November 21, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My clothesing remarks.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I was kind of talking about this the other day,
about how social media and internet doesn't promote positivity the
way they do negativity. You want to go viral, man,
make a mistake, you finna go viral, Do something for mankind,
helpful of other people.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Nobody want to hear that. They act like they don't care.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So what I wanted to say to everybody out there was,
let's be a part of the change. Let's everybody that's
listening listening actively participate in changing the way we do this.
Start celebrating people, Start calling up people telling them you
love them, to tell them congratulations, to cheer for to
(00:44):
genuinely ask them how they doing and if you can
help them with how they're doing. Be a real friend
and do it. Be a courageous person and do it.
Let's change, let's be let's be an agent of change.
Let's do that. Man, We can start with ourself. It
don't cost you nothing to be kind, It don't cost
(01:07):
you nothing to do the right thing over the bad thing.
It's okay to post positivity on your site. Man, one time,
it really really ticked me off because you don't have
a social media team and one of the team members
had put us something on Facebook that says, name a
comedian that you don't think is funny and why? And
(01:32):
I was just going through my day and one of
my kids called me and said, Dad, that don't sound
like you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What's happening. I said, what they said on your site.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You're proposing a question to name a comedian that you
don't think is funny and why? I said, I never
said that. She said, Dad, it's on your site. I
called a person up.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To run my site. Man, I talked to him, so cleary,
I say, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Don't do that. Comedy is already hard enough. It's a
hard business. What you don't need is somebody like myself
who has had a measure of success at it, and
then on here listing who who ain't funny and why? Man,
you can catch anybody. Every Let me tell you something
about comedy. Everybody had a bad night. Well, let me
(02:21):
tell you something. All of us then had a bad
night where it didn't go that way. And if you
just happened to be there that night mad and then
somebody here just blowing that up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'll give you a true story about me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The first night of the Kings of Comedy did not
go well for me. The very first night. It was
in Charlotte, and it just didn't go well for various reasons.
My mom had passed and my HBO special had came
out that Tuesday. Well, we perform in that Saturday, I believe,
So Tuesday the special came out, I was in such
(02:59):
a mental state after my mom had passed that I
didn't even see it. So the Kings of Comedy came out.
None of us knew what The Kings of Comedy was
gonna be, so we just went to Charlotte. We didn't
know it was gonna be sold out. We didn't know
that they was gonna fill up this arena. We didn't
even know that The Kings of Comedy was gonna work.
(03:22):
So I did the set that I had done all
year long, because I hadn't done it in Charlotte, I
did my set that aired on HBO that Tuesday. Everybody
saw that set. People's hell, no do some new jokes.
(03:43):
We heard that already, because you know comedy, you can't
repeat comedy. You can repeat the song, but not coming.
So that first night I had a bad night. One
of the comedians that has a radio show locally in Charlotte,
some dude named asks Him or something like that. I
was on the airport leaving going to Kansas City the
next night. Man, he was on the radio and he
(04:05):
was just dogging me. I'm talking about Man. This dude
was he don't deserve to be a king. I don't
know where this tour come from, how they calling themselves
the Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But he was horrible. He didn't have a good show
at all. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I stayed up all night that night because that really
bothered me. And then I realized that I had repeated
the jokes for my special. So I stayed up all
night all day. When we got to Kansas City. We
was performing the next night in Kansas City, I wrote
a brand new show. Not that I had to write
them all. It's just jokes that I didn't use before.
(04:38):
There wasn't on a special. I just put them together
and came up with a new set. Next night, I
got a standing ovation. The Kings of Comedy was born,
and we had sold out two shows, and little we
know how great the Kings of Comedy was gonna be.
But this one dude saw me one time. Man, he
tried to destroy me and it's just crazy, man, how
(05:00):
great the Kings were? Where was all that at? But
that was no social media back then either, So we
was just we was blowing up because we.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Was just them. The Kings was really just.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Them, and we got a lot of credit for a
long time after that and we started blowing up. But
now as you look at it, man, people who did
work didn't live in the King era. They done forgot
about it. They don't even talk about us the right way. Sometimes,
who was them old dudes on there with them old jokes.
(05:36):
I'll just be looking at people sometimes. Let's be an
agent of change. Let's start talking about people in a
positive way. Let me start by saying congratulations to my
cast members Shirley Strawberry, Calin for Real, Junior Nephew, Tommy
Mississippi Monica. Thank y'all for all the hard work y'all
put into this show. I know it's called the Steve
(05:59):
Harvey Morning Show, but it wouldn't be nothing without y'all.
I can't do this show by myself, four hours of
just me, man, come.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
On, thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Appreciate y'all doing it. I try, though it ain't gonna work,
especially in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Why I ain't doing it?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Y'all have a great day today, talk about it. For
all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary, void were prohibited.
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com.
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
My clothesing remarks.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I was kind of talking about this the other day,
about how social media and internet doesn't promote positivity the
way they do negativity. You want to go viral, man,
make a mistake, you finna go viral, Do something for mankind,
helpful of other people.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Nobody want to hear that. They act like they don't care.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So what I wanted to say to everybody out there was,
let's be a part of the change. Let's everybody that's
listening listening actively participate in changing the way we do this.
Start celebrating people, Start calling up people telling them you
love them, to tell them congratulations, to cheer for to
(00:44):
genuinely ask them how they doing and if you can
help them with how they're doing. Be a real friend
and do it. Be a courageous person and do it.
Let's change, let's be let's be an agent of change.
Let's do that. Man, We can start with ourself. It
don't cost you nothing to be kind, It don't cost
(01:07):
you nothing to do the right thing over the bad thing.
It's okay to post positivity on your site. Man, one time,
it really really ticked me off because you don't have
a social media team and one of the team members
had put us something on Facebook that says, name a
comedian that you don't think is funny and why? And
(01:32):
I was just going through my day and one of
my kids called me and said, Dad, that don't sound
like you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What's happening. I said, what they said on your site.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You're proposing a question to name a comedian that you
don't think is funny and why? I said, I never
said that. She said, Dad, it's on your site. I
called a person up.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
To run my site. Man, I talked to him, so cleary,
I say, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Don't do that. Comedy is already hard enough. It's a
hard business. What you don't need is somebody like myself
who has had a measure of success at it, and
then on here listing who who ain't funny and why? Man,
you can catch anybody. Every Let me tell you something
about comedy. Everybody had a bad night. Well, let me
(02:21):
tell you something. All of us then had a bad
night where it didn't go that way. And if you
just happened to be there that night mad and then
somebody here just blowing that up.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I'll give you a true story about me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The first night of the Kings of Comedy did not
go well for me. The very first night. It was
in Charlotte, and it just didn't go well for various reasons.
My mom had passed and my HBO special had came
out that Tuesday. Well, we perform in that Saturday, I believe,
So Tuesday the special came out, I was in such
(02:59):
a mental state after my mom had passed that I
didn't even see it. So the Kings of Comedy came out.
None of us knew what The Kings of Comedy was
gonna be, so we just went to Charlotte. We didn't
know it was gonna be sold out. We didn't know
that they was gonna fill up this arena. We didn't
even know that The Kings of Comedy was gonna work.
(03:22):
So I did the set that I had done all
year long, because I hadn't done it in Charlotte, I
did my set that aired on HBO that Tuesday. Everybody
saw that set. People's hell, no do some new jokes.
(03:43):
We heard that already, because you know comedy, you can't
repeat comedy. You can repeat the song, but not coming.
So that first night I had a bad night. One
of the comedians that has a radio show locally in Charlotte,
some dude named asks Him or something like that. I
was on the airport leaving going to Kansas City the
next night. Man, he was on the radio and he
(04:05):
was just dogging me. I'm talking about Man. This dude
was he don't deserve to be a king. I don't
know where this tour come from, how they calling themselves
the Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But he was horrible. He didn't have a good show
at all. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I stayed up all night that night because that really
bothered me. And then I realized that I had repeated
the jokes for my special. So I stayed up all
night all day. When we got to Kansas City. We
was performing the next night in Kansas City, I wrote
a brand new show. Not that I had to write
them all. It's just jokes that I didn't use before.
(04:38):
There wasn't on a special. I just put them together
and came up with a new set. Next night, I
got a standing ovation. The Kings of Comedy was born,
and we had sold out two shows, and little we
know how great the Kings of Comedy was gonna be.
But this one dude saw me one time. Man, he
tried to destroy me and it's just crazy, man, how
(05:00):
great the Kings were? Where was all that at? But
that was no social media back then either, So we
was just we was blowing up because we.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Was just them. The Kings was really just.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Them, and we got a lot of credit for a
long time after that and we started blowing up. But
now as you look at it, man, people who did
work didn't live in the King era. They done forgot
about it. They don't even talk about us the right way. Sometimes,
who was them old dudes on there with them old jokes.
(05:36):
I'll just be looking at people sometimes. Let's be an
agent of change. Let's start talking about people in a
positive way. Let me start by saying congratulations to my
cast members Shirley Strawberry, Calin for Real, Junior Nephew, Tommy
Mississippi Monica. Thank y'all for all the hard work y'all
put into this show. I know it's called the Steve
(05:59):
Harvey Morning Show, but it wouldn't be nothing without y'all.
I can't do this show by myself, four hours of
just me, man, come.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
On, thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Appreciate y'all doing it. I try, though it ain't gonna work,
especially in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Why I ain't doing it?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Y'all have a great day today, talk about it. For
all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary, void were prohibited.
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com.
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
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