Godfrey Part 1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was watching you on FS one and I was like,
I think I could do it. And like my grandmother said,
if you ain't a frog, you better jump in the pond.
You know, I know that don't mean shit, That don't
mean nothing, that will never make no sense.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle bag, prison,
one slice got the brother geist swap all my life.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I be grinding all my life, all my life, grinning.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
All my life, sacrifice, hustle bag to Pryson. One slice
got the brother of Geist Swatch all my life, I'd
been grinding all my life.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Shade Shak. I
am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of
Club Sha Shak. The guy that's stopping by for conversation
on the drink today is one of the most talented
and funniest comedians out master impersonator, multi talented actor and
voice actor, a hilarious host, a writer, producer, international funny man,
every comedian's favorite comedian, the man of one million Voices,

(00:58):
the Impressario Others. Godfree. It's been a while. It's been
a while. Bless up, bless up, bless up. Bless up, bro.
We've been trying to make this happen for a couple
of years. Yes, you've been busy. I mean the pandemic happening.
I was all over the place. Sure, I appreciate you

(01:19):
taking time out of your busy schedule stopping by Club Shas.
I really appreciate that you having out of your busy
schedule bringing me here. Yeah, I ain't gonna front. I
was like, God, I didn't tell anybody either. Maybe told
one or two people. I say one or two or
one or two hundred. I know, but I just want
to say this first, maybe say it to the camera.

(01:41):
You all don't understand who the fuck you dealing with.
First off, give this man his respect. Three time Super
Bowl champion. All right, you caught John Elways passes? Yeah? Fuck,
are you talking about one of the hardest throwing quarterbacks ever.
I watched you on NBC. All right, don Cricky touch
shine shot and shout out to your brother Sterling, who

(02:03):
was nasty on the Green Bay Packers. Even though I'm
from Chicago, I hate the Packers, but your brother was
called I appreciate that. But since we since we you
know what, let's go and get this, So let me
ask you this. Yes, I want to go ahead and
you know toads right quick, I'm gonna try this. Hello,
I want you to have a little just a slip
before you do any persons because I want you to
do any drunk impersonation. Okay, okay, hey for a non

(02:28):
alcoholic drinker, this is all right, smooth. Yeah. See because
usually when you're like, yeah, you know, yeah, this is
all right. So who you're coming with? Who you coming?
Who you who? The first time? Who was your first impression?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
My first person impression that I ever did?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
No? The first one you want to start with today?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Shannon Shark. I'm like, Shan, I'm gonna ask you a
couple of questions. Here we go, I'm gonna ask you questions.
So we're saying, so what what?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
What was your favorite sport growing up as a kid?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Uh? My favorite sport growing up as a kid probably
I like football? Football, then basketball? Basketball? Did you ever
play baseball?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
N No, I was on the ball. So how good
were you in basketball? Could you jump?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I could? I was better in basketball than I was football. Okay, okay,
so did you play in high school? Did you start
in grade school? What'd you started. I played coming up.
I mean obviously you know you did all the sports.
You played football, ran track, playing basketball, and so I
played all the way through. I started playing I was
probably about fourth or fifth grade and played all the
way through high school with.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Okay, okay, what was your favorite event in track and field?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Were you fast? I was? I ran on the relay teams.
I really didn't do a whole lot of individual sprints.
I was a field event guy. So I long jumped,
triple jumped through the desk. But I was on the
four by one and the four by four four. I
was on the four by one. Okay, I was the
first leg, first leg, and like my grandmother said, if
you ain't a frog, you better jump in the pond.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know, I know that don't mean shit, That don't
mean nothing, that would never make no sense.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
But all the things. People are afraid to agree with
me because I'm a big motherfucker and I beat your ass.
But anyway, so the last few questions, how did you
how did you stumble upon like you know what I
can do him? How long did you have to practice?
And how many did you play it? Back? Like? Okay, okay,
make sure I get the boys and play because you
have the manner hythms. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was watching you, you know, on FS one, and
I was like, I think I could do him.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
You know, I just was right.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I was like, skip and that skip helped me.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, skip skip hey skip skip listen skip skip. I'm
gonna tell you this, right, I've been in the NFL
for a long time, right, and I used to h
I never had a toilet.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I had a dodo outside in the backyard. Hey, Skill,
I'm gonna tell you that right now.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Let's go. But I'm gonna tell you now, how the
hell are you gonna tell me that the East is
gonna be the wear? Come on, Skill, come on, tell me,
you know. And I just it's a. It's a. It's a.
It's like with a lot of impersonators. You got Pharaoh,
you got airy spears, and it's just you just it's
just you hear it, and if it's in your range,

(05:04):
it's a natural gift. It's like when musicians can just
go all right, let me just play. You know, they
can play something and tune It's like when they tune
it with a piano or a horn. It's the same shit.
Like one of my favorite. My first impersonations was was
Ali when I was like five, because my parents, my
relatives come from Nigeria, and they would say.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Do do Muhammad Ali, We'll give you one dolla. I'd
be like, I'm fast, I'm pretty.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
I shook up the world. I'm the greatest. I've told
you how it Coach sailed you. Too ugly, Joe phrases
too ugly, Ken Norton's too ugly, George Foreman's too ugly.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
I'm fast. I must be the greatest.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I used to do that at five, right, And so
I was like, okay, I could do voices, and so
I would cartoons, cartoon characters and once you think I
would do that. So I was just always into imitating people.
And then when I started comedy. Actually when I started comedy,
it was like first my first time. I was in
a comedy team for a year. All right, this is Chicago.

(06:05):
I'm from Chicago, you know, shout out to all the
Chicago comedians, because I heard the Chicago They say Chicago
got the best comedian. That's what Little Real told me.
But Little Real might be right on that one, because
Chicago wasn't about the DMV got quick listen man, I
ain't from the DMV. All that I said it.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I said, Chicago got the best.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You got me, you got Dean Cole, you got d
Ray David, you got Lil Rel, Bernie Mack, shout out
to Bernie Mack. And there's other cats. My man Evan Linel,
who literally started Bernie Mack in his career, who literally
started comedy for black comics in Chicago. Evan Linel, gotta
give him his credit. But there's a lot of a
lot of great comics from Chicago. You got Adel Gibbons, Yes,

(06:47):
oh yeah, Dell Gibbons, you got oh what, oh God
from the Talk, Oh wonder what is from Chicago. You
got a lot of great and a lot of younger
people coming up for the ye. We're all Craig Robinson,
Craig Robinson from Chicago, so you have a lot. It's
something about Chicago. We're all different, we're all different styles.
Everybody says, none of you are the same. I said,

(07:09):
it's something about Chicago. But I started out in the
comedy team and a team with another guy was Godfrey
and Alexander, and my first time on stage it was impersonations.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
We was a duo thing.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
So he played like a hypnotist and he would hit
it was some cordy shit, but he would hypnotize me
and the shit. He's like, oh, I'm a hypnotist. I'm
gonna make you do different people. So my first was
Bill Cosby. And I know, now Cosby is kind of
a taboo taboo, but fuck it, you know, let's go
for it. So I'd be like, you see the people,
and you gotta understand is a albaduba? You know what

(07:45):
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
And so I did Cosby.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Then I did Johnny Carson because I said, you know,
nobody's seen a black dude do Johnny Carson. So I
would go, wow, good stuff. I did not know that. Wow, Shannon,
this is a great show. Wow Wow, I would do that.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
So it was Ali.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It was. Those were my first impersonations, but I never
really I didn't dwell on impersonations because if you if
you count, if you depend on the impersonations, your act
gets corny. Right, So and I made sure when I
was doing comedy in Chicago, I moved I finally, I
did it for about three years and I went solo.

(08:21):
And you know what's so funny. The person who told
me to leave. My comedy team was Steve Harvey. So
was that before before? He told were you meant impersonating
him before? Or I would have to eat Oh? I
was impersonating Steve only like three four years ago. Okay,
I never impersonated him. I wasn't interested, you know. But

(08:44):
he told me. Because one day there was a club
called All Jokes Aside in Chicago. It was the number
one black comedy club for seven years. Shout out to
Raymond Lambert, Mary Lindsay, James Alexander. It was a number
one club in Chicago because a lot of times when
you would do black urban rooms, it would be a
black night at a white establishment, you know what I'm saying.

(09:05):
So but this was Chicago, was a black comedy club
in the nineties that was open seven days a week,
all right. And so that's from there. I went solo.
I broke up with the guy that I was with.
I wanted to go solo. So how difficult was that
because you had got I'm sure you guys had been
together for what three four five, two strong years, you know,
And I was like, I was a little because he

(09:28):
I don't think he was as passionate as I was
in it. I was writing most of the sketches and
then I was like, you know what, I think I'm
a go solo. So I started writing shit on the side, like,
just in case this does this doesn't go well, I'm
gonna do shit on my own.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
So I started writing stuff on my own.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
And it was kind of easy to keep it moving
because you know what I'm saying, I just started doing
it on my own. I didn't even really tell him.
I just started going on my own. And then from
there I met ran.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Into T K. Kirkland. Okay, okay, now people you know TK.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
T K kirk can teacher the motherfucker k. I ran
it to him because I would do shows with him
at this club, all jokes aside, and then t K said, god,
three man, I need to take you to New York City.
He's like, I like your style. You kind of corny,
but you know what, I like you, and I'm gonna
find you a manager. So he found me, and this
is facts. He found me my first manager. And you know,

(10:22):
remember Anthony Michael Hall, remember of Breakfast Club, the movie
Breakfast Club or six sixteen Candles.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, White Molly.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Ringwall with the little bloncin his dad was my manager,
Tom Chistaro. They've passed him and his partner, David Kleiman.
TK hooked us all up. It was me, Mike Epps,
I was. It was like John Leguizamo, it was Yeah,
it was Sandra Bullock it was and this is me
moving to New York City. I packed up, drove twenty hours.

(10:53):
You know what I'm saying. I said, time I got
my agent. This is all from TK doing it right TK.
T K at the time, criminal shit, take people's credit cards,
getting the rest of shit.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
This man found me my agency.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
So as soon as I got to New York City
on my own, I started doing the New York circuit.
You know, that's when I started to I met. I
would meet like Tracy Morgan and all these spell everybody.
I was meeting all kinds of people, And that was when,
you know, I said, yeah, I'm gonna start doing this
on my own.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
When I drove twenty hours and the U haul truck right,
twenty hours with my friend Bernadette who was in love Jones.
We drove twenty hours and then from there that was
when I started to you know, and my manager at
the time said you can do a lot of voices,
but don't count on that.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Don't make that in your thing.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Do build on your your comedy, build on your.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Jokes and your material. And I said, okay, I'm gonna
do that. So the voice thing.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Now, people didn't even know I did all these voices
until the pandemic. Wow, nobody knew because I've auditioned for
different like sketch comedy shows, Live in Color. Didn't get
that shit. SNL rejected me three times. Three times. I
auditioned for SNL, and was it ninety eight ninety nine?

(12:11):
It was me, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, Kevin James, a
lot of motherfuckers. I got a standing ovation that night
because I did Cosby, I did Johnny Carson did. I
don't even remember the other people I did, but I
did a bunch of them, did a bunch of characters.
And I didn't even get it get to the second round.
Didn't even make it to the second round. And you know,
as a young comic, I'm only three years in, I'm

(12:33):
auditioning for SNL. Right, Eddie Murphy is my superhero, Eddie Murphy,
Like I might be able to do what Eddie Murphy
did because I saw Eddie Murphy in college when he
was doing the Raw tour. Yes, he came by our
school and I was like shit, I was like, damn
and another I have to give Tommy Davidson credit from
the DMB.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
He came and performed in my college.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
He was one of the main guys that really influenced
me to do comedy because in college is when I
wanted to do comedy. I was like, yeah, my third year,
I was like, I think I want to do comedy.
I was a pre med psyche major, you know, and
I was like, yeah, there was Tommy Davidson. Because Tommy Davidson,
I showed him around the campus. He came to my campus.
I showed him around. And then some years later, when
I got to New York doing comedy New York, I

(13:18):
did this show called Premium Blend. Premium Blend is a
Comedy Central. That's when Comedy Central was funny, right, Oh,
that's when it was live, but Comedy Central was dope,
you know. And so Premium Blend is like, you get
up there and you do like seven minutes. So this
was exciting for me. I've never done TV comedy on

(13:40):
TV and what's funny as as things go round and round.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Tommy Davidson was the host of that show I was on.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
He remembered me. He said, you dude, that showed me
around your campus. I was like, Yo, You're one of
the main reasons I wanted to do comedy. So it
was Tommy.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Davidson growing up.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Obviously, you said you grew up in Chicago, did you
you always want to do comedy? What did you want
to do before you discovered comedy? Okay, I thought I
was gonna be a baseball player. It was a shortstop.
I played baseball from Little league up to high school.
I thought it was gonna be a shortstop. And I
thought it was gonna be an astronaut. I wanted to
be either an astronaut or a baseball player. That's what
I thought it was gonna because I was a space nerd.

(14:18):
There's a lot of things in between that. But okay, no,
I thought I was gonna be a baseball player or yeah,
or a short stop or an astronaut. I loved you
on the moon, like yeah, and I was a space nerd.
I wanted to work for NASA, you know what I'm saying.

(14:40):
And I thought I was gonna That's what I never
thought about comedy. But I loved watching comedies. My family
and my parents we watched comedy. My mother was a
big uh movie watcher, especially comedies. You know, Three Stooges,
Don Knats A, Honeymooners, Dick Van Dyke, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Flip Wilson Show. We were a TV.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
You know, there was only so many channels back then,
so you watched everything. Carol Burnett, you know, you know
you Prior. People realized Prior was on TV sometimes Red Fox.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know what I'm saying. And that's I never thought
about comedy.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Until college because people always say, oh, you're you're funny.
Why did you start doing comedy? Because people say I
was funny? It wasn't even really like that because my
friends were funny too. But in college I used to
always hold court in the cafeteria. You know what I mean.
I used to hold court in the cafeteria. And I
was real militant at the time.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh oh yeah, oh you want free days.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I was Stephen Beego. I was that dude when I
got to college. We you know, I went to Illinois
Big ten and it was about forty thousand students there
eight hundred black, about eight hundred black. Wow. But we
had the biggest fraternal and sol system in Ellen. We
had everybody. We had Spanish fraternities, We had a bunch

(16:04):
of white fratorneys. But we had the Kavas, the q's,
we had the alphas, we had Iota phi, theta sigma,
we had Delta's sigma, gamma row, we had a k's,
We had everybody. So we all the black people hung together,
stuck together.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
And the athletes.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I went to school where it was Nick Anderson, Kendall Gill,
you know, Henry Jones who played for the Bills, Yeah,
Derek Brownlow and all those.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Jeff George was our guy.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
So yeah, so I got militant because it was just
a small group of people. We had our little African
American Cultural Center, right that was a little dilapidated, but
they gave that to us, and so we formed this group,
you know, and we said, while we start reading books
about our people, why they're not teaching us anything. So
we got into all that shit. Spike Lee movies are playing,

(16:54):
do the right thing, all of that. So it was
all this and public enemies playing. We listened to the
I called Quest, the Brand Nuby and all that other
ship we're listening. So I was very militant and reading
all these different books like here we Go, Ready, Stolen
Legacy isis Papers, Francis cres Welson autobiography of Malcolm X.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
You know we were I was reading everything.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was reading another book, Bucks, Coon's, Mulatto's and and
Mammy's The History of Blacks in Film by Donald Bogel.
I was reading, Oh.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, stereotypes that they still repeat now.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
So I was reading all that. So I was black.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Everything was black right, quite the power. My father would
be like, what tire you doing?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
What tire you what? What's all of these black It's okay,
but what they used to do your studies? You know?
But I say, Dan, you don't understand the black man
and the black woman is suffering man white supremacy. That's okay,
But we're spending money on college. You don't have to.
It's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
You don't have to be wut you block.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
You do your homework. So I was that guy. I
would go see you know, I would go see Black Speakers.
I watched Stokely Carmichael came to our you know, our
university was I was that dude, and then I started
incorporating it in like holding court. I was talking about racism,

(18:20):
but I'd be funny with it, you know what I'm saying.
So I said, man, and this girl, and I want
to give her a shout out.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It was a girl.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
It was a rebound schick because I broke up with
the girl I was dating on campus. It's reboundcher. I'm
gonna give her props. Her name was Toya Dixon. I'm
gonna I will never forget this. I always talked about,
you know what I should do some comment I's just
doing the stand up and I remember one day I
was just riffing talking ship.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
She wrote everything down on a yellow.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Piece of paper, let you know, the little yeah yeah,
what is it called legal the legal pack.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
So she's writing all these jokes and ship and I
and I woke up.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
I said, Yo, what is all this? She goes, remember
all the ship you were talking about yesterday was so funny.
I wrote it all down.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
You should do this comedy thing.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
So from there, I said, when I get back to
the city, because you know, Champagne Habana is a couple
of you know, it's a couple of hours away from Chicago.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I said, I'm going to go to the open mics.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
And that's when that's when that ship the bug hit
And I remember, that's when I met with my partner
to do comedy solo and a comedy team.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Then you know the whole thing, and it was that's
how pretty much it started.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Man, And I said, I want to do comedy because
I'm different, and I've always been very different. I'm original.
I take pride in my originality. I take pride that. Well. Listen,
here's the thing about being different. When you're different, it's
a longer road, you see, because they can't put you
in the box. But all my acting teachers say, don't
let anybody put you in the box.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Be a morphic.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I go, sh it ain't working, you know what I'm saying.
But I always took pride in being different. When did
they say anything about be employees? Yeah, but I mean
I'm not listen, I've done things, you know, But I
take pride in You could see a bunch of comedians, right, yes, see,
you go to a comedy show, you see a whole
bunch of people. But a lot of times people are

(20:08):
doing the same kind of shit. But one thing I
took pride in for myself was that Bam. I said,
this dude was different. He was.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
It's like I took pride and being doing really smart shit.
You know. That was my thing because a lot of
comedians that I know, and I'm not cracking, but a
lot of comedians that I know that look like me
are way more intelligent than a lot of than what
you see on stage right. A lot of them have degrees,
a lot of them are engineers and all this other
and then they go up there doing this shit. I go,

(20:39):
you not even from that neighborhood. Why are you front?
Be yourself?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I always believed in being myself.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
One of the first places that I did start in
was it also was the Cotton Club in Chicago, real quick,
the Cotton Club which Bernie Mac hosted every Monday, okay,
and that was when when I first doing open mics.
I was doing mainstream shit, mainstream just you know, everybody's
there main street, but they say the white rooms, but
main stream. So I said, you know what, I want
to do something. I want to do black shit. I

(21:06):
need to make sure I'm legit, you know what I'm saying.
And they said, well, you need to go see Bernie Matt.
And I was at this little poetry reside. They said,
I said, Bernie Matt, who's that? He said, He's on
the South Side. You go to his night on Mondays.
He has a band and shit, you go Jimmy car
Wash Sphinx, Remember the car Wash. Remember the guy that
played Hippo, the big fat dude. Jimmy's from Chicago too,

(21:27):
And it was like, you got to go to their night.
So I went and I said, let me go over
there and see this Bernie Mack. So I went on
Monday just to check it out. And I see this
dark skinned dude with glasses, you know. I walk and
you walk into Cotton Club. The stage is right there
so you can get talked about. So you see Bernie
with this town. I'm sicking tied to be a motherfucking
singing tie. I'm telling you, I'm tired of this shit,

(21:48):
you know. And I was like, who the fuck is?
Asked Bernie Matt. And so after he got off stage,
I say, hey, Bernie, he go, what's your name? Man?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
What's your motherfucking name? I said, it's Godfrey. He said,
all right.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I said, I'm just started doing comedy. I like to
you know, I heard about your night.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
He said, Okay, come next Monday, eight o'clock.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
You got five motherfucking minutes and if you go in,
if you're going any further, the band go motherfucking play.
I said, all right, that's where I have my relationship
with Bernie Mack the whole night. And Bernie was impressed
by me because I was one of the first dudes
imitating him. D Ray, I was the first. I was
one of the first dudes imitating him. And he said,
the one thing I like about you gotfre is you

(22:28):
do that you yourself. And in the Cotton Club it
was pimps, hustlers. Bishop don Juan, yes, he saw me
when I first started. Bishop don Juan from Chicago. Lisa
Ray used to come through the bulls. You see, Michael Jordan,
a mod rashad you see. Yeah, so it was it
was a whole Chicago black elite. And yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
So Bernie was like, you don't even change your You
don't even you could do mainstream.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
You stay the same. I said, well, that's what I
think is the best about comedy is being yourself and
being true to yourself. You know what I'm saying, because
real gangsters, no, if you fake right, you know what?
I had cattle? Obviously I had. Yeah. And I see that.
I ask him. And it's funny that you say that.
You said mainstream and then you say the black. So

(23:13):
when you in front of a black audience, yes, you
do comedy one way, but if you're in front of
a mainly white audience, do you change No. And here's
the thing you tell saying Joe's man with black audiences,
because there's so I travel around the country. I've been
a headliner for more than fifteen years, and when I
travel around the country, there's some cities where it's all black,
Like if I'm in Cleveland, yeah, yeah, if I'm in Baltimore,

(23:37):
it's black. But I still do the same. But the
thing about talking about race, because I'm a race guy,
I love going in even all all white audiences.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
I go in.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't go, hey, man, it's racism. We need to
stop that shit.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I go now, let me tell you about you guys,
let me tell you about your little microaggressions.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
You know, I go in, but it's a craft. If
you can craft it right. I do Trump Trump support.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I do. I do the South Trump support. And I'm
talking about fucking He'll billy motherfuckers. You know you're from the.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
South, right, of course you've seen them Southerners in the mouth.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Don't move what right now?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
You ain't he dying right there.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Where they fucking the Yeah, they fuck with me. But
it depends on how you It depends on how you
navigate the joke. You know, I never changed black people.
Just make you more loose, you know what I'm saying.
You're your people. But what you gotta be funny? You
Oh no, No, funny is funny. And there's people who
are the ghetto comics that are funny and there's the

(24:38):
intelligent ones that are funny.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
That it depends on the person.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Funny is funny, don't give a fuck what you're doing
juggling whatever funny is funny. So I never changed my ship.
And one thing about I know about black audiences, they
like it if you're keeping it real you're from Louble.
But they like it when you're talking about that pro
black shit too. They like both of that because whenever
I'm talking about it that you can hear people preach dog,
that's what I'm talking about. Hell yeah, you see what

(25:03):
I'm saying. So I got so I'm able to craft
that because I really I am a student of the game.
I'm a student of comedy. I don't I really study
the people that have been before me. I am white, black,
I know my comedy history.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know what I'm saying. So that's very important.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
And I like to be.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Intelligent on stage. I like, I'm the kind of comic
that doesn't use.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
The end word. Because we had a debate about that. Okay,
you know about there's comics I see. You know that
it'll be a majority audience that don't look like us,
and they'll use that word over and over. And I go,
are these people laughing because the joke is funny or
are they laughing because nigga is funny? Right? Because nigga

(25:46):
is let's be for real, phonetically, it's a great it's
a funny word.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
God damn, that word is funny.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
It's the top. It's the Nike of racial slurs. Yes,
you know, like nigga is the top, like spit just
this can chink those like Adidas Reebok, but Nigga, Like
if I watch this joke if I say, man, here
come this ball.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
It is nigga hilarious. Right, here come this ball. Hit ass, brother.
You see what I'm saying. Yeah, it's it's a little,
it's a little. It's a little spice on that.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Right. And I and I and I had we had
a debate about that. I say, well, why do you
use the word Why do you use that word.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
In front of people? When you're really not like that.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I understand cats that are like that, like Cat Williams
when he does it, it it matches. It's yeah, it's
certain people that you go, yeah, I get that, But
there's some other cats that I go, yo, you're not
even like that. But when you get in front of
a certain audience, you use it in front of them.
I don't know if it's irresponsible. Listen, I'm not telling
anybody how to do comedy, but I just feel weird

(26:48):
doing it. I don't even use it in front of
black audiences. Okay, you know yeah, but for me, this
is my style.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
This is my style.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
But when I do use the word the N word,
I'm making a point about the N word because I
have a joke about the double G words. Right, you
know what I mean double G words. Something about the
double G word, like you got the N word, you
got the F word two gs. And then if you
know Harry Potter, you ever know about Harry Potter. I'm
a Harry Potter fan. Where there's a muggle, they call

(27:17):
him a muggle. That means he ain't a he's a
half prince. He's bullshit, So they call him. They say,
you're in muggle Harry Potter. And it's almost like saying
that when you're watching Harry party, like is he talking
to me? Oh, Harry Potter's a Muggle? Can you believe
that you're in muggle Harry Potter? And I'm like, this
is he calling me? You know?

Speaker 3 (27:38):
So I talk about the phonetic.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I'm into words because I'm a big George Carlin fan,
big Carling fan, big Prior fan, and it's all wordplay
for me, you know.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I'm really into the art.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Form of this shit. So yeah, the N word thing is,
you know, that's just for me. I'm not telling anybody
how to do comedy. I don't want anybody to conflate
this ship, but that's I'm very I just want to
know why people use it. Someone told me, well, I
don't want them to don't want it. I feel comfortable
saying it because I'm not going to let them determine.
You know how I say the word. I'm not I'm
taking the word back. I said that was never your word.

(28:11):
What do you mean you taking it back? They gave
it to you, you know what I'm saying. So if
it desensitizes the word? Really so when they call you
the name out of vitriol, then you react to it,
you get mad. So how is it desensitizing you? I'm
just saying, if someone calls your name, you shouldn't even flinch.
You go. I say it so much it doesn't even

(28:31):
bother me, but it still stings.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
That's all. It's just a debate we're still having with
the N word.

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Speaker 1 (29:41):
When you did Steve Harvey, did you know, yeah, it
was gonna be as funny as it was. And I
read that he wasn't too enthused about it, because, like
you said, he gave you some great advice early and
then you turn around years later.

Speaker 6 (29:56):
Let mean you let me let me Yeah, yeah, me
get some of this cognac. Oh boy, shitty boy that
co yet good boy. I'm tell you right now that cognac.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Good like my grandmother Thaif you ain't gonnadrink kognac, better
get that hendersy. So Steve Harvey met him, like when
Kat called it a man unit.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, Oh that was fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
God. I remember when Steve Harvey had hair and it
was kind of you know, thinny. And I was in
the hallway and I was mad about something. I think
we opened up for Steve Harvey and Steve goes, he goes,
you know, what's the matter with you? I said, ah, man,
my partner, he's not really doing the lines. He's fucking

(30:46):
up the ship. And Steve goes, how much you getting
for this gig? I said, I'm getting like one hundred dollars.
He goes, so that means you splitting it?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I say yeah. He said, are you trying to split
in that ship? I said yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
He goes cut his ass and he left left, and
that's when I met solo cousin, Steve Harvey. Fast forward
to now, Fast forward to about.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Four years ago. I'm on my podcast.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
By the way, in Godfrey, we trust on a gas
Digital network. So the guy that I was co hosting with,
he was like, he said something. He answered the question
real fast. He got frankic buttherhood. I said, damn, this
ain't the family feud. And I was like, what's your
ass say? I said, your dumb ass gonna answer? Yeah.

(31:29):
So I did it on some bullshit and then the
next day everybody said, your.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Shit is going viral.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I said, what he said, that's Steve Harvey shit you did?
I said, oh, I didn't know. So then like all
the comics were calling me Ja Farrow's gold. Yo, man,
I did not know you had a Steve Harvey.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
I go, don't you have a Steve Harvey? I thought,
everybody does Steve Harvey.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
They said, no, You're the only one to do was
Steve Harvey. So it kept going viral, and Steve sent
me a text. He goes, boy, when I see on
a beach ass. I could just hear his voice in
the text. Oh you got me fucked up. Boy. I'm
gonna tell you this right now from Cleveland. I don't
know you know me, Steve. I hope you see this
imitation because yeah, boy, and I got you got the matter?

(32:16):
Rhythmic said, I'm gonna tell you God has blessed me.
Say I was sleeping in my car, I had no
damn money, but now I got money. Boy, I'm gonna
find your ass. And people saying that.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
You ain't trying to laugh too hard because because when
I first when I first heard it, like I said,
if it sounds like that person to your ear, that's
a real good imitation.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
And when you're doing it now, I guarantee you if
you were to ask Steve, Steve will say to his
ear it sounds like him speaking, because he does with
his w's why now, where where am I gonna find that?
He's gonna say I had a whig? I ain't no
damn whig that was quere in the Where would have
a wig? And why you got me fucked up? Wherever

(33:05):
I see you, I'm gonna wear your ass someunth boy,
have you ever done that? And you ever done that
in front of him? Hell? No? Top five answers on
the board. Here's the question. Name something Steve fit to
do to Godfrey when he sees his ass? Whoop his ass?
Number one asked the boy. Yeah, we got the we

(33:26):
got the Harvest, and Godfred, let's play the well yeah,
you know, and they just kept perfecting. I would watch
one day I was on the road, and you know
how family feud sometimes the cable beat trash in a
hotel and it was just family feud for three hours.
I was like, I ain't got ship to do. Let
me watch Steve Harvey because he's so good at He's

(33:47):
fantastic toe he remember we had Richard Dawson.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
We had a whole bunch of people hosted man.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I said, Yo, this is so funny because kids everybody
in the man. He kiss, he licked, and he was like,
how you doing love? Answers on the board.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Here's the question. He's like, how you doing loves? Is
your grandmother? What's your answer?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
All right? He would he was a smooth mom. I
don't know if people remember Richard. Richard Dawson was the
white dude from Hogan's Heroes, Hogan's hero and he would kiss.
He's like, how you doing love it? He had that
long ass bike.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Like the.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, so so Steve, Like was gonna say, Steve is
so good at. I was watching for hours and I said, damn,
look at what he does, and so you know, he's
always joking. Steve, don't let shit go. So you can
be like, name an animal that you know you have
in the house, and he's like, I'll say dog. What
your ass say dog? He said dog, and he go

(34:53):
to the audience going there.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
So I was like, look at he does this.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
He goes he said dog.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I I was like, I said, he keeps doing that.
I go okay.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
So I started going yeah, yeah, yep, yeah, and I
said I think I got it. And in your in
your head, you're you're like, I think I got it.
And so people like, Joe, you got that shit. You know,
It's like it's like with Trump, same thing with Trump.
I was watching Trump and I turned off the volume
and I just saw his mouth. It's very tiny.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Wait big head.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
But this is a very good show, very good show,
Shannon Sharp. One of my favorite shows that I've ever seen. Uh,
club Shawshah, very good show, club Shawshank, whatever you call it.
I've watched millions and millions of shows, and this one
is perfect for me.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I don't watch a lot of black shows, but this
one better than Jimmy Kimmel, better than any other Joe
Rogan their pieces of shit, but this one is one
of the greatest. I love this show. I watch it
all the time. I think I'll get more views than
Kat Williams. So did you stumble a pull like you?

Speaker 7 (36:09):
Like you?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Do you stumble upon him or do you try and practice?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I just stumble. I'll look at stuff and I'll go hmm.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I'll look at said I think I could do this, dude,
you know what I mean? I just look and go,
that might be a good one. Trump who doesn't want
to have a Trump right and to do Trump, I'll
do Trump in front of like Republican audiences. It's neutralizing
because I'm not hating him or I'm just saying, man,
Trump makes me laugh, right, you know Trump? You know
Trump has a ceiling of intelligence. When he hits his ceiling,

(36:39):
he goes high school on you.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
You know if you bring up something, Donald, let me
tell you something Donald. You don't understand the oil crisis
nineteen seventy eight. It was a prices of oil where
ten dollars a barrel and Trump will go and the
Trump don't notice it. It'd be like, this guy's a
piece of shit. You always he's trying to be a
tough guy.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
I never liked you.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Your wife's a crisis, your waves christis, you're a beach
of shit. I know oil, watch of oil, Yeah, olive oil,
vegetable oil. So he would you know. So I just
started to get it, and I started getting I started
watching him more. And he's New York. He's from New York, right,
So when he goes I chalk to him, there's that accent.

(37:18):
I say, I hear that I chalked to him the
other day. So he's still got to put.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
The New York thing in that. So there's little nuances
I catch.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
How how important are the mannerisms because when you do
Steve Harvey, you do all of his mannerisms. When you
do Trump, you do the mannerisms. You've really honed in
on that aspect.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah, you have to.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You have to mannerisms count because it's the person. You're
being the person. It's like as an actor, you're being
the person, like if you prior shit, God damn, your
niggas is crazy, Jack. I love your show. Shit, I'm
watching that ship like a motherfunder Jack. Yeah, I bet
you get a lot of white bitches. Don't you sit
down show My motherfucker, where's the cool? But you know

(38:00):
I I Richard was this guy. Yeah he was. Richard
was ship God damn he was that guy doing this
in the hands. So you just came to Cosby. Was
like you see when I worked for Ksey by the way,
I worked for Cosby for six months. I was audience
coordinator for his second sitcom on CBS, and so I
was there when his son was killed. I was there.

(38:22):
I lived in Queen's and it was coughing the story
studios where they shot. It's right next door to Sesame Street.
Remember that famous song, Can you tell me how to get? Yes,
how to get to Sesame just to see Shannon Sharp
No Sesame Street? Do you think of everybody grew up?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
I could just see you singing, Can you tell me
how to get how to get to san same Street?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Come and come man?

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Play Everything's hey? Okay, I love Taname Street, man, I'll
tell you right now. Sheldy creat my favorite.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
My grandmother said Richard, say, if you don't know how
to get to Santmey Street, I'm I'm sure you asked.
But so when I was there, I remember to watch
Cosby every to watch him every Thursday, like to do
the sitcom with Dougie Doug Madeline Kahn. I was there,
I was introduced, I would introduce Felicia Rashad. I was

(39:16):
the audience coordinator. But I had to tell jokes to
two hundred and fifty people for eight hours.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Eight hours. I'm just talking.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
I had to be clean, no singing, no nothing. You
ask a question, but I keep joking. When the lights
come on, you show them talk oh man. And I
remember one day I walked into Cosby's office because you
could just walk in and say what's up?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
So I was like, hey, docor Cosby, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (39:39):
You know?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
He's like hey, and he had the cigar. I'm not
bullshitting you. It was the Cosby esque. Then he goes, hey,
how you doing? Man? He's do you know?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
And I said, hey, could you give me some advice?
I'm doing comedy four years. Can you give me some
advice on you know, on comedy?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Say?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
He goes, and I'm not bully.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
He goes writing, You got right, son, You got to
put it on the paper. Writing is the backbone. Oh
and that's him. He's and you got to sleep and simbad. Boy,
that's the bad. He loves Simbad. First of all, Simbad
is recovering. Yeah, Simbad is recovering, and I hope you
can get him on here because he is.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
We cannot forget Simbad.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Simbad is like, for real, like one of the greatest
comedians that we we tend to ignore, one of the greatest,
some of the greatest HBO specials. Simbad. Thank you for
He's recovering, he's getting better speaking well. But yeah, but
that's how I imitated people. If I'm around you long enough,
I can start doing you. One of the comic one

(40:42):
of my comic colleagues that I started imitating was Dion Cole.
Really yeah, Dion Cole, when like, yo, man, you sound
just like me, I would do Yo. You have to understand, man,
how you do that?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Ship.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
So I start imitating my friends so I could just
if I hear it and it's in my range, I go,
I think I can do it.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
So that's where Yeah, the Trump sneakers. Trump is selling sneakers.
You get a pair Black people love sneakers. And let
me tell you something.

Speaker 7 (41:13):
I released it because I'm a genius. I released it
during Black History Month, perfect month.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
For black people. I didn't get the sneakers, but they
weren't that bad looking. I ain't go front. They weren'tas
painting them. They were just simple. I bad shoes, sneakers
like that, but they just painted them. It's Trump pushing them.
I don't even think they're made. I think their pre order.
I don't think they're even completed. Right, you know what
I'm saying. I think it's bullshit. Did you get some No? No,

(41:40):
I did. Not better than your sneakerssha way better. So
what do you think his chances are winning? I think
they're He's trying to do something the only Grover Cleveland
has ever done, hold the office, lose the office, win it.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Back, sort of like Michael Jordan. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
But I think he might win it. I listen, man,
he won the first time. We thought held on no chance,
and he might he might. Wait, look at he has
eight thousand felonies, eight thousand felonies, and this motherfuckers has
a chance. I think Biden just right. He just got
the Democratic guest nod. Yes, I don't even know if
he knows, but I got the nod.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Come on, I got the nod.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, I don't think they're gonna estimate I don't think there.
I don't think people are underestimating former President Trump like
they did in twenty sixteen, because he's held the office,
so you know he's capable of holding it again. And
the thing about Trump is he never stays out of
the public. He's always still connecting to it, whether it's
some bullshit, He's always in their presence. Trump is always present.

(42:42):
I think about Trump, I'll say, what is Trump doing
right now? I'll think about Trump, and he's just he's
a businessman. He's all about being in front of people.
He wants you to say his name. That's one thing
about business people. They want you, whether it's bad or good,
just say my name, right Trump, I don't give damn
if you hate me. But the one thing Trump has
a weakness of is not paying attention to him. If

(43:03):
you're indifferent, that's his weakness. But if you go, fuck
you Trump, He's like, this is great people.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Yeah, He's like Thanos.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
The more you hate him, the stronger he gets, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
So he might have he might win it. I don't know,
you know how this country gets of course, you know
when the good old boys go down there, we.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Don't make wet.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
We're gonna make it great again. He's like, you gotta
make it goddamn good and great again. But you said, Denzel,
you like to see Denzel run bresident? You think denzil
will make a great president.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Run from gooda.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
I can see him, all right, all right, so we're
gonna run for president, right, Huh the economy.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
What are we gonna do with the economy?

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Yeah, we're gonna lowd it. Lord of taxes, We're gonna
lower what the taxes? All right? Yeah, we're gonna load
a tax. What else are we gonna do? Gun control? Right?

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah, I can see Denzel running from president the rock.
Steph Curry even mentioned the other morning, I think the
other morning he was on a morning talk show and
he was talking about potentially once.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
His career is over, Steph Curry. Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
He said, maybe not the president, but politics, because he
won't see.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Him as an Alderman.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
What Steph as Alderman? Not a senator? Oh good, senator Curry. Yeah,
I could see him first. It's like an all you know,
just like a councilman, like a city local, local guy.
First you think he's gonna go for senate. Why not? No, no,
because you look a look at and who is that?
Arnold went for Governor Clint Eastwood, Jesse Ventura. Oh DA's

(44:39):
just the bank, that's right.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
I was governor. I remember the time I was governor.
See I could kind of do him.

Speaker 8 (44:45):
Yeah, And Arnold's like, yeah, of course I had. I
wanted to be president, but I wasn't born here, but
I could have. I could have done anything. Can you know,
Shannon show, this is a good show. I like you
vook Hodd. You'd your muscles look perfect. I'm not as
good as mine at the time, but it's like I'm
still I'm like seventy five, and look at me. My

(45:06):
muscles are better than yours.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
I don't know. It's weird. What about the Rock? We
think Rock has universal peel. I mean they done, but
everybody here loves him. He's so positive. He is. I
feel like he's gonna snap one day. The Rock is
always positive. I just want to tell you guys, I'm
very happy. My vodka's doing really well and the people,

(45:28):
all the people around here have been very positive to me.
He's very, very positive. He could rock could definitely run.
I mean, when you're like that much, would you run?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
How about you?

Speaker 1 (45:38):
You wouldn't run for something? You hear the thing, Godfrey.
Sports journalists they trying to find stories for sports, them
investigative in the political journalists they going back and talking
to people. Oh they dig it. Yeah. And I ain't
got no Skells in the clothes. I got a graveyard.
Leave that alone. Leave that alone.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
So you wouldn't run for shit?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
A picture political picture like no Lee, Well, believe the
pass in the path. You're got black and mile come
on both for me? Chatty shaw. What about Aaron Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers, you know he might be on the ticket
with a Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Come on, man, Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
I don't know Aaron, He's not if he goes, but
Robert Kennedy Junior runs with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
This ship ain't gonna work. It's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Aaron Rodgers already up in boiling right the people. He's
been saying a lot of crazy ship, which is his business, right.
I love Aaron Rodgers, but you know he's been saying
too much. I don't think he's gonna win. See, I
think once you run for a politician, then all your
they start to get bullshit on you. They start to
you know what I mean, they start doing bullshit on you.
They start calling, oh, you did this back in ninety.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
After all that, I'm not doing that ship.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
See, I would never do that, And now you're talking
about you want me. I would never run your damn.
What's your favorite impression to do? All the impressions that
you can do, what's your favorite? You know, what's your
most favorite to do?

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Trump is very fun.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Trump is fun because he's so polarizing. Jason Statham I
like to do really, Yeah, I liked I did Statham
for Stathum on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
It's I was on this show Opie and.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Jim, Opie and Jim before it was open and Anthony
Opi and Jim Norton and I did Shason Stathum was
on the show and I did it for him.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
So I like doing Jason Stathum.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
What do you think he liked it?

Speaker 3 (47:32):
He's like, Wow, you do me better than me. That's
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I like that. Yeah, yeah, you did it, you did it,
you did it. He's like, I like shennon shop. I
like watching a club. It's pretty nice. Yeah, matth what
jem come get some h I don't know why I
did it. So like when I was growing up, the
master of impersonation was Rich Little was Rich Little Nobody,

(47:57):
I mean there was not it.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
I mean he just like and he just go on
hundreds of yes, yeah, did you study Rich?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
I watched him on a lot of TV shows and
he would do like a lot of presidents, yes like that.
And I did a show with him during COVID in Vegas.
He was right before me. He's eighty two at the time,
and he was doing his impersonations, but old school impersonations
for the older crowd. But yeah, I watched Rich do it.
You know, I watched him do it because we would

(48:25):
always look for he was the only guy really doing it.
But also Frank Gorshon, the guy who played the Riddler
on Batman? Was it a good impersonator. George Kirby see
I'm telling you, I'm a history buff and comedy. George Kirby,
black comedian from Chicago, could imitate. He could sing like
what's her name? Ella Fitzgerald. He could switch his voice.

(48:45):
George Kirby underrated comedian from the past. But yeah, I
would watch a lot of those guys. Yeah. I asked people,
especially comedian to come in here and give me their
Mount Rushmore, oh gosh, and they named seven people. Do
understand that Matt Rushmore has four heads?

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Yeah, but it's just okay, go ahead. And a lot
of times what I've been getting, yes, is that.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Current comedian says, I can't name somebody from my generation
because I'm with them. Damn, you're right. So if I said, okay,
give me your your give me god threes four best comedian,
it's usually your four best, or should be the people
that you watch the most, like you watch video on
them the most. And I got Prior Carlin, Red Fox

(49:33):
and Paul Mooney. I watched them all the time. And
Paul Mooney, Oh my god. I think Paul Mooney doesn't
get the respect that he deserves, you know, because he
wrote for Richard Pryor, he wrote, he wrote for a
Living Color Homie, the clown that was Paul Mooney, he
wrote for even The Chappelle Show. I love Paul Mooney.
I watch a lot of Paul Mooney, and I wish

(49:53):
Paul Mooney were alive. To come on this Show'll be.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Like Shannon, this is a very good show. Very You're brilliant.
You're brilliant. You're a brilliant, But niggas don't like you.
Shady Shock. You a big motherfucker. You will kick a
niggas ass.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
You didn't put prior up there? I did you put Murphy?
That's who you left? No Murphy, I think Murph, Eddie Murphy,
of course, he's a hero of mine, one of the
greatest comedic actors. Nobody's fucking with Eddie Murphy on the
comedy and movies. And you can match any but there's
a lot of funny people, but Eddie Murphy is the best.
I just I don't think I've seen Eddie Murphy enough

(50:30):
as far as specials and stuff. But Eddie is up there.
What what you said?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Top four? That's bullshit?

Speaker 1 (50:36):
And he top five?

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Eddie put up there?

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Rushmore, who are your four heads're gonna put on?

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Those are presidents that should have had no business up
there where?

Speaker 1 (50:45):
We got comedians of there. Command right. I just gave
you Red Fox. Red Fox ain't bad. Thank you very much.
I really like your your show.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It's very good.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
I watched it all the time. How you doing, sir? Anyway,
this is Red Fox and I'm very happy to be
on Club Shay Shape. A lot of niggas got a podcast.
You got you like you like George Carline? What is
it about Carlin? His word play, it's his word play,
it's his' it's his his intelligence on how he puts
words together, and said, listen, everybody has a taste.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
And Carlin was never lazy with a joke.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
He always because he grew up his parents were advertising people.
His mom and dad were good with words, and he
was always is his joke writing. It's just the word play.
He loved using different words, and so I was like,
that's made me focus on words, because comedy is an
art form of words, syntax. It's about how you say it.
Some people some I see some jokes and like, even

(51:40):
for myself, I'm hard on myself. If I see a
joke and it's too lazy, I go, it could be
better than that. And I watch Carlin, I go, damn.
Even if the joke wasn't that funny to you, but
the work he put in it, you go, god damn,
that was brilliant.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
It's like it's his word play and the things that
he says about society out white supremacy. A white guy
saying it to white people is very important. Yes, an
Irish guy from Harlem. It's important that this white guy
is saying, you know, y'all ain't shit. You feel me?
Has someone that Have you ever heard a joke? Yeah,
and you're like, I could have done that joke better. Yes,

(52:18):
And then there's some jokes where I go, Damn, he
got that that's the best or she got that that
was the best take I've seen. I've seen somewhere I
could Damn I could have done that better. Damn I
wish I had that joke that was perfect. Yeah, of course,
a lot of many times you do. So can you
do Chappelle? Yeah? See, I'm gonna tell you something, man,
this is great.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I love being on Club Shasha bitch Man. I love it.
He's like at Chappelle. I've known since ninety seven, ninety six,
ninety seven, and Chappelle's one of the greats. But everybody
does Chappelle, So you have to sort of talk like this, right,
and now his voice is little. You know, I'm listening.
I'm not transphobic, I'm not. I have friends. I have
friends that I have a lot of trans friends. And

(53:01):
remember when he got he got I guess they blocked
his show in Minnesota, right, and in that theater, they
were like the trans community came, they blocked his show.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
And then he went to another theater about twenty minutes
later and sold that out. He's like, I'm trans.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
I feel I'm trans because I transferred from one theater
to another and that was a great transaction. Bitch. When
I hear people talk about him, yes, it's like there's
like he was a prodigy. He started at a very
very young team. But a lot of comedians don't start
until in the later twenties, mid twenties.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
I started after college twenty two.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
So here's a guy that's fourteen and it's saying he's
gone to these clubs where adults perform. Yeah, and so
you knew him. Did you know he was going to
become this No, I didn't. I heard about him. Well, actually,
when I first got to New York City, one of
my first shows was with him on the show. It
was with him on the show, and he was I

(54:01):
heard his name, Dave Chappelle, Dave Chappelle because he did
he had done star Search, Yes, Young and even Ed
McMahon said, that guy is going to be a star.
Watch And you don't remember star search ed McMahon before
American Idol, it was star Search four Star four three stars.
Simbag came from there, Martin Laud, A lot of people

(54:22):
that are stars came from there. And I heard about him.
I heard about him. Then I was ended up on
a show with him. I think I had to go
after him.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
He murdered. I had to go after him.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
But I heard about him, and I knew, Okay, this
guy is something to watch because everybody Chappelle, Chappelle, Chappelle
and and I guess the guy. I'm want to give
credit to Tony Woods, who was who Chappelle. He took
Chappelle under his wing in DC. Tony Woods was another
underrated comedian who's fantastic. Yeah, so Chappelle. I knew Chappelle
was gonna beast. I didn't know how big until that

(54:53):
Chappelle's show. I didn't know he was going to be
like right who he's Matt like massive, I mean, because
you see him in a nut Professor, He's Reggie killed
that and then you see him in Blue Street.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Yeah, and you like, man, dude is amazing.

Speaker 1 (55:08):
And his comedy, He's an amazing comedian because he loves
I think he loves comedy more than anything, I believe,
because he puts the time in, he puts the hours in.
And I'm gonna tell you this. I think you had
a guest on here that I disagreed with.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Okay, no, and this is no.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
You know I you know I would love to start
beef because I want this to go to sixty million.
I want to call somebody out. I just want to
fucking start some shit.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
But I won't do that. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Damn. But when Country Wayne was on here, Yeah, first
of all, I don't know Country Wayne at all, but
I watched his video. I give him his credit for
him making all that money. I was listening to him like, oh,
what how did you do this? You know? I love
his hustle. Smart dude. I mean, he making millions off
of this shit. I wish I could. But he said
one statement that I disagreed with. Country I disagree with you.

(55:55):
What was the statement I think he said? And if
I'm wrong, you correct me. Said something about if anybody's
in a comedy club still, that means you're not doing
any something like that to that.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
I don't know if he was answering Faison.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
I think it was him and Faison going at it
because Faison's my dude, right, everybody be going in Fason,
I love goes everybody else. Mason is a funny so
of a bitch. But he's saying, if you're still in
the comedy clubs, you're not a real comedian.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
I think he said that.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Am I wrong? Something did that say? And I think
he was talking about him? Okay, please, because I was like,
you are wrong about that ship. I'm in the comedy clubs.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
D l's in.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
The comedy clubs are still being built. They're not fading away.
If you do theaters, that's like a blessing. But theaters
are multipurpose rooms. Comedy clubs usually are just for comedy.
Comedians of all statues do comedy clubs. There's the rare
moments you have. You know, Chappelle still comes to comedy
clubs and works all his ship. Seinfeld, who's a billionaire,

(56:56):
still comes to the comedy But I think I'm saying
I might be I might be think what he was saying. Yeah,
that's his only choice is to do those The people
that you mentioned can do arenas, they can do theaters. Yeah,
he's saying that he probably the only thing he can do. Okay,
I'm like, shit, so what does that make me? Because

(57:18):
it's not easy. First of all, it's not easy to
fill a comedy club, even if it's a three hundred seater,
four hundred eater, it's not easy. Like, there's people who
have been fortunate, especially with the Algarithm.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
You get to all of them. You got eight million followers.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Yeah, just numerically, you're gonna fill the ship upright, But
are you gonna put the work in and you're gonna
have the performance that that that keeps him up with
to match it?

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Which comedy?

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I'm gonna tell you this, and even Kat said it,
you gotta you can't cheat comedy, man, I'm telling you
I when I first got to New York, you know
how many shows I was doing per week? Forty shows
a week? Forty You heard what I said, forty dog,
give me some cognac. You know, we get that Kognak.
Come on, man, get that Kolnak. Shit, hold on, got

(58:04):
that ship. Hell yeah, there's only God for it. There's
only seven days.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Yeah, so you you do it?

Speaker 1 (58:13):
How yeah? How are you doing forty shows in a week?
Let me show you? So when I got to New
York City, I remember it was a Tracy Morgan and
some other cats, and they were like, y'all. I said, hey,
because in Chicago we would do you get me out
six or seven shows a week? Yeah, said one of they,

(58:33):
And I got. I got to New York, I did
a show with I was in Harlem. I did one
show there was like, yo, were about to go. I said,
we're all going now, Oh the show's in Brooklyn. Are
you coming? You got more shows?

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Hell yeah, boom. I hit about five stages.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
That same night.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
And I said, this is how y'all do it?

Speaker 1 (58:54):
They said, hey, oh yeah, we do multiple. The average
comedian in New York and I don't know if this
is perfect math does about between four to seven shows
a night stage time. We got a lot of stages,
We got a lot. Shout out to the comedy seller.
That's my spot, comedy seller in New York City. But
I was doing five shows a night, well, five shows

(59:16):
a night on the weekdays. Then on the weekends, I
do an eight or nine, eight or nine shows. Yeah,
it would be me, Patris O'Neil, Bill Burr, you know,
Keith Robinson. It was all of us. Wanda Sykes, Wanda
Sykes Hall when I knew Wanda Sykes Hall.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Yeah one is the best, but we were. That's how
you did it.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
You just ran all over the city and there was
sometimes there'll be a club down the block, so you
can go on stage there, you go over there, hit that. Yeah.
So I would start at about seven am, at seven
pm and then end at around three am. So I
was doing comedy and this is consistent. There's no breaks.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
This is consistent. Shit. Comedy takes that much work. It's
really a sport.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
It's a sport. You gotta go out there and you
gotta put period.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
You can't cheat it. I don't give fuck who you are.
You can't cheat. It is that how you get good
at the craft.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
You god damn right, and then you and you know
what's funny is when you're on stage, they see the difference.
They see the difference, they see the wordplay, they see
the transition. You get those nuances. As you stay on
stage a lot, you have to I don't know. Somebody
told me it was a young common said no, one day,
they're gonna be able to skip steps in comedy. I said,

(01:00:26):
just because you get on a TV show faster than
a veteran, don't mean you're good at it. Because I'm
not trying to be an asshole. But a lot of
these companies are skipping a lot of comedians that are ready.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
There's a lot of because people ask me, when are
you getting your next on Netflix?

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
But I said, they don't really approach me. They don't
really approach a lot, not just me, but they don't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Approach a lot of us.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
They've been given specials to people that don't even have
an hour. You can tell somebody ain't ready by the
way they edit it. You go, oh, that motherfucker started
bombing at fifteen minutes. That motherfucker started bombing at twenty.
They're not because comedy takes. Yeah, you have to be ready,
you have to put your time in, and the people
that are ready are like, hey, I'm ready for a special.
They're not. That's why a lot of people are putting

(01:01:09):
their ship up on I'm sorry you to YouTube example,
Ali Sadik. If you ain't watched Domino effect. You're out
of your damn mind. Domino effect one, two and three.
He just put three.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
He's all on It's all on YouTube. It's all on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
This guy has been ignored. He had a chance to
get he's been ignored. But he's putting it counting on yourself.
You got Andrew Schultz, There's Shane Gillis. There's a whole
bunch of guys putting shit up on YouTube. That's what
I'm gonna have to do. Oh and by the way, Shannon,
I'm starting to go fund me. Yeah, that's right. I'm
starting to go fund me to raise money to do
my own special. Yes, man, gonna what why why bull driving?

(01:01:49):
I'm not bull I'm raising Listen, go fund me, Go
to go fund me, godfree special. I'm raising money for real.
I'm taking donations, no different than a church and a preacher.
I'm taking donations because Jesus wants it. But yeah, I'm
raising my own money. I've been offered some month because listen,
to do a special. It's a big it's budgets. You

(01:02:11):
can go from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand depends.
Netflix pays for all that. Amazon pays for all that,
But if they're not coming to me and coming to
some of the other people, I got it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
I gotta raise money on my hand and then it'll
be mine and I can own it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
You know what I'm saying. I don't know, But so
that's what's going on. There's a lot of comedians, men
and women that are being ignored. I got you got
great comedians like Yaminika Sanders, you got Marina Franklin, you
got a lot of great people, my man Dante Niro,
you got Reuben Paul, you got a lot of great.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Comedians, Tony Rock.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
You got a lot of great comedians that are really
putting into work and are ready to do one, two
three list goal is I mean, listen, They've given specials
to the same people every time I see the same people,
which some of them do deserve it. I go, yeah,
I get why, But man, there's a lot of people
just waiting on their first one, and then they're giving
it to people who have been doing comedy two years. Bullshit?

(01:03:04):
This bullshit? How has social media helped or hurt comedy? Listen,
there's okay, I think it's fifty to fifty. It's hurt
comedy as far as there. I believe this is my
I believe there's a lot of bombs in comedy, a
lot of mediocre bombs in comedy because of social media,

(01:03:28):
because they're seeing Okay, I had a friend called me
the other day. I haven't seen him since college. He
was like a more of a business guy, corporate. And
when I started saying number college, no not call him, sorry,
facebook me that shit. Okay, right, No, he actually called
me because I had give him my number a few
years ago. Then he goes, yo, I want I need
to call you. I need to talk to you. I

(01:03:48):
was like, talking to me about what you know? And
I know what he does.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
He's a corporate guy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
So when I was doing my comedy being broken, shit,
he goes, how's that little comedy thing you doing? Oh? Look, yes,
they would say that I was taking a little comedy thing.
Say man, I'm just doing it. Man, come to a show.
They would never come because boom, those are the kind
of guys that go see the more famous guys and
won't come to your ship.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
Yeah, I said cool.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
So now years later he goes, yo, you know I've
been writing like comedy this you know I was thinking
about and I said, why what do you for? What?

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Why why are you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
Graduate? Word?

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
We're older?

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Now, why are you thinking about comedy? I said, in
my head, he's been watching social media. He goes, well,
I've been watching a lot of video, so now you
think it's easy. Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
That's the only thing I think social media has done is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
They make it look like it's fucking easy. YouTube tutorials.
That's like this, Hi, welcome, How to be a tight end?
It's so easy. How to be the tight end? Really,
it's the same. You can't know. You gotta show up
the practice, and you gotta put the fucking reps in

(01:05:00):
promising you. Because when I first started doing comedy, I
was funny. I was funny. It was me. It was
Corey Holcomb, who was another funny, crazy bastards, Corey Holkem.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Yeah, Corey Hocab, who I brought into the game.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
By the way, you guys can thank me for Corey
Holcomb because I brought him to Amateur Knight. I brought
him the Amateur Knight made him do comedy because I've
known the system. I was a teenager, and he has
always been a very very very funny man. Yeah, you
got to put in the reps, and we were all
funny at the beginning. D Ray Davis was all funny.
We didn't have the jokes yet, you know, we didn't

(01:05:32):
have nothing to say, but we had funny quips here
and there. Right, Well, it takes years to get your
voice in comedy. It's ten years. Ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I'm giving a fuck.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Here's here's an example. I was sitting with Seinfeld. Yes,
I said it. I was sitting with Seinfeld. He was
doing a documentary called Comedian. I'm in that documentary. This
is when he was making his comeback after Seinfeld. He
was coming back to comedy. So he would come to
the comedy Seller and hang out with me and hang
out with all of us. And one day he asked
me how long you've been doing comedy? I said, and
I stuck my chest. I said, nah, about nine years now,

(01:06:04):
going on ten. He's like, okay, you're a nine year
old in comedy. Then that's your comedy age. Always remember that,
that's your age in comedy. I never forgot that. My
age in comedy is about twenty seven years now. Yeah,
I've been doing it almost thirty years, you know what
I mean. And then and I see, I see why
it takes so long because it's effortless for me now.

(01:06:26):
But but I still see the difficulty in it because
I can do one hour now, I gotta do a
whole different around. When you see Chris Rock, Chris Rock
is a technician. He'll go in, come in in the
comedy club, work on his shit, work on it shit.
Siepold does the same shit. Ray Romonald still comes in.
These guys are multimillionaires, but because it's a craft, because
the comedy is always better than you. I always comedy

(01:06:47):
is always better than you because you always gotta redouce something.
You always got a story to tell. You never if
you get to conceal a lot. And that's another thing
about social media. It's making these motherfuckers cocky. They come
around thinking because hey man, I got it million followers.
I go, well, you gotta follow me tonight. Wow. Shit,
we'll see what that shit does to you. Okay, buddy,

(01:07:07):
you know, I know like glad that you have ten million.
I'm glad you got your little sock puppet thing. Good
for you, but we're about to do the real shit,
and good luck following me. But you know it takes
and listen, you know these these young cats that come in,
they can't help when they were born. They were born
in the social media phase. But I try to tell them, dog,
doing a sketch is different than stand up these lord,

(01:07:30):
I'm telling you be careful because you're in a time
continue when you're on stage and people done paid their money,
they done sent their kids a babysitter, and motherfucker's is
sitting there like this all right, motherfucker sh is one
hundred dollars the goddamn ticket, man, it better be. I mean,
some hot hos and this motherfucker real shit. And so
you got an hour, And what if the dude before

(01:07:52):
you just did a hot thirty in front of you,
that the feature that smoked it. Now you gotta do
your shit. I'm like, it's a real It's the hardest
form of entertainment. Comedy, which gets no respect, barely wins awards.
Comedy is the hardest. You know why. You know why
people heckle. You know why people heckle Shatton because everybody

(01:08:14):
has a sense of humor. You make somebody laugh. People
over here, make somebody laugh. You was funny at the barbecue,
You was funny at the water cooler, right, everybody's funny.
You were even funny on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
You used to talk shit on the field.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
I did. You did a commercial. I remember the commercial
that you did. You'd be like, Yo, what you gonna do? Man?
It was a commercial, so that's funny. But people go, okay,
Well I make people laugh. There's a man or a
woman on stage making people laugh. But I'm funny too,
So I'm not even gonna show you respect. You go
to the opera.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Ain't nobody talking, are they?

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
You go to the opera.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
I go to the opera. I'm cultured.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
You go to the opera, fie go fee gotta and
someone's like, man siting that shit, and he'd be like
me gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Yo, No, you're not gonna say that because you don't
have a sense of opera.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Go to the ballet. I've been to the ballet.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Shit.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
I go to that shit, you know, and nobody says, man,
that girl.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Flexible than the motherfucker.

Speaker 4 (01:09:08):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
You know why they do balls out, yo, you know,
saying you because you have a respect, because it's something
you can't do. But for some reason, comedy is that
one art form where everybody feels they're your equal, even
the comedians have been doing it two years teep through
your equal, and I don't like it. I think comedy
should be like the army. Like that's what I love

(01:09:31):
about the armed forces. I'm a general, you're a fucking cadet.
You stand at attention when I walk in. When I
see George Wallace, I just saw. I just did a
show at our senial hall. By the way, one of
the nicest men I've ever met. I've never met our city.
Our citio is a fucking legend with people don't understand
our senior I went.

Speaker 9 (01:09:50):
He goes, and he goes, Godfrey, man's good seeing your brother.
I've been watching you, you know how his figure? He said, Godfrey,
I've been watching you. He's like Godfrey.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
He goes, I've been watching you since the pandemic. And
I said, I gotta salute you. You're a general, man,
you're a five star. We gotta like rank and file
has to happen. It's like in the rookie you know.
You know I walked on the team in Illinois, did
you I did on a dare. I did it because
I was doing trying to do track and field and

(01:10:26):
I wasn't really sure. And then this dude named Marlon Primus.
I'm saying his name, Marlon Primus. He came up with
Henry Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
So this dude was so talented.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
He played our free sea was our free safety, six
foot four, could throw the ball a mile because sometimes
we'd be on the field just fucking around practicing, and
he could.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Throw the I said, my god, man, you can throw.
He could punt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
I go, how come you're not a quarterback? He goes,
because in Illinois they didn't want any black quarterbacks. They
kept all the white, didn't. They converted all the black
dudes into defensive guys. And he said, And he was
from La so he'd be like YOUZ, it's like you
should you should try out, cuz I dare you try?
So I tried out and I made the team. Didn't start.
I was the meat squad, but hell I was am

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I made it. I made the team.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
I made the squad. I was on there for like
three years.

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(01:12:20):
slash Shay Shape. Jamie Fox recently had he had a setback.
He had an illness. We don't know what it is.
They don't really care. Very mysterious, yes, but I'm glad
he's doing better. So Jamie cut his teeth. Comedian thinking
about getting back on stage. What would you rank Jamie
as far as comedic We know what he is as
a comedic actor, yes, but as a stand up we

(01:12:41):
saw him in Living Color.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
He was very funny, like I may need security. That
was funny as hell.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Ranking ranking, like what you mean like ranking?

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
What's it? What's it? What's it? What's when you look
at Jamie? What kind of what kind of comedian? What
kind of comedic performance is he? He's really talented singing
because I opened up from a long time ago in
Indianapolis at the Madam C. J. Walker Theater and he
he did voices. He's funny naturally. Yeah, they can do

(01:13:11):
some personation. We can go pound for pound on the
trump though, anytime, Dalk, anytime you want to compete, I'm
ready for Jamie. Yeah. But he Yeah, he did voices,
he had ranged yes, and yeah, he's very skilled.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
He's very skilled.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
I've never seen him do a lot of stand up, right,
because he's been in movies busy. So yeah, but the
people say the man was a clone, and then they
saw him with a white women said, that's him, that's Jamie.
Ain't no black can't get Yeah, I don't know about
the cloning thing because they said they said he was

(01:13:49):
at like a McDonald's and they.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Said that there was a tattoo. I don't, I don't.
I don't know about that ship.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
I don't know anything. You trying to start something? No, no, no,
we had to get sixty million.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Tell me something.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
I don't want you to tell me because no, no, Jamie,
I I don't. I mean, I know Jamie, but I
don't know him like that. But I don't. I don't
know if it was a clone or not, because there
was no clone. Then you know how we do stuff.
So was that a real Jamie? Was that Jamie? For real? Yeah?
What would that video? I don't know. Shit, you don't
believe they're cloning the one on the beach?

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
What beach?

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
Oh? Man? He thought that man walking on he was
on vacation with whom white girl? You did like you?
But here, let me ask you this, yes, because people say, well, shatty,
you called it all this beat? Did you know that
this community, this many comedians didn't like each other.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
Listen, man, it's really sad to say this. But our
our our community.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
I hate saying community community sounds. So are we talking
about the black are we talking about comedic? No, because
the white dudes, I'm gonna keep it one hundred because
I know a lot of white con and man the
first hell no, and they I'm not saying they, there's
not guys that don't like each other. But these motherfuckers,
they they will hold that solidarity, that white male surdary

(01:15:13):
white solidarity. It will hold it because they all are
on each other's podcasts. Rogan makes these motherfuckers kings. It's
Rogan And even though shout out to Adam Carolla because
I do his, I'm a regular on his, you know,
and they they share each other's shit, They get on
each other's podcast They help.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Each other all the time. I don't even want to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Say this shit, but if it causes controversy of down
with it, we ain't shit real talk. We are fucking
whack because here's the problem. We always have airon grievances
on public platforms. This motherfuger ain't dead, forty death motherfucker.
I'm like, why, I don't understand what is this fucking
addiction of calling each other out in public all the time?

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
And who's funny? Who's why I don't understand?

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
What're the only ones that kind of do the shit,
you know, And.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Of course we watch because controversy is always fun. But
I don't know why we do that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
We should be on each other's podcast, We should be like,
you know, liking each other's shit, but we don't do that.
I know some comic and I got comics that don't
like me, and I'm not saying anything shit, easy shit.
I got comics that don't fuck with me. I got
comics that have talked shit about me, but I never
let them know they've talked shit about me. I've got
comics talk shit about me to people in the business.

(01:16:30):
Producers who have come up to me and said, hey,
are you friends with this particular person. I could say
his name right fucking now, and they say, yeah, I
know this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
What's up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Well, he was saying some really disparaging things about you,
but we didn't believe him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
I think you should give him a call.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
And I called him. I said, why the fuck are
you talking about me? And I've never done anything to
you because I don't do anything any you can tell anybody.
I I mind my business, Shannon, I stay in my lane.
All I do is say, let me be the best
comedy I can be. I do that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
I don't stab people.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
I'm not into stabbing people in the back of the
pretty good because that's what I've been told what it
comes along with the business. When you're doing well, people
take shots. They take shots at me. I've had women
tell me shit, here's the thing. When a dude is
talking bad about another dude to a woman, that's bit shit.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's bit shit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
I don't do that. I can have a beef with you,
right And if I see a girl that you know,
I'm not gonna say shit to her about you. That's cornballshit.
But they do that to me, and I've been told
by women that's what's great. Is like my relationship woul
certainly be like, yo, I just want to let you
know you thought that was your man, blah blah blah blah.
He you know so, and it's like we are fucked

(01:17:37):
up to each other. I'm not saying there are pockets
of comics that do help each other. Black. Let me
not because they like Lord Black. It's the truth. We
don't help each other, even on even on social media.
Motherfuckers won't like your shit to help you. Dale Hugley
does that ship for me all the time. He always
puts my videos up. If your videos are great, he'll
put it on his platform. Deal always looks out, He

(01:18:00):
always looks out. Man likes my ship. Michael Blackson will
like my shit sometimes, just just a little little things
here and now. Yes, he ain't put mine up because
I'm Wendy william with a weight sets, so he ain't
put me You're Wendy Williams with a weight set. I
remember one time you did send something to me when
I imitated you. You say, man, I thought we was boys,

(01:18:21):
man shit man, and then that was it. I never
heard nothing, no, no, but but I know, but listen,
we were not we need That's always been a problem
with us in the first place.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Though. It's our unity, our unity.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two
is also posted and you can access it to whichever
podcast platform you just listened to part one on. Just
simply go back to club A profile and I'll see
you there.

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