April 3, 2025 • 55 mins
Join host Coline Witt on a captivating episode of 'Eating While Broke' featuring the legendary Chris Spencer—actor, comedian, writer, producer—and his business partner Sean Elliott from Elliott Brothers Presents.
Dive into their journey from humble beginnings in Inglewood to becoming icons in the comedy world!
Highlights:
- Nostalgic Meals: Watch Chris and Sean recreate their infamous 'Burnt Bologna Sandwich,' a dish that fueled their dreams.
- Inglewood Roots: Relive their high school days and the iconic moments that shaped their careers.
- Comedy Block Party: Discover the heartfelt origins and evolution of this groundbreaking comedy event.
- Hollywood Tales: Enjoy hilarious behind-the-scenes stories with legends like Robin Williams and Martin Lawrence.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very
special guest actor, comedian, writer, producer Chris Spencer is in
the building along with his I love that along with
his business partner Sean Elliott from Elliott Brothers presents Comedy
(00:34):
Block Party. I can't forget the comedy block Party. I've
been to them. They're pretty amazing, full of energy. It's
like a family. It literally feels like a block party,
but very fair. You can feel the love in the
It's not like your traditional comedy show, and you feel
like it's all family.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But tell me what you guys were eating when you
were broke.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
To start our famous burnt ballooney sound. I like everything
well done.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I like that Chris isn't burnt because he's cooking for
us today.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's what's great about this. You get to pick what
you want. Yes, he likes his burnt around the edges.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, I like my medium, well.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Medium, well, so the ingredients are what for the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There's good old American singles. Pick a card and we
got some good old fashioned I always wondered why they
said balloonee and it's really bologna. It's really bologna. And
so we got this. I hope I don't die eating it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I never knew what was in it. Here we go chicken,
pork and beef added added to what? So that mean
this was something else? And then they said, you know what,
let's posed to meet in there. This is what we see.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have a feel and it's just the remains of
whatever animals that were. Nah, you know what, it's funny.
I don't eat beef, So I'm taking one for team.
I love how you were specific about the wonderbread. Yes,
I wasn't too sure if they still made it. They
we found it, Yes, And then and then you asked
for dorito and pool aids so you could go ahead
(02:22):
and start. I feel like I'm back.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's a metrosexual that we wanted to see a pitcher
career and some water and but is it a pound
of sugar? That was the whole fun then, and so yeah,
so I guess I'll get started in some capacity.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, get started.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We didn't have an electric solve when we were broke.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That okay, So take me back to what air is
the sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We grew up aniga with California, and I once saw
a map of LA and it broke down comped in
Long Beach and how everybody situated. And it made me
laugh because it said Inglewood was gang bangers with both parents.
That's what it said on the mountain said gang beggers
were both there. So we grew up in Englewood, which
(03:07):
was segregated by middle class, upper middle class, and then
we had an area called the Bottoms, which was anything
you wanted you could get in the bottoms, from cocaine
to firecrackers. And so we all went to school together.
We all loved each other and didn't love each other,
and that's just how we grew up. So you would
think somebody who lived in what we would call the
(03:30):
avenues where we lived might have been some punks, but no,
because they had to prove something more to the people
who lived in the bottoms, because you'd get tested.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Wow, wow, So is this sandwich air from high school?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is from high school. You come home, you want
something to eat, right, you want something to eat, and
your mama ain't gonna necessarily make you something to eat.
So this comes from that era when you come home
and then also after you move out of the house
your mamma, you don't you don't have money to necessarily
buy something, so you get something like meat with added
(04:08):
you have you have a material with added meat. Here
we go story to get hot. I'm glad you got butter.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah. See that's what I see. Sean was saying you
needed oil.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm as good.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But butter's funnier because I was still making it maybe
four months ago. I get hungry and go to the
ghost like I'm craving up a lonely sound and go
get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is it like a comfort meal for you?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Nah? It just bring back some memories. And it was
set up with a cook nine minutes you done?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Did y'all do your butter like this?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I do butter like that. Every day I cook. I
probably go through ten sticks of butter a week.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Unsalty, no salted.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A lot of people don't know if your food tastes
really good, it has a lot of butter in it.
So if you go to a restaurant and you're like, dang,
this taste.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Unsalted butter, yes, you might as well put vasseline unsalted.
Love All right, I ain't done this in a whiles.
I do know the bologney was first.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
God, this is gonna cut it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
When was the last time you ate this?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What year is this? How old are you?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I'm forty.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Where here are you born?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Eighty four?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's the last time I had eighty four? Eighty four? Yes,
that's when he graduated high school. All right, I'm gonna
act like I'm being requisite with a knife. Oh my god, usually, Chris, Yes,
Oh my god. I feel like I'm in jail right now.
(05:39):
I to jail, never to jail. But I think this
is what they ate too. Usually what you want this
to get a little hotter, But electrics don't get as
hot as the regular gas though. But I'm gonna put
it in there. I know you said only make two,
so you could only have a little bite because I
know you're a pescatarian or scorpio or something. We're gonna
(05:59):
make three because it's three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He didn't cut the splits in them.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You cut the split when it gets right, when it raises.
Remember you cut yours early. No, the funnest seeing in bubble.
If you cut it now, I ain't gonna bubble. Yeah,
we'll steal are we gonna cut yours? What is yours?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here? You cut it?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It ain't gon bubble, I don't think. Well, I'm sorry.
He oh. On the side, you're making a little tent.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I know it's supposed to have a bubble in it, right.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, that's gonna make it bubble. So now, but we're
using electric, so it might be different. Then with the
gas we turn this.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Up a little hotter.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You guys are funny.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, I'll put some splits in the shop. I
thought you mean split the top or he Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Now you take a cooking advice from Sean.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sean's older than me.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He give me all the time. You know. He a writer,
so I can say something another way and he'll say, oh,
you really meant to say this, but you just changed words.
That's how you got me last.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I said that for last.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Night when I told you you said we're not gonna
use that certain word.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh yeah, I said, we're gonna do the act. Shant
is a trickster. You'd be like, stop asking me for sugar.
He'd be like, okay, he said. Then they'll say do
you have any sure? So did you just say sugar
and Spanish? That's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So take me back. You guys were high school friends.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Or elementary elementary just since the seventies.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Did you guys know you always wanted to get into
entertainment and business?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Absolutely not, No, this didn't happen until late I started
doing comedy in college. I went to UCLA and it
still does rise. Can we get a zoom?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I guess we used to have the overheads, but.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We removed damn it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Neil took it. I started doing comedy in college, and
so it was after college did I started doing traveling,
acting movies, directing, producing a couple of comedies and then
and Sean and Derek would always come to my shows.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Right, we followed him. Seany was taking it from here
because as we followed him from Usel followed him from
UCLA to everywhere he went. When he was hanging Jacoline Sundays,
when he was hanging with the WANs, we would go
to their house and play basketball with him. We was everywhere.
Chris was everywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now was that as just you guys just wanted to
show him that you supported him? Or why were you guy?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We was brothers from the beginning. We grew up on
the same street in Inglewood, And when Chris moved to
win in eighty three, my mom still took us to
his house every weekend in SOUTHLK in Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Y'alldn't used to drive, Nope, not at that time.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I remember. And then my cousin Melinda, she started taking
us over chris house because she had a crust on
Chris and I wanted our friends. My cousin Melnda that
had the blue.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Camer you why are you actually you just found this
out right now?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
She had a crush. I would have did it to her.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, so she started driving us from Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, and you had no idea this.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I don't even know Melanda is. I can't remember Melinda
she got she.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was older than us. No, it was Melinda, but she
grew up on one hundred and six off of Western.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It was her dad was seeing me, the skinny dude
that used to be over there with my dad, the
tall skinny one.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
They had the best house because their family would cook
every weekend, and there'd be so many cousins and uncles
and I would kiss all his cousins.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was great. And Chris would go to San Digga
with us every time we went. Yeah to my mom said.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It was always fun. I'd have any brothers him, Derek
and as a younger brother. Junior actually was the impetus
for Comedy Black Party, which shining to get into later
got turned over.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now, yeah, they would have spat right there. Oh so
growing up on the same street in Inglewood, we just
immediately clicked. We was brothers, you know, and then came
about our sister. My sister young.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But I had no brothers. So whatever they did, boy,
I was down there doing you know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I mean, okay, I love how you guys all stayed
together through the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh yeah, we're talking over forty. I'm fifty seven, you
fifty nine, fifty years.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, that's amazing. So you're doing Comedy Brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
One stand up and then his brother passed away, and
then we wanted to do it wasn't a benefit, but
something in commemoration of Junior's death. And then that's when
Sean and Derek came up with Comedy Black Party.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
How it really came up with comedy block party.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh, let's get a twenty second time. Usually I put
the cheese on now right, no flip it over. You
have done some more Oh that's yours.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, Sean wants he wants black and blow it. Yeah,
it's not doing you accurse. You got to wait till
that middle start beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Remember, I'm not broken anymore. It does smell good, right,
it does.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It does, but us so it's about two more minutes.
It'll be great.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And then are we gonna make it like we're gonna
make it an oppresses what they call it now?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But no, you just put the cheese on the bread.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You wait, We're not gonna put it in the.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You put the cheese on the bread.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I'm trusting y'all. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm telling you. I'm trusting them too. No, because it
is stick. The cheese is stick to the skillet, so
you don't need that. Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Good, But I'm talking about don't you toast the bread?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, that one looks.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That one is good. That that one looks. That's how
I supposed to look, dude.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So I can put this on your on my.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Bread yep, and then give them a slice of cheese
yepos and then that's.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Gonna milk anyway, right yep?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Bam.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, look at that and it looks like tank camera
like shine yep, okay, man, can have your plate. Look
it up. This actually smells really good.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Doesn't make you want to go home and have one.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't think about it when you get home on the
late night.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
This is quick and it's feeling there. We go bamn nice.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So wait, we're not going to toast the bread.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
At all, y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But that's your personal that's your person.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But I could put that on there and press it
and make it like that's what I used to do.
Mine would be like a grilled cheese. You want the
cold white bread?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, mine is good right here?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah okay, so me and you, yeah, we're on the
same page.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So how I came up with comedy block party was
Chris was hosting and we didn't to carry names and
inside jokes.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Chris, that's the first place inside Joe before the comedy yeh.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
At the Chinese Theater, we were like, okay, after each
show we started doing a party. VI I p upstairs.
I was like, man, were giving comedy and we're having
a party. That's what comedy block party came from. Ever
since those parties at the Chinese Theater and we would
do the birthday cakes, everybody start going to party with
(12:54):
us come through the show every show, every show.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And thinking I was like, man, is it every time
I show up that you guys do a birthday.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Cake every every and we used to do a birthday dance,
but now we have so many people on stage it
would take too long. Like before when we were at
the Comedy un and the Chinese Theater, six stay birthdays.
Now it'd be fifteen to twenty people. Our cake used
to be this big. Now it's this whole thing right now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I saw It's like a yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,
that makes sense. So you started at the theater. Now,
how are you guys covering the expenses on all of
that anymore?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
No, we have sponsors, shout out a couple of sponsors.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Our sponsors are fifty one twenty entertained.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
How you get more money kids?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We have fifty one twenty entertainer K Meets Inc. We
have the Roilroad Group, we have Morris Trucking, the Diamond Bank,
kW Productions, Raw Development, Progressive Parents on the purday.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You remember this is.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They are important vehicle to us moving to different spaces
of where we need to go.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You said, what about jewelers, Diamond Bank, that's Diamond Bank.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So if any of you guys need some jeurery from Valentine's,
they come up Chris Capri at the Diamond Bank downtown
on Hill Street.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm gonna give you this as a just a snippets
on the show them, all right, So you're doing that,
you're producing these shows on the regular. You have notable guests.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, tell them some of the notable guests we have had.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So we had the privilege to partner up with Live
Nation Urban and brought BT Weekend with Live Nation Urban
to the Miracle Theater in Inglewood. We had Michael Blaxing.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You want the toast.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Darker than you or you like it like darker than me.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So we have Michael Blaxing, d Ray, Corey Holcombe, Tiffany Hatters,
Justine Valentine. It was so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Earthquake, CPS, Camacho.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
James mcquarie, yes, everybody, name Lynn, Buddy Lewis. It was
so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Corey holcome, you guys do this and any like this
weekend or not knowing when this comes out. We have
Dunnell Rollins. Last month we had Cole. We have Tiffany
Hattish as a regular. What we did what we've done
is brought Bill Bellamy, We brought Hollywood to Inglewood. And
I want to go back to your point where you're
saying it feels like a family everybody, and let me
(15:36):
see not everybody. So if we hold four hundred people,
a hundred of them went to school with us or
or some kind of way our one degree of separation.
So when we say it's a block, it's like a
family block party. And we always and there's always somebody
we haven't seen it. We thought they were dead or
in jail. It'd be like yo when you get out.
(15:57):
And so every time listen, literally I see people from
second grade, third grade, who I was a cup scout with,
who I played at the YMCA with, Darby park Rogers
Parkers from Lawood and every week and then when we
come on stage, so unlike most comedy shows, you can't
really touch the comedians. We're a family environment. Everybody in
(16:19):
there loves each other. Half of them are packing, so
nothing's gonna happen. So so after the show, a lot
of times people come on stage and people have come
up and hug me. It'll be like my seventh grade teacher,
It'll be the pee coach it's really a family environment.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He made a real cheese maloney sounds like, that's all making.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Sure this sandwich looks like, Yeah, that one looks the
right color.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Colleen, that is a real cheese baloney sound.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
It's the color of your husband.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Thanks all, you're gonna hook me up.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
This is the color of my wife right now.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I need to my wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Puerto Rican's Puerto Rican?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did you think I was Puerto Rican?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
When first I thought you were other? Thought your Dominican?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Okay, okay, Dominican. I get Dominican, Puerto Rican. Yes, I
get every race because when you're mixed, you're just racially ambiguous.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Exactly depends on city. Went if you're in here, if
you're in New York, they think you're Puerto Rican, you're
in Florida. Is your wife from New York, New York
Puerto Rican?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Okay? Yeah, I already know I would. So take me
back to let's go back to the college days you're
pursuing comedy, Chris, Take me through that journey, because I
want to get closer to you, actor, producer, writer, director.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So taking there's a group of guys on campus that
have a comedy group. Right, so we formed a club.
These guys were comedians and we would do shows for
we started we cut our teeth with the fraternities. The
White friends would have rush Week and they would try
to have they would have prospective place. I just come
in and then they would have entertainment and that would
be me and these group of guys. Suleie McCullough, who
(18:04):
you know from the Jamie Fox Show and Don't be
a Menace and he's a hell of a writer producer,
was my roommate and he was also here's the reason
I actually became a comedian. We were talking with a
group of girls and they're like, what do you want
to do when when you get out of here. I'm
gonna wait, toll get out here. I'm gonna be a
standup comedian. And they were like, oh my god. I
love stand up. I love Eddie Murphy, I love Damon
(18:27):
WANs Oh. And then they're looking at me, they're like,
what about you. I was like, stand up comedian? And
literally that's how I became a stand up comedian because
I saw the attention he got and I was like
I need that attention. And from there we were doing
the friend houses. Then we would do shows on campus,
and then we would have big headliners come on campus
(18:48):
and perform for us. So at the time, Rob Schneider,
Jerry Seinfeld, how are you.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Getting these headliners to perform for you?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Guysla Man, David.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You'll be switching on and off. Yes, hold on, guys,
we're gonna do a sample of this you're cooking before
it gets cold.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You're gonna get a knife shot, I'm gonna pick it up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Here, here's a knife.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'm gonna act like I'm still from Inglewood like that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh, you don't cut it either? Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Is it good?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Doesn't make you want to eat it again?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Absolutely no me. I will be eating it again sometime.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What's missing is the dorridos, though, which I remember when
his brother that was his favorite. There loves blue.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
You know, my favorite thing to do since eating while
broke someone I forgot which guests cups chips in their sandwich.
Let me tell you something. I have not been able
to eat a sandwich without chips since anytime. I'm always
looking for a back. Have you tried him? Of course,
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'm like, what that's what My father, who was Jamaican
like your family. My dad would always put stuff in
other sandwiches. He would put a fish filet and a
big mac.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That sounds like my mom and.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Smash it down like Scooby dooe. I I like the
way you bite that. You don't really like it, kind
of whenever people bite stuff with their front teeth.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm not a fan of baloney. Plus, technically it has
beef in it. I don't even beef. I'm sacrificing tails.
Let me tell you something. I'm allergic to beef and
oxtails was the hardest thing that in short rip, it's
the hardest thing to give up. That's the best meats,
and I would sacrifice. I'm like, you know what, if
(20:45):
it I'll be sick, but I'm going to have it.
But now I'm like, no, I'm not doing it anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
This meal is sponsored by kool Aid. It ain't the
same kool aid we grew up.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It does taste like sgar free.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, what do you call it?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Like those sweeteners?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Would you? It was like it's cool added with st Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Like using it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It shouldn't be an aftertaste.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yep, it definitely has it culgar all right? So
do you feel like you're back in your time?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I feel like they say the same blogage I had
grown up.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I literally got the original one. It's an original.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Do you think that's the original one?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That's he eats it more offay.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So, but you know what, I like to go to
the meat market and get the thick one.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So they had the thick cute. I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's not Oscar Mayer. No, it was mine, but it's
the thick one.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They had thick, and I just thought maybe you guys
wanted the original we did?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Did?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Was great job, Great job cooking your blogna sandwich.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Bologna sandwich. I want to see you eat the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Chris, Oh, this is delicious. This is the meal.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Sean likes it. Sean really likes it. You got the
kool aid right there.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It needs something it needs. I can't watch a cool.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I feel like it needs something like, not like a
ketchup for some kind of something because it's very dry.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
The kool aid is weird.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Do you usually make it like this at home?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Actually, you're supposed to have mayo or miracle whip on it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
One y'all both slipping no dig.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Put it in didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Derek asked me that I want Male America, and I
was like, I don't think I used to put that
in there, but now that I'm tasting it there, that's
what's missing.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, because it's definitely like super Dry.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And now what was miracle whip?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't we just love the wear miracle whip taste.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I like Mayo more than a miracle that zing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I think it's miracle whipping the kool aid.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh my gosh. So take me back. So you're booking
these guys because it's U C l A. But what
is your pitch to get them? Hey, we don't have
to do anything.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
This is this isn't what they weren't. This is pre
Jerry Seinfeld's show. So this is just Jerry Seinfeld. This
is David Spade. I think I don't know if he
had been on Sunday in Life yet life. Yeah, but
these were name headliners. And when you're a comedian, you're
going to perform anywhere and everywhere. That's gonna give you
a check, got it? And so they were coming to
headline our show, so it would be us young guys.
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And then said headliner And it was always a treat
because we would have these fend those people would draw
the audience, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
But now, going back, you said you decided on the
whim because of the ladies liked the comedy idea. When
you first start going out, were you going out hitting
home runs right away?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I started off my first show was I was like,
this shit is easy? What is this struggle? They speak up?
And then the second and third show, I was like, oh,
I'm had to write some shit. Yeah, because I'm cursed
and blessed with the same gift, which is my wit,
and so I could just freestyle a whole show. And
so the first show I freestyled and I was like, oh,
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this is easy, and the second shot time was oh
I think it was less black people on the show
the next time. So when I said Murray's greens and
they're like, is he talking about oh, I said a
do rag or something. I was a black reference. So
I was like, Oh, now only do I need to
write material. I need to make material less universal because
there's stuff that works in one room that may not
work in any other room. So I need to figure
out stuff that works in all rooms. And then sometimes
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if you're in a black room, I'm gonna give them, Yeah,
you know what I mean. But it goes in for
not just the color of our skin. It goes for
whatever the room dictates. So if I'm doing a show
for the Girl Scouts, I'm gonna have Girl Scouts jokes.
If I'm doing jokes for the mayor, I'm gonna do
stuff with that's more political and intellectual. Possibly, so you
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cater to your room. If I'm doing a party for
some Rolling Sixties, I'm gonna do some jokes for them.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So you're producing these shows and you're opening up for
these bigger I would say at the time, bigger comics, right,
and then are they catching wind of your guys talent
and pulling you out they.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Could care less? Okay, No, Actually, Souley actually got signed
by the same manager that Jerry Seinfeld had, so he
had his career went to a different level because of
that signing.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, So you're producing the shows and then Sean at
this time, you're showing up to everything that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Sean is making money. Now, I haven't seen Sean. I
won't see Sean. Sean doesn't know even know I'm doing
comedy at this point after high school, by the time
I went to college. They may come to see me
once or twice, but everybody's living on nobody's gonna go
visit somebody in college.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So he said they were. They said that. Sean said
he was following you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What I'm saying is he saw it wasn't like he's
coming to l who y'all got coming?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, And I'm assuming Sean, you were doing entrepreneurs stuff,
because I know you have other businesses outside.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Of the doing. We would go visit and hang out
with Chris, and then we creating different avenues for us
to continue to make money and different stuff like that.
And then as Chris start filming different shows, that's what
I got more success. Need to be here with me.
So we started being at the tapings the filmings wherever
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he was. We stopped being more there with him, and they.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Actually produced one of our first tapings that Tisha Campbell directed,
which is called Get Up, Stand Up, which was with me,
Daryl Heath, Alex Thomas, and Suley McCullough. And we shot
it at this little club in the valley, and I
think that was their first taste in Hollywood. Could be fun, yeah, okay,
and then that was your first after graduation, that's around
ninety three four or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Was that your first big, your first TV big? I
just said first, that was your first though.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think so I might have done some smaller stuff,
because no, I've done stuff before. There were shows back
then that they don't have now, like Evening at the
Improv and Comic View and stand Up New York, and
so I think that stand up there, there's a show
like that. There was a lot of shows. That's when
we got the impatist to go, let's create our own show.
This is pre depth, you know, and so we started.
We did that in lieu of selling it. But I
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don't know what happened. I think it's it's out there somewhere.
And then that's when he first got the bug. And
then lives happen, people get married, have kids, do stuff,
and then they would always come to support my shows.
And then when Junior passed away in two fourteen is
when he really stepped one into stand up comedy full time,
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him his brother Derek.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And then how did that feeling come feel after once
you guys started really working together, how did it feel?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It was easy because Sean is our point guard. He's
actually running this show. All right, I see if this
was basketball, Sean is magic, Derek is James Worthy. I'm sorry,
you're too young. Let me go back. Sean is Steph Curry, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Okay, okay, sewn' Steph Curry. Okay, okay, yes, thank you,
thank you for got it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Derek is Draymond Green okay. And I'm the owner of
the team.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Want to do Sean is the owner of the team.
I'm Steph Curry and no, Sean is Draymond Sean, I'm
Steph Carry. And you know what, we're the trotters.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We all we do it all okay, okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Like Sean is the one that keeps us on point.
Taket sales a low, Kevin Hard ain't call back, But
he's the one that keep me and Derek. If we're
flowing through life going the show's Wednesday will be okay,
Sean ain't gonna be Okay, we need some more sweatshirts,
but yeah, he keeps shipping.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Was he the one that at the last show, you
guys all almost came out in the same exact outfits.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, Sean is the designer of the common.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
But it's the crazy part. Chris got a light blue
one earlier that day, and I wasn't even thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'm glad I fifteen of us in blue.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
He had orange, right, And when Mifphis we got that one,
I forgot he had even purchased that one, so I
knew what I was wearing that You didn't tell me
if it's will to wear it that night? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Okay, yeah, show Can you stand up and just show
them what the.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well you're not wearing?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You just take it over your neck. This is part
this is part.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Is it tight?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah? This is one from started stead up in twenty fourteen.
This was one of the first logos that we desired. Okay,
now we have more multiple logos under the umbrella, and
comedy Block Party is the most significant one. Yeah, everybody
buys that.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Matter of fact, I have my sweats.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I saw you.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's not ritten on the pants.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You know some different pints.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This ain't the pants.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They all right, take me through some of the hurdles
and the upsides, the behind the scenes of you making it,
Chris to where you are today because you've been in
the industry how long now.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Hold I've been at thirty plus, and there's always you're
hot and then you're not. But what allowed me to
sustain thirty years is not relying on my pretty face.
I've actually gone behind the scenes and wrote and produced
for a lot of your favorite comedians. So what I
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tell young comedians is you're all gonna get opportunities. Some
people's opportunities are gonna be bigger than others. And your
friend is going to host the MTV Movie Awards. They're
gonna give him a group of writers to write the show,
and then he's gonna need people who know his voice
to write for him. And so I've done that for Jamie,
I've done that for Mike Eepps. I've done it for Kevin,
I've done it for Cedric, I've done it for Dion,
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and they've done it for me. Not those guys, but
other people. And so you just have to stay close
to this. If this is what you really want to do.
You may not become Eddie Murphy, but you could become
Kenya Barris, you know what I mean. You may not
become Kevin Hart, but you might become Chris Spencer. There's
all types of ways to skin a cat for lack
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of a better word.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And then you have a lot of relationships too. I
think your relationships also play a key to your success.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
With my relationships are better than my talent, meaning I'm cool,
but my roller decks. That's before your time.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm sorry, my snapchatchat forty, I'm forty zero.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, I know I have quite a few friends because
we all came up together. Some of us were eating
boloney sandwiches together, you know what I mean. And now
you know they're doing caviaar and I'm back to fucking balogney.
But nonetheless he's a laughing some of this stuff. Okay, ladys,
she's looking at me so seriously.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But now, okay, I just recently I told you I
recently did an interview with Nick. So I'm gonna take
you back when I bounce you back. All right, you
were one of the key players, if not the key
player behind walling out.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Not the key player. Nick Cannon is young, youthful, had
this great idea for a show. He showed it to me,
and I was like, this is dope, but we could
make it better. And so I gathered a group of
writers and come we enhanced it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wait when he showed it to you, did he take
you to an actual improv picture?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
To me a verbally pitture? Not even he verbally pitched me.
And then we collaborated with his people and my people
and made it a presentation at the Comedy Union where
we also did Comedy Block party, and then they picked
it up, and then we did another pilot and then
the rest is whatever. Twenty one years of making magic.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now he was in his twenties. What made you jump
to support him? Because I know he was in his
He's had to been like twenty.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Five or something. I can't support people younger than me.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
He was my friend.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, he was. He was the young guy that everybody
was talking about in the clubs and he was, for
lack of a better word, he was did he Puffy?
Did he's in trouble? Puffy wasn't in trouble. And he
was very creative and he was also the guy that
could put talent together and create things. He was always creating. Yeah,
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you can't wait on Hollywood, they're not creative. You have
to actually chew the food and put it in their
mouth for them to get it. And that's Nick was doing.
And when he came up and wanted out. I was like,
I would absolutely do whatever it takes to make this
thing fantastic. And I was the head writer for the
first year, and then I had a child and things
went this way and I got another job. He went
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on to do whatever. Twenty years of success. We're still differends.
We still work together to this day. And so that
opportunity was really great more great for him. But it was.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Now when you say head writer, what does that? What
did that entail? You wrote for every comic on there.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
There's a room for writers, right, and I'm in charge
of the materials that are going to be presented to
for the show. Sometimes we would have a board like
this and I would see what everybody is read the
scripts that everybody's created. Say, we're gonna do some stuff
about blooney sandwiches. Give me all the bloney sandwiches joke.
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We put it up here. We'll all aside which was
the best, and that will go into the packet. And
then that packet would go to the higher ups to go, oh,
this is we only sketch. It's funny. And so I
was the liaison between the higher ups and the writer's room.
So it's my job to maintain both of these relationships.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh wow, and that wasn't your first. Now, how far
in before you start with doing the wilding out head
writing stuff?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Was I a writing?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was already writing. I started writing around two thousand
when Jamie Fox hosted the MTV Music Awards, and then
from there I just started getting writing gigs because, like
I said, when said comedian gets a gig, there's going
to be the people that write for the show, and
then there's going to be his people who know his voice.
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And I had the opportunity of doing that several times
before the Well and Out show.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And then when you got into acting, were you taking
acting class?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I was acting that whole time. Matter of fact, the
writing took over when the acting got slow, you know, So.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You didn't sit still during any of the No.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Remember I had a late night talk show too. There's
no you can't stop. And that's what I love about
this generation. They're not waiting. They will shoot a whole
movie on an iPhone.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, you know what I mean? And you like that
a lot of people some people hate on it.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Their haters, I love that, you know what I mean
a lot of them are hating.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Of that.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
A lot of us are old school now evans still
only where it's fitted baseball hats. Sometimes you're set in
your ways, trust me, calling right now. You could have
sixteen diamonds on it and be worth ten million to be.
I aware of that shit. And that's how we are,
you know what I mean. Sometimes we're setting their ways
because that was his generation. I love singing it all,
(35:38):
you know what I mean. I love what kay Sinat
is doing.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I love well, you like what he's doing too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This is it. That's like my mom being mad at me.
Turn off that goddamn hip hop. Hip Hop is the future,
Kaysat is the future. Yeah, I love all of it.
I love entertainment and comedians love each other. So when
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you said why did I help Nick, it's because Nick
is a comedian. I love comedians. Let me tell you
the story, Robin Williams, I did a show at Caroline's
in New York and I was doing the midnight show
and Jeff Garland was doing the ten o'clock show or
eight o'clock showed. I was doing the ten o'clock show,
and for some reason, Jeff Garland let Robin Williams go
(36:24):
on first, the paint was peeling off the walls. You know,
they have like pictures of famous comedians on. They were laughing.
Charlie Chaplin was dying, May West whoever he's murdering. So
after he gets off stage, Jeff Garland goes on and
it's not good. I mean, he had to work to
(36:45):
get him. He's a professional show but he had work
to do. But Robin came in the back, and I
don't know if there was a pied piper or something,
but all of a sudden it went from ten to
eight comedians to four hundred comedians were in the back
listening to Robin Williams talk shop, tell stories, and he's
talking to us and he's asking questions. We love each other.
(37:06):
This fraternity runs deep. I don't care. I don't care
who you are if you tell something, unless they're an asshole.
But if you talk to a vet comedian and telling me,
you stand up. They want to know what's it like? Now?
What's going on? Are you at the comedy store? Do
you go to the laugh factory? I remember this time
and you share stories? One time I was writing for Laughing.
You remember show Laughing? You do it? She's too young,
(37:29):
it was the fifty year reunion of Laughing. I got
hired by a comedian named a writer named John Max
who writes. He think I write for award shows. He
writes for all the award shows, including Presidents, Governors. He's
the man, John Max. And so I'm writing for Laughing
and Billy Crystal and Jay Leto are in the room.
So we're talking about rehearsal because they're gonna do something,
and then they start telling jokes. I'm like, I gotta
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say something, and I said, you guys ever heard the
one about that? They just fuck it turned around and
then now meet Billy Crystal and Jay Lenore sharing jokes.
I love that comedians love comedians.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I love that. I love it and I can see
why when I go to the shows they feel the
way they feel. Yeah, is there any stories behind the
scenes that you did bring up with Robin Williams? That
is like a very memorable standout.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Even with Robin Williams. So I say to Robin Williams,
how can you don't come to the comedy store anymore?
He goes, Oh, No. One time I drove up and
these two these black guys came up to me and
They're like, what the fuck are you doing here? And
he was like, I'm performing. I'm doing a show in
the main room. And they were like, get the fuck
out of here, and I left. I said, Robin, that's slang.
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He's what are you talking about? I said, when they
said what the fuck are you doing here, they couldn't
believe that fucking Mark from Orc Missus Doubtfire is right
there in front of them. They're like really then, and
then I said, when they said get the fuck out
of here, you saw fucking Johnny Brasco get the fuck
out of here like that. He was like, no shit.
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The next that was Saturday Monday, La Times reads Robin
Williams returns to the Comedy Store and over whatever twenty
seven twenty eight years.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
No, I'm Forrest gumpany ship true story.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That's a great story. That's that's gonna be a whole
clip that's going virals indefinitely. Well, do you have any more?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I got a million stories? Yeah, name a comedian Kevin
Harry to sleep on my couch.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I believe that we did it. I did.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It was one day, but still he slept there.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Did he sleep there? Because he needed to.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
He needed to, He had to. He hadn't slept there
for a couple of days. Russell Peters when he would
come to town with st step on.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
My couch, tell me something about the Waynes.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Comedy family, their royalty. They put me on.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh they put you.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Sure, if you go back and look at all the
old Wayms movies, you'll see me. I did Blank Man
with Damon, I.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Did am I Loved Blank Men, Low Down, Dirty.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Shame with Kenan. I did Don't Be a Minister of
South Central Will Drinking a Juice with Sean and Marlon.
I wrote a book with Sean. I did The Sixth
Man with Marlon. I used to think I was warning.
I used to walk around with this wearing a vada
cause that's all they used to wear.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I thought I was waaring until one day that was
a true story. I told us on a couple of podcasts.
But I found out I wasn't family because one day
we were in front of that just Damon and Seawan
and I just did a show with the airprov We
came out. They're sitting in the front seat and they're whispering.
I'm like, they're like, oh, Chris could you step out
real quick. We talking about family.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I was like, oh, you covered your mic too while
you do that, I'm family and so did you really
feel that I was hurt?
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I spent Thanksgivings with them, Christmas, you know what I mean.
I'm like, I'm not family and so.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Then but they run tight.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
API took my spot, and the rest of the movies
after that really.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Are So that's the only that's only Wayne story you got.
I don't know what you're trying to think. Eddie Murphy,
Martin Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I know them all.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Any good getting on a Martin Laurence story. Okay, you
know what's good when they laugh before they.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Say so, before anything. Martin was like the hottest comic
in the world, right. And one night we were at
a club glam Slam for those of you who are
from La Prince had a club called glam Slam. I
got a funny glam Sam story too, real quick, we're
glam Slam. And it's always the baddest woman in the world.
In La has the baddest females in the world. And
it's not because they were born here, but a lot
of them come from other places and decide to live here.
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And find out that they wasn't shit. I one time
saw this girl walking short hair jeans with the ass
cheeks out. I was like, yo on top. My boy
was like look and then and my boys like, yeah,
what's up? She turned around. It was Prince with a lollipublic.
Why does prince have his ass out?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
True story?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
So one night I just got that at the very end.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yes, one night, Martin Martin and his girl at the
time and who was a friend of mine and Sulie
mcculluugh and I were walking out. I was a little
drunk and I had on I was very stylish and
fashion forward. I do on this lumberjackshirt. We called him
Pendletons bankers high gang bankers. Pendletons teed up and had
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on some like these I forgot with these little construction
boot They wouldn't love, they wouldn't timberlands, but they were
the boots at the time. Look up, Jodasy and I
needed to laugh at some of this, and so Martin
was like, what the fuck you got on with that
lumberjack shit? He was drunk. I was like, what you
heard me? Mother? And saw me and him got into it.
And then the next day he called me and apologized
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with my dear friend Bentley Evans, who's now's uncle, and
I got hired to be Martin's standing on the Martin Show.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, why did he call you apologize? He felt bad?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
He felt bad. I'm a wonderful person.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
That was nice to Cris Spancer like that. That was nice.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
So that was one of my first jobs in Hollywood,
which was weird because I'm like, how am I gonna
be Martin Standing? So whenever you saw Grandma, if you
look at the pilot, you'll see they had to shoot
the back of the head, so you saw the Grandma's
back of their head, which is me in a wig,
and then Martin and then you see in my back
of her head to see Martin when he's not just
So that was one of my first jobs. I've had
an incredible I've had an incredible life in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
One of my.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Weirdest jobs is I Diana Ross was having a photo
shoot and they wanted a comedian to entertain her, and
she went to different spaces on this studio lot. So
I have to walk in and tap dad. She'd be
like that, and then she walked the next room. But
before I got the job. Now, when I got the job,
I thought Tracy got me the job because Tracy and
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I was friend Tracy. I was wrong, and she calls me, goes,
what the fuck is going on? I go, what You're
gonna be a comedian? From my mother? I go, I
thought you got me the job. No, I didn't get
you a job. What are you the toy?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Did her mom know who he now?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I bombed all day? Imagine she would they say
this room was the polar room, and she it was
all white and she wore white and as a fur
and there's some fucking little penguins and shit, and I'm
up there doing jokes and shit and her handlers are like,
it's gonna be like fucking And it wasn't until the
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last setting whatever it was, that I finally made her laugh.
I said, listen, you got me upside down, boy, you
turned me. I said some jokes with her songs in it,
and she goes, that's funny. You're very funny. I said,
you should have fucking laughed earlier.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
But is that harder that? That would must be a
lot harder to make one person laugh though, right.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, there was more people in the room. But if
the King ain't laughing. Ain't nobody laughing? Yeah, so every
now the cameraman and them were shaken because its fucking funny,
but they're not laughing loud because she ain't laughing, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
All right, cool, all right, awesome. I'm trying to think
is there anything that I left off the table when
it comes to your guys story.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Your rise, we're killing?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
What year is Sean twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
What year for comedy black?
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Oh? This is eleven?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Oh, it's eleven, Mark, I think it was longer than
March seven. Eleven years is a good time.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
It's a great run.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
And then why did you guys end up moving from
the Chinese Theater all the way to Inglewood? Is it
because you just wanted to keep it home based.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
That the opportunity for Inglewood, which is our home, came
up and we're like, this is easy. It was also
because a lot of people would be like, yo, man,
I gotta get to work, and they would leave early
and come back this way, and we're like, you know what,
we need to spot down here so they can stay
throughout the whole show. And literally the show stays until
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we say you have to do the birthdays.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So you do the birthdays and it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
It's a whole we're gonna start streaming this year.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Really, are you guys gonna do something with fifty one twenty?
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Quite possible? Yes, that's our people.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Okay, the crazy j Parker, the crazy part Colleen. When
people call for their birthday, they say, I want my
name on the cake please?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Do you guys do it?
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, today my tickets to the show.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
I love that morning on the cake.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
And they pictured on the fly as well, and we
promote them as well, celebrating their birthday with comedy Black
Party every month.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Now, are those the people that sit in the very front, they're.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
All over, they're all over, they're all over.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Those are VIPC just a birthday.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah okay, so those are special VIA seats.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
No, that's special. They paid for a bottle.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I always wonder about those
seats in the front.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
So, like some rolls after every show, those people pay
for that role in advance for every show, all seventeen
seats and the VIP tables, three tables are already five
tables are already paid in the advance already. Every show,
every show, and.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
What do you do to promote the show showing because
it sounds like you're the one that's always the most stressed.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, it's very stressful. It's social media. When you go
places with Chris or different venues, you have to have
your brand on and marketing your brand. And as when
I go to the places with Chris, I'm usually standing
off in the cut and somebody come say to me, oh, man,
we need to doing that show. Man, I see y'all
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killing it over there? Man, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
And it's easier than passing out cars to everybody. He
wears the cop They go, oh, you're Sean Elliott. Oh
that's Derek Ellie. Their names are like it's almost like
seeing Tupac. They heard of them, and you guys are
Elliott brothers. And so now they want to They know
that our shows aren't regular shows. So the fact that
now they get to talk to Sean and Derek can
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find out how they can bring their office, their boss's birthday,
their birthday, just they just want to come celebrate because
it's a different show, you know what I mean, It's
not like any comedy show in the world.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Now, if comics watch and want to get on your show.
What's the process? How do they go about it?
Speaker 3 (48:01):
It's usually you gotta be recommended. You just can't. We
ain't watching no tapes. It's usually somebody says, yo, you
gotta check out this dude named Darius. He's hysterical. Or
when I'm out at the comedy store, I'm still in
the streets. I'm still in these comedy streets. So I'll
meet a young guy. He goes, you're gonna be in
the belly room, and I know you're the main room,
be in the belling room in seven minutes. Can you
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come watch it. I'll come watch and I'll go.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I love how you're back. But you keep it up,
young man, We're about to be like I love how
you support it.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
We started the entity of comedy Black Party from Chris
from twenty fourteen. Wherever he went, if he went to Ontario,
I was there building the brand every night, he said,
I got to introduce you to all the people that
no matter where he was, I was there every night.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, Wow, building the brand.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
And then do you guys both stay in Inglewood?
Speaker 2 (49:00):
No, we both live in God God, okay?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
And then do you how far in events. Do you
know who's on your show lineup?
Speaker 3 (49:10):
We already know, like now, from March, April, April.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Do you know who will be airing in Yes, April
and May.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
We don't know. We haven't April.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
So we always have a name person because we argue
about all the time, but we can have to because
these are working class people and if they're gonna not
if they're gonna be late for work or stay out,
it's got to be somebody a little special for them
to see. We've tried, and we still tried to do
a regular show with just people that we see on
these regulations, but we always have to have something a
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little bit enticing, some more enticing. That's why we have
the Deon Coles, the Tiffany's and blah blah blah, and
those are usually our later bookings. The other people are great.
The first three or four are yeah, because these other
people are working now. Sometimes we get them early. If
they say I can't do March, but put me for April.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (50:03):
So in April we want May, I just want April.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
We have Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Eddie Murphy, guys, you heard it here first.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Eddie Johnson, Eddie Johnson, guys, Eddie Johnson's in the building
in April, because I'm trying to think of the release schedule,
so I'm trying to see. So right now, you guys
have Donald Rowlings coming out in Rowlings, and then you
have March March. Who you guys have coming out we
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haven't to be determined, but in April we have Eddie
Johnson for sure. Guys come out to Comedy Block party,
followed Darren Elliott, Sean Elliott and Elliott brothers and Chris Hosts,
Chris Spencer and it's a real it's a real family environment.
At the end, everyone gets up on stage is the
whole everyone.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
We got security, but the family.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
And I don't feel like security of.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
The of the birthday people.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Okay, I not walked up on stage, but I think.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Because you and your family are so pretty, I don't
mean the bride. But whatever. Anywhere me and my brothers gone,
we get in and we get free drinks. Girls be
throwing their drawings at them.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
We get it. You know what's the funniest part, Colleen,
I'm gonna tell you, whenever I be out without Chris,
people just come on through me. And talk to me,
and I'll be like, who is this? I was looking
around like sh man, You and Christian with your brother
them y'all killing it. I'll be like who. I'll be like,
who is this? We'd be like okay. They'd be like,
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he got my phone number.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
I'll be like okay, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
You know what. I am humbled and grateful that us
three is back together and we're keeping Junior legacy live
through laughter because it's all about him. That's why you
see his logo, his picture on our logo that stands
out and the thing with us, it's brotherly and his family.
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No one is no bigger building this brand higher.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, because we.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Right here and it's just a bonus to have our
brother with us full time now outside of other works
that he do.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, I love that love. I love the bonding and
the brother and I'm sure you and Derek, you guys
don't have the brotherly conversations until Christa. I'm messing with
the Waynes. It's not money more than I'm sorry you
guys never do that. You guys do that, Chris.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
We're talking about family. I'm gonna take you what we do.
We be on the phone for hours at a time,
all of us be on the phone, Me then Chris.
We'll be on the phone for an hour or two,
coming up different ideas, different things. We might have disagreements
here and there, but it's all love is. We have
to make it to the middle point and then we
all agree on what to do next.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
I know one thing for sure with siblings is every
once in a while there's a beef that breaks out,
and then usually siblings start rallying other siblings to take
a side. Has that ever happened? You guys never beefed
and then said, hey, just what happened?
Speaker 2 (53:14):
None of that? Oh yeah, none of that.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
We just say shine, you're right.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
Yeah, because I tell them, because I make sure we
run this like a well driven truck. Because Derek has
other things going on, Chris have a lot of other
things going on. So I'm the one that's watching everything,
making sure it's right, letting them know who on board,
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whom not on board. This from that, so we got
to treat it as this Fortune five hundred company and
let people know we aren't forced to be wrecking with
you guys. We're here to stay. You guys are yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
All right, cool? Thank you? So much for feeding me
this baloney sandwich.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
I need to take another bank.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
You only took little bit. I love my Let's take it.
Come on, let's let's close out with a bike on.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Oh well, they're like you the front teeth.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Peace out, guys, thanks for tuning in, and keep up
a comedy block party anywhere on socials where are you
chewing your blooney sandwich? Come on, Chris, come out.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
My my own private one which is not private, but
my own personal which is at the real Chris Spencer.
And then we have at comedy block party e n T.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
No, that's what he was in the weblink told the
website that's Comedy Block Party e n T dot com.
And I G is at Comedy Underscore block Underscore Party.
And then you have d Elliott Business b I Z
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N E S S.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Got it all right, guys, Peace out. For more Eating
Wall Broke from iHeart Radio and The Black Effect, visit
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
your favorite shows.
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very
special guest actor, comedian, writer, producer Chris Spencer is in
the building along with his I love that along with
his business partner Sean Elliott from Elliott Brothers presents Comedy
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Block Party. I can't forget the comedy block Party. I've
been to them. They're pretty amazing, full of energy. It's
like a family. It literally feels like a block party,
but very fair. You can feel the love in the
It's not like your traditional comedy show, and you feel
like it's all family.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But tell me what you guys were eating when you
were broke.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
To start our famous burnt ballooney sound. I like everything
well done.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I like that Chris isn't burnt because he's cooking for
us today.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's what's great about this. You get to pick what
you want. Yes, he likes his burnt around the edges.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, I like my medium, well.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Medium, well, so the ingredients are what for the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There's good old American singles. Pick a card and we
got some good old fashioned I always wondered why they
said balloonee and it's really bologna. It's really bologna. And
so we got this. I hope I don't die eating it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I never knew what was in it. Here we go chicken,
pork and beef added added to what? So that mean
this was something else? And then they said, you know what,
let's posed to meet in there. This is what we see.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I have a feel and it's just the remains of
whatever animals that were. Nah, you know what, it's funny.
I don't eat beef, So I'm taking one for team.
I love how you were specific about the wonderbread. Yes,
I wasn't too sure if they still made it. They
we found it, Yes, And then and then you asked
for dorito and pool aids so you could go ahead
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and start. I feel like I'm back.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's a metrosexual that we wanted to see a pitcher
career and some water and but is it a pound
of sugar? That was the whole fun then, and so yeah,
so I guess I'll get started in some capacity.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, get started.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We didn't have an electric solve when we were broke.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That okay, So take me back to what air is
the sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We grew up aniga with California, and I once saw
a map of LA and it broke down comped in
Long Beach and how everybody situated. And it made me
laugh because it said Inglewood was gang bangers with both parents.
That's what it said on the mountain said gang beggers
were both there. So we grew up in Englewood, which
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was segregated by middle class, upper middle class, and then
we had an area called the Bottoms, which was anything
you wanted you could get in the bottoms, from cocaine
to firecrackers. And so we all went to school together.
We all loved each other and didn't love each other,
and that's just how we grew up. So you would
think somebody who lived in what we would call the
(03:30):
avenues where we lived might have been some punks, but no,
because they had to prove something more to the people
who lived in the bottoms, because you'd get tested.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Wow, wow, So is this sandwich air from high school?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
This is from high school. You come home, you want
something to eat, right, you want something to eat, and
your mama ain't gonna necessarily make you something to eat.
So this comes from that era when you come home
and then also after you move out of the house
your mamma, you don't you don't have money to necessarily
buy something, so you get something like meat with added
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you have you have a material with added meat. Here
we go story to get hot. I'm glad you got butter.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah. See that's what I see. Sean was saying you
needed oil.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'm as good.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
But butter's funnier because I was still making it maybe
four months ago. I get hungry and go to the
ghost like I'm craving up a lonely sound and go
get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Is it like a comfort meal for you?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Nah? It just bring back some memories. And it was
set up with a cook nine minutes you done?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Did y'all do your butter like this?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I do butter like that. Every day I cook. I
probably go through ten sticks of butter a week.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Unsalty, no salted.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
A lot of people don't know if your food tastes
really good, it has a lot of butter in it.
So if you go to a restaurant and you're like, dang,
this taste.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Unsalted butter, yes, you might as well put vasseline unsalted.
Love All right, I ain't done this in a whiles.
I do know the bologney was first.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
God, this is gonna cut it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
When was the last time you ate this?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
What year is this? How old are you?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I'm forty.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Where here are you born?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Eighty four?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's the last time I had eighty four? Eighty four? Yes,
that's when he graduated high school. All right, I'm gonna
act like I'm being requisite with a knife. Oh my god, usually, Chris, Yes,
Oh my god. I feel like I'm in jail right now.
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I to jail, never to jail. But I think this
is what they ate too. Usually what you want this
to get a little hotter, But electrics don't get as
hot as the regular gas though. But I'm gonna put
it in there. I know you said only make two,
so you could only have a little bite because I
know you're a pescatarian or scorpio or something. We're gonna
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make three because it's three of them.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He didn't cut the splits in them.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You cut the split when it gets right, when it raises.
Remember you cut yours early. No, the funnest seeing in bubble.
If you cut it now, I ain't gonna bubble. Yeah,
we'll steal are we gonna cut yours? What is yours?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here? You cut it?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
It ain't gon bubble, I don't think. Well, I'm sorry.
He oh. On the side, you're making a little tent.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, I know it's supposed to have a bubble in it, right.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, that's gonna make it bubble. So now, but we're
using electric, so it might be different. Then with the
gas we turn this.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Up a little hotter.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You guys are funny.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, I'll put some splits in the shop. I
thought you mean split the top or he Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Now you take a cooking advice from Sean.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sean's older than me.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He give me all the time. You know. He a writer,
so I can say something another way and he'll say, oh,
you really meant to say this, but you just changed words.
That's how you got me last.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I said that for last.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Night when I told you you said we're not gonna
use that certain word.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Oh yeah, I said, we're gonna do the act. Shant
is a trickster. You'd be like, stop asking me for sugar.
He'd be like, okay, he said. Then they'll say do
you have any sure? So did you just say sugar
and Spanish? That's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So take me back. You guys were high school friends.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Or elementary elementary just since the seventies.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Did you guys know you always wanted to get into
entertainment and business?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Absolutely not, No, this didn't happen until late I started
doing comedy in college. I went to UCLA and it
still does rise. Can we get a zoom?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I guess we used to have the overheads, but.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We removed damn it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Neil took it. I started doing comedy in college, and
so it was after college did I started doing traveling,
acting movies, directing, producing a couple of comedies and then
and Sean and Derek would always come to my shows.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Right, we followed him. Seany was taking it from here
because as we followed him from Usel followed him from
UCLA to everywhere he went. When he was hanging Jacoline Sundays,
when he was hanging with the WANs, we would go
to their house and play basketball with him. We was everywhere.
Chris was everywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Now was that as just you guys just wanted to
show him that you supported him? Or why were you guy?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We was brothers from the beginning. We grew up on
the same street in Inglewood, And when Chris moved to
win in eighty three, my mom still took us to
his house every weekend in SOUTHLK in Pasadena.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Y'alldn't used to drive, Nope, not at that time.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I remember. And then my cousin Melinda, she started taking
us over chris house because she had a crust on
Chris and I wanted our friends. My cousin Melnda that
had the blue.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Camer you why are you actually you just found this
out right now?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
She had a crush. I would have did it to her.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, so she started driving us from Pasadena.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, and you had no idea this.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I don't even know Melanda is. I can't remember Melinda
she got she.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was older than us. No, it was Melinda, but she
grew up on one hundred and six off of Western.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It was her dad was seeing me, the skinny dude
that used to be over there with my dad, the
tall skinny one.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
They had the best house because their family would cook
every weekend, and there'd be so many cousins and uncles
and I would kiss all his cousins.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It was great. And Chris would go to San Digga
with us every time we went. Yeah to my mom said.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It was always fun. I'd have any brothers him, Derek
and as a younger brother. Junior actually was the impetus
for Comedy Black Party, which shining to get into later
got turned over.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now, yeah, they would have spat right there. Oh so
growing up on the same street in Inglewood, we just
immediately clicked. We was brothers, you know, and then came
about our sister. My sister young.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But I had no brothers. So whatever they did, boy,
I was down there doing you know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I mean, okay, I love how you guys all stayed
together through the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Oh yeah, we're talking over forty. I'm fifty seven, you
fifty nine, fifty years.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Wow, that's amazing. So you're doing Comedy Brothers.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
One stand up and then his brother passed away, and
then we wanted to do it wasn't a benefit, but
something in commemoration of Junior's death. And then that's when
Sean and Derek came up with Comedy Black Party.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
How it really came up with comedy block party.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh, let's get a twenty second time. Usually I put
the cheese on now right, no flip it over. You
have done some more Oh that's yours.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, Sean wants he wants black and blow it. Yeah,
it's not doing you accurse. You got to wait till
that middle start beginning.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Remember, I'm not broken anymore. It does smell good, right,
it does.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It does, but us so it's about two more minutes.
It'll be great.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And then are we gonna make it like we're gonna
make it an oppresses what they call it now?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But no, you just put the cheese on the bread.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You wait, We're not gonna put it in the.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You put the cheese on the bread.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
And I'm trusting y'all. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm telling you. I'm trusting them too. No, because it
is stick. The cheese is stick to the skillet, so
you don't need that. Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Good, But I'm talking about don't you toast the bread?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, that one looks.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That one is good. That that one looks. That's how
I supposed to look, dude.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So I can put this on your on my.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Bread yep, and then give them a slice of cheese
yepos and then that's.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Gonna milk anyway, right yep?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Bam.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, look at that and it looks like tank camera
like shine yep, okay, man, can have your plate. Look
it up. This actually smells really good.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Doesn't make you want to go home and have one.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't think about it when you get home on the
late night.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
This is quick and it's feeling there. We go bamn nice.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So wait, we're not going to toast the bread.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
At all, y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But that's your personal that's your person.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But I could put that on there and press it
and make it like that's what I used to do.
Mine would be like a grilled cheese. You want the
cold white bread?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah, mine is good right here?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah okay, so me and you, yeah, we're on the
same page.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So how I came up with comedy block party was
Chris was hosting and we didn't to carry names and
inside jokes.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Chris, that's the first place inside Joe before the comedy yeh.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
At the Chinese Theater, we were like, okay, after each
show we started doing a party. VI I p upstairs.
I was like, man, were giving comedy and we're having
a party. That's what comedy block party came from. Ever
since those parties at the Chinese Theater and we would
do the birthday cakes, everybody start going to party with
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us come through the show every show, every show.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And thinking I was like, man, is it every time
I show up that you guys do a birthday.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Cake every every and we used to do a birthday dance,
but now we have so many people on stage it
would take too long. Like before when we were at
the Comedy un and the Chinese Theater, six stay birthdays.
Now it'd be fifteen to twenty people. Our cake used
to be this big. Now it's this whole thing right now.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I saw It's like a yeah, yeah, wow, okay, okay,
that makes sense. So you started at the theater. Now,
how are you guys covering the expenses on all of
that anymore?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
No, we have sponsors, shout out a couple of sponsors.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Our sponsors are fifty one twenty entertained.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
How you get more money kids?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
We have fifty one twenty entertainer K Meets Inc. We
have the Roilroad Group, we have Morris Trucking, the Diamond Bank,
kW Productions, Raw Development, Progressive Parents on the purday.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You remember this is.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They are important vehicle to us moving to different spaces
of where we need to go.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You said, what about jewelers, Diamond Bank, that's Diamond Bank.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So if any of you guys need some jeurery from Valentine's,
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on Hill Street.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm gonna give you this as a just a snippets
on the show them, all right, So you're doing that,
you're producing these shows on the regular. You have notable guests.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, tell them some of the notable guests we have had.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So we had the privilege to partner up with Live
Nation Urban and brought BT Weekend with Live Nation Urban
to the Miracle Theater in Inglewood. We had Michael Blaxing.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You want the toast.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Darker than you or you like it like darker than me.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So we have Michael Blaxing, d Ray, Corey Holcombe, Tiffany Hatters,
Justine Valentine. It was so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Earthquake, CPS, Camacho.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
James mcquarie, yes, everybody, name Lynn, Buddy Lewis. It was
so many people.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Corey holcome, you guys do this and any like this
weekend or not knowing when this comes out. We have
Dunnell Rollins. Last month we had Cole. We have Tiffany
Hattish as a regular. What we did what we've done
is brought Bill Bellamy, We brought Hollywood to Inglewood. And
I want to go back to your point where you're
saying it feels like a family everybody, and let me
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see not everybody. So if we hold four hundred people,
a hundred of them went to school with us or
or some kind of way our one degree of separation.
So when we say it's a block, it's like a
family block party. And we always and there's always somebody
we haven't seen it. We thought they were dead or
in jail. It'd be like yo when you get out.
(15:57):
And so every time listen, literally I see people from
second grade, third grade, who I was a cup scout with,
who I played at the YMCA with, Darby park Rogers
Parkers from Lawood and every week and then when we
come on stage, so unlike most comedy shows, you can't
really touch the comedians. We're a family environment. Everybody in
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there loves each other. Half of them are packing, so
nothing's gonna happen. So so after the show, a lot
of times people come on stage and people have come
up and hug me. It'll be like my seventh grade teacher,
It'll be the pee coach it's really a family environment.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He made a real cheese maloney sounds like, that's all making.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Sure this sandwich looks like, Yeah, that one looks the
right color.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Colleen, that is a real cheese baloney sound.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
It's the color of your husband.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Thanks all, you're gonna hook me up.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
This is the color of my wife right now.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I need to my wife.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Puerto Rican's Puerto Rican?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Did you think I was Puerto Rican?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
When first I thought you were other? Thought your Dominican?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Okay, okay, Dominican. I get Dominican, Puerto Rican. Yes, I
get every race because when you're mixed, you're just racially ambiguous.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Exactly depends on city. Went if you're in here, if
you're in New York, they think you're Puerto Rican, you're
in Florida. Is your wife from New York, New York
Puerto Rican?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Okay? Yeah, I already know I would. So take me
back to let's go back to the college days you're
pursuing comedy, Chris, Take me through that journey, because I
want to get closer to you, actor, producer, writer, director.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
So taking there's a group of guys on campus that
have a comedy group. Right, so we formed a club.
These guys were comedians and we would do shows for
we started we cut our teeth with the fraternities. The
White friends would have rush Week and they would try
to have they would have prospective place. I just come
in and then they would have entertainment and that would
be me and these group of guys. Suleie McCullough, who
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you know from the Jamie Fox Show and Don't be
a Menace and he's a hell of a writer producer,
was my roommate and he was also here's the reason
I actually became a comedian. We were talking with a
group of girls and they're like, what do you want
to do when when you get out of here. I'm
gonna wait, toll get out here. I'm gonna be a
standup comedian. And they were like, oh my god. I
love stand up. I love Eddie Murphy, I love Damon
(18:27):
WANs Oh. And then they're looking at me, they're like,
what about you. I was like, stand up comedian? And
literally that's how I became a stand up comedian because
I saw the attention he got and I was like
I need that attention. And from there we were doing
the friend houses. Then we would do shows on campus,
and then we would have big headliners come on campus
(18:48):
and perform for us. So at the time, Rob Schneider,
Jerry Seinfeld, how are you.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Getting these headliners to perform for you?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Guysla Man, David.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You'll be switching on and off. Yes, hold on, guys,
we're gonna do a sample of this you're cooking before
it gets cold.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You're gonna get a knife shot, I'm gonna pick it up.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Here, here's a knife.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I'm gonna act like I'm still from Inglewood like that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Oh, you don't cut it either? Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Is it good?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Doesn't make you want to eat it again?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Absolutely no me. I will be eating it again sometime.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What's missing is the dorridos, though, which I remember when
his brother that was his favorite. There loves blue.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
You know, my favorite thing to do since eating while
broke someone I forgot which guests cups chips in their sandwich.
Let me tell you something. I have not been able
to eat a sandwich without chips since anytime. I'm always
looking for a back. Have you tried him? Of course,
it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'm like, what that's what My father, who was Jamaican
like your family. My dad would always put stuff in
other sandwiches. He would put a fish filet and a
big mac.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That sounds like my mom and.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Smash it down like Scooby dooe. I I like the
way you bite that. You don't really like it, kind
of whenever people bite stuff with their front teeth.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I'm not a fan of baloney. Plus, technically it has
beef in it. I don't even beef. I'm sacrificing tails.
Let me tell you something. I'm allergic to beef and
oxtails was the hardest thing that in short rip, it's
the hardest thing to give up. That's the best meats,
and I would sacrifice. I'm like, you know what, if
(20:45):
it I'll be sick, but I'm going to have it.
But now I'm like, no, I'm not doing it anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
This meal is sponsored by kool Aid. It ain't the
same kool aid we grew up.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
It does taste like sgar free.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, what do you call it?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Like those sweeteners?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Would you? It was like it's cool added with st Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Like using it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It shouldn't be an aftertaste.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yep, it definitely has it culgar all right? So
do you feel like you're back in your time?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I feel like they say the same blogage I had
grown up.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I literally got the original one. It's an original.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Do you think that's the original one?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That's he eats it more offay.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So, but you know what, I like to go to
the meat market and get the thick one.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So they had the thick cute. I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's not Oscar Mayer. No, it was mine, but it's
the thick one.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They had thick, and I just thought maybe you guys
wanted the original we did?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Did?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
That?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Was great job, Great job cooking your blogna sandwich.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Bologna sandwich. I want to see you eat the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Chris, Oh, this is delicious. This is the meal.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Sean likes it. Sean really likes it. You got the
kool aid right there.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
It needs something it needs. I can't watch a cool.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I feel like it needs something like, not like a
ketchup for some kind of something because it's very dry.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
The kool aid is weird.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Do you usually make it like this at home?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Actually, you're supposed to have mayo or miracle whip on it.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
One y'all both slipping no dig.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Put it in didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Derek asked me that I want Male America, and I
was like, I don't think I used to put that
in there, but now that I'm tasting it there, that's
what's missing.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, because it's definitely like super Dry.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And now what was miracle whip?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't we just love the wear miracle whip taste.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I like Mayo more than a miracle that zing.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I think it's miracle whipping the kool aid.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh my gosh. So take me back. So you're booking
these guys because it's U C l A. But what
is your pitch to get them? Hey, we don't have
to do anything.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
This is this isn't what they weren't. This is pre
Jerry Seinfeld's show. So this is just Jerry Seinfeld. This
is David Spade. I think I don't know if he
had been on Sunday in Life yet life. Yeah, but
these were name headliners. And when you're a comedian, you're
going to perform anywhere and everywhere. That's gonna give you
a check, got it? And so they were coming to
headline our show, so it would be us young guys.
(23:15):
And then said headliner And it was always a treat
because we would have these fend those people would draw
the audience, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
But now, going back, you said you decided on the
whim because of the ladies liked the comedy idea. When
you first start going out, were you going out hitting
home runs right away?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I started off my first show was I was like,
this shit is easy? What is this struggle? They speak up?
And then the second and third show, I was like, oh,
I'm had to write some shit. Yeah, because I'm cursed
and blessed with the same gift, which is my wit,
and so I could just freestyle a whole show. And
so the first show I freestyled and I was like, oh,
(23:55):
this is easy, and the second shot time was oh
I think it was less black people on the show
the next time. So when I said Murray's greens and
they're like, is he talking about oh, I said a
do rag or something. I was a black reference. So
I was like, Oh, now only do I need to
write material. I need to make material less universal because
there's stuff that works in one room that may not
work in any other room. So I need to figure
out stuff that works in all rooms. And then sometimes
(24:17):
if you're in a black room, I'm gonna give them, Yeah,
you know what I mean. But it goes in for
not just the color of our skin. It goes for
whatever the room dictates. So if I'm doing a show
for the Girl Scouts, I'm gonna have Girl Scouts jokes.
If I'm doing jokes for the mayor, I'm gonna do
stuff with that's more political and intellectual. Possibly, so you
(24:40):
cater to your room. If I'm doing a party for
some Rolling Sixties, I'm gonna do some jokes for them.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So you're producing these shows and you're opening up for
these bigger I would say at the time, bigger comics, right,
and then are they catching wind of your guys talent
and pulling you out they.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Could care less? Okay, No, Actually, Souley actually got signed
by the same manager that Jerry Seinfeld had, so he
had his career went to a different level because of
that signing.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, So you're producing the shows and then Sean at
this time, you're showing up to everything that.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Sean is making money. Now, I haven't seen Sean. I
won't see Sean. Sean doesn't know even know I'm doing
comedy at this point after high school, by the time
I went to college. They may come to see me
once or twice, but everybody's living on nobody's gonna go
visit somebody in college.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So he said they were. They said that. Sean said
he was following you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
What I'm saying is he saw it wasn't like he's
coming to l who y'all got coming?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Okay, And I'm assuming Sean, you were doing entrepreneurs stuff,
because I know you have other businesses outside.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Of the doing. We would go visit and hang out
with Chris, and then we creating different avenues for us
to continue to make money and different stuff like that.
And then as Chris start filming different shows, that's what
I got more success. Need to be here with me.
So we started being at the tapings the filmings wherever
(26:05):
he was. We stopped being more there with him, and they.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Actually produced one of our first tapings that Tisha Campbell directed,
which is called Get Up, Stand Up, which was with me,
Daryl Heath, Alex Thomas, and Suley McCullough. And we shot
it at this little club in the valley, and I
think that was their first taste in Hollywood. Could be fun, yeah, okay,
and then that was your first after graduation, that's around
ninety three four or something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Was that your first big, your first TV big? I
just said first, that was your first though.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I think so I might have done some smaller stuff,
because no, I've done stuff before. There were shows back
then that they don't have now, like Evening at the
Improv and Comic View and stand Up New York, and
so I think that stand up there, there's a show
like that. There was a lot of shows. That's when
we got the impatist to go, let's create our own show.
This is pre depth, you know, and so we started.
We did that in lieu of selling it. But I
(26:58):
don't know what happened. I think it's it's out there somewhere.
And then that's when he first got the bug. And
then lives happen, people get married, have kids, do stuff,
and then they would always come to support my shows.
And then when Junior passed away in two fourteen is
when he really stepped one into stand up comedy full time,
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him his brother Derek.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And then how did that feeling come feel after once
you guys started really working together, how did it feel?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It was easy because Sean is our point guard. He's
actually running this show. All right, I see if this
was basketball, Sean is magic, Derek is James Worthy. I'm sorry,
you're too young. Let me go back. Sean is Steph Curry, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Okay, okay, sewn' Steph Curry. Okay, okay, yes, thank you,
thank you for got it.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Derek is Draymond Green okay. And I'm the owner of
the team.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Okay, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Want to do Sean is the owner of the team.
I'm Steph Curry and no, Sean is Draymond Sean, I'm
Steph Carry. And you know what, we're the trotters.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We all we do it all okay, okay, got it?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Like Sean is the one that keeps us on point.
Taket sales a low, Kevin Hard ain't call back, But
he's the one that keep me and Derek. If we're
flowing through life going the show's Wednesday will be okay,
Sean ain't gonna be Okay, we need some more sweatshirts,
but yeah, he keeps shipping.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Was he the one that at the last show, you
guys all almost came out in the same exact outfits.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, Sean is the designer of the common.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
But it's the crazy part. Chris got a light blue
one earlier that day, and I wasn't even thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I'm glad I fifteen of us in blue.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
He had orange, right, And when Mifphis we got that one,
I forgot he had even purchased that one, so I
knew what I was wearing that You didn't tell me
if it's will to wear it that night? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Okay, yeah, show Can you stand up and just show
them what the.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well you're not wearing?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
You just take it over your neck. This is part
this is part.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Is it tight?
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah? This is one from started stead up in twenty fourteen.
This was one of the first logos that we desired. Okay,
now we have more multiple logos under the umbrella, and
comedy Block Party is the most significant one. Yeah, everybody
buys that.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Matter of fact, I have my sweats.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I saw you.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's not ritten on the pants.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You know some different pints.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
This ain't the pants.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
They all right, take me through some of the hurdles
and the upsides, the behind the scenes of you making it,
Chris to where you are today because you've been in
the industry how long now.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Hold I've been at thirty plus, and there's always you're
hot and then you're not. But what allowed me to
sustain thirty years is not relying on my pretty face.
I've actually gone behind the scenes and wrote and produced
for a lot of your favorite comedians. So what I
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tell young comedians is you're all gonna get opportunities. Some
people's opportunities are gonna be bigger than others. And your
friend is going to host the MTV Movie Awards. They're
gonna give him a group of writers to write the show,
and then he's gonna need people who know his voice
to write for him. And so I've done that for Jamie,
I've done that for Mike Eepps. I've done it for Kevin,
I've done it for Cedric, I've done it for Dion,
(30:41):
and they've done it for me. Not those guys, but
other people. And so you just have to stay close
to this. If this is what you really want to do.
You may not become Eddie Murphy, but you could become
Kenya Barris, you know what I mean. You may not
become Kevin Hart, but you might become Chris Spencer. There's
all types of ways to skin a cat for lack
(31:01):
of a better word.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
And then you have a lot of relationships too. I
think your relationships also play a key to your success.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
With my relationships are better than my talent, meaning I'm cool,
but my roller decks. That's before your time.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm sorry, my snapchatchat forty, I'm forty zero.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, I know I have quite a few friends because
we all came up together. Some of us were eating
boloney sandwiches together, you know what I mean. And now
you know they're doing caviaar and I'm back to fucking balogney.
But nonetheless he's a laughing some of this stuff. Okay, ladys,
she's looking at me so seriously.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But now, okay, I just recently I told you I
recently did an interview with Nick. So I'm gonna take
you back when I bounce you back. All right, you
were one of the key players, if not the key
player behind walling out.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Not the key player. Nick Cannon is young, youthful, had
this great idea for a show. He showed it to me,
and I was like, this is dope, but we could
make it better. And so I gathered a group of
writers and come we enhanced it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Wait when he showed it to you, did he take
you to an actual improv picture?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
To me a verbally pitture? Not even he verbally pitched me.
And then we collaborated with his people and my people
and made it a presentation at the Comedy Union where
we also did Comedy Block party, and then they picked
it up, and then we did another pilot and then
the rest is whatever. Twenty one years of making magic.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now he was in his twenties. What made you jump
to support him? Because I know he was in his
He's had to been like twenty.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Five or something. I can't support people younger than me.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
No, I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
He was my friend.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, he was. He was the young guy that everybody
was talking about in the clubs and he was, for
lack of a better word, he was did he Puffy?
Did he's in trouble? Puffy wasn't in trouble. And he
was very creative and he was also the guy that
could put talent together and create things. He was always creating. Yeah,
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you can't wait on Hollywood, they're not creative. You have
to actually chew the food and put it in their
mouth for them to get it. And that's Nick was doing.
And when he came up and wanted out. I was like,
I would absolutely do whatever it takes to make this
thing fantastic. And I was the head writer for the
first year, and then I had a child and things
went this way and I got another job. He went
(33:15):
on to do whatever. Twenty years of success. We're still differends.
We still work together to this day. And so that
opportunity was really great more great for him. But it was.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Now when you say head writer, what does that? What
did that entail? You wrote for every comic on there.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
There's a room for writers, right, and I'm in charge
of the materials that are going to be presented to
for the show. Sometimes we would have a board like
this and I would see what everybody is read the
scripts that everybody's created. Say, we're gonna do some stuff
about blooney sandwiches. Give me all the bloney sandwiches joke.
(33:52):
We put it up here. We'll all aside which was
the best, and that will go into the packet. And
then that packet would go to the higher ups to go, oh,
this is we only sketch. It's funny. And so I
was the liaison between the higher ups and the writer's room.
So it's my job to maintain both of these relationships.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh wow, and that wasn't your first. Now, how far
in before you start with doing the wilding out head
writing stuff?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Was I a writing?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was already writing. I started writing around two thousand
when Jamie Fox hosted the MTV Music Awards, and then
from there I just started getting writing gigs because, like
I said, when said comedian gets a gig, there's going
to be the people that write for the show, and
then there's going to be his people who know his voice.
(34:40):
And I had the opportunity of doing that several times
before the Well and Out show.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
And then when you got into acting, were you taking
acting class?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I was acting that whole time. Matter of fact, the
writing took over when the acting got slow, you know, So.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
You didn't sit still during any of the No.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Remember I had a late night talk show too. There's
no you can't stop. And that's what I love about
this generation. They're not waiting. They will shoot a whole
movie on an iPhone.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, you know what I mean? And you like that
a lot of people some people hate on it.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Their haters, I love that, you know what I mean
a lot of them are hating.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Of that.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
A lot of us are old school now evans still
only where it's fitted baseball hats. Sometimes you're set in
your ways, trust me, calling right now. You could have
sixteen diamonds on it and be worth ten million to be.
I aware of that shit. And that's how we are,
you know what I mean. Sometimes we're setting their ways
because that was his generation. I love singing it all,
(35:38):
you know what I mean. I love what kay Sinat
is doing.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I love well, you like what he's doing too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This is it. That's like my mom being mad at me.
Turn off that goddamn hip hop. Hip Hop is the future,
Kaysat is the future. Yeah, I love all of it.
I love entertainment and comedians love each other. So when
(36:04):
you said why did I help Nick, it's because Nick
is a comedian. I love comedians. Let me tell you
the story, Robin Williams, I did a show at Caroline's
in New York and I was doing the midnight show
and Jeff Garland was doing the ten o'clock show or
eight o'clock showed. I was doing the ten o'clock show,
and for some reason, Jeff Garland let Robin Williams go
(36:24):
on first, the paint was peeling off the walls. You know,
they have like pictures of famous comedians on. They were laughing.
Charlie Chaplin was dying, May West whoever he's murdering. So
after he gets off stage, Jeff Garland goes on and
it's not good. I mean, he had to work to
(36:45):
get him. He's a professional show but he had work
to do. But Robin came in the back, and I
don't know if there was a pied piper or something,
but all of a sudden it went from ten to
eight comedians to four hundred comedians were in the back
listening to Robin Williams talk shop, tell stories, and he's
talking to us and he's asking questions. We love each other.
(37:06):
This fraternity runs deep. I don't care. I don't care
who you are if you tell something, unless they're an asshole.
But if you talk to a vet comedian and telling me,
you stand up. They want to know what's it like? Now?
What's going on? Are you at the comedy store? Do
you go to the laugh factory? I remember this time
and you share stories? One time I was writing for Laughing.
You remember show Laughing? You do it? She's too young,
(37:29):
it was the fifty year reunion of Laughing. I got
hired by a comedian named a writer named John Max
who writes. He think I write for award shows. He
writes for all the award shows, including Presidents, Governors. He's
the man, John Max. And so I'm writing for Laughing
and Billy Crystal and Jay Leto are in the room.
So we're talking about rehearsal because they're gonna do something,
and then they start telling jokes. I'm like, I gotta
(37:51):
say something, and I said, you guys ever heard the
one about that? They just fuck it turned around and
then now meet Billy Crystal and Jay Lenore sharing jokes.
I love that comedians love comedians.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I love that. I love it and I can see
why when I go to the shows they feel the
way they feel. Yeah, is there any stories behind the
scenes that you did bring up with Robin Williams? That
is like a very memorable standout.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Even with Robin Williams. So I say to Robin Williams,
how can you don't come to the comedy store anymore?
He goes, Oh, No. One time I drove up and
these two these black guys came up to me and
They're like, what the fuck are you doing here? And
he was like, I'm performing. I'm doing a show in
the main room. And they were like, get the fuck
out of here, and I left. I said, Robin, that's slang.
(38:40):
He's what are you talking about? I said, when they
said what the fuck are you doing here, they couldn't
believe that fucking Mark from Orc Missus Doubtfire is right
there in front of them. They're like really then, and
then I said, when they said get the fuck out
of here, you saw fucking Johnny Brasco get the fuck
out of here like that. He was like, no shit.
(39:02):
The next that was Saturday Monday, La Times reads Robin
Williams returns to the Comedy Store and over whatever twenty
seven twenty eight years.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
No, I'm Forrest gumpany ship true story.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
That's a great story. That's that's gonna be a whole
clip that's going virals indefinitely. Well, do you have any more?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
I got a million stories? Yeah, name a comedian Kevin
Harry to sleep on my couch.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I believe that we did it. I did.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
It was one day, but still he slept there.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Did he sleep there? Because he needed to.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
He needed to, He had to. He hadn't slept there
for a couple of days. Russell Peters when he would
come to town with st step on.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
My couch, tell me something about the Waynes.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Comedy family, their royalty. They put me on.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh they put you.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Sure, if you go back and look at all the
old Wayms movies, you'll see me. I did Blank Man
with Damon, I.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Did am I Loved Blank Men, Low Down, Dirty.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Shame with Kenan. I did Don't Be a Minister of
South Central Will Drinking a Juice with Sean and Marlon.
I wrote a book with Sean. I did The Sixth
Man with Marlon. I used to think I was warning.
I used to walk around with this wearing a vada
cause that's all they used to wear.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I thought I was waaring until one day that was
a true story. I told us on a couple of podcasts.
But I found out I wasn't family because one day
we were in front of that just Damon and Seawan
and I just did a show with the airprov We
came out. They're sitting in the front seat and they're whispering.
I'm like, they're like, oh, Chris could you step out
real quick. We talking about family.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I was like, oh, you covered your mic too while
you do that, I'm family and so did you really
feel that I was hurt?
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I spent Thanksgivings with them, Christmas, you know what I mean.
I'm like, I'm not family and so.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Then but they run tight.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
API took my spot, and the rest of the movies
after that really.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Are So that's the only that's only Wayne story you got.
I don't know what you're trying to think. Eddie Murphy,
Martin Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I know them all.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Any good getting on a Martin Laurence story. Okay, you
know what's good when they laugh before they.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Say so, before anything. Martin was like the hottest comic
in the world, right. And one night we were at
a club glam Slam for those of you who are
from La Prince had a club called glam Slam. I
got a funny glam Sam story too, real quick, we're
glam Slam. And it's always the baddest woman in the world.
In La has the baddest females in the world. And
it's not because they were born here, but a lot
of them come from other places and decide to live here.
(41:39):
And find out that they wasn't shit. I one time
saw this girl walking short hair jeans with the ass
cheeks out. I was like, yo on top. My boy
was like look and then and my boys like, yeah,
what's up? She turned around. It was Prince with a lollipublic.
Why does prince have his ass out?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
True story?
Speaker 1 (42:01):
So one night I just got that at the very end.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yes, one night, Martin Martin and his girl at the
time and who was a friend of mine and Sulie
mcculluugh and I were walking out. I was a little
drunk and I had on I was very stylish and
fashion forward. I do on this lumberjackshirt. We called him
Pendletons bankers high gang bankers. Pendletons teed up and had
(42:27):
on some like these I forgot with these little construction
boot They wouldn't love, they wouldn't timberlands, but they were
the boots at the time. Look up, Jodasy and I
needed to laugh at some of this, and so Martin
was like, what the fuck you got on with that
lumberjack shit? He was drunk. I was like, what you
heard me? Mother? And saw me and him got into it.
And then the next day he called me and apologized
(42:48):
with my dear friend Bentley Evans, who's now's uncle, and
I got hired to be Martin's standing on the Martin Show.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, why did he call you apologize? He felt bad?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
He felt bad. I'm a wonderful person.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
That was nice to Cris Spancer like that. That was nice.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
So that was one of my first jobs in Hollywood,
which was weird because I'm like, how am I gonna
be Martin Standing? So whenever you saw Grandma, if you
look at the pilot, you'll see they had to shoot
the back of the head, so you saw the Grandma's
back of their head, which is me in a wig,
and then Martin and then you see in my back
of her head to see Martin when he's not just
So that was one of my first jobs. I've had
an incredible I've had an incredible life in Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
One of my.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Weirdest jobs is I Diana Ross was having a photo
shoot and they wanted a comedian to entertain her, and
she went to different spaces on this studio lot. So
I have to walk in and tap dad. She'd be
like that, and then she walked the next room. But
before I got the job. Now, when I got the job,
I thought Tracy got me the job because Tracy and
(43:47):
I was friend Tracy. I was wrong, and she calls me, goes,
what the fuck is going on? I go, what You're
gonna be a comedian? From my mother? I go, I
thought you got me the job. No, I didn't get
you a job. What are you the toy?
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Did her mom know who he now?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
And I bombed all day? Imagine she would they say
this room was the polar room, and she it was
all white and she wore white and as a fur
and there's some fucking little penguins and shit, and I'm
up there doing jokes and shit and her handlers are like,
it's gonna be like fucking And it wasn't until the
(44:22):
last setting whatever it was, that I finally made her laugh.
I said, listen, you got me upside down, boy, you
turned me. I said some jokes with her songs in it,
and she goes, that's funny. You're very funny. I said,
you should have fucking laughed earlier.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
But is that harder that? That would must be a
lot harder to make one person laugh though, right.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, there was more people in the room. But if
the King ain't laughing. Ain't nobody laughing? Yeah, so every
now the cameraman and them were shaken because its fucking funny,
but they're not laughing loud because she ain't laughing, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
All right, cool, all right, awesome. I'm trying to think
is there anything that I left off the table when
it comes to your guys story.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Your rise, we're killing?
Speaker 1 (45:00):
What year is Sean twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (45:03):
What year for comedy black?
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Oh? This is eleven?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Oh, it's eleven, Mark, I think it was longer than
March seven. Eleven years is a good time.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
It's a great run.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
And then why did you guys end up moving from
the Chinese Theater all the way to Inglewood? Is it
because you just wanted to keep it home based.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
That the opportunity for Inglewood, which is our home, came
up and we're like, this is easy. It was also
because a lot of people would be like, yo, man,
I gotta get to work, and they would leave early
and come back this way, and we're like, you know what,
we need to spot down here so they can stay
throughout the whole show. And literally the show stays until
(45:38):
we say you have to do the birthdays.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So you do the birthdays and it's like a whole thing.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
It's a whole we're gonna start streaming this year.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Really, are you guys gonna do something with fifty one twenty?
Speaker 3 (45:49):
Quite possible? Yes, that's our people.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Okay, the crazy j Parker, the crazy part Colleen. When
people call for their birthday, they say, I want my
name on the cake please?
Speaker 1 (46:03):
Do you guys do it?
Speaker 3 (46:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, today my tickets to the show.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
I love that morning on the cake.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
And they pictured on the fly as well, and we
promote them as well, celebrating their birthday with comedy Black
Party every month.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Now, are those the people that sit in the very front, they're.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
All over, they're all over, they're all over.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Those are VIPC just a birthday.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Yeah okay, so those are special VIA seats.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
No, that's special. They paid for a bottle.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I always wonder about those
seats in the front.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
So, like some rolls after every show, those people pay
for that role in advance for every show, all seventeen
seats and the VIP tables, three tables are already five
tables are already paid in the advance already. Every show,
every show, and.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
What do you do to promote the show showing because
it sounds like you're the one that's always the most stressed.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, it's very stressful. It's social media. When you go
places with Chris or different venues, you have to have
your brand on and marketing your brand. And as when
I go to the places with Chris, I'm usually standing
off in the cut and somebody come say to me, oh, man,
we need to doing that show. Man, I see y'all
(47:21):
killing it over there? Man, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
And it's easier than passing out cars to everybody. He
wears the cop They go, oh, you're Sean Elliott. Oh
that's Derek Ellie. Their names are like it's almost like
seeing Tupac. They heard of them, and you guys are
Elliott brothers. And so now they want to They know
that our shows aren't regular shows. So the fact that
now they get to talk to Sean and Derek can
(47:45):
find out how they can bring their office, their boss's birthday,
their birthday, just they just want to come celebrate because
it's a different show, you know what I mean, It's
not like any comedy show in the world.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Now, if comics watch and want to get on your show.
What's the process? How do they go about it?
Speaker 3 (48:01):
It's usually you gotta be recommended. You just can't. We
ain't watching no tapes. It's usually somebody says, yo, you
gotta check out this dude named Darius. He's hysterical. Or
when I'm out at the comedy store, I'm still in
the streets. I'm still in these comedy streets. So I'll
meet a young guy. He goes, you're gonna be in
the belly room, and I know you're the main room,
be in the belling room in seven minutes. Can you
(48:22):
come watch it. I'll come watch and I'll go.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
I love how you're back. But you keep it up,
young man, We're about to be like I love how
you support it.
Speaker 2 (48:33):
We started the entity of comedy Black Party from Chris
from twenty fourteen. Wherever he went, if he went to Ontario,
I was there building the brand every night, he said,
I got to introduce you to all the people that
no matter where he was, I was there every night.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yeah, Wow, building the brand.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
And then do you guys both stay in Inglewood?
Speaker 2 (49:00):
No, we both live in God God, okay?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
And then do you how far in events. Do you
know who's on your show lineup?
Speaker 3 (49:10):
We already know, like now, from March, April, April.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Do you know who will be airing in Yes, April
and May.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
We don't know. We haven't April.
Speaker 3 (49:22):
So we always have a name person because we argue
about all the time, but we can have to because
these are working class people and if they're gonna not
if they're gonna be late for work or stay out,
it's got to be somebody a little special for them
to see. We've tried, and we still tried to do
a regular show with just people that we see on
these regulations, but we always have to have something a
(49:44):
little bit enticing, some more enticing. That's why we have
the Deon Coles, the Tiffany's and blah blah blah, and
those are usually our later bookings. The other people are great.
The first three or four are yeah, because these other
people are working now. Sometimes we get them early. If
they say I can't do March, but put me for April.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (50:03):
So in April we want May, I just want April.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
We have Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
Eddie Murphy, guys, you heard it here first.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Eddie Johnson, Eddie Johnson, guys, Eddie Johnson's in the building
in April, because I'm trying to think of the release schedule,
so I'm trying to see. So right now, you guys
have Donald Rowlings coming out in Rowlings, and then you
have March March. Who you guys have coming out we
(50:33):
haven't to be determined, but in April we have Eddie
Johnson for sure. Guys come out to Comedy Block party,
followed Darren Elliott, Sean Elliott and Elliott brothers and Chris Hosts,
Chris Spencer and it's a real it's a real family environment.
At the end, everyone gets up on stage is the
whole everyone.
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Everyone.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
We got security, but the family.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
And I don't feel like security of.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
The of the birthday people.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Okay, I not walked up on stage, but I think.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Because you and your family are so pretty, I don't
mean the bride. But whatever. Anywhere me and my brothers gone,
we get in and we get free drinks. Girls be
throwing their drawings at them.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
We get it. You know what's the funniest part, Colleen,
I'm gonna tell you, whenever I be out without Chris,
people just come on through me. And talk to me,
and I'll be like, who is this? I was looking
around like sh man, You and Christian with your brother
them y'all killing it. I'll be like who. I'll be like,
who is this? We'd be like okay. They'd be like,
(51:34):
he got my phone number.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
I'll be like okay, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
You know what. I am humbled and grateful that us
three is back together and we're keeping Junior legacy live
through laughter because it's all about him. That's why you
see his logo, his picture on our logo that stands
out and the thing with us, it's brotherly and his family.
(52:04):
No one is no bigger building this brand higher.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, because we.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Right here and it's just a bonus to have our
brother with us full time now outside of other works
that he do.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, I love that love. I love the bonding and
the brother and I'm sure you and Derek, you guys
don't have the brotherly conversations until Christa. I'm messing with
the Waynes. It's not money more than I'm sorry you
guys never do that. You guys do that, Chris.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
We're talking about family. I'm gonna take you what we do.
We be on the phone for hours at a time,
all of us be on the phone, Me then Chris.
We'll be on the phone for an hour or two,
coming up different ideas, different things. We might have disagreements
here and there, but it's all love is. We have
to make it to the middle point and then we
all agree on what to do next.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
I know one thing for sure with siblings is every
once in a while there's a beef that breaks out,
and then usually siblings start rallying other siblings to take
a side. Has that ever happened? You guys never beefed
and then said, hey, just what happened?
Speaker 2 (53:14):
None of that? Oh yeah, none of that.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
We just say shine, you're right.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
Yeah, because I tell them, because I make sure we
run this like a well driven truck. Because Derek has
other things going on, Chris have a lot of other
things going on. So I'm the one that's watching everything,
making sure it's right, letting them know who on board,
(53:39):
whom not on board. This from that, so we got
to treat it as this Fortune five hundred company and
let people know we aren't forced to be wrecking with
you guys. We're here to stay. You guys are yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
All right, cool? Thank you? So much for feeding me
this baloney sandwich.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
I need to take another bank.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
You only took little bit. I love my Let's take it.
Come on, let's let's close out with a bike on.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Oh well, they're like you the front teeth.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Peace out, guys, thanks for tuning in, and keep up
a comedy block party anywhere on socials where are you
chewing your blooney sandwich? Come on, Chris, come out.
Speaker 3 (54:19):
My my own private one which is not private, but
my own personal which is at the real Chris Spencer.
And then we have at comedy block party e n T.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
No, that's what he was in the weblink told the
website that's Comedy Block Party e n T dot com.
And I G is at Comedy Underscore block Underscore Party.
And then you have d Elliott Business b I Z
(54:49):
N E S S.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Got it all right, guys, Peace out. For more Eating
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