. Sweet guy.
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Speaker 1: Sweet dude. Well, we got to hear it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, this was before puberty, though, so I don't
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Speaker 5: know how good it's going to be.
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Speaker 3: At six, how do you know anything about Gilbert Gottfried
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Speaker 3: and the dude impersonation?
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Speaker 5: Aladdin.
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Speaker 1: Aladdin. Aladdin, bro. I was a kid. He was the parent.
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Speaker 1: He was Iago. I was my first impression. I'm melting, Jafar! Like,
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Speaker 1: that was.
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Speaker 3: That is him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man. Yeah, man. And then when he gets off of...
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Speaker 1: It's so funny. I met him in person, and I
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Speaker 1: had never met him before, but I had seen his
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Speaker 1: persona on stage. It's not like that offstage. No. He's
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Speaker 1: real quiet. Real chill. Very docile when he gets offstage.
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Speaker 2: He's just.
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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, how you doing?
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Speaker 8: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: That's how he is.
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Speaker 3: He's very chill, like you said, laid back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And then he gets on stage. But if
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Speaker 1: masturbation was a crime, I'd be on death row. I'm like, ha, ha, ha.
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Speaker 1: That was one of the best jokes I heard that
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Speaker 1: man say. So wait, you were on Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: How would Gilbert Godfrey, I mean, you can't do the impression,
6:26
Speaker 4: but let me hear him talking to Trump.
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Speaker 1: After Trump fires him.
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Speaker 5: Nobody cares that I got fired because you still have
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Speaker 5: a micro penis.
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Speaker 1: That's what they say. I've never seen it. Do you
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Speaker 1: do Trump, too? Absolutely. Absolutely do Trump. Absolutely. I love
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Speaker 1: the black people. The black people absolutely love me.
6:51
Speaker 5: I love my favorite channel from the blacks is BET.
6:56
Speaker 1: I love BET. I love to bet on things, so
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Speaker 1: I love BET. B-E-T.
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Speaker 5: BET.
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Speaker 1: You know. Two Corinthians. You know, things like that. That
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Speaker 1: is crazy. Hey, man. That is crazy. They give credit
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Speaker 1: to other people for those impressions, but it's fine. I
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Speaker 1: really don't get that. No, I mean, there's quite a
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Speaker 1: few of you guys that are incredible at it. Right. You, Godfrey, Afion,
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Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx, of course. Yeah, of course. Your friend, Aries Spears. Oh,
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Speaker 1: come on now. Don't do that. That's a strong word
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Speaker 1: right there, friend. For those of.
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Speaker 4: You who don't know, fuck it, we getting straight into it.
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Speaker 4: For those of you who don't know, our dear friend,
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Speaker 4: Aries Spears, fixed his mouth to say that he didn't
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Speaker 4: think Bernie Mac was that funny.
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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, man. That is blasphemy. My top five, man.
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Speaker 1: My top five, before we even get into this, is
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Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Robin Harris, Bernie Mac, Chris Rock and I'd
7:52
Speaker 1: say probably I put I put Chappelle in there and
7:54
Speaker 1: then you can't even rank Pryor because Pryor is up
7:57
Speaker 1: here you know what I'm saying so.
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Speaker 3: Yeah him and Chappelle it's kind of like you kind
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Speaker 3: of put them in a different category.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying yeah but you know
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Speaker 1: you talking about.
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Speaker 4: So I I don't think Aries got out what he
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Speaker 4: was trying to say properly I think he was saying
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Speaker 4: he the the impression right the the cadence of Bernie
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Speaker 4: Mac throws him off from not understanding the joke. I
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Speaker 4: think that's what he was trying to say.
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Speaker 3: Are you really trying to defend?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't know why the.
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Speaker 4: Fuck I just did it. I've known Aaron since he
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Speaker 4: was 19 years old, so I'm still blown away.
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Speaker 3: That's always like, this is like somebody knowing Jay and
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Speaker 3: saying that he's not funny.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: He's not one of the top impressionists.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah, that's blasphemous right there.
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Speaker 1: You can't say that. What would Bernie say? I knew
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Speaker 1: you was going, I knew you was going. Let me
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Speaker 1: tell you this, motherfucker, something. Now, first of all, I've
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Speaker 1: been funny since you was still in Nut City. When
8:55
Speaker 1: you was sitting there swimming around, you know, what you
8:57
Speaker 1: need to do is, you need to watch what you eat,
8:59
Speaker 1: you know, because your eyes, your eyes kind of blacked out,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 5: I don't know whether you try to look at me,
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Speaker 5: try to rob me. Just look at my soul over here.
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Speaker 1: You see his eyes, you know. You see the black marks,
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Speaker 1: you know. That's a lot of hatred, you know. That's
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Speaker 1: a lot of hatred up in there, you know. So
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Speaker 1: I feel, if somebody say I'm not funny, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to tell you this. Nigga, you stupid. Something wrong with you.
9:17
Speaker 1: Something wrong with you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You got a motherfucking problem. You know, I don't need
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Speaker 1: a curse no more like that, you know. I don't
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Speaker 1: curse off stage with a curse on the motherfucking stage,
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Speaker 1: you know. And when I get off, I'm.
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Speaker 5: Going to tell you, it don't make no motherfucking sense.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy. That's not funny to you, Aries? Hey, man.
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Speaker 1: That's not funny to you.
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Speaker 5: He say he don't get it. Hey, everybody got their...
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Speaker 5: Everybody got their taste, though.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 5: Some people, some people, folks find hilarious. Other people say
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Speaker 5: it's not funny.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand the logic or just the thought process.
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Speaker 1: Of fixing your mouth to say something like this.
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Speaker 4: He might be a genius. He might know how to
9:54
Speaker 4: make us talk. Maybe he doesn't feel it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's exactly what the hell he was doing, you know.
10:00
Speaker 1: Because there ain't no motherfucking way you gonna tell me
10:02
Speaker 1: I ain't had the best time on Def Comedy Jam.
10:05
Speaker 1: After the nigga the bomb, you know, I came out
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Speaker 1: there and blew that motherfucker up. Now you gonna tell me,
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Speaker 1: you gonna tell me I'm not funny. But you can't
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Speaker 1: understand what the hell I'm saying. You're from Chicago. You
10:14
Speaker 1: understand every word I'm saying. What the fuck is your podcast?
10:17
Speaker 1: I said what the fuck I said. You can't understand it.
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Speaker 3: It's funny.
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Speaker 5: Laugh.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck wrong with you? Did you ever meet Bernie?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: You know, my first, I'll tell you this story, Chris.
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Speaker 1: When I was heading to film my first episode of
10:32
Speaker 1: Comic View in 2008. What city? This was Los Angeles. Oh, terrible.
10:38
Speaker 1: Who was hosting? It was Kev. Kev was hosting. Oh, yes. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Coming to the stage. Yep. When I did that and
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Speaker 1: I was about to board the plane, the news broke
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Speaker 1: that Bernie died.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
10:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, man. That took a toll because I... I love
10:55
Speaker 1: Birdie Mac. King's a comedy. Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 3: I watched that so many.
11:02
Speaker 1: Times, bro. Spike Lee directed that, by the way. Did
11:05
Speaker 1: not know that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was
11:08
Speaker 1: the first time somebody actually did a digital. That's digital. Yeah.
11:12
Speaker 4: They were like, this is our first. I don't know
11:13
Speaker 4: if it's the first time, but it wasn't film. They
11:15
Speaker 4: shot that on digital. That's why the colors look kind
11:17
Speaker 4: of different.
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Speaker 1: It was, dude. It was so funny to me, just
11:21
Speaker 1: him talking about the kids and- He was talking about, no,
11:26
Speaker 1: I can't allow that, you know. I said, your honor,
11:28
Speaker 1: we're going to split custody. This dirty son of a
11:30
Speaker 1: bitch going to turn his back. I swear if I
11:32
Speaker 1: see him ever, I'm going to bust him. He said, see,
11:34
Speaker 1: I'm looking for that motherfucker, you know. Can't kill the able,
11:36
Speaker 1: you know. I do not think that's funny, Eric. Let's
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Speaker 1: go back to the beginning. Let's go. Gilbert Gottfried, you're
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Speaker 1: a child. You did an impression. Six years old.
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Speaker 4: Six years old, which is crazy because I think I
11:50
Speaker 4: was 26 when that movie came out.
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Speaker 1: Aladdin. I used my impression powers to get girls when
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Speaker 1: I was younger. That's what I did. So now what
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Speaker 1: do you do? I mean, I ain't got to now.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm cute with Louis Vuitton. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? I'm a little swaggy. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Still got my hairline, nigga. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying? I don't know about the hairline. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you still got it. No, it's here. No,
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Speaker 1: it's here, nigga.
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Speaker 5: Hey, T.O.
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Speaker 1: Take your hat off. Yeah, we ain't like that.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: We ain't there yet. Now, I done constructed it. I
12:22
Speaker 1: done came back and constructed it a few times, but
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Speaker 1: we there. The stuff from you. Hey, I can put
12:26
Speaker 1: you on. Did you go to Turkey? Nah, I didn't
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Speaker 1: go to Turkey. I'm not going to sit there and
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Speaker 1: be in that damn plane looking like a nuclear explosion.
12:33
Speaker 1: Nigga's head. Nigga's got the mushroom head. And their faces
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Speaker 1: are swollen. And the nigga's sitting like this. Now, what part,
12:40
Speaker 1: why do you think that's a good idea for you
12:42
Speaker 1: to just have gotten surgery and you go in high
12:45
Speaker 1: altitude with a lot of pressure? You're going to pop
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Speaker 1: your hairline out.
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Speaker 8: Oh, it's that.
12:48
Speaker 1: God, what's happening? Absolutely. Niggas is stupid.
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Speaker 3: They got to chill for a few days, let all
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Speaker 3: the swelling go down.
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Speaker 1: Take a couple of weeks. Yeah, yeah. Go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: And then get on the plane. They trying to get
13:01
Speaker 1: back to show their hairline off. Yeah. Teach us. It
13:06
Speaker 1: takes about how long it takes for you to see results.
13:09
Speaker 1: You see results probably anywhere from three to six. Were
13:13
Speaker 1: you like me? I wasn't that bad.
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Speaker 5: Nah.
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Speaker 1: You ain't got to say it like that. Nah.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no.
13:17
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I mean, I can hear you. I
13:18
Speaker 1: wasn't that far gone. I wasn't that far gone. But
13:21
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13:24
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13:26
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13:28
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13:33
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened was, you know, it's so funny to me,
14:51
Speaker 1: people that put on do-rags and them niggas is bald.
14:54
Speaker 1: What are y'all doing? That's just a, that's just a
14:57
Speaker 1: It's just fashion. It's just a look. It's just fashion. Oh,
15:00
Speaker 1: so wait. So are you putting juices and berries? Oh, yeah.
15:04
Speaker 1: It's called PP405. It's the new joint. Like, you know,
15:08
Speaker 1: you put it in there. You also get roll. You
15:11
Speaker 1: can do that. And then you have to get an oil, too,
15:13
Speaker 1: like a rosemary or something.
15:14
Speaker 4: That's like the GLP for hair?
15:17
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes for hair. Or what you could do.
15:20
Speaker 5: I don't know how y'all feel, but, you know, I
15:23
Speaker 5: don't know how hairy your body is, but, you know,
15:26
Speaker 5: they could pluck hairs for you.
15:28
Speaker 1: For your ass.
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Speaker 7: Oh, really?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
15:30
Speaker 1: And put it up there? And put it up there. Now,
15:32
Speaker 1: I wouldn't suggest that. You know, I would suggest the back. Say,
15:36
Speaker 1: why you got underarm hair on your head? Exactly. You
15:39
Speaker 1: ain't lying. Look at Charleston White. Nigga, that ain't all from. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. You know how it go like this?
15:45
Speaker 5: Yeah.
15:45
Speaker 1: That's because it's. That's ass hair. That's ass hair. Oh,
15:49
Speaker 1: body hair. I don't know if it came from his booty.
15:52
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
15:53
Speaker 6: Ass hair.
15:53
Speaker 1: Oh, this hair. I could just, man, I could just, man. Yo, yo, yo, yo,
15:57
Speaker 1: go ahead and pluck that hair. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
16:00
Speaker 1: pluck it from back there. Hey, now, I'm going to
16:02
Speaker 1: tell you what you did. You touched me a little bit. Yeah,
16:03
Speaker 1: I crushed your eye. Oh, wait. Well, he only got one.
16:07
Speaker 1: He got, because the other one, it ain't a cross eye.
16:09
Speaker 1: This is one real one and the other one fake.
16:11
Speaker 1: That's why. That's why I had to stop doing Shaq
16:13
Speaker 1: because my eyes was getting crossed. Wait, did you see
16:16
Speaker 1: him do Shaq?
16:17
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan. I love you.
16:18
Speaker 1: Maybe you can work for Papa John's. You can work
16:20
Speaker 1: for Papa John's in the general.
16:21
Speaker 2: Listen.
16:22
Speaker 1: What would Shaq say to Aries about saying Bernie Mac's
16:24
Speaker 1: not funny?
16:25
Speaker 2: Listen, you're entitled to your opinion. That's what I would say.
16:27
Speaker 2: You're entitled to your opinion. You can say whatever you want.
16:30
Speaker 2: But to say that motherfucker ain't funny, that's ridiculous. It
16:33
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. I think it's hilarious when I
16:36
Speaker 2: can see him, which is never.
16:39
Speaker 4: Have you ever done an impression of somebody to that
16:42
Speaker 4: celebrity and they didn't like it?
16:44
Speaker 1: He didn't say it, but it had to be iced tea.
16:47
Speaker 1: Had to be iced. But he's got a good sense
16:48
Speaker 1: of humor. Yeah, he came to my show a year later, but,
16:52
Speaker 1: you know, in the time, his eye was twitching. And
16:56
Speaker 1: I know.
16:56
Speaker 5: What it is, too, because... I exaggerate people's mannerisms. So
17:01
Speaker 5: I exaggerated the lisp.
17:03
Speaker 1: And I know. I didn't even know he had a lisp. Yeah, exactly.
17:05
Speaker 1: Because he's worked on it. He didn't before. Ice-T, Platinum Playboy,
17:10
Speaker 1: we do hits around here.
17:11
Speaker 5: Listen, how are you going to say that you didn't
17:14
Speaker 5: commit the crime when we got your fingerprints all.
17:17
Speaker 1: Over the thing? Holy shit. I did that. He was like,
17:21
Speaker 1: because you can tell. As you can tell, he been practicing.
17:25
Speaker 1: You know, he go to speech class. He be practicing. Right, right.
17:28
Speaker 1: Trying not to use it. But, hey, Shannon Sharp. Shannon
17:32
Speaker 1: Sharp is another one. He got mad? He got mad
17:34
Speaker 1: at first. But when I did Club Shay Shay, he
17:36
Speaker 1: was good. You know what I mean?
17:37
Speaker 5: He was like, Will, at first when you did it,
17:41
Speaker 5: first when you did it, I got very offended.
17:43
Speaker 1: And let me tell you why I got offended. Because,
17:45
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't believe that I felt it like that.
17:50
Speaker 1: And then you toned it down, and then you got
17:52
Speaker 1: into it, but at first, why you messing with me, foe?
17:54
Speaker 1: Why you messing with me, foe? Jay, you ain't got
17:56
Speaker 1: to mess with me, foe. Come on, now. Come on, now.
18:00
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So I toned it when
18:02
Speaker 1: I really... laser point focus and get it down like
18:09
Speaker 1: that if i just bs it then it's gonna be
18:12
Speaker 1: it gonna be half right and you know who i
18:15
Speaker 1: oh i'm really doing and who i'm not doing so
18:17
Speaker 1: he he knew that i wasn't he saw my capability
18:20
Speaker 1: he was like you could have done better than that
18:22
Speaker 1: and i was like all right that was true but
18:23
Speaker 1: i i improved it and we good man who was
18:26
Speaker 1: the hardest person for you to get denzel Really? It
18:29
Speaker 1: took me years to get that down. Really? Because my
18:32
Speaker 1: voice wasn't there yet. You know, I was a young boy.
18:35
Speaker 1: I was a young boy. Sound like somebody from Philly. Philly. Yeah,
18:37
Speaker 1: my young boy. My old head. My young John. Why
18:40
Speaker 1: they say that?
18:41
Speaker 5: Young John.
18:42
Speaker 1: Charlie Mack. Oh, yeah.
18:43
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
18:44
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
18:44
Speaker 1: Him. Gil. Gilly the King. Gilly, man. Gilly the Kid, man.
18:48
Speaker 1: Gilly the King of Philly, man. So, you know, I
18:51
Speaker 1: was a young boy. So, I was a young boy. So,
18:53
Speaker 1: it wasn't... It just wasn't there yet, and it just
18:56
Speaker 1: took me three years to get comfortable with it. And now?
18:59
Speaker 1: And I mean, now. I mean, I do it, you
19:02
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? But I still always feel like
19:05
Speaker 1: you can find other nuances in a character. You can
19:07
Speaker 1: always do that. You know who does a great job?
19:08
Speaker 1: What's the big dude? Oh, yeah, I know who you're
19:11
Speaker 1: talking about. He does it good. Yeah, yeah.
19:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
19:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's good. So who gave you the wildest reaction?
19:18
Speaker 5: It was Denzel who gave me the wildest reaction. You're
19:21
Speaker 5: slowly turning into him. No, I'm doing him right now.
19:24
Speaker 5: That's what I'm doing. I'm talking to him. I'm talking
19:26
Speaker 5: just like him. But he said, oh, you owe me
19:28
Speaker 5: a lot of money, Negro. You know that, right? Yeah,
19:30
Speaker 5: I'm keeping you hot. And you're a lot taller than
19:33
Speaker 5: I thought you were. I thought you were a little kid.
19:34
Speaker 5: You got an arm on you too, Pharaoh, don't you?
19:36
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, okay. That's what he did. It was so cool. Anyway. Yeah.
19:42
Speaker 1: So Denzel gave me the wildest reaction. Will Smith just,
19:44
Speaker 1: this was years ago. He was like, yo, I don't
19:47
Speaker 1: think you can sound like me. I was like, yo, Will,
19:50
Speaker 1: stop playing. Yeah, that's some funny stuff. Yeah, keep going. Yeah, good. Yeah, smacks. Yeah,
19:56
Speaker 1: it really hits.
19:58
Speaker 3: Yeah.
19:59
Speaker 1: So what? That is just crazy to me. Go ahead, man.
20:03
Speaker 1: Go ahead. What you about to ask, brother?
20:06
Speaker 3: Is it ever is it ever normal with you like
20:09
Speaker 3: like around your family like because i know it's like
20:12
Speaker 3: to be who you are to do all the impressions
20:14
Speaker 3: does it does it get old like for me like
20:17
Speaker 3: when i go out chris go out and like for
20:19
Speaker 3: me it's like you get the attention yeah does it
20:22
Speaker 3: ever get old or you get tired.
20:24
Speaker 7: Of it or probably tired of people asking right exactly
20:27
Speaker 7: yeah because i'm like bro you got it like for
20:29
Speaker 7: me like i go out or whatever there's a time
20:31
Speaker 7: like You have to know when you go places you
20:33
Speaker 7: have to be on because you've created this audience.
20:37
Speaker 3: You've made so many people laugh, happy. And then you
20:43
Speaker 3: go in public and then when is there the quiet
20:46
Speaker 3: time for Jay?
20:48
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be honest with you. When I'm out
20:51
Speaker 1: and people see me, restaurants, whatever, and they come up,
20:54
Speaker 1: they don't ask for impressions. You know what I mean?
20:56
Speaker 1: Most of the time they just come up to me
20:57
Speaker 1: and be like, they be like, release the balls from
20:59
Speaker 1: Quiz with Balls. That's my little catchphrase, whatever.
21:01
Speaker 5: Okay.
21:02
Speaker 1: But most of the time, they don't bother me, man.
21:05
Speaker 1: People are real respectful. Even at the shows, nobody's yelling
21:09
Speaker 1: out for me to do crazy stuff, because I'm doing comedy.
21:12
Speaker 1: I'm like... So they laugh and ain't got no time. Oh, yeah,
21:15
Speaker 1: that's right. He do the Denzel. You know what I'm saying?
21:18
Speaker 5: Oh, that's right.
21:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't see him do Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy.
21:21
Speaker 1: You know, but they don't, it doesn't happen a lot
21:23
Speaker 1: because I feel like, I feel like my show, most
21:26
Speaker 1: of it is, most of it's stand up. At the end,
21:28
Speaker 1: I'll mix some impressions in there. But, you know, you're
21:30
Speaker 1: not waiting for it because I know how to seamlessly
21:34
Speaker 1: drop whatever I need to drop in. You still love it? What, comedy? Stand-up, yeah.
21:40
Speaker 1: I love it. Now, when I do see my peers
21:44
Speaker 1: who have superseded and gone to stadiums and things of
21:48
Speaker 1: that sort, sometimes it can get a little disheartening. But
21:51
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, we are conduits of truth. And,
21:58
Speaker 1: you know, God put us here to make people forget
22:00
Speaker 1: about their problems. So I don't care if I do
22:02
Speaker 1: that in front of, if it's 1,500 people, if it's
22:04
Speaker 1: 400 people. If it's if I'm doing an arena show
22:08
Speaker 1: with somebody and it's 12,000 people or if I'm lucky
22:13
Speaker 1: enough to get on a stadium show and do like,
22:15
Speaker 1: you know, do 40 or whatever, like I'm doing my job.
22:18
Speaker 1: So I believe since God put me here to do that,
22:23
Speaker 1: I can never get mad at that tool. You know,
22:28
Speaker 1: I can never be mad at it. You know, I
22:31
Speaker 1: now sometimes I feel like, man, maybe I just need
22:33
Speaker 1: to stop this and just preach. I'd be feeling like
22:35
Speaker 1: that sometimes. Because I do kind of have a lot
22:37
Speaker 1: of I do put a lot of Christian truth in
22:40
Speaker 1: a part of my act. And I let people know,
22:43
Speaker 1: you know, my struggle and my journey and how I
22:46
Speaker 1: overcame a lot, you know, just in Hollywood in general. Like, Joe,
22:51
Speaker 1: up to 2023, it was it was crazy. I started
22:54
Speaker 1: feeling I just felt dirty at the end of that.
22:57
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't keep doing this. This is not.
23:00
Speaker 1: This is not what God intended me to use this
23:03
Speaker 1: talent for, to use it for my selfish desires, which
23:08
Speaker 1: played out every fantasy I had. What? Some of the best.
23:13
Speaker 2: What?
23:14
Speaker 1: It was a time. It really was a time. And
23:17
Speaker 1: I was a different person at the time. And over
23:20
Speaker 1: these last few, I've changed a lot. So I feel good.
23:23
Speaker 1: I'm blasphemous.
23:26
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
23:26
Speaker 1: Go ahead. Because usually it's... Did I pray with them afterwards? Absolutely.
23:32
Speaker 1: Wipe your mouth. People usually find the Lord in a
23:40
Speaker 1: dark time.
23:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:41
Speaker 1: Right.
23:41
Speaker 4: So were you in the throes of an orgy and
23:48
Speaker 4: you were like, you know what?
23:50
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be doing this. It was, it was, I
23:52
Speaker 1: busted it first. It was, it was like, it was afterwards, man.
23:58
Speaker 1: It was, it was, dude, I gotta stop doing this.
24:02
Speaker 1: When I was in that act and I had those episodes, man,
24:05
Speaker 1: it was like there was something else that was controlling me.
24:07
Speaker 1: My body got bigger. My freaking voice got deeper. It was,
24:11
Speaker 1: I would, I would be laughing as I was um
24:15
Speaker 1: with these women and they were climaxing back to back
24:18
Speaker 1: it was funny to me you ain't gotta brag no
24:20
Speaker 1: i'm not i'm not bragging though but i'm just saying
24:22
Speaker 1: i'm not talking about you know i.
24:23
Speaker 4: Had all these women orgasming all over the place no
24:26
Speaker 4: it's what i'm not listen man listen this is the
24:29
Speaker 4: tip listen.
24:30
Speaker 1: Get me behind me satan my shit just got bigger
24:34
Speaker 1: hey hey you know the incredible hawk incredible hawk that's
24:38
Speaker 1: why i was like the incredible.
24:40
Speaker 4: Were you partying like with substances as well?
24:43
Speaker 1: Weed. Just weed. Weed and alcohol. I didn't do nothing.
24:46
Speaker 1: I got mollied one time and I never would do
24:49
Speaker 1: that again. And it didn't even work. I was just,
24:51
Speaker 1: it was a lot of kissing. Molly whopped, huh? Yeah,
24:53
Speaker 1: so was, boy. It was molly whopped. This is not,
24:56
Speaker 1: this is not me today. I'm, I am, I'm in
24:59
Speaker 1: a different place, man. And I'm, glad that the Lord
25:02
Speaker 1: came and intervened, bro, because I literally heard a voice say,
25:05
Speaker 1: get out of the room, because the room had all
25:07
Speaker 1: of this energy in it. Demonic? It was, what, a
25:10
Speaker 1: demonic voice that I heard? No, I'm just saying, did
25:12
Speaker 1: it feel just that? Oh, absolutely.
25:13
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm just saying that energy, you just feel
25:15
Speaker 3: like it's just all wrong.
25:16
Speaker 1: It was, dude, it was so wrong, and I'm like, yo,
25:20
Speaker 1: I come from a heavy Christian strict household, apostolic household,
25:27
Speaker 1: so for me to be able to to take that
25:30
Speaker 1: kid and go to Hollywood.
25:31
Speaker 3: So what would you tell kids that follow you, that
25:35
Speaker 3: admire you?
25:37
Speaker 1: Stay off the internet. That's what I would say.
25:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, that goes down that path because,
25:41
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not the first one.
25:43
Speaker 1: You're not the only one.
25:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're laughing and joking, but there's some seriousness to
25:47
Speaker 3: this to where, again, you were able to realize and
25:50
Speaker 3: recognize at a point that you were going off a
25:53
Speaker 3: path that you didn't start on.
25:55
Speaker 1: Yes, I will tell them this. God will give you
25:59
Speaker 1: everything that you want, that's your heart's desire. But when
26:03
Speaker 1: you get it, you are not going to like it
26:06
Speaker 1: and it's not going to fulfill you.
26:07
Speaker 5: So because it's not going to fulfill you, you might
26:11
Speaker 5: as well not even do it anyway. Well, let's talk
26:13
Speaker 5: about that. Let's talk about who you were pre-SNL.
26:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:16
Speaker 1: Who is this apostolic kid now? What city are you from?
26:21
Speaker 1: I'm from.
26:21
Speaker 4: And then walk us all the way up until like
26:24
Speaker 4: the Saturday Night Live audition.
26:25
Speaker 1: All right. Okay. Well, I am from Chesapeake, Virginia. I'm
26:28
Speaker 1: from the area called Greenbrier. If you know where Greenbrier is,
26:31
Speaker 1: it's a major, major part of Chesapeake. I was a
26:35
Speaker 1: theater kid. Drama. Did my first play at eight. First
26:41
Speaker 1: leading role at nine. I didn't know the lines and
26:44
Speaker 1: my teacher put me up anyway. It was good. That
26:47
Speaker 1: he did that because another production I did when I
26:49
Speaker 1: was 16 years old that the lead dropped out of
26:52
Speaker 1: two weeks before we went for opening night. I got
26:58
Speaker 1: that part. And that movie, that was called The Damn Yankees.
27:02
Speaker 1: And I played Mr. Applegate in that. The play. The play.
27:05
Speaker 5: And then that night, opening night, I kid you not,
27:10
Speaker 5: I get off stage and I go in the lobby.
27:13
Speaker 5: And that same teacher that put me up when I
27:15
Speaker 5: was nine years old. and I didn't know the lines.
27:18
Speaker 5: He said, I always knew you had it in you.
27:19
Speaker 5: I was just trying to bring it out of you.
27:21
Speaker 1: It was really, it was really special. He was the
27:22
Speaker 1: same height though too. It was crazy. He was five
27:25
Speaker 1: foot one. He was still five foot one. I was like, Oh,
27:28
Speaker 1: Hey little nigga. Hey, how you doing brother? You know
27:32
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? But it was, it was that moment.
27:35
Speaker 1: It was a wraparound moment for me. Uh, I was
27:38
Speaker 1: always in love with the stage. 16 years old. I
27:40
Speaker 1: started doing comedy. So, um, you know, I did this
27:44
Speaker 1: thing called the Virginia Idol talent search. where they have
27:47
Speaker 1: like 300 different acts. There's singers, there's acrobats, there's all
27:52
Speaker 1: types of stuff. Out of all of that, I got
27:54
Speaker 1: fifth place out of it. Beat all the comedians. Kind
27:56
Speaker 1: of like almost like America's Got Talent. Yeah, absolutely. It
27:59
Speaker 1: was before that.
28:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
28:01
Speaker 1: And, you know, then I just, I continued. 17, 18,
28:07
Speaker 1: doing stand-up, Thorogood Comedy Club. That's shut down in Virginia now. Um,
28:14
Speaker 1: cozies and, uh, uh, Newport news, Virginia. I went there
28:17
Speaker 1: as well. And then I started going to the funny bone.
28:20
Speaker 1: I was 18 and, um, freeze love, you know, freeze, right?
28:24
Speaker 1: I love freeze. Freeze is my, that's my, that's my dog. Yeah, man. He,
28:29
Speaker 1: he saw me when I was 19, uh, November 19.
28:34
Speaker 1: And he said, yo, I've never seen anybody do impressions
28:38
Speaker 1: like that. And to, you know, to be like funny
28:40
Speaker 1: like that with it. He said, I'm going to introduce
28:42
Speaker 1: you to Charlie Murphy. I thought he was BSing. But then.
28:45
Speaker 1: I was his best friend. Yeah. And I was like,
28:48
Speaker 1: wait a minute. This is the same brother from Malcolm
28:50
Speaker 1: and Eddie. He did Hector. He was such a. So
28:53
Speaker 1: we kept in contact that February of 2007. Charlie Murphy
28:58
Speaker 1: came to the Funny Bone. and I did the Cam'ron
29:02
Speaker 1: and Dipset bit. All comedians have a killer bit when
29:05
Speaker 1: they first start. You might not have figured it out,
29:07
Speaker 1: like Chris Tucker had five minutes when he first started,
29:10
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? A hot five minutes. I
29:11
Speaker 1: had a hot bit. It was called, it was the
29:14
Speaker 1: Cam'ron and Dipset joint where I had them all nursery rhyming.
29:18
Speaker 1: charlie murphy saw that wait wait we gotta hear it
29:21
Speaker 1: i mean i need a beat and all that he's
29:22
Speaker 1: like yo jack and jill went up the hill to
29:26
Speaker 1: fetch a pill of water killer jack came down broke
29:31
Speaker 1: his crown jill came tumbling after yeah little miss muffet
29:36
Speaker 1: sat on a tuffet eating her curves and waves Killer, killer,
29:41
Speaker 1: long came a spider sat down beside her frightened Miss
29:44
Speaker 1: Muffet away Jewels, Jewels, Jewels Humpty Dumpty, yup, shot on
29:49
Speaker 1: the wall Yup, Humpty Dumpty, damn had a great fall,
29:53
Speaker 1: mmm All the king's horses and all the king's men
29:56
Speaker 1: Couldn't put Humpty back there, ay Hey, crowd was losing. Right.
30:00
Speaker 1: Charlie saw that. And then I came back with Cameron again.
30:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:04
Speaker 1: Yo, I got an apple orange or an orange apple.
30:07
Speaker 1: Put it together in the drink. Make Snapple. Strawberries and grapes.
30:12
Speaker 1: I got a fruit group. I put it in a
30:14
Speaker 1: blender That make a fruit smoothie I got fruity circles
30:18
Speaker 1: And some circles fruit Put it all together That make
30:21
Speaker 1: fruity loops I got peaches peaches And some apples I
30:26
Speaker 1: crossbreed the fruit T.O. make a apricot.
30:29
Speaker 5: Like in that The crowd would lose it They loved.
30:32
Speaker 4: It right Yeah yeah.
30:34
Speaker 5: Yeah he got it Charlie Murphy Charlie Murphy called me
30:37
Speaker 5: up to the green room man He said yo man Yo.
30:41
Speaker 1: That Ken Ronda dips that shit, man. I was on
30:43
Speaker 1: my back, nigga, laughing like a turtle, nigga. You killed
30:46
Speaker 1: them niggas, man. Straight up killed them niggas, man. Yo,
30:50
Speaker 1: I'm going to take you on the road with me, youngie.
30:52
Speaker 1: You ready? You sat it? I was like, yeah, go
30:56
Speaker 1: on the road with Charlie Murphy. So at 19, now
30:58
Speaker 1: I'm going on the road with Charlie Murphy for two years.
31:01
Speaker 1: Is this pre-Dave Chappelle show? No, this is after it.
31:06
Speaker 1: So he's popular. He's popping, bro. Went on the road
31:09
Speaker 1: with him for three years. Come that, what was it?
31:14
Speaker 1: It was 09? Well, you say 07, 08, and 09.
31:17
Speaker 1: I was touring with him. It stopped in 09. Me
31:20
Speaker 1: and Shayna, my manager- my sister slash manager we decided
31:25
Speaker 1: to go yep shout out we decided to go on
31:26
Speaker 1: the road for ourselves do the chitlin circuit you go
31:29
Speaker 1: to New York you go to New Jersey your chitlin
31:31
Speaker 1: circuit you know what it is all the black clubs
31:34
Speaker 1: yeah all the black clubs $ 75 talent runs all of
31:35
Speaker 1: them by the way absolutely it's just comedy I don't
31:39
Speaker 1: know if that's a good talent. That was all right.
31:42
Speaker 1: I don't do talent, but I do the rooms. You know,
31:46
Speaker 1: you make $ 75, $ 100 a spot. So, you know, I'm
31:50
Speaker 1: doing like six different shows a night.
31:53
Speaker 5: So we bringing in money. Mind you, she didn't even
31:55
Speaker 5: have any money. I didn't have any money. She sold
31:59
Speaker 5: her jewelry so we could have gas money to get
32:01
Speaker 5: up and do the chipmunk circuit.
32:03
Speaker 2: Yep.
32:03
Speaker 1: So we do that. We do that a couple of times.
32:06
Speaker 1: I do a showcase at Caroline's on Broadway. Shout out
32:09
Speaker 1: to Caroline's on Broadway. No longer running. I was blown away.
32:13
Speaker 1: I was there not too long ago. I didn't know
32:14
Speaker 1: it was gone. Yeah, man. I was sad. I was
32:16
Speaker 1: the first club that Charlie Murphy ever took me to,
32:20
Speaker 1: which is crazy that that's where I got my agent
32:24
Speaker 1: when I went on tour for myself with my sister.
32:28
Speaker 1: And he got me on SNL. He got me on SNL.
32:32
Speaker 1: Who got you on SNL? Josh Pearl. Josh Pearl, your agent. Okay,
32:35
Speaker 1: got you.
32:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:36
Speaker 1: So we put together a tape. You know, in 2009,
32:41
Speaker 1: they were going to do a mid-season replacement because I
32:43
Speaker 1: know somebody messed up on the show. They were going
32:45
Speaker 1: to replace him. They decided to let them finish out
32:47
Speaker 1: the year. Came the next year, they told me to
32:49
Speaker 1: send another tape in. I got called in for an audition.
32:53
Speaker 1: And then in August 2010, after three weeks... Laura Michaels
32:59
Speaker 1: called me up and he said, you said, yeah, yeah,
33:02
Speaker 1: you're ready to go. We think you're going to be
33:04
Speaker 1: a great asset to the show. And this should be
33:06
Speaker 1: a very exciting call. It's time for you to move
33:09
Speaker 1: to New York. You said, are you, are you really excited?
33:11
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I was like, yeah, man, I'm excited.
33:14
Speaker 1: You know, I get up. I say, Hey mom, Hey pop,
33:17
Speaker 1: y'all can walk around naked again. Now, what was you saying? Now,
33:20
Speaker 1: what is the salary? Like how much we paying? You
33:22
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So, and then it started, it
33:24
Speaker 1: was right there. And I stayed on that show for
33:27
Speaker 1: six years. Got off in 2016. Now, was the whole
33:30
Speaker 1: time great? I mean, it's like a job, man. It
33:34
Speaker 1: has its ups and downs. You know what I mean?
33:37
Speaker 1: I was very frustrated because I would write sketches. That's
33:41
Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever heard. I've always heard. I
33:43
Speaker 1: always wrote. Get your own shit on.
33:45
Speaker 5: Yep.
33:45
Speaker 1: But I would get it pulled. I would write three
33:48
Speaker 1: sketches a week, and they would pull them. They didn't
33:50
Speaker 1: happen all the time. I'm not going to say who
33:53
Speaker 1: did it. Tell them the definition of pull them. Pulling means...
33:56
Speaker 1: you know, at read through, there's a bundle of scripts
33:59
Speaker 1: that get picked. If you get pulled, that means somebody
34:03
Speaker 1: just took your work and just, there it goes. They
34:05
Speaker 1: just pulled it out of the stack and you're not
34:07
Speaker 1: able to read your work. So you're sitting there looking
34:10
Speaker 1: like you're not doing anything, which was not the case
34:13
Speaker 1: for me. I was working very hard, but, you know,
34:16
Speaker 1: there was a lot of opposition, a lot of things
34:19
Speaker 1: I had to go through. And, you know, I wish
34:22
Speaker 1: now I was on SNL because, you know, my, my
34:26
Speaker 1: comedic mind has matured so much.
34:29
Speaker 3: Why can't you still go back to SNL?
34:31
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
34:32
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I mean, it ain't, dang, that can't
34:34
Speaker 5: just be, hey, man, put me on the show. I gotta,
34:36
Speaker 5: you know, I can host if I have a project
34:39
Speaker 5: coming out or something. So, I mean, that's not dead.
34:42
Speaker 5: It's just, you know, I'm not a cast member anymore,
34:44
Speaker 5: you know? So, I remember when they were going to
34:47
Speaker 5: do Kanye back in 2018, Chris Rhett was on the
34:50
Speaker 5: show at the time and I was in London.
34:52
Speaker 1: They called me up to do it, but I couldn't.
34:54
Speaker 1: I was in London. So then he ended up doing
34:56
Speaker 1: it and he ended up being the Kanye impressionist. How
34:59
Speaker 1: would you have done it? I would have been like,
35:01
Speaker 1: you know what, bro?
35:02
Speaker 5: It's like, it's so crazy that, you know, everybody always,
35:06
Speaker 5: you know, they call me crazy. But, you know, how
35:10
Speaker 5: can I be crazy, bro? When, you know, Adidas gave
35:15
Speaker 5: me a billion dollar contract, bro. They don't do that
35:19
Speaker 5: to people who are stupid.
35:21
Speaker 1: Who are like, you know, lack, you know, who are nonsensical.
35:24
Speaker 1: They don't do that.
35:24
Speaker 5: So, you know, when it comes to, you know, me
35:27
Speaker 5: and making decisions, yeah, I blew billions, but I also
35:31
Speaker 5: made billions as well. And I wiped the porn star, bro,
35:35
Speaker 5: and had a beautiful family. It's like I took Mary
35:39
Speaker 5: Magdalene and turned her into an actual normal person, you know?
35:44
Speaker 1: Oh my God.
35:46
Speaker 5: Like, that's what it is, bro. And, you know, when
35:48
Speaker 5: it comes down to, you know, SNL, and, you know,
35:51
Speaker 5: I'm happy for them. I'm glad they did what they did. But,
35:53
Speaker 5: you know, if they had me on the show, you know,
35:55
Speaker 5: that would have been a little different.
35:56
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So, there we go. You
35:59
Speaker 1: see what I'm talking about? There it is.
36:01
Speaker 5: Yo!
36:02
Speaker 1: Yeah! And guess what? Nobody in our place. Nobody. Nah,
36:06
Speaker 1: F that. You want to pop my stuff? Nobody is.
36:09
Speaker 5: The difference between me and everybody else is y'all can
36:14
Speaker 5: do impressions.
36:15
Speaker 1: Y'all can do impressions. I can do the impressions you
36:18
Speaker 1: do and more, but y'all can't do everybody I do.
36:22
Speaker 1: But I can do everybody y'all do. At least good.
36:26
Speaker 1: If it ain't like up here, it's right here. You
36:29
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? You're correct. I'm just saying. What?
36:33
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
36:37
Speaker 5: I mean, if we want to be perfectly clear, if
36:40
Speaker 5: we want to be perfectly clear and put it out
36:42
Speaker 5: there like that, I'm not popping off anything.
36:44
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the truth. I'm just telling you the truth.
36:46
Speaker 1: I'm telling you exactly how I feel, what's going on. Hey, T.O. knows,
36:50
Speaker 1: and so does Chris.
36:51
Speaker 5: When it comes down to embodying an impersonation.
36:55
Speaker 1: There's nobody, there's nobody like him. It's like God just said, hey,
36:59
Speaker 1: just like Kenan is to sketch, they say Kenan is
37:01
Speaker 1: good for sketch. That's the same thing for me when
37:04
Speaker 1: it comes down to impersonations. And that's blasphemous. Thank you.
37:08
Speaker 1: There we go. Do me. It's just, I love doing
37:12
Speaker 1: Chris because Chris is just so nonchalant with his delivery.
37:16
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. He's like, first of all, the only
37:22
Speaker 1: thing that I need is two tuna sandwiches and two
37:26
Speaker 1: naked hookers and I'll be good. And this was years
37:29
Speaker 1: ago before I was married. But... I'm closing my eyes listening.
37:35
Speaker 1: Does it sound like me?
37:37
Speaker 5: Bro.
37:37
Speaker 1: It seems like you give me a New York accent though.
37:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I give you a New York accent.
37:40
Speaker 1: How do I give you a New York accent? Now
37:41
Speaker 1: that sounds like me right there. Okay, all right. It's
37:43
Speaker 1: like when you talk, I have to impersonate you as
37:46
Speaker 1: you're talking. Oh my God, that's spooky. Yeah, that's spooky.
37:53
Speaker 1: I mean, say, and listen, listen, and somebody else who
37:56
Speaker 1: was great and I think people need to give him
37:58
Speaker 1: more flowers is Jamie Foxx. They need to give him
38:01
Speaker 1: more flowers. And not only just being a brilliant impressionist,
38:07
Speaker 1: Jamie Foxx is good at everything. Everything, yes. I call
38:11
Speaker 1: him Sammy Davis Sophomore. That's hilarious, nigga. He's like a mutant.
38:18
Speaker 3: A chameleon of everything.
38:22
Speaker 1: He can play basketball. He can play football.
38:24
Speaker 5: I ain't never seen him golf, but I'm sure he
38:27
Speaker 5: can do that, too.
38:28
Speaker 1: He can golf. Jamie is so talented, and Ray is
38:33
Speaker 1: one of the best. Forget that. Ray is the best
38:36
Speaker 1: biopic ever. Nothing close. Nothing close.
38:39
Speaker 4: Second to me is.
38:41
Speaker 1: Denzel? Oh, Malcolm X. Malcolm X. What were you about
38:44
Speaker 1: to say? Shit. The Queen one. Which one was Queen?
38:49
Speaker 7: Queen.
38:50
Speaker 1: Oh, Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody. Absolutely. Absolutely. But still. But still.
38:57
Speaker 1: Malcolm X. Malcolm X, great movie.
39:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
39:00
Speaker 1: But it wasn't... No, shit. Malcolm X was great. I
39:04
Speaker 1: think they won and won. Yeah. But I do believe-
39:08
Speaker 1: It's a great movie.
39:08
Speaker 4: But in terms of embodying somebody, him becoming Ray was spooky.
39:13
Speaker 7: Yeah.
39:14
Speaker 1: The way that he just totally submerged himself into the character.
39:19
Speaker 1: And it was like, he didn't look like him at first,
39:22
Speaker 1: but the more you just watched it. I'll give a
39:25
Speaker 1: good example. You've seen a Michael biopic. Yes. Jafar Jackson. Yo,
39:31
Speaker 1: when he was in the hospital. And he had just
39:36
Speaker 1: had the head injury. And he was burnt. His eyes
39:39
Speaker 1: looked just like Mike. His eyes, everything up in here.
39:44
Speaker 1: I said, yo, this dude, and I'm watching. Yo, I'm like,
39:49
Speaker 1: this nigga was spot on. And he brought him back
39:52
Speaker 1: to life in a way that I say, but Ray
39:56
Speaker 1: is still better. Ray is still better. But I would
39:59
Speaker 1: say it's up there. I would say the biopic is
40:02
Speaker 1: up there. Coleman Domingo playing Joe Jackson. It's great. Can
40:06
Speaker 1: you do that?
40:07
Speaker 3: Man, I'm listening at you.
40:09
Speaker 1: Wait, he's doing Coleman. Okay. No, it's more like this. Michael.
40:13
Speaker 1: Holy shit. Michael, I'm going to tell him that you're
40:18
Speaker 1: going to do the tour. I told you what to think.
40:20
Speaker 1: He's like, ah. He's just sitting there looking. Coleman does
40:25
Speaker 1: this thing where his mouth always stays open. It's like
40:28
Speaker 1: a fly is going there. A bee flying his mouth,
40:31
Speaker 1: stinging his tongue or something. But he always does that. Anyway, sorry,
40:35
Speaker 1: go ahead. It's not fully developed yet.
40:37
Speaker 3: No, I mean, when you mentioned Jamie, and it's just
40:42
Speaker 3: obviously something about Jamie that enables him to just tap
40:46
Speaker 3: into whatever it is to become whatever it is. With
40:50
Speaker 3: you and your impressions, what is it... And there's others.
40:54
Speaker 3: Maybe there's something unique about you. We just talked about it,
40:57
Speaker 3: how I basically made you say, like, they're not you.
41:01
Speaker 1: They're not like us.
41:03
Speaker 5: Yeah.
41:03
Speaker 1: What do you study?
41:05
Speaker 3: How do you prepare if you're going into something? Like,
41:08
Speaker 3: you're doing stuff right now just off the cusp.
41:10
Speaker 1: Right.
41:11
Speaker 3: You had time to prepare for like a movie or whatever.
41:15
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
41:15
Speaker 3: What is it that you hone in on?
41:18
Speaker 1: I would watch a lot of the interviews and see
41:21
Speaker 1: their facial tics. That's the first thing I would look at.
41:25
Speaker 1: The second thing that I would do, speech patterns, certain
41:29
Speaker 1: speech patterns. And I would try to listen to their
41:32
Speaker 1: voice and see if there was anybody close in my
41:34
Speaker 1: wheelhouse that I already do that's like them. And what
41:38
Speaker 1: octave do I need to switch my voice to exactly
41:40
Speaker 1: and turn into it? Third thing was probably the first thing.
41:43
Speaker 1: My face.
41:44
Speaker 3: When you say change octave, that's almost like you being
41:47
Speaker 3: a singer too at the same time.
41:49
Speaker 1: Like there are some similarities, right? Yeah. I'll give you
41:51
Speaker 1: an example. Christopher Walken and Jay-Z, very similar. Very similar.
41:57
Speaker 5: They are?
41:57
Speaker 1: Very similar.
41:58
Speaker 5: Let me show you. I, I need $ 20. Yeah, I
42:05
Speaker 5: need $ 20.
42:06
Speaker 9: Yeah.
42:07
Speaker 1: So it's, it's, it's like, it's, it's like the, it's
42:11
Speaker 1: not the same. It's a different octave. It's like the same.
42:14
Speaker 1: It's like almost the same voice. It's just a, it's a,
42:16
Speaker 1: a slightly different key. Yeah. Different keys like that. Who
42:20
Speaker 1: else is similar like that? Anthony Mackie and Will Smith. Absolutely.
42:25
Speaker 1: You make daddy a sandwich. And then Will Smith, you
42:30
Speaker 1: make daddy a sandwich. You know, like, cause sandwiches. Yeah,
42:35
Speaker 1: cause sandwiches. Sandwiches are like key and essential, right? Like
42:42
Speaker 1: you can never have enough sandwiches. That's what I was
42:48
Speaker 1: trying to say. You can never have enough sandwiches. Never
42:52
Speaker 1: have enough. You know, like, and I've seen sandwiches being
42:57
Speaker 1: created and You know, like in my living room, on
43:02
Speaker 1: the couch, you know. Yeah, like people were creating human
43:08
Speaker 1: sandwiches in my house. And it was like wild and
43:12
Speaker 1: crazy because I didn't even get a chance to get
43:16
Speaker 1: tagged into the action. And yeah, that's why I lost
43:21
Speaker 1: it on the stage. And it was like a whole
43:23
Speaker 1: bunch of built up, you know, anger, you know, frustration.
43:27
Speaker 1: And finally, finally, you know, I had, like, the levy
43:33
Speaker 1: had broke. And, you know, I got to apologize to, like,
43:37
Speaker 1: people like you, T.O., and to Chris. Because, yeah, this Chris,
43:43
Speaker 1: you know, the other one, I said, sorry, already. You know,
43:46
Speaker 1: he didn't. It's like, man, whatever, man.
43:49
Speaker 5: Like, it's cool, but... Like, it's done. You smacked me
43:53
Speaker 5: in front of the public. And, like, now I'm just, like,
43:57
Speaker 5: I'm going to sue. And you got it. I don't
44:01
Speaker 5: got it. You got it.
44:03
Speaker 1: Right? Zootopia. Wow.
44:06
Speaker 3: It's over.
44:07
Speaker 1: All the money. I had a divorce. Duh. Anyway. Yeah, man. Bro,
44:13
Speaker 1: you're nothing short of. Oh, thank you, my brother. Oh,
44:19
Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you so much, T.O. Ridiculous. Why would
44:23
Speaker 1: you say that? That's just totally off.
44:26
Speaker 9: Why would you say something like that?
44:28
Speaker 1: I love you. I love you. I love everyone. Everyone
44:31
Speaker 1: needs to know. I've never heard nobody do like that. Hey,
44:34
Speaker 1: like that. Hey, you people will. That's I mean, Mike,
44:38
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's a different. That's a different. That's
44:41
Speaker 1: him talking.
44:42
Speaker 4: People usually do the whisper right yeah.
44:45
Speaker 9: But it's it's more than that it's definitely more than
44:48
Speaker 9: that it's like you have to submerge yourself into the
44:51
Speaker 9: character it's all about that having a good time i
44:56
Speaker 9: had a great time bro.
44:58
Speaker 3: What's oh boy what's on your bucket list because you
45:02
Speaker 3: i mean oh man you've done you've done everything what
45:06
Speaker 3: is it that you haven't done like what would be
45:09
Speaker 3: your bucket list of something to do?
45:11
Speaker 5: Man, I want to, I want to be a, I
45:13
Speaker 5: want to be an action movie. I want to do
45:15
Speaker 5: action movies, man. You know, I, I mean my body,
45:17
Speaker 5: I've gotten my body.
45:18
Speaker 1: You too?
45:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
45:19
Speaker 1: You too. You want to do it? I want to
45:20
Speaker 1: do it, bro.
45:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.
45:21
Speaker 1: Cause even, I was doing two handed. God dang it.
45:23
Speaker 1: You want to do what?
45:24
Speaker 3: I've had people even tell me like, yo, you would
45:26
Speaker 3: be good for like Marvel or whatever. Just cause like
45:28
Speaker 3: my business is this and that and the other. Like
45:30
Speaker 3: I would love to do Marvel.
45:32
Speaker 1: Who's it? Stan Lee.
45:32
Speaker 4: It could be Frozone. It could be Frozone.
45:36
Speaker 1: I'd be whoever. Frozone. You love Spider-Man. I love Spider-Man.
45:41
Speaker 4: You love Spider-Man too.
45:44
Speaker 1: I love Spider-Man. Listen, listen. Hey, Chris can write it.
45:50
Speaker 1: We can all work together.
45:51
Speaker 5: Jesus.
45:51
Speaker 1: See what I'm talking about? Look at what this. We
45:53
Speaker 1: can do it. Trust me. I've always. I love Marvel.
45:58
Speaker 1: I love. Really? Yeah, bro. I love it. I know
46:01
Speaker 1: you love Spider-Man.
46:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, watching Super Friends, growing up, the cartoon, watching all
46:06
Speaker 3: the different characters.
46:07
Speaker 1: Flash, Gordon. Dude, that's DC, right? Yeah, that's it. Flash Gordon.
46:12
Speaker 4: He does like all of that.
46:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, all that. All that. Yeah. I'm the same way, though.
46:16
Speaker 1: It's like whatever, whether it's DZ. DZ.
46:19
Speaker 2: DZ.
46:19
Speaker 1: Discovery Zone. Whether it's DC or whether it's Marvel. Marvel, yeah.
46:23
Speaker 1: It's like I don't care. I do like the tone
46:26
Speaker 1: of DC because I feel like it's a bit darker. Like,
46:29
Speaker 1: I didn't... Look, okay. I might get, I'm not going
46:32
Speaker 1: to get no criticism for this because it's an opinion,
46:35
Speaker 1: but I liked when Zack Snyder had the universe.
46:38
Speaker 5: It was darker, but DC has been dark. When we
46:41
Speaker 5: were younger, Batman was almost horrific. He was saving people,
46:46
Speaker 5: but he was.
46:47
Speaker 1: The lightning would strike and you would see him.
46:51
Speaker 5: The cartoon was scary. So, I think that tone, that's
46:55
Speaker 5: what DC's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be fun, jokey, yucky, yucky, yuck, yuck, Marvel.
47:00
Speaker 5: It's not supposed to be like that. That's what makes
47:02
Speaker 5: it distinct.
47:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, those first Batmans is probably what brought it to
47:05
Speaker 4: the dark side.
47:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I would say with Michael Keaton, with Jack Nicholson. Yes,
47:12
Speaker 1: Arnold and... Danny DeVito and all of them. It was good.
47:17
Speaker 1: That's how it's supposed to be. It was dark. Don't
47:19
Speaker 1: try to lighten it up. Right. It's black. Leave it black.
47:22
Speaker 1: He's a bat.
47:23
Speaker 5: He's a freaking bat. He's not a white bat like
47:26
Speaker 5: Ace Ventura. He's a black bat. You know what I'm saying?
47:29
Speaker 5: Remember the scene in Ace Ventura where he had the white...
47:31
Speaker 5: He didn't want to touch it. He was running with
47:33
Speaker 5: his hands up like this.
47:34
Speaker 1: Oh, man. Jim Carrey. Then he... Fell out of a
47:37
Speaker 1: rhinoceros's booty hole. Remember that? It was the animatronic joint.
47:41
Speaker 1: He fell out of it. Yeah, man. Jim Carrey and
47:44
Speaker 1: Tommy Davidson in that movie. I got ADD like I
47:46
Speaker 1: don't know what. Look, I'm just skipping, skipping, skipping.
47:48
Speaker 3: I know, but I love it, though, man. I mean,
47:50
Speaker 3: like you said, I'm glad you mentioned that. I've always
47:53
Speaker 3: wanted to kind of like do something like an.
47:55
Speaker 1: Action, Marvel, all those type of movies. Yeah. That's my
47:59
Speaker 1: bucket list. That's what I want to do, man. Chris,
48:01
Speaker 1: you'd be great for Ren and Stimpy. Which one? What, Stimpy?
48:07
Speaker 1: Or Ren? Which one would he be? Just for that,
48:09
Speaker 1: I'm not writing it. Come on, T.O. Don't mess up.
48:13
Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton, man. All right, cool. Louis Vuitton, man. Wow.
48:18
Speaker 1: Saving the world one bag at a time. Louis Vuitton, man.
48:21
Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton, man. LV. Go yard bag. When you see
48:25
Speaker 1: the LV, run.
48:28
Speaker 3: Jay, our next segment is called, you know me, I
48:30
Speaker 3: like to get my popcorn.
48:31
Speaker 1: I love popcorn.
48:32
Speaker 3: It's called Get Your Popcorn Ready.
48:34
Speaker 1: Oh, let's go. There it is right there. Hey. Should I? Yeah.
48:37
Speaker 1: Should I grab it? By all means. All right, cool.
48:39
Speaker 1: Just don't eat it.
48:40
Speaker 3: So we're going to give you a few questions that
48:42
Speaker 3: you can answer. Give us a strong take, weak take,
48:46
Speaker 3: whatever case it may be. We'll let our audience decide,
48:48
Speaker 3: but they better get their popcorn ready. You want to
48:51
Speaker 3: pop it off, Chris? No pun intended. No pun intended.
48:56
Speaker 4: Who's a comedian you think deserves way more credit, and
49:00
Speaker 4: what did you see them do that convinced you?
49:05
Speaker 1: Um, is his name Kenny Hamilton? His name Kenny Hamilton. Uh,
49:10
Speaker 1: he is in, he's in New York on the Chitlin circuit. He,
49:14
Speaker 1: when I was in Harlem at, uh, Mocha's, he did
49:19
Speaker 1: this bit of about peanuts and popcorn about the beggar
49:23
Speaker 1: on the subway. And he said, he said, if you
49:25
Speaker 1: be in the subway long enough, you see this guy
49:27
Speaker 1: come up. Penis and popcorn, sure make your belly feel nice.
49:33
Speaker 1: Put the money in the hat. Penis and popcorn. He
49:36
Speaker 1: does this for 10 minutes. Everything brings it back. I
49:41
Speaker 1: laughed every single time. Murdering. He's one of the funniest people.
49:46
Speaker 1: And you know what? Hey, I got the opportunity. Freeze
49:49
Speaker 1: Love does not get the amount of love that he
49:53
Speaker 1: deserves here. And he's brilliantly funny. So funny. So funny.
49:58
Speaker 1: Is he posting stuff? Is he doing stuff? I know
50:00
Speaker 1: he did a special a couple of years ago, a
50:03
Speaker 1: few years ago. But after that, I don't know. I mean,
50:07
Speaker 1: he was, I don't know. I don't know what he's doing.
50:09
Speaker 1: I know what he's doing.
50:10
Speaker 5: What?
50:12
Speaker 3: You're doing what you were doing, but you came back
50:14
Speaker 3: to Christ.
50:14
Speaker 1: Nah, he's married, man.
50:16
Speaker 5: He's... He's married, man.
50:19
Speaker 1: He's freezing. Oh, yeah, okay. Don't nobody... My bad, Freeze.
50:22
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I don't think anybody would be that
50:24
Speaker 1: diabolical if you come back from that. That's a different
50:28
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. Anyway. This is hard for me to ask.
50:32
Speaker 1: Because I.
50:34
Speaker 3: Can't foresee you bombing on anything. Has there ever been
50:38
Speaker 3: a moment.
50:40
Speaker 1: What is your worst bomb, if there is one? My
50:43
Speaker 1: worst bomb? I think there was a total of three.
50:48
Speaker 3: Okay, what went wrong, and how did you recover?
50:52
Speaker 1: I just battle.
50:53
Speaker 5: I'm also a battle rapper, too, so when the crowds
50:56
Speaker 5: start coming at me, I'll just start hurling out stuff
50:59
Speaker 5: real quick, and then I'll hurl enough stuff where they'll
51:02
Speaker 5: shut up and not say anything, and that's exactly what happened.
51:04
Speaker 1: I beat the crowd. I Bill Bird the crowd, like
51:07
Speaker 1: he did in Philly. That was the greatest piece of...
51:09
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, you got a freaking statue. It's not
51:13
Speaker 1: even real. You're freaking, yeah.
51:16
Speaker 5: 20.
51:16
Speaker 1: What did he say? He said 10 minutes.
51:18
Speaker 4: I had eight minutes left. I kept coming back to it.
51:21
Speaker 4: This is the best piece of comedy ever. Bill Burr
51:23
Speaker 4: was in Philadelphia bombing. They were booing him.
51:26
Speaker 1: It went from boos to cheers. Nine minutes to a
51:29
Speaker 1: standing ovation. Yep. Fuck you guys.
51:32
Speaker 4: He's talking about, you have a statue of fucking Rocky Balboa.
51:35
Speaker 1: Of Rocky Balboa.
51:36
Speaker 4: And Joe Louis is, Joe Frazier is living in about
51:39
Speaker 4: the fucking gym and y'all don't take care of him.
51:42
Speaker 1: Six minutes left.
51:43
Speaker 4: He shit it on their Phillies.
51:46
Speaker 1: He shit it on the fucking 76ers, I think. So,
51:49
Speaker 1: so I was at a, it was a step show
51:51
Speaker 1: I was hosting when I was, was I 20 when
51:54
Speaker 1: I did that? It was a step show. And I
51:57
Speaker 1: had nothing but 15 minutes of material, but black people
52:00
Speaker 1: take long to set up. So, so I ran out
52:04
Speaker 1: of jokes and, um, while it was setting up, that's
52:07
Speaker 1: what happened. I ran out of jokes, my 15 minutes.
52:10
Speaker 1: Cause it was this two hour, two hour long step show.
52:14
Speaker 1: And they had me in between and they were taking
52:16
Speaker 1: forever to set up. And I was like, Oh, well,
52:20
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what else to do.
52:23
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. You know, so
52:26
Speaker 1: what y'all do? Boo. I said, oh, hell no. And
52:30
Speaker 1: I just started hurling insults. I think I told the
52:32
Speaker 1: big girl that she had stretch marks on her eyeballs
52:35
Speaker 1: or something like that. It was it was it was
52:38
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, I mean, her blood pressure is
52:40
Speaker 1: in space. It was a lot of stuff I said. And,
52:43
Speaker 1: you know, I finally got them back and then they
52:46
Speaker 1: got quiet. Everybody just everybody just got quiet and they stopped.
52:50
Speaker 1: They stopped hurling stuff. And then I ran out the
52:52
Speaker 1: back door. I grabbed my check and I ran out
52:54
Speaker 1: the back door, hopped right in the car, got away.
52:57
Speaker 1: But that was the worst bomb. Elizabeth City at ECU,
53:00
Speaker 1: Elizabeth City University, I think it was. The worst bomb.
53:04
Speaker 1: There's been a couple of them, but it wasn't that bad.
53:07
Speaker 1: I want to go back and answer one of those
53:10
Speaker 1: questions again because it's somebody that I just thought about
53:12
Speaker 1: popped in my head. and I talked to him about
53:14
Speaker 1: a month ago. He's one of the funniest human beings alive.
53:17
Speaker 1: Which comedian, so which comedian do I think deserves more
53:21
Speaker 1: credit and doesn't get it? Comedian Rodman. Rodman, hilarious. The
53:29
Speaker 1: most unique delivery ever. Nobody like him. Very imitated too.
53:33
Speaker 1: If you watch a lot of comedians. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yeah,
53:39
Speaker 1: you know, I like to, when I ride on the plane,
53:42
Speaker 1: I like to sit on the outside. or the road
53:44
Speaker 1: because I feel like I run the road.
53:46
Speaker 5: And, you know, one day there was a little Muslim man.
53:49
Speaker 1: He came up. He said, I think I'm in the
53:51
Speaker 1: window seat. I said, let me check your stuff because,
53:53
Speaker 1: you know, I can't be, you know what I mean,
53:55
Speaker 1: because of that, you know what I mean.
53:57
Speaker 5: And you got to make sure when you go through
53:59
Speaker 5: airport security that your clothes is clean because, you know,
54:02
Speaker 5: they might randomly select you and you might be like,
54:05
Speaker 5: this ain't a good day to check me.
54:06
Speaker 4: You know what happened to Rodman to me? He won
54:12
Speaker 4: Last Comic Standing. And his trajectory was with us.
54:19
Speaker 1: Oh, he went. And then I think mainstream got him.
54:22
Speaker 2: Yeah.
54:22
Speaker 4: And now he's making a comfortable living wherever he's doing.
54:26
Speaker 4: But I think the path to where he could have
54:29
Speaker 4: been the superstardom, which is it's not too late.
54:32
Speaker 1: I think.
54:35
Speaker 4: If you would have said Rodman's name 10 years ago,
54:37
Speaker 4: everybody would have been like, yeah, that motherfucker.
54:38
Speaker 1: But now it's kind of like... Who? Yeah, who? Yeah.
54:41
Speaker 1: He's so brilliant. He's so funny. I'm telling you, his
54:44
Speaker 1: delivery is incomparable. Nobody delivers like Rodman. And he doesn't
54:50
Speaker 1: get a lot of love, like you say. He doesn't
54:52
Speaker 1: get a lot of love. Yeah, I think he's kind
54:53
Speaker 1: of like.
54:54
Speaker 4: He's making so much money over here, like over here
54:56
Speaker 4: don't know him.
54:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to hear.
55:00
Speaker 4: Richard Pryor and Cat Williams.
55:05
Speaker 1: discuss the economy?
55:13
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, the very, the fact that nobody
55:19
Speaker 5: can even eat a salad right now because it's infected
55:24
Speaker 5: with whatever Bill Gates decided to drop on it. That
55:27
Speaker 5: is totally blasphemous in itself. And the fact that you
55:31
Speaker 5: can't make an omelet for less than $ 60 only using
55:35
Speaker 5: two eggs. Jesus is coming back, boo-boo, and that's exactly
55:40
Speaker 5: what's happening. The Lord is about to return. And shoot,
55:44
Speaker 5: he should return because, damn it, I'm tired of this
55:47
Speaker 5: motherfucker because.
55:48
Speaker 1: I ain't even gone to heaven yet. I said I
55:50
Speaker 1: want to stay here, but I want to eat something,
55:53
Speaker 1: and I am hungrier than a motherfucker. You know, it's
55:59
Speaker 1: really insane, right? It's really insane that you can't even
56:04
Speaker 1: eat brisket. You can't have brisket. You can't go to
56:08
Speaker 1: the salad bar. What the fuck is we supposed to do?
56:12
Speaker 1: Things are expensive. Niggas is getting snatched. I'm talking about
56:16
Speaker 1: Spanish niggas. How would Barack Obama fix this economy? I
56:19
Speaker 1: told you, motherfuckers. I told you.
56:22
Speaker 8: I said, let me stay in there, but you don't
56:24
Speaker 8: want to do it. You don't want to do it.
56:27
Speaker 8: You wanted to get the son from the Teletubbies, which,
56:32
Speaker 8: I mean, it's cool, but at the end of the day,
56:34
Speaker 8: it's good to look at, but when it's making decisions,
56:38
Speaker 8: you don't want a baby with a sun face making decisions.
56:41
Speaker 1: They don't know what the hell they're doing. What does
56:43
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson feel about that?
56:44
Speaker 6: I don't know which one you want, Chris. I don't
56:45
Speaker 6: know if you.
56:46
Speaker 1: Want this one. I ain't never heard that one yet.
56:48
Speaker 6: I don't know if you want this one, Chris, because,
56:50
Speaker 6: you know, I go to the economy and I go
56:53
Speaker 6: to the Whole Foods and I try to eat really
56:55
Speaker 6: healthy and I try to get, you know, pineapples and things.
56:58
Speaker 6: But then, you know, they do recalls, you know, so
57:02
Speaker 6: I'm already messed up enough.
57:03
Speaker 5: So I don't need polio. You know, I don't need
57:05
Speaker 5: polio after I had some. After I had some fruits
57:09
Speaker 5: from the Whole Foods. So, you know, it's ridiculous.
57:12
Speaker 1: I prefer to grow my own stuff in my garden.
57:15
Speaker 1: That's why I got chicken. Me and Cat Williams, we
57:18
Speaker 1: got chicken. That's right.
57:19
Speaker 5: We got farm animals.
57:22
Speaker 1: We raising them just like Rick Rose.
57:24
Speaker 5: Ricky Rose. I've got a whole bunch of livestock and oxen.
57:31
Speaker 5: I love my oxen because my oxen are individually named.
57:35
Speaker 5: I name them all names of things that you are
57:38
Speaker 5: not able to afford. Louis Vuitton.
57:42
Speaker 1: Chanel bag.
57:44
Speaker 5: That's right. Diamonds are forever and so is my ranch.
57:47
Speaker 5: So if you want to get some milk, I will
57:49
Speaker 5: charge you about $ 10. I gave 50 cents of milk.
57:53
Speaker 5: I did that because he is now filing for bankruptcy.
57:56
Speaker 1: You know what I've never heard anybody do?
57:58
Speaker 2: What?
57:59
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar. Have you worked on Kendrick yet? His, as
58:05
Speaker 1: far as him talking, I haven't mastered that yet. I
58:09
Speaker 1: haven't mastered that yet. I mean, Drake is just bro.
58:13
Speaker 1: Like Drake talks like this, bro. He's like, he's like
58:17
Speaker 1: down here and you know, like, yeah, like he tried
58:20
Speaker 1: to call me a pedophile, but you know, like it's
58:22
Speaker 1: not true. Cause Crowdy, I was in bro. I was
58:25
Speaker 1: in England. Like the age is 16 and up. Like
58:27
Speaker 1: that's fine. Yeah, man.
58:31
Speaker 2: Yeah.
58:32
Speaker 1: Do you know a friend of ours? Who? Michael Strahan.
58:35
Speaker 1: Michael Strahan. Okay. Wait, why'd you have to do me
58:39
Speaker 1: to do him? No, I got it. Cause I was,
58:42
Speaker 1: I was just getting into the character. That's, you know,
58:44
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm just like a real, I'm just really weird
58:47
Speaker 1: with the way that I go into things. So, Does
58:50
Speaker 1: that sound like me? I think it does.
58:52
Speaker 4: She's laughing.
58:53
Speaker 1: She's laughing. She's smiling. You shouldn't have to smile. She's
58:57
Speaker 1: Gen Z. They don't smile. Why? Are you Gen Z?
59:00
Speaker 5: Yeah.
59:01
Speaker 1: I knew it. I could tell.
59:03
Speaker 2: Anyway.
59:05
Speaker 1: Will.
59:08
Speaker 5: Will Crith. want to come here and have me some
59:11
Speaker 5: bacon and eggs. If I get a bacon and egg, fam,
59:14
Speaker 5: that would be totally cool. And everything that you have
59:17
Speaker 5: done has been, it's like Shannon Sharp, but lighter. It's
59:21
Speaker 5: like Shannon light.
59:22
Speaker 1: It's like everything that you have done, Chris, has blown me,
59:27
Speaker 1: has blown me away. Can you do T.O.
59:29
Speaker 3: Yet?
59:31
Speaker 1: Uh, damn. Not yet, not yet, not yet. Own your homework.
59:35
Speaker 1: I haven't tried it, I haven't tried it.
59:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be your homework. You come back and do me.
59:40
Speaker 1: I can do, I know I can get it. Just
59:43
Speaker 1: talk about yourself. Just do. You funny.
59:50
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, where can we find Jay Pharoah?
59:55
Speaker 1: All right, at Jay Pharoah. That's on the Instagram. Jay
59:58
Speaker 1: Pharoah Real, that's on Facebook. I think on TikTok, I
1:00:04
Speaker 1: don't go up there. I think it's at Jay Pharoah
1:00:07
Speaker 1: Real on TikTok as well.
1:00:08
Speaker 3: Real like real, R-E-A-L or real?
1:00:11
Speaker 1: R-E-A-L. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kevin had started that. You know,
1:00:15
Speaker 1: he was.
1:00:16
Speaker 5: He was like, listen, listen, here's the thing. Everybody's got
1:00:20
Speaker 5: to be able to remember you. That's what it's got
1:00:22
Speaker 5: to be. People are always going to remember me. That's
1:00:25
Speaker 5: why I always say real. Because there's so many people
1:00:28
Speaker 5: who are trying to create fake pages. But I don't
1:00:31
Speaker 5: knock the fake pages. Because when they put stuff up there,
1:00:33
Speaker 5: they're pushing your brand. That's what they're doing.
1:00:35
Speaker 1: They're pushing your brand, man. You know what I'm saying?
1:00:38
Speaker 1: All day, Chris. Listen, swear to God. I love the fact.
1:00:42
Speaker 1: I love the fact.
1:00:44
Speaker 5: That you were there and you've helped so many black
1:00:47
Speaker 5: young comics just with everything, whether it comes to punchlines
1:00:52
Speaker 5: or whether it comes to advice or not messing with
1:00:54
Speaker 5: a dirty hoe. You're always there. That's what I like
1:00:58
Speaker 5: about him. He's always there to help people.
1:01:01
Speaker 4: Listen, listen, listen, listen.
1:01:04
Speaker 1: You help a lot of niggas. That's what I love. Okay.
1:01:06
Speaker 3: So man, just tell us, I mean, you're always giving back.
1:01:10
Speaker 3: Tell us a little about the, Ferrell Family Foundation.
1:01:15
Speaker 1: Okay. So when I was in high school, theater kid,
1:01:20
Speaker 1: got myself together at the end of my tenure and
1:01:23
Speaker 1: ended up graduating with honors. But, you know, I wasn't
1:01:27
Speaker 1: like a very scholarly student at first. I had the ability,
1:01:31
Speaker 1: but I wasn't like that. I was interested in the arts.
1:01:34
Speaker 1: So when I graduated, I said, I want to give
1:01:38
Speaker 1: back some way. I do want to give back. So
1:01:42
Speaker 1: me and my family came together with this idea to
1:01:46
Speaker 1: give scholarships to people who want to focus their studies
1:01:50
Speaker 1: on the arts and graduate. You don't necessarily have to
1:01:52
Speaker 1: have a three, five or whatever. I'm not looking at that.
1:01:55
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the authenticity of whoever is writing this essay.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: I'm looking at, um, I'm looking at what you really
1:02:02
Speaker 1: want to do. Are you somebody who really wants to
1:02:06
Speaker 1: pursue it relentlessly and make it and be kind of
1:02:10
Speaker 1: like a Jay Pharoah or a Timberland or a Missy
1:02:13
Speaker 1: Elliott or a Pharrell or a Pusha T or a
1:02:16
Speaker 1: Malice or any of those guys. A go-getter. A go-getter.
1:02:20
Speaker 1: But somebody who wants to be in entertainment and wants
1:02:24
Speaker 1: to focus on that and be in the arts. So
1:02:27
Speaker 1: we give away... started giving away one scholarship to, uh,
1:02:33
Speaker 1: a lucky student in my high school. Now we have
1:02:37
Speaker 1: expanded it to all Chesapeake public schools and not only
1:02:42
Speaker 1: Chesapeake public schools, but now the 757 area in general.
1:02:46
Speaker 1: So we give away, now we give away three scholarships, uh,
1:02:50
Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 to, um, the winners and we follow up with them. We, we,
1:02:56
Speaker 1: we follow your journey. And, um, you know, I've had,
1:03:00
Speaker 1: I've had, we've had a lot of, of our kids
1:03:03
Speaker 1: have success. Uh, Kamari Reese. Um, he was a videographer.
1:03:07
Speaker 1: Now he works for, uh, ESPN in Connecticut. You know,
1:03:11
Speaker 1: there was another young lady who, uh, I think she
1:03:14
Speaker 1: got her, she got her first role in a movie. Um, that,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: that touched me. So many kids that the name, I
1:03:19
Speaker 1: can't get the name right now, but, uh, Um, our
1:03:23
Speaker 1: goal and our vision is to help everybody across the
1:03:26
Speaker 1: board who really wants to focus themselves on the arts
1:03:30
Speaker 1: and people who are looked over, you know, every time
1:03:33
Speaker 1: there's diamonds everywhere, but you're just not looking for them
1:03:36
Speaker 1: and you might look over them because you're looking this way.
1:03:39
Speaker 5: We're not studied. We're not focused in math. You're not
1:03:41
Speaker 5: focused in science. You're not focused in, um, history or language.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: Are you, you're focused in, in performing, you're focused in cinematography,
1:03:50
Speaker 1: you're focused in all of these different genres of art.
1:03:58
Speaker 1: That's what we wanna do. So we've successfully done that.
1:04:01
Speaker 1: And we have a gala on the 26th, the Fall Ball,
1:04:04
Speaker 1: Teddy Rowley is speaking, which is a really comeback moment
1:04:07
Speaker 1: for me because my first talent competition, Teddy Rowley was there.
1:04:11
Speaker 1: And yeah, he told me, he was like, wow. Um,
1:04:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if the judges are supposed to laugh,
1:04:20
Speaker 1: but you definitely had me. Um, wow.
1:04:25
Speaker 5: Those impersonations spot on. Just, um, just give me two weeks,
1:04:30
Speaker 5: just give me two weeks and we'll talk after the show.
1:04:32
Speaker 5: I went up to him two weeks. I followed up
1:04:36
Speaker 5: two weeks after didn't hear nothing. Didn't hear nothing, but
1:04:39
Speaker 5: went to the, went to studio, everything. Things were changing.
1:04:44
Speaker 5: Things were changing. But forget all of that. He is speaking.
1:04:48
Speaker 5: He's coming back.
1:04:49
Speaker 3: 26th.
1:04:50
Speaker 1: And the 26th at the Fall Ball. Tickets, you can
1:04:53
Speaker 1: go to ph3. org to get your tickets. There's still some available.
1:04:57
Speaker 1: Please come out. I'm going to be there. I'm honoring
1:05:00
Speaker 1: my drama teacher, Miss Jeanette Shuler. She's one of the
1:05:03
Speaker 1: reasons that I am here today. She gave me a
1:05:06
Speaker 1: chance because she saw the talent when other people didn't
1:05:09
Speaker 1: see the talent.
1:05:10
Speaker 3: Also, I mean, where can people contribute, obviously, to scholarship?
1:05:16
Speaker 1: PH3. org. They can go to PH3. org, and it's right there.
1:05:19
Speaker 1: You can click, and there is a donation link. We've
1:05:22
Speaker 1: had so many different people donating. We've had banks donate.
1:05:27
Speaker 1: We've had governors donate. We've had a lot of people, man.
1:05:31
Speaker 1: So it's really become... It's thing and it's taken on
1:05:34
Speaker 1: legs and we're so proud of it. And to my mother,
1:05:38
Speaker 1: all the hard work that you do with the foundation. Listen,
1:05:43
Speaker 1: I love you and you're doing a fantastic job. And
1:05:46
Speaker 1: please don't stop, Ma. Yeah, because this is a you know,
1:05:49
Speaker 1: this this helps a lot of folks. And you are
1:05:51
Speaker 1: you are the conduit for it. And you're doing an
1:05:54
Speaker 1: amazing job. And your work is not being lessened or
1:05:59
Speaker 1: you're being seen. We can see how hard you're working.
1:06:02
Speaker 1: And dad, help her.
1:06:04
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, the Jay Pharoah.
1:06:08
Speaker 2: Yes.
1:06:09
Speaker 1: He passed that digital plate around. Hey, man. Hey, brother. PH3. org. Absolutely. Donate. Contribute.
1:06:18
Speaker 8: Yep.
1:06:18
Speaker 3: You're helping kids. You're helping people with dreams.
1:06:21
Speaker 1: Yep. Laser focus. Thank you so much, Jay Pharoah. Jay Pharoah,
1:06:25
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen.
1:06:26
Speaker 6: Jay Pharoah.
1:06:26
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Thank you, guys.
1:06:29
Speaker 3: Hey, you want to see more guests like this?
1:06:32
Speaker 1: Subscribe, like, follow. G-T-T-P pod. That's us.
1:06:37
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:06:38
Speaker 1: And it's me. You know what I mean? And that's him.
1:06:41
Speaker 3: Yeah.