Steve Takes Clifford Harris To School

"Heavy is the head that wears the crown."  The Original King of Comedy has a specific message for "The King of the South" about jokes. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So Steve Ti is trending for being booed
during his comedy set at the Barclays Center, and he
went live with Michael Blackson saying that he liked being booed.
Take a listen. I loved it. I didn't feel like
they were boring me. I felt like they were boring
me as like, dare you to be more funny? I
dare you. I dare you to overcome this. I dare

(00:21):
you to do better? And I feel like that what
they challenged me to do, and I did. I loved it. Okay,
you comediens on this show. No, no, you don't very difficult.
They told me, No, you don't know, you don't, because
who the hell love being booed? And then I didn't

(00:44):
feel like they were booing me. Who who? You think
they were boring? I think they was challenging need to
do better. That's what the booing. Its fault. We don't
bought our tickets. You said you was funny, now we're
waiting on it. It's just that he's he's learning this
very very difficult craft in large arenas because he has

(01:05):
a name going in so he's on shows. That's that
that's got to sell out capacity written all over for
whatever the reason. Whether he's with the other bigger name comedians,
well all of them got a bigger name than him
in comedy. But he's got a huge name as a
star in hip hop. But that serves you nothing. Maybe

(01:26):
maybe you should wrap and then maybe try to drop
a joke in between a couple of songs. I'm just traveling.
I'm telling me this, let's just stop. Let's yeah. What
you say, Junior, They told me get your ass off
steaks comments I was, I saw the tape. You learned

(01:54):
this craft in the grunt rooms. You got to get
up in front of them audiences, man, and you're first
fifteen tries. Can't be at the Barclay. Sorry, because you're
gonna come out there, man, because here's a problem. In
order to be successful, you're gonna have to learn how
to produce house laughs. House laughs is when eighty five
percent of the room is laughing at a particular joke.

(02:16):
That's how you earn a living. If you're not producing
an occasional house laugh, you can't stay on this stage.
Now you're in the room. Let's say you're at the
Barclays and the Barclays is five thousand people. You've told
a joke that a thousand people laugh at. Man, do
you know how many people that is ain't laughing? So, now, homie,

(02:36):
you got a problem because you're trying to dig yourself
out of a hole in front of these four thousands,
who is starting to get the feeling that you ain't funny.
And what's less was I saw the joke he told
about going into this high end gas station and how
women need to use the battle. I saw that joke,
and that joke didn't get five hundred people laugh. Like

(02:57):
I said, this ain't the craft you can learn on
the fly in front of big houses. All right, Well,
moving on, coming up at thirty four minutes after the hour,
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