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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Everybody is d j Envy Jess hilarious, Charlamagne, the gud
we are the Breakfast Club just is on maternity leave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So long the Roses feeling in and we.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, indeed, Blakies and gentlemen, we have Damon Wayne's junior.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome, Thank you, bos, thank you man. How you feeling, brother,
I'm feeling all right. All right? When did the when
did just have a baby?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Like three years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
About two months?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Tratulation leaves back, shorty.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I always went a wians, right, are you born into
the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot like
everybody Illuminati?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You definitely don't get here. They're definitely walking right in now.
I don't know Illuminati. Yeah, man, how do you get there?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Illuminati?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But you know what I'm saying, y'all, y'all been successful
for so long?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh so SUCCESSI yeah, its it takes it, you know. Yeah,
you kind of just walk in at this point. Yeah.
But you know, I'm a conspiracy theorist, so really with illuminatis.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I thought the conspiracy theory, the conspiracy theories did like
the whole illuminati.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Isn't that a conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What illuminati? Illuminati is a conspiracy? I don't attach myself
to that, Like what the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Conspiracy theories? I'm like that that's what you're.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, I'll be on I'll be on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'll be looking at what is the conspiracies about the
Waynes brothers have the Wayne's family been so successful for
so long.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know if there's a conspiracy. I think it's
just it's just family working together, you know. I feel
like that's what we all should be doing. Absolutely, you
know what I mean? Like I feel like black people
learn best by example, and so you have a bunch
of examples and you just copy on.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Let's talk about the pressure.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Did you study every member of your family? Like, did
you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you watch everything
your dad was in? You watch everything Marlin was in?
Like I'm talking since you was a child, like study
everything that they did.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean, I watched this uff that I like, there
was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I don't remember remember the glimmer Man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
My dad, uncle Keen did a movie with Steven Sagne.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Glimmer Man is that what is called?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I remember that bla Man.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, I watched Black Man because I was in it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We've got a picture of you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh my god, you crazy. No, that's so cool. Yeah,
he glimmer Man.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't even know what you're talking about. The glimmer
Man it was. I don't remember this.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I definitely remember Glimmer Many.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I missed that one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah man. Yeah. The comedy yeah, I like the comedies. Yeah.
I like Don't Be a Man's is one of my
favorite classic love major pain classics. I love uh the
movie with Jada Pinkett and Uncle keenan uh shame, So
I love tho. Those look like my top classics. Yeah,
(03:15):
and Black Man because I was so who.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The every day working class Wings, every day working any
everything where.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We got a bunch of working class Wings. We got
a big ass family. So there's like a lot of
people that are just as funny as everybody, but they
just don't feel like, you know, going through the Hollywood ship.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But do they just work? Do they work on the
set or do they have we have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Something that work on the set? You know, we got
I love it, yeah, we got we got uh. Uncle
Shawn's right.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
The show. Kim the showrunner.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, how you know, Oh yeah, because this guy he
lived here. You know, my I got my daughter works
on the set. She's ah, she's a standing for essence
Adkins character.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And she'd be writing on the show too. She's great. Yeah,
she's Now we.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Got to talk about the pressures of being a wams.
I mean, because is impression of Pop's uncle family cousins, like, yeah,
is there any pressure?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, I don't feel like. I don't feel like there's pressure.
I mean maybe in the beginning. In the beginning, it
was like I used to I used to have a
h an aliens when I went on stage, Kyle Green.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Really yeah, and no one guessed it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You look you look like like the middle of my
punches back. You look just like your damn daddy, And
so I had to change it just to damon you know.
But really I was just trying to get my bearings,
you know, trying to like get on stage, and I
be like coming to stage, Damon Wayne's son, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Have you never got something because you a Wayne, Like
it was like a part of the family.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now maybe I don't know, they don't you know. That's
all that behind the scenes stuff. But you know they
let you in. They'll let you in just because they
want to see you, you know, like Da Wayiams when
I first started. So I got into some rooms and
shout out to my family for make it easier for me.
You know a lot of people, you know, they get
(05:04):
a they frowned on the NEPO baby thing. I think
it's great. I think it's like I don't either. I mean,
I feel like it's a business. This is a business,
just like any other business. If there's a you know,
a car manufacturer and then you pass it down to
his son, stuff like that, It's just that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I think what y'all done a phenomenal. I was phenomenal.
I was driving on the West Side yesterday and I
started digital billboard for Papa's house and they got a
billboard out there. Yeah, but it was you and your pops.
And I was just like man number one, the og demon,
when has been getting it for a.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Long, long long man is that man is a killer.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And it's nothing cooler than being able to do what
you love to do with your son. Like everybody, we
love what bron and Ronnie doing. I give it up
for y'all too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, man, I mean I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We've had a really good time so far. We shot
like eleven already and you know, it finally came out
last night, and I'm just hoping, you know, people keep
watching and seeing because it gets funnier and funnier.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The pilot is a good It sets the stage, sets
the characters. But we had a lot of suits. You know,
they were like kind of like making sure that we
did with what they wanted us to do. And then
as time went on, they've let us spread our wings
and now we get to just be ridiculous and funny
and heartfelt, and you know, I love it. I love
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seeing my dad every damn day.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well what is Papa's House about?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
For people that don't know, because yesterday, yeah, yeah, So
Papa's House is basically about a papa who's a popular
morning radio DJ and really yeah a little bit, a
little bit, and he is a He lives alone, he's
happily divorced. He basically lives his dream of solitude until
his son, who was like an immature, needy guy, moves
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in next door to him with his wife and his
two kids and just kind of turns Papa's life upside down,
and that's basically the long and short of it. We
were toying with the idea of calling it raising Damon
because it's like, you know, you think it's him raising me,
but then it you kind of see that Papa needs
him raising too. You know. It's a lot of old
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school versus new school views. I think it's really cool,
you know, I think it's I think my goal for
the show is to bring back black comedies. You know, Like,
had I known that, you know, the nineties, in the
early two thousands, like we're never going to be again,
(07:27):
you know, like there were so many options we had.
We had we had Fresh Prince of bel Air, living single,
we had so many options on so many different channels.
And had I known that we're going to have like
nothing for like, you know, over a decade, I would
have appreciated it more, you know, family matters.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Nobody can explain to me why that went away, because
it's not like all all those shows were super successful.
So what happened in Hollywood that they just flipped this
what you said, we don't want no more of this,
Let's do reality television.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't know. I feel like they always use They
always use black people to kind of build up the
platforms and then just do away with them. You know,
you're you know the living single friends thing, the u
PN remember upn Absolutely they use all them shows Jamie
Fox Show to Marlon Wayne Way, the Wayne's brothers. Come
(08:22):
on now. They had all these damn shows.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Your Pop, Your pop show to my wife and kids.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My wife and kids. I didn't want to say that
because that was that I love my wife and kids.
But like they had some We had so many shows,
and I feel like, now what we have, we have Abbot,
we have the neighborhood. Is there anything else?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Now? You know, there was a there was a resurgence,
but a lot of them grown. Oh yeah yeah growing insecure,
right Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Insecure was great. I'm talking about to come now like
they don't ever. Yeah, like the sitcoms like Network TV,
I feel like it's you know, it's far and few between,
and I just hope that, you know, maybe the show
gets popular enough to be like, oh, let's bring more
of those, you know what I mean? I love it
because I feel like people need to see black people
(09:19):
enjoying themselves, black people making each other laugh, Black people
making the world laugh.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know how much of this show is just improv
off the script because I know it's based on like
you guys are really about to move next door to
each other or something.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
At one point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a lot
of it's improv you know. But we we have a script,
but we definitely do whatever we want because you know,
it's my dad's show and he'll just let people play
and so we having fun. You know, I like, I
like to improvise, but you know there's certain characters that
like to just do the script, and they're fine doing
the script, but everybody's having fun.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Are you good at taking notes or both? Are you
and your dad good at taking notes?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Me? Yeah, yeah, I'll take notes. I mean I take
I like constructive criticism, right, I mean my dad that's
how he raised me. You know, this dude is the
most brutal critic of all time. I did I did
years ago. I did what was it called Deaf Comedy Jam.
They did Deaf Comedy Jam. I was like twenty five,
(10:17):
twenty six, and I got standing ovation. Like I was
nervous as hell. I got standing ovation. I did really well.
I get off stage. He comes up to me. He
goes any think it did son? And I go, uh,
I don't know, like eight nine, he's like seven and
a half. And he just walks off. There was no content,
no nothing, no notes, no notes, just out do better.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, how do you feel with your dad doing
stand up?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And you know he would talk about you guys and
stand up and of course he talks about you, you know,
masturbating house at that time.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I wait that question, you lit up. Yeah, boys got louder.
How was that just for you as a kid when
your dad used to tell them stories?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It was? Uh. That one specifically was embarrassing because I
remember one time I was I was like hooking up
with this girl or about to hook up with there,
and she was like, wait a minute, are you the
guy that does the thing with spaghetti? And I was
just like what And then she plays me a clip
of the freaking video of him just you know, talking
(11:26):
about me going spaghetti again. I'll be right back, and
you know I didn't get any that day, so yeah,
it messed me up.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Did you not get any? Because she wanted you to
do the spaghetti trick right then and there and he
was like no.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I was like I'm not gonna. I'm like, you can
do this spaghetti trick. Yeah, no, she just she just
wanted to laugh at She just laughed. It was very embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, y'all got a Gregory Ons on the set. Yeah, right,
the Legend album from the Coffee Show.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Gregory Jeffrey, Jeffrey his voice, and no, his name is
spelled weird, spelled g Yeah, yeah, geof.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And you don't want to call him Elvin because it's respectful.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, we got we got him.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Do you do you pick their brain? Like do you
sit around and have conversations with him about how you
know things work back then?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Not really, but he's He and I have a lot
of scenes together. We just shot an episode together. It
was just kind of he and I and my wife
on the show, and we just have so much fun together.
He's so ready to play, he's so you know, just
happy to be there and I'm happy to have him there.
And it's just very like he's just such a he's
a Shakespearean actor. So it's like really cool to see
(12:39):
him in his element. Like we did something in this
in that episode specifically for him to shine, and and
he really did. It's really funny.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Do you think you have an appreciation for history being
that you're surrounded by it? I mean, you're making your
own right, but you're always I mean your whole life.
I'm sure Eddie Murphy or Senior Hall, Robert town Than
who were just there, Like, so, do you have a
his appreciation sport? Because to bear with me, I couldn't
shut the fuck up. I'm asking a million questions.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, you know, my dad kind of instilled in me
not bothering famous people. Like I I see them, and
I give them a respect, but I'm also like, you know,
you do your thing. You know, I don't want to.
I don't want to ask you the question that I
know thousands of people ask you, Like I see Eddie
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and I just like I'm in awe. But I'm also
not gonna like show him that I'm in awe, you know.
So I don't really I don't like bothering famous people.
But we did used to have a lot of fun,
you know. We My dad said that, you know, when
when I was a kid, that he used to invite
that Eddie used to invite him and his family on
their little yacht parties, right, and my dad would have
(13:50):
to go on there with his you know, his wife,
and and me as a kid, I was like two
years old, maybe three, and and Eddie would be sitting
there like, man, this is this is nice? Man like
loking at my family, like see this is what I want.
I want this. I'm gonna go fu some bitches, and
like he'd leave and my dad would just be on
the boat by himself with his family, and there'd be
like a bunch of girls there and stuff like that,
(14:10):
a bunch of celebrities, and it was really cool, you know.
And I remember one time, well, my dad told me
that he said.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That that's what I want anything.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I want that, Yeah, that's what Dad. Definitely, he was
like I want that. But but Emmanuel Lewis, you know
manuelies Webster, he was you know Lewis. Yes, So he
was on the boat right one time, and uh and
he was like dress fly. He had a suit on,
had a watch and a little dude watch a little
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dude and I and I as a baby, was confused
because I'm like, you thought he was a big baby.
I thought he was a big baby. I'm like, why
how do you know all them big words? Why? How
you who gave you a watch. You know, I'm like
following him around the whole the whole yacht, trying to,
you know, see what's up with him. You know, just
like you got a kid on the boat who gave
(15:04):
me them shoes, you know, well your die brat, you know,
always remember I was too no, he just told me
walking around following him everywhere. He was like, come on, man,
go he was like trying to shoot me away, mame
man his naptime. That's funny.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
So what is the you guys always keep Essence Atkins books.
I know she's in Papa's house. She plays doctor Ivy Green.
What what's the chemistry with her in the Waynes family? Like,
can you talk a bit about that? And a decision
to bring her on this show?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Right, Well, first of all, Essence Adkins keeps herself booked
like that woman is a phenomenal comedic actress, phenomenal actress period.
But she's also like really funny. And initially my dad
didn't want her to be on the show because Uncle
MoMA was like, yo, you gotta put it home. You know,
she's really funny. I don't know what you're doing, you know,
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and and my dad was like, kind of you know, like, no,
he she was on your show. I don't want to
have that on my show, like leave it alone. And
then finally he, you know, he was like come in
and read. And she went in and like from the
moment she walked in the door, she was killing us,
like just so funny, like before she even said a
word of the audition, she came in, killed it, killed it,
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left and she was the first person up to so
everybody yet like she just sucked all the energy out
the room and there was just like no one was
gonna do or top that. So, you know, so Essence
keeps herself look like she's just phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You also see the change of comedy, right because you've
seen everything your family has done right from blank Man
to Living Color, and you think comedy can go back
there without people getting insulted about getting offended taking things personal.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean I feel like, but.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
The blank Man offensive though, I feel like I feel
like blank Man was like pretty chill.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't remember. I have to go back and watch
it again because what I because what we didn't think
was offensive. Now when you back be like, oh yeah,
that would everybody?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How do you get away with all that, don't give
a fuck.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Like gotta keep going, yeah, you know, treating almost like comedians, right,
like I'm not a comedian, but you gotta treat it
like that. Like now you don't know you crashed that
you crash, that's true. I'm not trying to crash, but
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's true, and that's what like, you know, like that's
what got you to where you are. You know, the
same with you like you guys, like I really I.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Missed those shows.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I missed colored shows and those shows that pushed the
line and pushed the.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, I don't know, I blame I blame Judd Appatitle.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm always down to blame the white man for something.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So I mean, this is a conspiracy theory, but I
don't think he did it intentionally. But I feel like
it started with super Bad, Like super Bad came out, classic,
super funny, and then and I feel like after that
it was just no more black stuff, no more black movies.
Like it was just like you know, they're like we
(18:08):
got it from here, niggers. And then they did all
their you know that it was like Jewish comedies like
starring Jewish people, Jewish young guys which were really funny,
Like I love forty year old version, I love Bridesmaids,
I love super Bad. But I feel like it like
just went that way, and then there was no more
black comedies, Like they don't make them anymore. Have you
(18:29):
noticed that.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I wonder if it's because because I think about what
you're saying all the time, because I love the tone
of all the movies. I even put get them to
the Greek in Neck. I wonder if it's because they're
willing to take more risks. We like, there's a lot
of things that they do in their comedy that I
feel like some Black people wouldn't necessarily.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I disagree. I say, I'm saying the opportunities not there.
I'm sure you know there's like a bunch of black
comedies being written. They're just not being shot. They're not
they're not being given to black comedians.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But I think he's asking, would like some of our
big name black comedians, would they take those roles that
are going to push those boundaries because it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Could offend what boundaries?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I mean, people are offended by everything nowadays, So it
depends on who you're talking about, what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, it's a lot like back in the day when
you look at the liver color and all of that
stuff like that, they weren't afraid to pretend to be gay.
They weren't afraid they will addresses. Yeah, I'm not saying
you gotta wait to jet, but they weren't afraid to
push the limits. Right, there's things that I feel like
there's black people wouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, I mean, now you just get critiques for everything.
But I think if it's funny enough, like they'll let
you do it, you know, like like we let Robert
Downel Junior get away with black face because it was funny, right,
And but I don't think he could do that now.
I don't feel like, I don't feel like anything is
I don't feel like I don't even know if super
(19:48):
Bad could get away with being super bad. Now. Maybe
super Bad, but like forty year old version, I'm not sure. Right,
Like these nerds, not even nerds, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Nerds is rape though, now when.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You I haven't, I haven't, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, I mean it seems like you know the guy
when the guy uh dressed up the girl thought it
was her boyfriend, but it was a whole other guy.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's rape.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So I mean it's kind of like I feel like
people are just way too aware and and and way
too sensitive, you know what I mean, Like leave room
for comedy. I feel like comedy is experimental, it's not
it's not the entire truth. It's like grains of truth.
It's someone's truth potentially, but in the reality, the goal
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is to make you laugh, you know. And I feel
like people shouldn't be watching stuff ready to be offended.
You should be watching stuff trying to laugh. If you're
watching a comedy, if you want to laugh.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
By the way, it's not even just comedy though. I
think about back in the day, like why was Q
in high school fucking the nurse and juice? They even
give us the next name no reason. I think about that,
Why was this nerves just fucking?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I bet you, I bet you. There was like a
storyline that they just didn't have time to explore. They
probably had to cut it.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You know, are you guys gonna like cause I don't.
I feel like it's a lot of it. Like the
networks know that people will be offended, so they try
to stay away even if they want to try it right,
but in Papa's house, like you guys have Essence Atkins
who's kind of coming in and your dad is like
the old school person who he's like aware of the boundaries,
but it doesn't really care. And she's like, you're gonna
have to care. Are y'all going to kind of play
(21:34):
around with that a little bit more and take those risks?
Or is the network like we can be cute with it,
but like no, cause your dad be willing to go
all the way there.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh he goes there all that time. Didn't he get
in trouble on your on your show years ago?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I watched that last night.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Resurfacing things for no reason.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, they put my picture during that whole contry.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Everywhere. I was like, he didn't say, guess what of
his father?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That was crazy?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
What you're gonna push those boundaries on the show.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yes, we are, We we have and I think that
you know, once the the the suits the CBS saw
that we know what we're doing, they kind of like,
let us play, you know what I mean? Like, and
you'll see each episode gets funnier and funnier and funnier,
and you know, and the characters are get more and
more well rounded. We deal with like real issues too,
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which is kind of weird to have like serious scenes
and stuff like that, but we we do that too,
which just makes the comedy funnier. And I love what
we're doing right now. Man, It's it's it's very unique,
especially on CBS. Like we're definitely making CBS uncomfortable with
the choices we're making, which I think is great because
we're pushing the envelope. It's like we got we were
competing against streaming now copia, against network shows that go
(23:04):
for it. So it's like there's no time to really
just play it safe.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
What are you teaching your father, because well, you know
we all with my father. You gotta be teaching him
something like because you know, your experience is totally different
than his experience.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
All you teaching him anything?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I don't know, you know, I don't I really maybe
be a little nicer, I don't know, I don't know,
is he nicer. I feel like he's getting nicer. He's
getting he's getting nicer. You know, he's uh, you know,
he's cranky sometimes, but that's just how he's always been,
you know, but then he you know, he has uh
(23:40):
you know has he has really high highs. Like if
you make him laugh, you can get him out of
a bad move. That's how we used to get out
of spankings. Make him laugh.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, tell me the close encounter, like what's the club Like,
I'm talking about the belt, the ass about to be
and you come with that fire joke that made him
put the belt down.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So he used to swing the belt with you know,
like some people like fold the belt. He used to
fold the belts. It would just be like long right,
like a whip, like a whip. Yeah, And so when
he was about to hit me, I was like, don't
get my thing dank and like help my stuff. And
then he just laughed because they would wrap around sometimes
and hit the tip. You know, he didn't hit us
(24:22):
a lot. That's when we did when he did wait, yeah,
but he was you know, he got he got his
as whip when he was little, so he didn't really know.
But he didn't hit us a lot. I can name.
I can you know kind of on one hand, how
many times I gotta.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Ask you're drinking soda and water? This morning?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I had to I had a long day yesterday. Yesterday
was long. So I don't even drink soda like that.
Like if my dad said this, he's gonna be pissed.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The solda's the caffeine and water is the healthy.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Water is to flush it out. Caffeine used to wake
me up, you know what. I don't like. Coffee makes
me you know ship. Yeah, I'm a problem with that coffee.
I don't even drink like that. I had two glasses
of wine yesterday and I'm messed up right now.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Jesus, she had about seven and she's still fine.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Not seven glasses of wine. Seven shots, like three glasses
of wine last night.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but you were youngster, you could do that.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
But what I do is I hydrate while I'm doing
it makes it easier.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. Do you like salt? Like little Celtic salt that
you put salt in the in the water is supposed
to really get into your bloodstreamers heard? I never heard
of that.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Are you ever afraid to work with your pops because
you know that he just like sabotaged his SNL situation
and just walked purposely did things to get fired. Do
you ever think that he might do that again?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I don't. I think he's I think he's more
patient now. I think he's I think he just wants
to make a good show and spend time with his
family doing it. Like I feel like this is like
what he likes doing. And so I don't think he's
going to jeopardize that. Yeah, I mean that, you know,
(26:09):
maybe ten years ago maybe, but like now, I feel
like he's just like chill and and just having fun.
Like we just be laughing the whole day. It's just
I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And when you know you talked about you know, Sean
writing on the show, and you know your aunt Kim
being a showrunner. Do y'all even look outside of the family.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Now, we have a lot of people that are from
our outside of the family too. Like there's like twelve
thirteen writers on the show.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
You said they know you guys though, right, Like they're like, yeah,
we all.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Know their family friends. Like the showrunner. We the showrunner
wrote Major Pain with my dad. He wrote on my
wife and Kids with my dad. So the strangers get
a chance, strangers get a chance to I got some
strangers in there.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Sounds so crazy. We got some strangers in, man, y'all
are doing it. The way black people should do it.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I agree, and I think that, you know, and we're
not bringing in stragglers, like, we're bringing in people that
contribute to the project. They're not just being like they're
not just there because their name is Wayne's. They're actually
like contributing and being really good Keenan juniors in the
writer's room, which is he's so damn funny, My brother
Michael the writer's room. It's just great. Man. I don't know,
(27:24):
this is the closest thing I've come to being on
a show that I have control over, right, Like I
always kind of envy my family because like the first generation,
because they got to come in as themselves, Like this
is who we are within living color, Like this is
who we are, take it or leave it. This is
funny to us. Like I've been an actor for hire
(27:44):
my entire career, so I've been funny in spots. But
you can only be as funny as they allow you
to be. And so I love that this is kind
of like the next best thing. You know, it's still
my dad's baby, but I get to contribute a lot,
and he's very collaborative. So damon gotta go.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Gus with two more questions when did you feel like
you started to make your own name for yourself and
people started saying that that's not Dami Wayne's son, that's
actually Damion Wayne.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I feel like when I had the Happy Ending show
and then I booked the New Girl show at the
same time, right, and so there was like a whole
uproar about that, and I that that was pretty cool
because Happy Endings was my first the first show I
ever auditioned for, and then New gro was the second
show I ever auditioned for, so right, I felt like
(28:31):
I was like, oh, I got there's something, you know,
I got something and uh, and then after that, I
just felt like I can do my own thing.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Are you gonna be part of the toy that they're doing?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're doing the tour.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Ain't know about the comedy tour.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No together, I'll be telling me nothing. I'm second generation now.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
They barely told us.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We just thought saw that clip. I think.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I saw that you coposed.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I know what I was gonna say, is I think
it's something else. I don't think it's a tour. I
think it's I can't say but what I think it is.
But if it is what I think it is, it's
gonna be fire.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
We know that, but like, like it just have to
be something immortalize the Wings.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think like the Wings needed thirty for thirty. Like
you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That'll be dope, But do they do that for I never? Yeah, first, yeah,
I mean it'll be dope, but no, it's gonna be
it's a what it's uh, it's either like it's like
something on TV or film. I think I think what's
it called? I don't know. I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You might say too much.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
As soon as it drop, he's gonna be the whole
and he's gonna be like he.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Was in here like he but I gave more than
he did.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But this is your time to shine this math what
they did you last time, it wasn't even here and
they put your picture on things.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You're strong. No, I can't say because I don't I
don't know if it's true. Because if I say something
is wrong true and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So they don't even tell me that much. I hear
like whispers, my family is just gossiping ass family man.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Well, Saluthor, you've continuing to carry the torch.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The right way and command in salute to y'all man,
because like I came here, I forgot how money? How
many years ago?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
At least over a decade?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah yeah, and then to see what you guys became
is just fucking phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Poppa's House Monday's eight thirty on CBS, make sure you
check it out.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You can stream it on Paramount Plus as well, and we.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Appreciate you for joining us, brother, Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Damon Waynes Junior. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning. The
Breakfast Club
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Everybody is d j Envy Jess hilarious, Charlamagne, the gud
we are the Breakfast Club just is on maternity leave.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So long the Roses feeling in and we.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, indeed, Blakies and gentlemen, we have Damon Wayne's junior.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome, Thank you, bos, thank you man. How you feeling, brother,
I'm feeling all right. All right? When did the when
did just have a baby?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Like three years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
About two months?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Tratulation leaves back, shorty.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I always went a wians, right, are you born into
the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot like
everybody Illuminati?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You definitely don't get here. They're definitely walking right in now.
I don't know Illuminati. Yeah, man, how do you get there?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Illuminati?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But you know what I'm saying, y'all, y'all been successful
for so long?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh so SUCCESSI yeah, its it takes it, you know. Yeah,
you kind of just walk in at this point. Yeah.
But you know, I'm a conspiracy theorist, so really with illuminatis.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I thought the conspiracy theory, the conspiracy theories did like
the whole illuminati.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Isn't that a conspiracy?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What illuminati? Illuminati is a conspiracy? I don't attach myself
to that, Like what the.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Conspiracy theories? I'm like that that's what you're.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, I'll be on I'll be on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'll be looking at what is the conspiracies about the
Waynes brothers have the Wayne's family been so successful for
so long.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know if there's a conspiracy. I think it's
just it's just family working together, you know. I feel
like that's what we all should be doing. Absolutely, you
know what I mean? Like I feel like black people
learn best by example, and so you have a bunch
of examples and you just copy on.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Let's talk about the pressure.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Did you study every member of your family? Like, did
you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you watch everything
your dad was in? You watch everything Marlin was in?
Like I'm talking since you was a child, like study
everything that they did.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean, I watched this uff that I like, there
was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I don't remember remember the glimmer Man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
My dad, uncle Keen did a movie with Steven Sagne.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Glimmer Man is that what is called?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I remember that bla Man.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, I watched Black Man because I was in it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We've got a picture of you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh my god, you crazy. No, that's so cool. Yeah,
he glimmer Man.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't even know what you're talking about. The glimmer
Man it was. I don't remember this.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I definitely remember Glimmer Many.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I missed that one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah man. Yeah. The comedy yeah, I like the comedies. Yeah.
I like Don't Be a Man's is one of my
favorite classic love major pain classics. I love uh the
movie with Jada Pinkett and Uncle keenan uh shame, So
I love tho. Those look like my top classics. Yeah,
(03:15):
and Black Man because I was so who.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The every day working class Wings, every day working any
everything where.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
We got a bunch of working class Wings. We got
a big ass family. So there's like a lot of
people that are just as funny as everybody, but they
just don't feel like, you know, going through the Hollywood ship.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But do they just work? Do they work on the
set or do they have we have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Something that work on the set? You know, we got
I love it, yeah, we got we got uh. Uncle
Shawn's right.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
The show. Kim the showrunner.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, how you know, Oh yeah, because this guy he
lived here. You know, my I got my daughter works
on the set. She's ah, she's a standing for essence
Adkins character.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And she'd be writing on the show too. She's great. Yeah,
she's Now we.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Got to talk about the pressures of being a wams.
I mean, because is impression of Pop's uncle family cousins, like, yeah,
is there any pressure?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, I don't feel like. I don't feel like there's pressure.
I mean maybe in the beginning. In the beginning, it
was like I used to I used to have a
h an aliens when I went on stage, Kyle Green.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Really yeah, and no one guessed it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You look you look like like the middle of my
punches back. You look just like your damn daddy, And
so I had to change it just to damon you know.
But really I was just trying to get my bearings,
you know, trying to like get on stage, and I
be like coming to stage, Damon Wayne's son, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Have you never got something because you a Wayne, Like
it was like a part of the family.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Now maybe I don't know, they don't you know. That's
all that behind the scenes stuff. But you know they
let you in. They'll let you in just because they
want to see you, you know, like Da Wayiams when
I first started. So I got into some rooms and
shout out to my family for make it easier for me.
You know a lot of people, you know, they get
(05:04):
a they frowned on the NEPO baby thing. I think
it's great. I think it's like I don't either. I mean,
I feel like it's a business. This is a business,
just like any other business. If there's a you know,
a car manufacturer and then you pass it down to
his son, stuff like that, It's just that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I think what y'all done a phenomenal. I was phenomenal.
I was driving on the West Side yesterday and I
started digital billboard for Papa's house and they got a
billboard out there. Yeah, but it was you and your pops.
And I was just like man number one, the og demon,
when has been getting it for a.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Long, long long man is that man is a killer.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
And it's nothing cooler than being able to do what
you love to do with your son. Like everybody, we
love what bron and Ronnie doing. I give it up
for y'all too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, man, I mean I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
We've had a really good time so far. We shot
like eleven already and you know, it finally came out
last night, and I'm just hoping, you know, people keep
watching and seeing because it gets funnier and funnier.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
The pilot is a good It sets the stage, sets
the characters. But we had a lot of suits. You know,
they were like kind of like making sure that we
did with what they wanted us to do. And then
as time went on, they've let us spread our wings
and now we get to just be ridiculous and funny
and heartfelt, and you know, I love it. I love
(06:21):
seeing my dad every damn day.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well what is Papa's House about?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
For people that don't know, because yesterday, yeah, yeah, So
Papa's House is basically about a papa who's a popular
morning radio DJ and really yeah a little bit, a
little bit, and he is a He lives alone, he's
happily divorced. He basically lives his dream of solitude until
his son, who was like an immature, needy guy, moves
(06:46):
in next door to him with his wife and his
two kids and just kind of turns Papa's life upside down,
and that's basically the long and short of it. We
were toying with the idea of calling it raising Damon
because it's like, you know, you think it's him raising me,
but then it you kind of see that Papa needs
him raising too. You know. It's a lot of old
(07:07):
school versus new school views. I think it's really cool,
you know, I think it's I think my goal for
the show is to bring back black comedies. You know, Like,
had I known that, you know, the nineties, in the
early two thousands, like we're never going to be again,
(07:27):
you know, like there were so many options we had.
We had we had Fresh Prince of bel Air, living single,
we had so many options on so many different channels.
And had I known that we're going to have like
nothing for like, you know, over a decade, I would
have appreciated it more, you know, family matters.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Nobody can explain to me why that went away, because
it's not like all all those shows were super successful.
So what happened in Hollywood that they just flipped this
what you said, we don't want no more of this,
Let's do reality television.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't know. I feel like they always use They
always use black people to kind of build up the
platforms and then just do away with them. You know,
you're you know the living single friends thing, the u
PN remember upn Absolutely they use all them shows Jamie
Fox Show to Marlon Wayne Way, the Wayne's brothers. Come
(08:22):
on now. They had all these damn shows.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Your Pop, Your pop show to my wife and kids.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My wife and kids. I didn't want to say that
because that was that I love my wife and kids.
But like they had some We had so many shows,
and I feel like, now what we have, we have Abbot,
we have the neighborhood. Is there anything else?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Now? You know, there was a there was a resurgence,
but a lot of them grown. Oh yeah yeah growing insecure,
right Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Insecure was great. I'm talking about to come now like
they don't ever. Yeah, like the sitcoms like Network TV,
I feel like it's you know, it's far and few between,
and I just hope that, you know, maybe the show
gets popular enough to be like, oh, let's bring more
of those, you know what I mean? I love it
because I feel like people need to see black people
(09:19):
enjoying themselves, black people making each other laugh, Black people
making the world laugh.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You know how much of this show is just improv
off the script because I know it's based on like
you guys are really about to move next door to
each other or something.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
At one point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a lot
of it's improv you know. But we we have a script,
but we definitely do whatever we want because you know,
it's my dad's show and he'll just let people play
and so we having fun. You know, I like, I
like to improvise, but you know there's certain characters that
like to just do the script, and they're fine doing
the script, but everybody's having fun.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Are you good at taking notes or both? Are you
and your dad good at taking notes?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Me? Yeah, yeah, I'll take notes. I mean I take
I like constructive criticism, right, I mean my dad that's
how he raised me. You know, this dude is the
most brutal critic of all time. I did I did
years ago. I did what was it called Deaf Comedy Jam.
They did Deaf Comedy Jam. I was like twenty five,
(10:17):
twenty six, and I got standing ovation. Like I was
nervous as hell. I got standing ovation. I did really well.
I get off stage. He comes up to me. He
goes any think it did son? And I go, uh,
I don't know, like eight nine, he's like seven and
a half. And he just walks off. There was no content,
no nothing, no notes, no notes, just out do better.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
You know, how do you feel with your dad doing
stand up?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And you know he would talk about you guys and
stand up and of course he talks about you, you know,
masturbating house at that time.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I wait that question, you lit up. Yeah, boys got louder.
How was that just for you as a kid when
your dad used to tell them stories?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It was? Uh. That one specifically was embarrassing because I
remember one time I was I was like hooking up
with this girl or about to hook up with there,
and she was like, wait a minute, are you the
guy that does the thing with spaghetti? And I was
just like what And then she plays me a clip
of the freaking video of him just you know, talking
(11:26):
about me going spaghetti again. I'll be right back, and
you know I didn't get any that day, so yeah,
it messed me up.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Did you not get any? Because she wanted you to
do the spaghetti trick right then and there and he
was like no.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I was like I'm not gonna. I'm like, you can
do this spaghetti trick. Yeah, no, she just she just
wanted to laugh at She just laughed. It was very embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, y'all got a Gregory Ons on the set. Yeah, right,
the Legend album from the Coffee Show.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Gregory Jeffrey, Jeffrey his voice, and no, his name is
spelled weird, spelled g Yeah, yeah, geof.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
And you don't want to call him Elvin because it's respectful.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, we got we got him.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Do you do you pick their brain? Like do you
sit around and have conversations with him about how you
know things work back then?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Not really, but he's He and I have a lot
of scenes together. We just shot an episode together. It
was just kind of he and I and my wife
on the show, and we just have so much fun together.
He's so ready to play, he's so you know, just
happy to be there and I'm happy to have him there.
And it's just very like he's just such a he's
a Shakespearean actor. So it's like really cool to see
(12:39):
him in his element. Like we did something in this
in that episode specifically for him to shine, and and
he really did. It's really funny.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Do you think you have an appreciation for history being
that you're surrounded by it? I mean, you're making your
own right, but you're always I mean your whole life.
I'm sure Eddie Murphy or Senior Hall, Robert town Than
who were just there, Like, so, do you have a
his appreciation sport? Because to bear with me, I couldn't
shut the fuck up. I'm asking a million questions.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, you know, my dad kind of instilled in me
not bothering famous people. Like I I see them, and
I give them a respect, but I'm also like, you know,
you do your thing. You know, I don't want to.
I don't want to ask you the question that I
know thousands of people ask you, Like I see Eddie
(13:27):
and I just like I'm in awe. But I'm also
not gonna like show him that I'm in awe, you know.
So I don't really I don't like bothering famous people.
But we did used to have a lot of fun,
you know. We My dad said that, you know, when
when I was a kid, that he used to invite
that Eddie used to invite him and his family on
their little yacht parties, right, and my dad would have
(13:50):
to go on there with his you know, his wife,
and and me as a kid, I was like two
years old, maybe three, and and Eddie would be sitting
there like, man, this is this is nice? Man like
loking at my family, like see this is what I want.
I want this. I'm gonna go fu some bitches, and
like he'd leave and my dad would just be on
the boat by himself with his family, and there'd be
like a bunch of girls there and stuff like that,
(14:10):
a bunch of celebrities, and it was really cool, you know.
And I remember one time, well, my dad told me
that he said.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That that's what I want anything.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I want that, Yeah, that's what Dad. Definitely, he was
like I want that. But but Emmanuel Lewis, you know
manuelies Webster, he was you know Lewis. Yes, So he
was on the boat right one time, and uh and
he was like dress fly. He had a suit on,
had a watch and a little dude watch a little
(14:43):
dude and I and I as a baby, was confused
because I'm like, you thought he was a big baby.
I thought he was a big baby. I'm like, why
how do you know all them big words? Why? How
you who gave you a watch. You know, I'm like
following him around the whole the whole yacht, trying to,
you know, see what's up with him. You know, just
like you got a kid on the boat who gave
(15:04):
me them shoes, you know, well your die brat, you know,
always remember I was too no, he just told me
walking around following him everywhere. He was like, come on, man,
go he was like trying to shoot me away, mame
man his naptime. That's funny.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
So what is the you guys always keep Essence Atkins books.
I know she's in Papa's house. She plays doctor Ivy Green.
What what's the chemistry with her in the Waynes family? Like,
can you talk a bit about that? And a decision
to bring her on this show?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Right, Well, first of all, Essence Adkins keeps herself booked
like that woman is a phenomenal comedic actress, phenomenal actress period.
But she's also like really funny. And initially my dad
didn't want her to be on the show because Uncle
MoMA was like, yo, you gotta put it home. You know,
she's really funny. I don't know what you're doing, you know,
(15:57):
and and my dad was like, kind of you know, like, no,
he she was on your show. I don't want to
have that on my show, like leave it alone. And
then finally he, you know, he was like come in
and read. And she went in and like from the
moment she walked in the door, she was killing us,
like just so funny, like before she even said a
word of the audition, she came in, killed it, killed it,
(16:19):
left and she was the first person up to so
everybody yet like she just sucked all the energy out
the room and there was just like no one was
gonna do or top that. So, you know, so Essence
keeps herself look like she's just phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You also see the change of comedy, right because you've
seen everything your family has done right from blank Man
to Living Color, and you think comedy can go back
there without people getting insulted about getting offended taking things personal.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I mean, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I mean I feel like, but.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
The blank Man offensive though, I feel like I feel
like blank Man was like pretty chill.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I don't remember. I have to go back and watch
it again because what I because what we didn't think
was offensive. Now when you back be like, oh yeah,
that would everybody?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How do you get away with all that, don't give
a fuck.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Like gotta keep going, yeah, you know, treating almost like comedians, right,
like I'm not a comedian, but you gotta treat it
like that. Like now you don't know you crashed that
you crash, that's true. I'm not trying to crash, but
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That's true, and that's what like, you know, like that's
what got you to where you are. You know, the
same with you like you guys, like I really I.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Missed those shows.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I missed colored shows and those shows that pushed the
line and pushed the.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, I don't know, I blame I blame Judd Appatitle.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm always down to blame the white man for something.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So I mean, this is a conspiracy theory, but I
don't think he did it intentionally. But I feel like
it started with super Bad, Like super Bad came out, classic,
super funny, and then and I feel like after that
it was just no more black stuff, no more black movies.
Like it was just like you know, they're like we
(18:08):
got it from here, niggers. And then they did all
their you know that it was like Jewish comedies like
starring Jewish people, Jewish young guys which were really funny,
Like I love forty year old version, I love Bridesmaids,
I love super Bad. But I feel like it like
just went that way, and then there was no more
black comedies, Like they don't make them anymore. Have you
(18:29):
noticed that.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I wonder if it's because because I think about what
you're saying all the time, because I love the tone
of all the movies. I even put get them to
the Greek in Neck. I wonder if it's because they're
willing to take more risks. We like, there's a lot
of things that they do in their comedy that I
feel like some Black people wouldn't necessarily.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I disagree. I say, I'm saying the opportunities not there.
I'm sure you know there's like a bunch of black
comedies being written. They're just not being shot. They're not
they're not being given to black comedians.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But I think he's asking, would like some of our
big name black comedians, would they take those roles that
are going to push those boundaries because it.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Could offend what boundaries?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I mean, people are offended by everything nowadays, So it
depends on who you're talking about, what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, it's a lot like back in the day when
you look at the liver color and all of that
stuff like that, they weren't afraid to pretend to be gay.
They weren't afraid they will addresses. Yeah, I'm not saying
you gotta wait to jet, but they weren't afraid to
push the limits. Right, there's things that I feel like
there's black people wouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, I mean, now you just get critiques for everything.
But I think if it's funny enough, like they'll let
you do it, you know, like like we let Robert
Downel Junior get away with black face because it was funny, right,
And but I don't think he could do that now.
I don't feel like, I don't feel like anything is
I don't feel like I don't even know if super
(19:48):
Bad could get away with being super bad. Now. Maybe
super Bad, but like forty year old version, I'm not sure. Right,
Like these nerds, not even nerds, which is crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Nerds is rape though, now when.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You I haven't, I haven't, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Yeah, I mean it seems like you know the guy
when the guy uh dressed up the girl thought it
was her boyfriend, but it was a whole other guy.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's rape.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So I mean it's kind of like I feel like
people are just way too aware and and and way
too sensitive, you know what I mean, Like leave room
for comedy. I feel like comedy is experimental, it's not
it's not the entire truth. It's like grains of truth.
It's someone's truth potentially, but in the reality, the goal
(20:40):
is to make you laugh, you know. And I feel
like people shouldn't be watching stuff ready to be offended.
You should be watching stuff trying to laugh. If you're
watching a comedy, if you want to laugh.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
By the way, it's not even just comedy though. I
think about back in the day, like why was Q
in high school fucking the nurse and juice? They even
give us the next name no reason. I think about that,
Why was this nerves just fucking?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I bet you, I bet you. There was like a
storyline that they just didn't have time to explore. They
probably had to cut it.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You know, are you guys gonna like cause I don't.
I feel like it's a lot of it. Like the
networks know that people will be offended, so they try
to stay away even if they want to try it right,
but in Papa's house, like you guys have Essence Atkins
who's kind of coming in and your dad is like
the old school person who he's like aware of the boundaries,
but it doesn't really care. And she's like, you're gonna
have to care. Are y'all going to kind of play
(21:34):
around with that a little bit more and take those risks?
Or is the network like we can be cute with it,
but like no, cause your dad be willing to go
all the way there.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh he goes there all that time. Didn't he get
in trouble on your on your show years ago?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I watched that last night.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Resurfacing things for no reason.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, they put my picture during that whole contry.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Everywhere. I was like, he didn't say, guess what of
his father?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That was crazy?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
What you're gonna push those boundaries on the show.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yes, we are, We we have and I think that
you know, once the the the suits the CBS saw
that we know what we're doing, they kind of like,
let us play, you know what I mean? Like, and
you'll see each episode gets funnier and funnier and funnier,
and you know, and the characters are get more and
more well rounded. We deal with like real issues too,
(22:39):
which is kind of weird to have like serious scenes
and stuff like that, but we we do that too,
which just makes the comedy funnier. And I love what
we're doing right now. Man, It's it's it's very unique,
especially on CBS. Like we're definitely making CBS uncomfortable with
the choices we're making, which I think is great because
we're pushing the envelope. It's like we got we were
competing against streaming now copia, against network shows that go
(23:04):
for it. So it's like there's no time to really
just play it safe.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
What are you teaching your father, because well, you know
we all with my father. You gotta be teaching him
something like because you know, your experience is totally different
than his experience.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
All you teaching him anything?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I don't know, you know, I don't I really maybe
be a little nicer, I don't know, I don't know,
is he nicer. I feel like he's getting nicer. He's
getting he's getting nicer. You know, he's uh, you know,
he's cranky sometimes, but that's just how he's always been,
you know, but then he you know, he has uh
(23:40):
you know has he has really high highs. Like if
you make him laugh, you can get him out of
a bad move. That's how we used to get out
of spankings. Make him laugh.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, tell me the close encounter, like what's the club Like,
I'm talking about the belt, the ass about to be
and you come with that fire joke that made him
put the belt down.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So he used to swing the belt with you know,
like some people like fold the belt. He used to
fold the belts. It would just be like long right,
like a whip, like a whip. Yeah, And so when
he was about to hit me, I was like, don't
get my thing dank and like help my stuff. And
then he just laughed because they would wrap around sometimes
and hit the tip. You know, he didn't hit us
(24:22):
a lot. That's when we did when he did wait, yeah,
but he was you know, he got he got his
as whip when he was little, so he didn't really know.
But he didn't hit us a lot. I can name.
I can you know kind of on one hand, how
many times I gotta.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Ask you're drinking soda and water? This morning?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I had to I had a long day yesterday. Yesterday
was long. So I don't even drink soda like that.
Like if my dad said this, he's gonna be pissed.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The solda's the caffeine and water is the healthy.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Water is to flush it out. Caffeine used to wake
me up, you know what. I don't like. Coffee makes
me you know ship. Yeah, I'm a problem with that coffee.
I don't even drink like that. I had two glasses
of wine yesterday and I'm messed up right now.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Jesus, she had about seven and she's still fine.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Not seven glasses of wine. Seven shots, like three glasses
of wine last night.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but you were youngster, you could do that.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
But what I do is I hydrate while I'm doing
it makes it easier.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah. Do you like salt? Like little Celtic salt that
you put salt in the in the water is supposed
to really get into your bloodstreamers heard? I never heard
of that.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Are you ever afraid to work with your pops because
you know that he just like sabotaged his SNL situation
and just walked purposely did things to get fired. Do
you ever think that he might do that again?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
And I don't. I think he's I think he's more
patient now. I think he's I think he just wants
to make a good show and spend time with his
family doing it. Like I feel like this is like
what he likes doing. And so I don't think he's
going to jeopardize that. Yeah, I mean that, you know,
(26:09):
maybe ten years ago maybe, but like now, I feel
like he's just like chill and and just having fun.
Like we just be laughing the whole day. It's just
I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
And when you know you talked about you know, Sean
writing on the show, and you know your aunt Kim
being a showrunner. Do y'all even look outside of the family.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Now, we have a lot of people that are from
our outside of the family too. Like there's like twelve
thirteen writers on the show.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
You said they know you guys though, right, Like they're like, yeah,
we all.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Know their family friends. Like the showrunner. We the showrunner
wrote Major Pain with my dad. He wrote on my
wife and Kids with my dad. So the strangers get
a chance, strangers get a chance to I got some
strangers in there.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Sounds so crazy. We got some strangers in, man, y'all
are doing it. The way black people should do it.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I agree, and I think that, you know, and we're
not bringing in stragglers, like, we're bringing in people that
contribute to the project. They're not just being like they're
not just there because their name is Wayne's. They're actually
like contributing and being really good Keenan juniors in the
writer's room, which is he's so damn funny, My brother
Michael the writer's room. It's just great. Man. I don't know,
(27:24):
this is the closest thing I've come to being on
a show that I have control over, right, Like I
always kind of envy my family because like the first generation,
because they got to come in as themselves, Like this
is who we are within living color, Like this is
who we are, take it or leave it. This is
funny to us. Like I've been an actor for hire
(27:44):
my entire career, so I've been funny in spots. But
you can only be as funny as they allow you
to be. And so I love that this is kind
of like the next best thing. You know, it's still
my dad's baby, but I get to contribute a lot,
and he's very collaborative. So damon gotta go.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Gus with two more questions when did you feel like
you started to make your own name for yourself and
people started saying that that's not Dami Wayne's son, that's
actually Damion Wayne.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I feel like when I had the Happy Ending show
and then I booked the New Girl show at the
same time, right, and so there was like a whole
uproar about that, and I that that was pretty cool
because Happy Endings was my first the first show I
ever auditioned for, and then New gro was the second
show I ever auditioned for, so right, I felt like
(28:31):
I was like, oh, I got there's something, you know,
I got something and uh, and then after that, I
just felt like I can do my own thing.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Are you gonna be part of the toy that they're doing?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're doing the tour.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Ain't know about the comedy tour.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No together, I'll be telling me nothing. I'm second generation now.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
They barely told us.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We just thought saw that clip. I think.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I saw that you coposed.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I know what I was gonna say, is I think
it's something else. I don't think it's a tour. I
think it's I can't say but what I think it is.
But if it is what I think it is, it's
gonna be fire.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
We know that, but like, like it just have to
be something immortalize the Wings.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think like the Wings needed thirty for thirty. Like
you know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That'll be dope, But do they do that for I never? Yeah, first, yeah,
I mean it'll be dope, but no, it's gonna be
it's a what it's uh, it's either like it's like
something on TV or film. I think I think what's
it called? I don't know. I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
You might say too much.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
As soon as it drop, he's gonna be the whole
and he's gonna be like he.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Was in here like he but I gave more than
he did.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
But this is your time to shine this math what
they did you last time, it wasn't even here and
they put your picture on things.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You're strong. No, I can't say because I don't I
don't know if it's true. Because if I say something
is wrong true and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
So they don't even tell me that much. I hear
like whispers, my family is just gossiping ass family man.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Well, Saluthor, you've continuing to carry the torch.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The right way and command in salute to y'all man,
because like I came here, I forgot how money? How
many years ago?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
At least over a decade?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah yeah, and then to see what you guys became
is just fucking phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Poppa's House Monday's eight thirty on CBS, make sure you
check it out.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
You can stream it on Paramount Plus as well, and we.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Appreciate you for joining us, brother, Thank you man.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
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