October 23, 2024 • 30 mins
The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Damon Wayans Jr. To Discuss Making His Own Name, Resurgence Of Black Sitcoms, And Dad's Discipline. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everybody is d j Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the gud
we are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Justice on Maternity leaves along the Roses. Feeling in and
we got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, indeed, thankies and gentlemen, we have Damon Wayne's junior.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome, Thank you boss, Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
How you feeling, brother, I'm feeling all right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All right? When did the when did the just have
a baby?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like three years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
About two months?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Leaves back, shorty.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I always went as a wingians, right, are you born
into the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot
like everybody Illuminati?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
You definitely don't get here. They definitely walking right in.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now. I don't know Illuminati.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Yeah, man, how you get there? Illuminati to earns? But
you know what I'm saying, y'all, y'all been successful for
so long.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh so success, Yeah, it takes 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 I don't
really with illuminatis.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Yeah, I thought the conspiracy theory, the conspiracy theories did
like the whole Illuminati.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Isn't that a conspiracy? What illuminati?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Illuminati is a conspiracy. I don't attach myself to that.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Like what the.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Conspiracy theories? I'm like that, that's what you'll.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, I'll be on I'm be on YouTube. I'll
be looking at.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
What is the conspiracies about the Wayne's brothers? How have
the Wayne's family been so successful for so long?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
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 3 (01:56):
Let's talk about the pressure.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Of did you study every member of your fan only?
Like did you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you
watch everything your dad was in? You watch everything.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Mallin was in?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Like I'm talking since you was a child, like study
everything that they did.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean I watched this up that I like, there
was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I don't remember remember the limmer Man?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
My dad, my uncle Keen did a movie with Steven Sagne.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Glimmer Man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Is that what is called?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Remember that black Man?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, I watched black Man because I was in it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We've got a picture of you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh my god, crazy, No, that's so cool. Yeah, glimmer Man.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I don't even know what you're talking about. The glimmer Man.
I don't remember this. I definitely remember glimmer Man. I
missed that one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah man. Yeah like the comedy, Yeah, I like the comedies. Yeah.
I like Don't Be a Man. That is one of
my favorite classic love major pain classic. I love uh
the movie with Jada Pinkett and Uncle keenan uh shame
so I love though. Those look like my top classics.
(03:15):
And Black Man because I was so.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Who the every day working class Wings.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Every day working any everything where we got a bunch
of working class wings. Okay, 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 3 (03:30):
But do they just work? Do they work on the
set or do they have like we have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Something that work on the set. You know, we gotta
love it. Yeah, we got we got uh Uncle Shawn's
right the show.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Kim the showrunner, yea, how you know?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh yeah, because this guy he lived here. You know,
my I got my daughter works on the set. She's uh,
she's a standing for essence Adkins character.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And she'd be writing on the show too. She's great.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, she's Now we got to talk about the pressures
of being a WANs I mean, because is im pressure
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 alias when I went on stage Kyle Green.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Really yeah, and no one guessed it. You look you
look like.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Like the middle of my punchlines back. You look just
like your damn deady 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
get on stage, and I be like, coming to stage,
Damon Wayne's son, you know, so have you never got
something because you a Wayne, Like it was like a
part of the family. Now maybe I don't know, they don't,
(04:47):
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 in
some rooms and shout out to my family for making
it easier for me. You know a lot of people,
you know, they get a they frowned on the NEPO
(05:07):
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
it'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 6 (05:21):
I think what y'all done a phenomenal. I was phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I was driving on the West Side yesterday and I
saw the digital billboard for Papa's house and.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
They got a billboard out there.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
A long, long long that man, 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.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Like everybody, we love what bron and Ronnie doing. I
give it up for y'all too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeahn man, I mean I'm happy, man. 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. Know. The pilot is
a good It sets the stage, sets the characters. But
(06:05):
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 seeing my
dad every damn day.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well what is Papa's House about? For people that don't know,
because yesterday, yeah, yah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
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 in next door to him with his wife and
(06:48):
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 school versus new school views. I think it's
(07:11):
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, you know, like there were so many options
we had. We had we had Fresh Prince of bel Air,
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living single, we had so many options on so many
different channels. And had I known that we're gonna 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
with this. 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 up n They use all them shows Jamie
Fox Show to Marlon Wayne Wayne, the Wayne's brothers. Now,
(08:23):
they had all these damn shows.
Speaker 6 (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 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 6 (08:48):
Now? You know, there was a there was a resurgence,
but a lot of them grown.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Oh yeah black yeah growing.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
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 7 (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 at one point.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
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
(09:50):
everybody's having fun.
Speaker 6 (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.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There was no content, no nothing, no notes.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
No notes, just get out, do better.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, how do you feel with your dad doing
stand up?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And you know, you would talk about you guys and
stand up and of course he talks about you, you know,
masturbating off the house at that time.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I wait that question, you lit up.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, boys got louder.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How was that just for you as a kid when
your dad used to tell them stories?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It was 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
(11:23):
the freaking video of him just you know, talking 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 6 (11:35):
Did you not get any?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Because she wanted you to do the spaghetti trick right
then and there, and he was like, no, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
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 6 (11:48):
Yeah, y'all got a Gregory Owans on the set.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, right, the Legend album from The Coffee Show, Gregory Jeffrey,
Jeffrey his voice.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know, his name is spelled weird, spelled g Yeah, yeah, geography.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And you don't want to call him Elvin because this
is special.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, we got we got him.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Do you do you pick their brain?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I mean, you're making your own right, but you're always
I mean your whole life.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm sure Eddie Murphy or Senior Hall, Robert Townland who
were there, Like, so, do you have a his appreciation sport?
Because to bear with me, I couldn't shut the fuck up.
I'm be 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 all. 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
looking at my family like see this is what I want.
I want this. I'm gonna go fo 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,
(14:11):
a bunch of celebrities, and it was really cool, you know.
And I remember one time, well, my dad told me that.
He said that that's what I want anything.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I want that, Yeah, that's what Dad.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Definitely, he was like I want that. But but Emmanuel Lewis,
you know manuali Es a 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 dude and I and I as a baby,
(14:46):
was confused because I'm like a 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, Yeah, trying to you know, see
what's up with him. You know, just like the kid
on the boat who gave me them shoes. You know,
(15:06):
well your dip brat, you know, always remember I was too, No,
he just told me, told me walking around following them everywhere.
He was like, come on, man, go he was like
trying to shoot me away. Man, it's naptime. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (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 Wayne's 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 was she was on your show. I
don't want to have that on my show, like leave
it alone. And 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. Before she even said
a word of the audition, she came in, killed it,
(16:18):
killed it, 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. Now.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You also see the change of comedy, right because you've
seen everything your family gets 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 (16:48):
I mean I don't think so. I mean, I feel
like show but this blank Man offensive though I feel
like I feel like blank Man was like pretty chill.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I don't remember. I have to go back and watch
it again.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
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.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Don't give a.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Keep going.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, you know, treat it 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.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
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 3 (17:30):
Missed those shows.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I missed the colored shows and those shows that pushed
the line and pushed as.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, I don't know I blame I blame jud Appatile.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I'm always down to blame the white man.
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 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 were like
(18:08):
we 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 those movies. I even put get them to
the Greek in Neck. I wonder if it's because they're
willing to take more risks. Well, they 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 7 (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 could offend boundaries.
I mean, people are offended by everything nowadays, So it
depends on who you talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What you're talking about, 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.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
They weren't afraid to they will addresses.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
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
Downey 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 not even nerds, not even nerds,
which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Nerves is rapid though. Now when I haven't, I haven't,
I haven't back.
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. Yeah, 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
(20:37):
truth potentially, but in the reality, the goal 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 6 (20:51):
By the way, it's not even just comedy though.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I think about back in the day, like why was
Q in high school sucking the nurse and Juice.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Ain't even give us an next name?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
There was no reason I think about that.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Why was this nurse just fucking high school?
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. You know, are you.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Guys gonna like cause I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
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
Akins who's kind of coming in and your dad is
like the old school person who he's like aware of
the boundaries, but he doesn't really care. And she's like,
you're going to have to care. Are y'all going to
kind of play around with that a little bit more
and take those risks? Or is the network like we
(21:38):
can be cute with it, but like, no, cauld your
dad be willing to go all the way there?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh, he goes there all the time. Didn't he get
in trouble on your on your show years ago?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I watched that last night.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Resurfacing things for no reason.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, they put my picture during that whole contrumy, I
remember everywhere.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
I was like, he didn't say guess what his father?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That was crazy?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
What you're gonna put 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 uh, 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 against network shows that go for it.
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So it's like there's no time to really just play
it safe.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
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 3 (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 spankins.
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.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And so when he was about to hit me, I
was like, don't get my ding, ding, 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 a lot. That's when we did when
he did. Wait, Yeah, but he was you know, he
got he got his ass whip when he was little,
so he didn't really know. But he didn't hit us
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a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I can name.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I can you know kind of on one hand, how
many times I.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Gotta 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 3 (24:46):
The sodas the caffeine and the 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.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You know ship?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, already I'm a problem with that, don't. I don't
even drink like that. I had two glasses of wine
yesterday and I'm messed up right now.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Jesus, she had about seven and she's still fine.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Not seven glasses of wine shots, like three glasses of
wine last night.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but you were youngster, you could do that.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (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 a little Celtic salt
that you put salt in the in the water is
supposed to really get into your bloodstreams heard?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
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.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
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, you aunt Kim
being a showrunner.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Do y'all even look outside of the family now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
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.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, we all 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 you,
I got some strangers in there.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Sounds so crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We got some strangers.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
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 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
(27:18):
writer's room. It's it's just great, man. I don't know.
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 iteration,
because they got to come in as themselves, like this
is who we are within living color, Like this is
(27:40):
who we are, take it or leave it. This is
funny to us. Like I've been an actor for hire
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.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So damon gotta go.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Gush 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 Damian Wayne's son, that's
actually Damon Wayne's.
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 thought 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 I felt like I
(28:32):
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 6 (28:39):
Are you gonna be part of the toy that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're doing a tour.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
They're not about the comedy tour.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No, together, I'll be telling me nothing. I'm second generation now.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
They barely told us. We just thought.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Saw that clip. I think I saw that you are composed.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, 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 (29:15):
You know that, but like like just mortalize the wings.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think like the wings needed thirty for thirty or
like you know what I'm saying, like that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
He'll be dope. But do they do that for 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. You
(29:44):
want to 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 2 (29:51):
But it's your time to shine this matter 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. 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 idiot.
Speaker 6 (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 for continuing to carry the torch the
right way.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Thanking mand in salute to y'all man, because like I
came here, I forgot how money? How many years ago?
Speaker 6 (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 6 (30:27):
Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Papa's House Monday's eight thirty on CBS, make sure you
check it out. You can stream it on Paramount Plus
as well, and we appreciate you for.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Joining us, brother.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Damon Waynes Junior. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake
that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Breakfast Club.
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Everybody is d j Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the gud
we are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Justice on Maternity leaves along the Roses. Feeling in and
we got a special guest in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes, indeed, thankies and gentlemen, we have Damon Wayne's junior.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome, Thank you boss, Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
How you feeling, brother, I'm feeling all right.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
All right? When did the when did the just have
a baby?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like three years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
About two months?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Leaves back, shorty.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I always went as a wingians, right, are you born
into the Illuminati or you have to earn your spot
like everybody Illuminati?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
You definitely don't get here. They definitely walking right in.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Now. I don't know Illuminati.
Speaker 6 (00:48):
Yeah, man, how you get there? Illuminati to earns? But
you know what I'm saying, y'all, y'all been successful for
so long.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh so success, Yeah, it takes 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 I don't
really with illuminatis.
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Yeah, I thought the conspiracy theory, the conspiracy theories did
like the whole Illuminati.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Isn't that a conspiracy? What illuminati?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Illuminati is a conspiracy. I don't attach myself to that.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Like what the.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Conspiracy theories? I'm like that, that's what you'll.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know, I'll be on I'm be on YouTube. I'll
be looking at.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
What is the conspiracies about the Wayne's brothers? How have
the Wayne's family been so successful for so long?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
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 3 (01:56):
Let's talk about the pressure.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Of did you study every member of your fan only?
Like did you watch everything Keenan was in? Did you
watch everything your dad was in? You watch everything.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Mallin was in?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Like I'm talking since you was a child, like study
everything that they did.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean I watched this up that I like, there
was ones I skipped. What did you skip? Glimmer Man?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I don't remember remember the limmer Man?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
My dad, my uncle Keen did a movie with Steven Sagne.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Glimmer Man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Is that what is called?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Remember that black Man?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, I watched black Man because I was in it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We've got a picture of you in it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh my god, crazy, No, that's so cool. Yeah, glimmer Man.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
I don't even know what you're talking about. The glimmer Man.
I don't remember this. I definitely remember glimmer Man. I
missed that one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah man. Yeah like the comedy, Yeah, I like the comedies. Yeah.
I like Don't Be a Man. That is one of
my favorite classic love major pain classic. I love uh
the movie with Jada Pinkett and Uncle keenan uh shame
so I love though. Those look like my top classics.
(03:15):
And Black Man because I was so.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Who the every day working class Wings.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Every day working any everything where we got a bunch
of working class wings. Okay, 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 3 (03:30):
But do they just work? Do they work on the
set or do they have like we have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Something that work on the set. You know, we gotta
love it. Yeah, we got we got uh Uncle Shawn's
right the show.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Kim the showrunner, yea, how you know?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh yeah, because this guy he lived here. You know,
my I got my daughter works on the set. She's uh,
she's a standing for essence Adkins character.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And she'd be writing on the show too. She's great.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, she's Now we got to talk about the pressures
of being a WANs I mean, because is im pressure
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 alias when I went on stage Kyle Green.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Really yeah, and no one guessed it. You look you
look like.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Like the middle of my punchlines back. You look just
like your damn deady 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
get on stage, and I be like, coming to stage,
Damon Wayne's son, you know, so have you never got
something because you a Wayne, Like it was like a
part of the family. Now maybe I don't know, they don't,
(04:47):
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 in
some rooms and shout out to my family for making
it easier for me. You know a lot of people,
you know, they get a they frowned on the NEPO
(05:07):
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
it'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 6 (05:21):
I think what y'all done a phenomenal. I was phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I was driving on the West Side yesterday and I
saw the digital billboard for Papa's house and.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
They got a billboard out there.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
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.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
A long, long long that man, 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.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Like everybody, we love what bron and Ronnie doing. I
give it up for y'all too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeahn man, I mean I'm happy, man. 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. Know. The pilot is
a good It sets the stage, sets the characters. But
(06:05):
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 seeing my
dad every damn day.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well what is Papa's House about? For people that don't know,
because yesterday, yeah, yah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
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 in next door to him with his wife and
(06:48):
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 school versus new school views. I think it's
(07:11):
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, you know, like there were so many options
we had. We had we had Fresh Prince of bel Air,
(07:33):
living single, we had so many options on so many
different channels. And had I known that we're gonna 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
with this. 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 up n They use all them shows Jamie
Fox Show to Marlon Wayne Wayne, the Wayne's brothers. Now,
(08:23):
they had all these damn shows.
Speaker 6 (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 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 6 (08:48):
Now? You know, there was a there was a resurgence,
but a lot of them grown.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Oh yeah black yeah growing.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
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 7 (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 at one point.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
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
(09:50):
everybody's having fun.
Speaker 6 (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.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
There was no content, no nothing, no notes.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
No notes, just get out, do better.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
You know, how do you feel with your dad doing
stand up?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And you know, you would talk about you guys and
stand up and of course he talks about you, you know,
masturbating off the house at that time.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I wait that question, you lit up.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, boys got louder.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How was that just for you as a kid when
your dad used to tell them stories?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It was 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
(11:23):
the freaking video of him just you know, talking 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 6 (11:35):
Did you not get any?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Because she wanted you to do the spaghetti trick right
then and there, and he was like, no, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
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 6 (11:48):
Yeah, y'all got a Gregory Owans on the set.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, right, the Legend album from The Coffee Show, Gregory Jeffrey,
Jeffrey his voice.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
You know, his name is spelled weird, spelled g Yeah, yeah, geography.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
And you don't want to call him Elvin because this
is special.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, we got we got him.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Do you do you pick their brain?
Speaker 4 (12:09):
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?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I mean, you're making your own right, but you're always
I mean your whole life.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I'm sure Eddie Murphy or Senior Hall, Robert Townland who
were there, Like, so, do you have a his appreciation sport?
Because to bear with me, I couldn't shut the fuck up.
I'm be 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 all. 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
looking at my family like see this is what I want.
I want this. I'm gonna go fo 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,
(14:11):
a bunch of celebrities, and it was really cool, you know.
And I remember one time, well, my dad told me that.
He said that that's what I want anything.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I want that, Yeah, that's what Dad.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Definitely, he was like I want that. But but Emmanuel Lewis,
you know manuali Es a 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 dude and I and I as a baby,
(14:46):
was confused because I'm like a 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, Yeah, trying to you know, see
what's up with him. You know, just like the kid
on the boat who gave me them shoes. You know,
(15:06):
well your dip brat, you know, always remember I was too, No,
he just told me, told me walking around following them everywhere.
He was like, come on, man, go he was like
trying to shoot me away. Man, it's naptime. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (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 Wayne's 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 was she was on your show. I
don't want to have that on my show, like leave
it alone. And 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. Before she even said
a word of the audition, she came in, killed it,
(16:18):
killed it, 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. Now.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You also see the change of comedy, right because you've
seen everything your family gets 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 (16:48):
I mean I don't think so. I mean, I feel
like show but this blank Man offensive though I feel
like I feel like blank Man was like pretty chill.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
I don't remember. I have to go back and watch
it again.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
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.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Don't give a.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Keep going.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, you know, treat it 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.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's true.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
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 3 (17:30):
Missed those shows.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I missed the colored shows and those shows that pushed
the line and pushed as.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You know, I don't know I blame I blame jud Appatile.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I'm always down to blame the white man.
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 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 were like
(18:08):
we 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 those movies. I even put get them to
the Greek in Neck. I wonder if it's because they're
willing to take more risks. Well, they 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 7 (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 could offend boundaries.
I mean, people are offended by everything nowadays, So it
depends on who you talking about.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What you're talking about, 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.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
They weren't afraid to they will addresses.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
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
Downey 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 not even nerds, not even nerds,
which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Nerves is rapid though. Now when I haven't, I haven't,
I haven't back.
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. Yeah, 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
(20:37):
truth potentially, but in the reality, the goal 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 6 (20:51):
By the way, it's not even just comedy though.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I think about back in the day, like why was
Q in high school sucking the nurse and Juice.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Ain't even give us an next name?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
There was no reason I think about that.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Why was this nurse just fucking high school?
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. You know, are you.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Guys gonna like cause I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
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
Akins who's kind of coming in and your dad is
like the old school person who he's like aware of
the boundaries, but he doesn't really care. And she's like,
you're going to have to care. Are y'all going to
kind of play around with that a little bit more
and take those risks? Or is the network like we
(21:38):
can be cute with it, but like, no, cauld your
dad be willing to go all the way there?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh, he goes there all the time. Didn't he get
in trouble on your on your show years ago?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I watched that last night.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I watched it last night.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Resurfacing things for no reason.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, they put my picture during that whole contrumy, I
remember everywhere.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
I was like, he didn't say guess what his father?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That was crazy?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
What you're gonna put 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 uh, 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 against network shows that go for it.
(23:04):
So it's like there's no time to really just play
it safe.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
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 3 (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 spankins.
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.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
And so when he was about to hit me, I
was like, don't get my ding, ding, 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 a lot. That's when we did when
he did. Wait, Yeah, but he was you know, he
got he got his ass whip when he was little,
so he didn't really know. But he didn't hit us
(24:30):
a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I can name.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I can you know kind of on one hand, how
many times I.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Gotta 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 3 (24:46):
The sodas the caffeine and the 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.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You know ship?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, already I'm a problem with that, don't. I don't
even drink like that. I had two glasses of wine
yesterday and I'm messed up right now.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Jesus, she had about seven and she's still fine.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Not seven glasses of wine shots, like three glasses of
wine last night.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah, but you were youngster, you could do that.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (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 a little Celtic salt
that you put salt in the in the water is
supposed to really get into your bloodstreams heard?
Speaker 5 (25:34):
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.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
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, you aunt Kim
being a showrunner.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Do y'all even look outside of the family now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
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.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, we all 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 you,
I got some strangers in there.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Sounds so crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
We got some strangers.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
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 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
(27:18):
writer's room. It's it's just great, man. I don't know.
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 iteration,
because they got to come in as themselves, like this
is who we are within living color, Like this is
(27:40):
who we are, take it or leave it. This is
funny to us. Like I've been an actor for hire
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.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So damon gotta go.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Gush 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 Damian Wayne's son, that's
actually Damon Wayne's.
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 thought 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 I felt like I
(28:32):
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 6 (28:39):
Are you gonna be part of the toy that they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
They're doing a tour.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
They're not about the comedy tour.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
No, together, I'll be telling me nothing. I'm second generation now.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
They barely told us. We just thought.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Saw that clip. I think I saw that you are composed.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, 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 (29:15):
You know that, but like like just mortalize the wings.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I think like the wings needed thirty for thirty or
like you know what I'm saying, like that.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
He'll be dope. But do they do that for 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. You
(29:44):
want to 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 2 (29:51):
But it's your time to shine this matter 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. 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 idiot.
Speaker 6 (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 for continuing to carry the torch the
right way.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Thanking mand in salute to y'all man, because like I
came here, I forgot how money? How many years ago?
Speaker 6 (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 6 (30:27):
Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Papa's House Monday's eight thirty on CBS, make sure you
check it out. You can stream it on Paramount Plus
as well, and we appreciate you for.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Joining us, brother.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you man.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Damon Waynes Junior. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake
that ass up in the morning.
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