Funny without Swear Words | Comedian Quincy Carr - ListenUp Podcast

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Hello everyone, I'm Al Neely with Listen Up Podcast, and today we have comedian Quincy Carr.
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Uh, if you don't know Quincy, let me let me give you a little bit of background about him.
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He's known for quality comedy, and he's gonna have to explain that to us later, but it's basically profane free.
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Um it's comedy that can um uh you can it's for families.
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Um we talked about you uh uh doing shows at churches, so it's something he's chosen to do.
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However, he's also a TV host, a producer, and a philanthropist.
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Um being here in the Hampton Roads area, he is a Navy veteran, and that's how we got him.
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So he joined the Navy, he came and he stayed, so we appreciate that.
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Yeah.
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Um, what you've done in the area as far as commie is concerned.
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It's a lot of a lot of talent in this area.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Right, and I don't think people understand.
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Um, he's appeared on various acting and various acting roles on stage and on television.
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Um, I want to hear about the stage because I've done some stage.
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It's really it's it's completely different, you know?
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Stage like like like uh like acting, right?
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But like Julius Caesar type stuff, me?
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Or or like mama, mama, don't let the belt hit us too hard.
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Probably more like the Julius Caesar, you know, more like that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So um you may have seen him as a character in A Raisin in the Sun, um, Walter Lee Younger.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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He's appeared in um on HBO, Max, True TV, CBS, ABC, and Prime Video.
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He has produced and directed various specials and shows.
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He's a writer, a producer, and a host of his Brainchild.
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Yeah, right?
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Yeah.
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Quality comedy show with Quincy Carter.
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Okay, um, there's still more, but I'm gonna ask that you visit his website at Quincy Carr.
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And um welcome.
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Yeah, Quincy Carr.com.
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Uh yeah, thank you.
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Thank you guys for having me.
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Um, it's been pretty cool, and this is just interesting because we we're both uh in the same positions that our football teams are in, sitting down.
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That's right.
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Right.
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So yeah, um, a lot of my family's from Philly, so yeah, um I'm Dallas Capital.
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Yeah, he's from Texas.
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What part of Texas?
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Austin.
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Okay, well, that's pretty much yeah.
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Like, well, look, but but understand this about Austin.
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When I left Austin in '94 to join the Navy, yeah, when I would tell people where I'm from, yeah, they would say, Where?
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And I'd say, Austin, the capital.
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And they'd be like, huh?
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Because Austin was not recognized at all.
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You you knew Dallas, Houston, San Antonio.
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Right.
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Now you say Austin.
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Everybody knows Austin.
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Like it's no question that Austin is that city.
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Um, you know, I'm extremely proud of the city.
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Um, but now it's like a miniature LA.
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Like the last time I went back, the comedy scene is growing.
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Um, a lot of music artists, a lot of celebrities have moved there.
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So um, you know, like I'm not too happy about if I ever had to move back, but I am very proud of the city.
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Because it's just it's it's just a lot of outsiders that are in the city now.
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Yeah, I've Texas's population has grown quite a bit.
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Oh, big time.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I I I don't know.
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Uh oil.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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Is that what it is?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So let's talk about quality comedy.
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Yeah.
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And uh why you've chosen to um produce comedy where you don't use profanity.
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Because you know today, yeah, you know.
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It's so you get up there with Aries Spears and Dave Sapo.
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Right.
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Everybody's uh So the way I came into the game, I remember my mom went when I told her that I wanted to do comedy, right?
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And my mom said, Okay, well, as long as you're not out there just talking crazy and ridiculous.
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This is from the same woman that every movie and everything she watched had profanity in it.
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Oh, okay.
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So, yes, yes.
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Like my mom and my dad, uh, you know, but as long as you ain't out there talking crazy, but that's the type of stuff that I would see her, oh Lord, I mean this is funny, you know.
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So it was interesting that that was what she had told me.
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But in the back of my head, I think that stuck.
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And so even though I started out using profanity in my performances, um one day, probably about three years in, um, I was doing like this workshop night at this comedy club.
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It was one of the uh original comedy clubs here in this area before they closed down, but it's called the Thorough Good End Comedy Club.
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And a lady came up to me afterwards and said, Hey, uh, I would love to hire you for our church.
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And I'm like, Church?
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I'm like, didn't you just hear me on stage?
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And she was like, Yeah, I heard you, but as compared to the other comics, we know that you're you're funny can still be funny without the profanity.
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And I was like, Really?
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Of course, I go, I rock out that church, and I didn't, you know, I wasn't talking about church stuff.
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I was just doing my material, I was doing what I knew and what I was comfortable with.
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And that was the the catalyst, like that was the first sign that okay, I can still be funny without profanity, although I still kept using profanity in my shows after that church uh gig.
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It it's what allowed me to understand funny is funny if it is funny.
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Although that didn't come from me, that came from this club owner when I was trying to figure out how I can be funny in front of the black audience like I was in front of the white audience.
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Because the comedy club I started out was what they call quote unquote mainstream comedy club.
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And when I would perform in front of an urban audience, I didn't get the reception that I would get from a mainstream comedy club.
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Yes.
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Okay, because you know, black folks, like we are so tough on each other.
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You show up on stage, we got our arms crossed, we're like, all right, you see what this brother is gonna do, right?
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And I never had to deal with that just stepping on stage in front of a mainstream or predominantly white audience.
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I could just come and just be me and they're attentive, just waiting on what whatever I was gonna say.
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And so I struggled with okay, how do I relate to the all-black audience?
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Because I know I come across as like a square or I look corny, you know.
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And this uh this club owner said, uh, that's your problem.
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You you think comedy is white and black.
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Comedy is about just reading your audience and being funny, but don't disrespect your audience.
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So if you notice, a lot of times, and it happens today, it's a huge pet peeve of mine.
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Um, but comics will change when they see the audience dynamic has changed.
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So if it's a predominantly white audience, whether the comic is white, black, or whatever, they come out, hey, what's up, guys?
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When the audience is predominantly black, you can hear the comments.
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Oh, shoot, there's more black people.
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I gotta come raw.
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I can't just write.
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Okay.
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And that for me made sense with the level of don't disrespect your audience.
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And I'm a black person, so I respect the power and the influences and the education that black people have.
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There's judges, there's lawyers, there's law enforcement, there's politicians, there's all types of prominent people, principals of school.
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And we think just because they're black, oh, I can dumb down my stuff and just talk nasty and raw because that's what they want.
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Once I realize funny is funny if it's funny, it doesn't matter what you talk about, just read your audience and be funny and relate to them without disrespecting them.
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Okay, so you've been you've been uh doing stand-up for 26 years, you say?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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When did the late 1900s?
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I'm old, bro.
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Yeah, okay.
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You don't look like it, but um bless you.
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Yeah.
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Moisturizer.
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Moisturize, that's right.
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I learned that from Steve Harvey.
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Yes, sir.
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Moisturize.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Um when did you know you had to go through a period?
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When did you know, okay, I'm funny?
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All right, it doesn't matter.
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Ooh.
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And you could get up there with any crowd, and it didn't matter.
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And so I can do this for a living.
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Yeah.
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Solely.
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So my very first time getting on stage, so just a quick backstory.
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My first civilian job, I'm in telemarketing, right?
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Okay.
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And I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna bring everybody up too.
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When you were in the Navy from when to when?
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All right, so I was in the Navy from 94 until 98.
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So I got out probably just short of four years.
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Texas.
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Texas.
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You joined the Navy.
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To Chicago for boot camp.
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Oh, yeah.
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And then out here for my first uh uh uh set of orders.
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Okay, and you stayed.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so you started comedy right around I started comedy the year after I got out, so in 99.
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Okay, all right.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I'm in my first civilian job, and this uh girl, Trisha Villafranco.
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I never will forget her name.
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She's actually from San Diego, and uh she actually moved back to San Diego some years later.
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So I was being the person that I've always been, I'm assuming, class clown.
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I'm the person like I'm I'm always kind of making folks laugh, doing stuff.
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And mind you, I never once ever said I would be a comic.
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Never once thought about acting, being in TV, because I have a stutter.
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So a lot of people don't know about this.
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I don't stutter in front of people I don't know.
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That's what allows me to go on the radio, to do TV, shoot scenes and uh uh shows or movies because I don't know the audience.
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It's once I get a chance to know people, my brain says, okay, relax, be you.
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And now I'm trying to get words out.
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So stop laughing at me, bro.
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All right, but because I don't know you yet, I'm not stuttering in front of you yet.
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Yeah, and that's that's not right.
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No, no, no.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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You know, that's what people do.
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They just start laughing.
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Yeah, thank you, sir.
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No, so so I I never once thought about stand-up comedy or talking publicly because of my stutter.
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And I was being the person I was being, and she said, Quincy, have you ever thought about comedy or stand-up?
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And I'm like, no.
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She said, because you're funny and you always keep us laughing.
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I think you you should try it.
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And I'm like, yeah, no, that's never gonna happen.
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So our supervisor said, hey, we have a department.
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Um, um, it's not a hang hangout, it's a um uh it's when the department says that we're all gonna go out and like together, team building.
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Okay.
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So it was a team building night, and it was gonna be at the karaoke bar wannabes, which I think is still somewhere in here, okay, Virginia Beach.
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And it said, everybody, because we're all in telemarketing, we have to talk to customers to be comfortable, everybody has to go and and and do a karaoke song.
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And I'm like, oh hell no.
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I I don't sing, I ain't gonna do all that in front of people I don't know.
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And this was, you know, kind of like a redneck bar, right?
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So it was like the two blackest things with me and a microphone stand that was in this building.
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So I'm in there and I'm listening to my coworkers sing, nobody is reacting to them, everybody's still playing pool and doing whatever.
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And so I choose a song that I feel comfortable with, Michael Jackson, right?
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Beat it.
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So I loved Michael Jackson, he was my idol when I was younger.
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I said, you know, if I'm gonna embarrass myself, I'm gonna do it to a song that at least I can have fun with.
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Right.
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And I knew I couldn't sing, so I go up there and I said, okay, instead of singing, how about I distract people by reenacting the video?
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So the knife fight, Michael sliding across the pool table.
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I was doing all of that.
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And then I was doing, of course, the Michael Jackson mannerisms, I was doing all that.
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Before I knew it, the people that weren't really paying attention to anybody else singing, now they're entertained.
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They stop what they're doing, and everybody is watching me do this song.
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And by the time I was done, standing old people are they whistling, cheering.
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And the girl, she comes up to me and says, if you don't do what God has blessed you to do, you just got this whole group of people who don't know who you are to stand up and cheer for you and applaud what you just did.
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You need to go do comedy.
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And that's when I I I kind of felt like, okay, maybe I can be funny in front of a bunch of strangers, not just in front of my co-workers or my classmates that kind of know me.
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You weren't embarrassed in the least bit?
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No, no.
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I mean, I think I think comedians, we tend to always try to find comedy in ways to break up how uncomfortable we are.
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So, like my wife always says, like, can you just be serious without always having to make something about comic be like, I don't want to be dramatic.
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Like, like, like if I feel like somebody's about to cry, like, hey, uh, chicken nuggets, like, like, like, I'm just making up something just to break up the monotony of just being dramatic.
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And so comics will tend to, in uncomfortable situations, try to break that uncomfortabless with some type of laughter.
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And I think that's that was the first time that I realized, okay, I think I can be funny in front of people.
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Yeah.
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Had you studied any other comics prior to that?
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Mm-mm.
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No.
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Mm-mm.
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Have you since?
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Um, once I started, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, because keep keep in mind, uh, VHS tapes were still in in the late 1900s.
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Uh okay.
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So I don't know how old you are.
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We're not gonna tell everybody how old you are, but you're gonna indirectly tell everybody how old you are.
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Bro, this is 99.
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Blockbuster video was still letting you rent VHS tapes and DVDs.
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So I would go rent some VHS tapes.
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I was looking at the Red Foxes, of course, the Richard Prior, okay, the Eddie Murphy's, and I was just watching.
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Now, mind you, I grew up in high school watching BT's Comic View, obviously Def Jam, uh later, you know, Bad Boys of Comedy.
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So I watched comedy shows.
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I watched the TV show Martin, all those shows, Cosby shows.
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I was a fan of funny.
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I just never considered, you know what?
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I can do that.
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I can be the person that makes everybody laugh.
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Right.
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And so yeah, I started studying videotape, um, just watching comics, and then I did what most comics, most young comics do.
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I think, well, shoot, I don't have a set, so why don't I just take what I saw as funny and then maybe try to adjust it and turn it into my own thing.
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And that's called obviously stealing.
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So I started out in my first which we know some people got upset with Steve Harvey about that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, like well, you know, it's it's it's not something that you want to be known for.
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As a matter of fact, I'll always give uh a shout out to the this guy, he's from this area, uh Rob Ribel.
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Yeah.
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Um he was one of the uh veteran comics at the time when I started at that club.
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And about a year or two into it, um I didn't know that they were there was some chatter behind my back about, yeah, I mean, like, yeah, he's making people laugh, but he's still in people's like that's material that's oh really that's stolen.
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And I didn't think that that that was a problem.
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Like a lot of young comics, they don't think it's a problem to do what somebody else has already done because singers can do that.
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A singer could hear a song and say, I'm going to cover that.
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Yeah, and they'll get all types of love if they covered it and they sound great.
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Comedy, you just can't do that.
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You have to be original.
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So I didn't know that.
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And then it wasn't until Rob Robert, he pulled me aside and he said, Hey dude, um, you're a funny person already.
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Like you have great stage presence.
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He said, I don't know why he told me.
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He said, You're a good-looking guy.
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So I'm like, all right, all right.
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He said, But you got great stage presence and you're funny.
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I said, you don't want to be known as a comic that steals material.
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You want to come out with your own material.
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And my the very first bit I ever wrote was a bit about my stutter.
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And to this day, that bit hits every time because by the time I start talking about my stutter, no one would have even guessed that I have a stammer or a stutter at all.
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Right.
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Because up to that point, I'm talking and I'm just kind of flowing.
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And once I tell them that story, and then I go into these other examples of my friend who stutters and all that, like folks just are floored by it.
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Uh, but that was the very first original bit that I wrote was about me stuttering.
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And from that point, I said I never want to be regarded as a person that takes other people's material, and I would always start writing and paying attention.
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So yeah.
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Uh where did you get your inspiration for your your jokes?
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Uh life.
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Okay.
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Life.
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And and I think I think that's what most comics do.
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Yeah.
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But I think the the gift is how you see it and you view it.
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Yeah.
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I guess that's what makes it your own.
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Because I I I think several people can look at one person and see a lot of different things that they find humorous, right?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like, like life to be life is is is comedy just waiting to be told.
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Yeah.
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And if you can't look at life and laugh at life, then you're probably a very miserable person.
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And uh yourself.
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Huh?
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Or yourself, right?
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Which is how you guys started, right?
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Right.
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Just just just just understanding that, you know, just like this message that I I have, and I've I've always probably since 2016, I strive to be perfect and end up being human.
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Right.
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So I started uh um embodying embodying that message because I was being judged so much for things that I'm like, I mean, I'm just a human being, I'm gonna mess up.
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But as long as you're okay with understanding you're gonna make a mistake, that's where a lot of our life's experience comes from is mistakes.
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But although we try to be the best people we want to be, we end up being human beings.
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So I just look at life.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, that's okay.
00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:19.759
So quality comedy.
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Yeah.
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Um talk about how you you what you're trying to accomplish with that.
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Okay.
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Um and uh it's it's it's centered here in this area, right?
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The Hampton Rose area.
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Right.
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Which is uh one of the things that I try to do is I'm trying to bring recognition to area, and I've like I said, there's quite a bit of talent here.
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Absolutely.
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We just don't have um a lot of avenues for getting exposure.
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But what you're doing is one of the the definitely something that um will get the area exposure, but talk about quality comedy.
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Yeah, so and and then yeah, so the quality comedy uh brand, um sorry.
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That's right, I got you allergies.
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Yeah, uh, so the quality comedy brand kicked off in 2008 when I started my company, Quincy Carr Inc.
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Okay, and the brand of it was quality entertainment and barber services because I was also a licensed barber.
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Um and barbering was my first love anyway, like before comedy and anything.
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So when I started my business, you know, I was already doing comedy.
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I said, okay, I'll just keep this as a hobby, but about to get into this barbershop world, I'm about to tear this thing up, right?
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So my my business uh uh uh uh slogan was quality entertainment and barber services.
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So when the funny bone, um, the Virginia Beach Funny Bone, they offered me my uh uh first show.
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Um, like my show to produce and to bring there.
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This is eight, nine years into you starting.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Well, so let me see.
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So 2010 is when Funny Bone offered me my first thing.
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And mind you, I was the first comic in the area to open up the Funny Bone Comedy Club when it came to the uh Hampton Roads area back in 2005.
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So New Year's going into 2005, I was the first comic that was the host.
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And it was me, uh Bob Cat Goldway from the Police Academy movie, and this guy named Chris Porter.
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Obviously, Chris Porter's been on Last Comic Stand, and he's a big time comic now, and we all know who Bob Cat is.
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So I have been a part of the funny bone since the very opening uh day when they came here.
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In 2010, I had already been a part of the uh uh venue, and the manager at the time said, Hey, um, would you like your own show, your own night?
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I'm like, Yeah, I guess.
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And I said, Well, what can I call it?
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He said, I mean, just call it something.
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I'm like, nah, I'm not gonna do what most uh comics would call their nights, and I didn't want it to sound like it was a black night or it was a night that is like it's this weird night.
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So I said, you know what?
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My brand is quality, quality comedy kind of has a nice ring to it, so I call it the quality comedy series.
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And the very first show I did was a PG 13 show, so it had some light cursing, not anything harsh.
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The very next show I did was uh I had two uh church-based comics.
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Um, one was a headliner and one was a feature act, and that was gonna be my first ever all clean show.
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And that show became my most packed show.
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And it was at that time I said, I think I know what the staple of the quality comedy series is gonna be.
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It's gonna be all clean adult humor.
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Okay.
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And so that's kind of how the quality comedy series uh began.
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But that's what that's what really solidified what quality comedy was gonna be about.
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And so from there, um, you know, I'm 15 years in or 16 years in uh doing that.
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I I I left the funny bone in 2017.
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I moved it over to Dave and Busters, and I just took it to another level um at Dave and Busters.
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And um, yeah, and I've been rocking ever since, but yeah, clean adult humor that can go anywhere.
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So whether you're in church, whether you're at a like on a cruise ship, whether you're in a comedy club, just be funny and challenge yourself.
00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.000
Um, like I get a lot of comics that are these comics got names.
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Like I brought Omar Gooding, Kuba Gooden's brother.
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Really?
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Yeah, like he had just started doing comedy probably about two years prior to me bringing him about two years ago.
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And I met him through a mutual buddy, and I told him, I said, Yeah, so my show is no profanity.
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Well, he curses a lot.
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And he says, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, Quincy, yeah.
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I can still do it.
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I'm like, okay, cool.
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I mean, I got Omar Gooden about to come here.
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We packed the place out, and I remember him saying that he was fine, but I could tell he was a little bit uncomfortable.
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It was after that show, he said, dude, you don't know how crazy this is.
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Like, you're the first person that ever challenged me to not curse, and I had an amazing set, but I was nervous because I had never not cursed on stage.
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Yeah.
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And he said, You challenge me, and man, like I feel comfortable.
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Like, if I ever needed to not curse, that I can do it with no problem because of you.
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Uh Coco Brown, she she told me the same thing.
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Um Coco said, like, I started out not cursing, and then of course, you know, I said, you know, F that, you know, I'ma just be me.
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She said, doing your show.
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Um, I didn't want to disrespect your brand because um I respect you for what you're doing.
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And the fact that you still hired me, knowing that I don't have anything that shows that I don't curse.
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Yeah.
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And she she rocked it and killed it, but she also at the same time, she said, thank you.
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Like, like, like doing your show showed me like I don't really need to do the cursing, but it's just what I'm comfortable with.
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Okay.
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But I could still rock out so that brand of quality comedy, with which is now officially trademarked since 23, so I own the trademark to it now.
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:42.319
That's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Um, are your parents still alive?
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.519
Yeah.
00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:46.079
Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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My biological dad, he passed away in 2020, but I didn't know him that much.
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But my stepdad is still.
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But your mom, what is what does she think about your comedy?
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Well, first of all.
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Because she, like you said, you grew up watching her watch like Richard Pryor and Yeah.
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I mean, she's just as proud as any mother would be.
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My issue with her, and I think she knows this, uh, she's now on Facebook.
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And this woman in her 70s is liking every single thing.
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She's gone back and liked stuff from years ago, commenting on it.
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Well, I wish I would have known about this.
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I would have loved it.
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But Mama, get off of Facebook.
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Get off.
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And then, you know, or she'll do something crazy like she'll comment on what somebody else has commented on my post.
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You know, like, I'm so happy.
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Thank you for enjoying my son's work.
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It wasn't always this easy for him.
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Mama, mama, get off of Facebook.
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70 years old.
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Yeah, 70.
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Just I just want to be in the know because she wanted to do it because our family reunion uh has a group uh page.
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Right.
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And of course, a few of the family members and uh some of her uh peers are on Facebook.
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So she said, Well, I want to be on Facebook too, so I can see what y'all are saying, and da da da.
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But it's like, Mama, just close your account because you are uh uh uh really into a lot of this stuff, and it's like it's kind of uncomfortable, okay?
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:23.839
But yes, sweet, sweet woman, and everything I do, she is behind the still calling me, you know.
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:25.279
I'm in my late 40s.
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Sweet, sweet son, my sweet Quincy, sweet baby.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.680
Yeah, yeah.
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That'll never change.
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.960
All right, so your wife and your daughter.
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Yeah.
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:35.920
Okay.
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You're at home.
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Are they like, okay, dad, you're funny or just stop it?
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They joke on me the worse.
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:45.519
Really?
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:50.960
Like, yes, my daughter pulls no punches, like she'll talk about my teeth.
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She'll talk about dad, you got some big teeth.
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Not knowing that she got big teeth too, you know.
00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:07.519
Yeah, I mean, I mean, but she she just got her braces off, so now, you know, like she all like, oh no, I got the I got the perfect smile.
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:12.079
But like her, my wife, like they joke on me and they and they keep me honest.
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:17.039
And my wife will always say, uh, somebody gotta keep you humble around here.
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:17.440
That's right.
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So I'm like, man, y'all be, you know, like blow my head up a little bit.
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:26.640
Now, my daughter, the first time she saw me perform, it was at our family reunion.
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Our family reunions always uh do an entertaining night where the people have new talent or something.
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And because I organized it, I just hosted this particular deal.
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And it was her first time actually seeing me perform.
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And I remember her coming up to me and saying, Low key dad, like you pretty funny.
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:48.799
That's right.
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:51.119
Yeah, you know, and I'm like, oh really?
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.799
She said, Yeah, I mean, you you pretty funny.
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And I'll say, Okay, all right.
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:01.519
That's right, she a teenager now, so this girl knows everything.
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Oh, I know, I know, I know.
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Six seven.
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Sick of that.
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Six seven, six, seven.
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Oh, I know, I know, I know, I know.
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Be like, yeah, you don't know everything.
00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:17.759
Yeah, you uh how how long you perform on cruise ships?
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:19.119
How long have you been doing that?
00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:20.720
Uh since 2018.
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Ironically, uh just short of a month to the uh the date that I got out the Navy.
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So I got out in July of '98.
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I got my first cruise contract, August of 2018.
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So yeah.
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You did it during the pandemic?
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.839
Uh no, no, no, it's right.
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:44.960
Well, so I did it for about a year and a half and then the pandemic hit.
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:45.359
Okay.
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:47.119
I was actually on a cruise ship.
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We had done the Panama Canal crossing.
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So it was a ship that left from LA and they were coming to Miami.
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So going through the Panama Canal.
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When we were going through the Panama Canal, that's when we started hearing something about, man, that's some crazy disease.
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:15.119
They said that you have to wear uh either a mask or you've got to keep your throat, your throat, throat moisturized with water so you don't get this disease that could kill you.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:16.160
We're like, what?
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What are they talking about?
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:22.160
And when we got to Miami and went through customs, that's when we saw people got on masks.
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:24.480
Now they really, hey, where y'all coming from?
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:26.480
Because y'all bringing in to the States.
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.880
So I was on a cruise ship when it was really going down.
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And then um, and then everything shut down around March.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.640
That's good.
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.079
You weren't out there.
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.559
No, no, but yeah, man.
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:39.759
Um what is that like?
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:48.880
I I got my first cruise contract in 2018, the same time that I got my very first TV uh performance on True TV.
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It was a show called Laugh Mobs, Laugh Tracks.
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:58.880
Um the creator of Def Jam, his his name is um oh man, I just drew a blank.
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.920
Uh not not Russell Simmons.
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:06.160
Um back to me.
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I'm sure folks comments is watching, you don't remember his name.
00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:23.680
Um, but uh like he he uh created the second coming of his Def Jam thing called Laugh Mops, Laugh Tracks, where you take the comedians' jokes that they're telling on stage and you add acting to it.
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:39.359
And so, yeah, so while you're watching it, yeah, um, it starts with the comics setting up their story, and then what you're watching is the actors reenacted as we're telling the story on stage.
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:45.920
So it's like it was a pretty cool concept, and uh, but it lasted for like two or three seasons.
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:50.240
So I think I got on it on season two, and I got two episodes out of it.
00:32:50.400 --> 00:33:00.319
And a buddy of mine, when I was taping my episode in Chicago, he hit me up and said, Hey, remember I've been trying to get you on these cruise ships, man?
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.279
And I would always be like, No, I'm not trying to do those six-month contracts.
00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:05.519
I've been in the Navy, I'm not trying to do ships.
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:12.319
And he said, Hey, my he said, the agency is trusting me to send them referrals.
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.680
And I'm telling you, you're guaranteed to get on.
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:17.359
Send me your 10 minutes.
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.039
And so I said, you know what?
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.119
What's it gonna hurt?
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:28.559
So I sent them my 10 minutes, and before I knew it, they uh immediately um categorized me as a headliner on cruise ships.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.799
And this was a person at the time, I still didn't have any TV credits, I didn't have anything that would make me be a headliner.
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:38.640
So, worst case scenario, I would start off as a host, right?
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:46.400
Yeah, and no, they saw what they saw, and I I told him, I said, bro, like I think they made me a headliner.
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:47.279
And he said, What?
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:51.440
He said, Man, you know how long I have to be a host before I got bumped up the headliner.
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.880
I said, Yeah, but like funnier than you.
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:57.599
It's like, what did they see?
00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:03.599
And he said, Man, they must have gone deep beyond that 10-minute clip that you sent.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:05.519
They must have looked you up or did something.
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:11.840
I'm like, because I have no credits, I have no major TV credits, no, no anything.
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:25.199
And so, uh, yeah, like when I got the cruise ship thing, that that ended up being much better than the road comedy life going from club to club to club, because now it's a different ball game.
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:31.920
Yeah, all expense paid, you're traveling to these countries, you're performing for people from all over.
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.719
Um, and the paycheck is much better than a comedy club.
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.559
You probably don't have too many expenses.
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:39.920
No, no, travel.
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.360
No, it's all good.
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:46.159
And I mean, I don't have to do but like a week or two um at a time.
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:48.880
So it's not even like a three, six-month contract.
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:53.360
No, it's just one week or two, two weeks, and you're back home.
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:56.000
Is it one cruise line or is it multiple ones?
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.840
Uh so I only do one main cruise line.
00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:01.119
I've done two total.
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:07.599
I've done Holland America and Norwegian, but Norwegian is my main one that I do.
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:14.079
I've I've chosen not to do Carnival and not to do Royal, mainly because they overwork you.
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:22.639
And I'm not, I mean, it's not a lot of work, but okay, so on average, I can do six shows in a seven-day cruise.
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:23.760
That's not bad.
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.159
Right.
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.559
Even if I had to do seven shows, it's not bad.
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:30.239
These other ships, you're doing an average of 12 to 14 shows.
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.239
So you're probably doing two shows a night.
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.400
And the show's only 25 minutes.
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:44.559
But comedy, what a lot of people don't know, it pulls a lot from us to give y'all this this material to laugh at.
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:52.559
And I love being a comic, but I don't want to work two shows a night, uh, seven straight nights.
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.039
And they also pay you a little bit less than what I get on the reads.
00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:58.639
So I'm like, I'm not doing all that work.
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.559
And some comics love it, but I'm not at that point in my life.
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:04.960
Like, work smarter, not harder.
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:05.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:08.639
So you've been doing this for a while.
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:09.199
Yeah.
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:19.119
How often do you would you say you write or produce material and for this for the cruise lines?
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:20.639
Oh shows.
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:22.719
It's a daily thing.
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.719
Like, I'm always observing.
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:29.840
I'm always like, there's there's something that you're always gonna see as funny.
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:36.000
Like, so I saw an older gentleman on one one of those slides.
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.320
I call him the slide of death, right?
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.840
It's the slide where the feet come out from up under you, and then you just drop down and you go around and you do all that.
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.599
So I'm like, what is he doing?
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:47.440
Like, you're out of your element, man.
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:49.760
Like, kids, young people can do that.
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.639
But I mean, it's a slide of death because you got to start out like this, so right?
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:56.960
Like you're about to be in a casket.
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:04.880
And then I don't like it because I did it one time, and the reason I don't like it is because the crew member played too much.
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.679
Like, hey, let's check your pockets, let's make sure you don't have anything.
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.440
You don't won't have anything happen to you.
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.000
Oh, we're about to, I'm gonna hang, what are you doing?
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:12.559
Right?
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:14.960
And then all of a sudden, then the floor drops.
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.159
And I'm like, oh, right.
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:17.840
And I said, I'll never do that again.
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:22.400
I said, I don't know about y'all, but I don't like the taste of my own pee.
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:24.719
It's ridiculous.
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:31.920
Come right up and like I will never, I will never do that again.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:40.320
So, but it's like material like that, or I'm watching grown people, you know, doing stuff that their bodies can't handle, like eating ice cream.
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:45.679
Like, you know, you're lactose intolerant, and you're just tearing this ice cream up on the cruise ship.
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.119
So I'm always watching, I'm looking at people, and they walking through the hallway.
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.400
Sound like the 4th of July.
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.960
Like, bro, your body can't handle that.
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:57.199
Why are you doing stuff that you can't handle?
00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:58.880
Trying to be young again.
00:37:59.039 --> 00:37:59.760
So yeah.
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.559
I guess they figure I'm not, I may not get another cruise.
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:06.320
Man, you know what, you may not have another bow movement.
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:10.000
I mean, putting putting your body through all that stuff.
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.760
But yeah, so I'm always, I'm always attentive.
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:18.159
Like, it's situations where, like, even on my travel days, right?
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:25.599
Right, um, I saw a lady, she jumped out of her cab uh before the cab even stopped.
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:27.679
I thought she was shooting a scene in an action movie.
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:29.599
I'm like, I'm on vacation.
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.239
I'm like, she got out, screaming, I'm on vacation.
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:37.360
And the crowd, you know, uh the cab driver's like, ma'am, ma'am, I'm on vacation.
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.480
You can't tell me nothing.
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:40.320
And he's like, ma'am, she says, what?
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:41.920
He said, your kids.
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.880
Like, you gotta get your kids.
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:48.400
Like, you don't leave your kids, you can't leave your kids in the car.
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:55.039
So, like, like I'll take situations like that, uh, being on plane flights, the travel.
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:57.840
So I observe everything.
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:04.000
And so I'll give you an example of the stuff I do on my adult show.
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:12.960
So, this lady, I saw an older lady, an older passenger, she slipped and fell, right?
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.239
Yeah, and I saw a younger passenger slip and fall.
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:23.440
The younger passenger that slipped and fell, every part of her body hit the ground like she was done, right?
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.679
Nobody cared about her because she's young, right?
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:28.159
Right?
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:34.079
I saw an older lady, I call her a seasoned citizen, been cooking for a long time.
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:45.920
I saw her hit the ground, and the way she hit, like her body was parallel to the like she slipped hard and hit every part.
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.639
Luckily, her head didn't hit, but every part of her body, she's laying on the ground moaning.
00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:52.559
Oh, and everybody's coming up to her, ma'am.
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.199
Are you okay?
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:58.960
Somebody called a paramedics, and I was over there like, you know what, I'm gonna turn this negative into a positive.
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:00.800
I'm saying, I'm a little turned on.
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:01.679
She shouldn't be laughing.
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:03.679
No, no, no.
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.920
No, like this is how my adult shows go.
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.440
This is I'm a little, I'm a little turned on by what I just saw.
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:16.480
I said, this woman just slipped, fell, her whole body hit the ground, and she didn't hit her head.
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:19.920
I said, I bet she can suck a golf ball through a straw.
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:24.000
You see how strong her neck was that kept my head put in the ground.
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:33.119
I said, and the crowd just bust out laughing because they never see that coming.
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:41.119
But that's that's how crazy my adult show, or that's like, you know, like I don't have to say the words.
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.840
I could just kind of use the innuendo.
00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:52.320
And so yeah, so I I I I I take the time to look at every situation and I say, okay, can I put this in my set tonight?
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.719
No, okay, maybe I'll save it for another night.
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:57.039
Yeah let me ask you, take it back a little bit.
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:57.519
All right.
00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:01.280
So why do you why don't you ever engage a heckler?
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:08.559
Uh so number one is because I always say I don't know the line.
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:11.760
There's a line that you shouldn't cross.
00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:16.159
I said, number one, um, I'll let the audience know.
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.639
Um I'm not a thug in any way, shape, or form.
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:22.079
I'm not trying to battle you.
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:26.880
I said, and what y'all don't realize is I grew up in a cul-de-sac.
00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:27.920
I'm very safe.
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.239
There's nothing thugged out about me at all.
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.320
Okay, so that's number one.
00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:35.199
Two, ain't nobody doing real security check.
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:37.760
Y'all are walking right in this room.
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.280
Nobody pat you down.
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:41.280
I don't know what you're coming in here with.
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:42.800
So I don't know the line.
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.360
There are some people where you just can't cross that line.
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:47.119
You don't know what they've been going through.
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.760
So that's why I don't engage heckless.
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:54.159
Now, will I address a heckler or a person that's been a little loud?
00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:56.880
Yeah, I'll do it in a way where it's like, hey, come on, sir.
00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.199
Let's, hey, look, the rest of the people want to enjoy.
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:00.960
But I don't really do crowd work.
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:07.360
I'm still even at my You're probably safe on a cruise line, but no, no, no, no.
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.760
Because there's some that want to be a part of the show and they want to Oh, yeah.
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:14.639
Because on a cruise ship, I'm like a celebrity.
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:20.800
Like I've gotten an idea of what celebrities deal with where they can't walk or go anywhere.
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:24.639
Like on a cruise ship, it's like three to five thousand people.
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:29.519
You're the person that has made folks laugh.
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:36.079
When they see you around, I could just be sitting and eating, and I can feel the eyes just burning through my head.
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:38.239
Because everybody's like, that's him, that's a comedian.
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:39.119
Yeah, that's a comedian.
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:40.960
Hey, hey, hey, are you the comedian?
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:43.440
Hey, I just want to tell you, you, you, you, you, you, you were great.
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:44.000
Da-da-da.
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:49.119
So everyone, when they come to your show, they feel like I got the comedian to talk to me.
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:49.360
Yeah.
00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:50.239
I got the comedian to talk about.
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:56.239
Now you gotta tell us what's the oddest thing that's happened to you when you were um because you are a celebrity.
00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:02.800
What's the oddest thing that's happened to you while you were on the cruise ship and you were just, you know, I'm need Quincy Car personal time?
00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:06.079
Uh a couple of odd things.
00:43:06.239 --> 00:43:18.960
Uh one, it was this horrible little young racist kid that came up to me and said, uh, hey, we enjoy your show.
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:21.920
Do you like, uh, can I tell you a joke?
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:28.000
And now I'm looking at his family members, like his you know, cousins and them, and they're like, this.
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:30.239
And this was one of those.
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:31.760
Right.
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.599
And this was one of those cruisers that was cruising out of New Orleans.
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:40.400
And unfortunately, you usually get your Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and all those type folks.
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:43.679
Not saying that those places are racist.
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.719
What I'm saying is they came from one of those cruises.
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.119
Not a whole lot of exposure outside of the state.
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:55.599
And so the first thing I said, I said, All right, yeah, because you you you wanted to tell me a joke.
00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:59.119
And he said, Um, how easily offended are you?
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:02.960
And at that Point, I knew as a black person, I said, All right, I know.
00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:09.360
Like he feels that comfortable with me that he is not even self-aware.
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:14.719
Yeah, that this is what we we say amongst us, not in in their face.
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:19.599
And so I said, just for kicks and giggles, tell me the joke.
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:21.599
And he tells me the joke.
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:26.639
And I'll be honest, I cannot remember this joke because I really just tuned him out.
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:32.880
I just wanted to see how far he was actually gonna be unaware of how he was talking.
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:33.199
Right.
00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:40.000
So he says it and he says the punchline, and his sisters and cousins is like, oh my God.
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:42.400
And he's like, What?
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:44.719
You know, Nana loves that joke.
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:46.400
Like we say it around her all the time.
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.719
And I'm like, yeah, this is a generational thing.
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:51.199
Like, y'all are just comfortable doing that.
00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:53.679
And so that's that's all I needed.
00:44:53.760 --> 00:45:00.079
Now, one of the craziest things that happened, I know I don't talk like politics and all that stuff.
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:06.320
So I'm on a cruise ship, and this was after 2020.
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:16.559
So there are some supporters of obviously the current president that had at that time uh uh 2024 hats, right?
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:23.199
Yeah, and so they were rocking the hat, and this one passenger was rocking the hat.
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:26.480
And I saw I spotted him when I was doing my first show.
00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:28.559
I said, Yep, that hat kind of stands out.
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:30.079
That's what I'm saying to myself.
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:31.679
But I do my thing.
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:40.159
A couple of nights later, the magician had finished his performance, and I'm up there just supporting the magician while he's doing his uh his merchandise sales.
00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:45.840
So I'm looking over the uh balcony down the stairs, and I spot the guy.
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.199
He's got his hat on.
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:54.159
He spots me and does this, and he taps his wife, and I'm like, oh God.
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:56.079
So I try to turn my back.
00:45:56.719 --> 00:46:02.159
I turn my back on the rail, and I'm like, yeah, and I'm just like, I bet they're coming upstairs, I bet they're coming upstairs.
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.920
He comes upstairs, he finds me, and he says, Hey, you're the comedian, right?
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:14.960
And I'm like, Yeah, but it really shouldn't have been that hard to tell it's not that many black folks or Norwegian cruise black.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:15.920
Right, okay, right.
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:23.039
And so I'm like, yeah, and he said, Hey man, just wanted to tell you, I really enjoyed your comedy, man.
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:27.599
Like, I thought that you were funny, and I'm like, hey, hey man, thank you, right?
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:30.719
Which kind of shows what this meant message is.
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:34.719
Stop judging, holding grudges, and pointing fingers at people that you haven't had a chance to meet.
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:35.119
Right.
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:46.320
I was doing that because I was like, oh, yeah, he's probably gonna come up here and say something crazy to me, even though I said nothing about you know his chosen candidate or nothing.
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:49.119
I just felt like that's what he was about to do.
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:51.280
And then it dawned on me.
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:56.000
I'm shaking his hand and patting him on the shoulder, and we're talking.
00:46:56.159 --> 00:47:02.320
So whoever has a camera could be taking a picture of me shaking this guy's hand and patting him.
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:06.480
They don't know what I said, yep, I'm about to be, I'm about to be done.
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.480
Because now it looked like I'm one of those, you know.
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:15.760
Uh so that was one of the most eye-opening moments that I felt like I had.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:23.840
It was a strange moment, but it was eye-opening because he just came to tell me, hey, I really enjoy your show.
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.000
And I said, Thank you.
00:47:26.159 --> 00:47:37.920
Yeah, you know, so yeah, so I've had some some interesting moments, but it's like I said, like when I saw that lady fall and uh everybody was just getting all nervous about it.
00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:44.400
I mean, there was a person that actually uh felt like he passed out during the show.
00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:44.719
Right.
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:52.559
I was I was there, I wasn't performing, but I was watching my uh uh homeboy perform, and I was just there just to support him.
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:54.159
And we're on the ship, right?
00:47:54.320 --> 00:48:05.920
And this dude, oh, like in the back of the room and falls out, and everybody's like and they gasp, and of course, my man is gonna say, hey, hey, hey, hey, let's turn the lights on, hey, let's let's let's get him some help.
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:09.840
And everybody's moving out the way, and he's passed out on the floor.
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:12.880
We don't know what happened, whether he had a heart attack or what.
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:18.079
They call for the medical team.
00:48:18.559 --> 00:48:21.440
The medical team is coming down.
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.559
The medical team is clumsy as hell.
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:30.800
The first guy that, the first guy that cut, I can't make, I cannot make this up.
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:39.519
The first guy that the first responder that's coming, he trips like just outside of the door.
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:47.119
All we hear is whatever he had in his hand, just spread all over the floor.
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:50.000
Meanwhile, this guy is still passed out.
00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:51.679
The medical team needed help.
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:52.400
Right.
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:56.000
This guy's this guy is still passed out.
00:48:56.239 --> 00:49:02.480
People trying to fan him and like it can see he has a pulse, but he's not conscious.
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:11.119
And then the doctor behind him, the doctor behind the first responder, he he slips and falls on top of him.
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:12.800
This is all true.
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:19.119
So the doctor and the first responder are both rolling on the ground holding their knee.
00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:30.960
And I promise you, I swear to God, the dude that was passed out, I just have to imagine he realized he wasn't gonna get the medical attention that he needed.
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:31.920
Because he came too.
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.280
He was like, you know what?
00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:34.559
I'm good.
00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:40.400
This dude was passed out, not conscious at all.
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.760
And either it hit him in his head like, hold up, these are the people supposed to be saving me.
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:46.880
You know what?
00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:48.079
I'm good.
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:51.039
And then, of course, the comedy show continued.
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:53.039
Like they said, y'all want to keep the comedy show?
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:55.280
And this is how these people on vacation are.
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:56.320
Uh yeah.
00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.800
We don't care about them passing out.
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:00.400
Finish your jokes, man.
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:05.760
So yeah, so I see, I see a lot, and I always try to turn tragedy into comedy, man.
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:09.039
Like it's it's it's the one thing that keeps me sane.
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:10.960
Yeah, a lot of people right now.
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:12.639
It's just a lot of tension.
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:13.199
Yeah.
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.639
A lot of oh man, it's just a whole bunch right now.
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:22.639
So going to a comedy show is definitely um can be a highlight of a week.
00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:29.519
Um talk about um is it Coastal Comedy Live?
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:30.800
Coast Comedy Live?
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:30.960
Yeah.
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:32.400
Yeah, Coast, Coast Comedy Like.
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:32.719
Yeah.
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:33.199
Okay.
00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:34.239
Talk about that.
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:35.599
So tell us what that is.
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:50.239
Yeah, so Coast Comedy Live is is like a uh uh I want to say it's the second part to the um lifestyles and entertainment weekday show called Coast Live.
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:51.440
Okay, okay.
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:57.519
And uh that's April and Chandler on on the channel three on the on on the CBS affiliate.
00:50:57.679 --> 00:50:57.920
Okay.
00:50:58.239 --> 00:50:59.519
What is your involvement?
00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.079
So I'm okay.
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:09.199
They were the first show that ever gave me an interview regarding my quality comedy series.
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:09.679
Okay.
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:24.960
Of all the shows here, I mean of all the TV news stations here, channel three, and I'm putting it out there, channel three is the first one that ever helped me promote my quality comedy series.
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:25.599
Awesome.
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:33.199
I had asked other ones, and it didn't, it wasn't as important or it wasn't as big time enough to give me a shot.
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:45.280
Now, maybe because Coast Live was a new morning show at the time, and so they wanted the stuff, but from that relationship in 2017, we just grew.
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:56.079
And then in 2019, I got hired on what could be considered a competition lifestyle and entertainment show, Living 757, on the Cox on the Cox platform.
00:51:56.239 --> 00:51:56.559
Okay.
00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:07.599
So I thought that our relationship would be weird, but we just all agree, hey, I won't talk about my show on your show, and we won't talk about your show on our show.
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:13.360
Because I brought a a certain level of entertainment every time I would do an interview.
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:28.880
And then anytime I have a show and I'm promoting a show, I bring the headliner and me and the headliners on the couch, and then I give all the information about the show, but the audience gets a chance to see a teaser of why they should come out to my show to see this headliner.
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:37.440
And as that evolved in 2022, the GM that had just kind of came over there, I think his name was Adam Chase.
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:38.880
He's no longer there.
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:48.400
Um, but he had reached out to me, was in New York or something, and said, Hey Quincy, um I'm in New York.
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:50.159
I know you don't know who I am.
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:56.480
I'm the vice president of broadcasting there, and your name came up in a room.
00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:58.400
I'm like, what?
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.159
And he said, uh, I want to do something different.
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:08.559
I want to bring a comedy show to our TV station, but nobody's ever done that.
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:16.400
And when I brought that up, people mention your name as the person that can probably help get this done.
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:37.679
Now, I'm shocked at the same time, but I'm like, okay, so I guess I have laid down some decent groundwork here in the area, and um kind of brought to them the idea of how I produced a comedy TV show um at the Funny Bone back in 2014.
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:47.199
And I said, if we can use this format, so the format is the comics would perform, and after they perform, they'd sit down and have a conversation on the couch.
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:52.000
And it was so it kind of resembles a late night TV type of set.
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:52.559
Right.
00:53:52.960 --> 00:54:00.800
And man, we've we've done four total seasons uh 22, 23, 24, and last year.
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:09.440
And then we even started doing um a New Year's special version of the Coast Comedy Live, and we've done that for two years straight.
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:15.199
So on the credits, um, it says quality comedy provided by Quincy Carr Inc.
00:54:15.599 --> 00:54:27.920
And then um my name is listed as a talent coordinator, so that's the relationship that I've had with them since 2017, Coast Live, and then Coast Comedy Live has been a part of that as well.
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:42.079
So I'm very fortunate um to be in a position where I have that level of access, but at the same time to have my name mentioned in a room of people that I didn't even know were talking about me.
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:42.480
Yeah.
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:51.599
And for the president of broadcasting to contact me and say, hey, I want to do this, and you were one of the first names that someone says talk to Quincy.
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:51.920
Yeah.
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:52.880
I'm like, whoa.
00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:53.679
It's a blessing.
00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:54.320
Yeah, man.
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:54.639
Yeah.
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:55.119
Definitely.
00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:55.840
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:55.920 --> 00:54:57.119
So it's been pretty cool.
00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:58.239
That's awesome.
00:54:58.400 --> 00:54:58.639
Yeah.
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:05.119
So tell us about um your website is QuincyCard.com.
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:05.519
Yeah.
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:06.239
Okay.
00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:11.440
They can find the events, um, what you what events you have coming up.
00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:11.760
Yeah.
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:13.440
You can purchase merchandise.
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.440
What what else, what else do you have going on?
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:23.119
Yeah, so um you'll always be able to see like what cruise ships I'm gonna be on next, uh, just in case you're cruising.
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:23.440
Right.
00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:29.039
Um, every now and again I'll run into some passengers that are from the Hampton Roads area.
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:36.159
And it's always crazy because it's like we're like 5,000 miles away, whether I'm on an Alaskan cruise or I'm on a Caribbean cruise.
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.840
And I always mention where I'm from.
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:42.639
And I'll say Virginia Beach.
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:44.559
Somebody say, Where in Virginia Beach?
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:48.000
I said, Well, actually, I live in Portsmouth because don't nobody know Portsmouth.
00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:49.440
So I say Virginia Beaches.
00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:49.599
Yeah.
00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:51.519
Portsmouth, I live in Chesapeake.
00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:52.079
Wow.
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:52.400
Yeah.
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:59.360
You know, so um you'll see like where my cruise ships or which cruise ship I'm gonna be on next.
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:05.119
Um, you'll usually see where I'm gonna be, um, like if it's on land next.
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:10.960
And you can see like clips, like past clips of the things that I've done on my YouTube channel.
00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:14.000
Um, but yeah, so it's all there.
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:15.599
Like you can reach out to me.
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:20.880
I got my merchandise sales, whether my my t-shirts do really well.
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.119
Uh so I have an online store.
00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:26.880
Uh, so they can go to the online store, they can get a ball cap, they can get this.
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:38.880
But just overall, the message that I push with it is just letting folks know, hey, you know, we strive to be perfect, we end up being human, let's try to fix ourselves before we try to fix other people.
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:42.559
So if we can look in the mirror and say, let me be a better person, right?
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:48.159
Then it makes it easy to go out there as a better person, hoping you inspire somebody else to do the same.
00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:48.400
Right.
00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:54.079
Instead of sitting back and saying, You need to be better, you need to do this, be like, how about you fix you first?
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:54.639
That's right.
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:55.519
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:55.599 --> 00:57:00.239
So that into my dry bar comedy special, like that was pretty cool for me.
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:06.480
Um, uh, because I shot my own comedy special first uh back in 2016.
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:06.960
Okay.
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.519
Uh, and it was when I was turning 40.
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:11.599
So now you know how old I am.
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:18.639
So I was getting ready to turn 40, and and I said, nobody is coming here to give me a comedy special.
00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:23.199
After all these years I've been performing, I said, let me shoot my own.
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:35.519
So I booked a trip out to LA, got some inspiration, um, talked to a few people in the industry, and I said, Do you think I can shoot my own?
00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:37.760
They said, Yeah, why not?
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:38.960
And so I did.
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:41.360
In like three months, I had it all set.
00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:47.679
I shot it at the Barry Robinson Theater in Virginia Beach, and uh, yeah, it turned out great.
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:49.840
And it was called Too Young for 40.
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:52.960
Because everyone was like, You look too young to be turning 40.
00:57:53.119 --> 00:58:02.000
And then I used that time to kind of talk about my new relationship with my biological father at the time, um, prior to him passing.
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:09.199
Uh, and I just kind of just told a lot about me and how I was feeling turning 40 and the things that people never knew about me.
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:12.000
Um, so yeah, so that one was pretty good.
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:19.519
So when I got my dry bar comedy special, dry bar is a clean comedy platform that's worldwide, it's recognized worldwide.
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:26.719
So uh that that one got released almost, I want to say, a year and a half ago.
00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:31.519
Um, and that one is doing well, and that one is called I'm Human, I checked.
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:34.400
If the bear is black, fight back.
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.440
If the bear is brown, lay down.
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:43.199
The bear's white, good night.
00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:51.840
And then a grizzly bear is the next aggressive, and then the black bear, you can you know, fight.
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:52.400
You know what?
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:53.760
I'm black, y'all.
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:59.119
Um how about if you and the bear's home, you deserve to lose your dome.
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:06.880
So on that one, kind of pushing this message as well.
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:07.199
Right.
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:13.920
But just uh just talking about my experiences, you know, um as I'm living life.
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:18.320
So um I'm hopeful to shoot a third comedy special here soon.
00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:20.079
So I'm working on in this area.
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.159
Some I don't know if I'm gonna shoot it in this area.
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:27.280
I don't know if it's gonna be another dry bar special because for dry bar, you've got to go out to Utah.
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:30.800
Um, a place that is called Provo, Utah.
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:31.199
Okay.
00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:31.840
And why?
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:32.559
Why is that?
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:35.199
So that's where their uh studio is.
00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:36.480
Oh, the dry bar studio.
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:36.639
Yeah.
00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:37.199
Oh, okay.
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:37.440
Yep.
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:38.000
Okay, gotcha.
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:38.320
Yep.
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:43.599
So that's where they record all the comedy specials out in Provo, Utah.
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:45.119
So you've been there?
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:45.679
Huh?
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:46.559
Have you been there?
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:47.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:49.440
Cause I had to go out there to shoot.
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:50.320
Do the original.
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:50.639
Yeah.
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:50.880
Okay.
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:55.760
And um, I just got word that their airport has now been fixed.
00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:57.920
Have you ever flown into Salt Lake City before?
00:59:58.159 --> 00:59:58.480
Never.
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:02.239
Okay, so for anybody that's listening, you know I'm not lying.
01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:07.519
That was the worst design of an airport in the history of airports.
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:15.360
Like you had to walk so long after you got off the plane just to get to baggage claim.
01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:17.440
I'm talking, and I'm not making this up.
01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:21.119
It had to have been at least about a half-mile walk.
01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:21.679
Wow.
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:22.159
Yeah.
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.159
I've been in some pretty bad airports.
01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:28.400
This was the worst airport design I've ever seen in my life.
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:38.719
Uh, but at the time that I had gone there, they had stories of uh mountain lions coming down and snatching, you know, pets and kids and all types of stuff.
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:41.679
And I was like, where am I at right now?
01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:45.440
I gotta worry about a mountain lion while I'm waiting on my Uber.
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:47.360
So uh yeah, yeah.
01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:50.000
So that one, um, a pretty cool experience.
01:00:50.079 --> 01:01:02.960
And then I went back a couple years after that because um it was a group of faculty members that came on a cruise ship and they liked my performance, and they said, We were talking, and we would love for you to come talk to our high schoolers.
01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:06.960
We think they would benefit from your message, but just a chance to get to know you.
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.559
And they happen to be about 30 minutes from Provo.
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:13.280
So I actually went there.
01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:15.280
Wow, that's awesome!
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:17.119
Yeah, okay.
01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:21.360
I know by the time this is produced, you're gonna be at the rivers.
01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:24.559
By the time this is produced, it's gonna be a week later.
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:29.840
How often will you perform at the Rivers Casino in Portsmouth?
01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:33.119
You have any other bookings coming up for that?
01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:39.760
That one was booked by uh another fellow comic that actually has the room.
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:40.320
Okay.
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:47.360
So uh he's been trying to get me on that show that I I think it's a Wednesday night.
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:50.880
I think it's a Wednesday night, but he had been trying to get me on that show.
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:54.320
And so I finally was like, hey, look, I'm available first month.
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:58.960
And so he put me on in the last week of the first month of this year.
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.360
Yeah, you know, people around here are gonna want to see you.
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:02.719
So Dave and Busters is.
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:03.360
Oh, yeah.
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:15.760
Dave and Busters, my very first kickoff show for Dave and Busters for season 14 of the quality comedy series, okay, is already set for uh Thursday, uh March 19th.
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:16.159
Okay.
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:16.719
Okay.
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:21.840
I do that show every third Thursday of the month, so you never have to question what date it is.
01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:24.239
Just look for the third Thursday of that month.
01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:28.880
And um, on the first one, I always bring a big time comic.
01:02:29.039 --> 01:02:30.239
Uh, the past two years.
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:33.599
Like I told you, I had Omar Gooding to kick off two years ago.
01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:36.159
I had Coco Brown to kick off last year.
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:40.880
And this year, a buddy of mine that's uh that tours with Dave Chappelle.
01:02:41.039 --> 01:02:45.039
His name is uh Marshall Brandon, brilliant comic.
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:52.079
Um, and he's out of New York, but he's been a writer on Comic View and a bunch of sitcoms.
01:02:52.159 --> 01:03:06.159
And so a lot of people may not know him by his face, okay, but uh he's a big-time comic that I'll I'm I'm very blessed to be able to get him booked and have him come down to kick off season 14 of continuing to do the show.
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.599
So I obviously I lost some years when COVID hit.
01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:18.480
Uh, because I started in 2010 and then COVID, I think I didn't come back after 2020 until 2023.
01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:19.760
So I lost some years.
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.000
So right now we're on season 14.
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:25.599
That doesn't add up to you say you started in 2010.
01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:27.039
What happened, bro?
01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:28.079
So yeah, yeah.
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:29.920
So that's just how it goes.
01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:30.480
Okay.
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:33.360
Um, it was awesome having you on.
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:33.760
Yeah.
01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:41.360
Um I'm looking forward to when it's produced and and just see what kind of exposure we're getting out of it.
01:03:41.599 --> 01:03:49.039
But um, Quincy Carr, I think we can claim you as ours now for the Hampton Roads area.
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:54.800
So, you know, Texas, Dallas, and I get it, bro.
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:01.840
Look, as long as long as y'all understand the whole thing with the quality comedy king.
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:04.400
All right, all right, quality comedy king.
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I didn't name myself that by the way.
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Somebody else said, Oh, yeah, you you you're doing quality comedy as well, you the quality comedy king.
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And that's only for the people to be like, what makes him a king?
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I'm like, I didn't name it, just somebody just kind of put that in my lap.
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I said, okay.
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And then that became my handle.
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And so everything I do, yeah, I just I try to embody that quality comedy brand.
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And I started here in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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That's right.
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So this is now my home just as much as Austin is.
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I would love to bring something back to Austin, Texas.
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Yeah, that'd be awesome.
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But this is my home.
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That's awesome.
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So yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I appreciate y'all for welcoming me.
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Yes.
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That's it.
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Quincy Carr, Quality Comedy King.
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Don't you forget it.
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All right.
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Thanks for coming in.
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Thank you, bro.
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And then uh we'll have to do it again.
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Yeah.
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And I'm gonna see you on the 19th of March for sure.
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Oh, let's get it.
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All right.
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