October 13, 2025 • 35 mins
What happens when you trade a boardroom for a black box theater and decide to start from scratch in your 50s? We sit down with actor and stand-up comic Sheri Gill Dixon for a fearless, funny, and deeply human conversation about falling in love with movies as a teenage usher threading reels, discovering Meisner training in Virginia Beach, and building a comedy voice that lives or dies by instant feedback. Sheri takes us behind the scenes of big sets like Tammy—where she held her boundaries without apology—and shares why watching Melissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates work reminded her that kindness and professionalism scale.
The heart of this conversation lives on stage. Sheri breaks down how she moved from the safety of scripts to the risk of stand-up, why writing often happens mid-set, and how crowd work can surface sharper material than any quiet desk session. We talk influence and range—Joan Rivers and Moms Mabley opening doors; Richard Pryor, Bernie Mac, Dave Chappelle shaping storytelling; Seinfeld’s polish and Miss Pat’s punch; Thea Vidale’s relatable grit—and how those threads weave into a voice that’s unmistakably her own. We also get real about women in comedy: the scarcity baked into flyers, the myth of one chair, and how the Ladies of Comedy pack flips the script through collaboration, shared opportunities, and relentless support.
Beyond the mic, Sheri opens up about motivation that isn’t Instagram-ready. Working in transit surfaced daily inequities; the George Floyd era pushed her toward doctoral work and sharpened her belief that art can ease what policy cannot. Comedy becomes the pressure valve and the bridge: a room that laughs together, even for an hour, carries less weight home. We swap notes on good rooms and cold crowds, choosing where to spend your energy, and the quiet power of a stranger saying your set made their night worth the babysitter.
If you’re navigating a late start, eyeing a pivot from acting to stand-up, or building a creative crew that resists gatekeeping, this one’s for you. Hit follow, share this with a friend who needs the nudge, and drop a review with the moment that stuck with you—what leap are you ready to take next?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
We upgraded.
(00:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcomeback to another episode of the
No ID Podcast.
I have writer, content creator.
She is one fourth of the womenAvengers of comedy.
Was it women's what do you guyscall it?
SPEAKER_01 (00:15):
LC LLC.
LLC Ladies of Comedy.
SPEAKER_00 (00:19):
I'm a quarter of it.
I had the You're a quarter ofit.
Yeah.
We don't do math here.
She's been going all around.
Very busy lady here.
Very busy content creator.
Actress.
I don't know.
She has so many slashes behindher name.
But the one and only Sherry GillDixon.
How you doing, ma'am?
SPEAKER_01 (00:37):
I'm good.
How are you?
SPEAKER_00 (00:39):
Better.
Took four years for this, but wefinally made it happen.
SPEAKER_01 (00:43):
It has not been four years.
Maybe, maybe two.
SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
I'll say two.
Two.
Two.
So I met you doing uh what wasit second Saturdays?
Yeah, I remember.
And you were uh you were akiller.
I was like, who is this finesugar mom popping up on the
scene?
(01:07):
Who the hell is this?
And she was like, Oh, it's justso nice to work with you.
I'm like, I'm kind of awkwardaround people's.
I didn't know how to take it.
And then I just saw you poppingaround on more on the scene.
Then like I I did a lot ofresearch.
You're an actress as well, too,right?
SPEAKER_01 (01:22):
I am.
Yep.
So I've been I was like, So howdid you get started into the
arts?
Into the arts period.
SPEAKER_00 (01:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (01:30):
So it was back in the early years of 197 no, I'm
just kidding.
It was early though.
So I did I did theater in highschool.
I'm a little older, so I lovedit.
But you know, back in the 70sand 80s, it wasn't the career
choice, you know, that peoplehad.
You couldn't even make makemoney doing it, really.
(01:52):
Or at least that's what yourparents told you.
So I took another route and wentoff and and failed out of
college twice.
My parents were so proud.
And then when I I guess itwasn't until my 50s I got back
into acting.
And I just was tired of sittingin a boardroom and said, you
know what, I want to dosomething that I enjoy.
So I had moved to Virginia Beachand I just Googled acting
(02:16):
classes and found Keith Flippin'at the actor's place and signed
up and took a beginning Meisnerclass, and that that's pretty
much the start of it.
That was in 2013.
Yeah.
So um, what were you gonna askme?
Who's the the actor or what?
SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
Who's the actress or the actor like that movie that
that was like, you know what, Iwant to give this a try.
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
Um, I you know, I don't I don't really remember
it's been that long ago.
But you gotta think, uh you meanin my 40s or when I was in high
school?
No, like in general.
I just loved so okay, my veryfirst job I had at 16 years old
was at the movie theater, thelocal movie theater.
And I think that's really whereI fell in love with movies.
(03:01):
And you gotta remember back inthe day, that's when you had the
big reels and the, you know, thethe tape, it would break, and
then you they'd be, you know,oh, and the audience would be
like, ah, screaming, and youhave to run up and splice it
back together and then start itback up.
That's when I worked at themovie theater where, you know,
there were no cash registers.
We had a drawer with some moneyand you know, tear tickets that
you handed out to people.
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And we were able to, you know,go and sit and watch every movie
that we wanted to in between andon our days.
And I just I just loved movies.
So I think that's where I fellin love with movies, was my
first job.
SPEAKER_00 (03:37):
Okay.
I thought, like, you know, I'llwave say like Meryl Street or I
love Meryl Street.
SPEAKER_01 (03:43):
Yeah, all of them.
But I there's so many though,you know?
There's so many great so I didhave the opportunity, and and I
hate doing this because peopleare like, oh my god, and I was
just gonna name drop.
No.
But I had the opportunity towork on the set of Tammy.
I was just background.
I was a lesbian.
They did offer me extra money toshow my titties, and I said, no,
(04:04):
I think I'm gonna pass.
And so I didn't do that piece ofit.
But to be able to work withMelissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates
um was amazing to see them work.
They are two of the mostamazing, friendly, humble
individuals.
And that was one of the veryfirst really large sets that I
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was able to be on.
SPEAKER_00 (04:26):
Yeah, okay.
I haven't seen Tammy at all.
SPEAKER_01 (04:31):
Well, they don't even show the titties, so I
should have done it and justtaken the money.
SPEAKER_00 (04:34):
But it's 2025.
I'm pretty sure they would havehad like some kind of site that
had Sherry's titties on online.
All right, you forgot who's onmy podcast outside of your
friends.
SPEAKER_01 (04:48):
Well, here's the thing that's one of the reasons
why I didn't do it, because myson was really young then, and
all I kept thinking was when hegot older, that his friends
would be like, Oh my god, lookwhat I found.
It's your mom's titties.
And I was like, I'm gonna haveto pass on that.
I'm I'm gonna keep them underwraps.
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
They pop up at the door.
Hey, is your mom home today?
SPEAKER_01 (05:10):
Well, she's like, We're coming out.
Jonathan, where's your mom?
Where's your mom?
Listen, he gets so mad.
He gets so mad when people hiton me.
I started talking about it in mystand-up actually, because it's
so funny.
SPEAKER_00 (05:25):
I mean, you're attractive, you know, an
attractive lady, you know whatI'm saying?
So I wouldn't be surprised whodidn't hit on you.
SPEAKER_01 (05:31):
A lot of people don't hit on me.
Kevin Spacey didn't hit on me.
SPEAKER_00 (05:36):
I was in House of Cards.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
No, I'm not a 12-year-old boy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:40):
Yeah, you're too you, you're wow.
I think I that shit messed meup.
I'm sorry.
Because I watched AmericanBeauty and I hated that movie.
I didn't understand it at all,but we don't need to get into
that.
I think some of my favorite.
No, you good.
Hey, Sherry, don't get yourcredit messed up messing with
me.
You keep talking to me in thosevoices, I'll be back in them DMs
(06:02):
again.
What do you got planned thisweekend?
SPEAKER_01 (06:04):
I was gonna say I it was weird because I was on the
set of House of Cards.
I did season one and two, and soI was a cabinet aide right
behind Kevin Spacey.
Literally, he was here and I wasthere, and he would pace and
walk, and I was like, you know,it's really odd.
He like he didn't even reallyhit on me or talk to me or
(06:26):
anything.
And so I didn't get it until,you know, years later when all
that came out, and I was like,it's not me.
I am attractive.
It was I'm not a boy.
unknown (06:36):
Got it.
SPEAKER_00 (06:38):
I mean, I know like I have some favorite actors.
Like Wesley Snipes is by far myfavorite actor because he's the
only person I know that did TooWong Fu and New Jack City in the
same year.
That just showed me he had likemad range, right?
Yeah.
And Don Cheadle and JeffreyWright.
If you want Viola Davis, isanother one.
(06:59):
Meryl Streep is a is a uh JamieLee Curtis for sure.
She is setting the internet onfire right now with Freakier
Friday.
Um, so I mean I get it.
I got a little range.
Now, what what made youtransition into comedy?
Like that's uh you went fromusually it's the other way
around.
It's like stand-up to comedy.
(07:20):
You went no, you went, excuseme.
You went usually it's uhstand-up comedy to actor.
You went actor to stand-upcomedy, still acting.
What made you go into stand-up?
SPEAKER_01 (07:31):
You know, it's weird because I always thought about
doing stand-up.
And I used to always tell myson, I was like, no, I should do
stand-up.
I'm funny.
And he'd go, and I, for real?
And I think that I was justbeing a stand-up comedian, you
are very vulnerable.
It's very different from beingbehind the camera.
You know, when I'm doing a film,I have a whole script, I have
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hair, I have makeup, likethere's the audience that sees
the film is not in the room withme.
I'm not getting that immediatefeedback, you know.
Can and I can also hide from it.
I am not gonna see them inperson when they're watching the
movie, right?
So when you're on stage doingstand-up, I think I was just
terrified of getting on stageand not being funny, even though
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I really felt like I would befunny.
So I think it just took, youknow, all these years of
experience for me to go, fuckit, I'm just gonna do it.
We can cuss on your podcast,right?
Because I mean, you have met me.
You know, I I was raised by aMarine.
We drop, we're colorful, we dropF-bomb.
So we do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:30):
Okay.
So once again, if I say youcan't cuss on my podcast, that'd
be a contradiction.
Being the fact that about twoepisodes ago, I had a young lady
named Kylie Cash up here talkingabout being a dominatrice and
dildo's up men's butt.
So if I say you can't cuss, whatsense does that make to say that
you can't cuss?
See, that's how I know peoplethat come on this show over
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there.
SPEAKER_01 (08:54):
I have not seen your podcast.
I know people gonna watch it.
Wow, I'm gonna have to go pullup some of your episodes.
SPEAKER_00 (09:03):
I literally had a young lady talking about it.
I have no idea talk about dildosand butts.
I had another one with thedominant that just had the hood
on her head.
This is the shit that pisses meoff.
And I'm sorry, I'm bearing off.
I do apologize.
I would hit somebody Yeah, I Iappreciate you.
I when if I hit you up, I knowsometimes you don't listen to
(09:25):
it.
I get it.
But I have people that hit me uplike, man, I want to get on your
pockets.
I'm like, are you sure?
Have you seen what I do?
No, man, I don't know whatyou're talking about.
I've had porn stars, DaisyDucati, Sexual Savage, Nefty
Enchantress, Kylie Cash.
I got Misty Stone coming.
I've had comedians, Buddy Lewis,Michael Carr, Diallo Reddle,
Nori Davis.
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Kells Morton.
Kells Morton, Sherry Gill Dixon.
I had a lot of them up here.
I'd be like, are you sure?
Oh man, I don't know, man.
You know, like I had a guy hitme up.
I'm getting this off my chestbecause he hit me up last night.
I said, hey, bro, I've had pornstars and dominations up here.
You sure you want to go up hereand talk about a family
business?
Nah, man, you know, long assfucking message.
(10:06):
It's okay.
That's my stepchildren in thebackground.
But we we love dogs.
Sherry, Sherry's boo-boo rightnow, you know.
Every time I see her, I just buyher French fries and wine.
Every time.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (10:21):
No idea you had you had you have very colorful
guests.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, found my niche.
So you're very But what is yourniche?
SPEAKER_01 (10:31):
You just you just went from porn star to to
comedian.
What's your niche?
Just see, I like that because II don't know if you've seen my
post.
I've been talking about it foryears.
And by my birthday, which is ina month, I'm gonna have a
podcast episode out.
I want to do my own podcastbecause I love to talk.
You should.
And and everyone is always askedme, Well, what's your topic?
(10:54):
And I'm like, everything.
And they're like, Well, usuallyyou have to have a a lane.
Okay, it's all the lanes.
I just want all the lanesbecause I'm listening I am like
50 different women rolled up inone person.
There's that comedian, I gosh,I'm horrible with her name, but
she's funny as shit.
(11:15):
And she did a little skit duringthe pandemic about, you know, oh
my God, what who do you want?
Who do you want?
Like, what girlfriend do youwant?
And it was funny, you know, shewas holding a gun to the guy's
head.
It was a fake gun.
And she's like, which which onedo you want?
Like, I can be any of them.
That's me.
Like, I'm so like different inso many areas.
So that's why I'm like, mypodcast is just gonna be, and
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I'm kind of, I think the older Iget, the more outspoken I am.
And I wanted to, I want to nameit Sherry D, Unfiltered and Out
of Fuc.
But some of my friends who areproducers and stuff are like,
eh, you gotta think about thename because some people aren't
gonna wanna have it on therebecause it says fucks.
And I'm like, really?
But it's such a great name.
(11:59):
Unfiltered and out of fucks.
That is really me at at thisage.
So I might have to change thename, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
It starts with the name.
Like, no idea is the greatestname I could ever come up with
because I have no lane.
I can talk to whoever I want toabout whatever I want to, and I
just keep it pushing.
That's it.
People don't like the name, theyget confused.
I don't care.
Uh, I have had podcast networksturn me down just because of the
name or because of the guests.
(12:28):
I'm like, uh, I'm not changing.
So, you know, I'm I'm veryindependent.
And my former mentor, D.
Militant, always told me youhave to have more than one of
the things.
My current mentor, James Cooper,has always preached about having
more than one of the things.
And I'm like, all right, well,podcast comedy.
(12:49):
I guess eventually maybe I'llstart doing dances with you and
the ladies of comedy.
Maybe I'll be the long-lostfifth member and cryp walk in
the parking lot like you, Sonia,Kills, and Vicky.
The funny thing is, you look solost in that parking lot.
I was like, oh my God, poorSherry.
SPEAKER_01 (13:06):
Which one?
Because we did two dances in twoparking lots.
One, one we had Angus Black.
Angus Black was with us, yeah.
And that was that was funny.
And then the other one, uh, Iactually got the line dance.
See, here's the thing though.
Vicky J, and maybe the othertwo, but mostly Vicky, she knows
every dance there is, and it'sjust not fair.
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And so she'd be like, come on,let's do that.
And she starts moving.
I'm like, I don't even, I amdyslexic and ADD.
I don't even know what you justdid.
And so they have to slow it downfor me to teach me the dance.
So, but I got that one down.
I did.
I had that one down.
But I have rhythm, you know.
Takes me a minute.
SPEAKER_00 (13:48):
We know you got rhythm.
You used to bring a lot ofrhythm to the mics when I used
to perform with you.
I'm like, Sherry's the onlypiece of salt in all this
pepper.
And I was like, oh wow.
I knew you was cool when youcame home.
Like, she's wearing all black.
Oh, what's the purpose?
What's the meaning behind allblack?
Is that your whole wardrobe?
Is that a statement?
Are you like emo or something?
SPEAKER_01 (14:07):
You know what's interesting?
I have been wearing all blacksince my 20s.
So that's over 30 years.
I used to go out to the clubwith a girlfriend of mine, and
her mom used to get so irritatedbecause they were like this, you
know, conservative, you know,white family.
And I would come in the door andI have on the shortest skirt
ever, you know, and I would justbe an all-black, you know,
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titties popping out, and and shewould just, why can you wear a
color?
And I was like, it is a color.
It's black.
So I don't know.
I don't even know where itstarted.
I was never goth or anything.
I think, I think I just thinkblack is more slimming, and I've
always had black hair.
So I don't I don't know.
I just wear black.
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It's color my heart and my soul.
That's what I like to say.
Your heart is.
SPEAKER_00 (14:54):
Heart and soul is that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:56):
My heart is fucking cold.
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
Well, I don't know your situation, but I'm gonna
let you keep sipping wine.
We're not even gonna tap intothat on the camera.
You know what I mean?
We're gonna leave that alone.
Was there a comedian that everinspired you?
Like, yo, I want to be somethinglike that that you ever Oh gosh,
comedians.
SPEAKER_01 (15:12):
You know, so uh so I have to say the first comedian
that I I loved uh was JoanRivers.
And I have to say that because,yeah, that's how old I am.
I used to sneak to stay up towatch her when she was filling
in at the tonight show.
And I just thought she was sofunny.
(15:32):
And you gotta also remembershe's also the first woman to
have her own late night talkshow.
You know, her her and mom'sMaybelly, you know, they really
paved that road.
Yeah, yeah.
See, I'm from back in that day.
Yes, they paved the road for uswomen to to be doing comedy.
(15:52):
So I always have to mention themfirst.
And then we'll get to the otherpeople, you know, the Richard
Priors and the Bernie Mack.
I mean, I grew up watching thosetwo.
And then of course the newer,you know, Dave Chappelle.
I'm a storyteller, so I relateto him really well because he's
a storyteller.
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And I just love the way he hisdelivery and and how he does it,
and it's so like, you know, it'sjust a matter of fact, you know,
whatever.
So, and but it's funny.
He's a genius.
SPEAKER_00 (16:26):
He's he is a genius.
See, like, I came up with, andeverybody laughs at me.
Like, I've seen Kings of Comedy,but I was like more into
blue-collar comedy tour.
Yeah.
And like Jerry Seinfield is mygoat, right?
And people like Jerry Seinfield.
I'm like, yes, like Jerry's.
I saw Jerry when he came toNorfolk probably what, a year,
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two years ago.
Absolutely loved him.
He came with Mario Joyner, and Iwas like, this is fucking
awesome.
Like Jerry Seinfeld is my goat,right?
I can watch any Jerry Seinfieldspecial.
I can watch a bunch of EddieMurphy.
For a while, I was in Mom'sMaybelline.
Whatever I could find, like her,uh Rudy Waymoore, when Dola
Might.
If you haven't seen my name isDola Might, Eddie Murphy played
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played him and had my favoriteact in there, Wesley Snipes.
I'm like, you get the backstoryof like how all this started,
right?
And um, it's cool, it's reallycool.
And I I actually got to open upone of my favorite comedians out
there, like who was like on mygoal list, D.L.
Huglin, and I damn near peedmyself trying to talk to that
(17:30):
man.
He was so humble, he was like,yo, stop treating me like that.
I was like, Oh, you got it, bro.
Is there a comedian that youwork with?
I love you too.
Have you ever seen is there acomedian that you looked up to
that you got a chance to workwith, or do you look forward to
working with?
SPEAKER_01 (17:47):
Um I haven't had a chance to work with with any of
them.
I I love to.
I mean, I love like Jay Farrowand you know, there are some
comedians out there that I Ilove Gary Owen.
I think he's so funny.
And I've watched stuff with him,and he'll say, you know, he
doesn't he doesn't write, hedoesn't write and I'm like, I
think I do a lot of that becauseI know you've we've done uh
(18:10):
several shows together andpeople always I'm always like,
oh my God, what am I gonna say?
And a lot of times my and I knowyou're not really supposed to do
that, but a lot of times my newjokes come from a paid show
where I'm just going and I go,Oh shit, I gotta write that
down.
I gotta remember that because ifI just sit and go, okay, let me
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write something funny, I'll besitting for like two hours
going, I don't know, I gotnothing.
I I can't force it, but when I'mjust in conversation, that's
when you know, that's when itcomes out.
SPEAKER_00 (18:45):
That's like the best time.
That's the best time.
Like some of my jokes come fromcrowd work.
SPEAKER_01 (18:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:51):
So yeah, some of my jokes come from crowdwork.
I'm like, oh shit, let me makesure I got this recorded.
But like uh you said, Gary Owen.
Gary Owen is cool.
I like Gary.
His new special is actuallypretty fire, actually.
It's on his YouTube channel.
Um I get it.
SPEAKER_01 (19:07):
Now, is there are there any?
I I did get to see uh Miss Patwhen she was at the Funny Bone.
Really?
And yeah, yeah, because Kellswas hosting, and so of course,
you know, the LOC we went up to,you know, support, and um she
was just hilarious, hilarious.
SPEAKER_00 (19:26):
You ever seen Thea Videl?
SPEAKER_01 (19:29):
Not not live.
SPEAKER_00 (19:31):
But you know who she is?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (19:37):
Yes, yes.
I love her.
I love her.
Her stories are so perfect andrelatable.
Like I sit there and go, yes, ohmy god.
Like when she talks about, youknow, her dating and being on
the profile and her son going onthere, uh, you know, I just love
her.
I saw her when she was at thefunny bone too.
SPEAKER_00 (19:57):
I didn't see her at the funny bone.
I actually I actually kind ofmessed that one up with me and
her.
I ain't gonna lie to you.
Messed that one up bad.
SPEAKER_01 (20:07):
What'd you mess up?
What?
SPEAKER_00 (20:09):
I was shooting my shot.
I was like, fuck it.
I was like, because I had seenher, I think it was either it
was Comedy Central, and I sawher on Southside, and I was
like, oh, and she is sobeautiful.
And I was like, uh, you know,I'm single.
I've been single for a while.
I got I was like, I got a littleconfidence because the comedy
game brings you attention.
(20:29):
It brings you some attention.
It bring it brings a lot ofattention.
You just gotta be warm, youknow, and it goes it went to my
head, and I was like, oh shoot.
We was talking and stuff in theDMs, and then I think like
somewhere we dropped the ball,and then I was like, oh, I have
a podcast.
You wanna be on my podcast?
Then you try and shut your shotat me.
I was like, oh my bad.
(20:51):
So I haven't done it then.
Like I congratulated when shegot married.
She's I think she divorced now,and the relationship was on
another relationship.
But I was like, I'd be liketrying to like every post.
Like one time it was herbirthday.
I had shared it was like,congratulations, happy birthday,
blah, blah, blah.
And she was like, Thank you.
I was like, Yeah, that's thatone fucked up.
Yeah, fuck that one up.
Fucked that one up.
(21:12):
I could have been gone by now.
Could have been a house husband.
Because you know what I'msaying?
You you get the attentionyourself, you get it, like you
be up there performing, andpeople like, man, she's so
fucking funny.
And then you get some peoplethat come up there like, yo, so
uh, how you doing?
SPEAKER_01 (21:25):
Right?
Can I can I take a picture withyou?
Um why?
SPEAKER_00 (21:31):
Has there any been any challenges of being a woman
in comedy?
Because you guys have a packthat I actually respect, right?
You guys have writing sessions,you y'all pull up to each
other's shows, y'all got videoswith each other, and I respect
that.
I I told Kells that, like femaleAvengers, ladies of comedy,
whatever you guys call yourself.
I call y'all the a lot of theAvengers of Women Assemble and
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you guys run in a pack and y'alllook out for each other.
Like, has there been anychallenges as a woman comedian
coming up in this in this era?
SPEAKER_01 (22:02):
Of course.
I mean, look at the flyers thatare out there.
All you gotta do is look at theflyers.
I mean, how many how many womendo you see on a flyer versus
versus men?
It's usually five to one, youknow, three to one.
So it's like we're we're kind ofsprinkled in still.
And and you know, here's thething.
(22:22):
It's not just like that in thein the comedy world, it's like
that in the whole world.
I mean, I'm an executive by day,and it's still a struggle to get
a seat at the table for a womanor for you to be heard.
So it's nothing out of theordinary that I I haven't dealt
with outside of comedy.
But you do see it, and then, youknow, women, there's there's the
(22:44):
the history of women fightingeach other, right?
Not getting along and and andreally, you know, one woman
trying to, you know, put theother woman down.
And that still does happen.
And I and that's because of theworld we live in.
There is typically only one seatat the table.
There's one picture on thatflyer, there's one female, and
(23:04):
we're all trying to get thatspot.
And so me, Vicky J and Kells andSonia, you know, we we click
together and you know, we've hadlots of conversations and
drinking wine and eating pizzaand whatever about this.
And we've kind of, you know,made that pact that, you know,
we want to support each otherand we want to, you know, not
(23:27):
continue that history of womenfighting other women to get a
seat at the table.
We want to, you know, either,you know, push other other
people out of the table or slidethem down and make some more
seats.
So that's just what we do.
And we we support each other andgo out.
We'll go to each other's showsif if we can, or if we're in
town, if we don't have a showourselves.
And, you know, we text all thetime.
(23:49):
And and listen, I'll wake up andthere'll be a brrrrr or I'll be
in meetings all day, andthere'll be like a hundred
texts, and just like I do withyou, I always I say, I can't, I
can't read all those.
I'm okay.
I'm dyslexic in 80s.
Like, I just I just can't.
I can't.
There's a lot going on here.
I don't know what it says, butha, that's it, you know.
(24:12):
So, but I love those ladies.
Like, we are we are so tight.
It's a great, it's a greatexample for how I think all
women should be.
SPEAKER_00 (24:21):
It is.
I feel like in in comedy,everybody feels like they have
to be an alpha, but reallythey're betas.
Everybody wants to be.
I use a lot of metaphors.
Everybody's uh in a small pondtrying to be a big shark and not
realizing like it's multiplestages, it's multiple
microphones, there's multiplevenues you can perform at, but
(24:42):
everybody wants that like it'slike an ego thing, right?
And you know, you got cloutwatcher.
Like some people actually likeliterally not follow you, but
will watch your page 24 or 7.
Some people actually follow youand unfollow you back.
Like, I think on my YouTube, Iwas at like I was it keeps going
(25:03):
up, and I get uh somebodysubscribe and then they
unsubscribe, or they subscribeand they unsubscribe.
My views is going crazysometimes, so it's it's it's one
of those things, and I wouldlike to see.
I mean, I know it's a lot, likeI did a show last night with uh
Stephanie, I can't Stephanie,Samantha, I can't pronounce her
last name.
It was a lot of women on thisshow, including guest spots, and
(25:24):
I was so happy to see thatbecause here you don't really
see it.
If you see one, that's it,right?
It's rare when you get one ortwo, or it's rare when you get
like everybody's on the show asa woman, the host is a woman,
the booker, the producer,whoever is a woman.
You it's rare to see that.
And I would love to see more ofthat.
(25:45):
I have a genuine, I told Kalesthis, and I told Sonya this.
I haven't talked to Vicky Jbecause I don't have a contact
with Vicky J, but I respecteverything that the LOC is
doing, right?
I I like the the the camaraderiethat you guys have, right?
You write in the pack, you don'tlet one fall behind.
If one person gets something,like I noticed that Kale's got
(26:07):
Canvas Rebel, she gives it tothe other one.
And I'm like, that's what it'ssupposed to be about, right?
Instead of, man, I got it.
I don't want nobody else to knowthat I got it.
How did you get that?
Why did you get that?
How do I I'm like, no, like it'sit's not it's not that, right?
But I think it's more of a apride and ego thing.
Like we don't put pride to theside, and we got too much ego to
(26:28):
sit up there and say, you knowwhat?
Let me just sit back and justchill, figure this out, come in
with some common sense and someintegrity behind it, and keep it
pushing.
You know what I'm saying?
But once again, I do shout youguys out.
Now I'm getting serious becausemy third eye that's waking up.
So I wish I could see more ofthat, not just on the women's
(26:53):
side, but on the comedian'sside, uh male side as well, too.
But yeah, it is what it is.
SPEAKER_01 (27:03):
Where I know for us, especially for me, I always say
I I am a firm believer in whatis meant for me is for me.
And no one can take that awayfrom me.
Um so I don't, you know, I don'tworry about what shows other
people are getting, or you know,what I didn't get if I didn't
get selected or I didn't win orwhatever.
(27:24):
All I care about is how I thinkI did.
I'm gonna watch it back, I'mgonna watch it back a hundred
times, I'm gonna critique it,I'm gonna be like, ooh, I didn't
like that and like this.
I don't compare myself to to theothers.
Plus, everyone is so different.
You can't you can't compareyourself to somebody else.
What I do on stage is what I do.
(27:46):
It's my style.
I don't want to be anybody else.
I don't want to emulate somebodyelse.
I want to be me.
That's why my Instagram name isit I it was purposeful.
Just me.
I just want to be just me.
I don't want to be somebodyelse.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Look at how passion you got every time you say just
me, your left eyebrow rolls up.
Just me.
Just me.
SPEAKER_01 (28:05):
Because the other side is paralyzed, kinda.
SPEAKER_00 (28:08):
Still look good as we drink out this thick ass yeti
cup.
SPEAKER_01 (28:11):
It's water.
We just came from a walk.
And my water and my wine.
SPEAKER_00 (28:17):
We just came from a nice nature walk.
Mount Trashmore.
What do you got, man?
I'm gonna get some Gatorade, getmy electrolytes.
Now, Sherry.
SPEAKER_01 (28:26):
First, I got wine.
Then I got water.
Wait, no, no, I'm sorry.
Then I got ginger ale, and thenI got water.
I got a lot of liquids going onon this desk.
I don't know what's happening.
SPEAKER_00 (28:36):
Man, you know.
It was a joke in there, but I'mgonna keep it to myself.
I know, right?
SPEAKER_01 (28:40):
So many jokes.
SPEAKER_00 (28:41):
There's so many jokes.
You know, I tend to make a lotof women thirsty around here.
You know, they be like, oh man,the receding hairline, the going
to the gym all the time, it'sjust turning me on.
You know what I mean?
Oh man.
So what is that before we gooff, right?
What is that thing that keepsyou motivated and keep going?
SPEAKER_01 (29:02):
I think it it's, you know, a lot of people say, Oh,
well, what what motivates you?
My kids or my family?
No, no.
Mm-mm.
No, that's all PC bullshit.
No.
My kid, listen, he better, hebetter figure it out because I'm
gonna die at some point.
That's what I tell him all thetime.
And then he gets mad.
Stop saying that.
I'm like, well, it's true.
Um what motivates me is justsomething within me to always
(29:28):
want to be better and to succeedand to make the world a better
fucking place than it is.
That's how my my you know,schooling came about.
I never wanted to go back toschool.
Matter of fact, I I barelygraduated high school.
Okay, my mother taught at myhigh school.
(29:48):
And when I graduated, she was sofucking happy.
She was like, Oh my god, thankGod.
I thought she was gonna end upin prison or pregnant in a
trailer park because back then.
They didn't know what dyslexiawas.
I'm dyslexic.
So she just thought I was lazyand wasn't studying.
And I was.
So you know, I just barely gotout of out of high school.
(30:10):
I failed out of college twice.
And I just, I just kept going.
It was more so for my doctoratethat I'm getting now.
That's when all the George Floydstuff was happening.
And there's all this.
I work in transit.
So I see a lot of racism thatstill exists, the low-income
population, the people who aredependent on transit.
(30:30):
See, now we're gonna get seriousand it's way off on comedy.
But you know, that's my that'smy world of of seeing how much
inequity and inequality andracism still exists in the world
today.
And somebody has to be the voiceof that.
So I that's what I do.
That's what motivates me is toto you know make it a better
(30:54):
place.
And through comedy, I think youdo that.
You know, I had a woman at ashow I did last month at push
say that her and her husband atthe end of the show, she was a
little intoxicated.
I just tell you that by the end.
But she was like, oh my God, shesaid, I just want to tell you,
we never come out.
We have kids, we stay home.
I didn't even want to come outtonight.
(31:15):
We came out because one of ourfriends was he a new comedian,
he was doing a guest spot.
And she said, I just have totell you everything you said.
One, you know, it made her feellike she wasn't by herself.
And two, it made her night.
It made everything worthwhile.
So she came out, she had a greattime, she wasn't stressed, she
(31:36):
wasn't dealing with all thosekids.
That's what I love about itbecause I think when you can
make someone laugh, you takeaway all that pain and that
stress, whatever they're goingthrough in life, you take that
away for just a minute.
That's what I love about it.
SPEAKER_00 (31:50):
Yeah, I respect that.
I like the fact that you lookinto a crowd and no matter
nobody's race, religion,background, what they got going
on, they just hear to laugh.
And the fact that you got peoplelaughing at push, no, push is
pretty easy.
Because that once that littlerich wine and them liquid depths
get to popping with the littlebrat whereas you're Gucci, you
know what I'm saying?
Like it's a good crowd.
SPEAKER_01 (32:13):
I have the best time every time I I do a show at
Push.
I do.
Last night at the venue, oh mygosh, it was it was fire the
whole night.
It was just, you know, it wasthe crowd was great.
And I love it when a crowd isthere to have a good time and to
laugh.
It's the worst thing when you'redoing a show and the person is
(32:34):
sitting there and they theydon't want to laugh.
And I'm like, why did you evencome?
SPEAKER_00 (32:40):
What was the purpose?
Yeah, what was your purpose?
Yeah.
You just came out the shit oneverybody else.
Fuck out of here.
You know what I'm saying?
You get those people to comeover there.
And they looking in, they makingeye contact with you.
You know, I love that crowdwork, so they be like, I'm like,
hey, how you doing today?
What's your name?
I'm not in for the games.
I'm like, okay, you got it.
(33:01):
You know what I'm saying?
I did crowd work one time.
Dude was like, my name's BangBang.
I was like, Yup, you have agreat day, good sir.
I'm not gonna sit up there andgo back out and forth with you
and try and figure out yourname.
I started walking to my carafter the show.
He's like, man, I was justplaying.
I was like, you said you'resupposed to go back and forth
with me.
I said, not with the name bangbang.
I'm I'm okay.
I gotta get hold of my mama.
(33:22):
Right?
But if the people want to get incontact with you or follow you
or see your journey or you know,just reach out, how can they do
that?
SPEAKER_01 (33:32):
So on Instagram and TikTok, and I don't, I don't
really TikTok a lot yet.
I guess I should, but it's thesame.
So it's just me, J-U-S-M-Eunderscore s-g D.
That's a G.
S-G, not T.
S-G-D.
Sherry Gil-Dixon.
So just me underscore S-G-D.
And then on Facebook, uh, youknow, it's for us older
(33:53):
generation who still useFacebook.
I've, you know, I heard I heardit's for us old people.
It's Sherry Gil Dixon,S-H-E-R-I-1 R and a I, Gil
Dixon.
Gotta throw my dad's name inthere.
That's Gil is my father's, is mymaiden name.
SPEAKER_00 (34:09):
So yeah, my father's name is Jerome Davis, but I go
by Rome, but Jerome Davis, soI'm named right after him.
Um if you guys want to get incontact with me, like, share,
comment, subscribe.
I went live on my Facebook andmy YouTube.
Facebook is Jerome Davis.
YouTube is at ComedianRomeDavis.
(34:29):
You can get on all the otherthings, Comedian Rome.
Uh, that's TikTok and IG andTwitter.
And no ID Podcast on Facebook aswell as Facebook and Instagram.
I'm sorry, I'm having brainfarts.
Maybe it's the I maybe I needsome wine and a ginger ale and
some water.
A 48 liter Yeti cup of pr Iprobably guess crushed cube ice
(34:52):
mixture cup.
Probably been with you sincenine o'clock this morning
because I know how Yeti works.
SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
It was more like 7 30, but we can say nine.
SPEAKER_00 (35:00):
All right.
Well, go ahead and sign off.
Thank you so much, Sherry.
SPEAKER_01 (35:04):
Thank you for having me.
We upgraded.
(00:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcomeback to another episode of the
No ID Podcast.
I have writer, content creator.
She is one fourth of the womenAvengers of comedy.
Was it women's what do you guyscall it?
SPEAKER_01 (00:15):
LC LLC.
LLC Ladies of Comedy.
SPEAKER_00 (00:19):
I'm a quarter of it.
I had the You're a quarter ofit.
Yeah.
We don't do math here.
She's been going all around.
Very busy lady here.
Very busy content creator.
Actress.
I don't know.
She has so many slashes behindher name.
But the one and only Sherry GillDixon.
How you doing, ma'am?
SPEAKER_01 (00:37):
I'm good.
How are you?
SPEAKER_00 (00:39):
Better.
Took four years for this, but wefinally made it happen.
SPEAKER_01 (00:43):
It has not been four years.
Maybe, maybe two.
SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
I'll say two.
Two.
Two.
So I met you doing uh what wasit second Saturdays?
Yeah, I remember.
And you were uh you were akiller.
I was like, who is this finesugar mom popping up on the
scene?
(01:07):
Who the hell is this?
And she was like, Oh, it's justso nice to work with you.
I'm like, I'm kind of awkwardaround people's.
I didn't know how to take it.
And then I just saw you poppingaround on more on the scene.
Then like I I did a lot ofresearch.
You're an actress as well, too,right?
SPEAKER_01 (01:22):
I am.
Yep.
So I've been I was like, So howdid you get started into the
arts?
Into the arts period.
SPEAKER_00 (01:29):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (01:30):
So it was back in the early years of 197 no, I'm
just kidding.
It was early though.
So I did I did theater in highschool.
I'm a little older, so I lovedit.
But you know, back in the 70sand 80s, it wasn't the career
choice, you know, that peoplehad.
You couldn't even make makemoney doing it, really.
(01:52):
Or at least that's what yourparents told you.
So I took another route and wentoff and and failed out of
college twice.
My parents were so proud.
And then when I I guess itwasn't until my 50s I got back
into acting.
And I just was tired of sittingin a boardroom and said, you
know what, I want to dosomething that I enjoy.
So I had moved to Virginia Beachand I just Googled acting
(02:16):
classes and found Keith Flippin'at the actor's place and signed
up and took a beginning Meisnerclass, and that that's pretty
much the start of it.
That was in 2013.
Yeah.
So um, what were you gonna askme?
Who's the the actor or what?
SPEAKER_00 (02:34):
Who's the actress or the actor like that movie that
that was like, you know what, Iwant to give this a try.
SPEAKER_01 (02:39):
Um, I you know, I don't I don't really remember
it's been that long ago.
But you gotta think, uh you meanin my 40s or when I was in high
school?
No, like in general.
I just loved so okay, my veryfirst job I had at 16 years old
was at the movie theater, thelocal movie theater.
And I think that's really whereI fell in love with movies.
(03:01):
And you gotta remember back inthe day, that's when you had the
big reels and the, you know, thethe tape, it would break, and
then you they'd be, you know,oh, and the audience would be
like, ah, screaming, and youhave to run up and splice it
back together and then start itback up.
That's when I worked at themovie theater where, you know,
there were no cash registers.
We had a drawer with some moneyand you know, tear tickets that
you handed out to people.
(03:22):
And we were able to, you know,go and sit and watch every movie
that we wanted to in between andon our days.
And I just I just loved movies.
So I think that's where I fellin love with movies, was my
first job.
SPEAKER_00 (03:37):
Okay.
I thought, like, you know, I'llwave say like Meryl Street or I
love Meryl Street.
SPEAKER_01 (03:43):
Yeah, all of them.
But I there's so many though,you know?
There's so many great so I didhave the opportunity, and and I
hate doing this because peopleare like, oh my god, and I was
just gonna name drop.
No.
But I had the opportunity towork on the set of Tammy.
I was just background.
I was a lesbian.
They did offer me extra money toshow my titties, and I said, no,
(04:04):
I think I'm gonna pass.
And so I didn't do that piece ofit.
But to be able to work withMelissa McCarthy and Kathy Bates
um was amazing to see them work.
They are two of the mostamazing, friendly, humble
individuals.
And that was one of the veryfirst really large sets that I
(04:25):
was able to be on.
SPEAKER_00 (04:26):
Yeah, okay.
I haven't seen Tammy at all.
SPEAKER_01 (04:31):
Well, they don't even show the titties, so I
should have done it and justtaken the money.
SPEAKER_00 (04:34):
But it's 2025.
I'm pretty sure they would havehad like some kind of site that
had Sherry's titties on online.
All right, you forgot who's onmy podcast outside of your
friends.
SPEAKER_01 (04:48):
Well, here's the thing that's one of the reasons
why I didn't do it, because myson was really young then, and
all I kept thinking was when hegot older, that his friends
would be like, Oh my god, lookwhat I found.
It's your mom's titties.
And I was like, I'm gonna haveto pass on that.
I'm I'm gonna keep them underwraps.
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
They pop up at the door.
Hey, is your mom home today?
SPEAKER_01 (05:10):
Well, she's like, We're coming out.
Jonathan, where's your mom?
Where's your mom?
Listen, he gets so mad.
He gets so mad when people hiton me.
I started talking about it in mystand-up actually, because it's
so funny.
SPEAKER_00 (05:25):
I mean, you're attractive, you know, an
attractive lady, you know whatI'm saying?
So I wouldn't be surprised whodidn't hit on you.
SPEAKER_01 (05:31):
A lot of people don't hit on me.
Kevin Spacey didn't hit on me.
SPEAKER_00 (05:36):
I was in House of Cards.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
No, I'm not a 12-year-old boy.
SPEAKER_00 (05:40):
Yeah, you're too you, you're wow.
I think I that shit messed meup.
I'm sorry.
Because I watched AmericanBeauty and I hated that movie.
I didn't understand it at all,but we don't need to get into
that.
I think some of my favorite.
No, you good.
Hey, Sherry, don't get yourcredit messed up messing with
me.
You keep talking to me in thosevoices, I'll be back in them DMs
(06:02):
again.
What do you got planned thisweekend?
SPEAKER_01 (06:04):
I was gonna say I it was weird because I was on the
set of House of Cards.
I did season one and two, and soI was a cabinet aide right
behind Kevin Spacey.
Literally, he was here and I wasthere, and he would pace and
walk, and I was like, you know,it's really odd.
He like he didn't even reallyhit on me or talk to me or
(06:26):
anything.
And so I didn't get it until,you know, years later when all
that came out, and I was like,it's not me.
I am attractive.
It was I'm not a boy.
unknown (06:36):
Got it.
SPEAKER_00 (06:38):
I mean, I know like I have some favorite actors.
Like Wesley Snipes is by far myfavorite actor because he's the
only person I know that did TooWong Fu and New Jack City in the
same year.
That just showed me he had likemad range, right?
Yeah.
And Don Cheadle and JeffreyWright.
If you want Viola Davis, isanother one.
(06:59):
Meryl Streep is a is a uh JamieLee Curtis for sure.
She is setting the internet onfire right now with Freakier
Friday.
Um, so I mean I get it.
I got a little range.
Now, what what made youtransition into comedy?
Like that's uh you went fromusually it's the other way
around.
It's like stand-up to comedy.
(07:20):
You went no, you went, excuseme.
You went usually it's uhstand-up comedy to actor.
You went actor to stand-upcomedy, still acting.
What made you go into stand-up?
SPEAKER_01 (07:31):
You know, it's weird because I always thought about
doing stand-up.
And I used to always tell myson, I was like, no, I should do
stand-up.
I'm funny.
And he'd go, and I, for real?
And I think that I was justbeing a stand-up comedian, you
are very vulnerable.
It's very different from beingbehind the camera.
You know, when I'm doing a film,I have a whole script, I have
(07:53):
hair, I have makeup, likethere's the audience that sees
the film is not in the room withme.
I'm not getting that immediatefeedback, you know.
Can and I can also hide from it.
I am not gonna see them inperson when they're watching the
movie, right?
So when you're on stage doingstand-up, I think I was just
terrified of getting on stageand not being funny, even though
(08:14):
I really felt like I would befunny.
So I think it just took, youknow, all these years of
experience for me to go, fuckit, I'm just gonna do it.
We can cuss on your podcast,right?
Because I mean, you have met me.
You know, I I was raised by aMarine.
We drop, we're colorful, we dropF-bomb.
So we do.
SPEAKER_00 (08:30):
Okay.
So once again, if I say youcan't cuss on my podcast, that'd
be a contradiction.
Being the fact that about twoepisodes ago, I had a young lady
named Kylie Cash up here talkingabout being a dominatrice and
dildo's up men's butt.
So if I say you can't cuss, whatsense does that make to say that
you can't cuss?
See, that's how I know peoplethat come on this show over
(08:54):
there.
SPEAKER_01 (08:54):
I have not seen your podcast.
I know people gonna watch it.
Wow, I'm gonna have to go pullup some of your episodes.
SPEAKER_00 (09:03):
I literally had a young lady talking about it.
I have no idea talk about dildosand butts.
I had another one with thedominant that just had the hood
on her head.
This is the shit that pisses meoff.
And I'm sorry, I'm bearing off.
I do apologize.
I would hit somebody Yeah, I Iappreciate you.
I when if I hit you up, I knowsometimes you don't listen to
(09:25):
it.
I get it.
But I have people that hit me uplike, man, I want to get on your
pockets.
I'm like, are you sure?
Have you seen what I do?
No, man, I don't know whatyou're talking about.
I've had porn stars, DaisyDucati, Sexual Savage, Nefty
Enchantress, Kylie Cash.
I got Misty Stone coming.
I've had comedians, Buddy Lewis,Michael Carr, Diallo Reddle,
Nori Davis.
(09:45):
Kells Morton.
Kells Morton, Sherry Gill Dixon.
I had a lot of them up here.
I'd be like, are you sure?
Oh man, I don't know, man.
You know, like I had a guy hitme up.
I'm getting this off my chestbecause he hit me up last night.
I said, hey, bro, I've had pornstars and dominations up here.
You sure you want to go up hereand talk about a family
business?
Nah, man, you know, long assfucking message.
(10:06):
It's okay.
That's my stepchildren in thebackground.
But we we love dogs.
Sherry, Sherry's boo-boo rightnow, you know.
Every time I see her, I just buyher French fries and wine.
Every time.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
SPEAKER_01 (10:21):
No idea you had you had you have very colorful
guests.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, found my niche.
So you're very But what is yourniche?
SPEAKER_01 (10:31):
You just you just went from porn star to to
comedian.
What's your niche?
Just see, I like that because II don't know if you've seen my
post.
I've been talking about it foryears.
And by my birthday, which is ina month, I'm gonna have a
podcast episode out.
I want to do my own podcastbecause I love to talk.
You should.
And and everyone is always askedme, Well, what's your topic?
(10:54):
And I'm like, everything.
And they're like, Well, usuallyyou have to have a a lane.
Okay, it's all the lanes.
I just want all the lanesbecause I'm listening I am like
50 different women rolled up inone person.
There's that comedian, I gosh,I'm horrible with her name, but
she's funny as shit.
(11:15):
And she did a little skit duringthe pandemic about, you know, oh
my God, what who do you want?
Who do you want?
Like, what girlfriend do youwant?
And it was funny, you know, shewas holding a gun to the guy's
head.
It was a fake gun.
And she's like, which which onedo you want?
Like, I can be any of them.
That's me.
Like, I'm so like different inso many areas.
So that's why I'm like, mypodcast is just gonna be, and
(11:37):
I'm kind of, I think the older Iget, the more outspoken I am.
And I wanted to, I want to nameit Sherry D, Unfiltered and Out
of Fuc.
But some of my friends who areproducers and stuff are like,
eh, you gotta think about thename because some people aren't
gonna wanna have it on therebecause it says fucks.
And I'm like, really?
But it's such a great name.
(11:59):
Unfiltered and out of fucks.
That is really me at at thisage.
So I might have to change thename, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
It starts with the name.
Like, no idea is the greatestname I could ever come up with
because I have no lane.
I can talk to whoever I want toabout whatever I want to, and I
just keep it pushing.
That's it.
People don't like the name, theyget confused.
I don't care.
Uh, I have had podcast networksturn me down just because of the
name or because of the guests.
(12:28):
I'm like, uh, I'm not changing.
So, you know, I'm I'm veryindependent.
And my former mentor, D.
Militant, always told me youhave to have more than one of
the things.
My current mentor, James Cooper,has always preached about having
more than one of the things.
And I'm like, all right, well,podcast comedy.
(12:49):
I guess eventually maybe I'llstart doing dances with you and
the ladies of comedy.
Maybe I'll be the long-lostfifth member and cryp walk in
the parking lot like you, Sonia,Kills, and Vicky.
The funny thing is, you look solost in that parking lot.
I was like, oh my God, poorSherry.
SPEAKER_01 (13:06):
Which one?
Because we did two dances in twoparking lots.
One, one we had Angus Black.
Angus Black was with us, yeah.
And that was that was funny.
And then the other one, uh, Iactually got the line dance.
See, here's the thing though.
Vicky J, and maybe the othertwo, but mostly Vicky, she knows
every dance there is, and it'sjust not fair.
(13:28):
And so she'd be like, come on,let's do that.
And she starts moving.
I'm like, I don't even, I amdyslexic and ADD.
I don't even know what you justdid.
And so they have to slow it downfor me to teach me the dance.
So, but I got that one down.
I did.
I had that one down.
But I have rhythm, you know.
Takes me a minute.
SPEAKER_00 (13:48):
We know you got rhythm.
You used to bring a lot ofrhythm to the mics when I used
to perform with you.
I'm like, Sherry's the onlypiece of salt in all this
pepper.
And I was like, oh wow.
I knew you was cool when youcame home.
Like, she's wearing all black.
Oh, what's the purpose?
What's the meaning behind allblack?
Is that your whole wardrobe?
Is that a statement?
Are you like emo or something?
SPEAKER_01 (14:07):
You know what's interesting?
I have been wearing all blacksince my 20s.
So that's over 30 years.
I used to go out to the clubwith a girlfriend of mine, and
her mom used to get so irritatedbecause they were like this, you
know, conservative, you know,white family.
And I would come in the door andI have on the shortest skirt
ever, you know, and I would justbe an all-black, you know,
(14:30):
titties popping out, and and shewould just, why can you wear a
color?
And I was like, it is a color.
It's black.
So I don't know.
I don't even know where itstarted.
I was never goth or anything.
I think, I think I just thinkblack is more slimming, and I've
always had black hair.
So I don't I don't know.
I just wear black.
(14:51):
It's color my heart and my soul.
That's what I like to say.
Your heart is.
SPEAKER_00 (14:54):
Heart and soul is that.
SPEAKER_01 (14:56):
My heart is fucking cold.
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
Well, I don't know your situation, but I'm gonna
let you keep sipping wine.
We're not even gonna tap intothat on the camera.
You know what I mean?
We're gonna leave that alone.
Was there a comedian that everinspired you?
Like, yo, I want to be somethinglike that that you ever Oh gosh,
comedians.
SPEAKER_01 (15:12):
You know, so uh so I have to say the first comedian
that I I loved uh was JoanRivers.
And I have to say that because,yeah, that's how old I am.
I used to sneak to stay up towatch her when she was filling
in at the tonight show.
And I just thought she was sofunny.
(15:32):
And you gotta also remembershe's also the first woman to
have her own late night talkshow.
You know, her her and mom'sMaybelly, you know, they really
paved that road.
Yeah, yeah.
See, I'm from back in that day.
Yes, they paved the road for uswomen to to be doing comedy.
(15:52):
So I always have to mention themfirst.
And then we'll get to the otherpeople, you know, the Richard
Priors and the Bernie Mack.
I mean, I grew up watching thosetwo.
And then of course the newer,you know, Dave Chappelle.
I'm a storyteller, so I relateto him really well because he's
a storyteller.
(16:13):
And I just love the way he hisdelivery and and how he does it,
and it's so like, you know, it'sjust a matter of fact, you know,
whatever.
So, and but it's funny.
He's a genius.
SPEAKER_00 (16:26):
He's he is a genius.
See, like, I came up with, andeverybody laughs at me.
Like, I've seen Kings of Comedy,but I was like more into
blue-collar comedy tour.
Yeah.
And like Jerry Seinfield is mygoat, right?
And people like Jerry Seinfield.
I'm like, yes, like Jerry's.
I saw Jerry when he came toNorfolk probably what, a year,
(16:47):
two years ago.
Absolutely loved him.
He came with Mario Joyner, and Iwas like, this is fucking
awesome.
Like Jerry Seinfeld is my goat,right?
I can watch any Jerry Seinfieldspecial.
I can watch a bunch of EddieMurphy.
For a while, I was in Mom'sMaybelline.
Whatever I could find, like her,uh Rudy Waymoore, when Dola
Might.
If you haven't seen my name isDola Might, Eddie Murphy played
(17:10):
played him and had my favoriteact in there, Wesley Snipes.
I'm like, you get the backstoryof like how all this started,
right?
And um, it's cool, it's reallycool.
And I I actually got to open upone of my favorite comedians out
there, like who was like on mygoal list, D.L.
Huglin, and I damn near peedmyself trying to talk to that
(17:30):
man.
He was so humble, he was like,yo, stop treating me like that.
I was like, Oh, you got it, bro.
Is there a comedian that youwork with?
I love you too.
Have you ever seen is there acomedian that you looked up to
that you got a chance to workwith, or do you look forward to
working with?
SPEAKER_01 (17:47):
Um I haven't had a chance to work with with any of
them.
I I love to.
I mean, I love like Jay Farrowand you know, there are some
comedians out there that I Ilove Gary Owen.
I think he's so funny.
And I've watched stuff with him,and he'll say, you know, he
doesn't he doesn't write, hedoesn't write and I'm like, I
think I do a lot of that becauseI know you've we've done uh
(18:10):
several shows together andpeople always I'm always like,
oh my God, what am I gonna say?
And a lot of times my and I knowyou're not really supposed to do
that, but a lot of times my newjokes come from a paid show
where I'm just going and I go,Oh shit, I gotta write that
down.
I gotta remember that because ifI just sit and go, okay, let me
(18:31):
write something funny, I'll besitting for like two hours
going, I don't know, I gotnothing.
I I can't force it, but when I'mjust in conversation, that's
when you know, that's when itcomes out.
SPEAKER_00 (18:45):
That's like the best time.
That's the best time.
Like some of my jokes come fromcrowd work.
SPEAKER_01 (18:50):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:51):
So yeah, some of my jokes come from crowdwork.
I'm like, oh shit, let me makesure I got this recorded.
But like uh you said, Gary Owen.
Gary Owen is cool.
I like Gary.
His new special is actuallypretty fire, actually.
It's on his YouTube channel.
Um I get it.
SPEAKER_01 (19:07):
Now, is there are there any?
I I did get to see uh Miss Patwhen she was at the Funny Bone.
Really?
And yeah, yeah, because Kellswas hosting, and so of course,
you know, the LOC we went up to,you know, support, and um she
was just hilarious, hilarious.
SPEAKER_00 (19:26):
You ever seen Thea Videl?
SPEAKER_01 (19:29):
Not not live.
SPEAKER_00 (19:31):
But you know who she is?
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (19:37):
Yes, yes.
I love her.
I love her.
Her stories are so perfect andrelatable.
Like I sit there and go, yes, ohmy god.
Like when she talks about, youknow, her dating and being on
the profile and her son going onthere, uh, you know, I just love
her.
I saw her when she was at thefunny bone too.
SPEAKER_00 (19:57):
I didn't see her at the funny bone.
I actually I actually kind ofmessed that one up with me and
her.
I ain't gonna lie to you.
Messed that one up bad.
SPEAKER_01 (20:07):
What'd you mess up?
What?
SPEAKER_00 (20:09):
I was shooting my shot.
I was like, fuck it.
I was like, because I had seenher, I think it was either it
was Comedy Central, and I sawher on Southside, and I was
like, oh, and she is sobeautiful.
And I was like, uh, you know,I'm single.
I've been single for a while.
I got I was like, I got a littleconfidence because the comedy
game brings you attention.
(20:29):
It brings you some attention.
It bring it brings a lot ofattention.
You just gotta be warm, youknow, and it goes it went to my
head, and I was like, oh shoot.
We was talking and stuff in theDMs, and then I think like
somewhere we dropped the ball,and then I was like, oh, I have
a podcast.
You wanna be on my podcast?
Then you try and shut your shotat me.
I was like, oh my bad.
(20:51):
So I haven't done it then.
Like I congratulated when shegot married.
She's I think she divorced now,and the relationship was on
another relationship.
But I was like, I'd be liketrying to like every post.
Like one time it was herbirthday.
I had shared it was like,congratulations, happy birthday,
blah, blah, blah.
And she was like, Thank you.
I was like, Yeah, that's thatone fucked up.
Yeah, fuck that one up.
Fucked that one up.
(21:12):
I could have been gone by now.
Could have been a house husband.
Because you know what I'msaying?
You you get the attentionyourself, you get it, like you
be up there performing, andpeople like, man, she's so
fucking funny.
And then you get some peoplethat come up there like, yo, so
uh, how you doing?
SPEAKER_01 (21:25):
Right?
Can I can I take a picture withyou?
Um why?
SPEAKER_00 (21:31):
Has there any been any challenges of being a woman
in comedy?
Because you guys have a packthat I actually respect, right?
You guys have writing sessions,you y'all pull up to each
other's shows, y'all got videoswith each other, and I respect
that.
I I told Kells that, like femaleAvengers, ladies of comedy,
whatever you guys call yourself.
I call y'all the a lot of theAvengers of Women Assemble and
(21:52):
you guys run in a pack and y'alllook out for each other.
Like, has there been anychallenges as a woman comedian
coming up in this in this era?
SPEAKER_01 (22:02):
Of course.
I mean, look at the flyers thatare out there.
All you gotta do is look at theflyers.
I mean, how many how many womendo you see on a flyer versus
versus men?
It's usually five to one, youknow, three to one.
So it's like we're we're kind ofsprinkled in still.
And and you know, here's thething.
(22:22):
It's not just like that in thein the comedy world, it's like
that in the whole world.
I mean, I'm an executive by day,and it's still a struggle to get
a seat at the table for a womanor for you to be heard.
So it's nothing out of theordinary that I I haven't dealt
with outside of comedy.
But you do see it, and then, youknow, women, there's there's the
(22:44):
the history of women fightingeach other, right?
Not getting along and and andreally, you know, one woman
trying to, you know, put theother woman down.
And that still does happen.
And I and that's because of theworld we live in.
There is typically only one seatat the table.
There's one picture on thatflyer, there's one female, and
(23:04):
we're all trying to get thatspot.
And so me, Vicky J and Kells andSonia, you know, we we click
together and you know, we've hadlots of conversations and
drinking wine and eating pizzaand whatever about this.
And we've kind of, you know,made that pact that, you know,
we want to support each otherand we want to, you know, not
(23:27):
continue that history of womenfighting other women to get a
seat at the table.
We want to, you know, either,you know, push other other
people out of the table or slidethem down and make some more
seats.
So that's just what we do.
And we we support each other andgo out.
We'll go to each other's showsif if we can, or if we're in
town, if we don't have a showourselves.
And, you know, we text all thetime.
(23:49):
And and listen, I'll wake up andthere'll be a brrrrr or I'll be
in meetings all day, andthere'll be like a hundred
texts, and just like I do withyou, I always I say, I can't, I
can't read all those.
I'm okay.
I'm dyslexic in 80s.
Like, I just I just can't.
I can't.
There's a lot going on here.
I don't know what it says, butha, that's it, you know.
(24:12):
So, but I love those ladies.
Like, we are we are so tight.
It's a great, it's a greatexample for how I think all
women should be.
SPEAKER_00 (24:21):
It is.
I feel like in in comedy,everybody feels like they have
to be an alpha, but reallythey're betas.
Everybody wants to be.
I use a lot of metaphors.
Everybody's uh in a small pondtrying to be a big shark and not
realizing like it's multiplestages, it's multiple
microphones, there's multiplevenues you can perform at, but
(24:42):
everybody wants that like it'slike an ego thing, right?
And you know, you got cloutwatcher.
Like some people actually likeliterally not follow you, but
will watch your page 24 or 7.
Some people actually follow youand unfollow you back.
Like, I think on my YouTube, Iwas at like I was it keeps going
(25:03):
up, and I get uh somebodysubscribe and then they
unsubscribe, or they subscribeand they unsubscribe.
My views is going crazysometimes, so it's it's it's one
of those things, and I wouldlike to see.
I mean, I know it's a lot, likeI did a show last night with uh
Stephanie, I can't Stephanie,Samantha, I can't pronounce her
last name.
It was a lot of women on thisshow, including guest spots, and
(25:24):
I was so happy to see thatbecause here you don't really
see it.
If you see one, that's it,right?
It's rare when you get one ortwo, or it's rare when you get
like everybody's on the show asa woman, the host is a woman,
the booker, the producer,whoever is a woman.
You it's rare to see that.
And I would love to see more ofthat.
(25:45):
I have a genuine, I told Kalesthis, and I told Sonya this.
I haven't talked to Vicky Jbecause I don't have a contact
with Vicky J, but I respecteverything that the LOC is
doing, right?
I I like the the the camaraderiethat you guys have, right?
You write in the pack, you don'tlet one fall behind.
If one person gets something,like I noticed that Kale's got
(26:07):
Canvas Rebel, she gives it tothe other one.
And I'm like, that's what it'ssupposed to be about, right?
Instead of, man, I got it.
I don't want nobody else to knowthat I got it.
How did you get that?
Why did you get that?
How do I I'm like, no, like it'sit's not it's not that, right?
But I think it's more of a apride and ego thing.
Like we don't put pride to theside, and we got too much ego to
(26:28):
sit up there and say, you knowwhat?
Let me just sit back and justchill, figure this out, come in
with some common sense and someintegrity behind it, and keep it
pushing.
You know what I'm saying?
But once again, I do shout youguys out.
Now I'm getting serious becausemy third eye that's waking up.
So I wish I could see more ofthat, not just on the women's
(26:53):
side, but on the comedian'sside, uh male side as well, too.
But yeah, it is what it is.
SPEAKER_01 (27:03):
Where I know for us, especially for me, I always say
I I am a firm believer in whatis meant for me is for me.
And no one can take that awayfrom me.
Um so I don't, you know, I don'tworry about what shows other
people are getting, or you know,what I didn't get if I didn't
get selected or I didn't win orwhatever.
(27:24):
All I care about is how I thinkI did.
I'm gonna watch it back, I'mgonna watch it back a hundred
times, I'm gonna critique it,I'm gonna be like, ooh, I didn't
like that and like this.
I don't compare myself to to theothers.
Plus, everyone is so different.
You can't you can't compareyourself to somebody else.
What I do on stage is what I do.
(27:46):
It's my style.
I don't want to be anybody else.
I don't want to emulate somebodyelse.
I want to be me.
That's why my Instagram name isit I it was purposeful.
Just me.
I just want to be just me.
I don't want to be somebodyelse.
SPEAKER_00 (27:59):
Look at how passion you got every time you say just
me, your left eyebrow rolls up.
Just me.
Just me.
SPEAKER_01 (28:05):
Because the other side is paralyzed, kinda.
SPEAKER_00 (28:08):
Still look good as we drink out this thick ass yeti
cup.
SPEAKER_01 (28:11):
It's water.
We just came from a walk.
And my water and my wine.
SPEAKER_00 (28:17):
We just came from a nice nature walk.
Mount Trashmore.
What do you got, man?
I'm gonna get some Gatorade, getmy electrolytes.
Now, Sherry.
SPEAKER_01 (28:26):
First, I got wine.
Then I got water.
Wait, no, no, I'm sorry.
Then I got ginger ale, and thenI got water.
I got a lot of liquids going onon this desk.
I don't know what's happening.
SPEAKER_00 (28:36):
Man, you know.
It was a joke in there, but I'mgonna keep it to myself.
I know, right?
SPEAKER_01 (28:40):
So many jokes.
SPEAKER_00 (28:41):
There's so many jokes.
You know, I tend to make a lotof women thirsty around here.
You know, they be like, oh man,the receding hairline, the going
to the gym all the time, it'sjust turning me on.
You know what I mean?
Oh man.
So what is that before we gooff, right?
What is that thing that keepsyou motivated and keep going?
SPEAKER_01 (29:02):
I think it it's, you know, a lot of people say, Oh,
well, what what motivates you?
My kids or my family?
No, no.
Mm-mm.
No, that's all PC bullshit.
No.
My kid, listen, he better, hebetter figure it out because I'm
gonna die at some point.
That's what I tell him all thetime.
And then he gets mad.
Stop saying that.
I'm like, well, it's true.
Um what motivates me is justsomething within me to always
(29:28):
want to be better and to succeedand to make the world a better
fucking place than it is.
That's how my my you know,schooling came about.
I never wanted to go back toschool.
Matter of fact, I I barelygraduated high school.
Okay, my mother taught at myhigh school.
(29:48):
And when I graduated, she was sofucking happy.
She was like, Oh my god, thankGod.
I thought she was gonna end upin prison or pregnant in a
trailer park because back then.
They didn't know what dyslexiawas.
I'm dyslexic.
So she just thought I was lazyand wasn't studying.
And I was.
So you know, I just barely gotout of out of high school.
(30:10):
I failed out of college twice.
And I just, I just kept going.
It was more so for my doctoratethat I'm getting now.
That's when all the George Floydstuff was happening.
And there's all this.
I work in transit.
So I see a lot of racism thatstill exists, the low-income
population, the people who aredependent on transit.
(30:30):
See, now we're gonna get seriousand it's way off on comedy.
But you know, that's my that'smy world of of seeing how much
inequity and inequality andracism still exists in the world
today.
And somebody has to be the voiceof that.
So I that's what I do.
That's what motivates me is toto you know make it a better
(30:54):
place.
And through comedy, I think youdo that.
You know, I had a woman at ashow I did last month at push
say that her and her husband atthe end of the show, she was a
little intoxicated.
I just tell you that by the end.
But she was like, oh my God, shesaid, I just want to tell you,
we never come out.
We have kids, we stay home.
I didn't even want to come outtonight.
(31:15):
We came out because one of ourfriends was he a new comedian,
he was doing a guest spot.
And she said, I just have totell you everything you said.
One, you know, it made her feellike she wasn't by herself.
And two, it made her night.
It made everything worthwhile.
So she came out, she had a greattime, she wasn't stressed, she
(31:36):
wasn't dealing with all thosekids.
That's what I love about itbecause I think when you can
make someone laugh, you takeaway all that pain and that
stress, whatever they're goingthrough in life, you take that
away for just a minute.
That's what I love about it.
SPEAKER_00 (31:50):
Yeah, I respect that.
I like the fact that you lookinto a crowd and no matter
nobody's race, religion,background, what they got going
on, they just hear to laugh.
And the fact that you got peoplelaughing at push, no, push is
pretty easy.
Because that once that littlerich wine and them liquid depths
get to popping with the littlebrat whereas you're Gucci, you
know what I'm saying?
Like it's a good crowd.
SPEAKER_01 (32:13):
I have the best time every time I I do a show at
Push.
I do.
Last night at the venue, oh mygosh, it was it was fire the
whole night.
It was just, you know, it wasthe crowd was great.
And I love it when a crowd isthere to have a good time and to
laugh.
It's the worst thing when you'redoing a show and the person is
(32:34):
sitting there and they theydon't want to laugh.
And I'm like, why did you evencome?
SPEAKER_00 (32:40):
What was the purpose?
Yeah, what was your purpose?
Yeah.
You just came out the shit oneverybody else.
Fuck out of here.
You know what I'm saying?
You get those people to comeover there.
And they looking in, they makingeye contact with you.
You know, I love that crowdwork, so they be like, I'm like,
hey, how you doing today?
What's your name?
I'm not in for the games.
I'm like, okay, you got it.
(33:01):
You know what I'm saying?
I did crowd work one time.
Dude was like, my name's BangBang.
I was like, Yup, you have agreat day, good sir.
I'm not gonna sit up there andgo back out and forth with you
and try and figure out yourname.
I started walking to my carafter the show.
He's like, man, I was justplaying.
I was like, you said you'resupposed to go back and forth
with me.
I said, not with the name bangbang.
I'm I'm okay.
I gotta get hold of my mama.
(33:22):
Right?
But if the people want to get incontact with you or follow you
or see your journey or you know,just reach out, how can they do
that?
SPEAKER_01 (33:32):
So on Instagram and TikTok, and I don't, I don't
really TikTok a lot yet.
I guess I should, but it's thesame.
So it's just me, J-U-S-M-Eunderscore s-g D.
That's a G.
S-G, not T.
S-G-D.
Sherry Gil-Dixon.
So just me underscore S-G-D.
And then on Facebook, uh, youknow, it's for us older
(33:53):
generation who still useFacebook.
I've, you know, I heard I heardit's for us old people.
It's Sherry Gil Dixon,S-H-E-R-I-1 R and a I, Gil
Dixon.
Gotta throw my dad's name inthere.
That's Gil is my father's, is mymaiden name.
SPEAKER_00 (34:09):
So yeah, my father's name is Jerome Davis, but I go
by Rome, but Jerome Davis, soI'm named right after him.
Um if you guys want to get incontact with me, like, share,
comment, subscribe.
I went live on my Facebook andmy YouTube.
Facebook is Jerome Davis.
YouTube is at ComedianRomeDavis.
(34:29):
You can get on all the otherthings, Comedian Rome.
Uh, that's TikTok and IG andTwitter.
And no ID Podcast on Facebook aswell as Facebook and Instagram.
I'm sorry, I'm having brainfarts.
Maybe it's the I maybe I needsome wine and a ginger ale and
some water.
A 48 liter Yeti cup of pr Iprobably guess crushed cube ice
(34:52):
mixture cup.
Probably been with you sincenine o'clock this morning
because I know how Yeti works.
SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
It was more like 7 30, but we can say nine.
SPEAKER_00 (35:00):
All right.
Well, go ahead and sign off.
Thank you so much, Sherry.
SPEAKER_01 (35:04):
Thank you for having me.
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