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April 22, 2022 16 mins

J. Anthony Brown is leaving radio.  Sick and die is breaking up.  This is his retirement!  "Watch out deh now!"

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, Steve, this is your bestie and um, you
guys have been together for a very long time, so
you do. Boy Ben is born and been through some
walls together. Whoa whoa little big horn Bunker Hill. Really
it ain't got nothing of us World War two? Nothing nothing,

(00:28):
what vie known, what a child's play can nothing about that?
And Asian gentleman Jay Anthony Brown, Okay, I got two
two announcements, two announcements. The first annountments is a good announcement.
I will be at Chuckles Comedy Club tonight, Tomorrow night
and Sunday night one show only get your tickets. I

(00:52):
will be there our in twenty just me one twenty
That's just me. That's what I do in Jackson. That's
what I did. My second I can do. I one
twenty yea one status and a lot of people could

(01:13):
say that boar. I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying.
You know. It's when you know it's winny. I got
to go to the restroom doing that one twenty. But
it's still a one twenty an hour and twenty minutes.
You can't hold it, Okay. My next announcement is it's

(01:34):
I'm announcing today that affective. Today, I will be leaving
Steve Harvey Morning Show for good. I'd like to say
thank you to you guys for the love you showed
me since I came on the show. I was. I
was so I can't tell you how nervous I was

(01:54):
my first day and I knew everybody. I knew everybody here,
but I don't know why. I was just like, will
they like me? Well, they appreciate me. But I can
tell you, man, you guys showed me much love. I've

(02:16):
had so much fun doing this show. It's just for me.
It's just for me. I just I think I've done
enough radio. I've done enough. Yeah, I think at some
point you go, like when I was married, I go,
I've done enough marriage. I've just done Really in a comparison,

(02:40):
I'm just saying, I figure I've done enough. I've had
a great time, and I'll be able to drop back
from time to time if I think it's something funny
or you know, I've got something good coming up. You know,
I don't come in and say hi to everybody, but
it's for me. It's time to go. It's time to go.
Before they go. We need you, We need you. To leave.

(03:01):
So so, wow, you're leaving radio to do, to do
because sometimes that's what that's what happens to old people
to do. Yeah, we we need to leave. Yeah, the group.

(03:23):
He's breaking up the group. But see, y'all think he
leaving to go do something else. He ain't. Just ask
what are you? What are you going to do? Nothing?
Just do nothing, he returned, y'all stand up. I'll go
to comedy clubs and perform from time to time, you

(03:44):
know than that show. Yes, I'll be doings. He got
some stuff he doing. He gonna retire. He got enough money. Look,
he don't like a whole lot of cars and stuff.
He don't like company. Oh, do not buy no extra groceries.
But man, I've been with this dude so long. Man,

(04:05):
I've learned so much from him over the years. Man.
He taught me this business in the very beginning because
I was floundering. Man, I was trying to find my
voice the way to do it, man, and this dude
was that dude. Man, And so it ain't goodbye for us, Man,
I didn't. I didn't say it later on to him.
On so many damn levels, I've been with all the divorces.

(04:26):
So you know I've seen this before. I was expecting
it any minute now because he don't stay long. We're
gonna miss you, Jay for sure, coming up. Okay, Tom Brady,
Well we'll have more of the Sea barbye morning show
right after this. You're listening show. All right, Jay, We're back,

(04:52):
you were saying, or Steve you were saying. No, It's
just you know, I've been with this guy for so long, man,
so how many years? I mean? I met him in
eighty six. You know, I hadn't even been in the
business a year. Man as my first road gig when
I met him at a place called Nick's Bloomington, Indiana,

(05:13):
and he was the first black headline I'd ever met,
because you know, at eighty five eighty six that were
no black back headline. The only black headliners was Byron
Allen and George Wallace. And then I met Jay Anthony Brown,
his first black I've ever seen headline of comedy because
I've been working with all whites up into that. And

(05:33):
when I saw him perform, Man, I went, whoa this dude,
Like hell, Man, that's what I want to be. And
he told me, he said, Man, you you're funniest hell
man when we all stage, but you're just taking you
ain't taking that up to on your stage. I said, Man,
I gotta make these white people laugh. He said, no, man,
you gotta make them white people get you. You ain't

(05:54):
got to get them. They bought the ticket to see you,
and he taught me how to do it, man, And
for that, I ever felt like I owed him a
dead of gratitude for that. Man. We've always we done
a lot of shows together and all of that. Man,
but this dude has been forefront and the reason I
became the stand up so I was so I always
wanted to say thank you for that, brother, and I
appreciate you. MANE well what we wow? They want me

(06:19):
to do twenty minutes? Man? Ain't man, Tommy, are you
doing jack yea twenty minutes? All right, we'll be back
with more of a morning show right after that. You're
listening to show? All right, we're back. Um. Jay has
just made the announcement that he's leaving radio to do nothing,

(06:43):
and we're still trying to process that, trying to the
talent show. And I'll be doing comedy clubs and you know, yeah,
you still got assisted living yeah, And I don't think
Jay Ja, I don't know if you ever stopped doing

(07:04):
stand up I did, Man, I don't know. And you
like Jay Leno and the boys that just can't stop.
You know, It's like, I've never been able to not
be as nervous as I am before I go on stage.
But once you get up there, it's and you guys

(07:26):
can contested this. It is the best feeling in the
world when you got that audience in your hand and
you're having a good time, and you know, you just
there's nothing that compares to them to be able to
you know that. And a lot of people can't do
what we do. A lot of people cannot do this.

(07:47):
It's so difficult, man. People don't understand. Like Jay, he
come to the Clunk Club like he'll be a chuckles
like and he'll do an hour twenty. And let me
tell you something, man, I can tell you the people
I know. The people that can do an hour twenty
for real, one mike, one light, one boss to one drink,

(08:09):
one spotlight, that's it, and do an hour twenty. I
know who they are. And it's very very difficult to do, man.
But he's been around long enough. Man, where he has
that repertoire material. And it's not that he goes back
to old stuff, it's just just the way he's been writing.
Jay's been a writer for so many successful shows over

(08:30):
the years. I mean his first writing gig was Adar
Senior Hall show. He got out there, man, He's been
on all kinds of shows. He would do on my
very first show, Me and the Boys and that because
what was crazy, man was I had got this opportunity
to be on TV and I got out there him man,

(08:50):
and I said, now, I don't know none of these people. Man,
and so I knew him and Rashaan McDonald we were friends.
And I said, man, I got these two guys I
want to be writers. Well they're there. They're not in
the writer's guild and they're not in this. I said,
but hey, man, you want some jokes on this show
or what. So they made them punch up artists where

(09:11):
they punched up in the script. They wouldn't let him
write script, but they let him punch him up. And
Jay wrote one of the biggest jokes ever on that show.
We were talking about a kidney and uh my little
boy said, Daddy, would you give me your Kidney, I said,
why would I do that? So you can leave it
up on the bus like you did that new code
I bought you. And that was one of the biggest

(09:33):
jokes on that show. If you just saw the scene.
Jay has always been there. Dude, Man, we'll be back.
We got some more wow this food before he get
out of here. Yeah, that's right right after this. You're listening,
all right, we're back our last break of the day,
last break of the week of the day. Yeah, and

(09:56):
last show. Oh I'm pray of course, of course, Jay,
You're You're so funny. We're gonna miss you a lot.
You know, you've been through a lot of challenges. You've
always come back and just you know, like nothing ever happened. Steve,
I know. I just want to say real quick. Um.

(10:17):
You know Steve was talking about you know, me and
me and the boys. But what a lot of people
don't understand was Rashin and that were not writers. We
were We were comedians. And for him this was his
first show. They gave him his own show and for
him to stand up for us and go I have
to have these guys or you're not gonna get me.

(10:39):
That was a bowl ass move and I'm like, dude,
hold up now, wait a minute. But but it worked
and it put us in the in the writing ring,
which had not he done that, you know, because there
are very few black writers to this day. To this day,
they're very few Black platts, you know, we're talking twenty

(11:01):
twenty two. Very few on all black shows. Sometimes you
don't have so for him, j Jay, the Girl that
was just so one of these awards shows. Black Girl
was the first black female writer on a late night
show in the history of television. Yeah this year. Wow. Well,
I mean when I worked for Sinio, there was fifteen writers.

(11:24):
I was the only black, the only one. And that's
not uncommon. You know. You take all these late shows
that are on they have very few or no black
writers at all. But you can tell by the comedy
they ain't no black writers, right because you don't have
because you got to get in the writer's guild. And
the only way to get in the writer's guilt is

(11:45):
you gotta get hours in the room. If you ain't
in the room, you can't get in the writer's guil.
Now you can't get a damn writering, y'all. Oh man,
it's it's it's it's andy. The Hollywood is like a
grandfather he in claude. All these kids get these jobs
because they got relatives that all of a sudden day

(12:05):
in comedy development. You can't go to school for comedy development,
But how do you get this job? My uncle was
in it. He told him this is what I do. Man,
You know what't mean? Times out of sitting the room
with people that don't know it damn thing about commat
over there, man, trying to tell me something about it.
Oh man, Jay will tell you. Man, I just go
in that room and just look at them and go,

(12:25):
that's not funny. Well we think it is. I said, okay,
well your ass said, but it's two legends. What Jay
is saying, you gave him an opportunity and paid it,
paid it forward. And you saying that Jay gave you
an opportunity in this friendship and partnership and brotherhood that

(12:46):
you all had. Ye, it's been that way, man, And
I mean we would we were. I mean, look, we
were friends before that was cell phones, you understand. Man.
Here him on his saying how we what we had
to do to stay in touch with each other? I mean, man,
like we had spots. We had spots on the roads

(13:09):
like you were in Memphis. We had gas stations with
certain pay phones that we knew the number two, and
we would say, hey, man, yeah, man, be at the
race track down in Birmingham. Man, Tuesday at two o'clock,
can you be that. I gotta talk to you? And

(13:30):
I lead that on his answer machine, and I'm telling
you right now, Tuesday at two o'clock, I'm in trouble. Man,
I call that phone. What man what he had to
gather in burm So you're calling his answering scene at
his house. You leave the message, Yeah, I lead the message. Yeah,
I'm telling me a few days I got to talk

(13:51):
to you man, I'm in trouble. Yeah. I mean that's
all we had about my cause were usually about court basically, yeah, yeah,
it had something to do it. But see I hadn't
gotten a divorce yet, but I was well schooled on law.

(14:20):
And mostly all our troubles had something to do with
a girl A mostly all of it kids every nine
and then. But man, we had them telephones. I would
call his house and leave a machine, and he called
and check his machine, and then he called my machine

(14:41):
and say, I'll be there or Hey, man, I can't,
but I'll be in such and such. Let me when
I get there, I'll find the phone and give you
the number. Then he called and give me the number.
And then I wait a day, and then I call
him next day at three thirty, he'd be right there
at the phone. Man, best friendship. That's communication love. It's crazy.

(15:03):
But now I understand though you were in trouble, but
you gotta wait two days for help. So now you
got to drive off wherever you're in trouble that you
need to drive off and get get away from you.
You gotta you gotta keep driving to help come to
a solution. Jay, Anthony Brown, you are a legend. Were
love love you. We're gonna We're gonna much love your knowledge. Man,

(15:31):
Thank you. Man. I enjoyed writing, but you in the
writer's room. Man, it was fun every single day. Jay, Man,
I appreciate you. Jay. You've been on radio how long total?
Tom Jordan thirty thirty five? You know because I did.
I did Stevie one this show. Steve won the station
for about seven eight years and then twenty with Tom.

(15:52):
I was fine. Yeah, radio Hall of Famer right there.
Legend on the circuit. Yeah, I'll see you in Juja.
How you anywhere you going. We'll miss you, Jay, Thank you,
Jas all the laugh Anthony Brown Lady, we'll be back

(16:13):
right after this show. Now we'd be back. No, we walked.
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