August 27, 2025 • 57 mins
A God fearing mother, grandtee, comedienne, actress, philanthropist, businesswoman, publisher of the first nationally distributed comedy magazine called Comedy The Magazine, on air radio personality, and founder/CEO of The Comics Rock convention, Hope has been in the business for over 29 years and has produced weekly showcases that helped launch the careers of many successful comedians from Jamie Foxx to Chris Tucker. This isn’t your average interview—it’s Brutally Honest. đź”” New episodes drop weekly! Subscribe for more unfiltered conversations that go beyond the headlines. đź“ŤFollow Torrei Hart on Instagram: @torreihart
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jamie Fox. Fuck Jamie Fox. Now I didn't tell it. Wait, hu,
I did not tell this story.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You fucked Jamie five. Why can't women get along in
this industry?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Women have never gotten along since the beginning of time.
I think we're friends, but you know, every time I
see Mommy, she always gives me her aster kiss.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So what do you mean, like, what does she do
very shady with me? Really aroundtown? Like he to what's up, y'all,
there's your girl, Tory Hart and I am here with
another episode of Brutally Honest, coming live from Los Angeles, California,
and my guest tonight is one of the most funniest
(00:39):
women I know. We actually just got finished having a
road session with bocapone from All Death Digitals. Roast me
these niggas. Listen, y'all gonna see them behind the scenes, Okay,
But right now, in this moment is for my girl.
She is an amazing comedian, very funny, the creator of
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Common Makes Rock, and in my opinion, one of the
most underrated funny women in the game. So I need
y'all to tune in right now and get ready for
this interview with the very hilarious Hope flood. Hi, thank
you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thank you for having me. I'm honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, thank you for coming, my girl for you, even though.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm sleepy as hell. You know, no, you're not. At
this time, I didn't listen.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I can't tell because the way you and bukapone just
went back and forth, lagging on each other. Yeah, okay,
I would have never known you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We s after I masturbated, smoke a blunt, I'm out sleep,
pat you master bait, and smoke a blood.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, listen, I'm wait a minute. Okay, masturbate, smoke a
blood and eat.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It edible and go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wait, why are you smoking the blood and eating an
edible masturbating all these motherfuck it take that much to
put you to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, because my mind is always going. I'm always creating
and thinking of things, and God always gives me amazing ideas,
and I feel like I have to do them right
when I get them. Okay, a lot of times it's
not right then, but I just have to run it.
And so I'm always up. I get up at like five,
six o'clock in the morning. I get up at three
because that's the time I pray at three from three
discusions when it's quiet, and I pray.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, you pray for three hours, no, no, for about
an hour okay hour? Okay, So you're waking up at
three am.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and then I go.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Back to sleep and God tells you wake up at three? Okay?
And then what are you praying for when you wake
up at three?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I pray for my son, okay, my grandkids. I pray
for peace of mind. I pray for you know, world peace,
and my career and basically that's it, just my family,
health and wealth, things like that, my health. I'm older now, so.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You do that every day at three oh three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just started about.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Because I was gonna say, oh, okay, because you know
what you're You're hilarious, but I don't feel like you're
big enough. And that's just my I was gonna say,
how long you've been praying?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, this prayer, I've just been praying. But I've been
a Christian a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, you to christ a Lord? Maybe yeah, maybe Lord, Rick.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I might get the wrong thing because I don't know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, are okay, but tell me who is whole flood?
Let the world know because you know, I know who
this amazing woman is. She's actually let me. Can I
just say what you've done for me?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know? You hired me several times and there was
a lot of haters out there that was like why
you hire entry? And then you know what I mean?
And yeah, you know, but you hire me to host
Comics Rock number one, which is what you created. You
took me to Vegas with you, that's not do you remember? Yes, yes,
(04:08):
and we've been on several shows together. But let the
world know who Hope Flood is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Okay, Hope Memu Flood. That's my middle name. And you
mem you after a famous actress e Vetman, a famous
white actress named Vetman. You. Okay, So I guess they
knew I was gonna be in a business or whatever.
So that's that. But I am a mother, I am
a grandmother, okay. I am a comedian. I am an entrepreneur.
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I am a healer through my cannabis business, come people
through cannabis. I'm a designer. I designed hats. This is
one of my hat I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Got you on too, boy, I made I have for
you today.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's see what else I am. I'm I'm a friend.
I'm a ride of DoD Chick, you know. So I'm
a lot, I'm every woman basically, you know. And well
it's all letting me. When Chaka made that song, I said, Chocolate,
you made that song for me. I'm a producer.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What have you produced? Is this something that I would know?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well? Yeah, the Comic Squat Convention, so okay. Basically it
started off as the Females in Comedy Convention, and I
did it for about two and a half years with
just women because I felt like, we have a group
on Facebook called Females in Comedy Association. It's about three
thousand girls in our group comedians, and I just felt
that I wanted to start a conversation on why we
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haven't had a female comedian black to have a sitcom
in their name in a long time, since nineteen ninety
two with thee of a Dog on a major network.
And so I went to start a conversation about it,
and then I birthed of the Females in Comedy Convention
and I did that for two years. And I wanted
to bring females together because I felt like we were
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so behind the men and everything. You know, these men
are out here they're doing it. But we don't have
our female Kevin Hart. We don't have our female Dave Chappelle.
We don't have a female that's selling out arenas and
things like like those guys are doing. And so I
wanted to talk about that, and so I got together
for workshops and seminars, and then the women got so caddy.
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Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just so maybe that's the reason why we don't
have it, because you know, it's like the women, for
whatever reason, cannot get.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Along, cannot get along. And I saw that firsthand.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And why can't Why can't women get along in this industry?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Women have never gotten along since the beginning of time.
Who you get along with? You think you get along
with them and stuff because you're pleasant and you're nice
to them. You don't know what they talk about behind you.
Well I don't care what they say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But okay, time out, because we got people coughing in
the background and talking.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Guys, come on, falk you finger productions.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Get it together. She's talking all right, if you have
to cough leaf Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
See now she would be considered a bitch.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, I'm not being a bitch.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know you're not booked but that it will come
across as you being a bitch. But people that And
this is what happens to me when I go in
and I'm producing something, or even when I just go
into a room. I am a thirty five year veteran comedian. Yeah,
so I know what I'm doing. So when I walk
into a room and I see that the lighting is
messed up or the microphone is not right, or the
reverb or the seating ain't right, all I'm trying to
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do is help us win. And people look at it
as oh, here, come hold trying to take over. I'm
not trying to take over, because one thing about comedy
is very different than any other genre of entertainment. You
can listen to music all day, and you can go
to a movie and watch a movie, but comedy is
very intimate. So if the microphone is messed up, if
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you don't hear the setup, you're not gonna get the
punchline exactly. And then we need to be able to
hear the laughter so we can keep going. We feed
off the laughter. So, you know, being a boss and
trying to run stuff, you know, when you say something
to somebody and because you want it right, this is
your brand. This is your thing, because at the end
of the day, if it don't go right, nobody's gonna
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blame nobody but fucking Tory Hart.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And here's the thing. And what I've noticed too is
is almost like people give more respect to men all
the time, and at the end of the day, it's
always women percent of the time that are behind these men,
behind the men, behind the men.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, I travel all over the road doing comedy,
and I think that if we had the support the
men had. Yeah, you know, you know, we have kids
and stuff and we can't go but so long. You know,
I have my son at nineteen years old. I started
comedy at twenty five, and being violated in my family,
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I just couldn't leave my baby anywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now, when you say violating, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
My family and stuff. And so when you've been violated,
you know you are very guarded. You know, Like my son,
he would want to go to somebody house, you know,
to spend the night over his friend's house, and I'll
be like, I need to go over here. I need
to see who lives here. I need to see if
there's a pedophile on the porch or crackhead cousin. I
need to see who's all over here, you know, because
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I don't want that to happen to him, because that's
my job is to protect him till the day die.
Well now, but still it's my job to protect my son,
you know, And so that's what I do. So's it's
a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So dad in his life, his dad died, but he.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Was he was my childhood sweetheart, you know. And we
lost each other, found each other, lost each other, found
each other, and when we found each other the last
time we had a love child. But he was always
in and out of jail on drugs.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know, I like a thug and and well it's
so like you like ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I didn't know he was doing all that. He stayed
away from us, he said, he never wanted me to
see him that way. Oh, so he stayed away from
us most of the time. But I always allowed my
son to have a relationship with him, you know, even
when he was in jail. I would send him to
the jail and let him see his dad, you know,
And because I wanted him to see what not to
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be and what not to do. And his dad felt
the same way. You know. He's like I didn't done
enough time for all of y'all. I didn't done enough
drugs for all of y'all. If y'all want to know
something about it, just ask me, you know. And so
with that being said, you know, it's just been harder
for us as women because kids fear abandoned me. So
I could go about ten days on the road and
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then my son would start acting up in school and
I would have to come home right and see about
him and make sure he know, Mommy coming home, Mommy's here,
Mommy's there. And he understood, you know, what I was doing,
But he was still a child, yeah, and he still
wanted his mom, you know. And so there was a
lot of things I could not do, you know, because
I couldn't leave him. I didn't really have the support
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I think I needed from my family, my mom. You know,
I look back on it now. My mom is gone.
She died at fifty six. But I look back in
nineteen eighty nine, I said, Mama, I'm gonna be a comedian.
My mama was like, what the hell is that? She
didn't even know what it was because there was no
females on TV at that time doing comedy, So she
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didn't understand what that was. She said, if you don't
get your ass down to this hospital and learn this
medical stuff so you can get a job. And I'm like, Mama,
I'm telling you, I'm gonna be a comedian. I'm gonna
be a comedian. And I couldn't understand. Now that I
look back at that, I had a baby, and I'm
gonna be a comedian and I'm gonna tell jokes, I
can understand why she was just like, what is that?
Because and then a lot of times we instill our
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fears on our children, right, you know, But I'm not
like that with my son. He can kick cans down Crenshaw.
I'm right there, baby, kick.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Them cabs the biggest as.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know. And he's a he's an amazing rapper. And
one day told me he was going to give up
and not wrapped on one. I told him, don't you
have a give up up on your dream. You know,
you may not be jay Z, but you can get there.
You could be good at it. You can make a
living off of it. And so I keep him inspired
by me still doing what I do, you know, and
never giving up and never going to give up on
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what I'm what I'm doing, you know, And so he
sees that and that's I'm his inspiration. He's mine, you know.
And so you know, with just having a kid in
trying to navigate through this business. You know, I knew
early I wanted to do this business. That's why I
never had no more kids. And I used to take
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him to the comedy show so he knew all the
comedians and stuff. I'd be like, watch my baby, Well,
I go do my set. I need this fifty dollars
to pay the gas bill or a babysitter, because that's
how much I love this thing. So I had to
sit my mother down one day after I want a
one hour special on Comic View, and I said, mom,
I have really found my thing that I love to do,
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and I'm good at it, and you should be happy
for me, because some people go through their whole life
with a job that they hate, and I have found
my thing. And then when I started paying all her
bills and stuff, She's like, you might really do something
with this thing, and I say, yes, I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well started paying.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I started paying the bills, and she saw I was
staying with it because I would get involved in things
and I would quit and she hated that. She's like,
you never finished stuff, I said, because I got in
it to see if I like it, and I didn't
like it for a week. But she was trying to
teach me how to finish stuff. And I was just like,
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I couldn't get that. I was so rebellious. My mother
was a very disciplined woman. I'm the black sheep of
my family. And my brother very disciplined. He did everything
my mother said. I never did. Not then that my
mother said, I got suspended every grade since fifth grade?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, like me?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, but I was. I was a bulliant school because
I was being neglected at home. Mom worked two jobs
all the time, and my grandmother raised me. Basically, I'm
from Bitton Harbor, Michigan, Okay, and so Benton Harbor, sid
Bad is from there. Okay, We're like family.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's the pastor, because ain't nobody from Bitton Harbor, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
From Briton Harbor is from Bitton Harbor, Michigan. Bobo Brazil,
he's a a fas a famous wrestler. Girl.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Don't nobody know who Bobo Brazil is? Do y'all know
who Bobo RAZI.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Is he does. Yeah, the camera you know who?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, you from Betton Harbor to because don't nobody you
much just like wrestling, because don't nobody know who Bitton Harbor,
I mean Bitton the Harbor.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what we call it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Shout out to the Harbor, Bobo Brazil.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So, but I'm from Benton Harbor, Michigan. And my mother
when I was born, my mother cut a lady at
the bar at about six months and she had to
lead tew. My great grandfather put her on the bus
to California, and so she came here and left me
with my grandmother. So my grandmother raised us. And then
one day my mother came back when I was about
six and kidnapped us, my brother and I and that's
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how i got to California, Okay, And so I've been
here ever since, and it's been I have a love
hate for la I love it and hated it at
the same time. I love the weather and the sunshine
and the hustle in the bustle, but I don't like
the crowdedness it has gotten. I don't like that everybody's rude.
(15:24):
You know, I didn't even know that we were rude.
Until I moved to the South and I was like,
people are really genuinely can be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But you know, the South is starting to get rude
too because people from LA moving down there, La and New.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
York because I'm moving down there, Okay, that's what. It
ain't them, it ain't.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But maybe it ain't the people from LA because when
I first moved to LA, everybody was nice. I mean,
I w Yeah, a lot of people that I'm cool
with and that I first met from LA that was
born and raised here are really good people. But most
of the people that you're talking about is maybe because
people migrated by LA.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Possibly possibly, And like I can do New York for
ten days and I got to get the hell away
from New York.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, you know, well they just don't know what the
fuck's going on. They just, you know, they just like
if I don't walk fast, ain't nothing happening. They just
gotta walk fast.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Everywhere, you know. And so you know, with that being said,
I grew up here, I went to high school here.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
La? Hi, Roman's in the house. I'm Roman La High Romans.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's right in this area. Yeah, it's the oldest. It's
the oldest high school of the city. Okay, uh huh,
Room two twenty two. Back in the day, remember Room
twenty two with Denise Nichols. Were you born? You weren't
even know I wasn't I'm not myself. I just told
y'all how old I was now yet, But anyway, they
filmed it at our high school. Okay, yeah, so yeah,
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and so you know, I knew I wanted to be
in entertainment since I was five, you know, So either
that I want to be a lawyer as well, i'd
have been a cold lawyer.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Okay, don't layd So yeah, yeah, okay, but you know what,
and here's what when you just said I age myself,
that's another thing that I don't like. Like people are
always for whatever reason, you know, Like it'sn't an honor,
and it is a blessing that you age and that
you grow old. When did it become a curse to
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grow old?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Well, you know, back in the day being in the business,
it used to be because the older you got, the
less roles you got. Who created that, I don't know,
But now you go from the sexy vixen to the auntie. Yeah,
you go from then Aunty to the grand grandma and
then you just continue to work. But that hasn't that
just happened over the last ten fifteen years. Jennifer Lewis,
Felicia Rishad, right, you know, Debbie Allen and all of
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those created that. I think. But in the business, like
if you say how old you are, you told him
it was this, Oh, I am honored to be the
age I am. I'll be fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
My mother died at fifty six years old, right, and so,
and our lives always paralleled each other. So when I
got to fifty six, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
make it. I'm gonna make it, and then I'll be
fifty nine. So I feel like, you know, I had
to realize that my life is not hers and hers
is not mine, right, and that I have to get
over that whole thing. A lot of people feel like that,
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but I don't. I take care of my health. I
stay at the doctor. If I got a hangmail, I'm
at the doctor trying to figure out what it is.
My mother died at fifty six with diabies. My grandmother
died at sixty five with diabetes. They both died in
the house by themselves. And so that's not gonna be
my story that stuff to live for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, no, you first of all, it ain't gonna be
a story because you said you stayed to doctors, right, yeah,
I said the doctor weight loss though, but dude, what
doctors are you staying at? Because you were constantly doing
things to enhance yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
In Oh yeah, my doctor Manriquez and Tiajana.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Your plastic surgery are about said okay, and.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's been about seven years ago. I when I went
to Dallas. I moved to Dallas in two thousand and
four to do.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Radio, okay, And who are you doing radio?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
With? One on five dot seven BJ in the morning.
He was from Charlotte and I would go to the
Comedy Zone in Charlotte every year, right, and so you
have to get up to do radio to promote, you know,
your show. And he was watching me and I didn't
know it, and so we exchanged numbers and he asked
me how to done radio. I said, I've never done
radio before. He said, I think you can really do it,
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and I said okay, And he kept in touch with me,
and then he said he called me one day and
he said, it's happening. Can you come to Dallas? And
that's how I got into radio. And so I moved
there and I got married. I was I dated four
months and got married.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And well you you married somebody in Dallas?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Dallas? Yeah, from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Why oh? Because you thought he was a southern gentleman.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
No, he was a thug and he just he just
chased me. He called me to day as a matter
of fact and stuff like, we've been divorced a long time.
But okay, I think I got to be thirty nine,
and I said, God, I don't want my life to
end it. I've never been married.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And so we dated and one day he woke up
and he said, you want to get married? I said, yeah,
for sure, Yeah, fuck it. And I was planning a wedding.
And then one day he came picked me up for
my job. He had on the suit. I was said,
what are you going to court? He said no, we're
going to get married to death. I said huh. He
said yeah, And he had a white my white dress,
and we went down to a courthouse and we got married.
We stayed married five years.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Don't you love that? He made that happen for you,
though I am he's.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
The only I mean, every guy me want to marry me,
but he's the only one that ever went through with.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, because imagine that you lived this whole life and
you've never been married, because it's still let no matter
what women say, right if they're like, yeah, I don't
care if I get married, but you know, it's like
you still want to have somebody propose, and still I
don't want to say that I've been married because it
does put your stock. You know, if you're walking around
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here at fifty nine and you ain't never been married,
and they'd be like, what's wrong with you? You ain't
never been married.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's like men who say, I'm forty years old, I
ain't never had no kids, and I ain't never been married.
I'm like, nobody want to have your baby. Nobody want
to have your baby, And I'm like, that's nothing to
brag about, sir, that nobody wants to have your baby
and you've not been.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Married for But it's not that maybe they maybe they're
sperm didn't work or maybe what do you think that
issue is with men that are.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Over about it because they feel like they hadn't met
the right wand or they dodged a bullet or or
or they're being selective and now they're scrambling. Now they
have to accept whatever because they missed. They missed the boat.
You know, I think do you think that I only
think you get so many soul mats in your whole life. Okay,
I don't think you get a whole slew of soul mate.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So what if they just have a good pullout game. No,
you say, no, hope.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Nobody want to have your baby.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No, but maybe if they just had a good poolo game.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You must have missed health class.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They were you calling me dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, I'm saying the birds and the bees.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I was never absent. I was straight a steward.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was I was can make a baby? Pre come,
can make a baby. Have you ever my girlfriend had
a baby and never had sex.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You believe that that's what she said? You believe, But
that's what I'm saying. You really believe that that's not
your That's just like Mary and Jesus and Joseph. Mary
was Let me shut I'm not trying to get canceled
by the Christians. Never mind, because they're ready to know
that they're not. I'm not. They already want to eat
the lord. No, they already want to cancel me over
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an interview I did, and they said I wasn't sensitive
enough to the plight of the guests that said she
was being abused by a narcissist.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I'm it's like the transgender canceled me in Portland.
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
But why in Portland of all places?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, I didn't know it was a gay friendly city,
and then I didn't know I was working at a
gay club.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, it is definitely a drug city, so you know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Homeless a lot of Yeah, they have almost a bigger
home homeless problem as we have.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh yeah, well, I mean they're all on drugs.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, well it's Portant.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well you're not going to get me canceled.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Look, it's Portland like living in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know they have it's always rainy. They have the
highest suicide Yeah suicide, yes, Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, So you can get canceled for anything, girls,
So don't don't worry about that. Okay, all right, that
helped Dave Chappelle. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I don't know he's Dave Chappelle. Ship I ain't Dave Chapelle.
You know, they barely. They still talk to me like,
I ain't ship, help build ship?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Do ship? You know? So I think I feel I
didn't help them. Okay, this nigga have slept on my
couch was some of the biggest niggas in comedy that
has slept on your couch and slept in your car. Oh,
Tony Roberts, I was in love with Tony. Me and
Tony had a love affair.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You did, did y'alluck?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh? My god? Who's in love? Y'all?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were in love?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
In love with I was in love with him at
least I don't know he was a love So.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He's married to an Asian woman.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right now, and I'd be like, oh, she getting all that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Anyway, Oh he got a good day.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Looked like a fat baby's arm, looks like acting up?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, did you just say you got a fat baby's arm? Okay?
But does he know how to work it? Whoa yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And reverse bring it back. They wrote a song nobody
want to hear It's my back, And I've been a
comedy whore.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think, Wait, how many niggas in the comedy game
have you slept with Oh my god, that that the world.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I would love to get a boy that the world
would know, well, my first one that I that I
also love in the door, he's an Academy Award winner,
Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You slept with my ex husband.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I heard out thinking about that nig like.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I ain't got no fucking oscar.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I'm not talking about him. I'm clowning you. And I
want to say Fox, Jamie Fox, you fuck Jamie? Was
my boo. Now I didn't tell it. Wait, hod I
did not tell this story.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You fucked Jamie Fix.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Before he was famous. This is before he was fixed.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Wait time the funk out? Okay, Sherman st you fucked
Jamie my booth, adon on my booth? Was it good?
Was because I thought Jamie only like white women.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He he likes powerful women. He likes women that are
in power and like he liked the Oprah no whatever.
So and he's from the South, so that that he's
from the South, so he likes shell women, so.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He like Okay, so being brutally honest, okay with the call. Okay,
so you fucked Jamie Fox? What happened? Why didn't like
if he was to see you today, What would he say?
What would he do?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, So when I go to Fox House and I
hadn't seen him in a long time, and I went
to his house a surprise him for his birthday in Decembary.
He's a Sagetarian. Yeah, I know, I know his house
for his birthday. And I was I was standing on
the porch waiting for the guys to park the car,
and so I was waiting to go in, and he
came out, and then he came out and got something
out the car, and he walked back and he said,
(27:00):
hoole flood and he hugged me so tight, so tight,
so tight, and he grabbed my hand and he took
me in there and he introduced me to everybody and
people when we get together, people say, he acts different
around you. He just acts different, happy, just more calm
and more like this is a familiar face, this person.
(27:21):
I really helped Jamie a lot in his career.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
How did you help Jamie Fox?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Because his career, Jamie I had a club in the
nineties called the Townhouse. That's why he groomed comedians from
nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Were you the host of it?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I was the host of it. It was my room,
me and my partners, and we groomed comedians. It was
a training crank camp for comedy. It was the hottest
room in the country. Comics would come early on a
Tuesday whatever they were doing to do the Townhouse. And
so I met him through Speedy. Speedy brought him over
to learn us. Yeah, he brought him over to our scene.
(27:54):
Speedy had a club called at the Cover Girl. It
was called the Cover Girl, but it didn't have a
microposs called it the No Mic Club. And that's where
I met Fox at And so he was so nice
and so sweet, and I got his number and I
called him and I asked him to come over to
do my club and he was like yeah, yeah, yeah,
And that's how he used to come every week. So
we helped groom him and then we put him on
(28:16):
other shows when he didn't have no money. He didn't
him a car, he didn't even have a place to stay.
He was living with people and stuff. So he tells
the story on how instrumental I was in his career
and helping him. You know, we used to.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hang out people that you're fucked.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, he the one told it. Oh, I've never told 'all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So you broke him in in more ways than one.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Ill, But I'm just saying I wasn't like he was
a urgeon or not that I'm sure he had dated
black women before.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't know, because Jamie got dates he does.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
He does.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Jamie Fox dates black women, she does. Who knew Jamie
Fox dates black women? Because you know, I hear so
many black women be like, I like Jamie Fox, but
he don't date us. He don't like us. And I'm like,
and my people they be always expecting me to like
hook me up, which I don't. Fucking I can't just
be like Jamie here, I have a friend, like you know.
(29:12):
I've been to his parties, I've been to his house.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I do all.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
But I can't just call him and be like, day
you come fuck my girlfriend?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, he's a stone colt freak. Now, he's a sagittary.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It's a freak, now, listen, I don't know. I ain't
never fucked Jimmie Fox. Okay, I've never fucked him. I've
been to his house. My kids probably pissed on his
couch before. That's a long story.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's a dude. He's a yeah, big dude, multi talents
that I told him years ago. I said, I said,
you're going to be so fucking famous. You have no
idea how famous you're going to be, how big you're
going to be. He created that Wanda character in My Club,
But it wasn't It wasn't all the wigs, Yeah yeah, yeah,
(29:56):
Living Color. It was basically two ugly girls at the
club ducking and the audience because they didn't want the
comedians to talk about them, the facial thing and everything,
and we laughed, we run people were running out the club.
It was just so funny. Man so that the Townhouse
on a Tuesday night. What year was this, from ninety
(30:18):
to ninety seven. It was right when Robin Harris died.
He was one of the last clubs all played was
our club. You got to witness that I came up
with the greats, Wow, Rodney Winfield, Ronaldo Rey, simply marvelous,
Paul Mooney. I got to be with some of the greats,
(30:40):
and I learned from the greats and respected the greats.
I used to take simply around, you know, because I
was just so happy that she just allowed me to
be in her space. You know, and Rodney Winfield, God
rest his soul. Ronaldo used to sit at the bar
every Tuesday, you know, and we get Hi mo Ed
and he go up and and it was just you
(31:01):
never knew who was coming through that door. Yeah, I
met earthquake. Earthquake followed me around the whole club and everything.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Wait, you said earthquake. Okay, so wait, let me let
me take it back a little bit, because you're you're
saying that you were you know, those were the greats.
But you're one of the greats. Oh, thank you, And
that's why I wanted you on the show. Thank you,
you know, and I keep saying you're one of the
funniest women that I know.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And you've been around for a minute, and I feel
like people need to know because see, in this in
this climate that we're in, it's all about popularity.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
People are forgetting about hard work. People are forgetting about talent. Yes, okay,
people are forgetting about paying dues. You know, if you
just pick up a phone and say I'm a fucking
comedian because I pick up a phone and I shoot
a video that I edit twenty times, that makes me funny. No,
(31:58):
you've edited that video. If you've never been on a
stage and dealt with being in front of people and
being stand up, like really instant, you're not a comedian.
And this is for every and I don't care. I
don't give a fuck. I'm saying everybody, Okay, who picks
up a camera and does their videos and edits them,
(32:23):
you are not a comedian. You're not. Nope, you're not
a comedian until you hit a comedy stage and actually
do the work.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Well, I think that there should be a lane for that.
When that came out during the pandemic, and we never
saw this shit coming, this whole Internet comedians and all
this other stuff, we never saw it coming. So I
just felt like it was gonna go away because true
stand up will always prevent.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Their comedic actors.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Well, no, no, they're not even comedic actors. They're just
doing skits. Comedic actor is somebody like a Tisha Campbell
or to China Arnold.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
But look, she's on it right now too. Sh Campbell
is on the road with Vaness Mitchell and right now
she's on the road doing but Tisha, she's funny, but
she has actually paid her dues. She did it without
picking up a camera on her own and editing. There
was editors who actually had to edit for her. Okay,
(33:21):
but I'm talking about these the younger generation, and you
know what, they're probably gonna like, shut the fuck up, Auntie,
I don't care, you know, And you know they'll be like,
you know, what is she talking about? Like she doesn't
know what she's talking about. Yeah, we're picking up dough.
I'm sorry, don't get mad at us or whatever. But
at the end of the day, they forget sometimes and
not all but some. And I feel like, you know,
(33:48):
if you can stand in front of a live audience
like hope, you're one of the best, okay, and I'm
not just saying females, but because you're funnier than ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Of the male Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, you're very funny. Thank you, You're very very funny.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And like I said, you just don't get the credit
that you deserve.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I think a lot of it too, though, is I
had a kid to raise. And I know that sounds
stupid and cliche, and he's grown and it's that, but
I had.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
A child to raise. It's not just that though.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Whole now and then I helped everybody, and I forgot
to help myself.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But it's not just that, it's just and I've helped
a lot of people too. I've helped a lot of
people and sometimes got to tell you to stop it,
but I'm done. But when you sometimes when you help people,
they forget that you've helped them. Are they they low
key trying.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
To act like or was they really your friend at all? Right?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Or were they just there get what they could get,
you know it?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Because they haven't reached back. So people think that I
don't need anything because they always see me creating stuff
and doing things. And so when I do call people
like you need help, hoping you don't see me all
the stuff y'all doing. You don't see me doing what
y'all doing. So, yes, I do need some help. I've
never had representation, I've never had anybody. I've never had
Michael Caryer and his wife one time girl, and Michael
(35:12):
Carryer was doing that just to take all our gigs.
And so.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'm gonna bring it because Michael, you know, he talked real,
I'm gonna bring everybody in. Yeah, everybody's gonna bring y'all
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Next thing, you know, he in Alaska. Well they say
they gonna bring you next time, they gonna bring me.
And then they go, I'm gonna go and tep it
out and make sure and and that went on and
on and on and after that and just put a
bad taste in my mouth. And I think, because I
know so much about the business and stuff, you gotta
really be on it right. People have asked, you know,
(35:44):
to manage and do some things. And then when I'm
on the ass about it, you get mad, get mad.
You know, A publicists they're really lazy. They're really lazy.
And they think that, oh, just because of who I am,
it's just an easy thing. And I tell them up
front it's not gonna be easy. And you know, I've
had publicists that don't know how to spell. I was
the editor in chief of my high school paper. I
(36:04):
know how to spell, I know grammar, I know this,
I can, I can I can spot a misspelled word
a mile away. And then when I tell them stuff,
they be mad at me.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Do you understand where spirit animals?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Because I listen, I want spelling bees, they tell.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
You Aquila and the bee is about my life.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Listen, Kiky Palmer, that's my story my stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I said, I'm on the collegues people. They just stole
my story. I was the spelling bee champ, right, and
so I have a I have a very.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I got a very.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I can. I looked at a commercial one day. I said,
that word is smith spelled on the commercial because I
can I can you see it? I can see it's
the add in us.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
My therapist said, I don't have a d d oh.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Well, I know, you know, I've never been diagnosed, but
I just assume that's what it is. Now, you don't, Okay,
Maybe it's just maybe autistically perfection Am I just smart?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
What is it? Perfectionist?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You just want sh it done.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Right right, and it's so hard, you know, it's so
hard for women in the industry to get stuff done
right without, as you said earlier, being labeled a bitch
or you right.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, Now, I'll do the casting couch with somebody I
want to be on the couch with. Is that the same?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
No, that's just the fuck.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Okay. Then if it's somebody I want to fuck, it,
ain't it ain't considered casting couch.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
No, But if you've got to get on the couch
with a Harvey Wines. Oh my god, have y'all seen
Harvey winstee? You see what you look like.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Who's a black man in this industry that has tried
to fuck you that you ain't want to fuck?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, most of them are fucked too because I like them.
So is there any I'm never gonna get a husband?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Well you already had one.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh. I love the institution of being married. I love
the whole concept of going out and be like my
man at home. I can go home, my man fucking
say that. You know whatever, I fuck you niggas, I
can go home or what. I love that whole thing.
I loved being married. I just wasn't married to the
right person, but I loved that whole concept. I love
saying that my husband, you know my husband, you know
(38:24):
me and my husband. I love that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But it's just you love saying that. But Joe, I
really love being married. Do you only think your marriage material?
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I'm asking because you're such a free spirit and you're
such a like answer you know, like, yes, you know
you are bubbly, you're you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's what it is with me. I'm gonna tell you
what my problem with me in a lot of time
is I am the butterfly. I'm the butterfly.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What do people want to do with the butterfly in
a jar? Yea for only them to see? Yes, And
that's the problem with men with me. I'm the butterfly.
I'm not going nowhere, baby, I'll be right back. You know,
I'm not a cheater.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Like I've never cheated on anybody ever, You've never cheated.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
If I don't fuck with you no more, don't fuck
with you no more. I wonder if people I just don't,
I don't fuck with you no more. If I don't
like you no more, I just don't.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
So you've never cheat? Who's been in your DM?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Like? Like right now, I got a lot of men
in my team.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I'm talking about famous, famous in my DM.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But you know who I would like to be my DM?
Famous at David Banner? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And why is everybody after David Banner? I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I like him? Why? He's very smart? He's got two
master's degrees, does he yes? He does. He's very woke,
he's from the South, He's how.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Do we know he really got two master degrees because
he said he does well. I mean, I mean, have
you seen his degree?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
No, I'm not gonna go look it up. Where's your
report card? Ain't nobody gonna go look it up?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You just know he could just say it, I got
fucking three master degrees. I'm just saying we could just
everybody lies today. And what's the reason?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You just one of your mass communications and and something else?
Really smart? You have to be really smart to get
what I don't know, literature, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I hope you just like his body. You don't give
a funk about him, like his face, and you like
his body. I like you don't care about his degree?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
No, I don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I know you don't.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I don't. I got a high school diploma. If that
ain't enough for you, I don't know what to tell you,
and so so I don't care. But I just like him.
I like him.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I like his degree is probably in basket making. Do
you still think that that's PhD?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Still want to just still went the whole time?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Where do you go to school at?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Where it's all? I don't know who do that? And
I also like le Royce Hawkins? Who is that from Chicago, PD.
I don't know who the black guy in Chicago bea
d I love him.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Girl, Why because he's saving lives on television.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
No, he's very woke too. He wanted to he wear
a little Bengals and shit and he's really.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That means you broke. That don't mean you woke.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, he's a regular on this show. He ain't broke.
I'm sure he ain't been on there a long time.
But nobody really famous. I see him out and everything.
I don't think I would want to date anybody real
famous or what you know? I don't know. You know,
I meet guys all the time, and then when they
find out who I am, they're like, you don't have
to get scared. No, they say, you don't have a
problem dating a regular guy. It's not you being a
(41:29):
regular guy. Are you the right guy? You know? I
don't have a problem with any of that. And what
are you intimidated about? People? Are I'm five feet tall?
What are people intimidated about?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
I don't know. But you've been around a lot of legends,
like and you've seen people like rise and fall. Who
are you most surprised about?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Like? Who has.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Felt that you didn't know well all like that.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
M I don't know, but I'm waiting for some of
the other ones to fall and stuff because it's going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
You want somebody to fall, I want them to fall,
but they are no. Come on, be brutally honest. This
is brutally honest.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Made it and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Waite, go on, hope, we on brutally honest. And my
cue cards even met your outfit, like it said, and
this isn't the color it always is, but it metses
who you want to fall.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I don't want nobody to fall. I really don't want
nobody to fall. I just I think I think I've
seen and I'll just say it. I think Monique had
a lot of opportunities that she just wasn't ready for.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
And are y'all friends?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
You know, I think we're friends, But you know, every
time I see MOI, she always gives me her aster kiss.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So what do you mean, like, what does she do?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Very shady with me?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Like how I call her?
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I've called her? I reached out to her. Me and
Lanelle were the only ones who reached out to her
when she came out with the whole Oprah and Lee
Daniels and Tyler Perry, and they came for her. We
came in support of her, you know. She said, we're
the only ones who did. But the last time I
saw her at the camp.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Wait, so when y'all reached out to her, you said
she gave y'all her ass.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
No no, no, no, no, no no no. We reached out to
her and we talked, you know about you know, it's like, girl,
we got your back or whatever, we support you, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
And so and what does she say?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
She was cool, she was glad, she thanked me.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
You know, but was it like a ooh, thank you,
my sweet baby. Was it one of those or was
it like everybody? Yeah, that's why because she you know,
she's that's what she calls her followers, my sweet babies.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
So you're saying I'm a follower, No I'm not.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Well yeah, I mean, if you if you said she
gave you.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
No, she just last time I saw her at the
Cat Williams thing just recently. He another one, uh oh
that I saw at the last thing back wait. Wait,
she so excited to see her. I was so excited
to see her going to back and see her and
I went to knock on her door, and the security
guard stopped me and he went in and I said, well,
tell her whole flood is here. She made me wait
(44:12):
and then other people were in the room, and then
she never let me in the room, and then she
just came out.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Has she ever have you ever done anything for her?
Because like we used to tour together. Did she sleep
on your couch?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
No, but we used tour together. I thought we were friends.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
But did she have you ever done anything for her?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Because maybe I never needed to do anything for her
because she had already been on her way, so there
was nothing I needed to do for her, you know,
in a sense.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
But I just, you know, but when you say you
guys were on tour, but where.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
We were comedy clubs together before, and so we've toured together,
we've traveled together, you know, So you know, I don't know.
Because so when she came out the dressing room, I said, hey, MoMA,
hey girl, and she just kind of looked at me
and and just kind of kept on moving, didn't want
to take a picture, didn't want to stop and talk
to me. And I knew it was Shade because her
(45:08):
girl Corey, who's on tour with her. Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
I just think she.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Hugged me as in like you know how somebody hugged
you like you know, all girl, it'll be all right
kind of thing. And I was cool with that. And
then furthermore then Kat Williams, you know when his fall
from grace.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Well, why do you think he fell from grace?
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I said, when he falls from Oh?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
When he falls? So do you think he's gonna fall
from grace? Has he done something to you? What did
he do this that.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Has not put me on the tour with him? I
was with Kat when he was on his down, when
they had all those cases and didn't have no money
and stuffed me and Cat hung out for six months
and he talked me, told me everything about the business
and what was happening, and he wasn't gonna do this,
and he wasn't gonna do that and everything, and then
he back doing it. And I understand that because it's
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like a lot of them. It's like Kevin, It's like Kat,
even if you quit the business, what are you gonna do.
You can't go back and work at McDonald's. You can't
go do this. You gotta make your deal and you
got to go on and do what you have to
do that's comfortable for you. So I understand that. So,
you know, I just I don't understand. We went in
the back. Me and Lunell went in the back, and
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I wanted to talk to him and just say hey.
We went to the back and he basically kind of
ignored me. He talked to me and the third person,
what do you mean. So Linelle had talked about how
she had failed out the uber and she had on crocs,
I had on some heels and he said, and they're
how flat she had on hills and she didn't fall
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or whatever. And so then Linelle said, yeah, I never
go on Host's instagram because she don't have never had
nobody on her instagram. He said, yeah, I never go
on hope Instagram. I never see what she's talking about.
Oh it was one time I went on there and
she was at the pool and everything and I watched that.
But other than that, I never go on Hope's instagram,
Hope Flood's instagram. And I said, kat, I said, you
know what, it would hurt my feelings if I had
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feelings whatever. And so so I'm just like everybody. Everybody,
everybody's been on tour with them except me and when
I met back.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
But did you ever ask him? Why haven't you? Did
you ever ask him to go on tour?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Do I have to ask him? Yes? Why?
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Because when you ask, he'll put you on tour.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
He won't.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yes, he will. You just have to ask one thing
about it, and I'll be honest with you. I've any
any time I've ever asked Cat for anything, He's always
done it. Okay, So you know, I think if you
just ask.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
I have asked, not me directly, because I can't get no.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
You have to ask when you see him.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I don't see him, know what you said.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
You just saw I saw him.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
I didn't get a chance to ask him.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
No, it doesn't matter. You could you know what? Listen, Hope.
All you have to do is just laugh it off
and be like, oh Cat, listen, I want to go
on tour, and he'll be like you do what do
you want to do? You want to go onto our
high As soon as you do that, I promise you
Kat will put you on tour. Okay, No, no, because Kat,
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like I've asked Kat several times. Like there was one
time me and him were both playing in Baltimore, right,
I was at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. He was at
the what's the arena in Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (48:28):
What is that? I can't remember the stadium?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, So, and I had a lot of people at
my show, but it wasn't like it because I usually
sell out Baltimore, right, Okay. But when I told kat
I ran so we ended up staying at the same hotel, okay.
And I was like, kat I was like, what the fuck?
I was like, these motherfuckers tried to hate on me
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at my show tonight. And I was like, these niggas
was talking shit. And he was just like, well, Toy,
that's for all the real niggas were at my show, okay.
And I said, yeah, you're right, You're right. I said,
but Cat, And this was before I played at the Microsoft.
And I said, Cat, you got a show coming up
at the Microsoft. I want to play at the Microsoft
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with you, Cat, Okay, that's where I want to be.
And he said, okay, how much do you want? And
I was like, how much do I want? And this
nigga gave me ten K for seven minutes. Okay.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Now you don't have the history I have with him.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Well, you know, I never fucked Cat. I don't know, okay,
but I do have a history. Me and Kat has
watched my pit bull. I have a pit bull. Cat
has dog set for me. No, we have history. I
was at the house sug Night. Sug Night was there
at his Malibu mansion the night that I had my
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pit bull there. So Renal ranking, Yeah, you remember Reno
I used to do that was yes, my old manager
and also my man and so we I had. I
went on tour one of my tours and Kat. This
is when he used to have lions on his front
lawn in cages, okay, and I had my pit bull
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Hunter and I told Kat, I have to go on
the road and Cat. I don't know. I can't even
remember how my pit bull ended up at Cat's fucking house.
But Kat was fucking taking care of my pit bull.
And I came back and my pit bull and his
dog was fucking having a fight, okay, and my pit
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bull was winning. Sugar, Yeah, because I'm a fucking pit bull,
my goddamn self, I'm just under cover with my ship. Yeah,
Sugar Knight had the water holes. He had to get
the water holes to break these motherfuckers up.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, he was like.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
That.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Pitch this. I'm talking about Sugar Knight get the water
and he don't sound like that, but that's my interpretation
of it. He got the fucking water holes and I
can speak on ship like this with niggas that are alive.
A lot of motherfuckers like to tell stories about niggas
that are dead. No, but if you call Sugar Night
on the phone, right and he can verify that.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Ship, it's hard to call him. He's okay, yeah, but
it's hard for you to.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm just saying he called out of the water warden.
All are saying is take it back. If he asked
Kat for something, just ask.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh you got a number four? H Let me say,
I've asked him around his No.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
You gotta ask him directly. He ain't no roundabout I asked.
Every time I've asked him for something straight like this,
like me and you, he's always say yes.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I don't do that. I went to ask and then
the way he you know, no, no, no. When I
went back there to ask him to talk to him
about it, you know whatever, I couldn't even get to it.
You know what I'm saying. I couldn't even get to
it to ask him.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Well, move all those fucking handlers and everybody that want
to block niggas out the way, and you gotta fail
because hey, hey, you know, so what's going on for
you next? What do you have going on? Where can
people find you?
Speaker 3 (52:27):
Come?
Speaker 1 (52:28):
I am nothing. No, I'm just tying and so absolutely
and not think I'm not doing anything but waiting, waiting
with patiently for my turn to be interviewed by my girl. Anyway,
I don't have.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Well, I love you, I know you, and you're amazing
I think, and you're very funny, and I know what
it feels like to be a woman in this business
that helps people and they forget.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
So what I think that. You know, there's some people
that really hurt me in this business that I know
that I've helped. You know, Guy Torri hurt me with
that Fat Tuesday. Guy called me and he said, hope,
if it had not been for you in the townhouse,
there would be no Fat Tuesday. He had a ten
page interview. He called me one day late and we
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talked for about two or three hours. He wrote it
all down. He said, IM gonna call you back. I'm
gonna get you on. I never got on the people
who got on never even did Fat Tuesday, the DC
Young Flies, all these people, and I know they did
it for whatever to sell it. I get it, but.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
At some point, but it didn't even do good. So
they put these names on there that don't even know
and that's what they do.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
But I feel like this sometimes when you have a
project and I understand that you got to put these
names on there to sell it, but you, as the
person that created it, like your thing, you got to
say if you told your people like I want Whole
Flood and you're like, nah, she's gonna tell no, I
want her.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Well, the network I actually had a few people like
who is Whole Flood And I said, well, whope, Flood
is actually one of the funniest women that I know,
and I want her on this show.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
That's what you have to do.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
You have to fight for the people want yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
Instead of saying okay, okay, you know. And that hurt
me because you put these people's names on the wall.
They all down here, Lunel and Melanie and Flame and
all of my peers, all of my peers are down
here and I'm not down here, and I deserve to
be there. If I didn't deserve it, that'd be something else.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Well, well, here's the thing. You know what I will say.
You might have to start asking or demanding and maybe
you're just too kind. Now, maybe these other people are
just saying, you know what, I deserve to be here,
So I want to be here, so put me on
the wall, and maybe you have to start taking that approach. Well,
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because you never know how people get on the wall.
You know what, the people you just mentioned, they might
be sucking dick to get on the wall, or they
might you never know, people will.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Do any of the problem doing that.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I'm just saying, well, I know you like the sub dick.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
You know I love it? Okay, what God is this
gonna air and stuff? But but the thing is that you.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Know I love you.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Why does that have to be the thing?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Why does that happen? Because whatever you want in life,
you just have to say, this is what I have
to subic you have to subjict toget Okay, you have
to subd that's so sad as women as women in
this well, you are already sucking dick, So just I ain't.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
Sucking the right dick evidently, Yeah, you know that's probably
what it is. I ain't sucking the right dick. I'm
sucking a vict I like you know.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
Not and that's the problem you need to suck.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
I just don't think that it should be about that.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
I think that it shouldn't be, but it is.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
I think that it should be talent. And then some
of it is representation because you see some people like
how did they get that? Oh, they got this person
behind them. They got ceg, they got this person, they
got all these persons, these agents and stuff behind them
that pushed them in these rooms that you know.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
They all do they really? I think they're just telling
people what it is.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
They do they Oh, I got you a present, Akan,
can you give me her present? I just want to
show and then we go and Angel you can come on.
That's up or whatever I did. I bought you.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
I love you. I know I'm sleeping too.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
I'm sleeping. When I got here, okay, at nine o'clock,
I was sleeping. She told me, I brought your present.
So you know. I make hats. I make cowboy hats.
My grandmother made hats from scratch. She was a millinery.
My grandmother had a sixth grade education, but she made
hats from scratch. I didn't get that part of it,
but I do put stuff on the hats and design
hat and so today I said, I'm gonna make my girl.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
And I love cowboy hats and cowboy boys. I got
cowboy boots in the bag.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
I hope you like it.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
It's for you, that's for you. And then I got
you you know, my convention, my comics. He's an old
T shirt, my comics rock t shirt. And then I
got comic comedians. I tell them all the time, quit
getting on every microphone you see, every mic you see.
You don't have to get on Sometimes both to the
comedy club and sit in the back and shut the
fuck up and enjoy somebody else. So I created this
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T shirt called mic whore because I tell to me
all the time, would being a mic whore?
Speaker 2 (57:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (57:08):
So there? And then I have your edibles in here.
You know, I have a cannabis company. I hope that'd
be is all your cannabis and CBD needs.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Thank you, ho, I love you.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
You need
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Were you being to read his gangs and lean pay
attention to everything, walk around town like he the ships
Jamie Fox. Fuck Jamie Fox. Now I didn't tell it. Wait, hu,
I did not tell this story.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You fucked Jamie five. Why can't women get along in
this industry?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Women have never gotten along since the beginning of time.
I think we're friends, but you know, every time I
see Mommy, she always gives me her aster kiss.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So what do you mean, like, what does she do
very shady with me? Really aroundtown? Like he to what's up, y'all,
there's your girl, Tory Hart and I am here with
another episode of Brutally Honest, coming live from Los Angeles, California,
and my guest tonight is one of the most funniest
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women I know. We actually just got finished having a
road session with bocapone from All Death Digitals. Roast me
these niggas. Listen, y'all gonna see them behind the scenes, Okay,
But right now, in this moment is for my girl.
She is an amazing comedian, very funny, the creator of
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Common Makes Rock, and in my opinion, one of the
most underrated funny women in the game. So I need
y'all to tune in right now and get ready for
this interview with the very hilarious Hope flood. Hi, thank
you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Thank you for having me. I'm honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, thank you for coming, my girl for you, even though.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm sleepy as hell. You know, no, you're not. At
this time, I didn't listen.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I can't tell because the way you and bukapone just
went back and forth, lagging on each other. Yeah, okay,
I would have never known you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We s after I masturbated, smoke a blunt, I'm out sleep,
pat you master bait, and smoke a blood.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Okay, listen, I'm wait a minute. Okay, masturbate, smoke a
blood and eat.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It edible and go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Wait, why are you smoking the blood and eating an
edible masturbating all these motherfuck it take that much to
put you to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, because my mind is always going. I'm always creating
and thinking of things, and God always gives me amazing ideas,
and I feel like I have to do them right
when I get them. Okay, a lot of times it's
not right then, but I just have to run it.
And so I'm always up. I get up at like five,
six o'clock in the morning. I get up at three
because that's the time I pray at three from three
discusions when it's quiet, and I pray.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, you pray for three hours, no, no, for about
an hour okay hour? Okay, So you're waking up at
three am.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and then I go.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Back to sleep and God tells you wake up at three? Okay?
And then what are you praying for when you wake
up at three?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I pray for my son, okay, my grandkids. I pray
for peace of mind. I pray for you know, world peace,
and my career and basically that's it, just my family,
health and wealth, things like that, my health. I'm older now, so.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You do that every day at three oh three o'clock.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I just started about.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Because I was gonna say, oh, okay, because you know
what you're You're hilarious, but I don't feel like you're
big enough. And that's just my I was gonna say,
how long you've been praying?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Okay, this prayer, I've just been praying. But I've been
a Christian a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, you to christ a Lord? Maybe yeah, maybe Lord, Rick.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I might get the wrong thing because I don't know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, are okay, but tell me who is whole flood?
Let the world know because you know, I know who
this amazing woman is. She's actually let me. Can I
just say what you've done for me?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You know? You hired me several times and there was
a lot of haters out there that was like why
you hire entry? And then you know what I mean?
And yeah, you know, but you hire me to host
Comics Rock number one, which is what you created. You
took me to Vegas with you, that's not do you remember? Yes, yes,
(04:08):
and we've been on several shows together. But let the
world know who Hope Flood is.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Okay, Hope Memu Flood. That's my middle name. And you
mem you after a famous actress e Vetman, a famous
white actress named Vetman. You. Okay, So I guess they
knew I was gonna be in a business or whatever.
So that's that. But I am a mother, I am
a grandmother, okay. I am a comedian. I am an entrepreneur.
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I am a healer through my cannabis business, come people
through cannabis. I'm a designer. I designed hats. This is
one of my hat I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Got you on too, boy, I made I have for
you today.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Let's see what else I am. I'm I'm a friend.
I'm a ride of DoD Chick, you know. So I'm
a lot, I'm every woman basically, you know. And well
it's all letting me. When Chaka made that song, I said, Chocolate,
you made that song for me. I'm a producer.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
What have you produced? Is this something that I would know?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well? Yeah, the Comic Squat Convention, so okay. Basically it
started off as the Females in Comedy Convention, and I
did it for about two and a half years with
just women because I felt like, we have a group
on Facebook called Females in Comedy Association. It's about three
thousand girls in our group comedians, and I just felt
that I wanted to start a conversation on why we
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haven't had a female comedian black to have a sitcom
in their name in a long time, since nineteen ninety
two with thee of a Dog on a major network.
And so I went to start a conversation about it,
and then I birthed of the Females in Comedy Convention
and I did that for two years. And I wanted
to bring females together because I felt like we were
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so behind the men and everything. You know, these men
are out here they're doing it. But we don't have
our female Kevin Hart. We don't have our female Dave Chappelle.
We don't have a female that's selling out arenas and
things like like those guys are doing. And so I
wanted to talk about that, and so I got together
for workshops and seminars, and then the women got so caddy.
(06:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I just so maybe that's the reason why we don't
have it, because you know, it's like the women, for
whatever reason, cannot get.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Along, cannot get along. And I saw that firsthand.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And why can't Why can't women get along in this industry?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Women have never gotten along since the beginning of time.
Who you get along with? You think you get along
with them and stuff because you're pleasant and you're nice
to them. You don't know what they talk about behind you.
Well I don't care what they say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
But okay, time out, because we got people coughing in
the background and talking.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Guys, come on, falk you finger productions.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Get it together. She's talking all right, if you have
to cough leaf Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
See now she would be considered a bitch.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, I'm not being a bitch.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I know you're not booked but that it will come
across as you being a bitch. But people that And
this is what happens to me when I go in
and I'm producing something, or even when I just go
into a room. I am a thirty five year veteran comedian. Yeah,
so I know what I'm doing. So when I walk
into a room and I see that the lighting is
messed up or the microphone is not right, or the
reverb or the seating ain't right, all I'm trying to
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do is help us win. And people look at it
as oh, here, come hold trying to take over. I'm
not trying to take over, because one thing about comedy
is very different than any other genre of entertainment. You
can listen to music all day, and you can go
to a movie and watch a movie, but comedy is
very intimate. So if the microphone is messed up, if
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you don't hear the setup, you're not gonna get the
punchline exactly. And then we need to be able to
hear the laughter so we can keep going. We feed
off the laughter. So, you know, being a boss and
trying to run stuff, you know, when you say something
to somebody and because you want it right, this is
your brand. This is your thing, because at the end
of the day, if it don't go right, nobody's gonna
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blame nobody but fucking Tory Hart.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And here's the thing. And what I've noticed too is
is almost like people give more respect to men all
the time, and at the end of the day, it's
always women percent of the time that are behind these men,
behind the men, behind the men.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, I travel all over the road doing comedy,
and I think that if we had the support the
men had. Yeah, you know, you know, we have kids
and stuff and we can't go but so long. You know,
I have my son at nineteen years old. I started
comedy at twenty five, and being violated in my family,
(08:53):
I just couldn't leave my baby anywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Now, when you say violating, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
My family and stuff. And so when you've been violated,
you know you are very guarded. You know, Like my son,
he would want to go to somebody house, you know,
to spend the night over his friend's house, and I'll
be like, I need to go over here. I need
to see who lives here. I need to see if
there's a pedophile on the porch or crackhead cousin. I
need to see who's all over here, you know, because
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I don't want that to happen to him, because that's
my job is to protect him till the day die.
Well now, but still it's my job to protect my son,
you know, And so that's what I do. So's it's
a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So dad in his life, his dad died, but he.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Was he was my childhood sweetheart, you know. And we
lost each other, found each other, lost each other, found
each other, and when we found each other the last
time we had a love child. But he was always
in and out of jail on drugs.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You know, I like a thug and and well it's
so like you like ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I didn't know he was doing all that. He stayed
away from us, he said, he never wanted me to
see him that way. Oh, so he stayed away from
us most of the time. But I always allowed my
son to have a relationship with him, you know, even
when he was in jail. I would send him to
the jail and let him see his dad, you know,
And because I wanted him to see what not to
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be and what not to do. And his dad felt
the same way. You know. He's like I didn't done
enough time for all of y'all. I didn't done enough
drugs for all of y'all. If y'all want to know
something about it, just ask me, you know. And so
with that being said, you know, it's just been harder
for us as women because kids fear abandoned me. So
I could go about ten days on the road and
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then my son would start acting up in school and
I would have to come home right and see about
him and make sure he know, Mommy coming home, Mommy's here,
Mommy's there. And he understood, you know, what I was doing,
But he was still a child, yeah, and he still
wanted his mom, you know. And so there was a
lot of things I could not do, you know, because
I couldn't leave him. I didn't really have the support
(10:57):
I think I needed from my family, my mom. You know,
I look back on it now. My mom is gone.
She died at fifty six. But I look back in
nineteen eighty nine, I said, Mama, I'm gonna be a comedian.
My mama was like, what the hell is that? She
didn't even know what it was because there was no
females on TV at that time doing comedy, So she
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didn't understand what that was. She said, if you don't
get your ass down to this hospital and learn this
medical stuff so you can get a job. And I'm like, Mama,
I'm telling you, I'm gonna be a comedian. I'm gonna
be a comedian. And I couldn't understand. Now that I
look back at that, I had a baby, and I'm
gonna be a comedian and I'm gonna tell jokes, I
can understand why she was just like, what is that?
Because and then a lot of times we instill our
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fears on our children, right, you know, But I'm not
like that with my son. He can kick cans down Crenshaw.
I'm right there, baby, kick.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Them cabs the biggest as.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know. And he's a he's an amazing rapper. And
one day told me he was going to give up
and not wrapped on one. I told him, don't you
have a give up up on your dream. You know,
you may not be jay Z, but you can get there.
You could be good at it. You can make a
living off of it. And so I keep him inspired
by me still doing what I do, you know, and
never giving up and never going to give up on
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what I'm what I'm doing, you know, And so he
sees that and that's I'm his inspiration. He's mine, you know.
And so you know, with just having a kid in
trying to navigate through this business. You know, I knew
early I wanted to do this business. That's why I
never had no more kids. And I used to take
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him to the comedy show so he knew all the
comedians and stuff. I'd be like, watch my baby, Well,
I go do my set. I need this fifty dollars
to pay the gas bill or a babysitter, because that's
how much I love this thing. So I had to
sit my mother down one day after I want a
one hour special on Comic View, and I said, mom,
I have really found my thing that I love to do,
(12:57):
and I'm good at it, and you should be happy
for me, because some people go through their whole life
with a job that they hate, and I have found
my thing. And then when I started paying all her
bills and stuff, She's like, you might really do something
with this thing, and I say, yes, I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well started paying.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I started paying the bills, and she saw I was
staying with it because I would get involved in things
and I would quit and she hated that. She's like,
you never finished stuff, I said, because I got in
it to see if I like it, and I didn't
like it for a week. But she was trying to
teach me how to finish stuff. And I was just like,
(13:35):
I couldn't get that. I was so rebellious. My mother
was a very disciplined woman. I'm the black sheep of
my family. And my brother very disciplined. He did everything
my mother said. I never did. Not then that my
mother said, I got suspended every grade since fifth grade?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You know, like me?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, but I was. I was a bulliant school because
I was being neglected at home. Mom worked two jobs
all the time, and my grandmother raised me. Basically, I'm
from Bitton Harbor, Michigan, Okay, and so Benton Harbor, sid
Bad is from there. Okay, We're like family.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's the pastor, because ain't nobody from Bitton Harbor, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
From Briton Harbor is from Bitton Harbor, Michigan. Bobo Brazil,
he's a a fas a famous wrestler. Girl.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Don't nobody know who Bobo Brazil is? Do y'all know
who Bobo RAZI.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Is he does. Yeah, the camera you know who?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, you from Betton Harbor to because don't nobody you
much just like wrestling, because don't nobody know who Bitton Harbor,
I mean Bitton the Harbor.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That's what we call it.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Shout out to the Harbor, Bobo Brazil.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So, but I'm from Benton Harbor, Michigan. And my mother
when I was born, my mother cut a lady at
the bar at about six months and she had to
lead tew. My great grandfather put her on the bus
to California, and so she came here and left me
with my grandmother. So my grandmother raised us. And then
one day my mother came back when I was about
six and kidnapped us, my brother and I and that's
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how i got to California, Okay, And so I've been
here ever since, and it's been I have a love
hate for la I love it and hated it at
the same time. I love the weather and the sunshine
and the hustle in the bustle, but I don't like
the crowdedness it has gotten. I don't like that everybody's rude.
(15:24):
You know, I didn't even know that we were rude.
Until I moved to the South and I was like,
people are really genuinely can be nice.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But you know, the South is starting to get rude
too because people from LA moving down there, La and New.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
York because I'm moving down there, Okay, that's what. It
ain't them, it ain't.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
But maybe it ain't the people from LA because when
I first moved to LA, everybody was nice. I mean,
I w Yeah, a lot of people that I'm cool
with and that I first met from LA that was
born and raised here are really good people. But most
of the people that you're talking about is maybe because
people migrated by LA.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Possibly possibly, And like I can do New York for
ten days and I got to get the hell away
from New York.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, you know, well they just don't know what the
fuck's going on. They just, you know, they just like
if I don't walk fast, ain't nothing happening. They just
gotta walk fast.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Everywhere, you know. And so you know, with that being said,
I grew up here, I went to high school here.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
La? Hi, Roman's in the house. I'm Roman La High Romans.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's right in this area. Yeah, it's the oldest. It's
the oldest high school of the city. Okay, uh huh,
Room two twenty two. Back in the day, remember Room
twenty two with Denise Nichols. Were you born? You weren't
even know I wasn't I'm not myself. I just told
y'all how old I was now yet, But anyway, they
filmed it at our high school. Okay, yeah, so yeah,
(16:52):
and so you know, I knew I wanted to be
in entertainment since I was five, you know, So either
that I want to be a lawyer as well, i'd
have been a cold lawyer.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Okay, don't layd So yeah, yeah, okay, but you know what,
and here's what when you just said I age myself,
that's another thing that I don't like. Like people are
always for whatever reason, you know, Like it'sn't an honor,
and it is a blessing that you age and that
you grow old. When did it become a curse to
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grow old?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Well, you know, back in the day being in the business,
it used to be because the older you got, the
less roles you got. Who created that, I don't know,
But now you go from the sexy vixen to the auntie. Yeah,
you go from then Aunty to the grand grandma and
then you just continue to work. But that hasn't that
just happened over the last ten fifteen years. Jennifer Lewis,
Felicia Rishad, right, you know, Debbie Allen and all of
(17:48):
those created that. I think. But in the business, like
if you say how old you are, you told him
it was this, Oh, I am honored to be the
age I am. I'll be fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
My mother died at fifty six years old, right, and so,
and our lives always paralleled each other. So when I
got to fifty six, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna
make it. I'm gonna make it, and then I'll be
fifty nine. So I feel like, you know, I had
to realize that my life is not hers and hers
is not mine, right, and that I have to get
over that whole thing. A lot of people feel like that,
(18:21):
but I don't. I take care of my health. I
stay at the doctor. If I got a hangmail, I'm
at the doctor trying to figure out what it is.
My mother died at fifty six with diabies. My grandmother
died at sixty five with diabetes. They both died in
the house by themselves. And so that's not gonna be
my story that stuff to live for.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, no, you first of all, it ain't gonna be
a story because you said you stayed to doctors, right, yeah,
I said the doctor weight loss though, but dude, what
doctors are you staying at? Because you were constantly doing
things to enhance yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
In Oh yeah, my doctor Manriquez and Tiajana.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Your plastic surgery are about said okay, and.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's been about seven years ago. I when I went
to Dallas. I moved to Dallas in two thousand and
four to do.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Radio, okay, And who are you doing radio?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
With? One on five dot seven BJ in the morning.
He was from Charlotte and I would go to the
Comedy Zone in Charlotte every year, right, and so you
have to get up to do radio to promote, you know,
your show. And he was watching me and I didn't
know it, and so we exchanged numbers and he asked
me how to done radio. I said, I've never done
radio before. He said, I think you can really do it,
(19:36):
and I said okay, And he kept in touch with me,
and then he said he called me one day and
he said, it's happening. Can you come to Dallas? And
that's how I got into radio. And so I moved
there and I got married. I was I dated four
months and got married.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
And well you you married somebody in Dallas?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Dallas? Yeah, from Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Why oh? Because you thought he was a southern gentleman.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
No, he was a thug and he just he just
chased me. He called me to day as a matter
of fact and stuff like, we've been divorced a long time.
But okay, I think I got to be thirty nine,
and I said, God, I don't want my life to
end it. I've never been married.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And so we dated and one day he woke up
and he said, you want to get married? I said, yeah,
for sure, Yeah, fuck it. And I was planning a wedding.
And then one day he came picked me up for
my job. He had on the suit. I was said,
what are you going to court? He said no, we're
going to get married to death. I said huh. He
said yeah, And he had a white my white dress,
and we went down to a courthouse and we got married.
We stayed married five years.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Don't you love that? He made that happen for you,
though I am he's.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
The only I mean, every guy me want to marry me,
but he's the only one that ever went through with.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, because imagine that you lived this whole life and
you've never been married, because it's still let no matter
what women say, right if they're like, yeah, I don't
care if I get married, but you know, it's like
you still want to have somebody propose, and still I
don't want to say that I've been married because it
does put your stock. You know, if you're walking around
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here at fifty nine and you ain't never been married,
and they'd be like, what's wrong with you? You ain't
never been married.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It's like men who say, I'm forty years old, I
ain't never had no kids, and I ain't never been married.
I'm like, nobody want to have your baby. Nobody want
to have your baby, And I'm like, that's nothing to
brag about, sir, that nobody wants to have your baby
and you've not been.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Married for But it's not that maybe they maybe they're
sperm didn't work or maybe what do you think that
issue is with men that are.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Over about it because they feel like they hadn't met
the right wand or they dodged a bullet or or
or they're being selective and now they're scrambling. Now they
have to accept whatever because they missed. They missed the boat.
You know, I think do you think that I only
think you get so many soul mats in your whole life. Okay,
I don't think you get a whole slew of soul mate.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So what if they just have a good pullout game. No,
you say, no, hope.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Nobody want to have your baby.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No, but maybe if they just had a good poolo game.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You must have missed health class.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They were you calling me dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, I'm saying the birds and the bees.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I was never absent. I was straight a steward.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I was I was can make a baby? Pre come,
can make a baby. Have you ever my girlfriend had
a baby and never had sex.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You believe that that's what she said? You believe, But
that's what I'm saying. You really believe that that's not
your That's just like Mary and Jesus and Joseph. Mary
was Let me shut I'm not trying to get canceled
by the Christians. Never mind, because they're ready to know
that they're not. I'm not. They already want to eat
the lord. No, they already want to cancel me over
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an interview I did, and they said I wasn't sensitive
enough to the plight of the guests that said she
was being abused by a narcissist.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So I'm it's like the transgender canceled me in Portland.
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
But why in Portland of all places?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Well, I didn't know it was a gay friendly city,
and then I didn't know I was working at a
gay club.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, it is definitely a drug city, so you know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Homeless a lot of Yeah, they have almost a bigger
home homeless problem as we have.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh yeah, well, I mean they're all on drugs.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Yeah, well it's Portant.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well you're not going to get me canceled.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Look, it's Portland like living in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You know they have it's always rainy. They have the
highest suicide Yeah suicide, yes, Seattle.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah. Yeah, So you can get canceled for anything, girls,
So don't don't worry about that. Okay, all right, that
helped Dave Chappelle. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I don't know he's Dave Chappelle. Ship I ain't Dave Chapelle.
You know, they barely. They still talk to me like,
I ain't ship, help build ship?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Do ship? You know? So I think I feel I
didn't help them. Okay, this nigga have slept on my
couch was some of the biggest niggas in comedy that
has slept on your couch and slept in your car. Oh,
Tony Roberts, I was in love with Tony. Me and
Tony had a love affair.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You did, did y'alluck?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh? My god? Who's in love? Y'all?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were in love?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
In love with I was in love with him at
least I don't know he was a love So.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He's married to an Asian woman.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Right now, and I'd be like, oh, she getting all that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Anyway, Oh he got a good day.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Looked like a fat baby's arm, looks like acting up?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, did you just say you got a fat baby's arm? Okay?
But does he know how to work it? Whoa yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And reverse bring it back. They wrote a song nobody
want to hear It's my back, And I've been a
comedy whore.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think, Wait, how many niggas in the comedy game
have you slept with Oh my god, that that the world.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I would love to get a boy that the world
would know, well, my first one that I that I
also love in the door, he's an Academy Award winner,
Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You slept with my ex husband.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I heard out thinking about that nig like.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I ain't got no fucking oscar.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I'm not talking about him. I'm clowning you. And I
want to say Fox, Jamie Fox, you fuck Jamie? Was
my boo. Now I didn't tell it. Wait, hod I
did not tell this story.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You fucked Jamie Fix.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Before he was famous. This is before he was fixed.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Wait time the funk out? Okay, Sherman st you fucked
Jamie my booth, adon on my booth? Was it good?
Was because I thought Jamie only like white women.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
He he likes powerful women. He likes women that are
in power and like he liked the Oprah no whatever.
So and he's from the South, so that that he's
from the South, so he likes shell women, so.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He like Okay, so being brutally honest, okay with the call. Okay,
so you fucked Jamie Fox? What happened? Why didn't like
if he was to see you today, What would he say?
What would he do?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, So when I go to Fox House and I
hadn't seen him in a long time, and I went
to his house a surprise him for his birthday in Decembary.
He's a Sagetarian. Yeah, I know, I know his house
for his birthday. And I was I was standing on
the porch waiting for the guys to park the car,
and so I was waiting to go in, and he
came out, and then he came out and got something
out the car, and he walked back and he said,
(27:00):
hoole flood and he hugged me so tight, so tight,
so tight, and he grabbed my hand and he took
me in there and he introduced me to everybody and
people when we get together, people say, he acts different
around you. He just acts different, happy, just more calm
and more like this is a familiar face, this person.
(27:21):
I really helped Jamie a lot in his career.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
How did you help Jamie Fox?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Because his career, Jamie I had a club in the
nineties called the Townhouse. That's why he groomed comedians from
nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Were you the host of it?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I was the host of it. It was my room,
me and my partners, and we groomed comedians. It was
a training crank camp for comedy. It was the hottest
room in the country. Comics would come early on a
Tuesday whatever they were doing to do the Townhouse. And
so I met him through Speedy. Speedy brought him over
to learn us. Yeah, he brought him over to our scene.
(27:54):
Speedy had a club called at the Cover Girl. It
was called the Cover Girl, but it didn't have a
microposs called it the No Mic Club. And that's where
I met Fox at And so he was so nice
and so sweet, and I got his number and I
called him and I asked him to come over to
do my club and he was like yeah, yeah, yeah,
And that's how he used to come every week. So
we helped groom him and then we put him on
(28:16):
other shows when he didn't have no money. He didn't
him a car, he didn't even have a place to stay.
He was living with people and stuff. So he tells
the story on how instrumental I was in his career
and helping him. You know, we used to.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hang out people that you're fucked.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, he the one told it. Oh, I've never told 'all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So you broke him in in more ways than one.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Ill, But I'm just saying I wasn't like he was
a urgeon or not that I'm sure he had dated
black women before.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't know, because Jamie got dates he does.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
He does.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Jamie Fox dates black women, she does. Who knew Jamie
Fox dates black women? Because you know, I hear so
many black women be like, I like Jamie Fox, but
he don't date us. He don't like us. And I'm like,
and my people they be always expecting me to like
hook me up, which I don't. Fucking I can't just
be like Jamie here, I have a friend, like you know.
(29:12):
I've been to his parties, I've been to his house.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I do all.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
But I can't just call him and be like, day
you come fuck my girlfriend?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Right?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, he's a stone colt freak. Now, he's a sagittary.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
It's a freak, now, listen, I don't know. I ain't
never fucked Jimmie Fox. Okay, I've never fucked him. I've
been to his house. My kids probably pissed on his
couch before. That's a long story.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's a dude. He's a yeah, big dude, multi talents
that I told him years ago. I said, I said,
you're going to be so fucking famous. You have no
idea how famous you're going to be, how big you're
going to be. He created that Wanda character in My Club,
But it wasn't It wasn't all the wigs, Yeah yeah, yeah,
(29:56):
Living Color. It was basically two ugly girls at the
club ducking and the audience because they didn't want the
comedians to talk about them, the facial thing and everything,
and we laughed, we run people were running out the club.
It was just so funny. Man so that the Townhouse
on a Tuesday night. What year was this, from ninety
(30:18):
to ninety seven. It was right when Robin Harris died.
He was one of the last clubs all played was
our club. You got to witness that I came up
with the greats, Wow, Rodney Winfield, Ronaldo Rey, simply marvelous,
Paul Mooney. I got to be with some of the greats,
(30:40):
and I learned from the greats and respected the greats.
I used to take simply around, you know, because I
was just so happy that she just allowed me to
be in her space. You know, and Rodney Winfield, God
rest his soul. Ronaldo used to sit at the bar
every Tuesday, you know, and we get Hi mo Ed
and he go up and and it was just you
(31:01):
never knew who was coming through that door. Yeah, I
met earthquake. Earthquake followed me around the whole club and everything.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Wait, you said earthquake. Okay, so wait, let me let
me take it back a little bit, because you're you're
saying that you were you know, those were the greats.
But you're one of the greats. Oh, thank you, And
that's why I wanted you on the show. Thank you,
you know, and I keep saying you're one of the
funniest women that I know.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And you've been around for a minute, and I feel
like people need to know because see, in this in
this climate that we're in, it's all about popularity.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
It is.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
People are forgetting about hard work. People are forgetting about talent. Yes, okay,
people are forgetting about paying dues. You know, if you
just pick up a phone and say I'm a fucking
comedian because I pick up a phone and I shoot
a video that I edit twenty times, that makes me funny. No,
(31:58):
you've edited that video. If you've never been on a
stage and dealt with being in front of people and
being stand up, like really instant, you're not a comedian.
And this is for every and I don't care. I
don't give a fuck. I'm saying everybody, Okay, who picks
up a camera and does their videos and edits them,
(32:23):
you are not a comedian. You're not. Nope, you're not
a comedian until you hit a comedy stage and actually
do the work.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Well, I think that there should be a lane for that.
When that came out during the pandemic, and we never
saw this shit coming, this whole Internet comedians and all
this other stuff, we never saw it coming. So I
just felt like it was gonna go away because true
stand up will always prevent.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Their comedic actors.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Well, no, no, they're not even comedic actors. They're just
doing skits. Comedic actor is somebody like a Tisha Campbell
or to China Arnold.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
But look, she's on it right now too. Sh Campbell
is on the road with Vaness Mitchell and right now
she's on the road doing but Tisha, she's funny, but
she has actually paid her dues. She did it without
picking up a camera on her own and editing. There
was editors who actually had to edit for her. Okay,
(33:21):
but I'm talking about these the younger generation, and you
know what, they're probably gonna like, shut the fuck up, Auntie,
I don't care, you know, And you know they'll be like,
you know, what is she talking about? Like she doesn't
know what she's talking about. Yeah, we're picking up dough.
I'm sorry, don't get mad at us or whatever. But
at the end of the day, they forget sometimes and
not all but some. And I feel like, you know,
(33:48):
if you can stand in front of a live audience
like hope, you're one of the best, okay, and I'm
not just saying females, but because you're funnier than ninety percent.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Of the male Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, you're very funny. Thank you, You're very very funny.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
And like I said, you just don't get the credit
that you deserve.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I think a lot of it too, though, is I
had a kid to raise. And I know that sounds
stupid and cliche, and he's grown and it's that, but
I had.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
A child to raise. It's not just that though.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Whole now and then I helped everybody, and I forgot
to help myself.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But it's not just that, it's just and I've helped
a lot of people too. I've helped a lot of
people and sometimes got to tell you to stop it,
but I'm done. But when you sometimes when you help people,
they forget that you've helped them. Are they they low
key trying.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
To act like or was they really your friend at all? Right?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Or were they just there get what they could get,
you know it?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Because they haven't reached back. So people think that I
don't need anything because they always see me creating stuff
and doing things. And so when I do call people
like you need help, hoping you don't see me all
the stuff y'all doing. You don't see me doing what
y'all doing. So, yes, I do need some help. I've
never had representation, I've never had anybody. I've never had
Michael Caryer and his wife one time girl, and Michael
(35:12):
Carryer was doing that just to take all our gigs.
And so.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I'm gonna bring it because Michael, you know, he talked real,
I'm gonna bring everybody in. Yeah, everybody's gonna bring y'all
to me.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Next thing, you know, he in Alaska. Well they say
they gonna bring you next time, they gonna bring me.
And then they go, I'm gonna go and tep it
out and make sure and and that went on and
on and on and after that and just put a
bad taste in my mouth. And I think, because I
know so much about the business and stuff, you gotta
really be on it right. People have asked, you know,
(35:44):
to manage and do some things. And then when I'm
on the ass about it, you get mad, get mad.
You know, A publicists they're really lazy. They're really lazy.
And they think that, oh, just because of who I am,
it's just an easy thing. And I tell them up
front it's not gonna be easy. And you know, I've
had publicists that don't know how to spell. I was
the editor in chief of my high school paper. I
(36:04):
know how to spell, I know grammar, I know this,
I can, I can I can spot a misspelled word
a mile away. And then when I tell them stuff,
they be mad at me.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Do you understand where spirit animals?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Because I listen, I want spelling bees, they tell.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
You Aquila and the bee is about my life.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Listen, Kiky Palmer, that's my story my stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I said, I'm on the collegues people. They just stole
my story. I was the spelling bee champ, right, and
so I have a I have a very.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I got a very.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I can. I looked at a commercial one day. I said,
that word is smith spelled on the commercial because I
can I can you see it? I can see it's
the add in us.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
My therapist said, I don't have a d d oh.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Well, I know, you know, I've never been diagnosed, but
I just assume that's what it is. Now, you don't, Okay,
Maybe it's just maybe autistically perfection Am I just smart?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
What is it? Perfectionist?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You just want sh it done.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Right right, and it's so hard, you know, it's so
hard for women in the industry to get stuff done
right without, as you said earlier, being labeled a bitch
or you right.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, Now, I'll do the casting couch with somebody I
want to be on the couch with. Is that the same?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
No, that's just the fuck.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Okay. Then if it's somebody I want to fuck, it,
ain't it ain't considered casting couch.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
No, But if you've got to get on the couch
with a Harvey Wines. Oh my god, have y'all seen
Harvey winstee? You see what you look like.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Who's a black man in this industry that has tried
to fuck you that you ain't want to fuck?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, most of them are fucked too because I like them.
So is there any I'm never gonna get a husband?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Well you already had one.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh. I love the institution of being married. I love
the whole concept of going out and be like my
man at home. I can go home, my man fucking
say that. You know whatever, I fuck you niggas, I
can go home or what. I love that whole thing.
I loved being married. I just wasn't married to the
right person, but I loved that whole concept. I love
saying that my husband, you know my husband, you know
(38:24):
me and my husband. I love that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But it's just you love saying that. But Joe, I
really love being married. Do you only think your marriage material?
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
I'm asking because you're such a free spirit and you're
such a like answer you know, like, yes, you know
you are bubbly, you're you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
It's what it is with me. I'm gonna tell you
what my problem with me in a lot of time
is I am the butterfly. I'm the butterfly.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What do people want to do with the butterfly in
a jar? Yea for only them to see? Yes, And
that's the problem with men with me. I'm the butterfly.
I'm not going nowhere, baby, I'll be right back. You know,
I'm not a cheater.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Like I've never cheated on anybody ever, You've never cheated.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
If I don't fuck with you no more, don't fuck
with you no more. I wonder if people I just don't,
I don't fuck with you no more. If I don't
like you no more, I just don't.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
So you've never cheat? Who's been in your DM?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Like? Like right now, I got a lot of men
in my team.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I'm talking about famous, famous in my DM.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
But you know who I would like to be my DM?
Famous at David Banner? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And why is everybody after David Banner? I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I like him? Why? He's very smart? He's got two
master's degrees, does he yes? He does. He's very woke,
he's from the South, He's how.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Do we know he really got two master degrees because
he said he does well. I mean, I mean, have
you seen his degree?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
No, I'm not gonna go look it up. Where's your
report card? Ain't nobody gonna go look it up?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
You just know he could just say it, I got
fucking three master degrees. I'm just saying we could just
everybody lies today. And what's the reason?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
You just one of your mass communications and and something else?
Really smart? You have to be really smart to get
what I don't know, literature, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I hope you just like his body. You don't give
a funk about him, like his face, and you like
his body. I like you don't care about his degree?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
No, I don't. I really don't.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I know you don't.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I don't. I got a high school diploma. If that
ain't enough for you, I don't know what to tell you,
and so so I don't care. But I just like him.
I like him.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I like his degree is probably in basket making. Do
you still think that that's PhD?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Still want to just still went the whole time?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Where do you go to school at?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Where it's all? I don't know who do that? And
I also like le Royce Hawkins? Who is that from Chicago, PD.
I don't know who the black guy in Chicago bea
d I love him.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Girl, Why because he's saving lives on television.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
No, he's very woke too. He wanted to he wear
a little Bengals and shit and he's really.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That means you broke. That don't mean you woke.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
No, he's a regular on this show. He ain't broke.
I'm sure he ain't been on there a long time.
But nobody really famous. I see him out and everything.
I don't think I would want to date anybody real
famous or what you know? I don't know. You know,
I meet guys all the time, and then when they
find out who I am, they're like, you don't have
to get scared. No, they say, you don't have a
problem dating a regular guy. It's not you being a
(41:29):
regular guy. Are you the right guy? You know? I
don't have a problem with any of that. And what
are you intimidated about? People? Are I'm five feet tall?
What are people intimidated about?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
I don't know. But you've been around a lot of legends,
like and you've seen people like rise and fall. Who
are you most surprised about?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Like? Who has.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Felt that you didn't know well all like that.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
M I don't know, but I'm waiting for some of
the other ones to fall and stuff because it's going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
You want somebody to fall, I want them to fall,
but they are no. Come on, be brutally honest. This
is brutally honest.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Made it and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Waite, go on, hope, we on brutally honest. And my
cue cards even met your outfit, like it said, and
this isn't the color it always is, but it metses
who you want to fall.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
I don't want nobody to fall. I really don't want
nobody to fall. I just I think I think I've
seen and I'll just say it. I think Monique had
a lot of opportunities that she just wasn't ready for.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
And are y'all friends?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
You know, I think we're friends, But you know, every
time I see MOI, she always gives me her aster kiss.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
So what do you mean, like, what does she do?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Very shady with me?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Like how I call her?
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I've called her? I reached out to her. Me and
Lanelle were the only ones who reached out to her
when she came out with the whole Oprah and Lee
Daniels and Tyler Perry, and they came for her. We
came in support of her, you know. She said, we're
the only ones who did. But the last time I
saw her at the camp.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Wait, so when y'all reached out to her, you said
she gave y'all her ass.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
No no, no, no, no, no no no. We reached out to
her and we talked, you know about you know, it's like, girl,
we got your back or whatever, we support you, you know.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
And so and what does she say?
Speaker 1 (43:30):
She was cool, she was glad, she thanked me.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
You know, but was it like a ooh, thank you,
my sweet baby. Was it one of those or was
it like everybody? Yeah, that's why because she you know,
she's that's what she calls her followers, my sweet babies.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
So you're saying I'm a follower, No I'm not.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Well yeah, I mean, if you if you said she
gave you.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
No, she just last time I saw her at the
Cat Williams thing just recently. He another one, uh oh
that I saw at the last thing back wait. Wait,
she so excited to see her. I was so excited
to see her going to back and see her and
I went to knock on her door, and the security
guard stopped me and he went in and I said, well,
tell her whole flood is here. She made me wait
(44:12):
and then other people were in the room, and then
she never let me in the room, and then she
just came out.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Has she ever have you ever done anything for her?
Because like we used to tour together. Did she sleep
on your couch?
Speaker 1 (44:25):
No, but we used tour together. I thought we were friends.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
But did she have you ever done anything for her?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Because maybe I never needed to do anything for her
because she had already been on her way, so there
was nothing I needed to do for her, you know,
in a sense.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
But I just, you know, but when you say you
guys were on tour, but where.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
We were comedy clubs together before, and so we've toured together,
we've traveled together, you know, So you know, I don't know.
Because so when she came out the dressing room, I said, hey, MoMA,
hey girl, and she just kind of looked at me
and and just kind of kept on moving, didn't want
to take a picture, didn't want to stop and talk
to me. And I knew it was Shade because her
(45:08):
girl Corey, who's on tour with her. Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
I just think she.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Hugged me as in like you know how somebody hugged
you like you know, all girl, it'll be all right
kind of thing. And I was cool with that. And
then furthermore then Kat Williams, you know when his fall
from grace.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Well, why do you think he fell from grace?
Speaker 1 (45:28):
I said, when he falls from Oh?
Speaker 2 (45:29):
When he falls? So do you think he's gonna fall
from grace? Has he done something to you? What did
he do this that.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Has not put me on the tour with him? I
was with Kat when he was on his down, when
they had all those cases and didn't have no money
and stuffed me and Cat hung out for six months
and he talked me, told me everything about the business
and what was happening, and he wasn't gonna do this,
and he wasn't gonna do that and everything, and then
he back doing it. And I understand that because it's
(45:57):
like a lot of them. It's like Kevin, It's like Kat,
even if you quit the business, what are you gonna do.
You can't go back and work at McDonald's. You can't
go do this. You gotta make your deal and you
got to go on and do what you have to
do that's comfortable for you. So I understand that. So,
you know, I just I don't understand. We went in
the back. Me and Lunell went in the back, and
(46:19):
I wanted to talk to him and just say hey.
We went to the back and he basically kind of
ignored me. He talked to me and the third person,
what do you mean. So Linelle had talked about how
she had failed out the uber and she had on crocs,
I had on some heels and he said, and they're
how flat she had on hills and she didn't fall
(46:40):
or whatever. And so then Linelle said, yeah, I never
go on Host's instagram because she don't have never had
nobody on her instagram. He said, yeah, I never go
on hope Instagram. I never see what she's talking about.
Oh it was one time I went on there and
she was at the pool and everything and I watched that.
But other than that, I never go on Hope's instagram,
Hope Flood's instagram. And I said, kat, I said, you
know what, it would hurt my feelings if I had
(47:02):
feelings whatever. And so so I'm just like everybody. Everybody,
everybody's been on tour with them except me and when
I met back.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
But did you ever ask him? Why haven't you? Did
you ever ask him to go on tour?
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Do I have to ask him? Yes? Why?
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Because when you ask, he'll put you on tour.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
He won't.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yes, he will. You just have to ask one thing
about it, and I'll be honest with you. I've any
any time I've ever asked Cat for anything, He's always
done it. Okay, So you know, I think if you
just ask.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
I have asked, not me directly, because I can't get no.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
You have to ask when you see him.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I don't see him, know what you said.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
You just saw I saw him.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
I didn't get a chance to ask him.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
No, it doesn't matter. You could you know what? Listen, Hope.
All you have to do is just laugh it off
and be like, oh Cat, listen, I want to go
on tour, and he'll be like you do what do
you want to do? You want to go onto our
high As soon as you do that, I promise you
Kat will put you on tour. Okay, No, no, because Kat,
(48:13):
like I've asked Kat several times. Like there was one
time me and him were both playing in Baltimore, right,
I was at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. He was at
the what's the arena in Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (48:28):
What is that? I can't remember the stadium?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, So, and I had a lot of people at
my show, but it wasn't like it because I usually
sell out Baltimore, right, Okay. But when I told kat
I ran so we ended up staying at the same hotel, okay.
And I was like, kat I was like, what the fuck?
I was like, these motherfuckers tried to hate on me
(48:52):
at my show tonight. And I was like, these niggas
was talking shit. And he was just like, well, Toy,
that's for all the real niggas were at my show, okay.
And I said, yeah, you're right, You're right. I said,
but Cat, And this was before I played at the Microsoft.
And I said, Cat, you got a show coming up
at the Microsoft. I want to play at the Microsoft
(49:13):
with you, Cat, Okay, that's where I want to be.
And he said, okay, how much do you want? And
I was like, how much do I want? And this
nigga gave me ten K for seven minutes. Okay.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Now you don't have the history I have with him.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Well, you know, I never fucked Cat. I don't know, okay,
but I do have a history. Me and Kat has
watched my pit bull. I have a pit bull. Cat
has dog set for me. No, we have history. I
was at the house sug Night. Sug Night was there
at his Malibu mansion the night that I had my
(49:55):
pit bull there. So Renal ranking, Yeah, you remember Reno
I used to do that was yes, my old manager
and also my man and so we I had. I
went on tour one of my tours and Kat. This
is when he used to have lions on his front
lawn in cages, okay, and I had my pit bull
(50:17):
Hunter and I told Kat, I have to go on
the road and Cat. I don't know. I can't even
remember how my pit bull ended up at Cat's fucking house.
But Kat was fucking taking care of my pit bull.
And I came back and my pit bull and his
dog was fucking having a fight, okay, and my pit
(50:39):
bull was winning. Sugar, Yeah, because I'm a fucking pit bull,
my goddamn self, I'm just under cover with my ship. Yeah,
Sugar Knight had the water holes. He had to get
the water holes to break these motherfuckers up.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, he was like.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
That.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Pitch this. I'm talking about Sugar Knight get the water
and he don't sound like that, but that's my interpretation
of it. He got the fucking water holes and I
can speak on ship like this with niggas that are alive.
A lot of motherfuckers like to tell stories about niggas
that are dead. No, but if you call Sugar Night
on the phone, right and he can verify that.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
Ship, it's hard to call him. He's okay, yeah, but
it's hard for you to.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm just saying he called out of the water warden.
All are saying is take it back. If he asked
Kat for something, just ask.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh you got a number four? H Let me say,
I've asked him around his No.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
You gotta ask him directly. He ain't no roundabout I asked.
Every time I've asked him for something straight like this,
like me and you, he's always say yes.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
I don't do that. I went to ask and then
the way he you know, no, no, no. When I
went back there to ask him to talk to him
about it, you know whatever, I couldn't even get to it.
You know what I'm saying. I couldn't even get to
it to ask him.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Well, move all those fucking handlers and everybody that want
to block niggas out the way, and you gotta fail
because hey, hey, you know, so what's going on for
you next? What do you have going on? Where can
people find you?
Speaker 3 (52:27):
Come?
Speaker 1 (52:28):
I am nothing. No, I'm just tying and so absolutely
and not think I'm not doing anything but waiting, waiting
with patiently for my turn to be interviewed by my girl. Anyway,
I don't have.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
Well, I love you, I know you, and you're amazing
I think, and you're very funny, and I know what
it feels like to be a woman in this business
that helps people and they forget.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
So what I think that. You know, there's some people
that really hurt me in this business that I know
that I've helped. You know, Guy Torri hurt me with
that Fat Tuesday. Guy called me and he said, hope,
if it had not been for you in the townhouse,
there would be no Fat Tuesday. He had a ten
page interview. He called me one day late and we
(53:17):
talked for about two or three hours. He wrote it
all down. He said, IM gonna call you back. I'm
gonna get you on. I never got on the people
who got on never even did Fat Tuesday, the DC
Young Flies, all these people, and I know they did
it for whatever to sell it. I get it, but.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
At some point, but it didn't even do good. So
they put these names on there that don't even know
and that's what they do.
Speaker 1 (53:37):
But I feel like this sometimes when you have a
project and I understand that you got to put these
names on there to sell it, but you, as the
person that created it, like your thing, you got to
say if you told your people like I want Whole
Flood and you're like, nah, she's gonna tell no, I
want her.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Well, the network I actually had a few people like
who is Whole Flood And I said, well, whope, Flood
is actually one of the funniest women that I know,
and I want her on this show.
Speaker 1 (54:01):
That's what you have to do.
Speaker 2 (54:02):
You have to fight for the people want yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
Instead of saying okay, okay, you know. And that hurt
me because you put these people's names on the wall.
They all down here, Lunel and Melanie and Flame and
all of my peers, all of my peers are down
here and I'm not down here, and I deserve to
be there. If I didn't deserve it, that'd be something else.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
Well, well, here's the thing. You know what I will say.
You might have to start asking or demanding and maybe
you're just too kind. Now, maybe these other people are
just saying, you know what, I deserve to be here,
So I want to be here, so put me on
the wall, and maybe you have to start taking that approach. Well,
(54:46):
because you never know how people get on the wall.
You know what, the people you just mentioned, they might
be sucking dick to get on the wall, or they
might you never know, people will.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Do any of the problem doing that.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
I'm just saying, well, I know you like the sub dick.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
You know I love it? Okay, what God is this
gonna air and stuff? But but the thing is that you.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Know I love you.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Why does that have to be the thing?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Why does that happen? Because whatever you want in life,
you just have to say, this is what I have
to subic you have to subjict toget Okay, you have
to subd that's so sad as women as women in
this well, you are already sucking dick, So just I ain't.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
Sucking the right dick evidently, Yeah, you know that's probably
what it is. I ain't sucking the right dick. I'm
sucking a vict I like you know.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
Not and that's the problem you need to suck.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
I just don't think that it should be about that.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
I think that it shouldn't be, but it is.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
I think that it should be talent. And then some
of it is representation because you see some people like
how did they get that? Oh, they got this person
behind them. They got ceg, they got this person, they
got all these persons, these agents and stuff behind them
that pushed them in these rooms that you know.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
They all do they really? I think they're just telling
people what it is.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
They do they Oh, I got you a present, Akan,
can you give me her present? I just want to
show and then we go and Angel you can come on.
That's up or whatever I did. I bought you.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
I love you. I know I'm sleeping too.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
I'm sleeping. When I got here, okay, at nine o'clock,
I was sleeping. She told me, I brought your present.
So you know. I make hats. I make cowboy hats.
My grandmother made hats from scratch. She was a millinery.
My grandmother had a sixth grade education, but she made
hats from scratch. I didn't get that part of it,
but I do put stuff on the hats and design
hat and so today I said, I'm gonna make my girl.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
And I love cowboy hats and cowboy boys. I got
cowboy boots in the bag.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
I hope you like it.
Speaker 2 (56:36):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
It's for you, that's for you. And then I got
you you know, my convention, my comics. He's an old
T shirt, my comics rock t shirt. And then I
got comic comedians. I tell them all the time, quit
getting on every microphone you see, every mic you see.
You don't have to get on Sometimes both to the
comedy club and sit in the back and shut the
fuck up and enjoy somebody else. So I created this
(57:00):
T shirt called mic whore because I tell to me
all the time, would being a mic whore?
Speaker 2 (57:04):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (57:08):
So there? And then I have your edibles in here.
You know, I have a cannabis company. I hope that'd
be is all your cannabis and CBD needs.
Speaker 3 (57:16):
Thank you, ho, I love you.
Speaker 1 (57:28):
You need
Speaker 2 (57:35):
Were you being to read his gangs and lean pay
attention to everything, walk around town like he the ships
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