Full Transcript for She Started Comedy On A Dare — 16 Months Later She Was Flown To LA

I like it. 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.240 I appreciate I appreciate everything you bring to the stage. 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:31.680 First of all, you are glowing. 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:32.319 You're gorgeous. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:33.680 You're working on your summer tan, I see. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.240 Uh listen, I I didn't mean to, but I went to Vegas and I went from the airport to the hotel. 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:40.960 So four shades black uh black. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:42.560 I I don't even know how this happened. 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.560 All right, and I know I know your family is happy to have you home. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.159 You've you've been uh on tour, right? 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:51.599 Yes, yeah, uh, they may be happy to have me home. 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:52.719 Those boys are not. 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:53.360 What do you mean? 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:54.240 The boys are not. 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.240 Y'all know I have five kids, five of them. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:02.479 Okay, um, and the the children are 28, 26, 21, 21, and 18. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:03.680 No, they're not twins now. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:04.879 Y'all in my personal business. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:06.719 Mind your business. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.080 Um twins. 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.479 Ain't they look like it's exactly? 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.719 Um, but they are, you know, when I'm home, now everybody got to work. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.000 Everybody gotta work. 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.840 And and and especially teenage boys, y'all really get because they eat the most. 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:21.520 And grocery high. 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:22.400 Gross right. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.400 So those boys have to, I mean, you know, I'm raising, I'm raising young men. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.000 So they are boys? 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:28.719 No, no, no. 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.240 The girls are 28 and 27. 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:30.719 Okay. 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:37.919 Um, but those boys, you know, that they're at that age where they don't really want to do anything unless you make them. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.159 So 7 a.m., come on, let's go. 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:41.599 Mop the ceiling. 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:42.800 Not mop the ceiling. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:43.599 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:44.960 Paint the toilet. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:51.680 I don't care what you do, but get up and do something because they just as much as they're asking me for stuff, I'm asking them for stuff. 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.159 So you gotta kind of, you know, you gotta kind of teach them that. 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:54.879 That's fair. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:55.280 That's fair. 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:56.800 Yeah, home is home is dope. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:58.400 Well, we're so happy to have you here. 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:04.560 We're gonna chop it up a little bit about your comedy career, get your take on some things about urban comedy, especially with women. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:06.479 I know Knowledge was really interested in that. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:09.439 And then, you know, uh, we'll get Sean a fuss about something. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:10.479 Absolutely. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.599 Listen, Sean Don't Fuss, we got to. 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.160 I retract my previous statement. 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:20.079 Then we are not hearing this podcast with Sean Don't Fuss. 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:21.279 I'm gonna tell you that right now. 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:25.920 I want to kick it off with um, I follow many of the women in uh comedy here in Chicago. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.639 And Lisa Lair, shout out Lisa, um, had posted something. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:35.759 She was like, Mo Good said that women comedians in Chicago are running circles around the men comedians. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.199 And I saw you co-sign. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:39.360 Talk a little bit about why you feel that's true. 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:44.240 I think that what happens is we are now being afforded the space. 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:48.240 Um men dominate comedy. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:56.160 Men really dominate entertainment, but when it comes to comedy, um, especially uh black comedy, men dominate that field. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.399 There are more of them in numbers. 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.120 Um, and it is just a male-dominated field. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:10.720 I never knew that comedy was gender specific until I realized how men were bringing women to the stage who want to hear from a ladies' point of view. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.800 You've never been to a comedy show and say, hey, who wanna hear a man's point of view? 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:15.920 You've never heard it. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.439 Where the ladies at? 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:22.639 You know, ladies' night, it's a ladies' night, four ladies on the flyer, now it's ladies' night. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.040 But you've never seen a men's night flyer. 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:30.399 The crazy thing is the majority of audiences are dominated by women. 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:30.879 Yeah. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.399 We are the biggest ticket, uh, ticket uh purchasers when it comes when it comes to comedy. 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:45.439 So um now being able to uh be afforded that space where it's okay to have more than one woman on a flyer. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.920 Because normally we're just fighting for that one spot if we can get it. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.600 Because even still now, we still have plenty of comedy shows where there are no women. 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:01.360 But we have started taking, you know, taking that moment and taking that, you know, taking our taking our stuff back. 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:07.120 Like, you know, see me, I'm here, I'm funny, and you know, it's nothing that you can do about it. 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:14.480 I think a lot of times,

and this is not all male comics, but a lot of male comics got comfortable in that space. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:16.480 And we've still we're still fighting. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.279 They started coasting and we started fighting. 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:26.160 And so now we are producing more shows, we are, you know, uh, more of us are in the comedy festivals. 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:30.800 Um, we are working on, we're working on ourselves because that's another thing. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.360 You know, we gotta, we gotta show up. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:37.680 And I think that now we're in we're in a place where we're showing up, and I'm excited about it. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:38.879 Okay, knowledge. 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:44.240 Uh real quick, so have women gotten funnier, in your opinion? 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:51.600 And I know it's gonna be where they're they have not, so they've always been I feel, and I took kind of a break, right? 00:06:51.680 --> 00:07:03.360 So I have this period of 2006 to kind of twelve, and you know, there was a Vanessa fraction, shout out to you know, folks like Vanessa, and you've always had like the Diane Quarters, etc. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:10.720 But when I re-entered the space last year, it's like, damn, they're really, really funny. 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.720 Like, you're not, you don't have to just give them a chance. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.639 Like, I'm gonna put a woman on the show, just too. 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:20.480 Like, they're actually the the funnier folks with fresh takes and so on and so forth. 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:27.439 And so I do feel like women comics have or comedians have gotten funnier. 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:32.079 For me, I think well, let me back up and say this comedy is a gift. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:32.639 Okay. 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.920 Being funny is a gift, just like singing, just like dancing. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.839 It's not, you cannot teach funny. 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:46.480 You can teach mechanics, you can teach callbacks, you can teach timing, you can write, but the actual art of funny, you have to be born with that. 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.759 Now, you have some people that are funny, and you have some that are gifted. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:59.839 And because of the numbers, with it being three times as many men uh as it is women, they'll always dominate that. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:06.720 I think what's also happening is you have to, as a female, you have to be fearless before you can be funny. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:15.360 Because a lot of times, when when I come on stage, most of the people in the audience already assume that they know what I'm gonna talk about. 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:23.920 They think I'm gonna talk about uh being gaining weight, losing weight, going to exercise, my kids, my vagina, and dating. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:26.240 That's normally what they expect from us. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:26.560 Right. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:33.440 Mind you, most men talk about the exact same thing, except they don't talk about their vaginas, they talk about somebody else's. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:43.200 You know, and um I know that before I can go out and and and give them anything from me, I have to get their attention. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.720 I've already lost it because they think they know, you know, who I am. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:55.519 And so when I go out there and I open up with a joke that's 15 minutes long about taking a nap over 40, they like, okay, well, maybe something like that. 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:56.720 Maybe she has something to say. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:58.000 And I that's another thing. 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:06.080 I think they we've also discovered those of us that are funny, we we've discovered that there's more to talk about than our vaginas. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:08.240 And that's where the funny comes in. 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.960 Like, that's where you get, we're we're not getting funny, we're just learning exactly who we are. 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:14.799 And it's still a small group of us. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:22.720 Like, it still ain't a whole lot of female comedians, and those that are like that have the gift is an even smaller number. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.679 So I just think that we are being a lot more fearless. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.519 So you see those of us that that are funny that you have no idea about. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:39.200 Do you look for those spaces that um are not necessarily the traditional spaces that women have played in in terms of like topics and things to talk about? 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.039 Do you do you actually look for that? 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:41.919 Like, you know what? 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.279 Women don't talk about this. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:51.840 I have some funny stuff in that space, and so I'm gonna bring that to the stage to kind of make me unique in terms of what I talk about on stage. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:52.960 Not intentionally. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:53.360 Okay. 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:54.399 Not intentionally. 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:58.559 When I go on stage, um, I talk about what I know. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:00.799 And that's why I can make it funny. 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:06.639 I talk about being a wife, I talk about being a mother, I talk about being over 40 and what's happening in my life right now. 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:20.960 I talk about, you know, if I see younger people in the audience what it was like when I was their age, um, some of that general or or the the uh the stock uh subjects will come up, but then I make it personal to me. 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:23.039 And again, that's why it's funny. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.360 You know, I talk about my personal experiences. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:46.240 I had to learn real quick that if you don't get away from the general subjects, you'll be the you'll be right in the middle of the mess of

so-and-so took my joke, or you took my joke, or so-and-so, and it's like I I had an issue and I talked to my sister about it, and she said, Well, if they can tell your joke, then it wasn't yours. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:48.879 It has to be more personal to you. 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:56.159 They can't tell your story, but if you go in there, women be shopping, and they come right behind you, like women in the shopping center. 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:58.960 And it's like, hey, that's mine, right? 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:03.919 And it's like, y'all know I got kicked out of the mall for da-da-da-da-da. 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:11.840 More I mean my and less general is what kind of made I, you know, that that's kind of how I how I approach it. 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.320 I don't intentionally go into those spaces. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:19.679 I look into the audience and see who's out there first, and then whatever comes, comes. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:21.360 I don't have a written set. 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:22.159 Got you. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.159 Sean, what you think, bro? 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:40.080 Are are women, in your opinion, have women become funnier over the years, or is it to Corey's point that just um I would say that um women have I've always been fans of certain type of women comedians. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:53.519 Like I still, to this day, as much as I love all my Chicago, of course, produced all the best female comedians, uh, with the exception of some more in my opinion. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:59.519 But um I've always been like Pat Brown, shining example. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.159 Like she's always been different. 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.120 You know what I mean? 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:12.320 So I think that women comedians are finding their stride uh because that was a popular consensus amongst male comedians. 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:15.200 Like, yeah, they don't get up here and dick a pussy everybody to death. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:20.080 And you know, men talk about sex, but we don't really get into the what we do. 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:21.360 Do that make sense? 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:28.480 Like, we don't be up there like, I ate pussy 17 straight hours, but we'll hear how the dick was sucked with the two hands and the. 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:30.480 I think that was always the difference. 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:33.279 It wasn't the the subject matter per se. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:56.559 Um, and just like even piggyback on what you said a second ago, like when when the whole like Shauna movement was going on, when I was talking about um, when I was talking about the Shauna shit, like how niggas really was in certain types of bags, it's not the subject matter that that people get bothered by if you take it. 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:00.559 It's the thought process behind the subject matter, right? 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:10.240 So if I I'm a I'm a dude, I wasn't the first guy to say anything about a big girl, but I was

the first one to say that this bitch baked me some cereal in an oven. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.840 Do you understand what I'm saying? 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:17.919 So now if you talk about anything in this oven, whether you change the food or not, you in my bag. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:22.960 You can talk about fat women all you want, but leave it from scratch shit to me. 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:24.320 I did that, right? 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:24.639 Yep. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:31.919 So now I think that women comedians uh are finding a lane that makes it comfortable. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.840 It's just like why I respect Flame Monroe. 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:41.919 Flame Monroe uh found a way to make comedy comfortable while ignoring titties and a penis. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:43.360 Do you see what I'm saying? 00:13:43.600 --> 00:14:01.039 Like it used to be that was too much and it would be the distraction, but Flame somehow figured out how to make me not think about that and laugh at what the fuck Flame is talking about, which is what what and I'm not comparing Flame to women comedians, but I'm saying that's an art, it's a skill set to make me not think about what you're talking about. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:10.559 I agree with that because one of the things that people always point out normally, if you know me, when I show up on stage, I'm coming to every show like it's the Oscars. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:18.879 Every show is the Taj Mahal, every show is Madison Square Garden, every because that it's just how I was raised. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:26.080 And very early on, I had a uh a really famous comic tell me, you know, if you dress like that, they're not gonna hear shit you saying. 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:33.039 And at that very moment, I made it a point to prove him wrong every time I stepped on stage. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.240 If you acknowledge it in the beginning, people will move past it. 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.000 Because the truth of the matter is, if you're funny, it doesn't matter. 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:41.360 It does not matter. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:42.480 Funny is funny. 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:49.360 Monique and I did Las Vegas on 4th of July, and we told jokes in swimsuits. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.799 Nobody cared after the first 60 seconds. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:53.360 Right. 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:54.559 Nobody cared. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.879 Everything else was funny. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:59.919 If you acknowledge it in the beginning, it doesn't matter. 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.840 But people will try to tell you, hey, if you dress like that, if you look like that, if you and they only do it to women. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.799 It's always all that makeup, what's your hair, you did, and it's like, if you're funny. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.759 They say it to y'all, oh well, yeah. 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.320 Because some sometimes they do give you guys the you need to put on a suit or you need to dress. 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.080 I do, I do hear that sometimes. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:28.879 When I when I first started doing comedy, Bernie being my mentor, Damon being my other mentor, right? 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.679 So I thought suits, right? 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:38.159 So if you look at any of my early footage, I got on suits or sweaters and dockers and shoes. 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:39.919 And so Katy. 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:43.120 You aged yourself, you aged yourself by 20 years. 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:47.600 Cat Williams, I'll never forget it. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:51.679 Cat Williams, we was doing back then it was Hollywood Park Casino, right? 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.399 So everybody had different days and different times. 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.320 This pre-this is pre-Friday, Cat Williams, right? 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:06.399 And so I was up there, and you know, Cat used to kick it with like, you know, real niggas, you know what I'm saying, like in LA. 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:15.600 And so one day I did a set and he said, Hey man, uh, you know why that probably didn't go as good as you thought it should have. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.720 And I was like, you know, I, you know, I'm working out the bitch. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.840 He's like, nigga, you don't look like none of the shit you talking about. 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:28.559 Are you up here talking about bitches and gangbangers with some fucking dockers and square toes on? 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:42.080 And if you notice, that's why on Comic View, and for years after, I would wear t-shirts and I would wear hats and just plain clothes until I turned into well into my 30s, so that what I was wearing wasn't a distraction. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:49.440 Because believe it or not, being an unconventional looking comedian is a little bit harder than people think it is. 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.200 Yep, and I welcomed it. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:52.320 I didn't even care. 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.240 Because again, I had to be fearless. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.679 I want to I wanna uh jump in here, uh, speaking of being fearless. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.200 Uh, great conversation. 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.960 This might happen, you know, uh what we share, and then we have to move on. 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:04.640 But Sean, you said something. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:10.240 Chicago, in your opinion, creates the funniest female comics with the exception of Samora. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.160 And I want to keep that in mind. 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:22.480 So, as I ask you, Corey, what do you think uh is unique about this city that breeds that type of lady comic from Chicago? 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.519 Not just female comics, not just women. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:30.720 Chicago breeds the best comics, period. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:39.599 And the reason that we breed monsters is because we had to come up doing comedy in places that did not want comedy.

00:17:40.160 --> 00:18:00.400 We didn't have, aside from jokes and notes, and um uh the other clubs were before my time, but for the most part, as I can remember it, we didn't have a whole lot of space for black comedy, you know, and before me, I don't think we were really going north of 22nd Street. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:03.759 We weren't going up there to those clubs, as far as I know. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:11.119 But we do clubs in, I mean, we do comedy in bars with TVs on, with the game on. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:16.480 Shout out Francis Cocktail, shout out Isla Bar, shout out Francis, shout out Bart. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:25.119 We do we do comedy in places that want to do everything but stop, be quiet, and listen. 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:38.400 You got a birthday party going on, you got some niggas that done came to the bar that's trying to buy drinks for the chicks, you got some people who ain't got cable, so now they is at the bar because this is uh March again, yeah. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:43.440 And you have to go through all of this and say, hey, everybody freeze. 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.519 I got something funny to say. 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:54.079 You gotta be fit, you get your tiger stripes when you're in Chicago, and then people go to LA and be successful. 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:00.960 We hit a ceiling here, but the reason that we are monsters, if you can make Chicago laugh, you can go anywhere in the country. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.440 I was just thinking about it, like it's a tough crowd. 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:09.680 Like, you got angry, you got pay paying bills, you got you know, but then they give me the free. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:18.559 They give me the free, they do with the sweatboat cheesy crackers on a Tuesday night that we made them pay like the Airy crowd. 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:21.359 And think about somebody like me. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.119 I'm a Tuesday night. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:24.720 They already got their favorites. 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:34.079 Old Sean Morgan walked in, uh, Dan Buddhine walked in, bald head is there, uh, Marla Mitchell, Big Keith Hosting, and here I come. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:39.519 The only female I knew, they don't want to hear from me. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:40.480 Is this a real story? 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:41.200 Did this really happen? 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:48.000 Over and over and over and over, week after week, didn't depend, didn't matter where I went. 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.240 When I heard them first five years, them first four, it didn't matter. 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:59.680 I now have to make them stop, pay attention to me, and then tell them who I am, and then get them to laugh. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:09.039 And that's why I can go anywhere in the country, and there's not a city in in the United States that I would be like, man, I ain't going down there. 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:10.160 Like it might be too hard. 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.319 There's nowhere

because Chicago made me. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:14.160 So what year did you start, Corey? 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:14.640 I'm sorry. 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:17.519 Um, I am this is year number 11 for me. 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:19.200 So 2014. 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:30.400 So outside looking in, you seem to have a pretty quick, I know 11's not a short period of time, but that's a quick meteoric kind of rise. 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:40.079 And so when I look at things, because again, this was kind of during my break, it's like I come back and it's like Cory Bell is here. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:46.480 You know, I know a lot of the super OGs has been here doing their thing and like Cory Bell's like that. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.079 Have you sat back? 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:49.839 Um, because I like to do this, right? 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:54.240 If it comes to business, what have you, I why am I why is it not that, right? 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:59.839 If the festival five years in is here, I'm just gonna ask myself, why is it not here? 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.680 And that's just my analytical mind. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.240 Did I not make a move here, partnership here? 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:23.119 Besides the funny, because there's a lot of funny people, have you sat back and have you figured out how you've gotten to that meteoric rise, like stuff about you, how you approach relationship building, whatever it might be, I'd love to hear your thoughts about that if you've given it some thought. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:24.880 Um, I have. 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:35.920 Um my career has moved so fast that for the most part, to just be transparent, I haven't really had a chance to catch my breath. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.759 I'm gonna be very honest. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:39.839 I never wanted to do comedy. 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:42.319 I was Debbie Allen, okay? 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:43.359 I was a dancer. 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:44.799 That's who I wanted to be. 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.880 But then I found out Debbie Allen was Debbie Allen, and so I couldn't be her. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.200 And so then I was going to be Dominique Dawes, okay? 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.599 And I was on the balance beam, and I did the vault and I did the floor, but I've also broken about 16. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.759 Bones while doing so. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.880 So I don't think Dominique Dahls was my thing either. 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.359 And I started comedy on a dare. 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.240 So this was never my plan. 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.880 But once I tapped into it, I was like, okay, something is happening. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:26.240 And what I believe is if you tap into your gift and you're consistent and you do it with a pure heart and clean hands, no matter what you do, you'll be successful. 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:26.799 Right? 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:39.680 Within the first 16 months of me starting comedy, I had already been flown to LA to film the very first season of um Laugh Mobs Laugh Tracks with Bob Summer. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:40.640 Shout out to Bob. 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:41.599 Shout out to Bob. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:47.279 He it was the very first time that I ever decided, you know what, I think that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.839 And I'm gonna tell you a quick story as to why. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:56.079 I wasn't I I gave up my audition spot at Dusawa because I was going to Jamaica. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:01.839 Someone was flying me, and my husband, he's a DJ, I was an MC, we were going to Jamaica. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:06.799 Just so happens that the trip ended up getting canceled the week before. 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:12.319 I just showed up at the audition, and someone else did not show up. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.279 And that's how I ended up laying in that spot. 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:22.960 When I got flown out to LA, I had no idea what craft services was. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:24.880 I did not know. 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:30.000 I was out in LA with probably the only$80,$100 that I had. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:36.799 So when we got out to take a break and I saw this table with all this shit on it, I started putting shit in my bag. 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:38.640 Because I'm like, nigga, I might not be able to. 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:39.279 We're in LA. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:43.279 I don't know how much this food give me these cookies, these rice crispy trees. 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:44.400 Come on, craft surface. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.680 Yeah, listen. 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:51.039 And I was standing there and I was like, dang, they got apples or bananas. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.200 I really wish they would have had a peach. 00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:55.279 Like, I'm in LA, I want a peach. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:04.640 There was a guy standing behind me, and he said, talent wants peaches, and a nigga just took off down the street to the right hand of God. 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:12.480 It was at that very moment that I was like, Man, I really wish I had$500. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:14.160 That's what I'm saying. 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:19.759 But as I was putting the stuff in my bag, there was a beautiful comedian in LA by the name of John Cia. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.559 And John Cia came up behind me and she didn't know me. 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:29.039 And she was like, You know, when you put all that stuff in your bag, they just gonna put more out so you don't have to hoard it. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:36.960 And then John Cia showed me around the set, and she would put me in places to say, Hey, the camera is gonna be right here. 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.200 You want to get all of the camera time that you can. 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.720 You come here, stand right here. 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:44.960 She would put me in front of her, she'll put me over here because she was she had

been out there for a while. 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:46.480 I had no idea. 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:52.799 And then when it finally aired and I was able to see myself, I was like, You realize what she had done. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:25:02.000 Yeah, but it was also like, man, my gift is being on display to so many people, and this is what I love because laughter is free. 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:06.799 Right after that, things just started going so fast, I couldn't really keep up. 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:23.839 So I only know that the reason that I am where I am right now is because I have people that are rooting for me, people that believe in what I'm doing, that are higher than me, that said, hey, I can see this in you. 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:24.880 Come over here. 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:26.079 You know what I'm saying? 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:31.440 I don't really take any of the credit aside from being consistent and making sure that I'm operating in my gift. 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:36.480 The other thing I because niggas is to be like, I did it all on my own, I did it all by myself. 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:40.079 And it's like the truth of the matter is somebody else had to see you. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.400 Somebody else had to say your name in a room. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:45.599 Somebody, you didn't just walk in and they were like, That's the guy. 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:46.880 That like you didn't. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:54.160 There's a community of people working, whether you know it or not, saying your name in rooms, and they're doing it on both sides. 00:25:54.400 --> 00:26:03.279 So, so Corey, with that, um, are women really competitive within the the space, the comedy space, or is the sisterhood real and legit? 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:04.880 I'm gonna be very honest. 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:15.039 The women that I know, and I know uh quite a bit, uh quite a few women in comedy, there is no competition because there aren't that many of us to compete. 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:24.880 Like we we're competing for the one spot on the show, or the two spots on the show, but for the most part, it's us, it's it's a bunch of John Cas. 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:27.920 Like, we are like, hey, mentors, yeah. 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.960 Do this or do that, or maybe this is more for you. 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:38.480 We are more so cheering each other on because we we in the middle of the circle of the sharks, like just hold on, come over here just a little bit. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.839 Yeah, like we just just come over here a little bit. 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.359 So I don't see, I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:45.680 Right. 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:47.599 What I'm saying is I don't see it. 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:55.119 And almost all of the sisters that I interact with or that I see, I'm cheering them on, they're cheering me on, whether it's genuine or not, who cares? 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:57.759 In front of everybody else, we're showing the unity. 00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.920 We be concerned about these men, child. 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.680 Uh the male comics are emotional like Carl Thomas. 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.880 It's very true. 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:09.680 I have never seen women comics here in Chicago get into any sort of beef spat, nothing. 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.640 It's really been the guys. 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.720 It's uh pretty listen, it's it's and I'm gonna tell you why. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.079 Because men are competitive by nature. 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:19.759 That's just who they are. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.519 They they are competitive by nature. 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:25.279 So it's always gonna be a that nigga ain't gonna be able to follow me. 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.039 I'm gonna make it hard for. 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:30.000 Like, this is what I see when I go to these comments. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:31.839 Hey, man, I'm not going after so-and-so. 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:38.240 When the truth of the matter is, if you're operating in your gift, I don't give a damn where you put me. 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:44.079 If you want me to open it up, your job as the producer is to make sure that you know how you want your show to flow. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.720 So if you got somebody weak coming behind me, that has absolutely nothing to do with me. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.319 When I get my time on stage, I'm going to Anita Baker, that bitch. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:53.920 I'm giving you the best that I got. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.000 I don't give a fuck about who goes in front of me. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:57.759 I don't care about who's behind me. 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:03.599 I'm cheering for them and the people behind me because it's only one stage, one mic, and one name on that check. 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.039 I can't be mad at the person that goes in front of me that sent it to the moon. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:07.680 Guess what? 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.519 If they send it to the moon before I go up, bitch, I'm riding a wave. 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:12.640 Taking it to Mars. 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:16.000 Um if they stink before I go up, then I'll clean it up. 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.640 But that's my space is my space. 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.799 I can't be concerned about the rest of the show. 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:24.400 But women, we, you know, we clapping for each other for the most part. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:26.319 If the men, we be wanting to hug them. 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:28.559 We do, we want to hug y'all. 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:30.000 This is true. 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.640 You know, I want to talk a little bit about the uh Cat Williams store. 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:33.200 Nice. 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:36.000 Um, so one, uh, you know, I'm nosy. 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.440 I want to know all of the details. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.240 You know what? 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:40.559

Before you go there, let me, I'm I'm seeing a few. 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:41.920 Yeah, you see the look on some. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.200 This is the part where you don't. 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:45.680 So I'd love to hear. 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:47.039 Trying for Sean to fuss? 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:51.279 I'd love to hear it, because again, somebody who's been involved in comedy for a while. 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.079 I did a shining video, just so y'all know. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:58.480 I did do a shunning video with my tank top on, and I was the part, I was young. 00:28:58.559 --> 00:28:59.440 I had no idea. 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:00.880 I just jumped out of the minute. 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:02.799 And I don't apologize for it either. 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:03.599 What is a shawl? 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:04.640 What is what is a shawning? 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:05.680 Uh, you'll you'll see. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:07.440 That's that's something you'll have to say. 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:08.400 Yeah, we'll we'll see. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:09.839 You don't have enough time. 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:16.960 Women just seem to be making well, I'm just I'm just saying, really, uh, women seem to be making big noise in Chicago. 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:17.440 Yeah. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:27.519 Um, I do feel like, just conceptually, I feel like there's some, there's reasons behind that, but I'd love to hear just, and again, not men against women, what have you. 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:28.799 It's just, we're men. 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.000 There's women. 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:37.359 I'm just curious about, you know, kind of just even what she just spoke to in terms of women kind of cheering for women, like that's that's what they do. 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:39.839 They brunch, they do, they just do things that we don't understand. 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:42.640 And that shit is, I think, helpful. 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.119 You know what I'm saying, in terms of celebrating. 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:46.480 We don't do it as much. 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:53.119 Sometimes we kind of out on the island, kind of doing our own things, being maybe competitive when it doesn't necessarily serve us. 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:57.440 So I'm just curious to hear your perspective on some of the things Corey just shared. 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:06.480 Well, I mean, the the first part, uh, camaraderie amongst comedians and competitiveness that's accurate. 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:10.400 Um, I just think it's a it's a sad time. 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.440 Like what she just said. 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:13.680 Time for court, time for trying to fuss. 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.240 Like, why can't niggas just talk? 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:20.559 Because you be fussing, child. 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:22.480 I don't fuss about. 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:28.480 Listen, it'd be so much shit going on that I just stay in my lane and don't say shit us, like shit about. 00:30:28.880

--> 00:30:43.519 But uh the competitiveness is cool, but I think that um the problem I have with it is like that it's it's all kumbaya over here and it's not kumbaya over there. 00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:48.240 Uh and I am a nigga that stay into it with comedians, so I'm definitely the poster boy. 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:59.359 Yes, he's the poster boy of, but it's always this is the thing about it's about, okay, since we're gonna go there, I'll go go on on this level, right? 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:10.640 95% of the interactions that I have uh bad with comedians are typically some threes company shit. 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:18.240 You just walked in in the wrong moment and you thought it was this, but really it was that, and this is how this episode is. 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.880 That was the premise for Threes Company. 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.480 Every fucking episode, it was a misunderstanding. 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:35.200 It's comedians out here that owe niggas money, it's niggas out here that steal niggas' jokes, it's niggas out here that really do shit that's detrimental to other comedians' careers. 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:41.200 But yet somehow people find a way to put me in this conversation and I've done nothing to anyone. 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:46.799 There's nothing anyone can say that I've ever done that wasn't beneficial to another comedian's career. 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:50.079 And that's from putting them on TV shows to different shit like that. 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:51.359 I've never done anything. 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.640 I don't owe a nigga a dollar. 00:31:52.720 --> 00:32:01.039 If I say it's a hundred dollars, that's because I got a hundred dollars that I got in my pocket that I'm prepared to pay you, whether a nigga is there or they're not. 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.319 So most things that happen is miscommunication crazy shit. 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.319 Corey Bell example, right? 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:09.599 Cat Williams tour. 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:11.519 We are not about to talk about this. 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:12.799 Don't do it, Swad. 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.880 It was it was guilty by association, right? 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:21.440 I showed up to a place where the motherfucker that had different intentions on what I had. 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:28.240 It wasn't nothing I had planned, but because I was there with this particular individual, it makes it seem like we're in cahoots. 00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:33.119 But anybody that knows me know I go 99% of the time everywhere alone. 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:34.640 Yeah, I'm never with people. 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.839 And that very reason is why I'm never with people. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.680 And that's why you won't see me with people again in the very next future. 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:48.079 Here's the thing, Sean, since you know we want to, you know, we we're talking about Sean. 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.119 There's a reason that Sean happened. 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:57.440 That was not a misunderstanding, it wasn't a miscommunication. 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.240 Sean is the victim of circumstance. 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.759 Always, right? 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:12.000 Seaning came because Sean is one of those people where this is this is Sean. 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.599 We had the comedy show. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:24.000 Comic on stage, the comic does five jokes, this comic comes off stage, the comic comes over to the side, and then you'll see Sean go. 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:26.720 Real talk. 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:29.440 No bullshit. 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.640 I did that very joke on Death Comedy Jam. 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:36.160 I have the tapes to prove it. 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:38.720 I had I did that joke on Death Comedy Jam. 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.559 I still have the joke book at home right now. 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:46.720 Bernie Mac read it first and said that's the joke that you ought to do. 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:55.200 And I, you know, I'm not telling you not to do it, but I don't want everybody that's in Chicago who already knows that that is my joke to do the joke. 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:56.880 I'm just pulling you to the side as a. 00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:59.440 Well, they're what you do if you fuck with somebody. 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:02.160 Ain't that what you do if you fuck with somebody? 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.640 So listen, listen, if you're not sure. 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:09.760 But if you've done it 46 times, but listen three weeks. 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.559 Okay, but listen. 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.199 But Sean, you didn't tell all the jokes. 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:14.559 Okay, so listen, listen. 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:25.119 Some of the jokes we, you know, some people, here's the problem that I have with with people who don't understand, and I'm not talking about Sean, I'm just talking about in general when it comes to stealing jokes. 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.440 Uh, one of the things is a lot of people don't understand the difference between a joke and a premise. 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.840 And you can't steal a premise, right? 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:34.480 I just said that this earlier this conversation. 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.280 The other, right, no, I'm saying that's just in general. 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:41.840 The other thing is, as a comedian, I'm from Chicago, right? 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.239 I'm consistently writing, I'm doing this. 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:52.480 If I get an inbox because a joke of mine went up, and a nigga from Utah is like, you stole Johnny Mae's joke from Utah. 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:53.760 I don't know that nigga. 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:56.239 Right, but y'all are in Chicago with me. 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:56.719 Right. 00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:59.920 So it's great minds think alike if you wasn't here with me. 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:07.119 That means every joke that I tested that I got the

receipts for were done here before they even made it to TV. 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:14.239 So to say that I'm capping and that I'm doing jokes around the same motherfuckers that is seeing it all the time. 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.360 And this is that shit was strong here because I live here. 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:20.159 Period. 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:38.239 And the reason that Shana happened, and the reason Michi mocked me since we're speaking on the subject of where how shining even started was Michi and a couple other comedians who would remain nameless all went up on a show and did shit very similar to my shit before I went up. 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:48.320 So I went on stage and I said, you know what, I'm gonna do this shit how I wrote, how I wrote it, because I had at a point got tired of jumping through my own fucking material. 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:53.519 Like, why do I have to adjust my set because everybody is doing something from it? 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:55.360 Why the fuck do I have to do that? 00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:02.079 So I went on stage and I did the bigger joke that surrounded the little snippets that they were stealing, right? 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:10.480 So they got because I so I go home and I was like, God damn, because now I'm mad, because you obviously stealing shit at this point, right? 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:20.079 So, and then at the at the end of the show, at the end of the show, at the end of the show, Michi comes up to me, he's like, Well, you know, you could have handled that more professionally. 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.039 I don't have to do anything, it's my shit. 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:26.000 I can handle how the fuck I feel like handling it. 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:29.119 At the end of the day, that's just what it is. 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:35.840 Now, it's a difference, like you said, it's a difference between a premise and a thought process behind it. 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:41.920 Pussy looking like Italian beef, nobody's been here since before Sean was a comedian. 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:46.400 I didn't come up with a pussy, but you didn't hear that shit before. 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:51.920 You never heard a beefy vagina joke prior to Sean fucking Morgan. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.079 And I challenge you to go find it. 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:56.159 That's the problem I've always had. 00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:58.239 Don't make it seem like I'm fucking crazy. 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:01.840 This shit didn't happen before me because you can't find the footage of it. 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:03.360 You can't find it. 00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:07.760 But then when I say something, you can't say you thought of Earth. 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:08.719 No, I didn't. 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:11.440 But I said that this part of Earth is whatever. 00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:12.960 It's just like with Michael Jackson. 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:16.400 Everybody made fun of him because of his skin color, his nose. 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:19.360 No one said he was a popular, uh, a nigga. 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.960 Nobody brought to attention that he was from Gary, Indiana. 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:25.280 Nobody said this is a real nigga here. 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:26.880 Everybody made fun of this nigga. 00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:32.639 I'm the first person to say, hey, you know, Michael Jackson was the first nigga to publicly deny a fucking baby. 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:35.760 Niggas was still taking care of children in the goddamn 80s. 00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:39.119 He was like, hey, Billy Jean, that ain't my motherfucking baby. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:49.840 Nobody said this shit before me, but now you got a hundred niggas doing Michael Jackson jokes, one of which went super viral on Chocolate Sundays, even using the same songs. 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.440 Now, if I say something, Sean Morgan's the fucking asshole. 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:56.559 I don't think as you saying something that Sean Morgan's the asshole. 00:37:56.639 --> 00:38:04.800 I think again, the reason, and let me let me go on record to say this, and I will say this publicly, and I have because I've said it for years. 00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:12.320 Sean Morgan has one of the coldest pens that I've ever seen on a comedian. 00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.280 Period. 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.280 When you did the Michael Jackson joke about mama say mama, let me not say it because a nigga might do it tomorrow. 00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:22.159 You know the you know the joke I'm calling. 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.360 You know the dead. 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:27.360 Nobody else would have thought of that. 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:42.800 But some of the things that that you're saying, while true, just because, again, you're the first time you're the first person that heard yourself say it doesn't mean that it's the first time that it's been said. 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:45.519 Now, when we're talking about Chicago, that's different. 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.519 Because these are niggas that were around you. 00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:51.039 These are niggas that's been around you since before I came around. 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:57.760 There are people who got jokes that are similar, that like Bo, Bo, Bo last name, uh, what's his name? 00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.360 Bo last name Dacious. 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:00.159 Bo Dacious. 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:00.480 Oh, yeah. 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:03.440 Me and that nigga got a hundred jokes that's the same. 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:07.199 But we sat down and we talked to each other, and it made sense. 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:08.639 We had similar backgrounds. 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.880 We stopped drinking around the same time, and we never did shows together. 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:14.960 So it was never a beef between us. 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:19.760 It was never a topic of conversation other than, hey nigga, that's funny as hell, because I got something like that. 00:39:19.840 -->

00:39:21.840 And he was like, Yeah, you know, I got something like this. 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.159 And it was only because I had shared. 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:25.199 Now here's my question. 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:28.880 There was no problem with us because we there was no connection. 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:30.559 But now here's my question, Sean. 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:32.239 Was it that was funny as hell? 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.199 Because I got something like that, or was it, you know, I did that joke. 00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:37.920 No, it wasn't. 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:39.679 Listen, we there was no plug. 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:41.440 There was no plug. 00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:46.960 And so Comic View, Comic View at that particular time, uh, especially 2005. 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:50.159 Anybody that remember 2005 was a crazy year for Sean. 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.920 That was the year I hosted 106 and Park when free and them quit. 00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:55.760 That was like a big year for me. 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.760 Like I was literally on TV a lot in that time frame. 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.639 So to say a joke with with um on Comic View at that time is different because that was a national platform that niggas was watching. 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:10.079 And that was all that they were watching. 00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.920 But right, but Bodation, there's no Def Jam, there's no Comic View, so there's nothing that I can affiliate with other people. 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:27.519 So I see people that I've never met before that do certain jokes, and I don't say shit because you're not from my town, but you're not gonna cap and say that we're from here and you've watched me grow for 20 motherfucking years. 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.199 I'm a nigga that didn't leave. 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:32.800 D-Ray left, all them other niggas was smart and they left. 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.199 I just sat my ass here and let everybody write off me if we're gonna if we're gonna keep it a book. 00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:38.159 You know what I'm saying? 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:50.639 And so to say that that ain't what happened, but you see the growth of the comedy between the time I was here when I'm gone and when I come the fuck back, the subject matter changing dramatically every single time. 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:51.840 I was just in Texas. 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.159 I was watching niggas sets when I was in Texas. 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.440 When I came back from Texas, now guess what niggas is talking about? 00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.239 The shit that I'm talking about when I came back from fucking sex. 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.079 So this is about to say something. 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:03.840 Oh man, here you go with this kid. 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:05.280 I've been watching y'all. 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:06.079 I've been watching this. 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.719 You know, this is gonna be. 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.400 This is gonna be a through line through season two, right? 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:12.000 It was season one, we were talking about this. 00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:13.920 Season two, we will probably put a pen in it. 00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:17.599 How many jokes have actually begun with the genesis of Sean? 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:18.719 Um, so we will. 00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:26.559 I don't want to discount it because in every industry, there are people, you know, like who changed the mind. 00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:29.760 You know, Bill Gates stole Microsoft. 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:30.960 So that's what people do. 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:33.039 And I never say it's a bad thing. 00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:35.360 I even justify niggas that steal. 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.559 If you, this is a zombie apocalypse in comedy right now. 00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:38.880 Yeah. 00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:40.159 It's a zombie apocalypse. 00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:45.519 So if you can't, if you can't create, this is the easiest time to steal nigga shit right now. 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:48.480 Because there's nothing, I no one can have the receipts anymore. 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.000 I've got receipts tapes with my shit on it. 00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:53.039 Do you understand? 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:58.480 And the blessed part about it is that I did so much shit so young in my career that I do have the receipts. 00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:01.280 So if a nigga do ask certain questions, I can't say that. 00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:06.320 Like it's a comedian mad at me right now for a joke that I said on Comic View 2005. 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:14.880 It was a, it made the greatest hits of 2005 when I said if a zombie apocalypse happened, I'd fuck a zombie and name the baby Lil Half Dead. 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:18.559 Nigga, nobody was talking about fucking dead people. 00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:22.000 But now you're talking about it, and guess who's the asshole? 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.280 Because I said, hey nigga, you know, I did that on Comic View. 00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:39.199 So yeah, you you you seen it 20 years ago, and you thought of it when you seen whatever dog fucking walking dead and it popped in your head, and now you understand why I don't watch other fucking comedians. 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:41.760 I don't say that it's with malice, right? 00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:48.800 But if you see some shit and you think it's funny, 10 years from now, if it popped back in your head and you're a comedian, you're gonna think you're funny. 00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:49.920 This is your shit. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.000 I'm not saying it in a bad way. 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.000 That's why I don't do it. 00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:58.480 That's why if you look at Prince and if you look at the time, them niggas sound alike. 00:42:58.639 --> 00:42:59.920 Prince just was bigger. 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:03.760 But more's day and the time and Prince had a very similar style. 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:04.079 Right.

00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:05.280 But Prince said it. 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.679 He was like, nigga, I don't listen to other people's music because I don't want it to influence my music. 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:10.960 And I'm the same way. 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:12.000 I don't watch other comedians. 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:13.440 So, so not like that. 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:14.559 I do, but I don't. 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:16.159 That's because that's my question. 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:17.199 That's where I'm stuck at. 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:20.320 Do we watch all the comedians or do we not watch any of the comedians? 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.960 Because if I say I don't watch other comic sets, now I'm not doing my homework. 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:25.360 Right. 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:28.800 Now I'm not, you know, I'm not studying to show myself approved. 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:32.239 Now I don't know, you know, the the signature jokes. 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:38.960 That and and not watching comics is the reason that you'll see a bunch of women pulling stuff out of their bra. 00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:43.360 Because they think that that's that's Yvette Wilson in 1990. 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:44.480 But that's what I'm saying. 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:58.559 But if you have a comic that's three years in the game and she is uh a 40 double J, and now she figures that man, this is what I do for real, but she hasn't watched comics, now we'll crucify her. 00:43:58.719 --> 00:43:58.880 Correct. 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.960 Enough will understand she never seen Yvette Wilson. 00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:03.280 Not that. 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:07.920 But if she's 40% as a comedian and do that, I'm gonna be like, come on, bitch. 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:09.679 Probability type. 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:11.840 But here's the thing. 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:12.880 How can you prove that? 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:13.599 You can't do that. 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:16.159 It's probability though. 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:25.519 Yeah, but so to crucify me, to crucify me because you feel that what I'm doing is malicious. 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:31.920 When the truth of the matter is, I'm thinking that this because it's something that I do, you know what I'm saying? 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.119 And this is I'm the this is the first time that I've ever seen it, is when I thought that I made it up. 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.440 To crucify me, it's is is not cool. 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.760 I'm not saying you're not necessarily crucified, but I'm saying that it's certain it's certain shit, right? 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:46.880 It's certain shit. 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.800 Like I seen a comedian, and I ain't gonna even say his name, say, I I love pussy. 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.719 I be glad when they put it in the can. 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.199 And my mouth instantly dropped open, and the joke murdered. 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.519 He was like, niggas would be shoplifting and shit. 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:05.519 And I was like, Yeah, but this is a signature bit, nigga. 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:06.400 Signature bit. 00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:07.199 You know what I'm saying? 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.800 This is some shit that everybody should know. 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:13.840 And the fact that motherfuckers don't, that's younger because they don't, they wasn't old enough to see Dev Jam. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:14.239 Dev Jam. 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.039 This nigga old enough to see Dev Jam, but the crowd wasn't. 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:19.119 So I understand the correlation then. 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.840 Just like if I see somebody, they've been a comedian like pretty skinny. 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:22.960 She's been a comedian two years. 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:26.480 Now, if she pulled something out of her titties, she wasn't even born with that joke. 00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:27.440 Doesn't matter. 00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.000 But if you're a crucifier, I can't even. 00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:44.320 What you're telling, but what y'all saying to me is if I'm a comic, my job, if I want to be a great, if I want to be amongst the greats, my job is to number one, study to show myself approved. 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:57.199 I need to know about the people that came before me so that I'm not walking in doing a Sean Morgan joke, doing an Adele Gibbons joke, doing a Monique joke, because the worst thing in the world is sitting there trying to write some shit. 00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:13.280 And after six months, you finally get it, and you stand in front of people that you admire, like a Sean or a ball head, or you know, the name, the big dog of Damon Williams, and you to make this crowd go up, and you go to that green room, and these niggas are sending that going, so you just gonna do a nigga joke in your face? 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:15.599 It's not okay. 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.280 We crucified Jess Hilary. 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:18.480 Yeah, who is Damon Williams? 00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:18.960 Yeah. 00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:20.480 We crucified Jess Hilary. 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:25.440 Well, we crucified her because she threw Damon Williams' name and something that had absolutely nothing to do with him. 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:25.840 Agreed. 00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:32.079 You wouldn't have to add a club treaty to watch shit on this nigga's career and who he is because this club didn't do you right. 00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:32.400 I agree. 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:34.320 So yeah, she deserved to be crucified. 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:40.400 I while I agree, and here's the the the the reason that, well, that that's neither here nor there. 00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:41.519 You're absolutely correct. 00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:48.079 But what I'm saying is people were making the the statement that Jess is not even old enough. 00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:50.559 Jess didn't come in the way that we did. 00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:50.800 Right. 00:46:50.960 -->

00:46:51.360 Jess didn't. 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.639 He was just on time joining the last year. 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:55.440 Doesn't matter. 00:46:58.960 --> 00:46:59.440 Agreed. 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:00.719 But what I'm the point that I'm saying. 00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:05.199 Here we go. 00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:06.559 Now why wouldn't you? 00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:07.199 Quite, quite. 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:07.599 Right. 00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:09.119 Exactly. 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:10.480 You don't know hamburger. 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:13.519 But why not? 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:15.920 Because they are all prominent figures too. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.519 When I was growing up and when I walked in. 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:21.039 But then Damon is still very relevant right now. 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:22.719 But this is not about Damon. 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:26.719 What I'm saying is study to show yourself approved. 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:31.519 People were giving to wanted to give Jess a pass because of her age and the way that she came into the game. 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:38.239 But if you're going to be one of the greats, are you supposed, I'm asking, are you supposed to study to show yourself approved? 00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:46.480 Or are you supposed to just say tunnel vision, do your writing, do what you're supposed to do, stay on stage, don't pay attention to nobody else. 00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:48.559 That way you don't sound like anybody else. 00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:57.840 Because if I go out there and do a joke and I say, I don't even come outside, I don't go to open mics here in Chicago, I'm not watching TV, I'm being a mother when I'm in home. 00:47:58.239 --> 00:47:59.440 I don't even know. 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:01.360 Y'all can't say I stole this joke. 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:02.559 I'm not even around. 00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:04.079 Nobody would believe that. 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:10.400 Niggas would be like, you gotta know that Adele Gibbons, what if I've never seen that joke? 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:11.519 That's what I'm saying. 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:14.320 All I'm saying is, Adele Gibbons lives in Kentucky. 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:16.960 You live here, so it's probable that you don't know it. 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:17.440 No. 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.639 We're all Adale Gibbons is one of the queens of comedy. 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:22.400 I know, but she hasn't lived in Chicago. 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:25.039 She's touring. 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:25.840 She comes to Chicago. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:26.320 Yeah, I know. 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:26.960 She'll be here too. 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:27.599 She got tweeted. 00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:30.800 Yeah, she got stuff all over on in and that stuff that she didn't even put up. 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:32.079 We put up clips of her. 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:34.400 Also, for me, I can't get that. 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:37.760 It's a difference between people. 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.559 We go to niche spot on Tuesdays together. 00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:42.639 We go to this spot on Wednesdays together. 00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:44.960 We go to this spot on Thursdays together. 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:54.639 So to say that four or five months from now, doing that is it should be acceptable, but you're here. 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:58.960 You're not doing why you're not doing this nigga from New York shit, if this is your P. 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.280 Now that seems more plausible. 00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.320 You know what I'm saying? 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:07.119 But you're asking for plausibility around people that you're around consistently. 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.079 And to me, that's just not, it's not a realistic thing. 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.760 And now the audience, I'll be uh honest, as an audience member, we wouldn't know. 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:14.159 Right? 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:33.679 We don't, we don't, we don't, we don't know until there is some sort of public conversation about uh, or unless you really are a lover of comedy and you know, like, okay, like that's the that's the let's move it along real quick as we wrap up because I know we can talk about the I was gonna say because you know we we can go. 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:34.559 I don't think anything. 00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:35.760 We have the full question. 00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:37.039 I blame some. 00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:39.119 I blame some. 00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:41.199 I I do it all the time. 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:42.800 Cat Williams tour. 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:43.280 Yes. 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:46.880 Is that the is that the biggest thing that you've done to date in your career? 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:50.960 That is absolutely the biggest thing that I've done to date in my career. 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:55.440 What are three things um lessons learned that you took? 00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:00.239 They can be all over the place, but three lessons learned from the Cat Williams tour. 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:04.239 The first lesson that I learned is that legends don't compete. 00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:07.599 Legends don't compete. 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.800 On that tour, I was the youngest person by far, both career-wise and in age. 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:20.320 Everybody that's on that tour has pretty much achieved everything on their list or they have the ability to. 00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:22.239 So they there is no threat. 00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:23.599 There's there's no competition. 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:35.679 What I watched is legends stand on the side of the stage all night, show after show, watching each other, high-fiving each other, big big up in each other as they came on and they came off. 00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:46.000 Even in the back in the green room, I watched a bunch of legends who I grew up watching, you know, race up and down the hallway, knocking on doors and playing. 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.719 Like I watched them be

kids, I watched them be human. 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:53.599 I watched them, so I learned that when you've achieved a certain status, there is no competition. 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.440 We're all going out there to put on a good show, is what it should be anyway. 00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:06.800 Um, one of the other things that I learned is that Cat Williams um showed me how to treat my team when it's my turn. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:15.039 When it's my turn, I he has shown me how to treat because he is, he sets the tone, right? 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:16.960 And everybody else falls in line. 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:36.079 From the day that I started on that tour, um, I was greeted, I was brought in, and I'm talking about from security to the caterers to the people, the sound and and and audio visual, to the people that's putting the stage up, to the drivers, the bus drivers, because of course he got, you know, the tour bus. 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:42.239 And I watched him set a tone and I watched everybody else follow that tone. 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:53.920 And that tone was being generous to people, that tone was being cordial, that tone was, you know, creating this family-like environment to where you would be comfortable so that you can go out and perform as your best self. 00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:58.639 And I watched people, if you did not fall into that line, you didn't really see them people. 00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.079 You know what I'm saying? 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:11.280 Because he that tour, those people made me comfortable and it showed me when it's my turn that I want to make sure that I set an amazing standard, and then I want those people to be just as amazing. 00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:26.239 I watched him, cat Big Williams, all of the security running towards his dressing room, and Tommy Davidson's daughter was on the side, and I watched him stop everything and get down low and just play with her for a minute. 00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:32.239 She had something, and you know, he he just stopped and shook her hand and like that kind of stuff. 00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:37.440 Like that humility, treating people like they're human, not like he's the big dog and everybody else's. 00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:41.760 So, and I watched that also from the other comics because I rode with Monique. 00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:42.800 Everybody know that. 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:53.760 And that's something that I learned from her as well is that you treat everybody, whether they are security or the owner of the establishment, you treat everybody with amazing respect and amazing love. 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:54.960 And you'll go far. 00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:58.960 You know, who you are off stage is way more important than who you are on stage. 00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:12.639 And the third thing that I learned on this Cat Williams tour would probably be um, because these are the biggest stages that I've ever performed on in my entire life. 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:22.639

We're talking about anywhere from 10,000 people to 15,000, 20,000 people is that the nerves never go away. 00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:25.199 They never go away. 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:31.519 When I the very first show in the beginning, and I thought I was gonna throw up on the side of the stage twice. 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:37.679 When we got to DC the last show, I still thought that I was gonna throw up because those people don't know me. 00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:39.039 They've never met me. 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:41.920 And again, now I'm back at Francis. 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.719 Gotta get these people to be quiet, pay attention to me because it's still coming. 00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:52.320 I'm early in the show, so you still got people that's settling, or you know, again, they don't know me. 00:53:52.719 --> 00:54:00.559 So now I gotta get their attention, I gotta get them to know me, and I have to make them laugh their ass off in eight minutes. 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:02.559 That was my challenge every night. 00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:04.159 So there's no script for that. 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:04.960 You can't write that. 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:09.199 You gotta go out there, look who it is, and you gotta hit the ground running immediately. 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:10.800 So the nerves never go away. 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:18.800 And I think that when you get to a place where you don't have the butterflies before you go on stage, don't get on it because there's a sense of arrogance. 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:24.800 There's a sense of arrogance almost like you don't really appreciate the audience that's in front of you. 00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:31.840 Because again, you don't know them, you don't know what they came from, you don't know if they spent their last to get these tickets, you don't know what they need from you. 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:39.360 And your job cannot be, you can't be so arrogant and so caught up in how great you are that you think that, oh, this is gonna be a breeze. 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:40.559 You don't know what those people need. 00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:43.280 And that stage will humiliate, it will humble you. 00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:45.199 So I'm I'm just grateful. 00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:50.400 I'm grateful for such an amazing opportunity because I've been on other tours and I know what it's like. 00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:59.599 I've seen what that's like, but to be able to share a stage with all legends, people that you grow up watching, like that. 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:00.400 It's crazy. 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:01.840 It is crazy. 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.199 You know how cool it is to skip race hanging with Mr. 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:11.760 Cooper or to walk past Tommy Davis and he just look at you and yell, shoot! Like he does that. 00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:18.239 Like this is, you know, uh red grand, like these people are you you get to see the human side of them. 00:55:18.639 --> 00:55:21.840 And that is that's the dopest thing

ever. 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:23.039 It really, really is. 00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:24.639 And and I'm grateful for that opportunity. 00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:27.039 So, Corey, you say you've been on other tours. 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:31.360 What's your advice for young women comics that are going on their first tour? 00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:33.519 What to expect versus what's the reality? 00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:34.719 What would you tell them? 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:40.000 That's a good question. 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:51.199 Um, set your standard. 00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:55.119 You know, you don't have to accept everything that's handed to you. 00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:57.519 Again, I'll say it just like I did in the beginning. 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:03.039 The women, you know, we we the little man on the totem pole, especially black women. 00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:08.159 And sometimes they think that we should just, you know, be happy for the opportunity. 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:12.079 But if you work your ass off to be there, it's okay to stand on that. 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:12.960 Be confident. 00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:19.039 You don't have to be arrogant, but be confident in what you do and never stop writing. 00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:20.800 Never stop writing. 00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:26.800 Because that pen, you might fuck around and write somebody else's joke. 00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:27.360 We don't want that. 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:28.559 No, I'm joking. 00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:32.639 I can do that to Shine if I want to write. 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:41.519 But I I think that you just make sure that you set the standard and and set and and be okay with setting boundaries. 00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:43.199 It's okay to say no. 00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:50.559 And I'm not talking, I'm just talking about to what the pay is, uh, the what what's being offered, what the package looks like. 00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:54.880 If it if it's not conducive to you, be okay with saying no. 00:56:55.119 --> 00:57:02.800 Because if you take everything that somebody is handing you, the person that's coming behind you, and now you're big, they're gonna be like, well, she took it. 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:05.519 I got so-and-so to do it for less. 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:06.400 Well, go get them. 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:08.880 You gotta be okay with walking away from stuff. 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:10.400 Have you walked away from a tour before? 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:11.440 Absolutely. 00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:12.559 Absolutely. 00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:13.599 A tour? 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:13.840 Yeah. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:14.559 Not a tour. 00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:15.920 I haven't been on very many tours. 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:17.679 Monique took me out first. 00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:18.000 Okay. 00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:20.639 Um and showed me the ropes. 00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:25.119 Like, really showed, like, we really she really showed me the ropes. 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:30.239 Um and then

after that, you know, I did my own little tour and, you know, stuff like that. 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:36.400 But as far as like big tours, I I haven't turned down a tour, but I've turned down shows with big names before. 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:36.800 Okay. 00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:51.119 Because they they thought that, you know, I wasn't worthy of, you know, what either what I was asking or what they were trying to get me to do was perform with them in front of their sold-out theater for exposure. 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.000 And Comed ain't never took exposure. 00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:55.920 I thought that's right. 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:57.199 Never. 00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:59.760 We've yeah, we've shouted out Monique. 00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:02.880 I do want to ask favorite uh lady comedians that you don't have. 00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:04.400 Damn, you you in my mind. 00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:09.280 I was just about to ask her your top five favorite female comedians to watch. 00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:12.960 So I'm not saying the best, I'm saying your top five favorites to watch. 00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:14.239 The ladies that make you laugh. 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.719 That's so that's that's so hard. 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:26.079 Because you can go anywhere from um uh a Samora and Adele Givens to a Roseanne and a Margaret Show. 00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:32.239 If you pull up some some comics, like everybody has their own, their own thing. 00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:38.800 Um some of my favorites though, if I can be honest, yeah, Local Jicks. 00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:42.800 That's local Jicks, everybody knows Justinesha is the is the crowd favorite. 00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.760 Yeah, she she is super duper funny. 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:46.960 I love to watch her. 00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:50.719 Um, I love, I'm I'm a big Adele Givens fan. 00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.840 I'm a well, I'm a fan of the Queens of comedy. 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:54.320 Okay. 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:56.239 Because we watched them put that work in. 00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:57.440 All four just the three. 00:58:57.599 --> 00:58:59.840 Nope, all four, including Miss Laura. 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:03.760 Including Miss Laura, because Miss Laura was the host, she was the glue. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.000 You know, she held she had to hold it together. 00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:10.320 That was the first person I saw snatched their wig off unapologetically. 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:11.280 She didn't. 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:12.719 Yeah, you know. 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:16.320 Yeah, I really feel bad for how shit kind of went for her. 00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:17.679 She deserved a little bit better. 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:27.119 I I well, from what if you listen to Miss Laura's story, um, I remember her and Adele Givens talking about it very candidly on Clubhouse. 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.719 She didn't want to do comedy, she walked away from it. 00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:32.719 Um reasons though. 00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:37.039 I mean, well, well, yeah, you know, she was co-hosting Comic View and different shit like that. 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.760 Uh, but this business will run you out of it. 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:41.920 I mean, I done wanted to quit about 17 times. 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:43.039 No, you quit. 00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:44.559 You retired at least six times. 00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:45.119 Twice. 00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:48.480 But a lot of a lot of things that you put your heart into will run you out of it. 00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:49.039 You know what I'm saying? 00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:51.519 Because you feel at some point you deserve X. 00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:57.039 Do you, but yeah, but do you know how many times that we've shown up to shows and given our best? 00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:04.880 And the$75 that you was promised, a nigga will tell you that the door didn't do what you what you thought it was going to do. 01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:16.880 I think the most heartbreaking thing is watching you all try and open a room like from the back end and it not like the comedians are there when the bars are and the chairs are empty. 01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:17.599 Then there. 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:18.159 It is it is. 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:21.679 Yeah, the motherfuckers gotta pay out. 01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:23.360 I'm still gonna pay it. 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:24.880 That's really heartbreaker. 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:32.320 But but but to have the privilege of seeing the comedy business from behind, this shit is not funny. 01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:43.440 And it's not fun, you know, like to see what people do to invest, and all that you all have to do, and the audience not showing up, or it's too far, or it's a restaurant. 01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:48.880 We don't have comedy clubs, so you all literally are thugging it out out here. 01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:59.760 You all are saving people's businesses, which really infuriates me how comedy is used to uh we we can't sell crab legs on Tuesday, so we're gonna need you to come and help us sell these crab legs. 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:00.559 But it's literally. 01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:04.159 We're the most exploited out of the city. 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.880 I completely prostituted. 01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:07.119 Yeah. 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:07.360 Yeah. 01:01:08.400 --> 01:01:24.000 There's no one who gets treated worse in the comedy, I mean, in the entertainment industry than a comedian because even with a a rapper, he might, you know, be shitted on on his record deal, but he can still tour and do whatever. 01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:25.760 Or be a feature on somebody else's. 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:27.280 I can't feature on Sean said. 01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:32.639 Can you imagine me coming out in the middle of Sean said, like, hey, ladies and gentlemen, ignore his joke? 01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:35.440 Right now, like Sean, do a difference. 01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:36.960 But it does not happen.

01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:44.079 And niggas, niggas make more money than us at our game. 01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:49.360 And when we ask for a fairer share, it becomes a thing. 01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:49.840 Yeah. 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:50.880 You know what I mean? 01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:54.639 Like, I I I went to yeah, yeah, but nah, like you, you different. 01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:56.239 No, no, I'm not saying me, but you. 01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:59.519 If I'm flipping a scream, I'm gonna make more than the people working putting it back together. 01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:01.119 So, really, at the end of the day, they're doing the work, dude. 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:02.000 Okay, I'm gonna give you an example. 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:03.440 There's always an element of that outside. 01:02:03.679 --> 01:02:04.559 I'm gonna give you an example. 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:05.039 Yeah. 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:12.079 There was a comedian, I mean not a comedian, a promoter who used to sell out shows very consistently, right? 01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:15.920 So it was, let's say 300 people. 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:16.239 Okay. 01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:18.079 I'm just saying that for a round number. 01:02:18.159 --> 01:02:18.320 Yeah. 01:02:18.559 --> 01:02:22.480 Now, this nigga won't give me$300 with$40 and$50 tickets. 01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:24.639 Nigga, that's a dollar a person. 01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:25.440 Right? 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:28.559 So when when he asked me to do it, I turned it down. 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:30.159 So then he asked me to do it again. 01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.800 He said, Well, what would it take to get me there? 01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:34.639 I was like, nigga, at least this. 01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:40.400 And that's still gonna limit your time because you're giving me bare minimum money, I'm giving you bare minimum time. 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.280 So his response to me was, Well, I'm the reason that the people are here. 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:48.960 And I said, Well, I'll be the reason that they come back next month or not. 01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:56.079 So you can, we can play this game, and I'll go up there and eat shit on purpose and see how many of these niggas come back next month. 01:02:56.320 --> 01:02:58.880 So, yeah, you getting them, but I'm keeping them. 01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:01.440 So that's called a partnership, nigga. 01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:05.039 Not dictatorship or whatever shit you're trying to make this shit be. 01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:11.119 But unless there's a thousand people that can keep getting 300 people in there, that person does hold some value too. 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:12.639 Yeah, I'm not saying he doesn't. 01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:13.199 I'm saying we are. 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:14.719 We are. 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:26.079 That's that's always been my challenge, even with, and really a lot of times, because I just like to entrepreneur and do different things, it's always been my challenge because I don't think we

see the partnership in it. 01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:26.559 Right? 01:03:26.639 --> 01:03:29.360 Like because niggas is too busy trying to get over it. 01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:37.599 So to be honest, with the exception of people like you who are fair, or Mary Lindsay who is fair, comedians typically don't fucking like promoters. 01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:38.800 Yeah, we just don't. 01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:48.079 Yeah, because when we walk away and we say no, what I learned was when when if I have to say no, truth of the matter is I'm probably gonna take my ball and go build a court. 01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:58.000 Right that's normally what happened when they wouldn't let me on the stage, it's very early on, and they wouldn't wouldn't allow me, or they would and here's the funny thing they'll pay you in drink tickets, yeah. 01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:02.880 And then when you are a bigger name, but you're an alcoholic, they don't understand why. 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:05.199 Yeah, well, this is how you paid me, right? 01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:06.639 And now I'm drinking. 01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:12.320 This did y'all didn't have no money, but you gave me some wings and made sure that I stayed lit. 01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:13.840 And now I'm falling no longer. 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:16.719 Right, right. 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.760 Now I got high blood pressure and alcoholism. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:24.400 But what happened was very early, I was maybe two years in and they weren't letting me on those stages. 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:37.199 And the reason, let me be very clear, especially to the comments that are out now, the reason they weren't letting me on those stages because back then, stages had to be earned, they were not given. 01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:43.920 There was no false sense of entitlement that just because you walked in a room that you were entitled to that stage. 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:45.679 I don't care if it was an open mic. 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:56.400 You know how many times that I went to a Wednesday night at Jokes and Notes, signed the list, bought two drinks, wasn't even drinking, but I knew that that would move you higher on the list. 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:57.840 No wow and never met. 01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:02.079 I made Jokes and Notes stage one time during an open mic. 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:04.639 I've only performed on that stage twice before they closed. 01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:08.400 And that was because the stages were earned and not given. 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:11.280 So when that didn't work, guess what I did? 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:20.639 I took my ball, I went to Lansing, and I created the biggest Sunday night for three years straight, completely sold out. 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:21.840 Completely sold out. 01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:22.800 What's five was that for? 01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:24.800 That was uh so was Sundays at Tilly's. 01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:25.360 Yeah, Tilly. 01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:26.880 And that was you. 01:05:27.039

--> 01:05:27.360 Yeah. 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:27.840 Okay. 01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.840 And so I did that because I needed, number one, I did it because I needed a stage. 01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:34.079 Right. 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:42.800 And number two, I wanted to make sure that I was able to put something back in other comics pockets because I know what it feels like to not want to get a stage and not have one. 01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.360 And to, you know, and to need that little gas money. 01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:46.719 You know what I'm saying? 01:05:46.880 --> 01:05:47.039 Yeah. 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:48.639 So that's what you gotta do. 01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:52.960 But hey man, it's all a part of the process. 01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:54.639 Even the L's. 01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:54.960 Yeah. 01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:58.239 It's all you know, you know, with that, we we do have to wrap it up. 01:05:58.320 --> 01:05:59.760 So I'll go around the room, you know, kicking. 01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:00.880 It off with you, knowledge. 01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:04.400 What do you what is that that you have to say to the listeners, the viewers? 01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:06.480 Um, festival, right? 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:12.639 What's funny comedy festival is back for year two, September 14th through the 21st, Sunday to Sunday. 01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:16.159 Got some new exciting uh things that we're bringing to the festival this year. 01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:21.599 Of course, you can expect shows, panels, but we got some few, a few surprises that we're gonna bring to the table. 01:06:21.760 --> 01:06:27.039 I'm talking to that young lady over there right now, trying to get her to host one of the shows. 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:33.039 Uh, we're actually going to be doing this what's funny, uh, today's show during the festival. 01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:38.960 Um, not sure who the guests are gonna be, but we're gonna do that in front of a live audience at least one time, maybe twice. 01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:48.000 And so, again, just making things bigger and better on the comedy side and trying to make sure that we contribute and continue to contribute to Chicago comedy. 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:56.480 Shout out to my partner Lil Rail, who's also um making it happen as well and investing his time to make sure that uh we create something dope for the city. 01:06:56.719 --> 01:06:58.800 The festival announced the icon award this year. 01:06:58.960 --> 01:06:59.119 Yes. 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:00.960 We did, we did appreciate that. 01:07:01.199 --> 01:07:08.639 Um Corey mentioned it earlier, but we are going to recognize with the What's Funny Comedy Festival Icon Award, Bob Sumner. 01:07:08.960 --> 01:07:10.880 Uh Bob is an OG in the game. 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:30.960 And when you think about what we talk about in urban comedy, uh Russell obviously was the plug, but if Bob didn't make his way around to these different cities and hit these comedy clubs to find these comedians that are absolutely household names today, but we would assume it would have happened, right? 01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:32.559 But who knows? 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:33.119 Right? 01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:41.840 And so the fact that that platform delivered so many of our uh comedic stars to us today, we just wanted to make sure that we recognize Bob Sumner. 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.920 So he's excited, and so he will be here participating in the festival that week. 01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:53.440 We're gonna definitely uh put some things together so the audience can kind of hear his story and hear some of basically urban comedy story. 01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:54.880 Super excited about that. 01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:56.239 So shout out to Bob. 01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:57.360 All right, Sean? 01:07:58.079 --> 01:07:59.199 I have nothing. 01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:04.400 You have something, Sean. 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:09.360 Nah, uh just continue to uh watch the podcast. 01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:11.760 I mean it's funny. 01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:21.359 This is gonna sound like the Sean Captain shit, but you know, clearly even the podcast has had a pretty, pretty uh big influence on other podcasts. 01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:27.920 So uh hopefully we can continue to uh if I said I'm a dick. 01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:31.600 So I literally had niggas walk up to me. 01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:35.520 You remember the shit you said about nigga, we was on the podcast talking about this shit. 01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:36.399 Somehow. 01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:40.640 But if I said I'm a dick, so we got more in the bag though. 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:41.359 So we ain't worried. 01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:56.720 You gotta be okay with being a dick, though, Sean, because it it wouldn't be if you were any other person, we would be like, who the fuck is like like when you came back, when you left and came back, we were a little worried, and then we was like, you know what? 01:08:57.039 --> 01:08:58.159 Yeah, this dude all right. 01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:00.399 Like, yeah, it's gonna it's gonna be all right. 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:04.800 So, Sean, I'm gonna be very honest, and I know it ain't my turn yet, but we do appreciate you. 01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:06.560 We appreciate your pen. 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:15.520 We appreciate what you do because when you come to those stages, people are sitting on the edge of their seat because they don't know what to expect from you. 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:17.520 That's the honest to God truth. 01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:24.800 The way that you write and the angles that you take, you do pioneer and inspire quite a few comics to go on. 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:30.560 You're the type of comic that other comics watch and they say, shit, I wish I would have thought of that. 01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:33.600 Or I'm gonna go to an obsidian studio. 01:09:34.960 --> 01:09:36.000 One or the other. 01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:37.359 One or the other. 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:46.159 But I think

that nobody, you know, even with with all of the old man shit you do, which is you then all of the fuss and is to get out my yard. 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:53.600 You you you don't get the credit you deserve for the creativity and the original shit that you do come up with. 01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:56.800 And I want to make sure that I do say that because I appreciate you. 01:09:57.039 --> 01:09:59.439 I've already told you, you already know you're one of my people. 01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:00.800 You're one of my favorites. 01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:06.000 So um I'm going to always give you shit from now on. 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:09.520 Because if I don't, then who's holding you accountable? 01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:14.800 You fuck around and had a nerd and be saying something, be like, Sean, come on, bro. 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:16.800 Like, like we get it. 01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:19.520 But you a lot of that shit you've earned. 01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:20.640 You've earned that. 01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:24.800 So, you know, take that shit and and and do with it what what you wish. 01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:28.239 But yeah, keep complaining because we're gonna keep saying on your ass about it. 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:28.800 That's funny. 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:30.720 Sean complains on stage. 01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:35.840 Love me now, support me now, because I'm not gonna give a fuck about y'all in a minute. 01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:36.640 He is Larry Emo. 01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:40.159 Yeah, that that that was that. 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:43.199 So now I'll wait for her to play my name. 01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:46.560 What you what you got going on? 01:10:46.800 --> 01:11:07.119 Um, so the um yeah, so the the uh Cat Williams tour is over, and I have jumped out of the water to kick off my own very first kind of mini tour, which is called the best friend tour, because I'm going around to a couple of cities and I'm taking some of my funny best friends with me um to different cities and giving people that opportunity. 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:10.800 Yeah, yeah. 01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:13.920 I love this nigga so much. 01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:15.840 I'm doing a tour. 01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:19.439 I love it. 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:22.159 I don't want no fucking dumping. 01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:24.880 No, I'm I'm happy for you. 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:26.079 You deserve every bit of it. 01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:31.199 And I I tell people that, and I'm I'm giving you your flowers, but I do it anyway. 01:11:31.359 --> 01:11:49.359 Um when certain people's names pop up, uh, I'm automatically gonna jump in and be like, these people, all the complaining and shit that I do is because I I I know that a lot of these people are taking the lazy route and they have the talent to do it. 01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:52.560 They just being lazy and doing other shit. 01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:54.239 So I always give you your props. 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:55.920 I always give Nishday props. 01:11:56.000 -->

01:12:03.920 And and everything that I said here, I say in front of anybody in any city, Chicago breeds the best comedians in the world. 01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:04.880 Period. 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:08.720 And and we will continue to, and it's because of the disrespect. 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:10.399 You didn't call it what it was. 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:14.159 It's the direct disrespect to the comedians that we faced. 01:12:14.479 --> 01:12:18.319 TVs on while a nigga is trying to do a show is disrespectful. 01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:18.880 It is disrespectful. 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:20.560 You wouldn't do it to a nigga you respect it. 01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:24.159 If Kevin Hart came in, they would cut the fucking TV off. 01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:28.800 If a nigga came in that they actually respected, they wouldn't do the same shit too. 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:31.600 So that's what we fight through being disrespected. 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:31.920 Yeah. 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:32.239 Yeah. 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:33.600 Niggas don't even understand. 01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:35.039 We write and help other niggas. 01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:36.000 We're better than them. 01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:39.680 But because they're more popular, you respect them, so you listen. 01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.159 But us, you'd be like, man, foot, then nigga, cut the game both. 01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:42.560 Right. 01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:44.319 Niggas will turn their back on you, right? 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:46.399 Like, I know it ain't no stage, nigga. 01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:50.960 You just spent$7,000 to take it on, nigga. 01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:51.199 Right. 01:12:51.520 --> 01:12:52.560 Just give me a shot, bitch. 01:12:52.720 --> 01:12:55.439 So yeah, the the Best Friend Comedy Tour is kicking off. 01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:57.039 We did New York, sold out New York. 01:12:57.119 --> 01:12:59.680 I did Naples, Florida on Tuesday. 01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:12.399 Um, flew back here yesterday to watch the premiere of Standby, which a movie, which is a movie that's produced by Barry Brewer and his wife that he put a bunch of comedians on from Chicago and otherwise. 01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:14.640 Um, so that should be coming out really soon. 01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:18.000 And then this weekend, I'm in Detroit next week, Nashville. 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:22.319 Um, and I am officially a part of the What's Funny Comedy Festival. 01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:23.520 I'll now be operating. 01:13:24.960 --> 01:13:27.039 And quite a few, not just hosting one shows. 01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:28.319 I'm just gonna be showing up to shit. 01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:30.479 Like, oh, you didn't ask me to be on the panel. 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:31.680 I'm now on the panel. 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:32.880 Oh, you didn't ask me. 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:34.159 Yes, I'm scared with shirt. 01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:34.720 I love it. 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:36.640 So uh you guys hear it here first. 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:51.199

Whatever is going on with What's Funny uh Comedy Festival, I will be actively involved in because up until this time, we didn't have people to, they cared, but they didn't have the capacity to give Chicago the shining light that they did. 01:13:51.279 --> 01:13:55.039 So to knowledge and to Lil Rail, and I know that every year will be bigger. 01:13:55.199 --> 01:13:58.079 We are grateful for you on behalf of the comics and Sean. 01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:00.239 Um we are grateful. 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:02.399 Um he's gonna complain. 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:04.079 So I'm excited to be that. 01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:12.079 And God willing, um, when the fall tour kicks off with Cat Williams in September uh after the festival, I'll also be involved in that. 01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:14.000 So keep your fingers crossed with me. 01:14:14.319 --> 01:14:19.680 Um as always, you can check me out on the corner combo podcast, tap in with me at Kells The Yogi. 01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:23.680 You know, what yes, we're right 341 Spotify. 01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:25.680 You know, this is this is a family effort. 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:26.560 I love being here. 01:14:26.640 --> 01:14:29.520 I share this space with uh my homegirl, Mindy B. 01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.399 Um tag her, Marilee. 01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:32.800 Marily. 01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:36.399 Uh it's a lot of the it's a lot that goes into this production, so I'm always very grateful. 01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:43.039 I do hope to get a seat at Rails show this year, because last year I could not, I couldn't even get in. 01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:43.680 I couldn't get in. 01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:48.079 I was on the show and couldn't get in. 01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:49.039 I had a ticket. 01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:51.520 And it was like getting no ticket and no good. 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:52.720 I was like, wait a minute. 01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:55.439 This doesn't play well for the what's funny comedy company. 01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:57.199 Yes, it does. 01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:02.319 What it says is that the city showed up and came down and bad. 01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:05.359 So I'm letting you know now, whatever camera I'm watching. 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:14.239 Listen, when the shows post the links, get your tickets because it is a sight to see this goes down in Chicago history. 01:15:14.399 --> 01:15:16.560 So I'm letting you know you want to be in the building. 01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:19.119 Don't wait like we did and be like, oh, I'm a comic. 01:15:19.279 --> 01:15:20.239 I'm gonna be able to do this. 01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:22.000 There are no tickets at the building. 01:15:22.159 --> 01:15:23.119 You're gonna buy the tickets. 01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:24.640 There is no guest list. 01:15:24.800 --> 01:15:24.880 Okay. 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:25.760 So let's go. 01:15:28.239 --> 01:15:30.399 That's the Serena that was doing damage controller. 01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:32.880 I'm gonna get no taxes for guest list. 01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:33.600 Guess what? 01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:37.520 It's going to be an amazing festival. 01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:38.880 And again, I'm excited about it. 01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:39.840 Appreciate you, Clay. 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:41.439 It was it was a good time in the parking lot. 01:15:41.520 --> 01:15:42.000 That's it. 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:44.159 I just went home like red. 01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:46.319 I just, my grandmama gave me that thing. 01:15:48.079 --> 01:15:49.039 Oh my goodness. 01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:54.000 With that, um, like, share, subscribe, tap in, and we will see you next time. 01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:55.840 And again, welcome to season two.