A Conversation with Comedian Marcus Mangham

Join Buddy Rahmig in this exciting episode of "Yeah Buddy Podcast" as he chitchats with veteran comedian, Marcus Mangham. Breaking down the subjective facade of the comedy industry, this episode guides its listeners into an insightful journey from freestyling open-mic nights to producing stand-up shows. Catch up with discussions on experiences, friendships, and competitions as Buddy and Marcus delve into the fascinating universe of comedy.

The episode highlights the transition of an open-mic performer to a full-fledged comedian, bouncing back post-pandemic, and the underlying concept of comedy selection for varied audiences. Listen to Marcus engagingly narrate humorous stories, shedding light on his first three-minute set survival, picking the perfect set of jokes, the impact of COVID-19 on his performances, and managing the unexpected chaos on stage. Experience the thrill, pressure, and creative spur that lingers behind every laughter.

Intriguing tales of interaction with Tony Roberts and Lance Woods furnish the podcast with a relatable touch, emphasizing the importance of relationships within the comedy scene. Buddy and Marcus also discuss the inevitable trip down memory lane, returning to serene North Carolina after performing on California's lively comedy scenes. So, tune in and traverse through the lives, humor, and the resilience of comedians with this episode of the "Yeah Buddy Podcast".

From center stage to behind-the-scenes, Marcus shares the paradox of being a comedian caught between the thirst for spotlight and the solace of anonymity. Listen as he unwraps his journey into producing and how social media pivots in the comedy industry. The podcast stands as an embodiment of comedy, camaraderie, and the eccentricities of fame, all in a single, compelling conversation.

Discover his encounters with the Hollywood glitz, managing social responsibilities, and tackling stereotypes, without failing to touch upon his inclination for writing and behind-the-scenes roles. This episode stands as a resounding testament for every aspiring comedian desiring to understand the world of stand-up comedy.

Last, but certainly not least, Marcus shares his experience auditioning for his first movie role and the thrill of working with seasoned actors. A much-needed inspiration for budding artists, the episode offers an intimate glimpse into what lies beyond the stage. So whether you're a comedy enthusiast or an aspiring comedian, this episode offers heaps of laughter, learning, and a firsthand connection with the comedy industry.

Episode Transcript

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with the podcast. This is just my ringtone. This is the only music I was able
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buddy. Buddy Romig, and we are back at it with another episode of the funny.
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All right, y'all. So yeah, we're about to get into it. We're about to get to
this episode of the Yeah Buddy Podcast.
The Yeah Buddy Podcast. Like every episode, I always try to bring in some of
my friends in the entertainment business so we can just chop it up,
see what we got going on, see what we've been through, just talk about our journeys

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in this entertainment business because it's so crazy.
And this episode is like no other. This episode, man, I got my friend, he's host, man.
He hosts shows all around the town from the Bay Area and Napa all the way to
the Punchline callback bar.
He's toured with Lance Woods and he was in this movie called Ball Busters.
But right now, watch out again. We're going to get into that too.
But right now, man, We about to get it in, man. Make some noise for my good

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friend, Mr. Marcus Manningham. How you doing, bro?
Good. I'm good. What up, buddy? Yes, sir. We'll get that right.
Yeah, we're black. We got to do better than that.
Let's close it out. We'll get it done. This is some tea and tequila.
That's what it is. That's what's up.
So, Marcus, man, how you doing, bro? I'm good. I'm good, bro.
Appreciate you having me on here. Appreciate it.
I appreciate you being on and stuff like that. So you, you're not originally

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from California. You from, was it North Carolina?
Yeah. Small town, Salisbury, North Carolina. That was my hometown.
Nice, nice, nice. And what was it like being up there in Salisbury?
It's cool. Like, I'm from a small town. So, you know, like, what do you mean?
You know, like everybody knows each other, kind of like an industrial town where
everybody worked at a warehouse pretty much. Like even my dad,

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pretty much most of my family were all warehouse workers or they either worked
at a warehouse or the VA hospital.
That was about it. Nice. You had to be a Salisbury steak for dinner.
Totally different song. My bad. My bad. So what brought you out here to California?
I had a friend that played basketball back in the day, Bobby Jackson.

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And I used to come out here and visit all the time. I would visit, I would visit.
And then I just asked him one day, what do you think about me living out here?
He was like, hell, I don't care. Like, I don't have no family out here.
So I gave it a try. Probably maybe about a year into me living here,
he ended up getting traded. So then I went back to North Carolina.
And then I realized, I don't want
to be here anymore. So now I'm back in Sacramento on the Buddy Podcast.

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Yeah, California is definitely different than North Carolina,
man. So what got you into doing, were you doing stand-up comedy when you were in North Carolina?
Dude, I didn't touch a microphone or do any kind of comedy until...
Age 37, I had already been here for a while. Honestly, I never had any training
or had thoughts of doing comedy.

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I hated doing book reports in front of the classroom, much less trying to make people laugh.
But it's just something I wanted to get out of my system. I did one open mic at Laughs Unlimited.
Okay. One three-minute set, and something about that just bit me,
and I just kept coming back and kept coming back.
And now, funny business. yeah that's

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that's how it goes that's that's funny so what made you want to just say
like all right man it's time for me to just get on
the mic i think i just wanted to see
if i could do it because people would be like man you're
funny you should try and i'm like man i can't do that like especially like i
wasn't a stand-up guy i was more of like a tv guy like i watched every damn

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show coming up growing up like 227 nightcore like all that stuff i watched everything
so i I would watch that and I'd be like, that's funny. Or I feel like I can do that.
But then it's like actually doing it. Like, I don't know what I'm doing.
So just one day I said I wanted to try. And I told maybe two people I was going to do open mic.
I was not going to have 45 people up there watching me eat it. Hell no.

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It's not an option. So I did that. I did that little three minutes and I survived it.
So I was just like, all right, well, let's keep seeing how far you can go with it.
That's it. But yeah, I had no ambition at all of ever doing stand up.
Because you're kind of more so like a just a reserved guy
in general yeah i'm more i'm more of a laid back
and watch you do a bunch of silly shit i'm not the kind of act

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like i don't start the
party but if it gets going you know i'll jump in there i'll do my little two-step
every now and then i feel like that's how it is like could be really like you're
going to just get two or two of the other one of the others they're going to
be like in real life they're just super reserved just chill like man only time
i really want to talk is when i'm on the microphone well you're You're going
to get the other comedian that's just an intention whore like 24-7.

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It's a very different dichotomy of what goes on up here. But the crowd,
they think we all act like Krusty the Clown.
Yeah. That's funny. We got our own personalities.
Like, yeah, everybody's different.
And so with that, you probably get a lot of people that like when you tell them
that you're a stand-up comedian, you're like, oh, yeah. Tell me a joke. Oh, yeah, all the time.

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Yeah. Make me laugh, funny man. I'm like, now I'm definitely not telling you a joke. Yeah, I know.
But I will tell you is that you can come to my comedy show. You really want
to get these out. You got to pay. Yeah, I want to pay.
I'm going to tell you all the jokes you want. Till your money runs out. Yeah.
Too out of minimum. Too out of minimum.
So when did you start? So you say you started off like hit open mic.

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When did you start like producing shows? Because you've been producing a lot of shows, bro.
Let me say, I probably...
Maybe a year into my stand-up career, Robert Berry offered me a show at Comedy Spot.
I didn't know anything about producing shows. But I did know that,
like, talking to Lance and a lot of those guys coming up, that's what they were doing.

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It's like, you want to get stage time, produce your own show.
You can have all the time you want then.
You don't have to fuss at anybody or, can I get on, man? You got your own stuff going.
So I was like, that's the route. So I just started producing shows at Comedy Spot.
Spot and that led to other stuff because with the comedy spot i got that i remember we had our show,
after that show we drove down to check out the pink martini for food and we

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just got in conversation with
a guy and he was like well what do you think about doing the show here
so then all of a sudden now i'm running two shows and then that's just how it
you know word of mouth and other people i want to i want comedy in my place
too and that's how it is but it's it's seldom we even go searching for it.
They just word of mouth like it's a good product, apparently,
so they keep bringing us back.

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So how long have you been doing the shows at the Pink Martini,
then? I think at least probably, what, six years, maybe, at this point.
Six years? Five or six years.
Damn, okay, for sure. So you've been ready to burn coal, baby.
Yeah, even during the pandemic. Keep that on the low.
Yeah, keep that on the low. We had the little outdoor shows, little patio shows.
That was out in Rockland, though, right? Yeah, they don't have a lot.

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Yeah, they don't give a fuck. There you go. There's no laws in Rockland.
You do what you want. They like, find us.
We don't care. We keep our bars open. We get people drunk. Ain't nothing to
do. We just at home with this depression.
Let us get drunk. Yeah, they got their own set of rules in politics down there.
But thank you, Rockland. Thank you. Shout out to Rockland.

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Said never by black people. Never. Never. We get our check in that we dip.
We've been to those shows.
Rockland, Placerville. Yeah. Yeah, we, the borders of Roseville.
We get our chicken. We go out.
So what's it like? What's your process like? Like actually like producing shows,
going out there, finding comedians and then just the promotion aspect of it.

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When it comes to picking comedians, it's random that I book anybody I've never seen before.
Just because I feel like it's my reputation on the line.
And even though I can't tell them
what to say, I don't even know how it's going to work half of the time.
Because you can say, yeah, this guy has funny jokes and that might be the one
night he wants to try some new stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. But I try to get people that I've already seen before.

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And i don't know i would just say i try
to get people i've seen before and then i try to get people that
are that's cool and not gonna start any trouble at
the spot you know i'm saying yeah because like i say it's
my reputation like i don't look at it it's just well i'm
making a couple dollars so who cares what they say as long
as i close it out and i have a good set no that matters because

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that's your product out there yeah yeah one thing that we definitely
do get confused few some time as as is the fact that this is
called like the entertainment business yeah you know
and so we forget or show business and you know business is the
longer word so that's kind of like the most important
thing that you got to really understand about that that this is a business man
you gotta like say protect your reputation man you've been running the show

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for six years that's what you want to do is man lock up your paycheck yeah a
lot of things i don't think a lot of comics understand like it is a business
and you could be the funniest person in the world But if it doesn't fit the venue,
they might not want sexual type of jokes or whatever it is.
If they're hiring me and they say, absolutely not.
I'm not going to book somebody. I know that's all they do is the opposite of

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what you. But then they take it personal. Like, well, you won't book me.
It would be terrible for me to book you. I'm not going to lose my business for
you to have five minutes set. Yeah.
I've done that a couple of times. On accident. On accident. They would come
back up to me. I'm like, well, you know what?
Weigh down the rules to me. Just explain to me what type of comedy is something.

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What do you want? What is your audience and stuff like that?
Because, yeah, it can get, um, comedy is subjective.
It is very subjective. And sometimes, you know, saying what's funny to one comedian
is not going to be funny to a hundred other people in the audience. Yeah.
What the fuck? And everybody loves the unpredictability of a comedian until
it goes wrong. Yeah, until it becomes unpredictable.

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It's crazy, guys, until then. Shit.
That's hilarious. And so now, not only are you doing the shows up in Rockland,
you also have the show out in Napa.
Yeah. So I do a monthly show.
Every third Thursday, we do a show out in Rockland.
I mean, not in Rockland, in Napa, at B-Bubbly. it's a tasting room in downtown

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and we do the comedy behind the bar yeah yeah yeah yeah so I'll be to that show
that's a good show man that's a good show cause people drunk off of wine is
different than people drunk off of like Hennessy or yeah,
or a wine bottle thrown in my head or people just drunk off of beer it's two

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it's three totally different audiences you get like the sophisticated people
like ha ha ha ha ha or they're just laid back and they're sleepy so yeah But
nothing really pops off at the tasting rooms in Napa.
Yeah, that's a fun room. I've been to that room before and stuff like that. So that's always a...
Honestly, though, it is a difficult room sometimes just because you have people from everywhere.

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You know, Napa's kind of like a tourist town. Yeah. So you might be like,
oh, yeah, I got this joke about Vacaville.
And it's like, this guy's like, I'm from Michigan. What the hell's Vacaville?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm from Yuba City. I'm from Yuba City. They're like, what?
Where's that at? What is that? that they're uh yuba city where you say the punchline
and they just stare at you because they have no idea what you're talking about

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huh it's like i guess it was funny he's laughing the comedian's laughing so
i guess it's funny wherever truck he's at yeah so yeah we got a truck.
Man and then you've also been so you've been um doing that show you also got
the show at the uh The Punchline.
Yeah. So you're also the open mic. Yeah. So every fourth Wednesday,

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I do open mic at Punchline.
And I think in April, every Wednesday, I think we're going to have open mic.
So basically, it's going to be for sure every fourth Wednesday.
But when they have open Wednesdays, I just go ahead and do open mic just to
feel rather than just have a room sitting there. Yeah. Yeah.
What was the process like? How did you get hooked up with hosting the open mic at the Punchline?

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Honestly, I think it was either a referral. Nobody officially told me.
I just got an email that said a couple people thought you would be a good fit
for doing open mic. Are you interested?
And I was just like, let's give it a shot because I know we needed one.
I'm like, how many years did we, me and you, run around from this bar to this bar to that bar?
Can we not just have one night? night yeah yeah

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i mean yeah you know exactly you know exactly what it's talking about
that's why i was producing so many shows last year just
because i was like man i need this stage time man wherever wherever
i could get a room at to open up a room to tell these jokes man yeah let me
do it because i mean we got a at one point we had a lot of open mics it felt
like yeah like we had a lot like at one point like probably like pre-pandemic

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we was having like three comedy open mics a night at least and then like different
like music open mics that they would be friendly And then, like,
the comedians go up and tell jokes.
But then after the pandemic, it kind of slowed down.
And I feel like it started even, like, we're at a point right now where it's
kind of, like, I mean, we have a lot of open mics compared to,
like, other cities and stuff like that.

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But, like, it's still not enough for, like, for Sacramento because we got a
lot of comedians up here.
We got a lot. I don't think I realized how many rooms and shows we had until the world shut down.
Like, a lot of stuff didn't come back. Yeah. Yeah. But like I remember that
even back then, I mean, I knew what I was doing a little bit in comedy,
but I was doing three shows a week.

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Yeah. Yeah. Like I don't even know what I'm doing. Yeah. But if I've been on
that track now, I've probably been on 12 shows a week. Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
I was like, I remember I was even just doing a show out of out of a bookstore
just because we had so many rooms.
Shout out to Carol's books. It's not around. I got shut down because the damn
pandemic. But like that's just how it was. I went anywhere.
There was a it wasn't it. It didn't have to be a comedy room.

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I was like, if there was four walls, we had a comedy room. We was doing shows up here and shit.
Yeah, your old room. I'm like, can I even talk loud in here?
It's like a library. It's like, shh.
I'm going to tell the joke. Yeah, that was why we had like, especially, oh, my God.
Because that was off of Del Paso. It was bad then, too, because the homeless situation was bad.

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So we got a lot of homeless bums.
We got a whole lot of homeless bums.
They didn't even come for comedy. They just came for shelter.
We ain't even here for no jokes we just we just
we just here for a seat and a heater that's it

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man we oh my word yeah but yeah now we backed out in the pandemics over with
and stuff like that trying to get these rooms back up but it feels like they're
coming up and then they get to shut down get it open up they shut it back down
it is just kind of like yeah i don't know like i feel I feel like the whole dynamic has changed,
like what people used to do or they don't have the money that they used to.

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Like, I just feel like we used to do a lot of extra stuff that you can't really do now.
And it reflect like you better have a great product to get a bunch of people in any room now.
Yeah. Like, look at the movie theater. I don't care what comes out. They ain't going.
No, hell no. Hell no, man.
That's another thing I was going to bring up, too, because I was reading this
article the other day from this casting director.

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And she was just talking about how like just he would
just try to break into like like the film side right now is
social media is very heavy you gotta have like that huge
huge huge like social media phone but i'm not really the type
of comedian that like yeah it's gonna be on like my
like instagram every day just be like yeah look at me
yeah brushing my teeth yeah yeah or

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like like like doing skits and stuff like
that like oh yeah if i do it it's gotta be i don't
want to say for a purpose because you know building up a fan base build up
an audience on on social media is a purpose but they're
like for me i just feel like there's like there's just
gotta be something something more to probably because like when
i was when i got started into trying to pursue this entertainment

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stuff like the like social media was not a thing
at all so it was always like in the back of my mind about stuff like that do
you think about that type of stuff no i definitely i get what you're saying
because i think it just comes down to personality like Like some people have
it and they like to do the skits and they like to walk around with the camera
and that's on them. I'm not. That's not my personality.

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Like I feel weird doing that. Yeah. Like it's just not. Now,
I know sometimes you just have to do certain stuff or whatever.
Might be shooting a skit or whatever with some people. So you might have to.
But me personally, like how I actually feel, it feels weird to just get up and
walk around places with my phone in my hand and be like, look at me doing fun
stuff. Wish you were here. Yeah.
But you know who has made it? who kind of like does

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have the blueprint down for that the whole social media thing and just being
interactive with people is Lance oh yeah Lance is great with it yeah but I don't
I don't even think that's an act when I go to the mall with Lance he's the same
guy he is on social media I'm like will you leave that person alone you don't
know them I don't know I don't know.
What is wrong with you? It's funny. No, yeah, but, yeah, shout out to Lance

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Woods, though, because Lance Woods actually helped me launch this podcast.
That's cool. Because, yeah, he was the very first guest that I had.
I was like, man, I'm just trying something new out, bro. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
So, I know it's all good, bro. I'll slide through. So, yeah,
no. Yeah, definitely shout out to Lance Woods, for sure.
Nah, Lance, that's my dog, for real. I have no idea why he even took me under
his wing, but he was one of the first people when I started.

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Because I remember I was going to do a comedy class.
He was like, man, you don't need that. just meet me at the club so so
i met him at uh strikes yeah he had a
show down there one night and i'm bowling alley yeah okay drew burke
show was down there and i went down there and i think it was uh him and it was
j rich drew and i can't remember who all else was on the show but i didn't know

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anybody in comedy but he uh i kept running into the land so and then i went
to that show and then i anything after that i think maybe two days later we
went to san francisco and he was He was like, you can roll with me.
I'm sitting there chilling in the back. He was like, good news, bro. I got you some time.
I'm like, I don't want no time. I've done one open mic, and that was two days ago.

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Oh, shit. I ended up going on stage. How did that set go?
Honestly, it went way better than I thought. Because I thought I was set up big time.
Because when he got me, he was like, I got you some time, bro.
I'm like, I'm back there pacing back and forth.
It's packed in this place. He's pacing back and forth.
And then he has Brian Hicks brings me out. And so it's Brian's room.

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And he's like, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to love this guy.
He's been crushing it all over the country.
Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up and put your hands together.
And in my head, I'm like, why did you put these expectations on me?
I've done three minutes, period.
But I went out there. I remember I did some hip hop joke I had back then.
And I did something else about when people in the club, when they step on your

(20:03):
shoes, And that's like, it's like hopscotch trying to go through the club,
not to step when you're in a black club.
And they loved that. And I was like, God bless. Good night. And I remember I was like, thank God.
Yeah, that's always bad, especially with like your, like you first start getting into stand up.
And like, like I said, with the, like, with the, like the, I call it like the

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next class, the next class up.
Like whenever they like give you like that time, you're like,
bro, I don't know if I'm ready for this.
It's always that kind of like that, that antsy feeling. I have no idea how this
is going to go and shit like that. Cause I think, um, so one comedian,
uh, Dave Gaskins, I don't even think he does stand up anymore,
but I ran into him like last week and stuff like that. But like, yeah, like I went to go.

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Sacramento punchline bro just to go just to check it out just to
support the show and comedy and stuff all like that he's like
bro i'm gonna get you some stage time i'm like no that's okay don't worry about it he's like
you play with me bro you play no i'm gonna get you some stage i'm gonna get
you some stage time i'm like nah bro you play you play it so i
went downstairs to those smoke with andre bailey and shit like that we just spoke
and then they still somebody's like just like hey buddy they looking for you
they look at me like well what did i do i didn't

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pay my check i didn't do nothing like nah
man you about to go up on stage bro you got like a minute to get up up here
so i'm over here got over here fucking smoking so i'm over running up as fast
as i can bro i'm over here jump on stage but i still got like the smoke in my
lungs i'm over here i'm over like coughing people just see the smoke they think
the capitol building on fire yeah it looks like.

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Like a monster was attacking like but i was
like this is not good at all man this is not good at all
but y'all learn from there always be prepared if somebody tells you to get
a stage time time yeah stage time so be
prepared for that oh yeah i think it was tony roberts he told
me if you show up at the club just be prepared just
in case so anytime i go to a club i at least go through a couple jokes in my

(21:49):
head just in case because it's been a couple times it's like somebody didn't
show up you're here like yeah all right let's do it yeah that's also a important
thing too man just showing up just showing up to support because you never know
what that could turn into and like you You say you have a brother.
I see you a lot on top of you hang out with like Lance and Tony Roberts and stuff like that.
I feel like that's like when I, just from my eyes, from my perspective,

(22:11):
I see like those are like the two like mentors or influences that really like kind of like.
You know, say somebody to take you under the wing and like teach you things
and stuff like that. Yeah.
So I told you me and Lance were cool. And then that just happened by association,
with Tony because Tony and Lance are like best friends.
So then we would all just end up hanging out or whatever. And he thought I was pretty funny.

(22:32):
So then he, he invited me to do a weekend with him.
It was all guest sets, but it was at a Tommy T's and a Rancho.
And I did pretty good that weekend and I
was that time I was only six months into comedy and I
forgot the lady's name they used to run it maybe you remember they used
to run they used to run the Tommy T's yeah so the white lady she

(22:53):
had them glasses but I don't remember her name it wasn't it sounds I feel like
it was like just like a two-letter name like in syllable like AJ or JD or something
I don't know I can't remember but yeah but yeah so she she saw me that weekend
and so she was like she hit me up maybe that Monday afterwards and I remember
I was at my job and she was like do you you want to do a weekend?
She's like, next weekend, we got Marsha Warfield coming in. So maybe you can

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just open up for somebody. Hell yeah, let's do it.
So then I go, I do, I do it. But then I get there. She don't know how young I am in the game.
She's like, just go up there and do maybe 12 minutes and then we'll bring Marsha
up. I got seven minutes to my name. Yeah.
So I go up there and I play it cool in front of her. I go upstairs and I'm just

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trying to put any notes or anything together. What was that one thing I thought about?
I saw some kind of way I powered through and got through that and made it through
the next line. And luckily, the second show got canceled.
So luckily, but I survived it. But yeah, it was it was rough at first.
But yeah, I don't know why Tony took a liking to me, but he did.

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So that's like Lance and Tony. Those are both my homies for real.
Yeah. So what's it like having those two type of guys?
Mentors uh influences in the game just like could
constantly be in your ear somebody that you could text to for advice on
how to handle the business because like i said as as as much
like the comedy scene up here is fucking strong like
there's a strong ass comedy scene for the aspect of just how many

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comedians there are and they're just how many like hitters
there are just like making moves but to have like probably like
the two the two biggest ones oh you know
in the city what's it to like having those two as like as i
said mentors people that you could like talk to
about shit and not even on the comedy team you just talk to about life yeah
no it's i say it's

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cool because like with lance i feel like they're both at
two totally different stages you know like tony isn't that like legend
status so he's been he's seen he's
done everything but lance is on his ass like
lance is coming up in the game big time so it's kind of
like i get to see what he would like the the finished product
and what you what it takes to get to that product but

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at the same time man like i'm more laid back
and quiet but we're all just clowns like when we
get together it's random we even talk about comedy we either cracking jokes
on each other talking about something totally unrelated to what we got going
on yeah and lance and tony is like herding cats they are they're all over the
place they're like they are best buddies we got like i'm on the road with them I'm like,

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good Lord, I'm taking care of children.
But those are the type of relationships that you want, like,
because you want to have those type of relationships with like comedians where
you don't have to be a comedian.
Like, OK, I could just be like I could just be Marcus right now or I could just
I could just sit back and be buddy around this person. I don't worry about being the fucking comedian.
Because I'm sure you've experienced like maybe a newer comic and he knows who

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you are, but he's putting on a show.
He's not being himself like that's annoying. annoying like yeah stop
trying to make me laugh just be funny naturally but
yeah i was thinking about that look at that guy huh
yeah yeah yeah
no yeah most definitely yeah yeah especially yeah especially when i was doing
the brooms last year what about this i might bro

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just go up to you what about this premise yeah
all these people saying in the audience those are the people you got to worry
about don't worry about my being bro just man you come up make sure
you're doing good make sure your head is on your shoulders bro and other than that
we could be cool and stuff like like that so you got
it so you went on you've been on the road with them you got any any interest
in any stories about being on the road with them that you could talk about or
just being on the road in general i've been done many many

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days but the one thing that did stick out tony gave
me an opportunity to go back to north carolina and perform in
front of my family and people i hadn't seen since i graduated high school when
they actually came out which was weird because you know i was a quiet dude in
school so i'm like it might be five people but nah probably maybe 30 to of 40
people throughout the weekend came through and checked me out. And it was cool though.

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I was like, for me, that was kind of like a dream because it's just like.
Being from a small town, go all the way to California and then get to come back with Lance and Tony.
You're not just like, hey, well, I got to do that one bar that one night.
That was fun. It's like, no, I'm coming back to a comedy club with two monsters.
So for me, that was great. So they was looking at you like, OK, that's that bar.

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Yeah, he's not full of shit. I thought it was live. I swear I did. It's California, boy.
That was Eddie Murphy. No idea. I've never seen it. That's how it is.
We don't do that up here. That's one thing I will say. When I say California,
it doesn't matter where.
They think I run into damn Britney Spears and Eddie Murphy and damn Kim Kardashian, that Rite Aid.

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I've never seen any of these people. I live in Sacramento. I see Slamson.
Yeah, I might be lucky. I might be lucky to run into one of the G League players.
Maybe a radio DJ, maybe somebody from 1025 if I'm lucky.
Keith but yeah maybe slams in his centerfolds but
other than that yeah yeah stealing his mascot stealing

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his mascot just get in a lap dance just hit no suit it's like this doesn't go
gotta relax even I need time shit that's funny man that was yeah this is just
a side story but like I used to be that I wasn't I used to be the mascot for
for golden one credit union,

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union so not like you know not like the kings but like golden
one check stuff no i was a
golden retriever that's what's up but we but i used to work a lot with samson
he that boy pretty fucking wild and stuff like he he was stuff i got fired though
because i was wearing laker socks one time to one of the promo events they was
like buddy man get it to the mascot i was all right cool man so i'm over getting

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they had no dress room for me or whatever so i'm like all right
this kid just right here. And I took him off. They was like, dude, Lakers socks?
I'm all like, well, yeah. Like, you know we're about to do some Kings promo,
right? I was like, I guess so. I was like, yeah.
But I'm a Lakers fan. I don't know what to do. That's what's up.
You're taking it too far. Took it too far. And they said, yeah, you can't come back.
He's repping the wrong set. They was all like, yeah, you got to keep that on.

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Yeah, you got to set tripping.
It's like, keep that on the low,
low. But you had to work through with the Kings. But you said earlier.
Bobby Jackson was the person that brought you out here and stuff like that.
Yeah. So what was that connection like?
I see you doing, like, not necessarily work with the Kings, but up at the G
League, the Stockton Arena, and all that stuff.
Yeah, so basically him and my uncle were best friends in high school,

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and I was just a kid on the sideline.
Like, I would watch them go play ball. They would play every day,
and they played on the same high school team together.
And Bobby told him, he said, if I ever make it,
actually make it, I'm gonna come back for you so
not me he told my uncle that I will come back for you so
once he got once he got to Sacramento my uncle

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was just like kind of like in a rut in my life
I just want to start over completely and Bobby said I remember what I told you
I got you so he brought my uncle out my uncle was out here probably four years
before I even came to California and then I came out here to visit him and I
don't know it was just it was just I think Sacramento was the The first place I ever went to,

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I wasn't like, I'm ready to go back home.
Because most of the time I would be like, yeah, I had fun in D.C.
I had fun in Atlanta. That was cool. But I'm going to get my ass back home.
This was like one of the first places I came to. I was like,
you know, I actually like it out here. Like, I might stay a couple extra days.
So I thought I just kept going back and forth, back and forth.
And I'm not going to lie. It didn't hurt having an NBA friend.
You know, they gave me all kind of perks.

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I don't have on the right clothes. Who cares? Come in the club.
Now I got to wear a damn Easter suit to go in the right age.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know, just being out here was different
in the vibe. And I was just like, let's give it a shot.
So that's when my uncle, he ended up going back because he still had his son back in North Carolina.

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But for me, I was just like, this is a fresh start. I don't have any kids,
so let's do it. So that's why I'm here now.
Yeah. I go like, this is a true story. Like, I actually had a name drop you
one time and stuff like that because I ran into, well, Bobby Jackson likes to party.
Bobby Johnson likes to party.

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And I ran into him. I ran into him at a... I can't remember what the name of
the bar was. Faces. No, not Faces. It was at Folsom.
Powerhouse, I think it was. Oh, yeah. I ran into him at Powerhouse.
I was like, Bobby, man, Bobby. He's like, yeah, yeah, it's Bobby.
It's like, man, you know my boy Marcus, man. That's my boy right there.
He's like, oh, yeah, for sure. Come party with us, bro. Come party with us. Oh, yeah.

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You owe me a drink buddy I do owe you a drink me, Bobby, some drinks and some snow bunnies.
Folks, y'all trying to get killed. Get out of there. What are you doing?
Bobby's like six something, so ain't nobody attacking Bobby.
Then I was just pretending to be the security up until that point.
So once I got in, nobody was like, fuck, it would be a shoot.

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But yeah, dude, I'll owe you a drink next time. I appreciate that.
I had to name drop you one time.
I was like, yeah, Bobby, man, Marcus is my dude right there.
He was like, oh yeah, for sure, man, come party with us, bro.
Come get some drinks. I was like, for sure. We up in here.
He was also up at Chris Webber. You know Chris Webber as well?
Yeah, but that just came from being with Bobby back in the day.

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At that time, Bobby was married, but Webb wasn't.
So we were used to going out all the time, but then when Bobby and his lady
got serious, he stopped going out.
Webb was like, well, I ain't married, so if y'all want to go out, we can still go out.
So me and my uncle started going out with him, and we just ended up building
a friendship to how we ended up being cool.
But I feel like a lot of it is just like personality, because he's laid back, I'm laid back.

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He's super into music. I am too. So we've just all had that connection.
And also, I've never been like, not trying to be arrogant about it,
but I've never just been like, oh, my God, it's Chris Webber.
I've just never had that in me.
If anything, I talk crazy to him, and that makes him like me more.
Like, you can't talk to me like that. Why not?
You treat him like a human and stuff like that. A lot of people are like,

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oh, my God, it's a Sacramento legend, Chris Webber.
But he's just all like that. Yeah, then I'll be like, oh, look at me.
I'm here for Chris Webber. Who cares? Can we go? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is, that's always cool when you could have that type of,
that dynamic with people. Because like I said, it could be just being somebody in that spotlight.
I can imagine it like a lot of people just trying to get something from you.

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So when there's somebody that comes around you where they can be like,
oh, I can just genuinely connect with this person. I can sit back and chill.
This person don't want nothing from me except just good convo.
Those are the type of relationships that you want in this business.
I think that's something I learned from Bobby, though. Just being on the outside
and watching him, like coming up.
From the Kings to start and into retirement.
And just seeing how people treat you and how things go and how you can be on

(33:59):
top of the world and everybody loves you and as your popularity goes, so do they.
You get back popular, they come out of the wood where, hey, remember me?
Hey, I didn't forget about you.
And it made me realize none of it's real, man.
And I know Bobby has the same problems that everybody else. I watched him.
I was there with him all the time.
And same arguments, same everything.

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You just got money now. You got the same problems. them so that's
why i look at them the same way like just you know before
that you would look at movie stars and be like man they got it made
whatever whatever they at work yeah they at work that is not fun they're like
leave me alone bro don't talk to me right now bro i'm over here trying to i
mean it looks like like i'm memorizing lies and it looks fun but like no this

(34:41):
is work or even even award shows like they think it's so great i'm working i'm
trying not to mess this up i'm
trying to not have a terrible look. I don't want to be a meme tomorrow.
Yeah. Because my shoulder sleeve came down or something stupid.
Like, it's a lot more than people don't even think about. Yeah.
No, yeah, I've seen some shit on some movie sets, man, where people just be,

(35:03):
like, stressing out, just yelling.
I'm all like, God damn, man, we're supposed to be making a movie.
I thought we were the jury, but no, we just at work.
And then soon as they say, cut, start the movie, there you go.
It's a totally different person.
Yeah, yeah, totally different people, man.
What are your goals and aspects? Do you want to, like, get to that level in the comedy game?

(35:25):
Like do you eventually want to like be in movies
and all that good jazz honestly it
sounds dumb but i i go back and forth because i do love comedy but sometimes
i feel like i probably want to get into writing and be more behind the scenes
because i do love the comedy but just sometimes it's a lot just because it's
just not my personality like we were talking about like i'm not the look at me guy.

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And a lot of times you have to be that sometimes i don't feel like being that
guy but it's part of the job.
So it's kind of like, but I also think it's maybe a learning process for me.
Like it is a job, like just turn it on, do your 30 minutes or whatever you got
to do. And then you're done.
But people don't realize like, yeah, I'm only doing 30 minutes,
but I've been thinking about this 30 minutes since I opened my eyes this morning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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And then once I get off the stage, I'm going to be thinking of that 30 minutes again.
It's going to be a whole different tone of voice. I'm like, man,
I missed this tagline. I could have done this better.
I could But it's definitely a lot that goes into the whole process of just trying
to knock out that 30 minutes. Yeah.
So, so you don't, so you, you go back forth, which I totally get, I totally get.

(36:35):
That's one reason why I started this whole podcast, just because I was all like,
man, I'm not like the social, like we were going back to like the whole social
media aspect and stuff like that.
But people are just all like, you got to have something, you got to do something.
So I was like, all right, shit, I guess I'll just, everybody else is doing a podcast.
Let me just start up this train and just see where it goes. But it's also been

(36:55):
beneficial for me, just like I say, from hearing the perspective of other people just like us.
Because like I said, we all like how you were just saying, like,
we all go through the same things in life outside of the comedy game.
It's all the same. So just seeing what other people's perspective is,
it helps put like that perspective in me too.
Just all like, okay, this whole entire like fame or whatever you may be.

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Because I feel like a lot of times it's something that people outside of the business put on you.
They kind of put that aspect on you. And you're like, man, you got to be doing
this. You should be doing this. I'm like, no, I just got to be me.
I just got to be me. I just got to be chilling. And everybody has a bright idea
what you should do with your life.
Yeah. You don't do any of this stuff you tell me to do.
You should get up at 7 and do this. You don't do any of that.

(37:41):
But is that easy the way you're telling me you do it? Yeah.
You ain't never wrote a joke for you to give me a tag.
You ain't never been on an audition to tell me I shouldn't be in this movie.
Be you a i was like yeah let me just let me just do me because you know it's
it's this whole this whole idea like
being like this hollywood stuff and everything like that man it could be.

(38:03):
Hectic it could be a lot so no i definitely get where
you're talking about just doing the whole behind the scenes so that's why i
was trying to start it last year like just trying
to produce more just produce more produce more produce because i was like that
seems more like on the behind the scenes type of detail like even if i don't
want to have to host the show i mean at least producing it i'm still involved
in some type of aspect but i don't know gotta be in the limelight don't gotta

(38:25):
be in the spotlight to where now afterwards everybody's coming up to me like
oh And then they want that attention because, man,
my social battery be done after a while.
Yeah, I'll be honest. Like when I do weekends, I'm done because I'm just not
normal, like not speaking and being the mayor and shaking hands and kissing
babies. So when I'm done, I'm done.
Like Monday, I'm like, it's over. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah.

(38:48):
Yeah, I was going to ask that because like what, like after like doing like
so many shows, do you have like that kind of like, I want to say like that wind down period?
Like I'm just, I'm just like, I'm just not doing nothing today. day yeah
i will have those one day not not many but yeah
if we like on the road for a minute or something that one that
day after i'm chilling because i'm mentally i'm
done and i just want to get back focused and then the next day let's go get

(39:10):
them but i need me at least one day to chill but even after shows like i can't
just come home and get in the bed like i don't care if it was a good show or
a bad show like i can't just go to sleep like that adrenaline doesn't cut off
for a minute you just be you just be laying down you just eyes wide open and
then like the second you you close up,
you'd be thinking of something and then you just right back to being alerted. You'd be like, ah, damn.
I'd be feeling like I'd be like the laziest woke person ever.

(39:35):
I'd be wanting to not do anything, but then just the way my brain operates,
I'm like, I don't know, I gotta get up, I gotta do this, I gotta write this
tag that I just found out about this.
Or, you know, I'm like, now I gotta try to find the next job.
Where's the next gig coming from? It's just...
I begin to wind down and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm the same way, though, sometimes.
Like, I need to just chill for a second. Next thing I know, I'm knee-deep in

(39:56):
something on YouTube. I'm like, I didn't rest at all. Yeah. Yeah.
And that especially do with this, because, like, whatever I talk to,
like, most people, I'm like, well, what do y'all do to, like,
you know, just to relax and wind down?
But, oh, I watch TV and stuff like that. I was like, well, shit,
I can't really just sit back and watch TV or watch anything,
because that still just puts my

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mind right back into the whole aspect of entertainers and stuff like that.
I'm all like, now I'm over here studying the actor, the way they're working,
or if I just want to sit back and watch a comedy show or just watch some jokes
or just hear somebody tell some jokes on YouTube, I'm all like,
damn, that's a good tag. I could do this.
Analyzing it. Yeah, it's totally different. So the whole wind down, it can get tricky.

(40:40):
So I just got to do nothing. And I don't smoke weed no more either,
so then that's the other aspect of it too. So now I'm just really like, just staring.
Yeah, just staring up into the world. I'm like, why he did it and stuff like that.
And then so, oh, yeah, one thing I wanted to talk to you about and stuff was the movie Ballbusters.
Yeah. Was that your first time working on like a movie? It was. It was. Yeah. Okay.

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So how that even came about, my boy, Chris Michael Hawley, he had hit me up randomly.
I was at my job at the time at Lexus. It was like, hey, man,
they got these auditions at Comedy Spot.
If you want in, you better come down here. And I'm like, I got to at least try.
But I'm like, I never acted at all. Like, I didn't know anything.
So I come down there and they ask me, they just say, do stand up.

(41:27):
They do maybe 10 minutes of stand up. So I do stand up.
And they had me do a couple of scenes or whatever to see if I would work out
for this role or that role. A couple of them I did terribly on.
Oh, and Lance came with me. So we both went out there.
And basically I just did my set or
whatever Lance did a couple things and it was
kind of like kind of like a little mini talent show they were

(41:49):
doing yeah yeah so some of them were like real deal actors I could tell I'm
like why am I even in this they got headshots they got a resume they got a monologue
what is this super proper I'm like I don't know what's happening right now but
it was cool I honestly I just did that I did a couple minutes of stand-up and
maybe two minutes I mean Two days later,
I just get a call and it was like, hey, can you come do the such and such at McClellan Airport?

(42:12):
I was like, all right, let's do it. Even when I got there, I had no idea what
was going on. Here's the makeup chair.
I'm like, okay. It's like makeup. No, no, no.
I don't do makeup. What do you know about makeup? I'm like Paul's,
but I want to make the movie.
So, yeah, that's pretty much how it came about, man. He just looked,
um, Holly looked out for me and it ended up working out, you know.

(42:33):
And so what did you do on the, um, on the movie set? Oh, I was a security guard. Okay.
So, uh, I just got to, I got to toss a couple of people out the door. That was about it.
But I don't know. It was cool though. It was like just being on the scene,
just seeing how, like how many times you have to shoot and trying to make it
look natural when it's not natural.
And like Jerry O'Connell was like, good job. because I actually tossed his ass out the door.

(42:58):
So way to throw me around. It's like, make it look real. I was like,
all right, get your ass out of here. I'm going to kick his ass real quickly.
But yeah, I just thought the whole experience was good. You know,
like it was funny just being on set and seeing how everything actually works.
The guy with the boom mic, he dropped the shit accidentally.
So then we had to reshoot the scene again. It was just like,
I don't know. It was just cool for me to experience of it.

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Did y'all have lunch on set? uh afterward we
had to wrap uh dinner i guess oh oh
y'all had to after yeah that's that's that's one thing i know whenever
i'm like i determine what a good movie set is by the lunch like if it's a good
lunch you should i'm like all right cool we could i don't care what goes wrong
whatever may be wrong as long as they got good lunch and a good craft service
i'm like we can we could chill i'll be out here eating it's all good and stuff

(43:43):
like that but no shout out to christopher michael Hawley,
because funny story is Christopher,
or Chris, he actually cast me in my very first movie.
It was a movie called, what was it called? Oh, Left and Loose in the Lock.
It was this definitely looking at uh yeah.

(44:04):
Left and loose but i'm getting naked out here left and loose in the line it was just.
It's like a truck stop movie oh my word it
was a lot close close no it was this it was a stoner movie it was a stoner movie
man it started like at the time it was the two biggest djs that was on uh one
one oh two five so it was the specialist then waney wayne and they was just

(44:28):
basically So there was two stoner security guards at this parking lot complex.
And I was just one of the stoner kids or whatever. We were just chilling.
And they ended up stealing like our snacks and shit like that.
But that was, that was, that was, man, that was, I remember like,
because he gave me my very first lines in a movie.
He was like, is that your hand shaped like a gun?

(44:50):
And like, that was my first line in a movie.
But like, we went to, went to go check out the movie premiere.
And I brought like my folks and a couple of my friends and we watched that shit.
I was like, damn, buddy, you in a movie and shit. That's dope as shit.
And then when, and then once it came out on DVD, I had like a big,
like, like a house party to like watch that shit.
And the whole entire scene that I was in got cut out.

(45:13):
So you was at a house party. So I was just at a house party just watching this shit in the building.
And I knew it too because like the scene where I was in where I was supposed
to, where I was supposed to come up, it just like jumped and then I went to
something else and I was just all like, got me. I was like, I got to get out of here.
I put my mom to the side and I'm like, hey, I'm leaving. I was like,
we're at your party. We're watching your movie. I'm like, no,

(45:33):
I'm not in it. That's what's up. She's like, what do you mean? I'm like, I'm not in it.
I was like, I'm not in the movie, man. They cut me out. They cut me out.
So I just took off pissed. I was mad. They going to be like,
that was a good-ass movie. I'm like, shut up.
But yeah, no, shout out to Christopher Hawley because, yeah,
he put me on first movie. And we're both alumni from Wheatland High School as well. Okay. Yeah.
He used to have a little party animal in him back in the day. He used to cut a rug.

(45:57):
I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it. Yeah. I've seen some of the pictures
from him in high school and stuff like that. I was like, yeah,
he probably, yeah, he used to get me. Shout out to.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, in fact, because I did an open mic out in Yuba City,
and somebody had just said, oh, man, you look like Christopher Hollis. I'm like, no, I don't.
You just think all black people look alike. It's all good. No, not at all.

(46:20):
Oh, yeah, I used to party. We partied. All right, cool.
We could party, but I'm not him. I mean, nothing close to him.
It's just like that. But, oh, yeah, speaking of Yuba City, man, shout out to Paul.
He'll love that. Paul Nixon he loves
attention no yeah every time every time we link up and
brother it's a show or whatever we gotta do we gotta you know for Paul so shout

(46:42):
out to Paul or even when I did your show out in Napa he just pulled up out of
nowhere I'm sorry Paul and you're not even surprised not even surprised at all
but yeah so shout out to Paul just for shout out to Paul just for being Paul
for being you Paul shout out to you I remember,
first time I met Paul was at was at how's this happening.

(47:03):
We gonna do a whole segment on Paul real quick shut up first time I met Paul
was at we was doing the comedy burger show,
oh okay at Ongayo's thing and I did a joke about Yuba City and he just pulled
me to the side like he was like the mafia and shit he's like so you from Yuba City huh,
I'm like no maybe I don't know it's like nah man it's all good I'm from Yuba

(47:27):
City too man you do your thing you do your thing Oh, yeah. So shout out to Paul.
You just made his life. Yeah. Shout out to Paul. I'll try to bring Paul on,
too. He'll bring a guest on this. Oh, my God.
That's the homie right there, for sure. But, oh, yes.
Before we do wrap up the whole podcast and all that good jazz,

(47:47):
one thing that I always do when I bring people on is we do what was called the
Mount Rushmore, which is basically your Mount Rushmore of comedians.
And then, so yeah, I'll try to put you on the spot, but yeah,
no, I'm trying to think as soon as you said that.
I'd say for sure Pryor, he's on there. Pryor's on there.

(48:09):
Eddie's on there. People get mad at me for saying that, but it's my life.
Chris Tucker's on there for me. Okay.
Because I would say he's a huge influence on me. Just that movie Rush Hour.
I'm not an outgoing person, but I felt like if I was, that would be me.
I would talk as much shit as he did in that movie. And I feel like that is me. That's me.

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Let me see. Who else? Who else? I don't know.
Honestly, I got to put Tony Roberts on there. Yeah, I have to.
Like, stage or at home watching TV. He's one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life.
He said some of the craziest stuff for no reason that I've ever heard.

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So he's definitely going to be up there.
Am I in my cross? I got one more? You got one more. Let me see. Let me see.
Oh uh it's more
i would say it's more tv than stand up but
i have to say red fox okay i think sanford
the sun is one of the greatest tv shows i've ever witnessed because

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for it to be made in the 70s and be
funny right now is amazing and i
don't mean just like little giggle like i can watch episodes now
and be like that's hilarious real so that has
he's he's my last member of the the top all right
no i ain't mad at that list what do you sound about like with chris tucker i definitely
get what you're saying as far as like there's always like

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that one comedian that we look at it would be all like that
makes us look at it it would be like oh okay i can do that i could definitely
do that as shit so you know i definitely get what you're saying with chris tucker
and then one thing that i always find interesting which is why i always do like
this whole mount rushmore thing is when i like especially like with comedians
there's always like some somebody always names drop like a comedian that is
like i don't want to say like like local, but like somebody that's like within our atmosphere,

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like how you say like with Tony Roberts and stuff like that,
that accessibility and stuff like that, which again speaks to just the whole aspect of.
Man, how strong the comedy scene is up here because it's not,
because it's a legit, it's a legit top four.
Like, putting Tony Roberts up there with those people, it's a legit thing, you know?
But then, like, say, to be able to, like, they, like, they, like, they, like, right here.

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Like, we ain't got no choice but to grow and, like, if you have the opportunity
to grow, learn from them because then eventually, man, 10, 15,
20 years from now, shit, you're going to be on somebody's Mount Rushmore.
But, like, with Tony, like, most people wouldn't even have paid attention to it.
It was one of the first shows I did with him at Cobb's and it was mostly white
and I could tell like he wasn't nervous but I know Tony mostly does black crowds

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so Tony goes out there and it was the shortest joke but it made everybody fall
out he said I saw a white lady with yellow teeth she looked like a devil egg,
the whole place fell out from that short
little joke and from there he killed the rest of the
night but it's just like something that little short like you can have dudes
to write an hour our joke and don't get that laugh that he got from that one

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joke yeah because white people love like i get it i get it you're right you
might be all of a sudden dude talk about barge yeah.
You know her shit yeah no you don't so that's um no that's definitely what's
up man that's definitely cool so so yeah so we had you said it was was it eddie

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murk no richard pryor yeah And then it was Murphy.
Was it Murphy? No, it wasn't Murphy. No, it was Murphy. You said Murphy.
So did you do five people?
So I was like, well, you were looking at me. I'm like, OK, well,
my bad. So, yeah, well, the black route rush for me.
Somebody else. So, yeah. OK. Yes. Oh, yeah. You always bring one person extra.
They don't tell you. Oh, yeah. So I brought my homeboy.

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You got a girl. You got a girl for my homie.
All right the show all right cool so yeah
so yeah we are gonna wrap up this episode like i said this episode was
brought to you again by the comedy cash cow competition so
if you are a stand-up comedian or know a stand-up comedian that wants to win
a thousand dollars and start in their own movie go to www.comedycashcow.com

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right now it takes place may 25th at vacaville california did you sign up for
it yet uh not yet not yet okay i'll send you the link after we all right hopefully
Hopefully I got the inside track.
Yeah, yeah. I know the guy putting it on. Yeah. Who is that? Who is that?
But yeah, yeah. So yeah, the Comedy Cash Cow competition is going down May 25th.
Where can people find you at?

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I'm going to be at the Pink Martini April 10th. And I'm going to be at Be Bubbly
April 18th. That's in Napa.
So if you can make the Pink Martini that's in Rockland, come check me out April
10th. And April 18th in Napa, Be Bubbly Tasting Room. Come check me out.
And then any social media links where they can follow you at?
Instagram, follow me at Marcus Mangum Comedy.

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Or on Facebook, the same, Marcus Mangum Comedy. All right, cool.
Now, you can follow me at Yeah Buddy Entertainment or at Funny Business Comedy.
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