Best of 2025- Kings of Comedy - Nate Jackson On Mastering Crowd Work, New Netflix Special, 'The Office' Spinoff, Gary Owen. Recorded 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Every day a week. Click your ass up the breakfast clubs,
y'all done.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, it's the world's more dangerous Morning to show the
Breakfast Club Charlamagne and the God just hilarious dj mvs
around here somewhere. But we got a special guests in
the building. He's got a new Netflix special call super Funny.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Nate Jackson is here. How you doing? My brothers doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Don't come don't look over here and get grid in
and smiling looking for material.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, all right, we see going all.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This is my first time on Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm like, Yo, that's crazy. He just en That's what
I'm on.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
What's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Think it's going crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Congratulations, Thank you so much. I love that. I love
to see what we like us we get specials.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You proud of me? Are you kidding me? I watched
the video with the flickering and you came down the hall,
went in and disappeared in the chair. I was like,
thank you, Nate, Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The people who don't know or who may not be familiar.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Who is Nate jacks Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I guess t I dubb me the King of crowd
work I'm an entrepreneur on the biggest black on comedy
club in the country.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Super Funny Comedy Club.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
There you going to Coma Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm a guy that got it out the mud from
the very bottom and scraped my way up to Netflix
special that was in the top ten and peaked at
number three and did extremely well for the platform. And uh,
there's a lot coming. There's TV shows, there's movies, and
so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's who I am.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, I'm I'm your excited, huggable gangster cousin of the.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
People that probably don't you know, might have thought you
came out of know it like you got the Super
Funny Comedy Club in twenty twenty one, right.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, Basically we were building it and then the news
was saying that COVID.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Was cold, was coming, which is which is which is.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's hard enough to build a place, let alone watch
the news and be like, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Think it's gonna come over. I don't think it's gonna
If you remember, Seattle's were first touchdown in the United States.
As soon as it was like I think it was Everett,
Washington or something, it was like two hours north.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I was like oh this is a rap, So that
might have been a blessing. Then if you do some
PvP loans, no.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Because you have to be open for like a year
to get the idea. Yeah, we had no help.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We could like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Man, I tried. I tried to create. I was a
I was auto detailed business. I have grooming business, I
cleaned shoes.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I was coming up with everything.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
All of them are like nothing was working. So now
we just fought on our own. We just fought it,
you know what I'm saying, and survived. And so we
were at the first location for five years. Now we're
at a brand new location downtown on the Marriotte Block
from Tacoma.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know. But it's it's it's that's it, like this
is this is it from my city.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're in the most peak spot, best location he could be.
And now it's like we're thriving like crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Would you a veteran you've been doing comedy for like
twenty twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Twenty somewhere between twenty three and twenty four, OK, Yeah, yeah,
for sure, I've been. I've been, That's what I'm saying.
I've been at it for a minute. You know what,
we've met before, and it's worth for me talking about
for a second. Charla Maine. So I was working with
Jesse Collins Entertainment as a crowd warm up and they
(03:20):
did this show Hip Hop Hollywood Squares. Yeah, and Jess
was the square and DC was the square and other
like cast members from Wilding Out and stuff for squares. Yeah. OK,
And I really wanted to be in a square, like
when soundstage wild be empty, I'd be sitting in a
square and like to the point where they like overheadsets
(03:41):
like that was like Nate Jackson out of the square,
like just total rejection, Like yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Like this is for stars entertained the crowd which is.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Mad humbling, right, Like I've been won the bay, all
the accolades and stuff, and I'm looking at who my
peers are and I'm like, I've can you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Cuss on here?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah? Like I fuck with all of them, but you
can't get a square. Let me get just like one
of them shitty episodes like episode fourteen out of fifteen
that y'all done through to the low budget one.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know what I'm saying. Man, They put me out
the chair.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So we were on a break in between two segments
and I was so upset this day. Man, you had
one of them days where you're like, man, fuck all this. Yeah,
that's what I was on. And uh, Tip was like
in the top left square and I had met we
had met before, and he told me to He was
like play.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Uh you want me to play juvenile.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Degree?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
He was like, so I played.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I remember the day now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So he was up.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There sod in the break. You were like, come in,
you know, and so Tip was like doing that. And
then I came down and you you were either on
the bottom ente or the left, but you were right there,
and uh you were like, yo, you're killing it. I
was like, excuse me, and you were like I fucked
with like the I can't I'm exactly what you said,
but you were like, I fuck with like, you know,
(05:02):
the crowd work guys, with the little guy, because I
was the little guy. Man. I came up under windy
and I grinded. I got it out the mud. When
I see y'all watch, I was like, nigga, you don't
even know what that did for me that day.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Wow, oh mama, And I'm just telling you the little
things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I was like, you know what let me just play
my role, let me do my ship, and let me
just you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But that was actually that was heavy that day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I remember that day because when the degrees came on,
all of us that's from the South started rapping.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It like everybody didn't talk like that was a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nine on TV about that, and I looked up in
all nine Squirts Rock I was like, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I remember you doing the crowd work, but I remember
being a little bit bigger.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, I remember.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Breakfast club because we're trying to lose weight. Yeah, I went,
I went fruit and veggie raw at the may first,
and I lost thirty eight point five pounds. So I'm
just like melting And so now I'm like trying to introduce,
you know, some white meats back and whatever, just because
I was like, man, there's too much chicken going to buy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Everybody like we eating with you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So I basically just eat around the outside of the
grocery store and stay off the middle. And so I've
just been melting away. Was it a scale or you
just wanted to get healthy or the reason why I
want to see where my dick connect to my body? Okay, look, yeah,
I have a joke about it. I can see the
first seven inches, but that first five I can't see
that part.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But no, I just wanted to lose some weight, man,
I had. We lost, Teddy Ray, we lost.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I were laughing at that. Now I'm laughing. I'm still
having the big jokes.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
They did the math.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Too, anyway, seventy half but rescip But you.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Know what I noticed in your special you talk about
it a lot, your weight and eating.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
You got a lot of food jokes or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You had it like four minutes of to just break
the ice.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And they're like, well that's what we're gonna take for
the for the national clip. That's gonna be your trailer.
I'm like, okay, so now, okay, what about all the
other stuff I said.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But how does it impact now?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Because now you you know, you lost lost a lot
of weighting and I guess and you're still coming down, right,
So how does that affect your comedy now?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Like you're still doing the food jokes?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You can. I mean it's not I don't have I
had food jokes, but it was more about weight lost
jokes and temptation and you can have that at anyway,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Saying, Like it was it was crafted or I was like,
I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Losing weight, but I can still get these jokes off.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But at the end of it, I write a lot
and that's what that's what, that's what the crowd work.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And you're writing on the spot, so just.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Switch it up.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Is there anything that you stay away from, like, you know,
because I feel like the world is so sensitive now,
Like you say.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
One thing, you know we're gonna cancel you did it?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Think that you stay away from it?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You like, fuck it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I kind of am with everything, but I will I
will tread lightly around, uh, you know, some politics stuff
because it's they've just been so it's so magnetized, you
know that. At a point people are like, I don't
even care what you's talk about, No Moore because he's
not He's obviously not. And I'm like, man, just chill out.
I want everybody to laugh first, right, That's that's why
(08:24):
it's called super funny.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's the theme of the show. Love, love hard, eat good,
and laugh, laugh to your fullest.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
So that's the thing. That's what That's what it is.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
I was gonna say, do you think people miss the
funny and things because they want to cancel you? They
are looking for something to be hurt or affected by?
Because I remember one time you just laughed. It wasn't
It could be a black joke, a white joke, a
gay joke, a stranger.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It didn't matter. If it was funny, it was funny.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
But now I feel like people look for something to
be like, I'm gonna cancel you off that word right there?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know, yeah, depend on the word, but yeah, or
the term or the joke.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think it depends on how you saying it, right,
Like what I can what I can stand the least
is when a comic takes the time to craft a
beautiful joke, and I mean a beautiful joke where it
like meanders and then you get hit with the punch
and then you still be like, but the topic was
stud of out, Hey, man, chill out.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
That's a good ass joke.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Also, I think we're shifting back some and I don't
want to say it on a platform so big that
people are like, oh, you think we won't cancel you too.
I don't need that smoke. But I'm just saying I
think there's been a shift since maybe twenty nineteen, twenty
twenty gams, and so there's been some pushback people like
Schultz and people like Chappelle that are like, I'm man,
fuck all that comedy first, then we'll talk about what's next.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
That's the key to that though, right, Like, if you
are gonna say anything that's gonna be even a little
bit controversy, it has to be funny fun so people
can't be worried. It gotta be so funny to the
point where they only need want cancel.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You man, that is funny. R.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah. I had a joke about a Vietnamese car dealer
and it don't sounds ridiculous. I'm from Tacoma Water and
we kick it with the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Simons, black people,
we all, everyone's all. We all mixing. So when you
go gamble, the dealer gonna be Vietnamese. And they were
teaching me words, and so I started picking up on
the dillect and be like do my and stuff like that.
(10:13):
So I had this joke of that that means fuck you,
and so I picked up on that. This is uh
uma is fuck you, and dou Miama is fuck your mama,
and then uh uh. The Cambodians they be like they
own my something like that and that means like pussy ass.
So they said that a lot, and I just start
hearing it not knowing what it was. I'm like, why
y'all keep saying do ma? What is doma? And they're like,
oh yeah me fuck you. I'm like, what the fuck?
(10:36):
So I wrote a joke about how I had found out,
but I put it after I hit a jackpot. So
basically she was calling me bow bow, which was my
interpretation of her saying nigga to my face, and I
didn't know. So I slowly revealed that they've been.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Being racist to me.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And then I get her some get back the dealer
and I say she acts black, so she I said, well, okay,
you act black then, and she's like, I don't know
my father. I'm like, bitch, that's you want to sound.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Don't she about to come in like.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That triggered her. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was watching one of your specials before one of
your CrowdWork specialist, Man, there was a fat dude in
the crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The fat dude named big Mac that do security.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't know if you remember, but the dude was
like he said something to you, and you was like,
don't get mad at me. I'm not the one who
fed you.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
In the comments like pot calling the kettle black, I'm like, nah,
that's a little pot called a big kettle. But the
point of the Vietnamese joke was that same joke. JFL
was like, we can't have you up here because you're
saying that joke. Did you listen to right? So I
just got back from that, came straight from Montreil here
to I had my own show. I had like I
(12:06):
did Variety top ten. Yes I got that this year
and so. But but it brings it full circle to
be like you almost. I was like I should I
should do the joke, you know what I'm saying. But
they showed me so much love. I was like, you
know what, I'm not gonna be bitter canny if it's funny. Now,
if I just came out like Vietnamese sound crazy and
I just start cussing like him like that, that is
(12:27):
you overstepping.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. But and that's my pet.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
People like if somebody if you can you can hear
the intellect and the joke and the setup and be like, oh,
that was a good misdirection to hear that, be like, nah,
it's like how some older black people like I didn't
even have fun because he cussed fourteen times. He's in
there counting exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Man's show. Yes, listen to give people the story.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So you went from doing the warm up, warming up
the crowd at the hip hop Square, but I know
you ended up on a while and now like, how
did all of those stuff things happen?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh my goodness, Uh, that that's not my start. My start.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I just got dared to do comedy while I was
in college and I went on stage and I was like, oh,
this was kind of good, and so I stuck with it.
And then I moved immediately to LA and I was
there for like six years, and then I was like,
I need to go home and stack some bread. So
I started like twelve shows and then I combined into
one show and it was like the biggest show. It
was like Thursday Night was like four hundred and twenty people.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
For like eight years. It was massive.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And in Tacoma, Yeah, downtown Tacoma. And if it's really
like eighty people every Thursday in case I RS is listening.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
So it was like it was Hella.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
But then I stacked and came back, and so then
different opportunities started to kind of come together, and so
I had an opportunity to work with Jesse Collins Entertainment,
and that's how I did the crowd work. And I
think it was just a plug from Dray because you know,
I do Monday nights at the Improv and it looks
shout out to Dray, and so that's how I got
(13:54):
into that. But the way Hollywood, man, you'll have a
day where you're like, yo, I made it. You'll be
stick in on a table, fist pumping the air between
Tony Rock and Chris Rock, you know what I'm saying,
Like it would feel like a million bucks. And then
the next day you're like, damn, I gotta perform in
this dungeon. It's not it's not it's up there, but
(14:14):
you gotta do it all. And so you know that,
that's essentially why I was where I was. I was like, man,
I just can't get a damn I got wilding out.
Bet I do four episodes now, says I look old
I'm like, nigga, Corey Holkom is here, how.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No shame, no shame.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm just saying, don't sell old nigga. Like I waited
to get on the show for six years. Yeah, old,
Now give me a part of my hair. Let me rock.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And then every game was rapping. I'm like, nigga, we
can't just.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Do no old.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Nigga.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They would have a game all right, this is what
we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You're gonna roast this thing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
We're like promise, like yo, yeah, Nick in the corner,
like you know what he needs bars. They were like
get out the way, trying to clips man, he come,
just go ahead. I'm like, that's not my bagnigg. I'll
learn it, but that ain't my bag. You only did
four episodes a while out, Yeah, but they were big
(15:13):
ones though. They were big ones though, Like I did
Erkabaddu episode. We did because I can sing too. So
we did the Revenge of Tyrone where she did the
follow up to call Tyrone, and then I did the
Travis Scott episode, and then I did the one where
the dude had hell of kids, but then he said we.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Can't talk about the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Nick kny no, no, it was somebody want more? I
think Cromarty Antonio, Yeah, that's all we want to talk about,
Like you got a million kids? He was like anything
but the kids. We're like, well, then go home, because yeah,
so I did some good you know what I'm saying.
And so I'll like that, you know what I think
the reason I only got the four and I'd like
(15:52):
to say this on this platform. On the Erkabad episode,
she came and she was like, Yo, let me meet
the people. I'm gonna be on the episode with it
and the eighty five South guys all stood around on
the sound stage with now and she's like, here's what
I think we should do, and now ran down the games.
Here's what we're gonna do. Freestyle from there. She's like, Okay,
I'm going to my dressing room. I want i want
(16:13):
one of the brighter ones to come with me. Now
I'm standing up there with one episode under my belt.
She's like you, what's your name? I'm like Nate Jackson.
She's like, you you telling me what's going on here?
And now I was like, I was like, hey, Carlos,
can you come with me? Grab Carlos, we go down.
She's like, there's gonna be a part where I go
down to my knee and I'm singing real hard. I
want you to put my jacket on me like James Brown.
I'm gonna throw it off and come back like a
(16:34):
phoenix and I'm gonna kill it. I'm like, bet that
part of the show happens, I walk out, I put
the thing on her. Everything happens as planned. After it's over,
exacs come up and they're like, who the fuck told
you to walk out?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Sorry? What?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wow? Air Cab, I do that? Erbadue told you to
walk out? Yeah, she said throw the thing on her.
Why do you what you thought? I just over just
came out the I know I'm barely welcome here, nigga.
Why would I put yeah, mess up your milling million
dollar a moment, you know what I'm saying. And so
that's what it was like. I was on ice, but
it only takes the show.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So even if you did.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Do that and it worked, come on, man, think you
put the other hat on exact, you put your bag
in the air can being on an episode and come
one of your little niggas doing anything in the frame
that she asked to do that specifically. And I even
remember being like somebody was next to me. I was like,
actually said to the thing, you want to go out
and they were like, no, man, I don't want to go.
(17:27):
I'm like, okay, well she asked like I'm not gonna.
I don't want to not do it. Then after she's like,
where was the nigga with that? I was waiting, man,
when nigga niggas like batman nigga? You see Nick there
and then motherfuckers Nina smoke hell. Nick one.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
The last time you see nigga jazz playing cards on
the internet, I'm not seeing that. It's just in the
garage doing upside down set ups. You will never see Nick.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You got too many shows.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Six shows. I could not believe. Bro He shot like
a vlog, a Diesus and Meryle thing. He shot walling out,
then he went to a g T then he shot
a car show.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Then I was like, this is tired. Now.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
See Nick, when with the successor of social media for you,
how did that affect? Did that happen because you planned
it out? Or were people just taking clips and you
were just like, what the is going on?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
No, man, I've been grinding for a minute, and so
that's what I was saying when I had the Thursday
Night for so many years, you could come to the
Pacific Northwest and be like, Okay, there's a guy out
there that got the sauce right, And so what happens
a lot of times if somebody's further in their career
than you, they'd be like, let me just get a
little bit of that and take that with me. So
there was a lot of my recipe out ahead of
me before I had the exposure.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
They're stealing your stuff, you know, they were stealing your stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
A man, I don't want to call nobody no thief
without them here to defend himself, you know what I'm saying,
And also to be choked or whatever happens after that.
They don't have to there's ways to catch people. All
I had to do was wait, be patient, work hard.
Like you said, the Netflix special speaks for itself. It's
like watching Elvis for years and then you see the
(19:09):
dude who showed them the legs, like them that nigga
got the legs, you know what I'm saying. So uh
that that made me forget the damn Yeah. So one
of the homies, not one of homies. Several people like
Matt Rife, Roy Wood and Rodney Perry. They're all like
and shout out to Rodney Perry, but they're like, yo,
(19:29):
you need to get on, get on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And I was like, I'm exhausted right now. I am
not getting another app.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You know that, Yes, yes, right, and get on, get
on the boo boom like I'm not getting on doole
boom boom nigga. Like I'm done. I'm happy with my
I g set up my Facebook. Shit cool, I'm not
hiring a nigga to put me on doodle Boom blue.
And that's how it sound we you first here, because
it's always a something you on the t app.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Right now, they got my house address and my damn.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Not that I know, not that I know. Unless somebody
post Nate Jackson on the t app.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Man, I'm not on there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's a tough groom. Post post him on there. Maybe
they'll tell you where he is.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Speak.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I wasn't dancing on that guy. But no, I said,
I don't want to do another app, and so I
got on reluctantly. I got on TikTok and I don't
know if it's still exactly like this, but at the time,
like people were willing to actually follow because people's I
g be set up. Somebody gotta really somebody gotta you
gotta see twelve good things from somebody, be like, you
(20:48):
know what, I'm gonna give you a fu on TikTok.
It just felt like, Hi, I follow, you know what
I'm saying. So it jumped for It jumped from me
like from zero, like twenty five thousand and like, I
don't know, I'd say, a month, what was you posting
this CrowdWork? No, I was posting anything, but I didn't
want to show understand that you know what I'm saying.
(21:09):
And plus I was like I was trying to shoot
it and I would shoot good and then the sound
be fucked up where the sound be good and then
the shot be fucked up. Then I just committed to
it and got the system down at my own club,
and then I was like, Okay, now I can consistently
do stuff. But at the time, there was no apps
for captioning or AI, so you had to actually sit
there and transcribe yourself. It took three four hours to
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do a two minute video, and so I was like,
I'm exhausted doing this shit.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, all this is free.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But I could look on the app and see like
other people exploding where I'm like, okay, if I post
my shit because I already know I'm great at that,
if that worked, if that clip I just saw work
and I know what I'm holding, if I could just
post this, you know what I'm saying. And so it
just started to catch, and so it kept catching and
kept catching and kept catching. So now we're at four
point five maybe four point six million or something.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You think that era is dead because I feel like
there was a moment where it was like the You
and the matt Rice and the Andrews Shoultzes that was
just putting their comedy up and it just took off
of them. I don't know if it was COVID because
everybody was sitting there. I don't know what it was,
but something just caused comedians to take off because of
social media.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It wasn't It wasn't COVID. For me, I was trying
to save my club, that wasn't it. I didn't get
to post it until like right after I was like,
we can finally open and get situated. No, I don't
think it's I don't think that's over. I think people's
interest to be entertained is I would say it's limitless.
They say during the Great Depression when everybody broke, the
last thing people spent money on was going to theaters
(22:40):
and stuff like, if I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna
go out having fun. So no, I don't think I
think it's an insation. But doesn't it feel like it like,
no matter how much content you make, there's somebody to
receive it, and they're gonna give me more. So no,
I feel like it just be consistent and be good,
and be good consistently, and I think people find you,
like people just need to use the internet as a
time the show, and that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
What's had more impact on your career the YouTube crowd
work stuff or.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The Netflix special?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's not fair because Netflix has only been on since
the eighth gotcha, But I know I've I've had my
because when you do a special, you get to have
a conversation at I think ten days and then another
one at twenty eight days about the numbers.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Other than that, you guys know, Netflix don't share no
numbers like that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, And so my first conversation with them, it was
it did massive like it it's like double platinum, like
it did really good on the platform, and I'm getting
stopped by people in the airports and that was happening before.
So I'm trying to gauge, like so where you see
me from where you see and they won't admit, like
everybody want to be I've been following since filing out,
like whatepisode, nigga.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Nobody want to say that. I mean, I saw you
last night, and I mean I called it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Super funny, like my trademarked comedy club name and brand,
so that even if you didn't know me, you go
super funny show me right, and it's it's going crazy
right now. So if you want to laugh, go watch that.
But I got to show that it's not just CrowdWork.
I got to show you know, twenty four years of
chops or whatever, and so you see it all you
(24:12):
see if you watch a stand a standalone clip, you're
assuming that that's that. But the real epiphany is like, wait,
all that's one show. All that strings together all that
somehow and standing and he's doing some singings and it
like so I wanted to just give everything in my
in my toolbox and throw it out there and we
caught it, and it's risky. It's risky doing crowd work
(24:34):
on a you know, that ship was two hundred and
forty six thousand dollars. And I'm gonna go up and
I don't know what I'm gonna say. But you get
Comic View and they're like, we want your jokes and
paragraph form, you know, every single word. You gotta you
gotta write down your little five minutes and send it
in and they approve it. But for this cord over
quarter million dollars, I'm like, man, just press record nigg
we're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
And we caught it.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But it was risky, and it's risky every time you
do it because you're in charge of your set and
then and you're going a certain cadence and then you
slow down to be like, so tell me something about
you else, and now they are then in fuck the
whole groove of you know what I'm saying. And so,
but I went for it, and and what you see
on on Netflix, we caught it. Yeah, you know what
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I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
How did that? How did that come about?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Though?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
How did how did Netflix end up the place?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So let me answer that for sure, because this is
I'm crazy about that answer. But then on the other
side of the coin is what I can control is
the crowd work joints. I walk out, It's first Wednesdays
at my club, one or two shows, and I'm and
the challenge was, you can only talk about what's in
front of you or what you've seen that day, and
(25:46):
I gotta do an hour. So I go up with
nothing and I come off. And so there's twenty four
of those now, and every one is somewhere around one
point five to two point five million views. And so
it's the only place where I explained like the rules
that I do when I say so. When I'm in
live shows in theaters and I start saying the rule,
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they're finishing my sentences. So I think the crowd work
joints is what got me to the point that the
Netflix special was possible to then go boom on this
platform where everybody goes this is this is where you
put your your best shit and I and I did so.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Now people, oh, I thought he was just a tiktak guy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm shocked Netflix did that, though. I mean, because based
off watching your specialis I'm shocked that they chose to
invest in something like that, like, oh, what is it
gonna be an hour just CrowdWork, even though the crowd
work is funny as shit.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
No, they didn't know. It was a licensing deal. Got you.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I had a licensing deal and I've done They've I've
had to present my comedy to Netflix or somebody like
Netflix or Netflix associated in that sphere, whether it was
just CrowdWork, whether it was you know what I'm saying.
But then if you're not sure if the crowdwork's gonna work, well,
but the person has twenty I think nineteen hours of
it at that point, nineteen hours of crowd working and
(27:02):
of them missing.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like okay, all right, do you remember when you called
that couple Seal and Heidi Boom?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Sometimes God just give you one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You're like, how y'all meet? She was like, well, I was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was dating somebody he knew and she was dating
somebody I knew, and both of them went to jail.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, But it was a it was a brother that
looked like Seal and a big white girl with I
think corn Rolls or something.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I was like, boom.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But so to answer your question, you basically said why Netflix,
So it's it's simple for me. But like, so my
mama getting older and she has an office downstairs at
our house in Lacey, Washington, and she got to go
down these steps to go down in this cold ass basement,
turn on the area heater to get on Netflix or
to get on any streaming platform.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But Netflix came on their old ass smart TV, which's
dumb now, but that was the one.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I was like, it's a smart TV built in so
she will watch Netflix and from the comfort of the couch,
fireplace and all that. So for me, I was like,
this is how my mama gonna see me.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
In the comforting yeah, oh wow wow.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So you pray it with all the other stuff you
know about Netflix, and it kind of makes sense. But
if they're not gonna get me a deal, it's like
I gotta go to wherever. But that's why I was like,
I could just stick it on YouTube with the crowd
work joints where there's now seven hundred and fifty thousand people.
I think that would land well. But let's see if
we can get traction with them. Because just literally I
was on calls with agency. They're like, where do you
what platform. I'm like, Netflix, why my mama can't watch
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this ship down?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Stick? Like I need her in the living room and
being like my baby did it? I need that and
we and that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Gary about to write that down. He's gonna try to
use that to get his Netflix special. You know, Gary
can't get a Netflix special for nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No podcast got here.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's called Gary and Nate.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I did not know that Gary had the podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah he got uh, this is called Gary on Yeah,
and I got my.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Own funny and ship. You had a definitely special? How
did you break the news the gay right after?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
He told me that they turned him down?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
But I didn't mean to say it that way though,
Like he was like, he, man, I'm waiting to find
out about Netflix now. I had already knew, like I
might be riding in third on mine, and so I
just had to sit there and he told me the
whole thing, like yeah, man, I'm ready for it to
get on there.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Man, I don't know what it's about. And I was like, man,
maybe you know, just keep talking along.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You didn't want to give me good news yet I
had to wait.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I had to wait till like the moment of like, yeah,
you want to hear something crazy, man, but you can't.
You can't go.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You can't ask stupid. Though you can't tell nobody, you
can't say you can't ask stupid. He was like, what
you got? What you got? And I was like, yeah,
your Netflix gave me mine.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
He was like, that's what's up. I support that, but no,
so so he deserves one.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
On the podcast, you said, Gary be taking your staff?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Where do you see that at your podcast?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Talked about it live, so you saw us come to
a resolution, and you want to go back to when
it was fucked up and start to the resolution.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I'll precede this with working.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But what happened with Gary taking this stof this is
the thing and it's my nature to want to see
those around me do well. And I had to have
a full on epiphany in twenty twelve to be like,
stop helping another niggas help yourself. Because I was putting
so much into other people's dreams. I was like, I'm tired.
I ain't even do nothing for myself for that Jesus,
(30:31):
And it's good to have a balance, but I had
lost mind just trying to like I want to see
I'm helping. I'm helping out like at a point I
was helping young black Hollywood thrive. And then the other
thing that would suck is they would get on and
then everybody got amnesia who helped you? And I'm like,
here we go, here go to credits, Here I go,
here I go. Dang this nigga don went he done
popped and forgot you boy. And that's another reason. That's
(30:54):
another reason why I feel some kind of way because
the Netflix credits aren't right, like we got to update them.
They forgot like right hand my guy Trenton Cotton is
not and he was like, yeah, I know, I know,
I'm int a. The whole thing goes by. He ain't,
so shout out to teacap.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
But they are going to fix that, you said, then
they can update it.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah. So anyway, Gary would come up to the club.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
He did the weekend and the weekend was great, and
I asked him to do my podcast and we had
a great episode and then it was just it was
we just synergized to where it was like, yo, we
should probably do something. And then it turned into like
the Gary and Nate pod and then the CrowdWork Joints
that I was putting out where I'm putting out once
a month or whatever. I like, somebody sent me and
was like, yo, Gary got these things he's doing once
(31:38):
a month now, And I was like, well, I said,
Gary did what? So I didn't say nothing. I just
sat on because we were only filming once a month.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I've been seeing Gary do more CrowdWork. I'm not I'm
not even joking Crowork.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah you'll see it and it just pops up right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, white people will always do that to us.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Good for Gary Man. I love that he's attraction because
Gary's hella funny.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, we love Gary Man. This story.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
You not know y'all had a pot. I just subscribed
to it. You'll only started in November though it.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Was also done.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
We're gonna do one more episode explaining that is over,
We're done, what.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Can't episode and that's hello, it's over now. I just subscribed.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Look, I literally just the same button finish the story.
Subscribe to Opinionated Charlotte Mane, that's my podcast. Subscribed to
Opinionated and subscribed to get subscribe to get sure You
subscribed to get Some and then opinionated his mind described.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's enough out here for all of us to get it.
Finish the story. It's not even a full story. Damn envy,
envy just.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Being the fight Henny, hen that's what you do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
He's just poked the bear.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
He is.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Listen, I rock with Gary, I have no I have
no malice, you know what I'm saying. And so he's
good but uh not. But it's just an And so
I have noticed that as I'm up in the Pacific
Northwest fighting for ways to be an innovator and stay
relevant from way to fuck up there and off the grid, that.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Sometimes people come up and they're like, oh, that sh
is that's the sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You can't I can't protect that, whether he comes close
to me and does it, or stay away.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
From me and does it.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If somebody sees an editing style or a wave or
I don't know, a dress, or away somebody walks and
talk and it's working, there's nothing you can do. He
from he from there, Well, he's from Ohiobaio.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He lived listening envious Why.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
He's literally saying every point of contention from when we
argued at the end of the day, we only were recording. First.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You said that you said you ain't want even baseball.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
N Gary was like, nigga, look at me at my
wedding party, he said, nigga, look at me now, you know.
Goddamn Well, like a week, Gary solid nothing to be
saying that anybody is wondering. I'm mad on it. He good, good, okay, now,
(34:26):
but just not doing the podcast no more. But y'all good, No,
I can't. It's because we do first busy, We do
First Mondays, and so he'll come up and do the
club and the door deal is what makes it worth
coming up.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Then we record one or two or three or four
episodes in.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
One day or two and then two and it'd be
my only two days off for maybe a fourteenth stretch
of road gigs.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I'm like, Gary, I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
So I'm doing I'm doing a comedy festival the eleventh
through the seventeenth because my birthday is the fourteenth in August,
and so he's gonna come up and he's gonna do
Monday the eleventh, and then we're gonna do one more
episode just and we're just busy.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Where's comedy festival is in your hometown?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, Sin Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
OK.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, so and we got Tony Rock anchoring the weekend,
Garyol do the Monday. Then I'm gonna do a Nate
Jackson Presents on Monday. It's one of my concepts where
it's like I'm hosting for thirty five forty minutes and
then all the acts just come out the door.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
You don't know who's on stage, kind of like this
a Sunday show.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, this makes so much because I was listening to
the Gary's pod like last week, and I was wondering
why he was just going in on people who do CrowdWork.
He was like, people who do CrowdWork are lazy and
they don't really know how to write.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But now, so Garrekey on his pod, that's not made up.
That sounds made up. Oh yeah, I did make it up.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Hey, yo, I didn't make that up because here's why.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Here's why it's made up.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Because if you do CrowdWork, or attempt to do crowd work,
and you have good moments and you string them together,
you already know you're using traditional stand up structure, but
you're plugging the information you got off the people into that.
So we're writing live and on the spot. And I
think that what's overlooked is the phenomena of why people
(36:10):
are like why growwork Because you're in the crowd and
you're hearing the response. Your brain is processing the same
information and you're like, what I say, what was he
gonna say? And every time the person you like that
does it finds an angle everything like.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That's why it's actually funnier.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
It actually shows that that person is funnier because it's
not something that they actually pre wrote.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's like on the in the spot, on the.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Moment, Yeah, man, put two quotes in front and behind that,
and then let's run with that one. Because there's there
is there is a school of thought that's like that's
or they're not working hard, or they're not they're just
they don't have jokes. So that's why I'm like, okay,
one follow me then to try it and let me
see what you're doing. And I'll be like, no, I
(36:53):
see why you think it's lazy, But I put the works.
I said, I had a room every Thursday night. Can't
no young comic hold it down as a host everything?
You know, there's no pen in the world that can
keep up with that amount of monologues. So I just
started going up with nothing and fucking with people and
it was not good.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Got good. What happens if there's nothing that inspires you
from the crowd.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But I say that, I talk about how there's nothing
and how what a guess who character nothing to talk about?
Slow ass answer, havn't ask crowd? Is this There's funny
even in the lack of it too, you know what
I'm saying. I seen somebody get roasted that had nothing
wrong with them. Somebody was like, nigga, you look easy
to draw. I saw that online. M like, what are
(37:35):
you going to say when the person with a person's
face is mastic, They're like, hey, you look easy to draw.
I was like, see, that's genius. So now there's plenty
of stuff to talk about. And like I said, I
can talk about anything I saw since I woke up
or what's in front of me. So if I got
to start with whatever, like I would have been, I
would have went on stage and been like, y'all see coldplay,
y'all see the dude get caught, Like I can talk
(37:55):
about that at a CrowdWork joint. And now it's like,
who in here cheat? Now we got some segue to
get through, you know what I mean? But like it's
almost a gift when you get something, you're like, Okay,
let's cook with this, right, and I like to find
a few so that I can do callbacks and have
it all come together and jail together. So at the
end you're like, that was that wasn't just that was
(38:16):
an experience. That was just a couple of moments.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
You ever had somebody roast you back like and and
actually be good like a nutty professor?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
When when who's whose titties over here?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Remember when?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Remember when Eddie went off on when Dachapelle was playing
the comedian he came back his buddy love.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, uh No, I've never had nothing that crazy happen.
But I've had I've had I had a guy. But
here's the thing. A lot of times the person that
wants to do that, they're not on the cadence of
the show. They waiting for you to take a breath
or like, give me get a a segue between two things,
to yell out and try to fuck the think.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But I ain't had it happen yet.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, a long time ago on Thursday Night or whatever,
somebody was like, man, I'm like, come up here and
in and this just went back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, and I lost and I was like, congratulations.
Down Was it a comedian or a random guy? He
beat me because he was like he said, this is
what he said. He said, your mama's pussy so deep.
I went down on her. My ears popped, and that's
(39:14):
what I said. And I didn't have it. I was like, yeah, nigga,
that that's the winner.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
You never had anybody get mad like and try to fight.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
H No, because I like to be honest with you,
like i'd say, like ninety percent of it is reading
body language. You kind of can look at who who's
with this and now now I should never have to
deal with it. Because the front five to seven rows
of my show is sold online for more Pini and
it's called the roll Zone, so they literally it's like
(39:46):
the splash on, like you only do that if you
want to just blash, like how Gallagher would hit the
water melons.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so if you're in a row zone, I don't want.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
To hear shit like what it is. They'd be mad
if I don't get man, we just our second time coming.
You ain't get it either doing man, come again, bro,
I'll get you.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
So in general, no, not now, but at the like,
if I'm just doing a show that's not mine or
gigging or something, it's about like who's who, who's with it,
generally eye contact, smiling or at least looking, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Definitely not big enough that I'm like.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
That would be about.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
That'd be a good that'd be a good fight.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Like I'm not looking for I'm not roasting somebody that
I've got to tussle with six minutes and we don't
know who won.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Big Mac was big as hell, and he said, you
do security as hell.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I do security right.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Why you gotta put Burrow on the end.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I could run away from him skipping, Nigga, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Run trying to catch me. No, that's a belly shot.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
We out of there. What is what is this paper?
Spin off? I mean the spin off the office?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
This is good. These niggas are really good, you guys.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Do you guys just sit up here and be like, man,
we're good at this ship.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Do you know you're the best work doing it for
a while.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
No, niggas are good. Just spend I didn't think that
was in your thing.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I don't know. Yeah, So The Office is coming back
and it's called it's called The Paper. I wouldn't necessarily
call it a spin off because it's in the same universe,
the same world, some of the characters are the same,
and so, uh, there is a serious nda around what
we can say and cannot say. But it comes back
on September fourth, and this shit is gonna be hilarious.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
I am very very proud of you for doing that.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
You are that type of witty ass comedian know that
with totally be great in the Office or the Office universe.
So that's one of my favorite shows, Modern Family, The Office,
And like, I love that you are in that pocket
of wit and that's that feels good to me to
see that you're gonna be doing that working up man.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Thank you and I and I'm I'm just thankful. But
I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I think I'm in more episodes than I'm not. And yes,
because Greg Daniels can see your boy, so uh yes,
and there's and once you're in a sitcom like that,
there's a lot less competition, you know, I mean, like
you you're the person you're in This is when you
get to go do your thing, while now it's twenty
(42:04):
four people waiting to get one spot.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, literally, you got you're gonna get the.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Rappers, you're gonna get the contracted guys, and you got
the celebrity. Oh they brought their little sister with them. Then,
uh so there's two spots and there's twenty four people
waiting to get tapped to be against each other. On
the others, you'd be like, man, I don't know if
I'm gonna get a episode, but you can see it.
And then here come Michael Blackson wasn't even on the
damn show you what's something about Socca? And he and
because he's nick boy, you don't get no burn shout
(42:31):
out the mic. But that's just that's how you get four.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
That's how I go.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Then you go out and put the cape on somebody
because they asked you to. You gotta we only shoot
two weeks, all them episodes two weeks, so I'm in
trouble for three days.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Nigga. That's devastating.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
But the beauty is when you blow up, like the
way you're blowing up now, like they'll invite you back
and act like you got your start there.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
And I'll be like, man, I'm so thankful, shout out
the nine elevens.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
But the paper is not a reboot though.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
It's I mean, I don't know what the right word
is talk about it that the press, but I'm really
I don't know what the word is for. Like this
was also happening, but now we'll show you this other player.
Just imagine the production company that was in the office,
you know, it was alway zooming in and all that.
Just imagine they went across the street to another address
(43:21):
or something, because that's kind of I don't I don't,
I don't know, because usually spin off it takes one
character and it follows them, you know what I'm saying,
And this ain't that. This isn't famin matters, And then
we just follow Erkle and like, no, this is like
there's characters from the other one in this one. It's
a beautiful Greg Daniels did it again. That's all right.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Then the showrunners and that whole team, like I was
in awe, just like good some of the.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Stuff they found, the idiosyncrasies of how funny something simple
could be, and and the fact that they were like
malleable enough to get it some big words. Some of
the stuff that was that they made funny, that they
took the time and budget to spend time, like how
to just move like flip a lever. Flipping a lever
(44:10):
wasn't just flipping. Like there's a way to pick these
glasses up and it's funny, and they went through every
way like so you want to pick these glasses up.
You want to pick these glasses up like they I'm
talking about every way to inflect your voice. And they
took the time to be like do the game at
this time the game? But this time I was like,
I did not know that this show was like this
(44:31):
fine tooth, like they take every moment and and it's
every moment is I guess you know, Manicure to be
as funny as it can be, even though it's as dry,
but it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yes, good, you can't you can't gotta be man.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Episodes that can't come back out right now?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know, I.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
Love the show. I love it man, and you you
stream as well.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Sometimes you know as much as I can.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
You know what I'm saying, But god damn you you
you you don't realize how much shit you don't want
to show until you're showing it, you know what I'm saying.
I walked past some mail on the counter and somebody
was like, got your address, nigga? I like, yeah, what
because I posit zoom in like I already stay that ass.
I like fuck that. I was going to my office
(45:22):
and there's a billboard outside and somebody was like, I
know where that billboard is. I'm like, man, fuck. So
there's so many like camera down then you just want
to talk to somebody. They see the mic on you like,
oh you monked up? Not right now?
Speaker 4 (45:33):
Good right now.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
So so it's like I have to like be like, okay,
from this time to this time, I'm gonna stream. I
thought it was just gonna be like just put the
camera on, let's go for some of your life. You
don't want to you know what I'm saying. You don't
want to show a lot of your life.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
I think, you know.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Plus, it's a different kind of oncause I'm realizing when
you go live, it's a lot of fucking reading. Yeah,
people don't really like you're reading the equivalent of like
nine Harry Potter chapters just to interact with your chat.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
You know what I'm saying, so I can do it,
but it's a it's a thing I have to flip. Now.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Last week I went to Twitch headquarters in San Francisco, and.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
I was like, what were we doing? What you want
to do?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Because there's an entire industry of comedy where people are
living big lives and they're perfect for live streaming, but
we need like can we work? Yeah, and that app is,
that app is, that's a beautiful app, but that that
shit is that the entry level on that is so high.
It's expensive to get on Instagram, you need a phone,
which you already have. If you want to be a
(46:35):
creator on Twitter, you got to have like several different
apps which have their own learning curve, whether it's something
for overlay, something for alert, something for the chat.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Then you got to have a setup.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Like there's like there's a lot even like let's say
you just want to stream your like I Rail from
a phone, Well, now you got to go buy Samsung
Galaxy twenty five. Then things it's like eleven hundred. Then
you got to get too simcars, Like the entry level
it is expensive, like a whole nun Now it's even
if it's not, it's just expensive.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
Then let's tell you.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Let's say you go out and there's a lot of
you go maybe a Yankees game, and I'm gonna stream
or something if they'll let you. But somewhere where it's
high populated, maybe maybe the parade or something. Everybody on
the cell tower your signal dropping. Now your feet is cutting.
So if you get tired of that, the next the
next step up from the phone, it's called a live
(47:25):
you solo pro back So no, yeah, yeah, there's a
backpack or like a Wi Fi. Yeah, so there's like
two or three motems or something. That ship is like
six thousand dollars. So you're telling me just to stay
on the app and stay like it's like that who
got that? When young creator just got six thousand sitting
(47:46):
right there. So then the next step of is a
thirty thousand back I see like DDG and all them
then them them backpacks.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Is thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
That's the backpack that Yeah, if it's blue or something
or hot green, I think that bag is shit. Third
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
So it's a real investment.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
But you does it pay?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Wow, it pays?
Speaker 5 (48:09):
By long do you have to be on those sites
in order to make the money.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
No, you get you go as soon as you go partner.
I made partner in four days. And if you go
to make a partner, just well there's a thing that
you know. It says, it's just like any other monetization
where they're like you need this many viewers, this many
hours or whatever. But you can also just send an
email and be like, here's my numbers on other platforms
and they be like, oh ship got So you're monetized
right away, which gives you access to a certain percentage
(48:35):
of your advertising and a certain percentage of your subs.
And the subs is why. That's why it makes sense.
You want to know the sauce. I deed the sauce
and this is how. This is how it happens. I
like to share and not right. So that's why I said,
if somebody gonna take something I'm doing and do it,
(48:57):
I didn't make it that hard to get it.
Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yeah, so I'll ask you first so that you understand
the power of it.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Right. So, in my opinion, I think the I r
L clips are the highest algorithm clips on social media.
Right now, it seems like it ain't sketches. It used
to be sketches. Now, it's like, so, like, what do
you remember from the BET Awards this year?
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (49:23):
That's a clip?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (49:26):
What do you remember from Shane Gillis at.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
The spis his monologue which is a clip?
Speaker 3 (49:33):
So like Joe Rogan's clip page is almost six times
bigger than the full episode page. Right, nobody gonna sit
through three hours and just watch the clip? And what
makes twitch so genius that anybody watching your stream has
there's a button on it that says clip anyone. Why
any viewer can make a sixty second clip? Now that
could be bad if you're doing something like gotcha.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Ass headlines or they make the headline, don't be having
nothing to do with the video, right?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, you got your headlined and you watch it like
that didn't happen?
Speaker 4 (50:02):
You didn't. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (50:03):
I saw some of them were like somebody curves Cristy
on and I watched it. I was like, she ain't
even happen.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
It's just having fun.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
What the fun?
Speaker 4 (50:09):
But if you know that that's what it is, then
then now why not why not be strategic?
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Then? Yeah, you don't got eight hours of stream, you
got two hours, so and that two hours, I'm gonna
go here. I'm gonna go there. I'm talk to my brother,
my son or my whatever we're gonna have. There will
be chances for moments, and then you can overproduce it
where you're like somebody gonna kick in the door and
it's going down and you know what I'm saying. But
you want the clips because once you get the clip,
that goes YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, it goes every other platform.
(50:39):
And so then you build your audience and then they're
on and they subscribe or just coming on, they watch ads,
they have no choice, and you get paid, and then
from your station in the game, you don't. You're not
gonna get that basic percentage. You're like, I'm aryotte Man,
you're talking about set up.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
The breakfast club. I r L goddamnit, I'm ready. Are
you read You needed that? Nate, Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
Yeah, get your money, Well check out you.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
I want to have a more question.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
What do you want new fans who see you for
the first time on Netflix to walk away thinking.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
I got a new top five.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Because for like twenty years, everybody says the same five
names in rotation, and I think that it's time that
we shake that up.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
A little bit. Basketball got new stars.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
I'm not saying there's not a place for other people
and we can all eat, but let's work together, you
know what I'm saying. And maybe it's a challenge, but
I would like to see some of the og black
comics who've made a lot of money in the game
reach back and create opportunities for the rest of the game.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
There's Uptown, I guess it's closing.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
It's not black owned, but it's black man And so
now I think there are three black owned clubs in America.
I'm the biggest at two hundred and seventy seats. I
think when I look around on your wall and see
all the successful African Americans and every dollar that got
pulled down, that it makes no sense that we don't
have more brick and mortars to do the craft we build.
(52:10):
Why doesn't Martin have wandas? Why doesn't you know what
I'm saying, why does Why isn't there a heart Kevin
Hart comedy club? God damn you do comedy. Make some
money off the drinks for you got a liquor, sell
only that in your club. But there should be And
if that's not it, then let's just get with the
let's get with the people who open businesses left and right,
(52:32):
and and then say look here, you use my name,
my likeness, and I want some ownership whatever, and then
and but there should be that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Joe Rogan got the comedy club in Austin.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
Now did the Mothership?
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Yeah, I believe Dave is building one.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
Das name.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
And and and so there may be four. But that's
if you think about all of the money. Every time
you like, who's been in the top three in comedy
since I'm nineteen seventy, The majority of the top three
top gross early I'm not even talking about whether you
like them or not. I'm talking about the highest grossing
(53:09):
actor of the year was black. Whether it was Richard
Pryor or Red Fox or Cat or Mike Epps or
Kevin Hart or Martin or like. And if it wasn't one,
it was an entity like King's of Comedy or now
eighty five South Like, why let's get to eighty five
comedy clubs. Let's get like, let's expand and grow our
(53:32):
industry because the people want to come to shows.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
And then you control the butt, you control the dollar.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
There's no more you in the back getting ripped off
or you know, they don't treat you right, because now
you know how to be treating you know what I'm saying.
And I want us to get it right too, because
I have done other black owned clubs and been like,
come on, y'all, yeah, I don't really, I don't play
like that. We do we you know, we run a
good show, but it's a lot to juggle the career
and the club and make sure that it's still black excellence.
(54:00):
But my team is thorough, so we hold it down
and if it works in one place, it should, in
theory work in another place. So I think that that
if I could leave something with with the with the
entertainers that are watching, man, what's up? Open something? Open something.
Let's get some comedy back on regular TV. Let's make
comedy very easy to consume again. When I was a kid,
(54:22):
you could go home and comed View was on and
and and Comedy Central had specials, and like now you
can't find no stand up unless you put it on.
I gotta find it, you know what I'm saying. So
we need to get to a place where the deaf
jams and the comedy like it feels like that again. Yes.
So if there's something I could leave with the people,
I don't know. Man, just laugh, live your love, live
your life to the fullest. Uh, you know, and you
(54:44):
deserve you deserve to laugh.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
So do it, Nate Jackson. Tell them to follow you, brothers.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Nate Jackson Coomedy dot com or at mister Nate Jackson
on the Gram or Nate Jackson Comedy on TikTok uh.
Just tap in Nate Jackson Coomedy dot com. Is there
where you can see everything I'm on. I'm ending the
Super Funny World to here in the next couple of dates,
and the Big Dog Tour starts right after that. International.
We got Australia. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
Get some tickets while there's any seats left.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
It's like that congratulations.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Say he was doing shows and movies and stuff, casting stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:21):
You want to add something, Yeah, for sure, I got
some ship, all right? Cool? Yeah I got because like
I'm really.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
I almost forgot the movie I'm tripping. So there's a
movie with Seth Throg and Kiki Palmer Keanu Reeves and
it's as He's and Sorry's directorial debut that comes out
in October and it's called good fortune.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
And I'm in that.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
So so yeah, no, I got stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
Okay, I just about this red camera. We're about to
be it's about to go. They can't tell me nothing.
Speaker 7 (55:51):
Check out Super Funny on Netflix now, Nate Jackson, Ladies
and gentlemen, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (55:55):
Brother, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
That's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning at
Breakfast clubm
Every day a week. Click your ass up the breakfast clubs,
y'all done.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, it's the world's more dangerous Morning to show the
Breakfast Club Charlamagne and the God just hilarious dj mvs
around here somewhere. But we got a special guests in
the building. He's got a new Netflix special call super Funny.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Nate Jackson is here. How you doing? My brothers doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Don't come don't look over here and get grid in
and smiling looking for material.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, all right, we see going all.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
This is my first time on Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm like, Yo, that's crazy. He just en That's what
I'm on.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
What's up man? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Man?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Think it's going crazy.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Congratulations, Thank you so much. I love that. I love
to see what we like us we get specials.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
You proud of me? Are you kidding me? I watched
the video with the flickering and you came down the hall,
went in and disappeared in the chair. I was like,
thank you, Nate, Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The people who don't know or who may not be familiar.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Who is Nate jacks Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I guess t I dubb me the King of crowd
work I'm an entrepreneur on the biggest black on comedy
club in the country.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Super Funny Comedy Club.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
There you going to Coma Washington.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm a guy that got it out the mud from
the very bottom and scraped my way up to Netflix
special that was in the top ten and peaked at
number three and did extremely well for the platform. And uh,
there's a lot coming. There's TV shows, there's movies, and
so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That's who I am.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, I'm I'm your excited, huggable gangster cousin of the.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
People that probably don't you know, might have thought you
came out of know it like you got the Super
Funny Comedy Club in twenty twenty one, right.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, Basically we were building it and then the news
was saying that COVID.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Was cold, was coming, which is which is which is.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's hard enough to build a place, let alone watch
the news and be like, I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Think it's gonna come over. I don't think it's gonna
If you remember, Seattle's were first touchdown in the United States.
As soon as it was like I think it was Everett,
Washington or something, it was like two hours north.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I was like oh this is a rap, So that
might have been a blessing. Then if you do some
PvP loans, no.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Because you have to be open for like a year
to get the idea. Yeah, we had no help.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We could like everybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Man, I tried. I tried to create. I was a
I was auto detailed business. I have grooming business, I
cleaned shoes.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I was coming up with everything.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
All of them are like nothing was working. So now
we just fought on our own. We just fought it,
you know what I'm saying, and survived. And so we
were at the first location for five years. Now we're
at a brand new location downtown on the Marriotte Block
from Tacoma.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know. But it's it's it's that's it, like this
is this is it from my city.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We're in the most peak spot, best location he could be.
And now it's like we're thriving like crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Would you a veteran you've been doing comedy for like
twenty twenty six years.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Twenty somewhere between twenty three and twenty four, OK, Yeah, yeah,
for sure, I've been. I've been, That's what I'm saying.
I've been at it for a minute. You know what,
we've met before, and it's worth for me talking about
for a second. Charla Maine. So I was working with
Jesse Collins Entertainment as a crowd warm up and they
(03:20):
did this show Hip Hop Hollywood Squares. Yeah, and Jess
was the square and DC was the square and other
like cast members from Wilding Out and stuff for squares. Yeah. OK,
And I really wanted to be in a square, like
when soundstage wild be empty, I'd be sitting in a
square and like to the point where they like overheadsets
(03:41):
like that was like Nate Jackson out of the square,
like just total rejection, Like yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Like this is for stars entertained the crowd which is.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Mad humbling, right, Like I've been won the bay, all
the accolades and stuff, and I'm looking at who my
peers are and I'm like, I've can you.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Cuss on here?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah? Like I fuck with all of them, but you
can't get a square. Let me get just like one
of them shitty episodes like episode fourteen out of fifteen
that y'all done through to the low budget one.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know what I'm saying. Man, They put me out
the chair.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So we were on a break in between two segments
and I was so upset this day. Man, you had
one of them days where you're like, man, fuck all this. Yeah,
that's what I was on. And uh, Tip was like
in the top left square and I had met we
had met before, and he told me to He was
like play.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Uh you want me to play juvenile.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Degree?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
He was like, so I played.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I remember the day now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So he was up.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
There sod in the break. You were like, come in,
you know, and so Tip was like doing that. And
then I came down and you you were either on
the bottom ente or the left, but you were right there,
and uh you were like, yo, you're killing it. I
was like, excuse me, and you were like I fucked
with like the I can't I'm exactly what you said,
but you were like, I fuck with like, you know,
(05:02):
the crowd work guys, with the little guy, because I
was the little guy. Man. I came up under windy
and I grinded. I got it out the mud. When
I see y'all watch, I was like, nigga, you don't
even know what that did for me that day.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Wow, oh mama, And I'm just telling you the little
things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I was like, you know what let me just play
my role, let me do my ship, and let me
just you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But that was actually that was heavy that day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I remember that day because when the degrees came on,
all of us that's from the South started rapping.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It like everybody didn't talk like that was a great day.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nine on TV about that, and I looked up in
all nine Squirts Rock I was like, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I remember you doing the crowd work, but I remember
being a little bit bigger.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, I remember.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Breakfast club because we're trying to lose weight. Yeah, I went,
I went fruit and veggie raw at the may first,
and I lost thirty eight point five pounds. So I'm
just like melting And so now I'm like trying to introduce,
you know, some white meats back and whatever, just because
I was like, man, there's too much chicken going to buy.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Everybody like we eating with you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So I basically just eat around the outside of the
grocery store and stay off the middle. And so I've
just been melting away. Was it a scale or you
just wanted to get healthy or the reason why I
want to see where my dick connect to my body? Okay, look, yeah,
I have a joke about it. I can see the
first seven inches, but that first five I can't see
that part.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
But no, I just wanted to lose some weight, man,
I had. We lost, Teddy Ray, we lost.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I were laughing at that. Now I'm laughing. I'm still
having the big jokes.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
They did the math.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Too, anyway, seventy half but rescip But you.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Know what I noticed in your special you talk about
it a lot, your weight and eating.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
You got a lot of food jokes or whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You had it like four minutes of to just break
the ice.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And they're like, well that's what we're gonna take for
the for the national clip. That's gonna be your trailer.
I'm like, okay, so now, okay, what about all the
other stuff I said.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But how does it impact now?
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Because now you you know, you lost lost a lot
of weighting and I guess and you're still coming down, right,
So how does that affect your comedy now?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Like you're still doing the food jokes?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You can. I mean it's not I don't have I
had food jokes, but it was more about weight lost
jokes and temptation and you can have that at anyway,
you know what I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Saying, Like it was it was crafted or I was like,
I think I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Losing weight, but I can still get these jokes off.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But at the end of it, I write a lot
and that's what that's what, that's what the crowd work.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And you're writing on the spot, so just.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Switch it up.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Is there anything that you stay away from, like, you know,
because I feel like the world is so sensitive now,
Like you say.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
One thing, you know we're gonna cancel you did it?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Think that you stay away from it?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
You like, fuck it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I kind of am with everything, but I will I
will tread lightly around, uh, you know, some politics stuff
because it's they've just been so it's so magnetized, you
know that. At a point people are like, I don't
even care what you's talk about, No Moore because he's
not He's obviously not. And I'm like, man, just chill out.
I want everybody to laugh first, right, That's that's why
(08:24):
it's called super funny.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's the theme of the show. Love, love hard, eat good,
and laugh, laugh to your fullest.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
So that's the thing. That's what That's what it is.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
I was gonna say, do you think people miss the
funny and things because they want to cancel you? They
are looking for something to be hurt or affected by?
Because I remember one time you just laughed. It wasn't
It could be a black joke, a white joke, a
gay joke, a stranger.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It didn't matter. If it was funny, it was funny.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
But now I feel like people look for something to
be like, I'm gonna cancel you off that word right there?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know, yeah, depend on the word, but yeah, or
the term or the joke.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I think it depends on how you saying it, right,
Like what I can what I can stand the least
is when a comic takes the time to craft a
beautiful joke, and I mean a beautiful joke where it
like meanders and then you get hit with the punch
and then you still be like, but the topic was
stud of out, Hey, man, chill out.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
That's a good ass joke.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Also, I think we're shifting back some and I don't
want to say it on a platform so big that
people are like, oh, you think we won't cancel you too.
I don't need that smoke. But I'm just saying I
think there's been a shift since maybe twenty nineteen, twenty
twenty gams, and so there's been some pushback people like
Schultz and people like Chappelle that are like, I'm man,
fuck all that comedy first, then we'll talk about what's next.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
That's the key to that though, right, Like, if you
are gonna say anything that's gonna be even a little
bit controversy, it has to be funny fun so people
can't be worried. It gotta be so funny to the
point where they only need want cancel.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You man, that is funny. R.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah. I had a joke about a Vietnamese car dealer
and it don't sounds ridiculous. I'm from Tacoma Water and
we kick it with the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Simons, black people,
we all, everyone's all. We all mixing. So when you
go gamble, the dealer gonna be Vietnamese. And they were
teaching me words, and so I started picking up on
the dillect and be like do my and stuff like that.
(10:13):
So I had this joke of that that means fuck you,
and so I picked up on that. This is uh
uma is fuck you, and dou Miama is fuck your mama,
and then uh uh. The Cambodians they be like they
own my something like that and that means like pussy ass.
So they said that a lot, and I just start
hearing it not knowing what it was. I'm like, why
y'all keep saying do ma? What is doma? And they're like,
oh yeah me fuck you. I'm like, what the fuck?
(10:36):
So I wrote a joke about how I had found out,
but I put it after I hit a jackpot. So
basically she was calling me bow bow, which was my
interpretation of her saying nigga to my face, and I
didn't know. So I slowly revealed that they've been.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Being racist to me.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And then I get her some get back the dealer
and I say she acts black, so she I said, well, okay,
you act black then, and she's like, I don't know
my father. I'm like, bitch, that's you want to sound.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Don't she about to come in like.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
That triggered her. I'm sorry, man.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was watching one of your specials before one of
your CrowdWork specialist, Man, there was a fat dude in
the crowd.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The fat dude named big Mac that do security.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't know if you remember, but the dude was
like he said something to you, and you was like,
don't get mad at me. I'm not the one who
fed you.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
In the comments like pot calling the kettle black, I'm like, nah,
that's a little pot called a big kettle. But the
point of the Vietnamese joke was that same joke. JFL
was like, we can't have you up here because you're
saying that joke. Did you listen to right? So I
just got back from that, came straight from Montreil here
to I had my own show. I had like I
(12:06):
did Variety top ten. Yes I got that this year
and so. But but it brings it full circle to
be like you almost. I was like I should I
should do the joke, you know what I'm saying. But
they showed me so much love. I was like, you
know what, I'm not gonna be bitter canny if it's funny. Now,
if I just came out like Vietnamese sound crazy and
I just start cussing like him like that, that is
(12:27):
you overstepping.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. But and that's my pet.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
People like if somebody if you can you can hear
the intellect and the joke and the setup and be like, oh,
that was a good misdirection to hear that, be like, nah,
it's like how some older black people like I didn't
even have fun because he cussed fourteen times. He's in
there counting exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Man's show. Yes, listen to give people the story.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
So you went from doing the warm up, warming up
the crowd at the hip hop Square, but I know
you ended up on a while and now like, how
did all of those stuff things happen?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh my goodness, Uh, that that's not my start. My start.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I just got dared to do comedy while I was
in college and I went on stage and I was like, oh,
this was kind of good, and so I stuck with it.
And then I moved immediately to LA and I was
there for like six years, and then I was like,
I need to go home and stack some bread. So
I started like twelve shows and then I combined into
one show and it was like the biggest show. It
was like Thursday Night was like four hundred and twenty people.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
For like eight years. It was massive.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And in Tacoma, Yeah, downtown Tacoma. And if it's really
like eighty people every Thursday in case I RS is listening.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
So it was like it was Hella.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
But then I stacked and came back, and so then
different opportunities started to kind of come together, and so
I had an opportunity to work with Jesse Collins Entertainment,
and that's how I did the crowd work. And I
think it was just a plug from Dray because you know,
I do Monday nights at the Improv and it looks
shout out to Dray, and so that's how I got
(13:54):
into that. But the way Hollywood, man, you'll have a
day where you're like, yo, I made it. You'll be
stick in on a table, fist pumping the air between
Tony Rock and Chris Rock, you know what I'm saying,
Like it would feel like a million bucks. And then
the next day you're like, damn, I gotta perform in
this dungeon. It's not it's not it's up there, but
(14:14):
you gotta do it all. And so you know that,
that's essentially why I was where I was. I was like, man,
I just can't get a damn I got wilding out.
Bet I do four episodes now, says I look old
I'm like, nigga, Corey Holkom is here, how.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No shame, no shame.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm just saying, don't sell old nigga. Like I waited
to get on the show for six years. Yeah, old,
Now give me a part of my hair. Let me rock.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
And then every game was rapping. I'm like, nigga, we
can't just.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Do no old.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Nigga.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They would have a game all right, this is what
we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You're gonna roast this thing.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
We're like promise, like yo, yeah, Nick in the corner,
like you know what he needs bars. They were like
get out the way, trying to clips man, he come,
just go ahead. I'm like, that's not my bagnigg. I'll
learn it, but that ain't my bag. You only did
four episodes a while out, Yeah, but they were big
(15:13):
ones though. They were big ones though, Like I did
Erkabaddu episode. We did because I can sing too. So
we did the Revenge of Tyrone where she did the
follow up to call Tyrone, and then I did the
Travis Scott episode, and then I did the one where
the dude had hell of kids, but then he said we.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Can't talk about the kids.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Nick kny no, no, it was somebody want more? I
think Cromarty Antonio, Yeah, that's all we want to talk about,
Like you got a million kids? He was like anything
but the kids. We're like, well, then go home, because yeah,
so I did some good you know what I'm saying.
And so I'll like that, you know what I think
the reason I only got the four and I'd like
(15:52):
to say this on this platform. On the Erkabad episode,
she came and she was like, Yo, let me meet
the people. I'm gonna be on the episode with it
and the eighty five South guys all stood around on
the sound stage with now and she's like, here's what
I think we should do, and now ran down the games.
Here's what we're gonna do. Freestyle from there. She's like, Okay,
I'm going to my dressing room. I want i want
(16:13):
one of the brighter ones to come with me. Now
I'm standing up there with one episode under my belt.
She's like you, what's your name? I'm like Nate Jackson.
She's like, you you telling me what's going on here?
And now I was like, I was like, hey, Carlos,
can you come with me? Grab Carlos, we go down.
She's like, there's gonna be a part where I go
down to my knee and I'm singing real hard. I
want you to put my jacket on me like James Brown.
I'm gonna throw it off and come back like a
(16:34):
phoenix and I'm gonna kill it. I'm like, bet that
part of the show happens, I walk out, I put
the thing on her. Everything happens as planned. After it's over,
exacs come up and they're like, who the fuck told
you to walk out?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Sorry? What?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Wow? Air Cab, I do that? Erbadue told you to
walk out? Yeah, she said throw the thing on her.
Why do you what you thought? I just over just
came out the I know I'm barely welcome here, nigga.
Why would I put yeah, mess up your milling million
dollar a moment, you know what I'm saying. And so
that's what it was like. I was on ice, but
it only takes the show.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
So even if you did.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Do that and it worked, come on, man, think you
put the other hat on exact, you put your bag
in the air can being on an episode and come
one of your little niggas doing anything in the frame
that she asked to do that specifically. And I even
remember being like somebody was next to me. I was like,
actually said to the thing, you want to go out
and they were like, no, man, I don't want to go.
(17:27):
I'm like, okay, well she asked like I'm not gonna.
I don't want to not do it. Then after she's like,
where was the nigga with that? I was waiting, man,
when nigga niggas like batman nigga? You see Nick there
and then motherfuckers Nina smoke hell. Nick one.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
The last time you see nigga jazz playing cards on
the internet, I'm not seeing that. It's just in the
garage doing upside down set ups. You will never see Nick.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
You got too many shows.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Six shows. I could not believe. Bro He shot like
a vlog, a Diesus and Meryle thing. He shot walling out,
then he went to a g T then he shot
a car show.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Then I was like, this is tired. Now.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
See Nick, when with the successor of social media for you,
how did that affect? Did that happen because you planned
it out? Or were people just taking clips and you
were just like, what the is going on?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
No, man, I've been grinding for a minute, and so
that's what I was saying when I had the Thursday
Night for so many years, you could come to the
Pacific Northwest and be like, Okay, there's a guy out
there that got the sauce right, And so what happens
a lot of times if somebody's further in their career
than you, they'd be like, let me just get a
little bit of that and take that with me. So
there was a lot of my recipe out ahead of
me before I had the exposure.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
They're stealing your stuff, you know, they were stealing your stuff.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
A man, I don't want to call nobody no thief
without them here to defend himself, you know what I'm saying,
And also to be choked or whatever happens after that.
They don't have to there's ways to catch people. All
I had to do was wait, be patient, work hard.
Like you said, the Netflix special speaks for itself. It's
like watching Elvis for years and then you see the
(19:09):
dude who showed them the legs, like them that nigga
got the legs, you know what I'm saying. So uh
that that made me forget the damn Yeah. So one
of the homies, not one of homies. Several people like
Matt Rife, Roy Wood and Rodney Perry. They're all like
and shout out to Rodney Perry, but they're like, yo,
(19:29):
you need to get on, get on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And I was like, I'm exhausted right now. I am
not getting another app.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
You know that, Yes, yes, right, and get on, get
on the boo boom like I'm not getting on doole
boom boom nigga. Like I'm done. I'm happy with my
I g set up my Facebook. Shit cool, I'm not
hiring a nigga to put me on doodle Boom blue.
And that's how it sound we you first here, because
it's always a something you on the t app.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Right now, they got my house address and my damn.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Not that I know, not that I know. Unless somebody
post Nate Jackson on the t app.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Man, I'm not on there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's a tough groom. Post post him on there. Maybe
they'll tell you where he is.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Speak.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I wasn't dancing on that guy. But no, I said,
I don't want to do another app, and so I
got on reluctantly. I got on TikTok and I don't
know if it's still exactly like this, but at the time,
like people were willing to actually follow because people's I
g be set up. Somebody gotta really somebody gotta you
gotta see twelve good things from somebody, be like, you
(20:48):
know what, I'm gonna give you a fu on TikTok.
It just felt like, Hi, I follow, you know what
I'm saying. So it jumped for It jumped from me
like from zero, like twenty five thousand and like, I
don't know, I'd say, a month, what was you posting
this CrowdWork? No, I was posting anything, but I didn't
want to show understand that you know what I'm saying.
(21:09):
And plus I was like I was trying to shoot
it and I would shoot good and then the sound
be fucked up where the sound be good and then
the shot be fucked up. Then I just committed to
it and got the system down at my own club,
and then I was like, Okay, now I can consistently
do stuff. But at the time, there was no apps
for captioning or AI, so you had to actually sit
there and transcribe yourself. It took three four hours to
(21:31):
do a two minute video, and so I was like,
I'm exhausted doing this shit.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No, all this is free.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
But I could look on the app and see like
other people exploding where I'm like, okay, if I post
my shit because I already know I'm great at that,
if that worked, if that clip I just saw work
and I know what I'm holding, if I could just
post this, you know what I'm saying. And so it
just started to catch, and so it kept catching and
kept catching and kept catching. So now we're at four
point five maybe four point six million or something.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You think that era is dead because I feel like
there was a moment where it was like the You
and the matt Rice and the Andrews Shoultzes that was
just putting their comedy up and it just took off
of them. I don't know if it was COVID because
everybody was sitting there. I don't know what it was,
but something just caused comedians to take off because of
social media.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It wasn't It wasn't COVID. For me, I was trying
to save my club, that wasn't it. I didn't get
to post it until like right after I was like,
we can finally open and get situated. No, I don't
think it's I don't think that's over. I think people's
interest to be entertained is I would say it's limitless.
They say during the Great Depression when everybody broke, the
last thing people spent money on was going to theaters
(22:40):
and stuff like, if I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna
go out having fun. So no, I don't think I
think it's an insation. But doesn't it feel like it like,
no matter how much content you make, there's somebody to
receive it, and they're gonna give me more. So no,
I feel like it just be consistent and be good,
and be good consistently, and I think people find you,
like people just need to use the internet as a
time the show, and that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
What's had more impact on your career the YouTube crowd
work stuff or.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The Netflix special?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's not fair because Netflix has only been on since
the eighth gotcha, But I know I've I've had my
because when you do a special, you get to have
a conversation at I think ten days and then another
one at twenty eight days about the numbers.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Other than that, you guys know, Netflix don't share no
numbers like that.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, And so my first conversation with them, it was
it did massive like it it's like double platinum, like
it did really good on the platform, and I'm getting
stopped by people in the airports and that was happening before.
So I'm trying to gauge, like so where you see
me from where you see and they won't admit, like
everybody want to be I've been following since filing out,
like whatepisode, nigga.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Nobody want to say that. I mean, I saw you
last night, and I mean I called it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Super funny, like my trademarked comedy club name and brand,
so that even if you didn't know me, you go
super funny show me right, and it's it's going crazy
right now. So if you want to laugh, go watch that.
But I got to show that it's not just CrowdWork.
I got to show you know, twenty four years of
chops or whatever, and so you see it all you
(24:12):
see if you watch a stand a standalone clip, you're
assuming that that's that. But the real epiphany is like, wait,
all that's one show. All that strings together all that
somehow and standing and he's doing some singings and it
like so I wanted to just give everything in my
in my toolbox and throw it out there and we
caught it, and it's risky. It's risky doing crowd work
(24:34):
on a you know, that ship was two hundred and
forty six thousand dollars. And I'm gonna go up and
I don't know what I'm gonna say. But you get
Comic View and they're like, we want your jokes and
paragraph form, you know, every single word. You gotta you
gotta write down your little five minutes and send it
in and they approve it. But for this cord over
quarter million dollars, I'm like, man, just press record nigg
we're gonna see what happens.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
And we caught it.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
But it was risky, and it's risky every time you
do it because you're in charge of your set and
then and you're going a certain cadence and then you
slow down to be like, so tell me something about
you else, and now they are then in fuck the
whole groove of you know what I'm saying. And so,
but I went for it, and and what you see
on on Netflix, we caught it. Yeah, you know what
(25:18):
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
How did that? How did that come about?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Though?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
How did how did Netflix end up the place?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So let me answer that for sure, because this is
I'm crazy about that answer. But then on the other
side of the coin is what I can control is
the crowd work joints. I walk out, It's first Wednesdays
at my club, one or two shows, and I'm and
the challenge was, you can only talk about what's in
front of you or what you've seen that day, and
(25:46):
I gotta do an hour. So I go up with
nothing and I come off. And so there's twenty four
of those now, and every one is somewhere around one
point five to two point five million views. And so
it's the only place where I explained like the rules
that I do when I say so. When I'm in
live shows in theaters and I start saying the rule,
(26:06):
they're finishing my sentences. So I think the crowd work
joints is what got me to the point that the
Netflix special was possible to then go boom on this
platform where everybody goes this is this is where you
put your your best shit and I and I did so.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Now people, oh, I thought he was just a tiktak guy.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm shocked Netflix did that, though. I mean, because based
off watching your specialis I'm shocked that they chose to
invest in something like that, like, oh, what is it
gonna be an hour just CrowdWork, even though the crowd
work is funny as shit.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
No, they didn't know. It was a licensing deal. Got you.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I had a licensing deal and I've done They've I've
had to present my comedy to Netflix or somebody like
Netflix or Netflix associated in that sphere, whether it was
just CrowdWork, whether it was you know what I'm saying.
But then if you're not sure if the crowdwork's gonna work, well,
but the person has twenty I think nineteen hours of
it at that point, nineteen hours of crowd working and
(27:02):
of them missing.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like okay, all right, do you remember when you called
that couple Seal and Heidi Boom?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Sometimes God just give you one.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You're like, how y'all meet? She was like, well, I was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I was dating somebody he knew and she was dating
somebody I knew, and both of them went to jail.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, But it was a it was a brother that
looked like Seal and a big white girl with I
think corn Rolls or something.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I was like, boom.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But so to answer your question, you basically said why Netflix,
So it's it's simple for me. But like, so my
mama getting older and she has an office downstairs at
our house in Lacey, Washington, and she got to go
down these steps to go down in this cold ass basement,
turn on the area heater to get on Netflix or
to get on any streaming platform.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
But Netflix came on their old ass smart TV, which's
dumb now, but that was the one.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I was like, it's a smart TV built in so
she will watch Netflix and from the comfort of the couch,
fireplace and all that. So for me, I was like,
this is how my mama gonna see me.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
In the comforting yeah, oh wow wow.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So you pray it with all the other stuff you
know about Netflix, and it kind of makes sense. But
if they're not gonna get me a deal, it's like
I gotta go to wherever. But that's why I was like,
I could just stick it on YouTube with the crowd
work joints where there's now seven hundred and fifty thousand people.
I think that would land well. But let's see if
we can get traction with them. Because just literally I
was on calls with agency. They're like, where do you
what platform. I'm like, Netflix, why my mama can't watch
(28:33):
this ship down?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Stick? Like I need her in the living room and
being like my baby did it? I need that and
we and that's what we did.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Gary about to write that down. He's gonna try to
use that to get his Netflix special. You know, Gary
can't get a Netflix special for nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
No podcast got here.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's called Gary and Nate.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I did not know that Gary had the podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah he got uh, this is called Gary on Yeah,
and I got my.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Own funny and ship. You had a definitely special? How
did you break the news the gay right after?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
He told me that they turned him down?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
But I didn't mean to say it that way though,
Like he was like, he, man, I'm waiting to find
out about Netflix now. I had already knew, like I
might be riding in third on mine, and so I
just had to sit there and he told me the
whole thing, like yeah, man, I'm ready for it to
get on there.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Man, I don't know what it's about. And I was like, man,
maybe you know, just keep talking along.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You didn't want to give me good news yet I
had to wait.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
I had to wait till like the moment of like, yeah,
you want to hear something crazy, man, but you can't.
You can't go.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You can't ask stupid. Though you can't tell nobody, you
can't say you can't ask stupid. He was like, what
you got? What you got? And I was like, yeah,
your Netflix gave me mine.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
He was like, that's what's up. I support that, but no,
so so he deserves one.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
On the podcast, you said, Gary be taking your staff?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Where do you see that at your podcast?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Talked about it live, so you saw us come to
a resolution, and you want to go back to when
it was fucked up and start to the resolution.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I'll precede this with working.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
But what happened with Gary taking this stof this is
the thing and it's my nature to want to see
those around me do well. And I had to have
a full on epiphany in twenty twelve to be like,
stop helping another niggas help yourself. Because I was putting
so much into other people's dreams. I was like, I'm tired.
I ain't even do nothing for myself for that Jesus,
(30:31):
And it's good to have a balance, but I had
lost mind just trying to like I want to see
I'm helping. I'm helping out like at a point I
was helping young black Hollywood thrive. And then the other
thing that would suck is they would get on and
then everybody got amnesia who helped you? And I'm like,
here we go, here go to credits, Here I go,
here I go. Dang this nigga don went he done
popped and forgot you boy. And that's another reason. That's
(30:54):
another reason why I feel some kind of way because
the Netflix credits aren't right, like we got to update them.
They forgot like right hand my guy Trenton Cotton is
not and he was like, yeah, I know, I know,
I'm int a. The whole thing goes by. He ain't,
so shout out to teacap.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
But they are going to fix that, you said, then
they can update it.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah. So anyway, Gary would come up to the club.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
He did the weekend and the weekend was great, and
I asked him to do my podcast and we had
a great episode and then it was just it was
we just synergized to where it was like, yo, we
should probably do something. And then it turned into like
the Gary and Nate pod and then the CrowdWork Joints
that I was putting out where I'm putting out once
a month or whatever. I like, somebody sent me and
was like, yo, Gary got these things he's doing once
(31:38):
a month now, And I was like, well, I said,
Gary did what? So I didn't say nothing. I just
sat on because we were only filming once a month.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I've been seeing Gary do more CrowdWork. I'm not I'm
not even joking Crowork.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah you'll see it and it just pops up right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, white people will always do that to us.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Good for Gary Man. I love that he's attraction because
Gary's hella funny.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, we love Gary Man. This story.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
You not know y'all had a pot. I just subscribed
to it. You'll only started in November though it.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Was also done.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
We're gonna do one more episode explaining that is over,
We're done, what.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Can't episode and that's hello, it's over now. I just subscribed.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Look, I literally just the same button finish the story.
Subscribe to Opinionated Charlotte Mane, that's my podcast. Subscribed to
Opinionated and subscribed to get subscribe to get sure You
subscribed to get Some and then opinionated his mind described.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's enough out here for all of us to get it.
Finish the story. It's not even a full story. Damn envy,
envy just.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Being the fight Henny, hen that's what you do.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
He's just poked the bear.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
He is.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Listen, I rock with Gary, I have no I have
no malice, you know what I'm saying. And so he's
good but uh not. But it's just an And so
I have noticed that as I'm up in the Pacific
Northwest fighting for ways to be an innovator and stay
relevant from way to fuck up there and off the grid, that.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Sometimes people come up and they're like, oh, that sh
is that's the sauce.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You can't I can't protect that, whether he comes close
to me and does it, or stay away.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
From me and does it.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If somebody sees an editing style or a wave or
I don't know, a dress, or away somebody walks and
talk and it's working, there's nothing you can do. He
from he from there, Well, he's from Ohiobaio.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
He lived listening envious Why.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
He's literally saying every point of contention from when we
argued at the end of the day, we only were recording. First.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You said that you said you ain't want even baseball.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
N Gary was like, nigga, look at me at my
wedding party, he said, nigga, look at me now, you know.
Goddamn Well, like a week, Gary solid nothing to be
saying that anybody is wondering. I'm mad on it. He good, good, okay, now,
(34:26):
but just not doing the podcast no more. But y'all good, No,
I can't. It's because we do first busy, We do
First Mondays, and so he'll come up and do the
club and the door deal is what makes it worth
coming up.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Then we record one or two or three or four
episodes in.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
One day or two and then two and it'd be
my only two days off for maybe a fourteenth stretch
of road gigs.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
I'm like, Gary, I can't. I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
So I'm doing I'm doing a comedy festival the eleventh
through the seventeenth because my birthday is the fourteenth in August,
and so he's gonna come up and he's gonna do
Monday the eleventh, and then we're gonna do one more
episode just and we're just busy.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Where's comedy festival is in your hometown?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yeah, Sin Tacoma.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
OK.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, so and we got Tony Rock anchoring the weekend,
Garyol do the Monday. Then I'm gonna do a Nate
Jackson Presents on Monday. It's one of my concepts where
it's like I'm hosting for thirty five forty minutes and
then all the acts just come out the door.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
You don't know who's on stage, kind of like this
a Sunday show.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, this makes so much because I was listening to
the Gary's pod like last week, and I was wondering
why he was just going in on people who do CrowdWork.
He was like, people who do CrowdWork are lazy and
they don't really know how to write.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But now, so Garrekey on his pod, that's not made up.
That sounds made up. Oh yeah, I did make it up.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
It's true.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Hey, yo, I didn't make that up because here's why.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Here's why it's made up.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Because if you do CrowdWork, or attempt to do crowd work,
and you have good moments and you string them together,
you already know you're using traditional stand up structure, but
you're plugging the information you got off the people into that.
So we're writing live and on the spot. And I
think that what's overlooked is the phenomena of why people
(36:10):
are like why growwork Because you're in the crowd and
you're hearing the response. Your brain is processing the same
information and you're like, what I say, what was he
gonna say? And every time the person you like that
does it finds an angle everything like.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That's why it's actually funnier.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
It actually shows that that person is funnier because it's
not something that they actually pre wrote.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's like on the in the spot, on the.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Moment, Yeah, man, put two quotes in front and behind that,
and then let's run with that one. Because there's there
is there is a school of thought that's like that's
or they're not working hard, or they're not they're just
they don't have jokes. So that's why I'm like, okay,
one follow me then to try it and let me
see what you're doing. And I'll be like, no, I
(36:53):
see why you think it's lazy, But I put the works.
I said, I had a room every Thursday night. Can't
no young comic hold it down as a host everything?
You know, there's no pen in the world that can
keep up with that amount of monologues. So I just
started going up with nothing and fucking with people and
it was not good.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Got good. What happens if there's nothing that inspires you
from the crowd.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
But I say that, I talk about how there's nothing
and how what a guess who character nothing to talk about?
Slow ass answer, havn't ask crowd? Is this There's funny
even in the lack of it too, you know what
I'm saying. I seen somebody get roasted that had nothing
wrong with them. Somebody was like, nigga, you look easy
to draw. I saw that online. M like, what are
(37:35):
you going to say when the person with a person's
face is mastic, They're like, hey, you look easy to draw.
I was like, see, that's genius. So now there's plenty
of stuff to talk about. And like I said, I
can talk about anything I saw since I woke up
or what's in front of me. So if I got
to start with whatever, like I would have been, I
would have went on stage and been like, y'all see coldplay,
y'all see the dude get caught, Like I can talk
(37:55):
about that at a CrowdWork joint. And now it's like,
who in here cheat? Now we got some segue to
get through, you know what I mean? But like it's
almost a gift when you get something, you're like, Okay,
let's cook with this, right, and I like to find
a few so that I can do callbacks and have
it all come together and jail together. So at the
end you're like, that was that wasn't just that was
(38:16):
an experience. That was just a couple of moments.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
You ever had somebody roast you back like and and
actually be good like a nutty professor?
Speaker 4 (38:22):
When when who's whose titties over here?
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Remember when?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Remember when Eddie went off on when Dachapelle was playing
the comedian he came back his buddy love.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, uh No, I've never had nothing that crazy happen.
But I've had I've had I had a guy. But
here's the thing. A lot of times the person that
wants to do that, they're not on the cadence of
the show. They waiting for you to take a breath
or like, give me get a a segue between two things,
to yell out and try to fuck the think.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
But I ain't had it happen yet.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, a long time ago on Thursday Night or whatever,
somebody was like, man, I'm like, come up here and
in and this just went back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, and I lost and I was like, congratulations.
Down Was it a comedian or a random guy? He
beat me because he was like he said, this is
what he said. He said, your mama's pussy so deep.
I went down on her. My ears popped, and that's
(39:14):
what I said. And I didn't have it. I was like, yeah, nigga,
that that's the winner.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
You never had anybody get mad like and try to fight.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
H No, because I like to be honest with you,
like i'd say, like ninety percent of it is reading
body language. You kind of can look at who who's
with this and now now I should never have to
deal with it. Because the front five to seven rows
of my show is sold online for more Pini and
it's called the roll Zone, so they literally it's like
(39:46):
the splash on, like you only do that if you
want to just blash, like how Gallagher would hit the
water melons.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so if you're in a row zone, I don't want.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
To hear shit like what it is. They'd be mad
if I don't get man, we just our second time coming.
You ain't get it either doing man, come again, bro,
I'll get you.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
So in general, no, not now, but at the like,
if I'm just doing a show that's not mine or
gigging or something, it's about like who's who, who's with it,
generally eye contact, smiling or at least looking, you know.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Definitely not big enough that I'm like.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
That would be about.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
That'd be a good that'd be a good fight.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Like I'm not looking for I'm not roasting somebody that
I've got to tussle with six minutes and we don't
know who won.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Big Mac was big as hell, and he said, you
do security as hell.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I do security right.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Why you gotta put Burrow on the end.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
I could run away from him skipping, Nigga, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Run trying to catch me. No, that's a belly shot.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
We out of there. What is what is this paper?
Spin off? I mean the spin off the office?
Speaker 4 (40:44):
This is good. These niggas are really good, you guys.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Do you guys just sit up here and be like, man,
we're good at this ship.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Do you know you're the best work doing it for
a while.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
No, niggas are good. Just spend I didn't think that
was in your thing.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
I don't know. Yeah, So The Office is coming back
and it's called it's called The Paper. I wouldn't necessarily
call it a spin off because it's in the same universe,
the same world, some of the characters are the same,
and so, uh, there is a serious nda around what
we can say and cannot say. But it comes back
on September fourth, and this shit is gonna be hilarious.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
I am very very proud of you for doing that.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
You are that type of witty ass comedian know that
with totally be great in the Office or the Office universe.
So that's one of my favorite shows, Modern Family, The Office,
And like, I love that you are in that pocket
of wit and that's that feels good to me to
see that you're gonna be doing that working up man.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Thank you and I and I'm I'm just thankful. But
I'm in. I'm in.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I think I'm in more episodes than I'm not. And yes,
because Greg Daniels can see your boy, so uh yes,
and there's and once you're in a sitcom like that,
there's a lot less competition, you know, I mean, like
you you're the person you're in This is when you
get to go do your thing, while now it's twenty
(42:04):
four people waiting to get one spot.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, literally, you got you're gonna get the.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Rappers, you're gonna get the contracted guys, and you got
the celebrity. Oh they brought their little sister with them. Then,
uh so there's two spots and there's twenty four people
waiting to get tapped to be against each other. On
the others, you'd be like, man, I don't know if
I'm gonna get a episode, but you can see it.
And then here come Michael Blackson wasn't even on the
damn show you what's something about Socca? And he and
because he's nick boy, you don't get no burn shout
(42:31):
out the mic. But that's just that's how you get four.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
That's how I go.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Then you go out and put the cape on somebody
because they asked you to. You gotta we only shoot
two weeks, all them episodes two weeks, so I'm in
trouble for three days.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Nigga. That's devastating.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
But the beauty is when you blow up, like the
way you're blowing up now, like they'll invite you back
and act like you got your start there.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
And I'll be like, man, I'm so thankful, shout out
the nine elevens.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
But the paper is not a reboot though.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
It's I mean, I don't know what the right word
is talk about it that the press, but I'm really
I don't know what the word is for. Like this
was also happening, but now we'll show you this other player.
Just imagine the production company that was in the office,
you know, it was alway zooming in and all that.
Just imagine they went across the street to another address
(43:21):
or something, because that's kind of I don't I don't,
I don't know, because usually spin off it takes one
character and it follows them, you know what I'm saying,
And this ain't that. This isn't famin matters, And then
we just follow Erkle and like, no, this is like
there's characters from the other one in this one. It's
a beautiful Greg Daniels did it again. That's all right.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
Then the showrunners and that whole team, like I was
in awe, just like good some of the.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Stuff they found, the idiosyncrasies of how funny something simple
could be, and and the fact that they were like
malleable enough to get it some big words. Some of
the stuff that was that they made funny, that they
took the time and budget to spend time, like how
to just move like flip a lever. Flipping a lever
(44:10):
wasn't just flipping. Like there's a way to pick these
glasses up and it's funny, and they went through every
way like so you want to pick these glasses up.
You want to pick these glasses up like they I'm
talking about every way to inflect your voice. And they
took the time to be like do the game at
this time the game? But this time I was like,
I did not know that this show was like this
(44:31):
fine tooth, like they take every moment and and it's
every moment is I guess you know, Manicure to be
as funny as it can be, even though it's as dry,
but it's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yes, good, you can't you can't gotta be man.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Episodes that can't come back out right now?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know, I.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
Love the show. I love it man, and you you
stream as well.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Sometimes you know as much as I can.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
You know what I'm saying, But god damn you you
you you don't realize how much shit you don't want
to show until you're showing it, you know what I'm saying.
I walked past some mail on the counter and somebody
was like, got your address, nigga? I like, yeah, what
because I posit zoom in like I already stay that ass.
I like fuck that. I was going to my office
(45:22):
and there's a billboard outside and somebody was like, I
know where that billboard is. I'm like, man, fuck. So
there's so many like camera down then you just want
to talk to somebody. They see the mic on you like,
oh you monked up? Not right now?
Speaker 4 (45:33):
Good right now.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
So so it's like I have to like be like, okay,
from this time to this time, I'm gonna stream. I
thought it was just gonna be like just put the
camera on, let's go for some of your life. You
don't want to you know what I'm saying. You don't
want to show a lot of your life.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
I think, you know.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Plus, it's a different kind of oncause I'm realizing when
you go live, it's a lot of fucking reading. Yeah,
people don't really like you're reading the equivalent of like
nine Harry Potter chapters just to interact with your chat.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
You know what I'm saying, so I can do it,
but it's a it's a thing I have to flip. Now.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Last week I went to Twitch headquarters in San Francisco, and.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
I was like, what were we doing? What you want
to do?
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Because there's an entire industry of comedy where people are
living big lives and they're perfect for live streaming, but
we need like can we work? Yeah, and that app is,
that app is, that's a beautiful app, but that that
shit is that the entry level on that is so high.
It's expensive to get on Instagram, you need a phone,
which you already have. If you want to be a
(46:35):
creator on Twitter, you got to have like several different
apps which have their own learning curve, whether it's something
for overlay, something for alert, something for the chat.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Then you got to have a setup.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Like there's like there's a lot even like let's say
you just want to stream your like I Rail from
a phone, Well, now you got to go buy Samsung
Galaxy twenty five. Then things it's like eleven hundred. Then
you got to get too simcars, Like the entry level
it is expensive, like a whole nun Now it's even
if it's not, it's just expensive.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
Then let's tell you.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Let's say you go out and there's a lot of
you go maybe a Yankees game, and I'm gonna stream
or something if they'll let you. But somewhere where it's
high populated, maybe maybe the parade or something. Everybody on
the cell tower your signal dropping. Now your feet is cutting.
So if you get tired of that, the next the
next step up from the phone, it's called a live
(47:25):
you solo pro back So no, yeah, yeah, there's a
backpack or like a Wi Fi. Yeah, so there's like
two or three motems or something. That ship is like
six thousand dollars. So you're telling me just to stay
on the app and stay like it's like that who
got that? When young creator just got six thousand sitting
(47:46):
right there. So then the next step of is a
thirty thousand back I see like DDG and all them
then them them backpacks.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Is thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
That's the backpack that Yeah, if it's blue or something
or hot green, I think that bag is shit. Third
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
So it's a real investment.
Speaker 4 (48:03):
But you does it pay?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (48:08):
Wow, it pays?
Speaker 5 (48:09):
By long do you have to be on those sites
in order to make the money.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
No, you get you go as soon as you go partner.
I made partner in four days. And if you go
to make a partner, just well there's a thing that
you know. It says, it's just like any other monetization
where they're like you need this many viewers, this many
hours or whatever. But you can also just send an
email and be like, here's my numbers on other platforms
and they be like, oh ship got So you're monetized
right away, which gives you access to a certain percentage
(48:35):
of your advertising and a certain percentage of your subs.
And the subs is why. That's why it makes sense.
You want to know the sauce. I deed the sauce
and this is how. This is how it happens. I
like to share and not right. So that's why I said,
if somebody gonna take something I'm doing and do it,
(48:57):
I didn't make it that hard to get it.
Speaker 4 (48:59):
Yeah, so I'll ask you first so that you understand
the power of it.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Right. So, in my opinion, I think the I r
L clips are the highest algorithm clips on social media.
Right now, it seems like it ain't sketches. It used
to be sketches. Now, it's like, so, like, what do
you remember from the BET Awards this year?
Speaker 4 (49:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (49:23):
That's a clip?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Right?
Speaker 4 (49:26):
What do you remember from Shane Gillis at.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
The spis his monologue which is a clip?
Speaker 3 (49:33):
So like Joe Rogan's clip page is almost six times
bigger than the full episode page. Right, nobody gonna sit
through three hours and just watch the clip? And what
makes twitch so genius that anybody watching your stream has
there's a button on it that says clip anyone. Why
any viewer can make a sixty second clip? Now that
could be bad if you're doing something like gotcha.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Ass headlines or they make the headline, don't be having
nothing to do with the video, right?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, you got your headlined and you watch it like
that didn't happen?
Speaker 4 (50:02):
You didn't. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (50:03):
I saw some of them were like somebody curves Cristy
on and I watched it. I was like, she ain't
even happen.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
It's just having fun.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
What the fun?
Speaker 4 (50:09):
But if you know that that's what it is, then
then now why not why not be strategic?
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Then? Yeah, you don't got eight hours of stream, you
got two hours, so and that two hours, I'm gonna
go here. I'm gonna go there. I'm talk to my brother,
my son or my whatever we're gonna have. There will
be chances for moments, and then you can overproduce it
where you're like somebody gonna kick in the door and
it's going down and you know what I'm saying. But
you want the clips because once you get the clip,
that goes YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, it goes every other platform.
(50:39):
And so then you build your audience and then they're
on and they subscribe or just coming on, they watch ads,
they have no choice, and you get paid, and then
from your station in the game, you don't. You're not
gonna get that basic percentage. You're like, I'm aryotte Man,
you're talking about set up.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
The breakfast club. I r L goddamnit, I'm ready. Are
you read You needed that? Nate, Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
Yeah, get your money, Well check out you.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
I want to have a more question.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
What do you want new fans who see you for
the first time on Netflix to walk away thinking.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
I got a new top five.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Because for like twenty years, everybody says the same five
names in rotation, and I think that it's time that
we shake that up.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
A little bit. Basketball got new stars.
Speaker 3 (51:24):
I'm not saying there's not a place for other people
and we can all eat, but let's work together, you
know what I'm saying. And maybe it's a challenge, but
I would like to see some of the og black
comics who've made a lot of money in the game
reach back and create opportunities for the rest of the game.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
There's Uptown, I guess it's closing.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
It's not black owned, but it's black man And so
now I think there are three black owned clubs in America.
I'm the biggest at two hundred and seventy seats. I
think when I look around on your wall and see
all the successful African Americans and every dollar that got
pulled down, that it makes no sense that we don't
have more brick and mortars to do the craft we build.
(52:10):
Why doesn't Martin have wandas? Why doesn't you know what
I'm saying, why does Why isn't there a heart Kevin
Hart comedy club? God damn you do comedy. Make some
money off the drinks for you got a liquor, sell
only that in your club. But there should be And
if that's not it, then let's just get with the
let's get with the people who open businesses left and right,
(52:32):
and and then say look here, you use my name,
my likeness, and I want some ownership whatever, and then
and but there should be that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
Joe Rogan got the comedy club in Austin.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
Now did the Mothership?
Speaker 1 (52:42):
Yeah, I believe Dave is building one.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
Das name.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
And and and so there may be four. But that's
if you think about all of the money. Every time
you like, who's been in the top three in comedy
since I'm nineteen seventy, The majority of the top three
top gross early I'm not even talking about whether you
like them or not. I'm talking about the highest grossing
(53:09):
actor of the year was black. Whether it was Richard
Pryor or Red Fox or Cat or Mike Epps or
Kevin Hart or Martin or like. And if it wasn't one,
it was an entity like King's of Comedy or now
eighty five South Like, why let's get to eighty five
comedy clubs. Let's get like, let's expand and grow our
(53:32):
industry because the people want to come to shows.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
And then you control the butt, you control the dollar.
Speaker 3 (53:38):
There's no more you in the back getting ripped off
or you know, they don't treat you right, because now
you know how to be treating you know what I'm saying.
And I want us to get it right too, because
I have done other black owned clubs and been like,
come on, y'all, yeah, I don't really, I don't play
like that. We do we you know, we run a
good show, but it's a lot to juggle the career
and the club and make sure that it's still black excellence.
(54:00):
But my team is thorough, so we hold it down
and if it works in one place, it should, in
theory work in another place. So I think that that
if I could leave something with with the with the
entertainers that are watching, man, what's up? Open something? Open something.
Let's get some comedy back on regular TV. Let's make
comedy very easy to consume again. When I was a kid,
(54:22):
you could go home and comed View was on and
and and Comedy Central had specials, and like now you
can't find no stand up unless you put it on.
I gotta find it, you know what I'm saying. So
we need to get to a place where the deaf
jams and the comedy like it feels like that again. Yes.
So if there's something I could leave with the people,
I don't know. Man, just laugh, live your love, live
your life to the fullest. Uh, you know, and you
(54:44):
deserve you deserve to laugh.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
So do it, Nate Jackson. Tell them to follow you, brothers.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Nate Jackson Coomedy dot com or at mister Nate Jackson
on the Gram or Nate Jackson Comedy on TikTok uh.
Just tap in Nate Jackson Coomedy dot com. Is there
where you can see everything I'm on. I'm ending the
Super Funny World to here in the next couple of dates,
and the Big Dog Tour starts right after that. International.
We got Australia. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
Get some tickets while there's any seats left.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
It's like that congratulations.
Speaker 5 (55:17):
Say he was doing shows and movies and stuff, casting stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:21):
You want to add something, Yeah, for sure, I got
some ship, all right? Cool? Yeah I got because like
I'm really.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (55:28):
I almost forgot the movie I'm tripping. So there's a
movie with Seth Throg and Kiki Palmer Keanu Reeves and
it's as He's and Sorry's directorial debut that comes out
in October and it's called good fortune.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
And I'm in that.
Speaker 4 (55:39):
So so yeah, no, I got stuff.
Speaker 3 (55:43):
Okay, I just about this red camera. We're about to
be it's about to go. They can't tell me nothing.
Speaker 7 (55:51):
Check out Super Funny on Netflix now, Nate Jackson, Ladies
and gentlemen, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (55:55):
Brother, appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
That's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning at
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