July 28, 2025 • 31 mins
Step into the world of stand-up comedy with KellsMorton, a rising comedian who's turning life's realities into laughs that resonate with audiences everywhere. From her humble beginnings taking comedy classes to performing at sold-out venues, Kells shares the authentic journey of finding her voice in a competitive industry.
What makes great comedy? According to Kells, it's truth. Drawing from personal experiences—three marriages, raising children, health topics like mammograms—she creates material that consistently connects with audiences who approach her after shows saying, "Everything you said was just the truth." This authenticity has helped her build a growing fanbase and open for notable names like Omar Gooden and social media star Danae Hayes.
The conversation dives into the reality of the comedy scene, from the formation of her "Comedy Avengers" group with fellow female comedians to the business side of stand-up. Kells reveals how something as simple as business cards helped grow her social media following from 890 to nearly 3,000 followers. She also discusses comedy influences ranging from Redd Foxx to Dave Chappelle, and shares what it's like to get advice (sometimes harshly delivered) from established comedians like DL Hughley.
Whether you're an aspiring comedian or simply fascinated by the craft of comedy, this episode offers valuable insights into what it takes to develop material that resonates, navigate the ups and downs of performance, and build meaningful connections in the entertainment industry. Follow Kells Morton on social media @kellsthegreat to witness firsthand how she's transforming everyday experiences into laughter.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcomeback to another episode of the
no id podcast.
I have here comedian skitcreator, content creator, the
hostess with the mostest.
You know her, I know her and weall gonna get to know her.
The one and only miss kalesmorton.
How you doing today, ma'am?
I'm good.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm blessed and highly favored thanks for having
me on the show, jerome no wrongno, I say wrong, but I was
trying to be professional, socome on be professional because
we on this okay all right, well,I'll be professional.
I'm miss morton I like my lastname, but that does sound very
old you're right, it do soundold, okay, okay we're on my bed
it's all right.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Jerome is my, my job name, that's when I go to work.
It's rom is when I'm on thismicrophone.
How you been I'm good okay, soyou are a comedian and you've
been doing it.
What?
Two, three years now twocongratulations.
What made you get into comedy?
What was the the point behindit?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I guess people just always said, I was funny.
But I was, was like, let mejust try it, and then I like, I
like entertainment, I like youknow, I like the spotlight Maybe
probably not everything thatgoes with it, but I do like to
make people laugh.
I get enjoyment out of makingother people smile.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So when was your first start into comedy?
Like that first introduction?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I did.
I saw somebody taking the funnybone class so I decided to take
it and um, it was.
It was a good experience.
I've taken other classes sincethe funny bone class, so like
improv 101 at push comedytheater in norfolk and, um, just
other things to sharpen myskills.
(01:43):
I took a writing class in DC atthe DC Improv.
So just just, you never stopand I know you know that as a
comedian as well you just neverstop sharpening your skills.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I definitely do .
I only took the funny boneclass.
It was six.
You went through six weeks, wegraduated and I didn't take any
more classes after that.
Unless you count, you knowJames Cooper at the venue.
That's the only.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right, and then of course, and then we do.
We did a lot of those too, Alot of those mics.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So how was your experiences with all these
different classes, from thefunny bone to the writing
classes, to the improv, one onone?
How was your experience?
Was it the same or was itdifferent?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
writing classes to the improv 101.
How was your experience?
Was it the same or was itdifferent, different, different
types of styles from each person?
So I think that gives you agood perspective, because
everything's subjective, right.
Um, and then you know, I alsofollow what's uh the one that
has the comedy, uh, bible I knowyou talk about judy so I, you
(02:45):
know, I follow her.
So she has workshops on Tuesday.
So I've been like on her livesbefore.
So everybody has these tidbitsthat are different to make you
understand it that that fullcircle of comedy is subjective.
So you're not, you're notalways going to get the same
funny Right.
So it just makes me appreciatethe different perspectives and
(03:07):
how to kind of bend and figureout what my lane is.
So you want to take all thatinto account, because these
people have been doing it 20, 30, 15 years.
Cool, everybody's different,though, but they also have
something good to offer, whetherit's good I would do it that
way or good I wouldn't do it tooffer whether it's good I would
do it that way or good Iwouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So everybody has something a little bit different
.
What's one of the things thatyou notice that all of them have
in common since you've beenthere?
Yeah, give me a little bit moreenergy, miss morton, because
you, I don't know if you're notused to serious room right now.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know it's so weird, it is super weird.
Okay, I'm not used to serious,no, I'm not.
But the question was like whatam I getting out of it?
I think more, so what did Ilearn?
I think all of them are similar, because comedy is set up with
a joke, a turn, a punchline.
(03:57):
All that is similar, right, buthow they deliver is different,
right.
How they deliver it, who theydeliver it for Right, because
you can have the demographicsare definitely different, right,
and how you deliver those jokesis going to be different
depending on the world you're in.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now your jokes and your styles.
Who is the person that you moremirror towards?
Like?
Who was that?
That inspiration that you waslike?
You know I rock with them.
I've been following them Like,like.
Who was that one comedian thatshe was like?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I gotta get into this growing up, there's more than
one and tears.
The first person I saw on tvthat I thought that was
hilarious was red fox hilariousyeah, and this is like growing
up from a kid, you know, becauseyou know it wasn't a lot of
people that look like me on tvthat's telling jokes him,
richard pryor, and then as I gotolder, I got older Bernie Mac
(04:47):
and everybody else that camealong.
You know what I'm saying.
Definitely Redd Foxx, becausehe was doing clean sitcoms,
primetime television.
And then you know he was alsodoing stand up, but I didn't get
to see the stand up till I wasolder.
The right, the unclean recordversion while he's smoking
(05:08):
cigars on stage, like he'sdefinitely like somebody that
you know I'm probably not asbrash as he is on stage, but he
is the one that made me listento like, hey, this is, this is
really funny.
You know I'm saying, of course,like richard prior as well, but
you know, but my favorite nowis chapelle.
I love chapelle, I lovechapelle chapelle, chapelle.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So do you want to do something like what chapelle?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I love chapelle I love chapelle, chapelle,
chapelle.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So you want to do something like what chapelle's
done with, like the sketch, andthen do the uh, the stand-up as
well, because you know chapelleshows was only three seasons
well, two good seasons, yeah,and people still watch it like
it just came genius.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He's genius and his sketch writing is so crazy, so
relatable, right, and that's whypeople still watch it, because
it doesn't matter who it iswhite, black, mexican he roasts
everybody equally and everybodystill loves it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know I'm saying nobody's safe.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Gay straights trans.
Nobody is safe with him a lotof truth.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So how do you base your material on?
How do?
How do you come up with the?
I guess the light to yourmaterial to start writing is
this based on true stories is.
Do you come up with the?
I guess the light to yourmaterial to start writing is
this based on true stories, isit fixalization is the
observation.
How do you come upon what yousaid?
Because you have a funny setwhen you talked about I think
you was married like four timesor something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sorry, I apologize, I forgot but yeah, that's life,
you know, I'm saying that's life.
That was my, you know.
First marriage cool.
Second marriage short lived.
Third marriage hopefully itstays.
You know I'm saying cool.
Second marriage short-lived.
Third marriage, hopefully itstays.
You know what I'm saying.
So you want that to happen, butI'm not the only one.
Ladies will come up to me atthe end of the show and they'll
be like, oh my God, I'm on mythird husband too.
(06:35):
Well, everything you said wasjust the truth.
You know what I'm saying.
That is what I deal with.
You know and deal with.
You know, um, and that's coolbecause I'm telling my truth.
You know, if, if somethinghappens because you kind of like
your jokes write themselves ifsomething happens and you write
it down immediately because itwas funny, you're telling your
truth on stage.
There's embellishment in thereand that's any any comedian, I
(06:58):
think.
But um, for the most part Ilike to tell the truth, so I
don't forget it and who was.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So you write a lot about truth and stuff.
You write about third marriage.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Third marriage kids.
You have children.
I have a son that's 22.
Really, I didn't know that Italk about him.
Well, I have talked about himin the past.
I got a five-year-old stepson.
He is hell.
But I've talked about him onstage too, okay, hell, but I've
talked about him on stage too,okay, yeah, so I've.
I've talked about having breastreduction.
(07:28):
Women can relate to that.
Mammograms, just like you know,the dudes talk about prostate
exams.
I started talking aboutmammograms and, you know, put a
little awareness to it, becausea lot of people don't talk about
that type of stuff you don'tsee a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It is the.
The comedy game is a littledifferent because you hear, you
see and you hear a lot of mendoing their thing.
But I do need to.
I know I'm all over the place.
I do admire the women avengergroup that you have with
yourself.
Sherry, vicky and sonja, yeah,like the powerpuff girls well,
it was three of them, but I'mgonna just say powerpuff girls
(08:02):
of the of the comedy realm.
And how did that come about?
Because I was tight before, butnow y'all doing boots to the
ground and vicky's doing herthing, sonia's just like
streaming you doing your thing,sherry's like just everywhere,
like, how did y'all, likeavengers, assimilate, you know,
(08:23):
like that?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
it just kind of happened organically.
We are all very different veryvery different in our walks of
life.
But we just kind of likeclicked, as far as you know.
Like you know, it's not a lotof female comics on the scene
anyway, so, um, but we supportany comics, you know, for shows.
(08:43):
But we we have been kind ofjust, you know, because we mesh
so well and there's like reallyno drama or disagreements.
We just kind of, you know we'llget together for a writing
session, maybe once a month,once every other month, and do
stuff like that, and then wemight end up on a show.
Most of the time, now thatpeople see us together,
sometimes they book us togetherif that makes sense, they do.
(09:06):
But you know, um, those, thoseladies are are that's the squad
man they are, they're so dopeand, um, this virginia scene is,
is very, very welcoming, youknow, whether it's male or
female.
I I have, you know, been bookedby plenty of people yourself,
skeeta, well, you've gotten mework.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I don't produce.
I don't produce, you've gottenme work.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But you have referred me, which I appreciate.
You know what I'm saying andyou know, like different
promoters and you know Skeetaand Tim and all these other
people on the scene, nick D's,like all of them, have booked me
at one point or another, so Iappreciate that either way.
I'm not really into thebusiness side, though you know
(09:51):
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
How many times are you going to keep fixing that
bus down?
Because you keep every fiveminutes?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Because I keep doing this thing like it's like a
mustache or something.
I'm trying to keep it out ofthe way.
You know.
Keep it out the way.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's like I'm still stuck on the fact that you're
not used to serious rome rightnow.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
This is no, it's weird, I told you it's super
weird, it's not when was thelast time you've been serious?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I wait when my last interview was that like two
weeks ago?
No, a week ago yeah, and atwork, and at work.
See see what I mean.
Okay, see what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying work.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
See, see what I mean.
Okay, see what I mean.
I'm just saying I'm just sayingit's a switch.
It's a switch in there, right,it's a switch.
If it's a microphone I'm aboutto perform, yeah, I'm gonna show
my ass, but there ain't nomicrophone.
Or if I'm doing this podcast,I'm like, no, the switch is nah,
we serious.
Okay, that's what's up, though.
So y'all got a whole adventuresimple.
I actually respect that,because, um, I don't know if you
know the story of Eddie Murphy,how Robert Townsend and John
(10:50):
Willispoon used to back him up,kenan Avery-Wayne used to back
up Eddie Murphy, and it was likeone of us going to make it is
going to be Eddie, yeah.
And then, like that's when youguys saw Delirious and Raw, I
delirious and raw.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I don't know if you ever seen hollywood shuffle with
robert townsend, which is great.
You got two.
That's where he started.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's where he started.
Yeah, that's that's.
That's what's up.
I actually see that for y'all,y'all, for it's amazing what
y'all be doing out there.
But like, oh, I'd be, I don'tbe stalking, but I'm sure people
are watching.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
But you know, I don't .
We talked about the same thing.
I said somebody gonna make it.
I just, you know, I don't, Idon't need to be the star, but I
will say this just make surey'all, y'all, take me on the
road.
You know, I'm saying like Idon't even care about all that,
just take me on the road withyou.
That's all I ask.
You know, I ain't gotta be thestar, I don't, because look at,
look at, uh, kevin hart in thepaper cup, plastic Cup Boys.
(11:44):
Them guys been together for 20plus years.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They on the road Kev used to run with Mike Epps
though.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But he took his.
Those are his friends.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, he took his homies with him.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they funny and they all got their own thing
going on, but they all arewinning.
They come back.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I ain't come back.
Yeah, yeah, I think I gotta bethe star.
I could be.
I could be, you know, spanking.
I could be naim.
I could be the naim to thekevin hart.
You know I'm saying I'm goodshit.
Can I curse?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
but yeah, you can't curse you know I've had sex
workers up here.
I've had dominators up here.
Yeah, you know I can curse, youcan say whatever the fuck you
want.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I ain't hating on them, ladies them ladies making
their money.
Okay, someone's stayingvirginia.
I ain't hating on them, ladiesthem ladies making their money.
Okay, some of them stay inVirginia Beach.
I ain't mad at you, it's yourmoney.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
There's been a couple of them that popped up at the
show and I ain't saying nothinghey you Looking, like you
looking I ain't saying shitbecause I don't want nobody
thinking I'm into that stuff.
I'm just'm just interviewingbro.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
One of them was that show, that one you did with omar
gooden they were, they werethere one of them was there oh
yeah, yeah, omar was dope, man,omar was dope he was yeah, he
was, who was one of your?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
favorite big like, who was one of your favorite
comedians that you got to openup for I would say, uh, omar was
, that was like really, reallydope, working with, obviously,
michael Collier.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I haven't been on stage with him, but I've been on
his YouTube show several times,right, so that was really dope.
And then I went out on the roadwith, for two nights, with this
social media influencer bigtime, danae Hayes.
She's on like TikTok threemillion followers, like it's
crazy, you know.
And I didn't really know whoshe was, I just it just so
(13:28):
happened that her road managerinboxed me.
I don't know where they got myinformation, but I wasn't asking
no questions and uh, I thoughtit was a prank.
I thought it was a prank CauseI was like who?
And then I like you know, youknow, of course you're going to
search them immediately.
And uh, she was just so kind, soso, so dope.
And you know, I went to addictsit was sold out.
And I went to martin uh,marietta center for performing
(13:51):
arts in raleigh sold out, shepretty much sells out everywhere
.
And just her team, her team,her entire team and herself just
just so kind and uh, like Isaid, omar was very, very dope,
very personable, gave me acouple gems, you know I'm saying
have you ever been starstruck?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
yes you like hey, that's sweet pea from baby boy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So did you well, not, I wasn't starstruck with omar.
It's like, and now it's like,you know, being a comedian and
you I'm pretty sure you youprobably think the same way.
Like now, we meet so manyfamous people.
It's like you know, you know,no, I don't really like get too
much, but okay.
So Bill Bellamy was at FunnyBomb right.
(14:31):
Vino was opening for him thatnight.
It's him and Skeeter, skeetCarter's there, everybody's
there.
I'm just watching in thebackground, just absorbing
everything In walks.
Ali Sidi, he comes to my table.
Hey, how you doing, sweetheart.
And then I was like hi, and Ididn't say anything.
I was normal.
As soon as he got about 10 feetaway, I was like Sadiq, that
(14:52):
shit is crazy.
He shook my hand.
He shook my motherfucking hand,but then you know he's still
human.
But that was like crazy becausehe is a master storyteller.
He is phenomenal on stage, likeyou to, to me, chapelle.
You know I'm saying at hislevel of, uh, storytelling, so I
was just like so, like that wasa fan moment, but I didn't let
(15:14):
him see it.
You know, I'm saying I didn'tlet him see it because I was
just kind of like I had to stay.
You gotta stay cool in thosemoments, because then then it
gets weird.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It gets weird it gets weird, yeah, so I found out
internally when he walked off.
I know like I got starstrucktwo times.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
DL Hughley and Michael Kaya.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, those are the OGs, though, those are the OGs.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Michael Kaya loved the guy to death.
He put me on his morning showduring the lockdown and I was
used to like because it comingthrough the venue.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
so you got the soft side of james.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Right when you was going there, you got the soft
version yeah, I didn't get thatat all.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You got the uh, the harsh, the harsh cuss out,
critique the harsh cuss,critique him and marlet.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So like mike cussed me out on the phone because he
said I didn't call him, I left.
I left a voicemail and a textmessage.
I think he was testing me.
Dl hugley either called melittle motherfucker, a little
nigga what in the back because Iwas like you know he was, he
was just talking.
(16:22):
He was like do you want to?
Because I was supposed to do aguest spot and I said I just I
ended up doing 15 minutes.
I ain't gonna lie, I blackedthe hell out on the stage.
But he was like I said how didthey want you to introduce?
You like, oh, you want to gofirst, you want to go second?
I said I'll go first, I'm notgonna ask you again,
motherfucker.
I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know I'm saying.
But then I said that after Igot off the stage he just he
(16:43):
dapped me up.
He said yo, keep going.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that was it.
It was it he was.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He was cool, though yeah, he was real cool I think
they just I think, when it comesto them being as high as they
are, like they're like.
I'm a normal person, right, sodon't treat me any differently.
Number two this your time toshine, so focus.
And number three I'm just gonnatest you.
You gotta earn my respect first, so I like this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yup, uh, I forgot, tony Roberts was really dope.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
He's a killer.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He is a killer on stage.
I I wasn't aware.
I knew he was funny.
I've seen his standup, but inperson on that stage is a whole
different type of beast.
Uh, and so is, I think, adelegivens she.
She did 45 minutes straight offire and got a standing ovation.
It was insane to witness 45minutes straight.
No, I actually I take that backit was an hour and a half.
(17:34):
It was an hour and a half hourand a half.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes, I take that back .
She gave somebody an hour and ahalf of work of work I'm glad
you said that with the standingovation with the standing o.
I'm like I'm glad you said thatWith the standing ovation, with
the standing ovation.
I'm glad you said that becauseyou know I was Matter of fact.
I did mess up one interview.
That was with Takara, but I wastrying to shoot my shot.
I lied to you.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Williams, she's so, so Beautiful.
Such a nice person.
She's such a nice person.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I would build a house with my bare hands for her.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'd drink her beer for it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Nah, I ain't saying go that far, girl, the kind of
woman.
If she was to cheat on you youwould apologize to her and be a
better man.
I know you should.
I should have been a better manfor you, it's okay.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I mean, she is, she is that, she's very she's that
girl girl.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She is that girl.
You see her.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I got it.
Y'all pack this like dope, likethe rat pack with.
I'm gonna keep going back andforth.
But I'm gonna ask you this doyou remember your first good
show when you was like all right, I got this in the bag?
You remember that one show youwas like all right, maybe I
ain't got it okay, uh't, youknow, everybody takes a good
bomb.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I don't think my bombs were my bombs to me, and
my bombs were probably not bombs, cause I still got laughter,
but it wasn't as good as causeI've I've seen people like die
slowly on stage and never returnRight, but still get laughter.
But I was like I could have didbetter and I'm kicking myself
Cause we're our own worstcritics.
(19:08):
So I had got for a retirementhome and I thought it was like I
had in a bag and I go in thereand it's like 70 year old people
and nothing was funny until Istarted talking about surgery
and they were cracking up.
So I was like thank god, youknow, I'm saying.
And then there's a show.
Well, the ones I did with denae,those were killer, because I'm
(19:28):
pretty sure if it wasn't, shewouldn't ask me to go to raleigh
.
She, literally as soon as I gotoff stage, her role manager,
was like what you doing tomorrow?
And then I did a show at thewindham and that I felt like
that was my day.
Sometimes as a comedian, youjust feel like that was your
night and that was literally mynight.
Like the line was like hey,what's your information, what's
your social media and I had thecards ready because you had said
(19:51):
get your cards ready when youfirst started.
When I first started, you waslike get you some business cards
and hand them out.
That's, that's the mostlogistical way you can get your
name on the street.
And it was.
I don't went through, uh, after,like miss pat showed show,
because I did Miss Pat, sixshows with her and I probably
handed out like 200 cards thatweekend, 200.
(20:13):
And then, out of the six shows,I think five out of six for me
was some of my best work.
One show I was just by thatlast show I was like my brain
tired and the lights was hot.
It was just hot.
I was like I was still stillthere, but I was struggling
because you know that's mentalexhaustion.
So, and that's something I justnever had dealt with, that was
(20:36):
my first weekend working likethat.
Do you know I'm saying and thatwas.
It was a cool experience though.
And, uh, you know I'm sayinglike at least she, she gave us a
shot, she gave me a shot youstill got your business cards.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Now, same business cards.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I reprinted another 250.
Yeah, 250.
I got a private event.
I've gotten corporate eventsand private events.
I got another private eventAugust 1st for Tri-State, which
is Stars and Masons.
We'll be over there.
I'm a Star I don't know how bigthem business cars.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, it's big man like I like passing minds out
when I do push theater becauseit's tight to go past that front
door, so I thought I performedwell, like oh, I hope the last
one, hurry, I'm rocking to getup there making it rain.
I'm like, here you go, here yougo, here you go, here you go,
here you go making it rain up init one one time, like I did a
(21:33):
show well, two weeks ago in dcand I I was doing a show and I
was passing out the cards, likedid y'all laugh?
I was like there's like yeah,like did you think I was funny,
thank you.
I think you was like it's liketake this card and scan this qr
on the back and it just, itworks like the business cards,
plugging your social media in inthe beginning, at the end it
works.
It's no, no tricks peoplesleeping on business cards yep,
(21:56):
and it really.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It really helps that following, because when I
started comedy I had 890followers.
Now I have two.
Two thousand eight hundred andfifty, I think oh I still got a
long way to go.
You know I'm saying but that'sbetter than what I started, so
that's progress I'll put you onthe game about how to get more
followers.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
The one thing I learned is two things that
people sleep on.
I'm not saying tiktok, reddit,really and linkedin.
Okay, reddit, linkedin, getchat, gpt or gemini.
The type up a promise, put itspecifically to say for reddit
or whatever, and post.
And I was like my views on myyoutube have gone up.
(22:40):
So reddit and um, linkedin,linkedin.
Yeah, I don't know what I was.
I applied for job to saycomedian.
That's how I've been gettingprivate, private gigs.
Gotcha.
Have you done any festivals yet?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I've applied to black women in comedy, so I'm just
waiting on that response.
In new york, um, I haven't doneany yet because I was like, let
me just get myself togetherbefore I start doing it and I
just want to make sure I wasabsolutely at least got a good
tight 15, 10 minute and five set.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You got a tight.
You should have like at least acool 30.
And I know people like she'sbeen doing it for two years 30.
What I mean by that I'm nottaking no shots at no comedians
just doing it on it.
When I say you got a cool,tight 30, you could take that 30
or that, your time, that set,and travel around and get the
same amount of laughs with thatsame set, right?
(23:34):
So that's what I'm talkingabout, because you get people to
be like, yeah, I got a whole 30.
I'm like they go up thereperform and you just see like a
dash low I've seen so many dashlows and you know I'm an asshole
on the stage so you know once Iget up there I can talk about
whoever the fuck I want to.
So I see like a little thatslow bomb is a killer that slow
(23:56):
bomb started this podcast.
That slow bomb started no ID.
It's a black lady somewhere inVirginia Beach that threw a
chicken bone at me and made mesay I'm gonna start no ID, I'm
not doing this comedy shit nomore that sub bomb is crazy you
be crying up.
They be like I don't think thiscomedy shit for me.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's been a couple where I was like jesus, lord,
ain't nobody gonna laugh like.
But you know, like I said, I'llget some laughs in between that
.
But I've seen people gettingzero laughs, zero.
There's a couple people on thescene I done seen happening and
I just pray that's never me.
That's what I don't talk.
I try not to talk bad about.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But you're all right, I don't do that because you
don't want to be in, no shitthat's why I say it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't ever say anything because I don't want it
to happen to me and then Idon't be trying to start.
There'd be too many comedybeefs and I'll be like we're
supposed to be making peoplehappy, not beefing.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's crazy it's always gonna be a comedy beef
you know I don't be in nobody'smess it's always I've had my
fair share.
I ain't gonna cap and I takeaccountability for some of mine,
but I'm gonna be honest withyou.
Them beefs just it's reallyjust pointless at this point
because some people feel likeyou're blocking them, and then
some people don't feel likeyou're blocking them or I don't
know.
I'd just be like you know what.
(25:14):
It's more than one stage, it'smore than one microphone to
speak out there.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So I just do some stuff and somebody doesn't book
me because they have a personalissue, then they were never
professional in the beginning.
You know what I'm saying it wasnever funny or maybe they were
never funny, or they feelthreatened, I don't know.
I just feel like I don't try tobe in nobody's beef.
I try to you know, back backfrom a situation and then if
(25:38):
it's bad energy over there, evenif they're not beefing, I'm not
doing it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm saying yeah, we too old, you know, we both in
our later years don't you say itsay what don't you say that age
number?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know your age number, sweetie.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Thank you, I'm just trying to get it no, I, I do
want to give you flowers on thisone too.
I've never seen you wear thesame outfit twice.
I'm talking about from thepants, the shirt, the purse, the
shoes.
Everything is ironed.
She don't throw it in the dryon wrinkle release.
It matches the accessories.
The skin is always lotion.
(26:13):
I don't know if she was a syrup.
They'll see the feel.
Anivia, I don't know.
Jergus, I don't know no ash no,you see, she got milano on.
She didn't fix the bus downlike 18 times.
Yeah, because he keeps doingthis.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You just got a mind of his own.
Thank you, I appreciate that,you know.
You know it's just, it's just amethod of habit because, uh, my
mother, she was, just like youknow, very strict, like I
couldn't even leave the housewithout you know, you gotta have
clean clothes on, my shoesgotta be wiped down, I gotta fix
my hair.
She always made me do all ofthat before I could go outside.
I could be going outside toplay in the dirt and go play
(26:49):
softball and she'd be like go goclean up, you gotta do better.
She'd make me turn around if Ididn't look presentable.
She made me turn around and gofind something else to wear and
fix my hair better I've knownthis lady for two years.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I've seen you perform numerous times.
Never the same, nothing.
Same smile I appreciate that noproblem, I just try to keep
free, that's all I don't want toget no trouble because you know
you, you know you're my husbandstopped earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I was like oh lord, I ain't trying to get, I ain't
here I'm not trying to neither Ihope so.
I hope so.
I try to keep the peace in thishousehold.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I think I got one more fight in me and I'm saving
that shit.
Saving that for a Mr Karen inthe grocery store not Mr Karen,
you mean.
I got one more in me.
I'm done cause after that youmean Kevin.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I got one more in me.
I'm done, because after thatyou mean Kevin, the Kevin yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I got one fight.
I got one fight, mr Karen,kevin.
Whatever I got one, I'mcounting them down.
I got one more fight in meBecause the rest of them are
like you know what.
Yeah, young Bucks got it and Idon't want to go viral on TikTok
for getting my ass tow up, youknow you don't I've been seeing
some videos, you know so kills.
(28:10):
I appreciate you letting me showyou the serious side.
That's spooky to you, but Iguess you didn't watch or listen
to any of the episodes of thepodcast you told on yourself
what?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
uh, probably yeah, because I hadn't yeah, I don't,
you know, I probably should didmy research.
I should, well, I have seenyour clips, though I've seen
your clips, but uh, that youpost, but I haven't done my
research because my behind hasbeen completely saturated lately
, so I probably should have.
So what am I missing?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
we are on the 11th season.
Okay, I have.
The first episode was with desnicholson, poet, second ones
with josh ward on kylie cash.
That's the dominatrix.
I was trying to get a sex workat least every one or two
seasons.
Jay daniels I can't reallyreveal about jay daniels or
who's coming along with me withjay daniels because, personally,
(29:00):
because all the beefs, I shutthe fuck up and I just post and
let people see it.
And then I got kales morton andher husband gave me her to
stink guy he did.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He stopped on the staircase.
I was like uh nothing see whatI mean.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Like now I'm trying to keep the peace in this
household next time I go out toa show and I see I'm like hey
brother, do you believe in thepower of the lord?
Can I pray for you?
You know what the lord jesuschrist has done for you lately
can I pray for you right quickbro, let me lay hands on you
right quick no problem, none,okay, okay you know what?
(29:33):
I'm gonna just bring my mama.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's what I do that's like I get myself out of
trouble.
Just bring, just bring deborah,miss davis, miss davis that's
what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I bring miss ain't nobody gonna fight, nobody with
their mama not even she.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
She looked like she, peaceful and she don't even play
.
You look like she like ifanybody tried to do anything,
she gonna get them a womanimmediately on the spot, and she
have her belt in her purse itwasn't no belt, though, deborah.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Deborah's a chokeslice, just choked the shit
out of you.
I love my baby, that's my girl,but y'all keep getting fooled
by that shit.
Y'all see out there online andin public why your hand like
that?
That's my heart.
But nah, y'all keep keepfucking up, nah, man.
But if the people want tofollow you or get in contact
(30:20):
with you, how can we do that?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I am on facebook at kales morton, I am on instagram
at kels the Great Same thingwith TikTok.
So, and then I have a biz card,a digital biz card that'll take
you to all that and to my emailaddress for booking.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
If you guys want to get in contact with me, you know
you can follow me at ComedianRome on Instagram and Twitter
and Tiki Tok, and at ComedianRome Davis on YouTube, as well
as Reddit, at no ID Podcast onFacebook and Instagram as well
too.
Like, share, comment, subscribe, support.
Hit that link in that bio forthe website.
Join the mailing list so youcan get all the updates.
(30:57):
And, of course, I got abusiness card.
I keep a business cardsomewhere and I really
appreciate to appreciate you.
I see the growth.
Yeah, we signing off.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Thanks.
yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcomeback to another episode of the
no id podcast.
I have here comedian skitcreator, content creator, the
hostess with the mostest.
You know her, I know her and weall gonna get to know her.
The one and only miss kalesmorton.
How you doing today, ma'am?
I'm good.
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm blessed and highly favored thanks for having
me on the show, jerome no wrongno, I say wrong, but I was
trying to be professional, socome on be professional because
we on this okay all right, well,I'll be professional.
I'm miss morton I like my lastname, but that does sound very
old you're right, it do soundold, okay, okay we're on my bed
it's all right.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Jerome is my, my job name, that's when I go to work.
It's rom is when I'm on thismicrophone.
How you been I'm good okay, soyou are a comedian and you've
been doing it.
What?
Two, three years now twocongratulations.
What made you get into comedy?
What was the the point behindit?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I guess people just always said, I was funny.
But I was, was like, let mejust try it, and then I like, I
like entertainment, I like youknow, I like the spotlight Maybe
probably not everything thatgoes with it, but I do like to
make people laugh.
I get enjoyment out of makingother people smile.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So when was your first start into comedy?
Like that first introduction?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I did.
I saw somebody taking the funnybone class so I decided to take
it and um, it was.
It was a good experience.
I've taken other classes sincethe funny bone class, so like
improv 101 at push comedytheater in norfolk and, um, just
other things to sharpen myskills.
(01:43):
I took a writing class in DC atthe DC Improv.
So just just, you never stopand I know you know that as a
comedian as well you just neverstop sharpening your skills.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, I definitely do .
I only took the funny boneclass.
It was six.
You went through six weeks, wegraduated and I didn't take any
more classes after that.
Unless you count, you knowJames Cooper at the venue.
That's the only.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right, and then of course, and then we do.
We did a lot of those too, Alot of those mics.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So how was your experiences with all these
different classes, from thefunny bone to the writing
classes, to the improv, one onone?
How was your experience?
Was it the same or was itdifferent?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
writing classes to the improv 101.
How was your experience?
Was it the same or was itdifferent, different, different
types of styles from each person?
So I think that gives you agood perspective, because
everything's subjective, right.
Um, and then you know, I alsofollow what's uh the one that
has the comedy, uh, bible I knowyou talk about judy so I, you
(02:45):
know, I follow her.
So she has workshops on Tuesday.
So I've been like on her livesbefore.
So everybody has these tidbitsthat are different to make you
understand it that that fullcircle of comedy is subjective.
So you're not, you're notalways going to get the same
funny Right.
So it just makes me appreciatethe different perspectives and
(03:07):
how to kind of bend and figureout what my lane is.
So you want to take all thatinto account, because these
people have been doing it 20, 30, 15 years.
Cool, everybody's different,though, but they also have
something good to offer, whetherit's good I would do it that
way or good I wouldn't do it tooffer whether it's good I would
do it that way or good Iwouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So everybody has something a little bit different
.
What's one of the things thatyou notice that all of them have
in common since you've beenthere?
Yeah, give me a little bit moreenergy, miss morton, because
you, I don't know if you're notused to serious room right now.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I don't know it's so weird, it is super weird.
Okay, I'm not used to serious,no, I'm not.
But the question was like whatam I getting out of it?
I think more, so what did Ilearn?
I think all of them are similar, because comedy is set up with
a joke, a turn, a punchline.
(03:57):
All that is similar, right, buthow they deliver is different,
right.
How they deliver it, who theydeliver it for Right, because
you can have the demographicsare definitely different, right,
and how you deliver those jokesis going to be different
depending on the world you're in.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now your jokes and your styles.
Who is the person that you moremirror towards?
Like?
Who was that?
That inspiration that you waslike?
You know I rock with them.
I've been following them Like,like.
Who was that one comedian thatshe was like?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I gotta get into this growing up, there's more than
one and tears.
The first person I saw on tvthat I thought that was
hilarious was red fox hilariousyeah, and this is like growing
up from a kid, you know, becauseyou know it wasn't a lot of
people that look like me on tvthat's telling jokes him,
richard pryor, and then as I gotolder, I got older Bernie Mac
(04:47):
and everybody else that camealong.
You know what I'm saying.
Definitely Redd Foxx, becausehe was doing clean sitcoms,
primetime television.
And then you know he was alsodoing stand up, but I didn't get
to see the stand up till I wasolder.
The right, the unclean recordversion while he's smoking
(05:08):
cigars on stage, like he'sdefinitely like somebody that
you know I'm probably not asbrash as he is on stage, but he
is the one that made me listento like, hey, this is, this is
really funny.
You know I'm saying, of course,like richard prior as well, but
you know, but my favorite nowis chapelle.
I love chapelle, I lovechapelle chapelle, chapelle.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So do you want to do something like what chapelle?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I love chapelle I love chapelle, chapelle,
chapelle.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So you want to do something like what chapelle's
done with, like the sketch, andthen do the uh, the stand-up as
well, because you know chapelleshows was only three seasons
well, two good seasons, yeah,and people still watch it like
it just came genius.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He's genius and his sketch writing is so crazy, so
relatable, right, and that's whypeople still watch it, because
it doesn't matter who it iswhite, black, mexican he roasts
everybody equally and everybodystill loves it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You know I'm saying nobody's safe.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Gay straights trans.
Nobody is safe with him a lotof truth.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So how do you base your material on?
How do?
How do you come up with the?
I guess the light to yourmaterial to start writing is
this based on true stories is.
Do you come up with the?
I guess the light to yourmaterial to start writing is
this based on true stories, isit fixalization is the
observation.
How do you come upon what yousaid?
Because you have a funny setwhen you talked about I think
you was married like four timesor something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sorry, I apologize, I forgot but yeah, that's life,
you know, I'm saying that's life.
That was my, you know.
First marriage cool.
Second marriage short lived.
Third marriage hopefully itstays.
You know I'm saying cool.
Second marriage short-lived.
Third marriage, hopefully itstays.
You know what I'm saying.
So you want that to happen, butI'm not the only one.
Ladies will come up to me atthe end of the show and they'll
be like, oh my God, I'm on mythird husband too.
(06:35):
Well, everything you said wasjust the truth.
You know what I'm saying.
That is what I deal with.
You know and deal with.
You know, um, and that's coolbecause I'm telling my truth.
You know, if, if somethinghappens because you kind of like
your jokes write themselves ifsomething happens and you write
it down immediately because itwas funny, you're telling your
truth on stage.
There's embellishment in thereand that's any any comedian, I
(06:58):
think.
But um, for the most part Ilike to tell the truth, so I
don't forget it and who was.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So you write a lot about truth and stuff.
You write about third marriage.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Third marriage kids.
You have children.
I have a son that's 22.
Really, I didn't know that Italk about him.
Well, I have talked about himin the past.
I got a five-year-old stepson.
He is hell.
But I've talked about him onstage too, okay, hell, but I've
talked about him on stage too,okay, yeah, so I've.
I've talked about having breastreduction.
(07:28):
Women can relate to that.
Mammograms, just like you know,the dudes talk about prostate
exams.
I started talking aboutmammograms and, you know, put a
little awareness to it, becausea lot of people don't talk about
that type of stuff you don'tsee a lot of.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It is the.
The comedy game is a littledifferent because you hear, you
see and you hear a lot of mendoing their thing.
But I do need to.
I know I'm all over the place.
I do admire the women avengergroup that you have with
yourself.
Sherry, vicky and sonja, yeah,like the powerpuff girls well,
it was three of them, but I'mgonna just say powerpuff girls
(08:02):
of the of the comedy realm.
And how did that come about?
Because I was tight before, butnow y'all doing boots to the
ground and vicky's doing herthing, sonia's just like
streaming you doing your thing,sherry's like just everywhere,
like, how did y'all, likeavengers, assimilate, you know,
(08:23):
like that?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
it just kind of happened organically.
We are all very different veryvery different in our walks of
life.
But we just kind of likeclicked, as far as you know.
Like you know, it's not a lotof female comics on the scene
anyway, so, um, but we supportany comics, you know, for shows.
(08:43):
But we we have been kind ofjust, you know, because we mesh
so well and there's like reallyno drama or disagreements.
We just kind of, you know we'llget together for a writing
session, maybe once a month,once every other month, and do
stuff like that, and then wemight end up on a show.
Most of the time, now thatpeople see us together,
sometimes they book us togetherif that makes sense, they do.
(09:06):
But you know, um, those, thoseladies are are that's the squad
man they are, they're so dopeand, um, this virginia scene is,
is very, very welcoming, youknow, whether it's male or
female.
I I have, you know, been bookedby plenty of people yourself,
skeeta, well, you've gotten mework.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I don't produce.
I don't produce, you've gottenme work.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But you have referred me, which I appreciate.
You know what I'm saying andyou know, like different
promoters and you know Skeetaand Tim and all these other
people on the scene, nick D's,like all of them, have booked me
at one point or another, so Iappreciate that either way.
I'm not really into thebusiness side, though you know
(09:51):
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
How many times are you going to keep fixing that
bus down?
Because you keep every fiveminutes?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Because I keep doing this thing like it's like a
mustache or something.
I'm trying to keep it out ofthe way.
You know.
Keep it out the way.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's like I'm still stuck on the fact that you're
not used to serious rome rightnow.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
This is no, it's weird, I told you it's super
weird, it's not when was thelast time you've been serious?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I wait when my last interview was that like two
weeks ago?
No, a week ago yeah, and atwork, and at work.
See see what I mean.
Okay, see what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying work.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
See, see what I mean.
Okay, see what I mean.
I'm just saying I'm just sayingit's a switch.
It's a switch in there, right,it's a switch.
If it's a microphone I'm aboutto perform, yeah, I'm gonna show
my ass, but there ain't nomicrophone.
Or if I'm doing this podcast,I'm like, no, the switch is nah,
we serious.
Okay, that's what's up, though.
So y'all got a whole adventuresimple.
I actually respect that,because, um, I don't know if you
know the story of Eddie Murphy,how Robert Townsend and John
(10:50):
Willispoon used to back him up,kenan Avery-Wayne used to back
up Eddie Murphy, and it was likeone of us going to make it is
going to be Eddie, yeah.
And then, like that's when youguys saw Delirious and Raw, I
delirious and raw.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I don't know if you ever seen hollywood shuffle with
robert townsend, which is great.
You got two.
That's where he started.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's where he started.
Yeah, that's that's.
That's what's up.
I actually see that for y'all,y'all, for it's amazing what
y'all be doing out there.
But like, oh, I'd be, I don'tbe stalking, but I'm sure people
are watching.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
But you know, I don't .
We talked about the same thing.
I said somebody gonna make it.
I just, you know, I don't, Idon't need to be the star, but I
will say this just make surey'all, y'all, take me on the
road.
You know, I'm saying like Idon't even care about all that,
just take me on the road withyou.
That's all I ask.
You know, I ain't gotta be thestar, I don't, because look at,
look at, uh, kevin hart in thepaper cup, plastic Cup Boys.
(11:44):
Them guys been together for 20plus years.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They on the road Kev used to run with Mike Epps
though.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But he took his.
Those are his friends.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, he took his homies with him.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they funny and they all got their own thing
going on, but they all arewinning.
They come back.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I ain't come back.
Yeah, yeah, I think I gotta bethe star.
I could be.
I could be, you know, spanking.
I could be naim.
I could be the naim to thekevin hart.
You know I'm saying I'm goodshit.
Can I curse?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
but yeah, you can't curse you know I've had sex
workers up here.
I've had dominators up here.
Yeah, you know I can curse, youcan say whatever the fuck you
want.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I ain't hating on them, ladies them ladies making
their money.
Okay, someone's stayingvirginia.
I ain't hating on them, ladiesthem ladies making their money.
Okay, some of them stay inVirginia Beach.
I ain't mad at you, it's yourmoney.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
There's been a couple of them that popped up at the
show and I ain't saying nothinghey you Looking, like you
looking I ain't saying shitbecause I don't want nobody
thinking I'm into that stuff.
I'm just'm just interviewingbro.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
One of them was that show, that one you did with omar
gooden they were, they werethere one of them was there oh
yeah, yeah, omar was dope, man,omar was dope he was yeah, he
was, who was one of your?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
favorite big like, who was one of your favorite
comedians that you got to openup for I would say, uh, omar was
, that was like really, reallydope, working with, obviously,
michael Collier.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I haven't been on stage with him, but I've been on
his YouTube show several times,right, so that was really dope.
And then I went out on the roadwith, for two nights, with this
social media influencer bigtime, danae Hayes.
She's on like TikTok threemillion followers, like it's
crazy, you know.
And I didn't really know whoshe was, I just it just so
(13:28):
happened that her road managerinboxed me.
I don't know where they got myinformation, but I wasn't asking
no questions and uh, I thoughtit was a prank.
I thought it was a prank CauseI was like who?
And then I like you know, youknow, of course you're going to
search them immediately.
And uh, she was just so kind, soso, so dope.
And you know, I went to addictsit was sold out.
And I went to martin uh,marietta center for performing
(13:51):
arts in raleigh sold out, shepretty much sells out everywhere
.
And just her team, her team,her entire team and herself just
just so kind and uh, like Isaid, omar was very, very dope,
very personable, gave me acouple gems, you know I'm saying
have you ever been starstruck?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
yes you like hey, that's sweet pea from baby boy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So did you well, not, I wasn't starstruck with omar.
It's like, and now it's like,you know, being a comedian and
you I'm pretty sure you youprobably think the same way.
Like now, we meet so manyfamous people.
It's like you know, you know,no, I don't really like get too
much, but okay.
So Bill Bellamy was at FunnyBomb right.
(14:31):
Vino was opening for him thatnight.
It's him and Skeeter, skeetCarter's there, everybody's
there.
I'm just watching in thebackground, just absorbing
everything In walks.
Ali Sidi, he comes to my table.
Hey, how you doing, sweetheart.
And then I was like hi, and Ididn't say anything.
I was normal.
As soon as he got about 10 feetaway, I was like Sadiq, that
(14:52):
shit is crazy.
He shook my hand.
He shook my motherfucking hand,but then you know he's still
human.
But that was like crazy becausehe is a master storyteller.
He is phenomenal on stage, likeyou to, to me, chapelle.
You know I'm saying at hislevel of, uh, storytelling, so I
was just like so, like that wasa fan moment, but I didn't let
(15:14):
him see it.
You know, I'm saying I didn'tlet him see it because I was
just kind of like I had to stay.
You gotta stay cool in thosemoments, because then then it
gets weird.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It gets weird it gets weird, yeah, so I found out
internally when he walked off.
I know like I got starstrucktwo times.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
DL Hughley and Michael Kaya.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah, those are the OGs, though, those are the OGs.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Michael Kaya loved the guy to death.
He put me on his morning showduring the lockdown and I was
used to like because it comingthrough the venue.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
so you got the soft side of james.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Right when you was going there, you got the soft
version yeah, I didn't get thatat all.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You got the uh, the harsh, the harsh cuss out,
critique the harsh cuss,critique him and marlet.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So like mike cussed me out on the phone because he
said I didn't call him, I left.
I left a voicemail and a textmessage.
I think he was testing me.
Dl hugley either called melittle motherfucker, a little
nigga what in the back because Iwas like you know he was, he
was just talking.
(16:22):
He was like do you want to?
Because I was supposed to do aguest spot and I said I just I
ended up doing 15 minutes.
I ain't gonna lie, I blackedthe hell out on the stage.
But he was like I said how didthey want you to introduce?
You like, oh, you want to gofirst, you want to go second?
I said I'll go first, I'm notgonna ask you again,
motherfucker.
I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know I'm saying.
But then I said that after Igot off the stage he just he
(16:43):
dapped me up.
He said yo, keep going.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And that was it.
It was it he was.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
He was cool, though yeah, he was real cool I think
they just I think, when it comesto them being as high as they
are, like they're like.
I'm a normal person, right, sodon't treat me any differently.
Number two this your time toshine, so focus.
And number three I'm just gonnatest you.
You gotta earn my respect first, so I like this is what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yup, uh, I forgot, tony Roberts was really dope.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
He's a killer.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
He is a killer on stage.
I I wasn't aware.
I knew he was funny.
I've seen his standup, but inperson on that stage is a whole
different type of beast.
Uh, and so is, I think, adelegivens she.
She did 45 minutes straight offire and got a standing ovation.
It was insane to witness 45minutes straight.
No, I actually I take that backit was an hour and a half.
(17:34):
It was an hour and a half hourand a half.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yes, I take that back .
She gave somebody an hour and ahalf of work of work I'm glad
you said that with the standingovation with the standing o.
I'm like I'm glad you said thatWith the standing ovation, with
the standing ovation.
I'm glad you said that becauseyou know I was Matter of fact.
I did mess up one interview.
That was with Takara, but I wastrying to shoot my shot.
I lied to you.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Williams, she's so, so Beautiful.
Such a nice person.
She's such a nice person.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I would build a house with my bare hands for her.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'd drink her beer for it.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Nah, I ain't saying go that far, girl, the kind of
woman.
If she was to cheat on you youwould apologize to her and be a
better man.
I know you should.
I should have been a better manfor you, it's okay.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I mean, she is, she is that, she's very she's that
girl girl.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
She is that girl.
You see her.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I got it.
Y'all pack this like dope, likethe rat pack with.
I'm gonna keep going back andforth.
But I'm gonna ask you this doyou remember your first good
show when you was like all right, I got this in the bag?
You remember that one show youwas like all right, maybe I
ain't got it okay, uh't, youknow, everybody takes a good
bomb.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I don't think my bombs were my bombs to me, and
my bombs were probably not bombs, cause I still got laughter,
but it wasn't as good as causeI've I've seen people like die
slowly on stage and never returnRight, but still get laughter.
But I was like I could have didbetter and I'm kicking myself
Cause we're our own worstcritics.
(19:08):
So I had got for a retirementhome and I thought it was like I
had in a bag and I go in thereand it's like 70 year old people
and nothing was funny until Istarted talking about surgery
and they were cracking up.
So I was like thank god, youknow, I'm saying.
And then there's a show.
Well, the ones I did with denae,those were killer, because I'm
(19:28):
pretty sure if it wasn't, shewouldn't ask me to go to raleigh
.
She, literally as soon as I gotoff stage, her role manager,
was like what you doing tomorrow?
And then I did a show at thewindham and that I felt like
that was my day.
Sometimes as a comedian, youjust feel like that was your
night and that was literally mynight.
Like the line was like hey,what's your information, what's
your social media and I had thecards ready because you had said
(19:51):
get your cards ready when youfirst started.
When I first started, you waslike get you some business cards
and hand them out.
That's, that's the mostlogistical way you can get your
name on the street.
And it was.
I don't went through, uh, after,like miss pat showed show,
because I did Miss Pat, sixshows with her and I probably
handed out like 200 cards thatweekend, 200.
(20:13):
And then, out of the six shows,I think five out of six for me
was some of my best work.
One show I was just by thatlast show I was like my brain
tired and the lights was hot.
It was just hot.
I was like I was still stillthere, but I was struggling
because you know that's mentalexhaustion.
So, and that's something I justnever had dealt with, that was
(20:36):
my first weekend working likethat.
Do you know I'm saying and thatwas.
It was a cool experience though.
And, uh, you know I'm sayinglike at least she, she gave us a
shot, she gave me a shot youstill got your business cards.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Now, same business cards.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I reprinted another 250.
Yeah, 250.
I got a private event.
I've gotten corporate eventsand private events.
I got another private eventAugust 1st for Tri-State, which
is Stars and Masons.
We'll be over there.
I'm a Star I don't know how bigthem business cars.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, it's big man like I like passing minds out
when I do push theater becauseit's tight to go past that front
door, so I thought I performedwell, like oh, I hope the last
one, hurry, I'm rocking to getup there making it rain.
I'm like, here you go, here yougo, here you go, here you go,
here you go making it rain up init one one time, like I did a
(21:33):
show well, two weeks ago in dcand I I was doing a show and I
was passing out the cards, likedid y'all laugh?
I was like there's like yeah,like did you think I was funny,
thank you.
I think you was like it's liketake this card and scan this qr
on the back and it just, itworks like the business cards,
plugging your social media in inthe beginning, at the end it
works.
It's no, no tricks peoplesleeping on business cards yep,
(21:56):
and it really.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It really helps that following, because when I
started comedy I had 890followers.
Now I have two.
Two thousand eight hundred andfifty, I think oh I still got a
long way to go.
You know I'm saying but that'sbetter than what I started, so
that's progress I'll put you onthe game about how to get more
followers.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
The one thing I learned is two things that
people sleep on.
I'm not saying tiktok, reddit,really and linkedin.
Okay, reddit, linkedin, getchat, gpt or gemini.
The type up a promise, put itspecifically to say for reddit
or whatever, and post.
And I was like my views on myyoutube have gone up.
(22:40):
So reddit and um, linkedin,linkedin.
Yeah, I don't know what I was.
I applied for job to saycomedian.
That's how I've been gettingprivate, private gigs.
Gotcha.
Have you done any festivals yet?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I've applied to black women in comedy, so I'm just
waiting on that response.
In new york, um, I haven't doneany yet because I was like, let
me just get myself togetherbefore I start doing it and I
just want to make sure I wasabsolutely at least got a good
tight 15, 10 minute and five set.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You got a tight.
You should have like at least acool 30.
And I know people like she'sbeen doing it for two years 30.
What I mean by that I'm nottaking no shots at no comedians
just doing it on it.
When I say you got a cool,tight 30, you could take that 30
or that, your time, that set,and travel around and get the
same amount of laughs with thatsame set, right?
(23:34):
So that's what I'm talkingabout, because you get people to
be like, yeah, I got a whole 30.
I'm like they go up thereperform and you just see like a
dash low I've seen so many dashlows and you know I'm an asshole
on the stage so you know once Iget up there I can talk about
whoever the fuck I want to.
So I see like a little thatslow bomb is a killer that slow
(23:56):
bomb started this podcast.
That slow bomb started no ID.
It's a black lady somewhere inVirginia Beach that threw a
chicken bone at me and made mesay I'm gonna start no ID, I'm
not doing this comedy shit nomore that sub bomb is crazy you
be crying up.
They be like I don't think thiscomedy shit for me.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's been a couple where I was like jesus, lord,
ain't nobody gonna laugh like.
But you know, like I said, I'llget some laughs in between that
.
But I've seen people gettingzero laughs, zero.
There's a couple people on thescene I done seen happening and
I just pray that's never me.
That's what I don't talk.
I try not to talk bad about.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
But you're all right, I don't do that because you
don't want to be in, no shitthat's why I say it.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't ever say anything because I don't want it
to happen to me and then Idon't be trying to start.
There'd be too many comedybeefs and I'll be like we're
supposed to be making peoplehappy, not beefing.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's crazy it's always gonna be a comedy beef
you know I don't be in nobody'smess it's always I've had my
fair share.
I ain't gonna cap and I takeaccountability for some of mine,
but I'm gonna be honest withyou.
Them beefs just it's reallyjust pointless at this point
because some people feel likeyou're blocking them, and then
some people don't feel likeyou're blocking them or I don't
know.
I'd just be like you know what.
(25:14):
It's more than one stage, it'smore than one microphone to
speak out there.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So I just do some stuff and somebody doesn't book
me because they have a personalissue, then they were never
professional in the beginning.
You know what I'm saying it wasnever funny or maybe they were
never funny, or they feelthreatened, I don't know.
I just feel like I don't try tobe in nobody's beef.
I try to you know, back backfrom a situation and then if
(25:38):
it's bad energy over there, evenif they're not beefing, I'm not
doing it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I'm saying yeah, we too old, you know, we both in
our later years don't you say itsay what don't you say that age
number?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I don't know your age number, sweetie.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Thank you, I'm just trying to get it no, I, I do
want to give you flowers on thisone too.
I've never seen you wear thesame outfit twice.
I'm talking about from thepants, the shirt, the purse, the
shoes.
Everything is ironed.
She don't throw it in the dryon wrinkle release.
It matches the accessories.
The skin is always lotion.
(26:13):
I don't know if she was a syrup.
They'll see the feel.
Anivia, I don't know.
Jergus, I don't know no ash no,you see, she got milano on.
She didn't fix the bus downlike 18 times.
Yeah, because he keeps doingthis.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You just got a mind of his own.
Thank you, I appreciate that,you know.
You know it's just, it's just amethod of habit because, uh, my
mother, she was, just like youknow, very strict, like I
couldn't even leave the housewithout you know, you gotta have
clean clothes on, my shoesgotta be wiped down, I gotta fix
my hair.
She always made me do all ofthat before I could go outside.
I could be going outside toplay in the dirt and go play
(26:49):
softball and she'd be like go goclean up, you gotta do better.
She'd make me turn around if Ididn't look presentable.
She made me turn around and gofind something else to wear and
fix my hair better I've knownthis lady for two years.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I've seen you perform numerous times.
Never the same, nothing.
Same smile I appreciate that noproblem, I just try to keep
free, that's all I don't want toget no trouble because you know
you, you know you're my husbandstopped earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I was like oh lord, I ain't trying to get, I ain't
here I'm not trying to neither Ihope so.
I hope so.
I try to keep the peace in thishousehold.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I think I got one more fight in me and I'm saving
that shit.
Saving that for a Mr Karen inthe grocery store not Mr Karen,
you mean.
I got one more in me.
I'm done cause after that youmean Kevin.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I got one more in me.
I'm done, because after thatyou mean Kevin, the Kevin yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I got one fight.
I got one fight, mr Karen,kevin.
Whatever I got one, I'mcounting them down.
I got one more fight in meBecause the rest of them are
like you know what.
Yeah, young Bucks got it and Idon't want to go viral on TikTok
for getting my ass tow up, youknow you don't I've been seeing
some videos, you know so kills.
(28:10):
I appreciate you letting me showyou the serious side.
That's spooky to you, but Iguess you didn't watch or listen
to any of the episodes of thepodcast you told on yourself
what?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
uh, probably yeah, because I hadn't yeah, I don't,
you know, I probably should didmy research.
I should, well, I have seenyour clips, though I've seen
your clips, but uh, that youpost, but I haven't done my
research because my behind hasbeen completely saturated lately
, so I probably should have.
So what am I missing?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
we are on the 11th season.
Okay, I have.
The first episode was with desnicholson, poet, second ones
with josh ward on kylie cash.
That's the dominatrix.
I was trying to get a sex workat least every one or two
seasons.
Jay daniels I can't reallyreveal about jay daniels or
who's coming along with me withjay daniels because, personally,
(29:00):
because all the beefs, I shutthe fuck up and I just post and
let people see it.
And then I got kales morton andher husband gave me her to
stink guy he did.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He stopped on the staircase.
I was like uh nothing see whatI mean.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Like now I'm trying to keep the peace in this
household next time I go out toa show and I see I'm like hey
brother, do you believe in thepower of the lord?
Can I pray for you?
You know what the lord jesuschrist has done for you lately
can I pray for you right quickbro, let me lay hands on you
right quick no problem, none,okay, okay you know what?
(29:33):
I'm gonna just bring my mama.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's what I do that's like I get myself out of
trouble.
Just bring, just bring deborah,miss davis, miss davis that's
what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I bring miss ain't nobody gonna fight, nobody with
their mama not even she.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
She looked like she, peaceful and she don't even play
.
You look like she like ifanybody tried to do anything,
she gonna get them a womanimmediately on the spot, and she
have her belt in her purse itwasn't no belt, though, deborah.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Deborah's a chokeslice, just choked the shit
out of you.
I love my baby, that's my girl,but y'all keep getting fooled
by that shit.
Y'all see out there online andin public why your hand like
that?
That's my heart.
But nah, y'all keep keepfucking up, nah, man.
But if the people want tofollow you or get in contact
(30:20):
with you, how can we do that?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I am on facebook at kales morton, I am on instagram
at kels the Great Same thingwith TikTok.
So, and then I have a biz card,a digital biz card that'll take
you to all that and to my emailaddress for booking.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
If you guys want to get in contact with me, you know
you can follow me at ComedianRome on Instagram and Twitter
and Tiki Tok, and at ComedianRome Davis on YouTube, as well
as Reddit, at no ID Podcast onFacebook and Instagram as well
too.
Like, share, comment, subscribe, support.
Hit that link in that bio forthe website.
Join the mailing list so youcan get all the updates.
(30:57):
And, of course, I got abusiness card.
I keep a business cardsomewhere and I really
appreciate to appreciate you.
I see the growth.
Yeah, we signing off.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Thanks.
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