Wash ya back podcast sitdown with Comedian Godfrey

fillmoe mike of 106.1 kmel ot a chance to sitdown with comedian Godfrey

Episode Transcript

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As Filmo. Mike from one Osix point one came Yale. We're in
the billing right now with Godfrey.Who would be at the San Jose Improv
this Friday and Saturday night March eighthand March ninth. Godfrey, Man,
what's up, brother? How youdoing? What's up? I'm good,
I'm good. You know, I'msaying looking forward to coming to Santos.

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They haven't been there about I thinkthree four years. I usually I've been
going there for a few years.But after COVID, I guess, you
know, they've been regrouping, andI guess they're back to doing their thing.
You know, yeah, exactly,exactly. Man, it's been a
while man. Like I said before, I'm a huge fan of yours,
man, and like you said,you've been coming here for a while.

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Now. What's your what's your favoritecity to party in? Within the I
mean, you know, to performat within the Bear because San Jose has
its own style, you know,Frisco has its own style, and of
course Oakland has its own style aswell. So what's your favorite area to
perform in? If you don't mindme accent, uh, I like to
I think Cobbs Cobs in San Francisco'sone of my favorite places. You know,

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But I uh, San Jose wasfun, you know until COVID,
But yeah, San Francis. Cobbsin San Francisco is a really good club.
I never do Oakland because I don'tthink Oakland has a comedy club.
But I like, I like hangingout. I go to party in Oakland.
Got you got you? What's yeah? I know what you're saying,

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man, for real, for real, I'll see you. Was you god?
For you was going off? Iseen you on the vlat TV and
you was going off on white people. Man, you like a forbitten ring.
I mean, it depends on whatthe subject is. I go off
on whatever, you know, itreally depends that. Sometimes people say you
go up on white people. Isaid, I just don't go off on

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white people for no reason. Imean, first of all, I don't
hate. My friends are from everywalk of life. But if it's a
specific thing they're talking about, ifit's racism and it's a specific thing,
I will address it. I'm notdoesn't mean I'm going yeah, white people
are no good. No, Idon't do that. It's like if a
certain incident happened, and it happenedto be the black white situation. I

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will address it. It could bean Asian person being right, I will
address it. You know, I'msensible in my rants. I'm sensible for
what I talk about. I don'tjust I'm not just some angry black dudes
just to know white people. There'swhite people that I just call out what
I see. That's all. Definitelyyou definitely don't discriminate, man. Like
I said, it's film of lifeone cam Yale. We got Godfrey,

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the legendary comedian in a billing.Can I ask you a question? Did
you feel left out when you wasn'twhen Cat Williams didn't mention you in the
beginning of the year. No,not at all, man, I need
to think of it like that.Maybe some other comedians felt left out,
but because you know, Kat brokeinternet records with clubs, but not still

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left out. I was just entertained, and I'm like, is some of
this fake or real? I justthought it was kind of entertaining because Cat's
very entertaining and he's always an interestingperson, you know. I like his
comedy and he shook up he sohe just shook up twenty twenty four.
Man, he put his scattering andchecking himself man, for real. I

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just liked that he had people checkingthemselves, checking like, oh, he
was a lot of stuff It wastrue. A lot of stuff maybe was
false and a little exaggerated, butyou know, it was fun to watch.
Definitely fun to watch. Man.It definitely have people checking themselves trying
to get their things in order.For sure. Are you critical of comedians?

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If a comedian asked you, like, man, what's you think of
my comedy? Would you be like, Man, you suck. I mean,
if they asked me a question,you know out you know, I
can dispress my opinion. But there'syou know, there's anybody that's into the
who's been in the game for along time. It's gonna critique people who
come into it. You're gonna critiqueit all the time. I critique myself,

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you know what I'm saying. Soyeah, it's like, yeah,
you do. That's normal. Likebasketball players talk smack to basketball players.
You know, musicians talk smack toother musicians. Say oh, he can't
play guitar. You don't even knowhow to play guitar. It's the same
thing. There's a lot of Ialways feel there's a lot of bombs in
comedy. You know, there's alot of people who got specials that shouldn't

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be happening, specials that ignore realmen. The men and women that have
the skills and the funny and theyou know and the stage time are not
getting specials. And I critique thatsometimes, you know, it's just normal
to do that, you know whatI'm saying, right right? Definitely,
yeah, real quick, do youhave any like bay Area ties or connection

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with the history besides just performing outhere? No? Not really, just
my connection to Bay Area was justforerformance. That's got you. Okay,
you don't have family out here oranything like that, and help me.
I'm sorry about that, as Ididn't hear in my background you can't repeat

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that. I'm sorry. Oh,comedy has brought me to the Bay Area.
Comedy has brought me all around Americaand overseas. That's comedy, you
know. So yeah, my tieshave been from performing and then meeting people,
connecting with people and showing up,you know, going past ten years
coming to the Bay Area. Somy connection comes from performance, you know,

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and making friends from that. Definitely. One of my favorite movies and
I didn't even know I liked itat the time. You probably know where
I'm going with soul playing. Likewhen I first hit I'm like, what
the hell is this? But thenas I started to watch it, I
started to love soul play being reallyfunny. Huh, so the thing is

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really funny. It's just if youtake it seriously, you're you're stupid,
right, because it's just a comedy. It's a spoof, that's all it
is. You know. I enjoyedfilming with Snoop Doggs. That was I
had a lot of fun. Andit's just a It's just a spoof,
man, that's it. Yeah,just a comedy, and people really enjoy
it now they really look back andgo, this was really funny. I

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like, yeah, you know,that's all it is, is a comedy,
man, right, that's it.You know, you get high or
whatever you want to do with yourfriends and watch it, laugh and go
go to bed, you know,right, speaking again, high You don't
get high, Godfrey, do you? When you come to the bad You
know, we got some of thebest. Nah. I don't really,
I don't really do any of that, nah man. I tried that just

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nah, it ain't mean man,I don't really. You know what I'm
saying. I don't. I don'tenjoy coughing for no reason. You know.
If I'm a cough let it bebecause I'm sick and I earned it.
I'm just not gonna force one.I got you, I got you.
You know what I'm saying. Idon't. I don't need forced bronchi
or for bro right you. Ifit's go happen, let it happen like

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this healthy and nothing happening. Idon't need nothing for us. Man,
you you you you speaking of health. You are Hella healthy, my brother.
We say hell in the bad.If you don't know you are a
Hella healthy. I know. Iheard a Hella Hella is old suit.
Okay for sure, some people don'tknow. I have to just do a
ghetto hella hell of yeah, ofcourse. It's like saying in New York

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you say, man, yo,that's crazy, dope, Yes, you
dumb healthy right now? Yeah?Yeah man, yeah no. I try
my best to be as healthy asI can. I ain't perfect, but
I would say eighty twenty like.I try to eat clean and I take
supplements. I'm in the gym.You know, I've been doing that for
years. Man, Man, Iseen that, bro, you used to

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be a football player. I didn'tknow that I was at football. I
did football back or baseball, youknow, saying track and field in high
school. Yeah, man, youknow, yeah, because I was reading,
you know, I was I wastrying to just prep. I know,
I know a lot about you asI read somewhere you uh was in

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Nebraska and you moved to Chicago.But I didn't know that you was in
the sport there. Yeah. Youwas born in Nebraska, right, Yeah,
and my parents right away moved toChicago. Yeah, got you.
You got a bout of there.He wasn't trying to be Uh. It
was that Malcolm xroom Nebraska, baby, I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know Nebraska. I wasa baby. I don't know.

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Yeah, but you know Gabrielle Unionfrom Nebraska and Malcolm X right, I
was gonna say, one of thegreatest brothers of all time, Malcolm Becks
is from there. Yeah. Uh. Do you listen to any Bay Area
artists or or half in the past, like Tony to I know you,
I know you a baby O Gtriple O G God for you might listened

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to Tony, Tony, Tony,I don't know, some old school accident
the underground, surety. I sawtwenty twenty twenty on the Oprah Winfrey Show
in Chicago. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, can you ask question?

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Was dope? Who was up?Real quick? I'm sorry, I got
I got a bad connection over here, Godfrey. So that's why I'm sometimes
like I can't hear I can't hearyou sometimes, but it's working for the
most part. Could you, Iknow you do a lot of impressions and
stuff like that. Could you doit E forty impression for the Bay Area
one time? No, I can't. That's all good. I love it.

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I love he has that like boy, yeah, look that was a
wrap style. Man, you're gonnahave to work. Oh you're gonna have
to work on an E forty anda too short but too short to be
just easy. All you got todo is say his favorite word, too
short but too short. I grewup on too short and too short.
He started that whole Ah. Yes, that was his, that was his.

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Yeah, these are the free theseare the tails, the freaky tales,
you know, the tales that Itell so well. Boom boom boom,
boom. Yeah, I'm a twoshort fan. I've been listening too
shorts since college. Man, Comeon, then that's what's up. Man.
We sitting here with the legendary mybag go ahead, No, you

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go ahead, Okay, thank you, thanking my fall, my fault.
We sit here with the legendary thecomedian Godfrey. Uh. Let the people
know what they're gonna be seeing.Uh this Friday and Saturday. Now you
got two shows or four shows?I got? Well, I got two
shows on Friday and two shows onSaturday. I'm just gonna see me at
my rare form and uh, whoknows what I'm going to talk about.

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I usually never do the same exactset. Every show is pretty different.
You might hear some stuff the same, but stuff some stuff, but it's
never the same, you know whatI mean. But I just talk about
what's relevant. I talk about whatI feel and I like that. Uh
sometimes I surprise myself. So whatall I know is I'm funny is all

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hell? Yes, I'm a realcomedian. This is all all American grade,
A dope comedy period Like I don'tI don't play games. I'm the
real deal, And you know whatI mean? I tell people who are
gonna listen to you're gonna listen tofunny just show up like for real,
Like this is not Instagram made,none of that. This is you know

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what I'm saying. This is rightnow, legitimate, straight up stand up
and I'm gonna smash it. Soit would be whove you all to show
up for real like that. Andthey've shown up for me like they've shown
up for me at San Jose,you know, because it's been a minute.
It took a minute to build.But and then the demographic is heavily

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Asian and Mexican and blah blah blah, and you know, but it would
be nice for the African American folksto bum rush everybody bum rush that place.
Definitely go see funny people, man, man, for real, I'm
saying, do you consider yourself?You can check my videos, yo,
you are hilarious. Check them outthis Friday and Saturday night San Jose Improv.

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It's gonna be lit. God,we're gonna be in the billy Man.
Go ahead, brother, go toSan Jose Improv. Go to the
website, buy tickets San Jose Improv. Buy the tickets and it's in a
couple of days, so it wouldbe who for you to come through?
How many people are listening to thisinterview? But I listen to this interview.

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Thousands of people, thousands of peoplein the billings gotfree. We in
the billions. Baby, that's what'sup. Because, uh, you know,
people have seen my stuff, theSteve Harvey thing, the Shannon Sharp
thing. I've done, all ofthat, I've done. You know what
I mean? People, even SteveHarvey can't stand because I was I've been

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doing so many impersonations of him.You know what I'm saying, Oh my
god, for real? You doit? You do it excellent, bro.
I was. I was sitting thereone night one night on Instagram scrolling
through and you have me rolling.I couldn't even go back to sleep.
Dude, I did this. Maybeit was the response to Cat Williams.
I was like, I'm gonna tellyou this right now, Chat william I'm

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about to beat your ass. Youdoing Hella good because he because he do
his little like his w's he kindof like like you here, like why,
well, well, I don't knowwhere, I don't know why.
I'm gonna beat your ass. Boy? What what people out wellig was fake

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that was a fake. That's hilarious. Man. We got god for you
to Billy real quick before you leave. What's the greatest part about being comedian?
God for because my friend was saying, Meryl, uh you He was
like, Bro, I'm the director, I'm the producer, I'm the writer,
I'm everything. What's the greatest thingto you about being a comedian?

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Uh? Freedom of speech, freedomof creativity, freedom of speaking for people
who don't get to talk, andthey can live vicariously through you. You
know what I'm saying. Being ableto express yourself and whether people love you
or like it or not, itis what it is, you know,
you know what I mean. There'sno hr the report, no, but

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that's it's the freedom to create andtalk about the ills of the world,
you know, the good and thebad, and just to be an artist.
That's the beautiful thing to see.To to see your words affect people
affect people to laughter is amazing,amazing. It's like a superpower. Dog.
I bet you are. You oneof the most powerful people out there

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with a kind of making people laugh. My g oh, before you go,
I got this saying. I gotthe saying before you go. This
is this is the last thing beforeyou go, because Pete gotta go.
Before you leave, let me know, I have a question. I asked
everybody and I have a saying.It's called wash your back, so you
know you gotta wash it back.People messing up like broa wash your back?
Bro you tripping? Did you washyour back today? Me? Wash

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w ah? You gotta scrub thatbad boy. People don't be washing their
backs. Godfrey, did you washyour back today? Of course? Man?
Oh wait, oh wait show yes, always washed the back man.
Keep the dirt off you, son, what show I got? You appreciate

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that scrubber man? Definitely let themknow Godfrey real quick before we get you
out of here.