June 30, 2023 • 26 mins
Rick welcomes comedians George Wallace, Ben Bailey, and Alysia Cooper to the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment.
Thank you for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick
Tittall with you Nashally syndicated out of San Francisco and
around the world on the American Forces Radio Network. One
of the great cub clubs and cubs in America is
(00:22):
Helium Philly, and you need to get down there at
tomorrow night. I get your tickets at Heliumcomedy dot com
because two shows at seven and nine thirty and also
on Saturday seven and nine thirty it'll be the great
George Wallace along with j Anthony Brown and Myra Jay
as well. George, Welcome to the show. And I was
trying to think when it comes to the cangle. I
know el Ill cool J had the bucket hat, and
(00:44):
I know Slick Rick had it, But were you before
those guys who was the first to rock the cangle?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think it was the Samuel Jackson. Really to me, Ill,
I don't know, but I would. I don't know when
I start wearing it, to be honest, Uh, but I
love it. And now I took the tingle away and
now it's my own hat. It says I'd be thinking,
I'd be thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I almost thought, like with all your tweets, you always
end with whatnot. I almost thought like whatnot?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But my lost tanker shore was cause I'd be thinking show.
But I will be taking my car. I go into
a grocery store and I said an item and said
he'd operated. No. Well, I'll be thinking what the hell
is in the can? You know? Well, things like that,
I'll be thinking not coming. When dogs bark at night,
you have to get that last barkhead, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's just I talked to a lot of comedians and
guys from the eighties like Dana Gold and Jake Johansson,
and they're still going strong. But you go back to
the seventies, I mean, what what is the staying power
from being legit from the seventies until today?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I tell you what. It's new jokes, and I
tell you what I love to do jokes. I love
what I do just like you do online is lie.
I just loved a lie and make up stuff, you know,
and they paid me for it, and I can just
I just loved and lie. It's just so cool, you know.
And those guys you mentioned back in the eighties, those
are great San Francisco comings. And now I gotta you know,
(02:15):
my brother played football up there.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I interviewed Steve Wallace back in the day as a
very good player.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And you know, my nephew is a money to moves
from across the bridge there, money toime. We played for
the New York Giants and went to Dyll and sell
m So you don't have seven Super Bowl rings in
my family. You didn't know that though?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean how much the New England Patriots. My mom
played football.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow, now you're being a you're in a h Well
you were, you were at l but then you went
to college in Ohio, right said?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The University of Akron Aklan, Ohio went not as the Aklan.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Zips, the Zips. Remember when Jerry Foules, Jerry fous left
Notre Dame to go to the Zips. You remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Exactly. And I think Bob Hutler too, with the basketball
or something like that. But we just found out what
a zip means about ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Ohio state? Ohio State thirty eight, Aklan Yip.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There is a guy I used to cover the Oakland
A's their pre and post game host. And there was
a guy named Chris Bassett who's now with the Mets,
and he was a Zip. In fact, he went there
to play hoop ended up pretty good baseball player.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Really, he's not with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, Chris Bassett Hound.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'll have to find out who he is because we
have a booth that with the metsis City Fields. Don't
have to check him out.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, So tell me about your opener and your feature.
J Anthony Brown and Myra Jay with you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We're all known from the Tom Joyner Morning Show years
A twenty five years of the Tom Joynah Morning Show
sendicated one and ten markets across America. And Myra J
is going to be with Jay is gonna be out
sick this week. He couldn't make it and uh and
so he's a he's had some problems, so we're gonna
miss him. But we're gonna be at heliums Heliums in
uh Philadelphia, and I'm already in the city having fun.
(04:14):
City of Brotherly Love and Independence Day and we're just
gonna have some fun. And it's crazy being here, so
it's gonna be a lot of fun. If you want
to get your laugh on, especially younger people. The younger
people are coming out now and bringing their parents, because
most young people don't laugh at their parents and don't
have a chance to ground with them. So that's a
new thing, and we're having lots of fun with that,
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you know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's I remember. And by the way, what better city
to be in the fourth of July than Philadelphia? Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I was thinking about some m I had fine
works in front of my house in Central Park and
New York. I don't remember seeing any blue in the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is that mostly red?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's mostly all you seek, all you do as far
is you lie, you go ooh ah oo ah ooh
is this a big one? Ah?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, it sounds like my prom.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So you know, it's it's funny because you know, I'm
a comedy nerd, and I love going to New York
and you know those three clubs down in the village
is the Cellar of Fat Black and the and the Vu.
But I also like going to golf. I like going
to the strip, and I think about the stories of
Seinfeld driving in to do the strip or Caroline's you know,
(05:38):
late night and and you were all part of that,
in fact, did when when Jerry finally moved to the city,
didn't you guys live together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You don't have the real George, right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're the George Constanza.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm not. I'm the George's Costa was another friend. But
I'm the one that was his roommate for thirteen years.
I'm one that was his best man and his wedding,
and I'm the father of his kids. And we started
the same night, actually started to catch a Rising Star,
and then we moved over to the coming strip and
we've been best friends for forty seven years. Can you
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believe that?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Wow? Were you so? Were you there before Lucian was
the booker?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was there a day at open Wow, Catcher Rising,
I'm in the comic strip. Yeah, Lucian was there and
they were building when I walked in. You know, Off
was vice president of the world's largest outdoor advertising agency
back in the day, called Metro Media, and we sold
a transit advertising in the top ten markets in America
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Detroit and Cleveland. And I
(06:41):
went in to put the coming strip on the back
of the buses, on the side of the buses, and
then as I signed the contract. I said, you know,
I do a little comment in myself. He says, come
on in tomorrow and on Disney. I went on Thursday
night and I've been on stage ever since then.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And you went originally like you tried it. You were
like a priest or a preacher, right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Because that's all I knew. I came from Georgia, right,
And I would just make fun of the preachers and
what would happen in church. So then I said, okay,
I'll become a preacher. I had a preacher's roll on
and I had the thick yellow pages as my bible.
I called it the Good Book of Bell, a good
Book of Bill. Whatever you want, look it up in
the book. I was crazy and I would walk in saying, oh,
(07:21):
when the things go marching, And that was my old me.
I should redo that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Bring it back, baby, bring.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It back, yeah, because you know, I was telling Jerry
the other day, I've been doing comedy for forty seven years.
Some of my old jokes. Bring it back on. It's
new to the people. They never heard it. Well.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All the time I talked to comedians, I'll bring up
like my favorite joke, and they're like, I said, that
the like, yeah, I already forgot that one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
People remind me of joke every day and I don't
even know the pust line. I go, oh, okay, but
it's good to have that data in your uh, have
that those jokes in your in your computer, so I
can just put it up anytime you need it. And
that's that's really good, No doubt, jokes is the key.
New jokes is the key to staying around. Like you
(08:05):
got the political I talk about anybody and everybody. I
don't do a PC show, So if you come to
my show, I'm gonna talk about your lack of dog
Son'll leave your little problems at the door, okay, But
I will never embarrass anybody. You will always laugh with me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
That's cool. It's like Jay Leno says, write a joke,
tell a joke, get paid right dealing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
On stricidlys and writing new jokes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Jill does, hey, before we let you go, I got
to ask too, when you ran from mayor of Vegas,
was that just publicity stunt? Or you were like, no, no, no, no,
I'm legit and I got some good ideas here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I just love to lie. I'll just make up I'm
running for president right now. Number one, when I'm president
in Princiville, chick Blade's gonna be uful on Sunday. I
don't give a damn what they say. You're gonna be
aful on Sunday, Okay, all right. Number two, Steve Harvey
ain't hosting nothing else. Number okay, And that's number two.
So we just so, yeah, it was a lie, but
(09:02):
it caught on and just people started calling me Maya
because I had great ideas, you know, And people said
the problem was if I ran, people would have voted
for me.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You might get stuck. What's a real job?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, see that's what troubles And now I lied just
one hour night, I can be working all day talking
to people's and stingers about the water building, the SEUWL line,
and I'll I'll be cussing people out. I'd make a
good mail though. They would love me well.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Plus you might have to deal with some guys with
crooked noses too in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Ooh we I hope you know what. I own my
show for years, and I always thought about that, what
if these guys come in and say hello? Because I
owned the shown, you know, and I was making too
much money but I'm gone now it's over. And I
was known as mister Vegas. I went in for thirty days,
sixty days, ninety that he's turned into fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow. Well everybody gets the chance to see the Great
George Wallace Tomorrow night two shows at Helium in Philly.
Go to Heliumcomedy dot Com Saturday night two shows as
well with j Anthony Brown and Myra Jay. George h
always been a big fan. Thanks for coming on, man,
Let's do it again soon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I got to call you back to you by my
new show with normal lyricalled clean Slate. Next time we
talked about that George Wallers, Leburn Conck and Norman Leer.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, oh yeah, absolutely, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
The Great got a deal. It's almost like seving a son,
but it's having a daughter. There's a catch. We're talking
about it there.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It is all right. You're listening to the Rick Tittle
podcast on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more.
Check me out, and also if you're in town, make
sure to get down to Cobbs Comedy Club, which is
here in North Beach on Columbus Street, because this weekend
headlining will be stand up comedian Ben Bailey Ben, welcome
(10:49):
back to the show. I say, welcome back. You were
here in studio with me eight years ago. Was it
something I.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Said, Well, that's something you said. No, it was the
pandemic pretty much. Man. I can't believe it's been eight years.
Though it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That was a long long pan. I didn't know about
the first six years, just playing with playing with you.
The three emmys you got from cash Cab. Are those
on a mantle? Are they in a safety deposit box?
Or do you like flavor flavor them and wear them
as a necklace?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They have them. I actually have a studio in my
basement that I built and I keep them in there.
They're behind the door, so you have to like get
pretty far into the house in order to see them.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So you're already in with you by the time. You're
not like showing them off and bragging like when you
were doing a Zoom meeting. Are they in the background?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Definitely not that kind of keep them hidden more than
showing them all.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, I think what I love. People might not know
about you. They think, oh, he's a comedian, he's a
host and for the show, he drove a cab. But
you you really are or were a licensed taxi driver
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I was, but only to do the show. I was
never okay, so give my hack license. You know, quite
a thing for comedian to have to do.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's true. When I was in New York in December
and I was, you know, like by Wall Street, it
was way lower Manhattan, and I was going to get
an Uber to JFK and the cheapest one was eighty
and then when the guy dropped me off, it said
ninety eight dollars. And that was the whole thing about
how cabs were supposed to be more expensive. Now it
(12:34):
seems like the ubers are more expensive. Does this resonate
with you in any way?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Uber is crazy expensive, but it's like it's so convenient
that I just do it anyway, you know, my Oh
this is outrageous, but I'll pay it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It used to be flat favor to the airport, sit
in a cab, it was like forty five bucks. I
don't think that's true anymore. So they're both more expensive
than they used to be. Unless you take the train,
they'll take you like two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It would take you all day. And nine transfers.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, the old days, you would cab drivers would pick
up foreign nationals at JFK, of which there are plentiful,
and then charge them six hundred dollars right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Drive them all over the city, all the way, zigzag
through Brooklyn and Queens and then run the meter up
to as much as they could.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So did you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Do you did you ever have a situation when you
were doing the show with all the lights and all
the fun, because everybody always seems so affable and they
always seem like, you know, college students whatever. But did
you ever have anybody get a little bit aggressive?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, definitely, I had plenty of people. Usually people would
get angry when they lost, and they wouldn't want to
get out. One time, he moved to the middle of
the way back seat and he put on all the
seat belts and he was like, I'm not kidding. And
for a second, I wasn't sure what to do, and
(14:11):
then I was like, oh, I know what to do.
So I just pulled over and I got out. I
left him by myself.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And then the security guys came and pulled him out.
But yeah, he was he was determined. He wasn't going
to leave until he got his money.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Even he lost.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, that was the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Usually that was the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, you would, you would risk all of it if
you were going to keep going in certain situations.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Right right, you could go to the video bonus question
there risk at all, which usually you know, wasn't very much.
It's like two hundred dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When I look back at some of the early panel
shows that Colin quinn Tough Crowd Show is really ahead
of its time, and it's hard to believe it was
twenty years ago. But you he got you on that,
didn't he.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah to a bunch of times. Yeah, that was so fun,
really a great time. You're right, it was ahead of
its time. I didn't really think about.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It, but it was.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah. And uh, you know that's the thing I just
in the previous hour I interviewed George Wallace speaking of
New York comedians and the staying power that you guys have,
and I mentioned Colin. I mean, it's just uh, and
you don't I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. You
don't have to reinvent yourself, as George Wallace says, just
write new jokes.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta do new jokes. And honestly, if
you're going to be on the road all the time,
you don't even have to do that. You just keep
doing the same one, going to a different place. But
you get you know, you're writing the new jokes is
as much for you as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Sean Wallins told me one time. I don't know if
he was joking, but he said, I've never done a
special or a DVD because then I'd have to write
new jokes.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I have to write new jokes to keep it interesting
for me. You though, like that that's as much of
the fun for me is the performing almost is coming
up with the new stuff. So I like that part.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I always love how you could do, Like for like tomorrow,
your first show at seven thirty at Cobbs, you could
do you could kill you do the exact same show
for the other crowd and they're like eh, and You're like,
but these these jokes work? Is it get frustrating sometimes
how nebulous it can be?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It does, yeah, but usually you can kind of use
that to your advantage too, and and just sort of
flip it and kind of I mean, you could even
point on that time these jokes killed on them.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know you kind of learn to bob and weave
and kind of find your way out of that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
But that's weird. Yeah, you're not going away. We're hoping
they're going to go promly something that you were doing,
rather than the crowd entry level of it. You have
the more it's a while ago a crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's just in a weird mood.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Have been a roll with it. But you're saying, in
my experience, somebody's not quite right.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's me. It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Do you ever like not panic but say, uh oh,
I'm dying here, and you like move your closer up
to the front, and then that doesn't work and you go, now,
what do I do?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You know that is a familiar scenario, but it's been
a while since I've had that experience. But yeah, I
can't remember, especially earlier on you kind of like, well,
I've done half my jokes. I've been up here for
ten minutes, and what the hell am I going to
do for the next forty? But yeah, it doesn't happen
so much when later on in the game kind of
(17:52):
learn to roll with stuff and find your way through
and keep you cool. Nothing about it have to be
getting a huge laugh at every moment. Right, you can
be quiet for a minute, you can take a second
think about what you want to say. Hopefully you know
they're with you enough that that's not going to affect
how the show comes out.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know, Well, I know, I think it was Mark
Norman Sammuril. They both said if they don't get a
laugh every eight seconds, they panic. They can't they can't
take a moment to think because they panic.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh well, well, you know those guys are kids.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What do they know, like thirty eight thirty nine? What
the hell did they know? All right, so they're like
hugely successful doing theaters. Well, I mean, I know you
were up in sack at the what's it called, the
one downtown the Theater, the Crest, the Crest.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
In fact, I saw Sam there a couple of months
ago and one of the more raucous crowds. I think
I had three beers and I was the most sober
guy in that crowd, the Soccer Mount crowd.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, that's crazy. Yeah, we just did that last night.
It was great. People were not terribly drunk. Good craft,
it's good fun.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Well that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well you got that I'm headed to Tahoe. Headed to
Tahoe tonight and then Cobbs tomorrow on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Wow, that sounds like a lot of fun. Cobbscomedy dot
com get your tickets for Ben Bailey stand up comedian
actor and of course we talked about Cash Cab as well,
but get to see his comedy fresh as today's headlines. Ben,
thanks for coming on again, man, We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Hey, thanks for having me. I'll see you, talk to
you in another eight.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Years, eight years exactly. All right. You're listening to the
Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight Side Network, stay tuned
for more. Thank you for that, and welcome back to
the show Rick Tittle with you coast to coast and
around the world on the American Forces Radio Network. It's
our pleasure to welcome to the show the multi talented
(19:56):
Alicia Cooper and as they say, she was born with
a microphone in her hand. Alicia Cooper for President coming
out June twenty third. First of all, Alicia, welcome to
the show, Rick Tottle with you. Are you really running
for president or not?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well as a write in candidate because I can't afford
this seven hundred million it'll take to effectively run my campaign.
So I'm just telling people to write my.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Name in.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What you know, it's funny I have written in there.
There have been several times. I mean, I do vote.
I think it's important to but sometimes I don't like
the two candidates and I will write somebody in. So
I think I'm gonna have to keep you in mind.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Thank you. Rick.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
The first thing I'm gonna do, I'm want to reverse
those airline bag fees.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Can you make the driving age eighteen? Because I don't.
I was the only sixteen year old I knew who
didn't drive one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Came, I certainly can. And yeah, there's a lot of
things I have on the list, and I will add that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So tell us a little bit about yourself. Where did
you grow up, Alicia?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I grew up in Temple Hills of Maryland, right outside
of five minutes from Washington, d C. So both my
parents were born in d C. And that's where they
grew up. And I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland,
but right the side, not too far from d C.
And I loved, loved, loved it. So and you know,
we're political just because we lived so close. My parents
(21:31):
grew up close to the White House. So you know,
when you live in the DC area, politics is just
a second nature. It's part of you. But I loved
growing up in that area. And then yeah, so that's
that's another reason I'm running for president, because I feel
like I'm qualified.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, I remember, you know, Dave Chappelle talking about like,
you know, he's d C but he goes, I admitted
because I was from a white neighborhood, but I act
like I'm from the PJS.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I love Dave Chappelle. Your one friend who knows him
very well, she was like, she's like, she's like, you're
the female Chappelle. That's what she called me. I was
laughing so hard. But yet we loved Dave. We loved
so many of the great comics that came out of
the DC area. Wanda Sykes came out of the DC,
Martin Lawrence. You know, there's so many great comics that
(22:22):
came out of the DC area, and David's definitely, you know,
the most most notable.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Speaking of Maryland, you were a terp as well. How
was life at College Park?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It was so good. I still have friends from you
know from going to Maryland. That was just still keep
my same friends. And I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it
was a radio television film age. And I also did
some theater. While they're.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Really like classically trained Shakespearean actress, no musical theater.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh okay.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I played Evil and the Wiz and we had so
much fun, so much fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was.
It was a great time. It was just a great time.
And and and like I said, the four years flew by.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
He's on down, He's on down the road.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, he's on there, he's on there. Yeah. It
was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I could see you, yeah, and I think about I
could see you being like a sister act. You'd pull
that off.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, y'all could pull that off easily.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
How's the march moving? The Evoka come get your daddy's shirts.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I don't even have any more of those left. I
sold all of those. All of those I sold. The
Orange is the New Black where I had a Donald
Trump with an orange little hair threw up in the top,
I sold all of those. So y'all don't even have
any more of those left.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So when I talked about multi talented stand up comedian,
which is like, you know, like landing of jet on
a moving aircraft carrier. It is very very hard to do.
But you produce, you write, and you act. Did all
those disciplines come easy to you or did you really
have to work hard at it?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Well, while my mother was finishing her degree at Howard University,
she put me in the children's theater there. I was
five years old, and that's where I first started in
children's theater. So I thought I wanted to be an
actress at that time, you know. And then d from
What's Happening was on TV and I was like, that's
what I want to do, you know. So then as
(24:40):
I got older, my interest changed and I wanted to
go behind the scenes and produce television. So that's what
I actually ended up doing. And then HBO's death comedy
Jam hit and I fell in love with the acts
that was on that particular network, and I didn't realize
that they had been honing their craft for years before
we saw it. I thought they were just improvising, and
(25:02):
I was like, I can do that, and I realized
comedy stand up is.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
A true art form.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
You are going to work at this, So I would
jump on stage and I would crash and burn because
I didn't have anything prepared. And I was like, oh,
I was told my whole life I'm so funny. Guess
I'm not. And so after crashing and burning three times
in three different clubs, I quit. You know, I can't
even say I really started. And then years later I
(25:29):
was working on a talk show and one of the
producers made me get back into it. And then that
was the year two thousand and I took it seriously
and started writing and performing at nights. I would work
all day and then I would perform at night. And
I did that for eight years, and then I quit
my day job and said, well let me see, let
me try this full time. And that's how my career began.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. No, it's a hard road. And you paid your
dues and Alicia Cooper for President coming out on the
twenty third, and before we let you go with the
autobiography never Heard of You Either? Is that printed? Is
that getting ready to print?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Well, what I'm doing is I'm still finishing it. I'm
writing the first draft and yeah, that's what I'm doing
right now as I'm finishing my first draft of I've
Never Heard of you either.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, she is Alicia Cooper. If you're ever in
San Francisco, come on by the studio. We'd love to
have you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I would love to be there. Thank you so much, Rick.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
This has been the Rick Tittle Podcast on the Eighth
Side Network
Hi, I'm Rick Tittle and this is the Rick Tittle
Podcast on the eight Side Network. Join me as I
get busy with the biggest names in sports and entertainment.
Thank you for that. Welcome back to the show, Rick
Tittall with you Nashally syndicated out of San Francisco and
around the world on the American Forces Radio Network. One
of the great cub clubs and cubs in America is
(00:22):
Helium Philly, and you need to get down there at
tomorrow night. I get your tickets at Heliumcomedy dot com
because two shows at seven and nine thirty and also
on Saturday seven and nine thirty it'll be the great
George Wallace along with j Anthony Brown and Myra Jay
as well. George, Welcome to the show. And I was
trying to think when it comes to the cangle. I
know el Ill cool J had the bucket hat, and
(00:44):
I know Slick Rick had it, But were you before
those guys who was the first to rock the cangle?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think it was the Samuel Jackson. Really to me, Ill,
I don't know, but I would. I don't know when
I start wearing it, to be honest, Uh, but I
love it. And now I took the tingle away and
now it's my own hat. It says I'd be thinking,
I'd be thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I almost thought, like with all your tweets, you always
end with whatnot. I almost thought like whatnot?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But my lost tanker shore was cause I'd be thinking show.
But I will be taking my car. I go into
a grocery store and I said an item and said
he'd operated. No. Well, I'll be thinking what the hell
is in the can? You know? Well, things like that,
I'll be thinking not coming. When dogs bark at night,
you have to get that last barkhead, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's just I talked to a lot of comedians and
guys from the eighties like Dana Gold and Jake Johansson,
and they're still going strong. But you go back to
the seventies, I mean, what what is the staying power
from being legit from the seventies until today?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, I tell you what. It's new jokes, and I
tell you what I love to do jokes. I love
what I do just like you do online is lie.
I just loved a lie and make up stuff, you know,
and they paid me for it, and I can just
I just loved and lie. It's just so cool, you know.
And those guys you mentioned back in the eighties, those
are great San Francisco comings. And now I gotta you know,
(02:15):
my brother played football up there.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I interviewed Steve Wallace back in the day as a
very good player.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And you know, my nephew is a money to moves
from across the bridge there, money toime. We played for
the New York Giants and went to Dyll and sell
m So you don't have seven Super Bowl rings in
my family. You didn't know that though?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean how much the New England Patriots. My mom
played football.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow, now you're being a you're in a h Well
you were, you were at l but then you went
to college in Ohio, right said?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The University of Akron Aklan, Ohio went not as the Aklan.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Zips, the Zips. Remember when Jerry Foules, Jerry fous left
Notre Dame to go to the Zips. You remember that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Exactly. And I think Bob Hutler too, with the basketball
or something like that. But we just found out what
a zip means about ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Ohio state? Ohio State thirty eight, Aklan Yip.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There is a guy I used to cover the Oakland
A's their pre and post game host. And there was
a guy named Chris Bassett who's now with the Mets,
and he was a Zip. In fact, he went there
to play hoop ended up pretty good baseball player.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Really, he's not with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, Chris Bassett Hound.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'll have to find out who he is because we
have a booth that with the metsis City Fields. Don't
have to check him out.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, So tell me about your opener and your feature.
J Anthony Brown and Myra Jay with you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We're all known from the Tom Joyner Morning Show years
A twenty five years of the Tom Joynah Morning Show
sendicated one and ten markets across America. And Myra J
is going to be with Jay is gonna be out
sick this week. He couldn't make it and uh and
so he's a he's had some problems, so we're gonna
miss him. But we're gonna be at heliums Heliums in
uh Philadelphia, and I'm already in the city having fun.
(04:14):
City of Brotherly Love and Independence Day and we're just
gonna have some fun. And it's crazy being here, so
it's gonna be a lot of fun. If you want
to get your laugh on, especially younger people. The younger
people are coming out now and bringing their parents, because
most young people don't laugh at their parents and don't
have a chance to ground with them. So that's a
new thing, and we're having lots of fun with that,
(04:36):
you know.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's I remember. And by the way, what better city
to be in the fourth of July than Philadelphia? Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, I was thinking about some m I had fine
works in front of my house in Central Park and
New York. I don't remember seeing any blue in the fireworks.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Is that mostly red?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's mostly all you seek, all you do as far
is you lie, you go ooh ah oo ah ooh
is this a big one? Ah?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, it sounds like my prom.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You just.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So you know, it's it's funny because you know, I'm
a comedy nerd, and I love going to New York
and you know those three clubs down in the village
is the Cellar of Fat Black and the and the Vu.
But I also like going to golf. I like going
to the strip, and I think about the stories of
Seinfeld driving in to do the strip or Caroline's you know,
(05:38):
late night and and you were all part of that,
in fact, did when when Jerry finally moved to the city,
didn't you guys live together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
You don't have the real George, right.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're the George Constanza.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm not. I'm the George's Costa was another friend. But
I'm the one that was his roommate for thirteen years.
I'm one that was his best man and his wedding,
and I'm the father of his kids. And we started
the same night, actually started to catch a Rising Star,
and then we moved over to the coming strip and
we've been best friends for forty seven years. Can you
(06:13):
believe that?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Wow? Were you so? Were you there before Lucian was
the booker?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was there a day at open Wow, Catcher Rising,
I'm in the comic strip. Yeah, Lucian was there and
they were building when I walked in. You know, Off
was vice president of the world's largest outdoor advertising agency
back in the day, called Metro Media, and we sold
a transit advertising in the top ten markets in America
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Detroit and Cleveland. And I
(06:41):
went in to put the coming strip on the back
of the buses, on the side of the buses, and
then as I signed the contract. I said, you know,
I do a little comment in myself. He says, come
on in tomorrow and on Disney. I went on Thursday
night and I've been on stage ever since then.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And you went originally like you tried it. You were
like a priest or a preacher, right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Because that's all I knew. I came from Georgia, right,
And I would just make fun of the preachers and
what would happen in church. So then I said, okay,
I'll become a preacher. I had a preacher's roll on
and I had the thick yellow pages as my bible.
I called it the Good Book of Bell, a good
Book of Bill. Whatever you want, look it up in
the book. I was crazy and I would walk in saying, oh,
(07:21):
when the things go marching, And that was my old me.
I should redo that.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Bring it back, baby, bring.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It back, yeah, because you know, I was telling Jerry
the other day, I've been doing comedy for forty seven years.
Some of my old jokes. Bring it back on. It's
new to the people. They never heard it. Well.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
All the time I talked to comedians, I'll bring up
like my favorite joke, and they're like, I said, that
the like, yeah, I already forgot that one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
People remind me of joke every day and I don't
even know the pust line. I go, oh, okay, but
it's good to have that data in your uh, have
that those jokes in your in your computer, so I
can just put it up anytime you need it. And
that's that's really good, No doubt, jokes is the key.
New jokes is the key to staying around. Like you
(08:05):
got the political I talk about anybody and everybody. I
don't do a PC show, So if you come to
my show, I'm gonna talk about your lack of dog
Son'll leave your little problems at the door, okay, But
I will never embarrass anybody. You will always laugh with me.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
That's cool. It's like Jay Leno says, write a joke,
tell a joke, get paid right dealing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
On stricidlys and writing new jokes.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Jill does, hey, before we let you go, I got
to ask too, when you ran from mayor of Vegas,
was that just publicity stunt? Or you were like, no, no, no, no,
I'm legit and I got some good ideas here.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I just love to lie. I'll just make up I'm
running for president right now. Number one, when I'm president
in Princiville, chick Blade's gonna be uful on Sunday. I
don't give a damn what they say. You're gonna be
aful on Sunday, Okay, all right. Number two, Steve Harvey
ain't hosting nothing else. Number okay, And that's number two.
So we just so, yeah, it was a lie, but
(09:02):
it caught on and just people started calling me Maya
because I had great ideas, you know, And people said
the problem was if I ran, people would have voted
for me.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You might get stuck. What's a real job?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, see that's what troubles And now I lied just
one hour night, I can be working all day talking
to people's and stingers about the water building, the SEUWL line,
and I'll I'll be cussing people out. I'd make a
good mail though. They would love me well.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Plus you might have to deal with some guys with
crooked noses too in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Ooh we I hope you know what. I own my
show for years, and I always thought about that, what
if these guys come in and say hello? Because I
owned the shown, you know, and I was making too
much money but I'm gone now it's over. And I
was known as mister Vegas. I went in for thirty days,
sixty days, ninety that he's turned into fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Wow. Well everybody gets the chance to see the Great
George Wallace Tomorrow night two shows at Helium in Philly.
Go to Heliumcomedy dot Com Saturday night two shows as
well with j Anthony Brown and Myra Jay. George h
always been a big fan. Thanks for coming on, man,
Let's do it again soon.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I got to call you back to you by my
new show with normal lyricalled clean Slate. Next time we
talked about that George Wallers, Leburn Conck and Norman Leer.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, oh yeah, absolutely, that sounds great.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
The Great got a deal. It's almost like seving a son,
but it's having a daughter. There's a catch. We're talking
about it there.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It is all right. You're listening to the Rick Tittle
podcast on the eight Side Network. Stay tuned for more.
Check me out, and also if you're in town, make
sure to get down to Cobbs Comedy Club, which is
here in North Beach on Columbus Street, because this weekend
headlining will be stand up comedian Ben Bailey Ben, welcome
(10:49):
back to the show. I say, welcome back. You were
here in studio with me eight years ago. Was it
something I.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Said, Well, that's something you said. No, it was the
pandemic pretty much. Man. I can't believe it's been eight years.
Though it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That was a long long pan. I didn't know about
the first six years, just playing with playing with you.
The three emmys you got from cash Cab. Are those
on a mantle? Are they in a safety deposit box?
Or do you like flavor flavor them and wear them
as a necklace?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
They have them. I actually have a studio in my
basement that I built and I keep them in there.
They're behind the door, so you have to like get
pretty far into the house in order to see them.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So you're already in with you by the time. You're
not like showing them off and bragging like when you
were doing a Zoom meeting. Are they in the background?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Definitely not that kind of keep them hidden more than
showing them all.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
No, I think what I love. People might not know
about you. They think, oh, he's a comedian, he's a
host and for the show, he drove a cab. But
you you really are or were a licensed taxi driver
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I was, but only to do the show. I was
never okay, so give my hack license. You know, quite
a thing for comedian to have to do.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's true. When I was in New York in December
and I was, you know, like by Wall Street, it
was way lower Manhattan, and I was going to get
an Uber to JFK and the cheapest one was eighty
and then when the guy dropped me off, it said
ninety eight dollars. And that was the whole thing about
how cabs were supposed to be more expensive. Now it
(12:34):
seems like the ubers are more expensive. Does this resonate
with you in any way?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Uber is crazy expensive, but it's like it's so convenient
that I just do it anyway, you know, my Oh
this is outrageous, but I'll pay it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It used to be flat favor to the airport, sit
in a cab, it was like forty five bucks. I
don't think that's true anymore. So they're both more expensive
than they used to be. Unless you take the train,
they'll take you like two and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It would take you all day. And nine transfers.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, the old days, you would cab drivers would pick
up foreign nationals at JFK, of which there are plentiful,
and then charge them six hundred dollars right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Drive them all over the city, all the way, zigzag
through Brooklyn and Queens and then run the meter up
to as much as they could.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So did you.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Do you did you ever have a situation when you
were doing the show with all the lights and all
the fun, because everybody always seems so affable and they
always seem like, you know, college students whatever. But did
you ever have anybody get a little bit aggressive?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, definitely, I had plenty of people. Usually people would
get angry when they lost, and they wouldn't want to
get out. One time, he moved to the middle of
the way back seat and he put on all the
seat belts and he was like, I'm not kidding. And
for a second, I wasn't sure what to do, and
(14:11):
then I was like, oh, I know what to do.
So I just pulled over and I got out. I
left him by myself.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's not bad.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And then the security guys came and pulled him out.
But yeah, he was he was determined. He wasn't going
to leave until he got his money.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Even he lost.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, that was the thing.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Usually that was the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, you would, you would risk all of it if
you were going to keep going in certain situations.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Right right, you could go to the video bonus question
there risk at all, which usually you know, wasn't very much.
It's like two hundred dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When I look back at some of the early panel
shows that Colin quinn Tough Crowd Show is really ahead
of its time, and it's hard to believe it was
twenty years ago. But you he got you on that,
didn't he.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah to a bunch of times. Yeah, that was so fun,
really a great time. You're right, it was ahead of
its time. I didn't really think about.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It, but it was.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah. And uh, you know that's the thing I just
in the previous hour I interviewed George Wallace speaking of
New York comedians and the staying power that you guys have,
and I mentioned Colin. I mean, it's just uh, and
you don't I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. You
don't have to reinvent yourself, as George Wallace says, just
write new jokes.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta do new jokes. And honestly, if
you're going to be on the road all the time,
you don't even have to do that. You just keep
doing the same one, going to a different place. But
you get you know, you're writing the new jokes is
as much for you as anybody else.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Sean Wallins told me one time. I don't know if
he was joking, but he said, I've never done a
special or a DVD because then I'd have to write
new jokes.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I have to write new jokes to keep it interesting
for me. You though, like that that's as much of
the fun for me is the performing almost is coming
up with the new stuff. So I like that part.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I always love how you could do, Like for like tomorrow,
your first show at seven thirty at Cobbs, you could
do you could kill you do the exact same show
for the other crowd and they're like eh, and You're like,
but these these jokes work? Is it get frustrating sometimes
how nebulous it can be?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It does, yeah, but usually you can kind of use
that to your advantage too, and and just sort of
flip it and kind of I mean, you could even
point on that time these jokes killed on them.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
You know you kind of learn to bob and weave
and kind of find your way out of that.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
But that's weird. Yeah, you're not going away. We're hoping
they're going to go promly something that you were doing,
rather than the crowd entry level of it. You have
the more it's a while ago a crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's just in a weird mood.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Have been a roll with it. But you're saying, in
my experience, somebody's not quite right.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's me. It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Do you ever like not panic but say, uh oh,
I'm dying here, and you like move your closer up
to the front, and then that doesn't work and you go, now,
what do I do?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You know that is a familiar scenario, but it's been
a while since I've had that experience. But yeah, I
can't remember, especially earlier on you kind of like, well,
I've done half my jokes. I've been up here for
ten minutes, and what the hell am I going to
do for the next forty? But yeah, it doesn't happen
so much when later on in the game kind of
(17:52):
learn to roll with stuff and find your way through
and keep you cool. Nothing about it have to be
getting a huge laugh at every moment. Right, you can
be quiet for a minute, you can take a second
think about what you want to say. Hopefully you know
they're with you enough that that's not going to affect
how the show comes out.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know, Well, I know, I think it was Mark
Norman Sammuril. They both said if they don't get a
laugh every eight seconds, they panic. They can't they can't
take a moment to think because they panic.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh well, well, you know those guys are kids.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What do they know, like thirty eight thirty nine? What
the hell did they know? All right, so they're like
hugely successful doing theaters. Well, I mean, I know you
were up in sack at the what's it called, the
one downtown the Theater, the Crest, the Crest.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
In fact, I saw Sam there a couple of months
ago and one of the more raucous crowds. I think
I had three beers and I was the most sober
guy in that crowd, the Soccer Mount crowd.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, that's crazy. Yeah, we just did that last night.
It was great. People were not terribly drunk. Good craft,
it's good fun.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Well that's good.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well you got that I'm headed to Tahoe. Headed to
Tahoe tonight and then Cobbs tomorrow on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Wow, that sounds like a lot of fun. Cobbscomedy dot
com get your tickets for Ben Bailey stand up comedian
actor and of course we talked about Cash Cab as well,
but get to see his comedy fresh as today's headlines. Ben,
thanks for coming on again, man, We appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Hey, thanks for having me. I'll see you, talk to
you in another eight.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Years, eight years exactly. All right. You're listening to the
Rick Tittle Podcast on the eight Side Network, stay tuned
for more. Thank you for that, and welcome back to
the show Rick Tittle with you coast to coast and
around the world on the American Forces Radio Network. It's
our pleasure to welcome to the show the multi talented
(19:56):
Alicia Cooper and as they say, she was born with
a microphone in her hand. Alicia Cooper for President coming
out June twenty third. First of all, Alicia, welcome to
the show, Rick Tottle with you. Are you really running
for president or not?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Well as a write in candidate because I can't afford
this seven hundred million it'll take to effectively run my campaign.
So I'm just telling people to write my.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Name in.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
What you know, it's funny I have written in there.
There have been several times. I mean, I do vote.
I think it's important to but sometimes I don't like
the two candidates and I will write somebody in. So
I think I'm gonna have to keep you in mind.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Thank you. Rick.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
The first thing I'm gonna do, I'm want to reverse
those airline bag fees.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Can you make the driving age eighteen? Because I don't.
I was the only sixteen year old I knew who
didn't drive one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Came, I certainly can. And yeah, there's a lot of
things I have on the list, and I will add that.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So tell us a little bit about yourself. Where did
you grow up, Alicia?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
I grew up in Temple Hills of Maryland, right outside
of five minutes from Washington, d C. So both my
parents were born in d C. And that's where they
grew up. And I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland,
but right the side, not too far from d C.
And I loved, loved, loved it. So and you know,
we're political just because we lived so close. My parents
(21:31):
grew up close to the White House. So you know,
when you live in the DC area, politics is just
a second nature. It's part of you. But I loved
growing up in that area. And then yeah, so that's
that's another reason I'm running for president, because I feel
like I'm qualified.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Well, I remember, you know, Dave Chappelle talking about like,
you know, he's d C but he goes, I admitted
because I was from a white neighborhood, but I act
like I'm from the PJS.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I love Dave Chappelle. Your one friend who knows him
very well, she was like, she's like, she's like, you're
the female Chappelle. That's what she called me. I was
laughing so hard. But yet we loved Dave. We loved
so many of the great comics that came out of
the DC area. Wanda Sykes came out of the DC,
Martin Lawrence. You know, there's so many great comics that
(22:22):
came out of the DC area, and David's definitely, you know,
the most most notable.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Speaking of Maryland, you were a terp as well. How
was life at College Park?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
It was so good. I still have friends from you
know from going to Maryland. That was just still keep
my same friends. And I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it
was a radio television film age. And I also did
some theater. While they're.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Really like classically trained Shakespearean actress, no musical theater.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Oh okay.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I played Evil and the Wiz and we had so
much fun, so much fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was.
It was a great time. It was just a great time.
And and and like I said, the four years flew by.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
He's on down, He's on down the road.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, he's on there, he's on there. Yeah. It
was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I could see you, yeah, and I think about I
could see you being like a sister act. You'd pull
that off.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, y'all could pull that off easily.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
How's the march moving? The Evoka come get your daddy's shirts.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I don't even have any more of those left. I
sold all of those. All of those I sold. The
Orange is the New Black where I had a Donald
Trump with an orange little hair threw up in the top,
I sold all of those. So y'all don't even have
any more of those left.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So when I talked about multi talented stand up comedian,
which is like, you know, like landing of jet on
a moving aircraft carrier. It is very very hard to do.
But you produce, you write, and you act. Did all
those disciplines come easy to you or did you really
have to work hard at it?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Well, while my mother was finishing her degree at Howard University,
she put me in the children's theater there. I was
five years old, and that's where I first started in
children's theater. So I thought I wanted to be an
actress at that time, you know. And then d from
What's Happening was on TV and I was like, that's
what I want to do, you know. So then as
(24:40):
I got older, my interest changed and I wanted to
go behind the scenes and produce television. So that's what
I actually ended up doing. And then HBO's death comedy
Jam hit and I fell in love with the acts
that was on that particular network, and I didn't realize
that they had been honing their craft for years before
we saw it. I thought they were just improvising, and
(25:02):
I was like, I can do that, and I realized
comedy stand up is.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
A true art form.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
You are going to work at this, So I would
jump on stage and I would crash and burn because
I didn't have anything prepared. And I was like, oh,
I was told my whole life I'm so funny. Guess
I'm not. And so after crashing and burning three times
in three different clubs, I quit. You know, I can't
even say I really started. And then years later I
(25:29):
was working on a talk show and one of the
producers made me get back into it. And then that
was the year two thousand and I took it seriously
and started writing and performing at nights. I would work
all day and then I would perform at night. And
I did that for eight years, and then I quit
my day job and said, well let me see, let
me try this full time. And that's how my career began.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah. No, it's a hard road. And you paid your
dues and Alicia Cooper for President coming out on the
twenty third, and before we let you go with the
autobiography never Heard of You Either? Is that printed? Is
that getting ready to print?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Well, what I'm doing is I'm still finishing it. I'm
writing the first draft and yeah, that's what I'm doing
right now as I'm finishing my first draft of I've
Never Heard of you either.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
All right, she is Alicia Cooper. If you're ever in
San Francisco, come on by the studio. We'd love to
have you.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I would love to be there. Thank you so much, Rick.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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