Full Transcript for DAMON WAYANS JR.

pilot with Dr. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:23.439 Ken. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.759 They're not seeing you. 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:27.439 Get the out of my face. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.960 And I was like, CBS called me anyways. 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:31.919 I booked it. 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:34.080 Then, let me tell you twice. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.639 Then he turned down MacGyver. 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:37.840 People don't know that. 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.400 He was offered the lead of MacGyver. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:41.680 That was gonna have a black MacGyver. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.680 That's how much white people love damn general. 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:44.639 They like they like him. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:51.120 Well, it was, you know, at the time it was, you know, it was a lot of stuff coming my way. 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:52.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:52.479 That's it, yeah. 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.520 So they offered him MacGyver and he turned that down. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:01.120 And the reason why I thank him for that too is they wouldn't have had him as MacGyver in the best friend black. 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:02.960 Too many. 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:04.240 It's gonna be two, too many. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:04.560 Yeah. 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:14.319 So the fact that they hired a white dude, Lucas Till, to play MacGyver, that allowed them to then offer me the role to be the best black friend on MacGyver. 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:15.680 So shout out to Danny Jr. 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:17.360 You still? 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:21.680 I'm looking at uh the other show. 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:22.560 What other show? 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:24.079 Um Newgirl? 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:24.399 Yeah. 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.519 I didn't book New Girl, but you was close. 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.600 I just been looking at Lamona Winning Amazing. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:45.199 I got one because Damie was so was so dope, man, because he he threw you two lobs. 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.240 He he bam bam with the with the with the series. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:51.519 He took he he he didn't throw them on me. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:53.439 He took he he walked on stage on happy endings. 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:54.480 He did that, he booked that dog. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:56.000 Uh oh, you didn't hit you for that. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:58.639 You went never, though. 00:04:58.720 --> 00:04:59.519 You went never for happy? 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:01.040 You went never for happy endings? 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:03.360 I mean to the past. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:27.439 Every now and again you see, you know, some sometimes when you get these auditions, they're just another audition, and then you look up and be like, oh, that's the that's him from that, and that's the bro, and that's but when you bring them, they just like okay, happy endings, something else. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.959 Yeah, then I look up and I see my friend working. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:37.839 Well, Happy Endings was my first uh TV audition. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.759 So I had did the uh the the um what's that show? 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.040 The movie with the family. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:43.839 Dance Flick. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:49.360 So I did Dance Flick first, and then and then that was my first time ever auditioning for a TV show. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:06:02.399 And I used to do this thing when I auditioned, was uh I would take the majority, anything that I needed for the story to move forward, I would do and say that was on the lines, but otherwise I would just make up my own stuff. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:09.759 Oh, that was my I would improvise a lot, and you know, and they would tell me not to do it, and I would go in and do it every time. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:14.079 And that's what would be the difference, is because they see the same thing over and over again. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:24.319 So in my mind, I'm like, let me just, you know, I don't know if I'm gonna get this, but let me just show them that I have, you know, this other ability to, you know, write jokes or or just improvise. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.319 And that's the same reason why I did it for the book New Girl. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.439 Because when me and Lamar was testing against each other. 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:32.959 Testing? 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:33.759 I tested. 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:35.199 It was between me and Lamarne. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:42.079 Liz Merriweather told me not to do any improv. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.879 Now I was doing improv the whole time to get me up to the testing point. 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.319 And then when we got to the test, uh tell Justin not to do any improv. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.000 I didn't do any improv. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.920 Lamar went in and did improv, destroyed, and booked. 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:57.120 And now he has an emmy. 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:58.480 Yes, you know what I'm saying? 00:06:58.720 --> 00:06:58.879 Yes. 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.160 So shout out to Lamarne. 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.319 So everybody out there, make sure you don't listen when people tell you don't improv. 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:13.199 I mean, that's a that's a great, that's a great it's hard though to like to not listen to that, especially when you're testing, because you're like, what am I supposed to do? 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:13.680 Right. 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:20.560 You know, because you're like, if I do improvise and I could make it worse for myself, potentially. 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.720 You know, if it didn't work, you know, if if it didn't work, there's all these different suits in there. 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:25.040 Yeah. 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.000 And you just like, now you're just the guy that doesn't listen. 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.399 So fine line. 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.560 So yeah, so it's like it's kind of he just took a gamble

because Lamorin could have been out, could have been out of there. 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:37.120 If it didn't go well, he could have been out of there, you know. 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:42.319 So I mean, but in that in that vein, because I've had that thought multiple times. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:42.720 Right. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:52.079 And and when you do that audition, do you do a take that's clean and close to the script, or you're just like, no, this is what I want to do with this character and this is how I see it. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:53.279 And just make the bold choice. 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:58.879 I just make the bold choice because it's like, because there's so many uh people going out for the same part. 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:08.959 It's like, how do you and and I've been on the other side of where you're the producer of it and you're just watching people say the same thing over and over again. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:10.480 It's almost mind-numbing. 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:17.600 To where when you see somebody that does something different, you're like, oh, even if it's not great, you're just like, oh, it's it's different. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:18.720 It catches your attention. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.399 Because they just sit there and they watch like tape after tape after tape. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.319 So it's like, what's gonna set you apart? 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:25.920 And that's why I put my out. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.920 I'm sorry, but for some reason it's not working. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.639 I haven't been, haven't been this is what I wanted to ask. 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:36.320 What goes behind your decision making? 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:39.039 Because like I say, I know you get offered a lot of roles. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:43.679 What goes behind your decision making on what you decide to do versus what you decide to not do? 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:48.799 So for instance, like uh Rush Hour and MacGyver, like what went behind your your thinking? 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.960 Um Rush Hour and MacGyver. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:09:01.840 So Rush Hour, I was such a big fan of the original series that and this was kind of like before they started, you know, using IP so heavily. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.720 It was before they started like remaking movies and remakes. 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:09.360 So it was like I helped your daddy out because rush hour came first, then they did Lethal Weapon. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:10.240 Yeah, I agree. 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.679 And they were the Warner Brothers. 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.600 But before, so that was like the the test, you know what I mean? 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.000 And I was just like, I don't want to be the test subject. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:25.519 And so that's why I kind of was like, and then also in my mind, I was like, I can't, I can't like do what Chris Tucker did with that. 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.879 And I feel like they'd want me to be Chris Tucker, and I'd want to be myself. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.720 So I would be Damon Waynes Jr. 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:32.000 and also Chris Tucker Jr. 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.000 And it's like too much. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.879 So that's why I was like, no, I don't wanna I don't wanna do it. 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:37.360 Right. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:47.360 I mean, in in avoiding that in general, uh, when I met you before I moved to LA, it was at a comedy club in Fairfield Pepper Bellies. 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:49.279 You you were in the Bay, you were from the Bay? 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:50.960 Uh I was born in the Bay, I grew up in Houston. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:51.519 Uh, okay, okay. 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:56.720 But uh, but uh, but I remember um you I you didn't do the Bay Area competition. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.000 You were just there doing shows. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:58.559 Yeah. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:09:59.039 Okay. 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.840 So so I go there, I see you doing shows. 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:07.279 I don't even remember who I went to go see, but you were doing shows, but you were going under a totally different name. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:07.840 Yes. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:08.399 Yes. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:13.279 Talk to me about that choice to keep your anonymity as you were growing in your stand-up journey. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:27.600 Yeah, so that was very intentional because I saw, you know, other comedians or kids of comedians just kind of go on stage expecting, you know, to be great at it. 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.120 And I just knew it was hard work. 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.039 The first time I did it, I was like, oh, this is this is gonna take work to get good at. 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:35.919 So I just wanted to kind of, you know, get my own footing. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:39.679 I was just like, and and I looked so much like my dad that I couldn't keep the name. 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.840 I would have kept the name for a long a lot longer if people didn't call me out in the middle of the game. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:46.000 Well, it was Kyle Green. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:51.120 Yeah, it was my middle name and then uh my grandma's maiden name, just those two. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.000 And so I was just, yeah, I was just trying to get my own footing, you know. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:59.919 I know I know other comedians that would go on stage and just be like, I'm you know, such and such. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.519 And I was just like, I don't want to do that. 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.519 And I just feel like I'll get judged more um before I'm ready, you know. 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:12.000 Like when you go in there, like even I used to like uh host for my dad. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.559 So I would host, and Will Sylvince would be the feature, or Vinny would be the feature. 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:17.440 Vinny's both beasts. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:18.799 And I would host both

beasts. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.159 Uh shout out to Vinny and Will, some of my favorite comedians. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:29.759 Um, and so I would go up and they knew that I was my dad's son, and so I as soon as I get on stage, uh hands are folded. 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.840 Like literally, and then you know, just mentally, I could tell them going, this another one of these. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:41.200 And so I'd have to prove myself that much more instead of like figuring out how to do it. 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:42.240 So that's why I did it. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:48.960 What do you feel when do you feel the audience accepted you for you and not like, you know how it's the same thing. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:55.519 I I I I always feel for people that are can uh that are tied to you know the names. 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:59.279 You know, I think about that even for a long time, Ray J was Brandy's brother. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:00.399 Right, you know, until he grew. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.399 So when do you feel the audience accepted you for you? 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.240 Oh, when I did my sex tape. 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.519 Um, um stupid. 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:17.679 You're running around red light. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:25.440 No, I um I felt like it was, you know, honestly, when you get them to laugh, they don't care. 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.600 It's just that first, it's like as soon as you step on stage, that's when the judgment happens. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.840 So I just had to I just had to make sure that my first two, three minutes were bangers. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.879 Because after that, then the then the fan then they're like, oh, okay, he's funny. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.200 You know, so I I feel like yeah, that's what it's like. 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:44.320 What what goes into your uh choice for your writing style? 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.879 Because you have a super eclectic style. 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:57.440 The things you choose to talk about people don't talk about, and you you find hilarious angles on the what what do you what crafts that or what what choices go into that? 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:58.639 You know what's interesting? 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.399 Um I was just talking to Naeem. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:04.879 So Naeem and I did uh Naeem Lynn, shout out to Naeem, very funny, comedian. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:10.480 He and I did um some random ha ha show together about like two, three weeks ago. 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:21.519 And then afterwards, like I k he killed, I killed, and then we were talking on stage off stage, um, and he was just like, you know the difference between my writing and your writing? 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:26.879 He goes, You something uh pops up in your head and it's funny, and you write it down. 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:32.879 He goes, I I think of a real thing that happened to me and I make it funny. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:33.840 That's great. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:46.320 And I was just like, and honestly, I think that his technique is better in the long run because you know, my stuff is so like you know, you can't really tie the things together. 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:56.720 Like that's what I'm that's my process right now is figuring out how to tie my whole hour together because a lot of my stuff is funny, I funny, but it's also like kind of like standalone. 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.320 And it's not necessarily as relatable. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:05.519 Well, I have a lot of relatable stuff now, but when I first started, it was all just stuff that was funny to me. 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:16.000 Random stuff that's funny that doesn't really like and and I think people would rather relatability over funny, um, which is very interesting to me. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:28.000 But and it took me a while to realize that because I come from a family of comedians, I grew up like around comedy, so I appreciate a joke, a well-crafted joke, yeah, over relatability. 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:32.559 And which is not like doesn't really it's not really great for uh audiences. 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:38.080 They'll laugh at you, they'll laugh, they'll think you're really funny, but they're not gonna leave remembering what the hell you even talked about. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:44.960 Or or like after the show, they'll come up to me and talk to me about the the sh the the bits that were relatable. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:52.879 Like I'll talk about my family, I'll talk about my kids, they'll come up to me with that, and in my mind, I'm like, this isn't even as funny as my other jokes. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.120 So that's been my journey. 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.360 So I don't know if I answered your question, but no, no, no. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:11.279 Yeah, it's uh I've always felt like there was a tight rope in that angle because I it is a definitely a um more direct path to connection with the audience for the relatability. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:11.840 Yeah. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:17.039 But there is a uniqueness in stylistically being able to write the things you write, because people can't do that. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:26.720 So it's like so it's like the it it's what I've seen is when you're killing and your last per minute is really high, the retention is slower. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:34.639 So it's like if you if you choose to do more obscure, then you sometimes have to back up off of it just so they can process it. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.559 For sure, because they're just like it's like almost homework for them. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:38.960 Yes. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.679 They just have to like really focus on what the hell you're saying. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:49.919 So what I've been doing now, and it's been working really well, is I'll do my obscure bit that leads into a story about my real life. 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:50.399 Got it. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:56.000 Or a real bit that leads

into like some uh uh no a a funny bit that leads into a real bit. 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:56.399 Right. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:57.679 So I'll connect those two. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.320 I think that's really that's been helping me a lot. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:18.639 When did you decide to do this, or was it was it always kind of because um from the outside, I'm sure people would assume like, oh, just come from you know, if you it's like one of sometimes you run into those families and the the the mom met the dad at the cop academy and they just now the whole family is like military. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:25.120 Was it always that thing, or you were you uh focusing on something else to say, you know what, actually I probably should be in the comedy thing. 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:30.559 Yeah, so so I f I first uh wanted to do animation. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:31.759 I feel like I used to be a little bit of a joke. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.879 So I wanted to do animation, I used to draw all the time. 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:40.559 I used that's probably why I think so weird, you know, is because I just watching cartoons all the damn time. 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:46.000 Um so cartoons were my jam, anime was my jam, and I was just like, this is what I want to do. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:53.279 And then I remember reading how much they got paid, and I was like, oh, I can't do this for a living. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:55.279 Not in California. 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.799 Um shout out to the animators though, because you guys be grinding. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.080 Um so I I wound up also I had a kid really young. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.200 I had my first kid when I was technically 19. 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:06.000 Oh wow. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:11.039 So so I was just like, I I can't necessarily follow this dream. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.759 I have to follow another dream that is related that I'm I'm I could be good at. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:31.759 And that's when I started like, you know, auditioning, I started writing, started um, you know, really like going to like writing courses, um doing stand-up, you know, all that kind of stuff that kind of fed uh the the the creative beast inside of me. 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:39.759 I was like, this is not exactly animation, but it's like you know, it's kind of your own it's like your own your your own art. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.319 You know, you go on stage and this is like who you are. 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:43.920 I love that's what I love about stand-up. 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:47.599 That's why I'll never give stand-up up, because it's like authentically you. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:54.640 Like j jobs that you do, you're kind of servicing whatever person wrote that, whatever the director, right? 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.079 So it's not really your words. 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.920 So you know, stand-up is like just all you and it's immediate too. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.839 It's like,

oh, it's like, oh, this is funny. 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:03.440 You know, it is a gratification. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:13.119 I think a lot of really big comedians who like kind of stepped away from stand-up should continue doing stand-up because it kind of lets you know what's funny to people. 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:13.920 You know what I mean? 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:27.119 No, I'm talking I'm talking like like Eddie, like I would love to see Eddie just even if he doesn't like want to kill like he could just sit down like Bill Cosby and just kind of tell stories because he's great, you know what I mean? 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:31.519 Like, even just him talking, he like jumps into different characters and stuff like that. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.480 So I'm just like when he did the award when he got the award the other day, he did it. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:45.599 Yes, yeah, so it's like just do just do that, him, Jim Carrey, like these people just get on stage in front of people, they'll love you no matter what, and you don't have to put too much into it. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:50.240 It's like it's like you're naturally just so gifted, and I think it'll help, like, you know. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:53.599 Has anyone approached you about doing a stand-up special yet? 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.039 Or is that something that you're actively working on? 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:55.920 That's what I'm working on. 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:57.039 Yeah, I'm working on that. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:12.400 I'm working, um, and I'm really just trying to get more stuff uh that's relatable, like we were talking about, like more relatable um content, and I have a lot, and I've been like really fine-tuning it, and so I feel like it it's it's very, very close. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:12.799 Yeah. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.359 Y'all been asking how can y'all support killing it? 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.880 Well, we got an answer for you. 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:17.519 We got one. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:18.319 Cash app. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:18.799 Boom. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:23.119 We are independently produced right now, and we're paying for this to give y'all a great show every week. 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:24.799 Y'all be asking about a Patreon. 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:26.559 You don't even have to, this ain't even much about it. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:28.480 Just go and put something in there right now. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:34.079 That's really unique because you would be able to keep up with the time frame of like the rhythm of the world. 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.920 So I I don't know what I was watching. 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:37.519 I've been SNL. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:39.519 I said what I said. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:41.359 The uh I think it was SNL. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:43.039 What did they use it? 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:43.759 Wait, that's a shot. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:45.200 That's a random shot at SNL. 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:46.079 It's about to be. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:52.799 It's about to be that their ratio for how often something is good on there is really low. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:59.279 But let me tell it, it's because rhythmically, somebody in that space is out of touch with the rhythm of the world now. 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.000 So like you were saying, like maybe some uh if somebody was. 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.839 Yeah, but I'm not talking about the the the what they're putting out. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:14.880 I'm talking the rhythm of like how they're writing it. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:19.680 Like like the jokes and the and the rhythm and the style of like the edit and the cut and how they're performing. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:20.640 I was like, this is off. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:24.160 This is like it's it's a it's a few years behind where we're at. 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:27.599 But like you were saying, if they came out, come down the hill, right? 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.640 Come get in touch with the world, you would see what the world's laughing at. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:39.680 Yeah, I I mean I definitely think it's more of a higher hierarchy thing where it's like, you know, I'm sure that they have banger sketches that just never see the light of day. 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:40.079 Right. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:40.559 Right. 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:45.839 And I think my only note for SNL, which who cares what I think. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.319 Yeah, shorten the sc the sketches. 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.240 They're five-minute long sketches. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:54.319 No matter how funny something is, it ain't funny for five minutes, right? 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:54.960 Right? 00:20:55.200 --> 00:21:00.079 So it's like, how many times can you mine that joke, that same beat, for five freaking minutes? 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:00.240 Yeah. 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:04.240 Two, three minutes tops, especially because our attention spans are this big now. 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:04.559 Yeah. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:06.480 So you hit us with like a two-minute sketch. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:18.400 I've no if you notice, like like guests that come on, they'll hit you with like a two, you know, like Shane Gillis would be funny as hell on there, uh, Keenan Thompson, uh uh, what's her uh Edo? 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:19.359 Is her name Edo? 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:20.400 Ego. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:21.519 Ego. 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:22.240 A bio. 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:23.279 On the bear. 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:24.160 On the bear. 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:24.480 Yes. 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:26.400 Yeah, Io, the digger bowl. 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:34.480 So we have way too many things to cover, but you just provided me because every time I see, every time I see David, this fucking bottle throwing ass nigga. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:40.240 Oh bro, this the he did a sketch about bottle throwing ass nigga. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.279 It was uh Oh yeah. 00:21:42.799 -->

00:21:44.319 Yeah, for what the it was for what the funny. 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:49.599 And I I hit you where every eight months and be like, nigga, I just wouldn't watch it again. 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:51.680 This got this gotta be at least 12 years ago. 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:53.599 And I was like, bro, this is the funny shit. 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:54.799 It's I I just go back to it. 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:56.480 So go watch bottle throwing ass nigga. 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:57.759 It is ridiculous. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:58.720 That was so much. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:02.960 So the guy who Who directed Scary Movie directed bottle throwing? 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:03.599 Oh, Mike Tyler. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:04.160 Say word. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.000 Yeah, so he he he and I we started doing sketches together. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:08.319 Yeah. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.920 Uncle Marlon saw the how he liked the sketches. 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:12.880 He was like, come on. 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:15.359 And then he now that's why he does like all his movies with. 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:15.759 Wow. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:20.960 See, I met Mike because me and him and A Fion did a uh Chris Brown parody and Mike directed it. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.440 That uh Mike is talented on his own. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.200 I'm not saying I created this dude. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.279 Um, but he worked with the family since White Chicks, I think. 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:34.079 He was like uh Rick Alvarez's assistant, but he's also very, very talented, you know. 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.160 Just great community comedian humorous speech. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:37.519 Uh I thought you knew he was going somewhere. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:44.960 What well I was gonna ask, when it comes to like producing stuff, uh, because I know you you you love sketch comedy, I love sketch comedy. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.680 Have you ever thought about I know you already shot your own shit, but I just want to talk about in general. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:58.799 Like, have you ever thought about uh like writing, producing your own films the same way Marlon did with a haunted house and Keenan did with I'm gonna get you sucker? 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:04.319 Is that anything like take your own money or get investors and do stuff, or is that something you're not interested in? 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.559 You know what's interesting is like I I write. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:07.759 I like to write a lot. 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:16.000 Uh I've written scripts, I've been close to green, like I sold a script with uh Jake Johnson, who I'm doing the the cable guy thing. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:16.480 Yeah. 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:17.680 Um cable guy. 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:18.640 Cable guy. 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:19.680 We'll get to that. 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:20.480 Yeah, we'll get to that. 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:20.880 Yeah, yeah. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:30.240 So I'm doing

the show with uh him um and we we sold it to Netflix, almost got greenlit, wound up like falling away because there's a regime change, you know. 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:39.279 Sometimes like somebody will buy your stuff, and then if they leave and somebody comes in, they're like, I didn't buy this, and they just so that's kind of what happened with us. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:42.160 Um I've written a bunch of scripts by myself. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:46.799 But I I I re I write too expensive. 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:47.519 I think. 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:50.720 And I think that that's kind of gonna be the adjustment from here on out. 00:23:50.880 --> 00:24:03.119 Is something that I could uh finance myself or I could like get a small amount of money together and and shoot instead of like, you know, I think I th you know, like you said, I think ridiculous. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:06.160 So but people should trust you because No, I know. 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:16.079 I mean nobody, nobody's gonna, especially these days, I think it's easier to prove yourself on a lower budget and then to go, what's the next thing? 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.640 It's like, well, this next one's gonna cost about 20, 30. 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:20.160 Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:34.480 Yeah, no, but I'm I'm I'm agreeing with you because I want to highlight this is a great time to talk lesbian cops because it's uh it's 17 on the budget, but hey, baby, 100 million plus on the on the on the turnaround. 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:45.119 So it's like And that came out when Mike Brown got shot, and they like they like were killing us on the reviews because they tied the Mike Brown thing to the movie. 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:47.200 It's like we shot this movie the year before. 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:54.640 We had nothing to do with Mike Brown, but because it was like about cops, they they they eviscerated us. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:25:04.000 Oh wow in the yeah, and then you know, people like kind of ignored it until they were like sneak to go see it, and it just had long legs, like um, like the obsession movie. 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:14.480 I mean, not quite as crazy as that, but it was like along the lines of like you know, it was a hundred million dollar plus uh you know gross on a$17 million budget. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:15.200 It was just crazy. 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:18.720 Where do you think your you've um your fan base has come from? 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:21.359 Probably mostly New Girl. 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.920 Like when I go do I'm gonna kill myself. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:27.759 When I go do this is I'm out of here. 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:34.480 No, when I go, like I do stand-up shows, um, you know, people come out. 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:44.319 Like I'll be like, like I'll say how many, you know, how many fans of different shows that I've done or movies I've done, and then I say new girl, and it's like the majority of the audience. 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:46.559 How long did that run? 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:48.000 Ten years. 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:49.839 I think they did seven seven seasons. 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:51.359 You should I hand you the knife? 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.160 I mean, please. 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:55.519 You know, I packed the rope in my backpack just in case. 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:02.640 I get so I'm only I was only on that show for like what two seasons plus the pilot. 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:08.160 Two seasons and the pilot, and I the the residuals I get still are crazy. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:08.640 Okay. 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:14.400 Now this is when I'm gonna be able to get it. 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:36.640 This isn't a question that I have because you do um, this is a memory. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.119 Okay. 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.160 Let's say it's two hundred people numbers. 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:41.279 Let me stop blind. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.720 Let's say there's a hundred people nomadies. 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.759 Like Yeah. 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:51.680 Anyways. 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:58.000 No, it it depends, because yeah, that's why I name multiple, like I've taken kind of like an assessment. 00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:58.319 Right. 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:08.400 And and New Girl is like the gift that keeps on giving because like audience-wise for stand-up is because like I'll have like really young people coming to my shows. 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:14.640 Um, which is interesting because it's like usually when you do stand-up, you notice that like your crowd ages with you. 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:14.880 Yeah. 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.759 And this one just keeps on, like, you know, you get again. 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:19.200 New white kids. 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.000 You know. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:20.480 Hold on. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.640 So so this is the question I wanted to get to. 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.240 You've done a lot of non-wains projects, right? 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.880 You're you're you're um from happy endings to new girls to some of the movies. 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:43.359 When you're doing a show like that, let's say a new girl or happy endings, is it do you ever feel the need to have them hire black writers, or is that something that you never think about? 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:48.079 It was something I didn't think about because I'm my own black writer. 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:48.799 Got it. 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.400 You know, and then and then usually just defer to me. 00:27:52.720 --> 00:28:06.640 Um because, you know, one, I was spoiled because Happy Endings had great writers, so I didn't even feel like I had to uh like they were very aware of everything um, you know, when it came to like black culture. 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:13.359 Uh same with New Girl, and and they were very kind of sensitive to my needs, sensitive to my improv. 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:17.680 So they would just let

me, and then a lot of my stuff would make it uh into the show. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.119 So I was like, oh, they trust me. 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.240 I trust them. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:24.160 So it was like more, it was more so um a trust thing. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:28.480 Uh I I I didn't know that you could request things like that. 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:30.640 I don't I don't think that they cared back then. 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:35.759 You'd be like, yo, I feel a little more comfortable if there were more black people uh in the writers' room. 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:39.200 They'd be like, so nigga, you're one nigga. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:40.160 You know what I mean? 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:44.720 So like they they they they service you know their people first, which is fine. 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:53.039 Um We got biracial Beverly and then and um also Prentice Penny was in the Happy Endings writers room. 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:55.680 He was in what he was a writer on Happy Endings. 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.079 Oh, yeah. 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:58.880 So that's how I knew I knew Prentice from way back. 00:28:59.039 --> 00:28:59.200 Yeah. 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:01.440 Before before every everything. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:02.960 Uh shout out to Prentice, by the way. 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:04.559 Yeah, what's the Did I answer that question? 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:04.720 Yeah. 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:05.839 Okay, cool. 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:08.319 What's uh what is your You won't get canceled. 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:08.960 Yeah, okay. 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:15.920 Well I'm not I'm not trying to What's the difference on your approach for single cam versus multi? 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:16.880 My approach? 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:17.599 Uh-huh. 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:19.759 I don't know, man. 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:32.880 I I feel like single cam is almost like doing a little movie every week, and multicam is kind of like multicam is like doing a play almost, you know, because it'll have like the live audience. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:39.839 We we had a live audience for like the first four episodes of Papa's House, but then my dad was like, I don't like it. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:43.359 Because he wanted to leave early, you know. 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:44.319 Oh, that's hilarious. 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:44.640 Yeah, yeah. 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:46.160 I like the good boys, yeah. 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:56.799 He'll shoot, he'll shoot his uh we'll shoot the the episode maybe on the Thursday and then finish it up on Friday like morning, and so he gets to go home almost all the Friday to ourselves. 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.880 But if we had to do the the live taping, that's at like six. 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.079 Oh yeah. 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.640 What was that like um growing up in the house, man? 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:19.200 With because again, yeah, I think it's hard sometimes for the audience to really understand when you look at

some when you look at when we look at these stars on TV, we're looking at how we think we know them as. 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:19.359 Right. 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:27.519 Tell them, but what is it like growing up in the household where, you know, you y'all sharing the same spoons and plates and you know how what is that like? 00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:32.559 It was interesting, you know, uh, because I it was all I knew, you know. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:39.119 It's like I'm a little kid coming out like I was a kid when they were like, you know, going to the top. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:42.240 Like in Living Color, I think I was like eight. 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:43.759 Oh wow something like that. 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:51.759 So I'm you know, seeing how the world is responding to them, like they're signing autographs, it's hard to go to Disneyland. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.240 Um, so it was just kind of annoying to me. 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.200 Except in the house. 00:30:55.279 --> 00:31:00.319 In the house, everybody was always funny, everybody was always at each other's houses, it was always so much love. 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:06.400 So I, you know, I I liked it, but it definitely was like there was an adjustment period to it. 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:14.240 Also, people think because my dad is like, you know, a comedian that he was just this like funny, fun dad. 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:23.039 He was not this nigga was yes, he did that movie, he came back, he stayed in character for the rest of my childhood. 00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:24.240 That's hilarious. 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.079 This nigga was terrible. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.519 I want you to talk about it because I know you used to live next door to Michael Jordan. 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:32.559 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:34.559 Well, for the for for a summer. 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.279 You have any like memories and memorable stories? 00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:39.519 He used to come over to the house. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:44.960 So he shot Space Jam that year, and so he moved into the house next door to us. 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:52.480 And I remember us when when so my dad and his brothers are super Jordan fans. 00:31:52.720 --> 00:32:05.519 So when Jordan was moving in, they were they literally sneaking on their bellies, like doing like army crawls to the window just to watch Jordan move his stuff in. 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:05.920 Right. 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.279 And I remember him like, is that like so they're like all looking through the window? 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:10.720 It's like big ass window, too. 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:20.160 They're all there on their bellies, and then Jordan's like walking, and he turns and looks at them, and they're like, oh, and then they're like big back, they're hiding under the piano. 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:21.279 It was so funny. 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.880 And then he came over and then he kicked it, man, and he could do whatever he wanted. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.599 He could smoke cigars in our in the in the house. 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:29.839 I was like, my dad would never let nobody smoke. 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:31.279 He was like, No. 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:33.759 I was like, Dad, I remember going, Daddy, you let him smoke? 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.079 He's like, he's like, I let anybody smoke here. 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.000 I was like, no, you don't, dad. 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:40.480 You eat all my fruit snacks. 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:43.839 Yeah, I was like, go home, Michael Jordan. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:45.279 Michael Jordan. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.640 He didn't want to be home because his wife was home and she had she was stunned. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:50.640 He had an attitude at the time. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.279 I'm not sure. 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:54.400 Yeah, he might, yeah, he might have just got caught doing something. 00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:55.680 She was not. 00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:56.960 I was like, huh, Miss Jordan. 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:57.839 She was like, ha ha ha ha. 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:35.200 What uh uh having what did uh martial arts like the training because I know your training was intense, what did that teach you as far as like how do you apply it to stand-up and or just like your career discipline and choices? 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:41.200 Uh I don't know if I apply it to stand-up, but I definitely maybe I do in a way. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:43.920 Um you know, just like spatial awareness. 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:45.680 I'm pretty physical on stage. 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:51.039 That's also something that I would love to talk about with you guys uh stand-up wise. 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.960 But uh so to answer your question, martial arts has always been like near and dear to me. 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:58.160 I was obsessed with like all martial art movies, you know what I mean? 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.160 I'm like A Fion, or it's just like I saw it and it was just like this is what I want to do. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:06.079 So I wanted to do animation and I wanted to do martial arts for a living. 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:11.760 And I never wound up, you know, really getting to utilize it, but me and you and A Fion, we gotta do a martial arts project. 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:13.119 It's so much fun, man. 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.599 It's just just like something like self-generated. 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.559 Yeah, we go ahead and Batch showed me this video he did. 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:22.719 It was just like him and like he had like a uh choreographer. 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.679 It looks so good. 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:25.760 Uh and he did it like with his own money and stuff. 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.440 Oh yeah, uh I was I was in that demo. 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:28.079 Oh, you was in that? 00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:28.400 Yeah, yeah. 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:32.800 Where he's like a uh like a CIA

stepfighter in the suit and the exposure, yeah. 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:34.960 Yeah, like we just need to do something like that. 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:36.480 I didn't do the karate, I was in the tech. 00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:37.199 We gotta see that. 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:40.480 Um but we don't have that in the culture, but yeah, go. 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:41.599 I I would I fully agree. 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:47.679 I mean, Michael Jai White is like our only dude, and he's fantastic, but it's like it's just him by himself. 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:48.079 Right. 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:53.519 There's a bunch of people that know how to do martial arts, um, and we just don't really get that opportunity to. 00:34:53.599 --> 00:35:07.519 That's why I think it's so cool that um, you know, obsession is doing its thing, uh, back room's doing this thing, because it's kind of showing people like there's this other uh demographic that's not being serviced, obviously. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:14.320 Because people keep coming out to see these movies and and and it and they're killing on a on a low budget. 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.280 So I'm like really into like the lower budget kind of um of it all, right? 00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:20.239 Did he answer your question? 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:21.119 Yeah, did I answer your question? 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:21.840 No, yeah. 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.840 Um you do martial arts too? 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:25.760 No, I I know I know Justin is. 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:28.159 I just would uh You did what, Kenpo? 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:28.400 No? 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:29.519 I did the regular karate. 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.079 Oh, karate? 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.639 I did, I mean I did Taekwondo Black Bell. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:38.000 I did Taekwondo and Muay Thai and uh Kali, which is like a Filipino martial art. 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.639 And and BJ and BJJ. 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.519 Yeah, I did uh I did Krav, but not for like super long time. 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.320 Oh, Krav is dope. 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:44.639 Yeah, yeah. 00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.360 I did Kraft Krav is effective in real life. 00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:54.719 I like doing the the things that are like I remember doing Taekwondo and I got to like Blue Belt, I think. 00:35:55.039 --> 00:36:02.559 And all those belts are different because uh you you you like so I got to Blue Belt and I was just like, ain't nobody I'm not winning a fight doing this. 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:02.719 Right. 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:03.280 You know what I mean? 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:05.280 Against somebody who knows how to fight. 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.079 Um and so I was just like, what's what's better? 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:09.760 And so I did Muay Thai. 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:14.239 Muay Thai is like that's a very effective in a in in real life situation. 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:19.440 What what you meant by the um the space you say you wanted to talk to

us about spatial awareness on stage? 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:23.199 Oh no, I wanted to talk to you about physicality on stage, right? 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:26.480 Because I know you're a very physical comedian, I'm a physical comedian. 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:32.480 Um so I was like, uh is that a thing of the past in a way? 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:43.440 Like, is doing physical comedy, because I watch on you know Instagram and stuff like that, um and I and I see it's mostly talking heads, people are kind of stationary doing their bits. 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:57.519 I know it's probably better for the camera where they're just not moving, but it's like when I see a physical comedian, I you know, that I love that, you know, like Tony Roberts, um Pablo, Pablo Francisco, yeah. 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:04.159 Like these guys who like I grew up watching and it's just like this is how I want to do comedy. 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:09.280 I wonder if like is that has that aged out? 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:15.360 Like is is the new thing just kind of being not stationary, but like not like acting, not doing act outs. 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:16.239 I think okay. 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.440 Well, I was gonna say I don't think it has. 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:23.920 I think when people see us, like I'll I'll let's say I close out a show. 00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:31.119 Right, I automatically stand out because they're like, you had a certain level of energy, you was doing act outs. 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:36.239 So I feel like when people see it, it they they kind of like blown away by it. 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:37.440 If if you're good at it. 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:37.840 Right. 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.159 So I do think people may not do it. 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:40.960 A lot of people can't do it. 00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:42.079 It's like impersonations. 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:42.639 That's what it is. 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:43.760 A lot of people can't do it, right? 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:44.079 Right. 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.800 So it's like, you know, London can do a personation. 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:48.320 We can all do a personation to a degree. 00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:48.480 Yeah. 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:48.960 You know what I'm saying? 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:50.079 We all London is. 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:50.480 Yeah. 00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:51.440 No, but that's next. 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:52.480 But I totally agree. 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:57.360 And I I it took I remember like early on, shout out to Ans Mitchell, and I think it was a couple other cases. 00:37:58.079 --> 00:37:59.119 Ans Mitchell, man. 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:03.199 Um I think I used to, at one point, I had really got away from it. 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:06.239 Yelling at somebody. 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:07.679 Always, always yelling. 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:09.280 Always yelling at somebody. 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.039 And he always coming in the room and when he's in mid-yell, too. 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.599 Hey, brother, now you're grassing. 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:16.079 I heard you. 00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:17.360 Oh, no, the comedy giving you. 00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:32.239 You know, early on, I used to, uh, I did find there was a period where I was shying away from doing voices because I was hearing like the negative feedback from comics, kind of in that space of like, you know, had just side talking. 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:37.840 So but what I realized is that it's one of those things where, yeah, everybody can't do that. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:49.920 So I think like whatever you got in your bag, you know, some people physically don't, like you said, some cats, you come from there, you wouldn't know that some cats don't even have no self-stage awareness. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.519 So they they all they know, some of it's out of fear, they've been locked in. 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:53.679 Right. 00:38:54.079 --> 00:39:04.719 I think the other thing about it too is just like every every so every every so often there in the new season of It's well in our culture, there's the black guy. 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:25.760 And so I think when Chappelle starts getting it to the stand and just the so and of course he's we gotta think he we got 30 plus some years, super poised, relaxed, and even how he speaks is different, you know, and but and then I also heard that you know as cats get older, the energy starts to change, so you may not be moving around as much because now you're just kind of older. 00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:26.559 That's a fact. 00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:28.400 Yeah, I don't move around as much, right? 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:30.639 You know, but I still act out the physical as well. 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:31.920 I wonder how Arn SJ. 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:33.599 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:35.599 Vagflips and all this shit. 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:37.679 All of them are on the pillars of the yeah. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:44.239 I think that we're we're we're in a um uh a resurgence of stand-up in its essence, right? 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:51.280 So it's like side note, I do agree with you about uh them uh people mimicking whoever's the biggest, right? 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.519 And so Chappelle is the is the biggest, so people are gonna be more you know. 00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:01.679 Because even for a while, Kevin's cadence was running the comedy for a while. 00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:05.119 And if you go back to the 90s, you can hear uh you can hear Martin. 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:05.920 What's his name? 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.639 Um uh Robin's uh Robin Harris Robin Harris. 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.440 Even that that kind of Rose Quick style that he had going on. 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:14.800 Yeah, so that's DLC. 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:15.519 Right. 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:17.440 That's uh that's uh I think Joe was in there. 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:18.239 What's his name? 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:20.639

Now you see all the comedians do the hand behind the back. 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:21.920 Nate Bargassy. 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:22.480 Nate. 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:24.480 I also see a lot of Shane Gillis's. 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:24.960 Me too. 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:25.679 But the Mike White. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.760 Yeah, it's like you know what I mean? 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:29.679 You're just like, okay, I see. 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:33.199 Hey, you see, remember back in the day, uh black people were cooked, right? 00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:37.519 Dan Cook, everybody, all the the white guys were doing the Dan Cook stuff. 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:37.679 Yeah. 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:43.599 Um, what was your No, so I was saying that there I feel like there's like a resurgence of like not resurgence of stand-up. 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.840 There's a new audience coming into stand-up, right? 00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:51.519 And stand-up had to take a step back for whatever cancellation or whatever energy that was, right? 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.039 So now we're re-watching it and it's like it's healing itself. 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:58.480 So all the initial pillars are like re-establishing themselves. 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:02.239 Storytelling's back at the forefront, crowd works at the forefront. 00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:04.239 It's like all these things that used to be mixed in. 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.280 Like, if you were a good stand-up, you probably kind of did all of these things. 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.239 It's like they're just kind of shining because this audience never seen it. 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:11.679 It's like, what is he doing? 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:12.320 He's talking to us. 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:13.119 Very interesting. 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:14.320 He's like, oh, what is he doing? 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:15.440 Ali's different. 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.280 It's like, it's like all these different essences. 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:19.360 And I feel like physical comedy is gonna be the same way, isn't it? 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:20.079 I agree. 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:21.039 I I agree. 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:27.280 I was just, it's from me seeing nothing but crowd work like that's in my algorithm now. 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:27.440 Right. 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:27.920 You know what I mean? 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:28.880 It's like I'm seeing all crowd. 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:32.239 I'm like, is this what everybody wants now? 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:40.400 You know, or programmed to to want as opposed to, and then I'll see like physical comedians like pop out, like uh Fihim Oir, very funny dude. 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:44.400 I follow him, sometimes I'll see his videos, and he's very physical. 00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:44.719 Yeah. 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:47.039 So it's like, and that's very funny, you know. 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:48.480 So it's so it is there. 00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:50.000 It's like you said, it is there. 00:41:50.320 --> 00:42:06.320 I also wanted to uh ask you, well, if I go for this is a weird uh uh thought, and I don't know if you guys ever thought about this, but how what is so you see comedians that release uh stand-up specials, right? 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.360 And some of them kill, some of them don't. 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:11.440 What is that secret sauce? 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:16.639 Because you'll see a comedian who you've seen live destroy, right? 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:25.440 There's like an experience that you're just like, wow, that was phenomenal, and then you'll see their special and it doesn't translate to through the camera. 00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:33.840 And I'm my question is what is the secret sauce that allows that experience to translate through that medium? 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:36.800 I got it I I gotta I gotta go ahead. 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:57.840 My my two things is one is the audio, the literally like the micing the audience because sometimes I've seen people specials and they could be killing, but the they didn't mic the audience properly, and so you're not hearing the laugh, so the energy is making you feel like it's not even as funny as it is in the room. 00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:05.039 That's number one, that's just like on a technical number two is I think it ultimately comes down to the material. 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:15.599 If your material is strong enough, it will translate through the TV screen, and that goes to relatability, that goes to how clever it is. 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:18.960 Um I I just feel like it translates. 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:21.360 And I think it comes down to the material ultimately. 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:35.840 I agree, you know, because you you have like uh like Cat Williams' first two specials for me were f it it felt like I was in the audience with with them while he was doing like the the his first is Pimpin' Pimpin'. 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:37.119 Or is that his first one? 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:38.079 You're Cat Williams, man. 00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:39.920 No, I can't bring it anymore. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:40.719 I can't do it anymore. 00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:42.239 I haven't done it in so long. 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:42.800 Oh, really? 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:43.199 Oh, all right. 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:44.480 This this Cat Williams is incredible. 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:47.840 Yeah, it w I don't know if it was great back, by the way. 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:48.400 Like I can't. 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:49.840 Cat Williams was incredible. 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:55.840 Well, at the time, because you know he talks, you know, as these comedians get older, their voices get deeper and deeper. 00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:59.679 Like Dave's voice got so deep, also his two first two specials. 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:00.880 Phenomenal. 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.440 Yeah, right. 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:02.800 We don't ever talk about those anymore. 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:06.239 Patrice O'Neill,

his first right? 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:07.840 So it's like, what is that? 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:13.039 And I don't want to name the comedians that didn't translate because uh they're very funny to me. 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:16.880 Um but but yeah, it's like it's like what is the difference? 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:22.719 Because they'll even have really funny material, and then you'll be like, and then you watch the special, you're like, huh. 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:23.280 You know? 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:32.559 I mean, on what Justin said, one thing I think is the art that technical thing about the audio is when the audience is mic the right way, it's the immersiveness of what's happening. 00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:37.199 Um, not for nothing, on also on a technical, is mic in the room the right way. 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:52.559 I've been to way too many tapings where they will try to convince me that when you know and you're in the room and you can't I you can't hear the tags, and you can't hear the nuances of the voice, and like, oh yeah, but it'll be great on camera. 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:55.360 I don't give a fuck about the camera, my boy. 00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:59.599 Like, and I mean I've showed up to professional tapings and I've gone to the director. 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:00.559 I said, this don't sound right. 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:02.000 I said you can't hear it in the here. 00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:04.800 I heard ABC D, but I ain't EFG. 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:06.480 Like you can't hear it. 00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.280 When I slap the mic, you should hear the slap. 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:09.440 Right. 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:11.760 And you can't hear it in the room, so now the reaction's different. 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:16.079 I told Marlon, he didn't like the note, but I told Marlon, I seen him, and he was slapping the mic. 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:18.480 Yeah, and I was like, nigga, that's Chappelle. 00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:24.000 I was like, I don't want to see you doing it because it's putting me in the mindset of Chappelle. 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:26.000 I I only want to think of Marlin. 00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:26.320 Yes. 00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:26.800 You know. 00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:29.119 You talking about the slap on the lap. 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:30.559 He used to get the sound of it. 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:31.599 Yeah, yeah, the slap on the laptop. 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.280 I'm talking like you doing a joke and somebody knocking at the door, you go, you can't hear the knock at the door. 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.559 It's like it's all everything's muffled and and and clunky. 00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:41.199 That's absolutely. 00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:47.360 But but even more importantly, or to add, or not even more importantly, but to add on, is the through line. 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.159 I think that when you're watching an hour long of somebody, you got to keep my attention. 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:53.599 I don't give a damn what the jokes is. 00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:54.000 Right. 00:45:54.159 --> 00:46:02.400 If I'm not in tune with what we're talking about, and there's no flow of a through line that like has a consistency throughout this, you're gonna lose me. 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:02.880 Really? 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:09.920 So I'm like through line as in like what the special is about. 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:14.960 Does it have to be like, so if my special is about my family, does the whole special have to be about my family? 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.159 Is that what you mean by through line? 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:27.920 Not exactly, but like, so let's say you do bits at the top that are whatever, and then it's like, yeah, but this two things I I think make a special like shine. 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:34.079 Catchphrases, not sp not I I hate, I always go check it up quick, quack. 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:35.119 Hamburger. 00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:35.840 Yeah, hamburger. 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:41.840 Not something not that specific, but like Kevin's callbacks are great. 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.639 You everybody remember uh you're gonna learn the day. 00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.679 You're gonna learn the day. 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:46.559 All right, all right. 00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:47.760 Yeah, sandwich your chest. 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.519 You have two or three of those that are like fully flushed. 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:52.719 And they gotta be in good bits. 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:54.400 It can't be like just for the sake of us. 00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.320 And then that through line of like, no, I've set up my mom, I've set up my, what's it? 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.840 Like, let's say you're doing the act outs and you got this world and you're creating these characters. 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:09.119 It's like, boom, okay, like, or even like with you, Leon, it's like, all right, here's the guy that be at the store. 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.199 And then this is this is Didzel meeting the dude at the store. 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:22.639 It's like that kind of shit, I feel like, artistically translate on, because at the end of the day, I'm not at a stand-up show, I'm at the house watcher TV, or I'm in a theater. 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:23.519 That's very interesting. 00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:25.920 So there's like the storytelling elements of it, right? 00:47:26.079 --> 00:47:27.280 I feel like are vitally important. 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:33.280 So like Mike Epp's last special, I thought is kind of reflecting what you're saying. 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:38.719 Because he came out, he usually did Mike is super funny, just naturally super funny. 00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:45.039 But I felt like this one stood out to me because halfway through he got really vulnerable, like he started talking about his journey. 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.679 So that was like the first time I learned about Mike. 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:47.840 Right. 00:47:48.159 --> 00:47:55.199 Because

usually he does like really funny characters, it'd be like the nigga with all the keys, you know, like, which is super funny. 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:55.440 Right. 00:47:55.599 --> 00:48:07.599 And he'll it'll be like a bit, but then he got like halfway through, like he let you know I'm funny as hell for the first 20, 30 minutes, and then the last 20-30 is just like phenomenal, like you said, storytelling. 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:07.840 Right. 00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:18.000 Because it'll be, it'll be let's say that the through line is good, but the rest of the stuff is not, then it will still shine, and we'll just be like, oh, it felt like a one-man special. 00:48:18.239 --> 00:48:24.559 Like, like Jamie's last special wasn't like punch, punch, punch, punchy, right, but we was all it, it was very, it was captivating. 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:25.119 Right. 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:36.559 And sometimes like those little button of verbiage, like, that has like a uh I I love black people, but I hate niggas. 00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:37.039 Right. 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.079 It's like it's like that ain't really a punchy thing, it's just like something that's stick to your gut. 00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:43.280 It's like mashed potatoes. 00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:54.320 It's like it's it's but it's also like relatability, because it's like you before he even he before he even tells the bit, yeah, black people already know what he's talking about. 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:54.719 Exactly. 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:55.360 You know what I mean? 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:57.360 So it's just like now it's just the cherry on top. 00:48:57.440 --> 00:48:58.880 I'm gonna laugh at that premise. 00:48:59.199 --> 00:48:59.360 Yeah. 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.960 And then I'm gonna go on on this journey with you after that. 00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:17.920 I think uh yeah, I mean, I I I just think it's I was really trying to figure out, like I was watching different specials, trying to figure out like what is making this resonate with me, or not even resonate with me, what is making me continue to watch this all the way through. 00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:25.199 You know, because I'll, you know, certain specials, people who I'm huge fans of, I'll pause it halfway through and be like, I'll watch the rest later. 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.239 And you never go back to it. 00:49:26.639 --> 00:49:27.440 You never go back to it. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:36.400 But it's it's uh, you know, I I think also a little element to it is like you can feel the the hunger in the comedian. 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:36.800 Yes. 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:44.400 Like that's why I really like the first specials of all these comedians, like uh Kevin Hart, his first uh two specials, was it two or three? 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:49.039 Seriously funny and the the the one where he was the one where he was like mm, gabba gabba, mm gabba, gabba juice. 00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:57.119 Like I think about that all the time, like jokes where I can think about the special, even if I haven't seen it in ten plus years. 00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:58.559 It happened in Wilson too, though. 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:00.159 That that happens in a lot of different art forms. 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:01.199 It happens like music too. 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:01.440 Yeah. 00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:11.119 Like they first like that first MM album, the second, it's like you get all that life out, and then you almost need a life experience to then to reset it. 00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:11.440 True. 00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:15.440 But like if you look at something like Raw, it's a lot of relationship stuff on the back end. 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:16.639 It's not all relationships. 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:17.039 True. 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.639 But once he's talking about relationships, oh, this is Eddie's perspective on relationships. 00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:20.880 Yeah. 00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.639 You know, he made all the shit up. 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:24.079 I don't know if he really dated an African. 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:25.039 I know we work for it. 00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:29.039 I think sometimes too, it depends on, I guess, what type of special. 00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:35.360 Because sometimes I think the audience, like how they're how are they choosing this audience? 00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:41.679 Uh, you know, I remember when Tony Rock was telling us how when he shot his special, it wasn't necessarily his audience audience. 00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:44.000 It was like there's a show tonight. 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:53.760 It's a special as opposed to when you go back and you watch like a Steve Harvey or a Chris Rock special from the 90s, they bought tickets to see that dude. 00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:58.400 That they want to see Steve Harvey from Me and the Boys and whatever show he was on. 00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:12.559 You could tell, because it's it even with the it's nice because what happens is I think a lot of times when when Cats put out them specials after they've been really working that their audience and they've been, the audience's been coming out to see him, right? 00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:20.719 That audience really becomes all your they become like the same way your boys laugh at you at the crib, like the laughs is like. 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:21.119 Right. 00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:24.000 It's not, it's no, it ain't even no judgment. 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:25.440 It's almost like they know you. 00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:31.599 They know you're especially when you're famous, because now if you mention anybody famous, they think that, oh man, you might run into them. 00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:31.760 Right. 00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:32.400 You know what I mean? 00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:34.800 It's like you got the inside trap, right? 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:38.639 But again, especially in you can tell the audience. 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:47.840 That's one thing I don't like about some of the tapings they do in LA

when it comes to these shows, is the audience now has bec has gone to a place where they feel like they are the show. 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:53.599 So they come out and they got on the they got on the stilettos and all the stuff, and they they here to be entertained. 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:58.320 I'm like, yo, I thought, as opposed to like when you watch Def Jam, they we got some tickets. 00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:59.119 You want to show up? 00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:07.199 They put him off the subway, that one off the stoop, right, and they just like and you remember in a lot of these chats we hadn't seen before Def Jam. 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:17.119 So that audience, I think, was one of the purest of just enjoying comedy, and but then also got being politically correct now, and I think all of that stuff has changed the way we see specials. 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:17.679 I agree. 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:29.920 I also think uh to I also think that black audiences, when they like you, they embrace you on a familial level, like a family level. 00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.159 Like it's like that's our guy. 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:38.320 And I think a lot of that helps propel these comedians that are genuinely funny to that next level. 00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:39.199 You know what I mean? 00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:48.239 And um I I I think that and then it's just like the difference between a white audience and a black audience, right? 00:52:48.320 --> 00:53:02.400 Like I feel like black audiences they like you to talk about kind of um what like they like to be like black people do this, like they like to relate, right, you know, like with your material. 00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:06.800 Uh com uh white audiences are more like they'll let you be experimental. 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.199 They'll they'll sit there and watch it like a like a show. 00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:10.559 They're like, oh yeah. 00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:11.920 Look at that, look at them. 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:14.880 I've noticed you need to I understand that. 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:27.360 You need a certain percent of you don't need, but I've always felt I translate better if there's a certain percentage of others there with black people, yeah, because then black people allow me to be goofy. 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:29.280 Yes, they'll allow me to be silly. 00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:34.000 I don't have to be as relatable, they'll let me be a little more off the wall and talk about something a little more obscure. 00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:39.199 Although I will say this black audience has become more goofy, yeah. 00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:39.920 Off the wall. 00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:45.199 Like they're more open to kind of like the unconventional comedy of it all, too. 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.000 I want to ask about um cable guy. 00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:49.679 The TV series. 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:50.079 Yeah. 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:51.440 It's already picked up, right? 00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:52.159 No, no, no.

00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:52.880 We're doing the pilot. 00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:57.920 Oh, yeah, so yeah, the pilot If it if the pilot's good, then they'll they'll pick it up. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.199 Yeah, so we're shooting the pilot in Jul end of July. 00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:01.679 Okay. 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:04.639 Um, it's we're really just using that IP. 00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:07.360 It's not uh the show is completely different. 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:08.800 Uh the characters are different. 00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:13.360 I'm not I'm not playing uh any of the the character from the movie, neither is Jake. 00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:13.840 Oh, okay. 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:15.280 Like these are two different characters. 00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:25.519 It was uh the the writers, they wrote out like you know, five, six pages of of pitch, and then we would interject every once in a while just to be funny, and that was it. 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:32.159 Like we we we did not have um a lot of uh work to do on that pitch. 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:43.039 It was just us kind of sitting there being little the the the little pieces like oh and we have the actors with us, and then we just were funny and and bantered with the people and John Hurtwitz, I said Mitch Hurtwitz. 00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:51.920 We pitched, we got uh offers from from multiple uh people, and then we just went with whoever gave us the most creative license and uh you know the best deal. 00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:53.760 That's a great uh segue. 00:54:54.079 --> 00:55:06.960 What do you uh wish or bel uh what do you believe that the studios need to understand to make comedy have its best shot to be the best uh possible version of itself? 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:32.000 Oh I think just like stop micromanaging, you know, stop uh stop uh being beholden to these algorithms, like what works, and because I feel like it's like everybody's just answering to this to AI at this point, where they're just like crunching numbers and what happened was they kicked everybody out who was also a creative from like these executive spots. 00:55:32.239 --> 00:55:37.280 So everybody else is just kind of like a robot, just like they're just crunching numbers, seeing what's gonna turn a profit. 00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:43.840 That's why I really I really like what's happening in the movie sphere, the TV sphere, right? 00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:48.000 Movies, it's like people got superhero fatigue. 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:50.159 Like people sick of watching superheroes. 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:53.119 I mean, we'll watch it, but it's not like how it used to be. 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:57.280 We you know, like we we sick of seeing w white folks save the day. 00:55:57.440 --> 00:55:57.679 Right. 00:55:57.920 --> 00:55:59.599 You know, because they don't do it in real life. 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:00.159 Right. 00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:14.079 But um, you know, now it's like giving an opportunity to, you know, the obsessions, to all these

different, these different kind of it's it almost feels like the early 2000s, the nineties again. 00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.880 That's why 24 uh what is it 24 Jump Street? 00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:17.199 Mm-hmm. 00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:20.719 Greenlit just right after a scary movie came out. 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:27.360 It's like, oh, there's uh there's uh an appetite for watching comedies in theaters, you know. 00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:33.920 So it's like and and and you know, I like uh there's a show on Apple TV called Widow's Bay. 00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:34.960 Have you guys seen any of that? 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:35.760 I haven't seen it. 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:37.119 I heard very funny show. 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:41.199 Very like, it's a weird uh tone because it's horror. 00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:45.679 It's not even like horror, it's like thriller, like scary, but it's funny the whole way through. 00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:46.480 Oh, I would watch it. 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:53.360 So it's like I like that people are experimenting now, that they're they're going back to kind of like seeing what works. 00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:53.840 Yeah. 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:59.679 As opposed to going, uh, we can only do superhero movies, or we can only do, you know, vampire movies, or only do zon. 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:03.119 It's like there's a bunch of different things to be seen. 00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:03.519 Yeah. 00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:11.039 And and I I just really like the idea that there's being a resurgence uh with every on everything, on every level. 00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:27.920 I got I got a one last question, I think, which is what's the biggest lesson that you've learned in the entertainment industry, and or a piece of advice that one of your uncles or auntie gave you that you realized was true. 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:30.079 Oh, shoot, man. 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:33.599 That's can you repeat the question? 00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:36.559 I know I'm sorry, everyone. 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:38.239 And this is why I didn't book New Girl. 00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:42.719 No, no, it was just a it was a long moment. 00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:48.000 So basically, like what what's something that you've learned in this business? 00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:59.840 Like, what's a what's something that you've experienced, you know, whether it was a failure or or just something that you kind of learned through your years of being in the entertainment industry that you could share? 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:05.519 Um, I think to have multiple plates spinning is essential, right? 00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:19.679 I feel like as a as an actor, like we all are, um, as stand-up comedians, we have to make sure that we're feeding all of our beasts, you know, especially because sometimes the acting ain't working out, so you do the stand-up, right? 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.320 And then sometimes the stand-up ain't working out, so you do the writing. 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:31.360 So it's like

I feel like being a multi-hyphenate is essential for survival, not only you know, financial survival, but like emotional and mental, right? 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:38.639 Because you don't want to just be sitting around waiting for the call, waiting for somebody to be like, oh, come come be in my show or come be in my movie. 00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:40.239 Because it don't be like that a lot of the times. 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:40.400 Right. 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:41.679 You know, you have to self-generate. 00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:42.639 Like you know that. 00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:43.920 You everybody knows that. 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:49.679 Um, so I think that I learned that from my family for sure, being like self-generating. 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:55.360 I also learned some things like that I wouldn't necessarily do from my family. 00:58:55.519 --> 00:59:05.519 Like I think that if I were in charge of the Wayne's brand, like if it was my if I was like Marlon and Sean and all them, I would be more of an umbrella company, right? 00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:16.719 So I would do I would definitely do my own stuff, like the scary movies, like the white chicks, but I would also find like other people that are writing good stuff and slap my name on it, produce it. 00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:18.400 Like I think Adam Sandler does that. 00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:23.280 Bunch of other company, bunch of other really big comedic talents do that. 00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:36.000 So it's like not only am I gonna be creating my own stuff, but I'm gonna have all these other people kind of orbiting um my company, and and they're gonna build great stuff, and I'm gonna be like, I'm gonna take credit for that. 00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:40.480 Yeah, and you get a percentage, you get a percentage, you also you expand, right? 00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:47.760 And it's like not only just your voice, you don't have to put in that much work, you don't have to sit there, write the whole thing, be in the whole thing. 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:54.719 You can just you can get the money, but you can also you know get the acclaim and it and it just build your brand. 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:56.239 You know, I think what's his name? 00:59:56.400 --> 00:59:58.719 Um uh what's his name? 00:59:58.880 --> 00:59:59.440 Tyler Perry. 00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:00.239 Oh, Tyler Perry. 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:08.079 Tyler Perry should do that too, because he's so big, it's like you need to bring other, and it doesn't even have to be, you know, comedy. 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:11.519 It can be horror, it could be drama, sci-fi. 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:16.079 Like there's so many other, you know, find a creative that you believe in. 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:22.400 That you believe in and help help them out in the places that they can't be helped out, step back, let them do their thing, give them give them delivery days. 01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:42.480 Because there's an appetite for, and it's like, you know, sometimes it's you know, that's what I would love for my family to do is is that and also like uh you know, expand beyond just parody, you know, because they're they they do their parody thing very well, but it's also like you guys also do white chicks, you guys also do original ideas really well. 01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:48.559 So money captivate, you know, you know, captivate, capitalize on that funny. 01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:56.480 There's a clip of me right now uh referencing Mo Money that they literally before I got here, uh-uh, I was like, Keith Hennaning. 01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:01.119 Literally, I did that on saying that I was like, that's a Mo Money shout-out kick. 01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:02.880 Like, like literally Mo Money. 01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:04.000 Right right before I got here. 01:01:04.079 --> 01:01:05.440 That was a good uh soundtrack. 01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:06.079 That was a good one. 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:07.039 Amazing soundtrack. 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:08.000 That was back when that came. 01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:10.719 You see, it's one of the ones. 01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:12.159 I love that movie. 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:19.199 Stacey Dash, when she acted like she liked black men, so many historical moments in that. 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:21.679 I feel like she liked black men at a at a time. 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:22.639 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:24.400 Yeah, when it when it was beneficial. 01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:24.960 Right, right. 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:30.000 Dude, you seem um you seem mature as far as in moving around this game. 01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:41.199 Because sometimes, man, people get get in this, and um sometimes I meet regular, you know, when I say regular, I mean just people who aren't in it, aren't in entertainment, and they'll say, man, people in Hollywood are so weird and all of this stuff. 01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:43.920 But I think a lot of times people are that before they got there. 01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:52.880 Um But I will say to you, what do you feel um was a part of you you had to lose in order to like grow up and really like dial in? 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:59.039 Me, um I feel like I've always just kind of been a a chill person. 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:03.519 Like I I never really um I also had I had kids really young. 01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:06.079 You know, I had four kids by the time I was 24. 01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:06.880 Oh wow. 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.760 So I just had to always lock in and make sure that I'm providing for these people. 01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:14.079 So it was never really about me. 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:19.679 It was also it was more so about like making sure my family was good, my kids were good. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.960 So I I never I never really could prioritize my myself in that way. 01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:29.679 I'd be like, okay, I got this bit, I got this job, this is great, this is fun, thank you for it. 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:32.480 But ultimately, it's just for

the betterment of my kids. 01:02:32.639 --> 01:02:34.480 So I think priority is key. 01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:49.360 I also think being second generation famous is an interesting factor because I saw the pros and the cons of what fame does to the things that you care about, you know what I mean, to to family, to your mindset. 01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:52.400 And so I wanted to be as away from that as possible. 01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:59.199 Like I'll come, I'll do my job, then I go back to my reality because you know, everything's so fleeting in the industry. 01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:10.480 So you're just like, oh, you really care about me right now, but like 20 years from now, I don't think anybody's gonna be thinking about a new girl or uh the that new generation. 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:18.320 There's gonna be people from you know now, but it's just like in living color, it was phenomenal back in the day, but you know, people some people don't even know it. 01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:26.639 Like I have to like name, I'll like talk about my dad and and I'll like name things, and I'll be like, uh uh In Living Color, Major Pain. 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:31.360 I'll get I'll get claps, but then like my wife and kids, people are like, oh, because it's syndicated. 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:35.679 But that happened way after, you know, In Living Color. 01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:45.199 So I know how fleeting the audiences are, and I know that that love is love, but it's also like, you know, it's like you know, they got their own real life and stuff. 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.360 It's like, yeah, I love you, but you go away for a little while, I'm never gonna remember you again. 01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:50.960 So I just treat it as such. 01:03:51.039 --> 01:03:52.320 I treat it like, you know. 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:54.800 Well, I mean, to happy to be here. 01:03:54.880 --> 01:04:01.039 I'm happy to happy to be here, happy to work, happy to provide for my family, but ultimately I know that it is it is entertainment. 01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:01.599 Yeah, yeah. 01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:14.000 I mean, in that same voice though, what what was that experience like uh getting to work, you know, with your dad on a project where you guys were, you know, you're you're fully realized at the time I'm not I'm not a little kid anymore, you know what I mean? 01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:15.199 Oh, he don't care about that. 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.360 Yeah, he he still treated me, he treated me like a little kid the whole time. 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:26.079 It was yeah, it was it was I love him, but man, that was that was tough. 01:04:26.639 --> 01:04:28.800 Like, yeah, and I think he's like, shut up, son. 01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:29.840 All right. 01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:34.000 Does he watch you or listen to you? 01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:34.719 Yeah, yeah. 01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:40.239 We we were definitely very like, like, we'll watch each other's sets and you know, tag each other up. 01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:40.559 No. 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:47.679 He doesn't really do stand-up that much anymore, but back in the day I used to tour with him because I went from being his h host to being his feature eventually. 01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:52.880 That's why I got Papa's house. 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:55.840 That's when I got Papa's house, he's like, You're gonna do this show. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.880 I was like, Dad, I feel like he's like, You're gonna do it. 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:03.360 Did you like your childhood? 01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:05.360 I'm like, Yeah, I had a very nice childhood. 01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:06.400 You're doing it. 01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:08.239 I was like, all right, dad. 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:11.519 Uh but yeah, we had a great time though, because it was so much fun. 01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:13.199 There was like all family was there. 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:15.119 My some of my daughters were there. 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:16.719 Um, so we had a blast. 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:21.280 But yeah, it was definitely, you know, it was definitely father-son dynamic for sure. 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.599 Yeah, this nigga was sun the fuck out of me all the time. 01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:27.920 All right, shout out to daddy. 01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:29.679 Shout out to daddy, man, the legend. 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:30.400 I kind of go. 01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:33.280 You are you came out of the balls of a girl, man. 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:35.760 Terrible pull-out technique. 01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:37.920 I've inherited that, by the way. 01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:39.599 What up, y'all? 01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:40.880 Thank you for uh watching, man. 01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:44.079 Listen, we appreciate you, but I need you to go ahead and hit that little subscribe. 01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:44.639 Don't eh. 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:46.800 Hit the little subscribe button. 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:47.440 Thank you. 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:48.800 That didn't take but so long. 01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:49.360 Look at you. 01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:50.239 Harmless. 01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:51.920 Okay, we got a game on the show. 01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:52.800 Oh, what's the game? 01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:54.639 It's called Kill It or Let Live. 01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:56.960 Okay, kill it or let live. 01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:59.840 I'm gonna throw out a topic, and if you mess with it, you say let's live. 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.320 To live, but if you're not messing with it, you say kill it. 01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:02.800 Okay. 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:05.360 Okay, kill it or let live. 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.800 You get to be known as the person that created world peace. 01:06:11.119 --> 01:06:16.559 There's no more war uh wars, there's nothing but love and peace in the world. 01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:18.719 All fighting has ended. 01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:19.119 Right. 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:27.360 But in order for you to accomplish this, you have to bomb on stage for 45 minutes

every night for a year. 01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:31.599 Kill it. 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:35.360 Fuck that world peace. 01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:37.039 I gotta kill, man. 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:39.199 I'm sorry, world. 01:06:40.159 --> 01:06:41.760 45 minutes of every day. 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:45.679 That's a long time to bomb. 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:47.199 Just bomb it for three minutes. 01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:47.840 Three minutes. 01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:50.480 45 minutes? 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:52.159 No laughs. 01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:52.960 People walking up. 01:06:55.840 --> 01:06:56.239 Booming. 01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:00.880 I don't know the complexities of how this works. 01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:03.920 It's like, can I I could kill, but I can't? 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:05.679 You telling me like I gotta hold it back. 01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:06.800 You trying. 01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:13.199 Um every night. 01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:15.199 Um yeah. 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.760 No punches, no tigers on the road. 01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:24.480 But then but then world peace for the rest of the world peace for the rest of the for the rest of the, you know, eternity. 01:07:25.599 --> 01:07:27.119 World peace for the rest of eternity. 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:27.440 Okay. 01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:30.639 Yeah, that's gonna be an exhausting year, though. 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:31.360 Shit. 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:32.559 Oh man. 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:33.599 Okay, kid. 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:34.480 Oh man. 01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:36.960 Just thinking about bombing like for a year. 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:38.559 You don't want to slap somebody, you know. 01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:39.039 Absolutely. 01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:41.679 I'm gonna take one of them dirty kids I say. 01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:43.920 It's just because of you. 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:46.719 Y'all gotta understand, Damon doesn't bomb, bro. 01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:47.840 I've never seen Damon bomb. 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:48.400 Likewise. 01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:49.599 I I know. 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:50.960 Everybody of y'all be saying that. 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:51.679 Y'all are kind to me. 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:57.440 That's because you have a hyper sense of self-awareness that doesn't allow you to think that you're a perfectionist. 01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:57.920 Yeah. 01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:00.480 I've genuinely never seen you bomb. 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:01.039 Oh, well. 01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:02.639 I've never seen any of you bomb. 01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:03.599 That'd be really good. 01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:04.480 Yeah, we be killing. 01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:05.119 We be killing it. 01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:05.440 They exist. 01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:08.079 When we start doing our live shows, make sure y'all pull up. 01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:09.360 We'll be killing it. 01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:09.920 We're killing. 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:11.760 We're supposed to do one November 11th. 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:12.880 Stay tuned. 01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:15.119 Um, all right, kill it or let live. 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:20.640 You're the creator of the greatest anime series to ever exist. 01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:25.359 I'm talking about this is the South Park Simpsons of anime. 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:25.760 Oh. 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:27.359 You are my dream. 01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:28.640 This is your I I know. 01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:36.880 But in order for you to accomplish this, you have to walk around with a colesore on your lip for the rest of for a year. 01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:38.159 No, no, no, my bad. 01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:38.880 For the rest of your life. 01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:39.600 The rest of my life? 01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:42.319 Yeah, you gotta walk around with a colesore on your lip for the rest of your life. 01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:46.560 But you are you got the greatest anime series, and you can't cover up the colesore either. 01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:49.199 Oh, I gotta just like big, plump, open wound. 01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:50.880 And you gotta cut your mustache. 01:08:54.640 --> 01:08:56.880 But it is the Simpsons of anime. 01:08:57.359 --> 01:08:58.159 You have to cut your mustache. 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:02.800 You gotta kill the pumpkin. 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:12.479 Give it some bangs. 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:12.800 Yeah. 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:14.000 Oh man. 01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:15.920 I guess I'll keep the cold sore, yeah. 01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:16.239 Okay. 01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:16.720 Yeah, yeah. 01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:17.199 Okay. 01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:19.439 I just wanna kill it or let live. 01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:21.279 I won't have to eat my wife's pussy no more. 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:25.600 Well, that's that's actually kind of sad. 01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:26.159 I have fun. 01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:26.960 I have fun doing it. 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:29.279 Shout out to your pussy, baby. 01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:31.199 Shout out to your pussy, baby. 01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:34.479 Kill it or let live. 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:36.159 You get to travel back in time. 01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:38.720 You literally, and when you travel back in time. 01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:39.680 These are good, man. 01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:40.319 Now thank you. 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:40.880 There you go. 01:09:41.039 --> 01:09:46.159 You get to travel back in time, and you're literally the ruler of whatever time period you're in. 01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:47.039 You are a king. 01:09:47.199 --> 01:09:50.880 Whatever you want, whatever woman you want, whatever, whatever you want. 01:09:51.039 --> 01:09:56.319 Food, whatever, whatever you want to do, that time period, you are the king, the ruler. 01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:56.960 Yes. 01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:05.680 But every time you go back in time, the first thing you gotta do is witness the night your parents conceived you, and you gotta take notes. 01:10:06.319 --> 01:10:07.199 I gotta take notes. 01:10:07.520 -->

01:10:08.239 You double on it? 01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:09.359 You double down on it. 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:10.399 So I gotta like. 01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:12.880 What are these notes? 01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:16.560 I mean, it's like you're gonna be quiz after. 01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:18.800 Mama like it better from the back. 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:25.199 You know she don't like it from the side, daddy. 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:26.239 Uh uh. 01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:27.680 But you get to go back in time. 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:30.239 Wait, so I have to go back in time every day? 01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:31.439 Like, I gotta come back to my. 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:33.279 You get to go back in time whenever you want to. 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:33.600 Oh. 01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:34.880 If I can stay there. 01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:36.399 You can stay in that time period. 01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:36.560 Sure. 01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:41.760 So you're saying what I'm saying is basically, like, do I only have to see my parents do that one time? 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:42.479 No, no, no. 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:46.239 Every time you go back in time, you like you say, I want to go back to the 80s, you gotta watch it. 01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:48.640 Then you say, I want to go back to when dinosaurs are there. 01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:49.680 You gotta watch them again. 01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:50.800 So every time. 01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:54.399 So that like that like starts with the time machine. 01:10:54.560 --> 01:10:54.960 That's right. 01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:55.920 Just watching them. 01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:00.560 Like back to the future, you gotta go win the couple of the food fuel. 01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:10.800 There's no Pentium chip and there's nothing just like parents fucking visit whatever those great as soon as they like the machine turned. 01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:18.880 I'm like, oh, don't forget to pick the notepad. 01:11:18.960 --> 01:11:20.159 Don't forget to pick it in the notepad. 01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:24.960 It won't, it won't be, it won't it won't send me until I finish the note. 01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:26.880 At least one page. 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:30.880 College rule of paper. 01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:32.000 Oh my god. 01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:36.399 12 point let live. 01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:36.880 Let live. 01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:41.600 My parents need the they they they've been single for a while. 01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:42.800 Oh boy. 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:46.399 Alright, all right, uh this is the last game, man. 01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:54.880 We gotta get out of here. 01:11:56.960 --> 01:11:58.159 Somebody chasing you again. 01:11:58.399 --> 01:11:59.600 Somebody dad. 01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:06.239 I keep seeing the machine like shaking it about to take off. 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.800 It takes off right as your dad muscles. 01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:12.640 Thanks, dad. 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:13.680 Thanks, my friend. 01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:17.680 Oh, that is so

stupid. 01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:22.399 Alright, uh, this keep three, keep three, cut five, or keep three, kill five. 01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:24.640 So there's a blind list. 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:25.199 Okay. 01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:29.199 You don't know what's coming next, and I'm telling you, it is also some possible bullshit on here. 01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:31.119 He said, keep three, kill five. 01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:31.760 Kill five. 01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:32.880 So you only get to keep three. 01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:34.079 I'm gonna name eight things. 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:34.319 Okay. 01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:35.840 But you just don't know what's coming next. 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:36.159 Okay. 01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:40.079 The topic is uh martial arts. 01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:45.359 I ain't gonna say full martial arts movies, but movies with a martial arts theme in it. 01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:45.840 Okay. 01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:47.119 Alright. 01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:49.439 Number one, the raid. 01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:52.720 Keep okay, you only got two more now. 01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:53.520 What do you mean? 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:54.800 You only get to keep two more. 01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:55.840 Oh, yeah. 01:12:56.079 --> 01:12:56.640 I keep. 01:12:57.039 --> 01:12:57.359 Okay. 01:12:57.840 --> 01:12:58.960 The Matrix. 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:00.640 Keep. 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:01.439 Oh man. 01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:02.399 I know, right? 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:03.279 I like that. 01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:04.159 Oh, man. 01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:05.520 Two heaters back to back. 01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:05.920 I know. 01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:07.119 Three ninjas. 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:09.119 Kill. 01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:12.960 I didn't know I love three ninjas. 01:13:13.359 --> 01:13:14.880 Okay, alright. 01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:16.720 Black dynamite. 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:17.840 That's what we should remake. 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:18.640 Three ninjas. 01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:19.600 Three niggas. 01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:20.479 Three niggas. 01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:21.840 Three niggas. 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:24.239 I figured out a way though. 01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:24.560 Yeah, yeah. 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:25.439 Tom Tum. 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:27.520 Tumtum love. 01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:28.640 See him believe. 01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:30.479 Um that's racist. 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:31.520 Black dynamite. 01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:32.640 Black dynamite? 01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:33.199 Mm-hmm. 01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:36.159 But I sell drugs in the community. 01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:37.840 Yeah, kill. 01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:38.399 Okay. 01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:39.520 Uh. 01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:41.840 Blood Sport. 01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:43.920 Kill Van Dam. 01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:44.319 Damn. 01:13:44.479 --> 01:13:45.600 Even though I love that one. 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:46.239 Damn. 01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:46.960 Yeah, definitely. 01:13:47.439 --> 01:13:50.399 I just I it was the when he was, I don't know. 01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:55.920 It was just something about the um when they had the black dude that was kind of like a monkey. 01:13:56.079 --> 01:13:56.399 Oh, yeah. 01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:00.319 Even when I was a little kid, I was like, that's kind of raising. 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:01.039 That's not right. 01:14:01.279 --> 01:14:03.279 Like, he don't got no technique. 01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:04.399 It's just monkey skill. 01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:05.680 It's monkey, monkey style. 01:14:06.399 --> 01:14:07.359 I forgot about the monkey. 01:14:07.760 --> 01:14:08.159 I don't like that. 01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:09.600 I never liked that. 01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:10.960 I was like, man, come on. 01:14:11.199 --> 01:14:12.319 Let me throw some kicks. 01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:13.840 Last Dragon. 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:16.960 That's my favorite. 01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:19.119 One of my favorite movies of all time. 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:20.000 Mm-hmm. 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:20.960 It's too much. 01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:23.039 You need the glow, the glow to grow. 01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:23.600 Mm-hmm. 01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:24.399 It's too left. 01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:26.479 Keep all right. 01:14:26.640 --> 01:14:27.920 So you kept the raid. 01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:29.439 You kept the Matrix. 01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:31.520 You got rid of Black Dynamite. 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:32.640 You killed three ninjas. 01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:34.239 You killed Blood Sport. 01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:36.560 You kept Black Dynamite. 01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:38.079 No, you killed Black Dynamite. 01:14:38.159 --> 01:14:39.359 You kept the last dragon. 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:43.119 And the last two that was left was Big Trouble Lil China. 01:14:44.159 --> 01:14:45.600 And Enter the Dragon. 01:14:47.039 --> 01:14:48.079 I'm okay with that. 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:49.439 I'm okay with that. 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:50.880 I'm okay with that. 01:14:51.119 --> 01:14:56.239 Even though I would love, you know, I would love that Enter the Dragon, you know, but I'm I'm okay with that. 01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:58.560 Because Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee is the ultimate. 01:14:58.720 --> 01:14:59.520 Yeah, Bruce Lee is a. 01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:01.039 There was no Jackie Chan movies in that. 01:15:01.199 --> 01:15:07.840 I had Rush Hour Hidden Here initially, and I I took it out for um, I took it out for something black. 01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:08.159 I don't know. 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:09.039 But like Drunken Master. 01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:10.079 Drunken Master died. 01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:11.439 Yeah, Drunk and Master, Rumble and Bronze. 01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:16.000 Rumbling and Bronx, the one that he was fighting all the the black girls with the with the uh the martial arts black girls? 01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:18.319 Between the Raid Matrix and the. 01:15:18.399 --> 01:15:19.119 No, no, no, no, no, no. 01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:23.359 I just wish you said uh so uh final

question, man. 01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:25.039 Um you're killing it already, man. 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:30.479 You're doing so much, man, super accomplished, career-wise, specifically. 01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.039 What does it look like for you to be killing it? 01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:34.000 Is it behind the camera? 01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:34.800 Is it producing? 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:36.399 Is it more in front of the camera? 01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:39.920 Is it this martial arts project that will happen that we are manifesting right now? 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:41.920 It's like a manifested moment. 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:51.199 Um for me, it would be kind of yeah, it would be more like a multi-half and I want to have like a banging special, right? 01:15:51.359 --> 01:16:00.560 I would love like a special that is very funny, but also has like uh a revisit factor to it, so people just keep coming and they watch it again. 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:16.560 Um I would love to have some type of animated show on television, um a comic book series, uh definitely a movie that I self-generated, a c a comedic movie, um starring myself. 01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:24.800 Like a like a like a classic though, like uh something that's like you know, like a Friday or something something where people don't ever forget it. 01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:27.039 Um even if it's just one. 01:16:27.279 --> 01:16:27.760 Yeah. 01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:42.800 And and um and then definitely I I don't like directing because I'm not I don't like paying attention to all those questions because it's like you still have to be creative as a director, and then they ask you dumb stuff like about catering. 01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:43.119 Right. 01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:46.079 It's like I don't have time for I would be an asshole. 01:16:46.159 --> 01:16:47.840 Uh I would be an asshole if I was a director. 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:48.079 Right. 01:16:48.319 --> 01:17:06.720 So I don't want to be a director, but um definitely to be able to green light any idea that I have, you know, because I know it's it's hard it's even hard for I remember Adam McKay telling me that he still has to go and pitch certainly I'm sorry he doesn't have to do it now, but like back when we shot the other guys, right? 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:14.960 Uh we shot the other guys, and he was telling me about how um how he had to you know really pitch to get the other guys. 01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:23.520 I'm just like you have Will Farrell, Mark Wahlberg, it's like yeah, we still had to make sure we had, you know, you know, the budget in the right place, the all this kind of stuff. 01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:24.880 It's kind of crazy. 01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:26.399 You know what's funny? 01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:35.119 Like, that's when I realized um the difference between how uh black celebrities have fun and white celebrities have fun. 01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:46.800 So so on the set of other guys, we got um uh Will Farrell and Ma and and Adam McKay, I got really close with them, right? 01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:51.119 And so close that that so they had this uh poker night. 01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:52.560 They would have poker night on the weekend. 01:17:52.640 --> 01:18:12.239 Yeah, and they invited me to the poker night on the weekend, so I learned how to play poker over there, and um so that he would rent like this nice hotel room and like had a dealer and open bar, and I remember showing up for the first time, and it was like Will Farrell, it was Adam, a couple other celebrities, uh, zero bitches, right? 01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:17.279 And so this is this is before I was married, right? 01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:18.159 This is zero bitches. 01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:22.159 So I go up to Will and I'm just like, hey man, uh, where the hoes at? 01:18:22.479 --> 01:18:23.520 He's like, hoes? 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:25.199 Um married. 01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:28.560 I was like, oh no, but like where the hoes. 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:31.600 He's like, no, we're just gonna play poker. 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:32.479 I was like, oh, okay. 01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:33.840 I just wasn't used to it, you know. 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:37.520 Because like, like, you know, Uncle Marlon, he got hoes everywhere. 01:18:37.680 --> 01:18:41.359 He brings hoes, he brings hoes to the dentist, he brings hoes, you know what I mean? 01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:42.880 Like this Marlin. 01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:45.199 Yeah, if that nigga died, he brings bitches to heaven. 01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:47.359 What's up, God? 01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:48.479 Me plus three. 01:18:50.399 --> 01:18:51.439 Can we get them some wings? 01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:52.560 Can we get them some wings? 01:18:53.119 --> 01:18:53.920 This is some of your best work. 01:18:54.159 --> 01:18:54.880 Yeah, man, come on. 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:56.960 You made these pussies. 01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:57.199 Yeah. 01:18:57.600 --> 01:19:00.560 Uh but yeah, so uh shout out to the other guy. 01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:03.359 Shout out, that was like one of my favorite things to ever do. 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:05.760 Um, I don't know how we even got on this point. 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:08.159 What was the I like where we at? 01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:09.119 Oh, okay, yeah. 01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:11.039 What was killing it for you? 01:19:11.119 --> 01:19:16.399 And uh Yeah, so that that would be killing it to be able to get whatever I want green lit, you know. 01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:18.640 I love that the other guys is one of your favorite projects. 01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:29.359 It was because it was just like one of my favorite directors, one of my favorite comedic actors of all time, and I got to just be in I got paid to like be in scenes with Will. 01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:30.079 It was crazy. 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:38.319 I remember making him laugh one time, uh, just like from an improv line, and he won and he laughed like and he was like, let's get it again. 01:19:38.560 -->

01:19:41.920 But because he laughed so hard, I couldn't stop laughing. 01:19:42.159 --> 01:19:44.960 So I couldn't replicate the freaking line. 01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:46.159 Oh, damn. 01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:47.199 So it never got. 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:56.720 We talked about that before though, how if it's uh uh they they've told me like it's I feel better sometimes to be, you know, three, four, five, six on a call sheet as opposed to one, two. 01:19:56.880 --> 01:19:58.159 It's like you get to have way more fun. 01:19:58.560 --> 01:19:59.439 You do, you do. 01:19:59.600 --> 01:20:02.159 It's uh who was I talking to about this? 01:20:02.399 --> 01:20:03.600 This is goes back to stand-up. 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:11.119 It's like, what do you think is better to be a really funny stand-up comedian or a comedian's comedian? 01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:11.840 Right? 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:17.359 Because comedians, comedians are like, you know, that's when all the comedians show up and they want to watch them. 01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:25.680 It's like what do you think is more advantageous career-wise, to be a comedian's comedian or a freaking, you know, just like a a a very funny comedian. 01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:29.279 But the, you know, like other comedians don't necessarily care to watch. 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:30.960 They don't care to watch, you know. 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:32.399 Like, what do you think? 01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:37.600 What would I think career-wise probably the like being uh just a comedian? 01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:39.359 Yeah, like a funny comedian, yeah. 01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:43.600 Because usually like the comedians, comedians are more irreverent, you know, sometimes. 01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:43.840 Yeah. 01:20:44.239 --> 01:20:45.439 Because that's what we like about it. 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:48.079 We like, oh, these dudes be saying some wild stuff. 01:20:48.319 --> 01:20:48.479 Yeah. 01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:49.199 So I don't know. 01:20:49.279 --> 01:20:57.920 I don't know which uh kind of like the difference between like a uh Dave Vattel versus a Chris Rock or something, or Chappelle or you know, right? 01:20:58.319 --> 01:21:04.159 It's like being a a successful comedian versus a like a comedian's comedian. 01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:05.600 Yeah, but that's nothing we like. 01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:08.720 Because he was a comedian, he had both. 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:09.520 He had both. 01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:11.600 I feel like Chappelle got both too. 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:13.439 Yeah, but a lot of people hate Caratop. 01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:14.880 But he's doing very well for us. 01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:15.359 Exactly. 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:29.600 Bro, I remember, I remember because we were gonna do some show that was like like a like a basically a parody of all the different plays that are not plays, but the live shows in Vegas. 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:33.760 So we're going to watch all these different shows, and we we go see Caratop.

01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:35.920 We're just like, alright, we'll go see this. 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:37.359 He's gonna be terrible. 01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:40.399 I was laughing so damn hard. 01:21:40.720 --> 01:21:41.359 He's a beast, bro. 01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:43.039 He is a beast, man. 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:44.880 I was like, what's happening to me? 01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:53.359 Because you know, you hear you hear people be hating on on certain comedians, and you're just like, I don't know how this guy has had a res residency for so long. 01:21:53.439 --> 01:21:54.560 It's freaking carrot top. 01:21:55.840 --> 01:21:59.520 This nigga kill he killed so bad that I wanted to meet him afterwards. 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:00.720 Carrot! 01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:03.359 Yeah, I was I wasn't a fan, right? 01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:11.760 Yeah, I feel like a lot of comedians like like don't get their fair share because of either doing clean comedy or doing prop comedy. 01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:14.560 Like Simbat, I think he was like brain damage one. 01:22:14.720 --> 01:22:15.199 One of the special things. 01:22:16.159 --> 01:22:19.119 You can find me on uh on Instagram, Mr. 01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:28.880 Damon 2, and uh and on Twitter, people still on Twitter, which is very uh I call spiraling whites because it is that's just what it's on there. 01:22:29.520 --> 01:22:32.159 White people getting very upset at Wayans Jr. 01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:33.359 on Twitter as well. 01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:35.039 Hey man, we did it. 01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:38.560 We did it another another great phenomenal episode, man. 01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:40.640 Chop it up and make it look great, please. 01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:41.920 Shop all these guys, please. 01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:43.119 Man, the clips, yeah. 01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:44.079 We got the clips, yeah. 01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:47.840 Um man, um, make sure you comment, like, subscribe. 01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:48.720 We appreciate y'all. 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:49.920 We appreciate all the comments. 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:52.319 The subscriber numbers keep going up. 01:22:52.399 --> 01:22:55.600 Um, so we appreciate the the little community that we're building. 01:22:55.840 --> 01:22:56.319 Oh, yeah. 01:22:56.399 --> 01:22:57.359 When is this coming out? 01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:01.279 Uh I believe November 30th, 2028. 01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:01.680 Okay. 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:04.880 But go for it. 01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:05.840 What are you gonna say? 01:23:07.840 --> 01:23:09.439 Got the Olympics coming. 01:23:12.159 --> 01:23:13.279 The winter and summer. 01:23:13.439 --> 01:23:14.720 In the mix of one and summer. 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:16.239 In the mix of one, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:17.840 Uh no, just say whatever. 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:19.439 Who might bump yours up? 01:23:20.479 --> 01:23:20.800 I don't know. 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:22.399 No, I have I have some shows coming up. 01:23:22.479 --> 01:23:22.800 It's cool. 01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:24.479 It's uh shows will definitely be over. 01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:24.880 Yeah, yeah. 01:23:25.199 --> 01:23:28.319 So I just want to say that uh thank you guys for having me on this show. 01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:30.960 I'm a big fan of this show, big fan of all you guys. 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:33.199 So uh, yeah, just much love to you guys. 01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:34.159 We love you, man. 01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:35.199 We love you back, man. 01:23:35.279 --> 01:23:38.880 And we've been your host, Justin Hyas, at Justin Hyas on all social media platforms. 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:41.520 London Brown at Real London Brown. 01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:42.720 BT Kingsley. 01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:43.520 Hey man, Mr. 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:44.479 Kingsley for music. 01:23:44.560 --> 01:23:45.840 Go to over there and listen to some music. 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:47.760 Oh, who fuck this IG shit. 01:23:49.039 --> 01:23:51.840 And this has been the one and only Damon Wayne's Jr. 01:23:53.439 --> 01:23:54.640 Junior, baby. 01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:55.279 Yeah.