Special K

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, y'all, welcome back to the Jay Walkers Show today.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh god, today we got a fellow re member in
the house, y'all, My man from a Rickys Miley Morning
Show special care.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Right, the nationally syndicate nasally syndicated.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I mean underlying that. Let's underline that.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Markets man in there, man, national man, natally syndicated Ricky
Smiley Morning.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
So how you doing? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Wow, there fifteen years man, two thousand and eight.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Game.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Wow, I've been on there fifteen years. Wow for the ladies,
so they can kind of add up that check.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, yeah, that check coming yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Let him know.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Man, you're glad to have you in the studio other day.
I'm glad to have you in the studio other day.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thanks for coming to man, thanks for coming taking time.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
At your very very very busy schedule to come in
and come on the show today.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Man, that's truly acid secret that.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I ain't that busy. I ain't that man. I just
got up. I was laying down at the hotel. I
wouldn't do it. Can I cut here?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
I wasn't doing nothing, man, I wasn't doing ship very busy.
I did a radio I did a radio interview this morning,
I did a little tea. Yeah, my girl caseamone, and
then I went back to those laid down even doing
nothing since then, so you ain't interrupt nothing but anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
But you went in town because this weekend your family comedy,
specially the Red Mount Theater. Tell us about that. How
does kind of suppsal to come about? And what can
fans expect from it?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Man, finally famous, uh, finally famous with a question mark
at the end.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
And I came up with that name. I can't well.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I had another title at first, and then I set
her on that one because it's a reflection of where
I'm mad in the game. Were I mad in the business?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Like, I'm not here here, here's here's my level of fame.
Like to my kids, to my kids when they were younger,
I was famous. Now that they older, they're like, okay,
you just you're just well known, bro, Like you ain't famous,
because if you was famous, we you know, we've been
a whole different situation.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
But I accept that because I like my level of fame.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I like where I'm at on the fame scale, Like
I'm not famous enough that if I'm in the mall,
somebody gonna be like, oh my god, it's him.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Can you oh my god?

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Can I get pictures with you so I can send
them to my kids. I'm not that level of fame, Okay,
that's Kevin Hart level. Like, my level of fame is
if I'm in the hood mall anywhere, at least one
person gonna point at me and be like, hey, but
don't tell me, damn.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And then they gonna call me the wrong name. They
gonna call me somebody else but Rock. But hold on,
I know you ain't the brad Like who is?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Like, I'm the third most famous Okay, I'm the fourth
most famous person on the Morning Show. I'm the third
most famous person who graduated from my high school. That's guaranteed.
And I'm the most famous person in my neighborhood. That's
for damn show. My level of fame is I'm situationally famous. Wow,
you know, situationally famous me. That means that any at

(03:06):
any given time, I'm the most famous person in that situation. Like,
if I leave here and go to Dollar General, chances
are I'm the most famous person that's been in that
Dollar General that day. If I leave here and go
to the car wash. Chances are I'm the most famous
person vacuuming out my car.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Wow that day.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's my level of fame.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
See See, I'm not trying to convince myself that I'm
really famous, like you know, I mean, because I'm not.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
But it's all good because I'm good. I'm good. I
like my level of famous.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
I was any more famous, I would have so many
problems because, see, famous people, it's hard to have skeletons
in your closet. The skeletons Dan's down the hallway when
you're famous. But right now, all the shit I don't
need nobody to know is where it need to be.
And me and my wife get in an argument at
cracker barrel, don't nobody care. But if I'm out on

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the date with a girl that used to be a boy,
everybody gonna know about that. So I am at that
level of fame. If I end up with a TG somewhere, yeah,
that's gonna come out for some reason. Yeah, it's gonna
be hard hard to hide that. Not that I would,
I'm just saying, but if I did not, there is
anything wrong with that. If anybody's into that, I want

(04:23):
to look I don't want to get canceled. If anybody's
into that, that's that's fine. That's that's your thing.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Do you So what what can fans expect for? What
do you expect for the cover?

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Man? I mean, I think here's here, here's here's the deal.
So I want people to come out to the show.
I want people to come out to the live show. Now.
Of course this we're filming this, this my first one
hour specially, we're filming it for broadcasts and and uh,
we'll we we'll be releasing all that information after we
shoot the special, Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
But what I want people to see is that? All right?
So I'm part of the Royal Comedy Tour.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I started a Royal Comedy Tour last year with some
more Bruce Bruce, Lavell, Crawt and others.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right, so we're back on that. We actually we start
back up Friday, October thirteen.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
We start back up Friday for the second leg of
the Royal Comedy to Over twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right, So I'm doing that. I did a half
hour comedy.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Special for Kevin Hart, remember that that Kevin Hart lol,
back in twenty eighteen. But this is my first special
with me it's my thing, nobody else. My executive producer,
mister Ryan Brown, very good friend of mine. He started off,
he was just a fan, like maybe twelve years ago.
He used to come to the show and watch me.

(05:35):
When I was hosting that uptown Comedy Corner in Atlanta,
him and his wife used to come out. They love
my comedy, they love what I did. He said, hey, man,
one day we're gonna work together. We're gonna do some things.
He got into the legal profession, made a whole lot
of money. I'm just gonna put his business out there.
And he came to me and said, hey man, you
need to do a comedy special and I'm gonna I'm
gonna produce it. I'm gonna executive produce it. I said, okay,

(05:56):
say let's so we decided on Birmingham. We were thinking
about Cleveland, thinking about Saint Louis, who are thinking about Baltimore,
and we sat it on Birmingham. It's not that far
from Atlanta. I get a lot of love in Birmingham.
I've been you know, people here know me. So I've
been doing my thing here and I just want to

(06:16):
get let people see that I'm not just the funny
guy on the radio with the quick lines and whatever,
and the characters and all that. I need people to
see the Hey, no, I really do this, like I
really like stand up is what I do. That's my job,
that's my gig, and I've been doing it for a
long time. I've been doing it for a long time,
since nineteen ninety eight. I think I don't even know

(06:36):
how many years that is. But I've been doing it
since then. And I'm pretty damn good at it.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I ain't a lie. I'm pretty good at that it. Man.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Man, So how'd you come up for this material for
this special?

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Man? My life?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
You know, my life, man, Just I talk. I'm very
open in my comedy. I talk about my marriage. I
talk about my marriage problems. I talk about my kids.
I talk about the grips with getting older, you know,
because that's a thing like like when you hit fifty,
you know, you start thinking about different stuff, Like shit

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hit different when you fifty, man, Like your body changes,
Like you don't pee loud, no more like when you
twenty five, you pee loud. Like when you twenty five
and you go in the bathroom to pee in the morning,
you waking somebody up. You pee at fifty, it might
not even make no noise, like for some reason that prostate.
Just get weak after it, And it don't matter how

(07:30):
good you look on the outside, don't matter how nice
your clothes is, no matter how much it gon work
out that being get weak after fifty.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
You know you can't eat the same things at the fifty.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
I don't do Taco Tuesday unless I'm ready for Wicked Wednesday,
because Taco Tuesday mean wicked Wednesday. That if I go
to Taco Bell, I got to order my food and
go in the bathroom until I'm bringing in here. Just
bring I'm already be sitting down. Just yeah, just bringing
in here so I could save myself a trip, because
that's how fast it's gonna go. But you know, you

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think about out you started getting gray man, like you know,
and you can run from it. You can just for
me and the shit all day, but eventually it's gonna come.
And with gray you get that wisdom. You know, people say, hey,
man with gray hair is a sign of wisdom, So
that means my balls are geniuses. That might have been
too much to share. I don't know if I probably

(08:21):
shouldn't have pay it that visual.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
It's just me.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
It's like guys, I mean wow, but like seriously, so yeah,
So to ask your question, man, my material comes from
my real life. I talk about things that annoy me,
things that get on my nerd, like things piss you off,
like when I'm fifty, Like you're a younger man. When
you hit fifty, it's gonna be a lot of things
to pitch you off. And it could be things that

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ain't got nothing to do with you. I go on
the dollar Tree. I get upset if I see somebody
return to something because I'm like, why the fuck are
you returning something that you.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Paid a dollar for?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
That means you bought it, You got it home, Realize
this flashlight don't work. You got back in your car,
put your seat belt back on, draw back three miles
to the dollar tree, stopped it four five lights, risked
having an accident, could have got pulled over, got a ticket.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
You did all that to come back in the store, get.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Back in line and explain to this cashier that you
need to return this item that you paid four quarters
me and get your ass out of this line. Talking
about you return to something that you paid a dollar
for that bothers me. That's just one of the mothers
small things that bothered me. You know, you know I
don't like I don't I don't.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like like like. It bothers me that people go to
like like my daughters.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
You know, she's twenties, she on twenties, right, So, uh,
she was going out one night. I said, well, she
said she was going to the club with her friend
for her birthday. I said, what time you leaving? She said,
I'm start getting dressed by the eleven thirty, start getting
dressed at leven thirty.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
What kind of what kind of whole club is this?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
No?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
No good girls go to the club at it let them.
That's a whole club like that that ain't no wholesome.
She said that I'm not going to bibles that don't
going to the club, She said, you just old like. Yeah,
the clubs I go to they close at eleven thirty. Shit,
ten thirty. They putting chairs up on the tables and vacuum.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Shit. I don't go to no.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Club to stay open the three and it because like
when you're twenty something, you look for the club to
stay open the longest, remember them day. You look for
the club that all right, who stay open till folk
who stay open till five.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Shit, I don't know at four o'clock.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
If I believe in my house at three o'clock in
the morning, it is because that bitch on fire. My
house gonna have to be on fire for me to
walk outside. I don't know what my driveway feel like
at three am. Ain't no reason, ain't nowhere in the hell.
I don't like the boy calling me late. Don't call
me past nine thirty. Any call coming to my phone
at eleven o'clock. Somebody in jail, somebody in the hospital,

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or somebody did.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Them first two. I can't really do nothing about that.
Last one. I damn sore, can't do nothing about it.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Call your pastor call me in the morning, leave me
a text, because whoever died at eleven o'clock, they still
gonna be dead at nine am.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't care who it is.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Mama and Daddy cousin said, look, call don't call me
at eleven o'clock telling.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Me you know your mama pass she'll be dead in
the morning. Wow, ship that sound cold? But that my line?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Am I line, am my line. She's still gonna be Dad,
She ain't gonna be no less dead. If I wake
up now, I'm hollering and crying interrupted my damn sleep.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
You could have let me sleep.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
You could have let me sleep through that night without
knowing big Mama, Dad. I didn't need to know that.
If I go to I don't need that on my spirit.
If I go to sleep, she's still gonna be dead. Okay,
that's enough.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
On Mad, I don't know. I don't know. I just
I got carried away. I'm sorry. I really got to
know it. I'm sitting if you're talking, I really I
literally got mad.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Mad that I got mad.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
There's a co host on the nationally syndicated Ricky Smiley
Morning Show. You're used to making people laugh daily, right,
how does perform a comedy on stage competiti or radio work?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I mean, it's two totally different muscles. Man.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It's like it's like it's like doing the leg press
versus curls. Like it's two totally different muscles. Funny on
the radio is you had to paint a picture. You
have to paint a picture, and it's all about timing. Yeah,
theater of the mind, it's all about timing and all

(12:31):
about you gotta understand that while people are listening to
whatever you're saying is funny. They're driving, they're working, they're
doing whatever. They can't see you. So facial expressions don't matter.
Body movements don't matter. You got to learn how to
paint a picture. Whereas comedy on stage it's all about
they can see you. It's visual, it's facial expressions, it's
body movements, it's all this and that.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know what I'm saying, you selling it a different
kind of way.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
So some comedians don't do well on the radio and
vice versa. And some some people are funny on the radio,
but they can never do stand up because they can't
work both of those muscles. So when you when you're
able to work both of those muscles one, you're gonna
always have a job. Because I'm the head writer for
the con I'm the hea writer for the morning show,
so I you know, right, and have you know, created

(13:17):
some of the funniest bits that we've done since we've
been on the air fifteen years. You know, myself and
Ricky we're the comedy backbone of the show. So you know,
he's like it's like, you know, he's the he's the
starting quarterback. I'm the o c but I'm also the
backup quarterback. So just you the offensive coordinator and you
the backup. So you know, I got to step up,

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you know what I'm saying. And so but but we
we've developed a really good synergy over the years. He
calls it the alley oops, you know, where he'll set
me up. He'll he'll start saying something and he knows
that I'm already thinking, Okay, he about to come to me.
You know, he about to come to me with the
alleyute bam. So he he throw the line out there, bam,
slam it home, you know what I mean. And it
works out beautifully. Man, We've been together longer than most

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morning shows. Ten years is a lifetime for most morning shows,
they don't last past ten years. They break it up
or they you know. So we were kind of a yeah,
we're kind of an anomaly in that sense.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
So we no compedy tour together.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
We we did.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
We we tour together for a long time. We did
uh when we was doing Ricky Smiley and France. But
you gotta understand Ricky, like he's.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
At a different level.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
He started on even doing comedy ten years before I
stepped on the stage. Since twelve years before I ever
stepped on the stage. I didn't started delate in the game.
So and he did death Jam, he host a comic view,
like he's done a lot of stuff. So he's he's here,
and I'm like, you know, so basically, the money don't
battance out on them show. Like if we do a
show together, you know, it's like Ricky and you know,

(14:53):
it's like Ricky Hey.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
So it's like Ricky Smiley. And that's how the checks
be Smalley special case. So I'll be I'll be better
off just doing it on my own to get my own,
you know, because it's gonna be money.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
He get paid, ain't nothing left they you know, they
pay him with a night. They got to check, they
got to go to his accountants. They just pay me.
They be come on to this cigaar Bo. Yeah, we
got you right here. Pay you out a concession stand.
They paying me out a concession stand money. I'm like,
sh I don't need to do these to hell no,

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do my own special.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Man.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Y'all got to show up so I could blow up
Comedian Special k dot com. Hit that hit that Comedian
special k dot com. So that's the website to get
them tickets radio.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you have sponsors, you have how how do you
stay from the council culture side because you you don't
go over the line.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, you learned how to dance on the line.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
And in all these years, I've gotten one email from upstairs,
I've gotten one email from upstairs where the VP of
operations hit me up and said, are you serious?

Speaker 3 (16:05):
With like eight question marks?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
And you know, I'm trying to remember it was okay,
you remember when the big tsunami happened over in Indonesia
or where was the big Remember like two thousand and
seven and eight, when the big tsunami happened and it
swallowed up all them people?

Speaker 3 (16:25):
It was It was.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Indonesia, one one of them places I ain't never been
that I can't pronounce, but it was one of them
foreign countries, and it was a big tsunami. A lot
of people died and were reporting on it that morning,
and I thought it would be funny to do a
joke that said something like, and I trying to remember
it exactly, it said something like the the government has

(16:47):
put out a statement asking black people to please stop
calling the FDA because a lot of black people are
calling the FDA saying that a lot of people were
killed by you know, salami, and that we shouldn't be
eating salami right now because the salami killed a lot
of people. And and the FBA wants black people to

(17:09):
stop trying up their phone lines worried about salami because
and they said, oh, it wasn't salami, it was a tsunami.
But and and and the VP and our producer came
in and said.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
What the what. They're still finding bodies. They are still.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Finding I'm like, it ain't in America, So what is
it like, Like, there's still people, man, they are still people.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
But that's when I was kind of new, you know,
I was still you know. Yeah. So so now I've learned.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Really really well how to how to get right up
to that line and just step back.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
I stepped back from it right before I step over it.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh yeah with Gary Oh yeah yeah, instead of six flags.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, it was yeah see you gotta you gotta yeah,
I said, I said, I said, yeah, the Make a
Wish Foundation, I said, there was a there was a
mix up when the Make a Wish Foundation. Some kids
had called the station and said that they really, you know,
wanted before they died. They really wanted to see six flags,
and instead the station sent Gary and five of his

(18:15):
friends over there. They sent Gary and five of his
friends to the hospital because there was a typo. There
was a typo on the letter request and they thought
it said they didn't say they left the l out,
and so they sent Gary and some of his See
how I did that? See I never said the word.
I never said the word. Oh, let it go from there.

(18:41):
That's how you do that, That's how you do it. Yeah,
I gotta bring that back. It's been about five or
six years. Gary and five of his friends showed up
because they thought the kids wanted to see six.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
So do Gary take offense to that?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
The reason it works is because Gary and I are
really good friends.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, and he.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Knows I'm not coming from it like the community.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Like I don't get no flag from the community because
they know I come at it with a with a
degree of you know, I come at it with love,
like I don't hate nobody. And when you come at
it and you're not being hateful and you're not being
mean spirited, people receive it different.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Like there's a whole bit in my set.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Where I talk about I gotta you know, I've been
married twenty eight years and I got an ex boyfriend
in Atlanta because I was dating the dude when me
and my wife had split up for about three or
four months and I met this. I met a guy
that I thought was cool and we hung out a
couple of times. And it wasn't until like the fourth
time we hung out that I realized that I'm like, wait, whoa,

(19:44):
I'm like yeah. It was like I'm like wait, man,
And it was just a conversation were having. Now I'm like,
because I'm in Atlanta, you know, and even thirty seventh
straight dudes living in Atlanta. And after the fourth time
we hung out, like wait minute, think we dating?

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Like he did?

Speaker 4 (20:04):
We go together and I had to cut him off
and he's like, oh so that's it ain't.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
No more like it was never us, rod bruh, it
was never us.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
There was listen. Yes, I went with you to the
New Edition concert. Yes you held my hand a little
bit during Can You Stand the Rain? But I felt
like it was just a moment, you know what I'm saying.
I didn't take it serious, man, I mean I didn't hold.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
His hand back. He was he had his hand on
my finger. I didn't hold it back. I felt like
he just needed you know, I mean, can you stand
the rain? That's a serious song.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
So so yeah, so we kind of broke up. And honestly,
if you tell people that we use to date, I
can't really say. Lie, I got to explained that to
my son, like, yes, son, I got I got that.
So so I keep it real, I keep it a stack,
you know what I mean. So, so for a minute,

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I was a part of the community. I guess I'm
part of the lb TV. I was like eight percent
the eight ten percent there, you know. But you know,
I'm mad enough to accept that it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
At least I went back home. I went back to
my wife. Yeah, he ain't getting none. Put it that way. Yeah,
we dated it, we ain't getting none. How about that.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, you ain't got no pictures of me taking a
shower in your bathroom.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
So I still want Wow, Man, what has been the
bost remember more from your career so far?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh Man?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Honestly, man, it wasn't the Kevin Hart thing, even though
it was.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Two things.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
The first time I really bombed and the first time
I won something. When I first started out my first
year in I won the Deaf Comedy Jam. That the
Deaf Comedy Jam bud Light I think it was a
but Whise. It was the butt Wise of Deaf Comedy

(22:03):
Jam comedy competition, and I won that and I was
so excited.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Well, I want two things.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
I won that and then I want a chance to
go on Last Comic Standing. H I beat out a
lot of people in the in the Southeastern region, and
I beat out a lot of people with the bud Light.
But the butt light thing, I mean, the butt wis
thing was big because at the time I didn't even
know I was really good, and I don't think I
was gonna look it back, but I was just better
than everybody else. But that stood out because I got

(22:32):
They gave me the big, you know, the big printed
out check for five hundred dollars, and I just thought like, wow,
this is this is cool, Like I can really do this.
The other time was when I bombed, and we tell
this story on the radio a lot. Thank you Ricky
for constantly bringing it up.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
But I bombed.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I was at Uptown Comedy Corners back when Earthquake had
it was was the owner of the club and he's
the host, and he had me go on stage one night. Yeah,
he had me on stage one night, and I was
gonna do twenty minutes, but I didn't have twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
I only had like seven minutes. But I'm gonna do.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Twenty minutes and two three minutes in it was just
not going well.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
It was going really.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Bad, and the crowd was just quiet. It was like
two hundred and fifty people. Everybody was just quiet, like
it would have been better if they booed, but when
they don't even care enough to boot, when they just
sitting there looking at you like this, and all I
could hear it was so quiet. All I could hear
was the the dishes being washed, whack in the kitchen
I could hear.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I can hear.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Glasses tinkling, and silverware being put in the dish washing.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
All you could hear was the kitchen sounds.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
It was like, wow, man, that's why that's that's quiet.
That's a different that funeral home quiet, That funeral home
eleven thirty night quiet. But you know, in the funeral
home of the left thirty at night, you don't hear shit,
at least I don't think so. I haven't been at
the funeral home left dirty.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I try to be.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
But if I'm in the funeral home of the leven dirty,
I'm gonna trust me.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I'm a customer.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I'm like I'm a.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Resident at that point.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Ship.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
I ain't just gonna be in there. That's neither it
nor there.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I don't know a week man.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, anyway, Damn, I hold somebody.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I hope somebody see this and come to my damn
show because all this is gonna be on the show
where all this ain't gonna be on the show, and
I ain't gonna remember all this. All this is is
coming off the nome Red Mountain Theater Saturday, October fourteen
to two shows, six thirty and eight thirty.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
I'll get your tickets.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Since ask you this on the camera front, everybody can
open up for you. Gonna be a show you.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Wanna come over and do some time.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Some time you come over.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
You can do a hot.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Ten minutes host ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
You know what we got Marvin doing fifteen.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yes, I love Marble Hunt.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't know, we might they may. I'll call you.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
I'll call you because because that first show, it'll probably
be the second show. Because that first show sched is
gonna be tight. Yeah, that first show sked is gonna
be tight. Hey, possibility, Tell your people. I'm almost one
hundred percent certain we can do it. We can work
it out for the second, second show, for the second
show October. For the stage they walk on stage, special

(25:06):
case it. Don't you miss it for it? Yeah, get
what They haven't seen the suit you got, so just
where the suit you got? Well, suit you already got.
They don't know if it's a brand new suit. But
that's some Black people ship right there. Black people know we.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Do some unnecessary shit.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
We would go buy a new suit to be in
front of people the ain't never seen uhsing before?

Speaker 3 (25:26):
What is that about? White Black people get dressed up
to be in the audience?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Black people, the black audience would be the best dressed audiences.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Negro white people go out to a concert.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
They got on a T shirt, dirty jeans, lace stuff,
you know, dirty six sneaks. They don't care because they
in the audience, staying on sand. Black people will buy
a whole new outfit. I'm talking about shoes, jewelry, fresh aircut.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Everything.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
You're sitting in section eight hundred and sixty, you three
and a half miles from the stage seventy five feet
up with a brand new yo ass fresh though, because
you know what black people live for, that concessions. When
it's when it's when it's in a mission. Man, oh yeah,
it's going down.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
It is going down. But people come out.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Man, bring your people, guys, bring your girls, ladies, bring
you guys.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Guys. Don't bring your side piece. That's a premium event.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
And I like to tell guys, you don't take your
side to a premium event. You take your side piece
to open mic on a Wednesday night somewhere. You you
take your side piece to a premium Saturday night show.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
You are a dirt bag, like you a real piece
of like for real.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
That's like, like, yeah, how how could you take your
side piece to a p You don't take your side
piece to see Beyonce?

Speaker 3 (26:46):
You take your side piece to see special Kelly.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Price or somebody like No, I'm not throwing no, I'm
just saying you take your side piece to see like
you know Keiki Wiatt, Yeah, that's a Kekey Wyatt on
a two was day night at a bar.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
That's what you take your side piece too.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Take your side piece to see Beyonce, the hell is
wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Dirty best? I hope you get caught.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
What comedians influenced your Coverty career? What? What no of them?

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Like?

Speaker 3 (27:19):
No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Uh. Chris Rock early on Bring the Pain, Bring the
Pain was was was really you know, excited, Like when
I saw Chris Rock do Bring the Pain, like you know,
just the swagger and and the movement on the stage
and the just the leather and the like, it was
just like it was dope. And the way he delivered
with that energy. I really enjoyed that, Believe it or not.

(27:43):
George Colin, man, I'm a big George Calin fan. I'm
a big Louis c. K fan, huge Eddie Murphy fan.
Of course Chappelle, I mean, but of course they didn't
influence me. Was at the time when I started, it
was really Chris Rock was I was paying attention to,
you know.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I really just liked his style.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
D L.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
Hughley.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I appreciated his style.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
And I try to you know, I think I incorporate
a little bit of kind of everybody on my stage show.
When you come across that's likable, when people like you,
you tend like I don't fingers crossed. I don't bomb
like I do. I tell people I don't bomb. I
don't have shows where bomb, even on a show where
where it doesn't go well, like I did a show

(28:29):
at a ASHU Alabama State, me and Marvin Hunter. As
a matter of fact, the opener for the Saturday night
show did show Alabama State five six years ago. I
don't like college shows because I don't like people under
twenty five.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I don't like young people. They tenson spanning too short.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Of you in a couple of weeks. But the homecoming I.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Don't mind doing.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Now if it's an alumni show, that's different. The community
is coming out, but for the kids because they got
a short attention span, and I don't do like they
want to see you on the chair.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
They want to talk about weed and dick like that's
what they.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
And it just didn't. It just wasn't going well and
it was just flat, you know what I mean. So
that's the closest I've come to bombing in the last
I don't know, twenty years.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
I don't deal with hecklers, which is cool because Don D.
C Curry, good friend of mine and one of my mentors,
told me, said a long time ago. They say, hey, man,
if you keep talking and you stay interesting, you ain't
gonna get heckled.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
He said.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
They listening to what you're talking about. He said, when
you get heckled, that's your fault. I mean, you ain't
saying shit.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
He said.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
They tried to live it up the show because what
you talk about ain't nothing.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
So what advice would you give you a young comedian
just want to come up in a game that want
to be.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Or to a young writer, Well, the game that changed now.
You know, it's all about social media now. Man, it's
all about followers. It's all about you know, putting out content.
It's all about that. So for the younger comics, if
I was a young, if I was a young if
I was thirty right now, I would focus on building
my social media. Getting this proficient in building social media

(30:08):
to build that following is possible. But you know, just
it's okay to have influences, it's okay to have people
who inspire you, but try to find your own lane
in comedy. The thing that's gonna pay off is is
is speaking in your own voice, speaking in your truth,

(30:29):
letting people see who you really are, because when you
leave my show Saturday night, you gonna know, you gonna
know who I am. I'm not just a dude out
there saying stuff to sound funny, like you're gonna know
something about me. And as a comic, when people know
you the thing that made the greats great Richard Pryor,
we knew Richard Pryor, like we knew Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy.
We knew Eddie Murphy. You knew how he came up,

(30:50):
you knew about his his you know, you knew.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Something about him.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
And the comics who just say stuff to sound funny,
I mean, yeah, you can. You can rip a crowd
already minutes but once or for an hour, But once
they leave, what do they.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Remember about you?

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Make leave them with something to remember, whether it was
a bit, whether it was a joke, whether it was
just you and and and what they learned about you.
You know, you want people to say, you want people
to identify with you, and you want people to feel
like bonded with you.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Address social issues I do.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I'm on the fence about how much I want to
do right now on that because things are so a
little you know, things are really kind of crazy right now.
I do political humor obviously, if you listen to me already,
you know I'm really into politics. But man, everything's so
heavy right now. Everything's so heavy right now, and everything

(31:45):
done is kind of been done. Like, what more can
you say about Traump? What more can you say about Biden?
What more can you know? Trump is stupid?

Speaker 3 (31:53):
Biden is old? You know. I mean, it's really just
not really nowhere else to go with that.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
So if I don't see nowhere to go with it,
then you know, I'm just I just leave it alone.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
So I remember Eddie Murph and Richard Powford started comedy
was like this big old magic trick and people everybody
didn't think they can do coming they look at companies
like magic, and now everybody does companies. So how do
you think company has changed over the last thirty forty years.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I mean the game opened up, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I think Death Comedy Jam opened up the game before
it made black audiences realized that black people could be funny,
you know, and it was okay for black folks to
be funny. Death Jam was the biggest thing that happened
to comedy. Like I came along after that. But depth
Jam was the still to this day, the number one
rated show that was like ever on TV.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
I think.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
It let people know that, you know, that comedy was
a thing that we could do, because you gotta understand,
in the eighties, you know, stand up comedy wasn't a
big thing, you know, at least not especially not in
our community. You know, we had four or five comeds
that you can name, but for the more part it
was a white man.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
So you know, I think Depth Jam DT it just
opened it up and made everybody feel like you know,
and that ain't always a good thing, you know, because
everybody think they can get on stage and do this shit.
Everybody get on stage and they just mimic what they've
seen other people do. And I'm down for everybody chasing
their dream. But you know, like I said, find your

(33:24):
own lane. Don't be afraid to speak in your own
voice and develop your own, your own thing and be authentic.
You know what I'm saying, don't don't just be one
of them dudes is just like you said, Like I said,
you're just doing shit and saying shit to try to
sound funny, you.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Know, because the people see through that. People ain't crazy.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
People see through that, you know, talk about things that
really that like like I take things that really happen
to me and I elaborate on them. What I said
about the whole dating to do like that comes from
a real situation, That comes from I take a little
bit of a real situation.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
And then I just add to it. I band on them. Yeah,
ship was kind of Yeah. I hung out with a
dude a couple of times, like like we're cool. You know,
we posnered Like my man, you're a good dude.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
You know what I'm saying, Yeah, man to the bowl
and I like the bowl man, pull up on you know,
pull up on the old man. And you know every
time I bring up holes, he's like, you know, you know,
ain't worried about that. You know what should have been
a clue because I'm like, man, it's a little man.
Man And all the girls he knew was like his
friends like oh she a friend Like yeah, that's my

(34:32):
that's my girl like man like usually oh no, no, no,
nothing like that. I should have read the clues, Yeah
I should. I should have been reading the room a
little better. I should have been reading the room. I
should have known.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
But uh yeah, now, but I know you can be
social media man.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Uh, like I said, man, Comedian Special K dot com.
That takes you to everything. That takes you to my Instagram,
takes you to my Facebook. It takes you to to
to everything I'm doing. It takes you to tour dates,
all that. Comedian Special K dot com. If you want
to follow me on I G. Special K nine one three,
Uh Facebook, Uh what is it? Yeah, Special K comed

(35:15):
Special K Comedy or K Douglas Comedy. Yeah, something like that.
But yeah, so follow me. But like I said, the website,
the web page, link tree.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
It takes you to everything.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
So yeah, you get nice pictures of me for the ladies.
Got a lot of nice pictures. I be dressing real
nice when I be on tour and open. Well I
don't know about that, but so anybody who want to
just look at me dressed up nice.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
That's for the ladies, Ladies, gentlemen. Got Special K live
in the studio today. Yeah, thanks for coming in.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Special K. Don't forget tickets.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I don't see it right now for his uh finally
famous comedy special taping here in Birmingham at the Redmount Theater.
Go to Redmount Theater dot com shows almost old Mount
Theater dot org dot org red dot or almost messed
up theater.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
With the R E at the end, not e R.
So it's t h E a t R E.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Tickets almost sold that, right, Yeah, you better get your tickets.
And from what I'm told, yeah, I'll be apparently with
specially K on the second show.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
We're gonna bring my man j on on that second show.
Man're gonna let him do a little.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
You're gonna be there. Oh yeah, we'll be there.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Daryl gonna be there too. That's that's what people thinking.
People like, well, Damn and Darren gonna be there because
the Darrel ain't gonna be there for it.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I ain't gonna be there.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
People say, ain't gonna be there. I don't give a damn.
I didn't need to know what Daryl gonna be there.
That was somebody was saying, worry about especially K live
in the studio, spinch. I appreciate you, Special K.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Thank you sir.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
We do it alright, And before we stop, can I
get you to say this is special.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yo. This is your man, Special K from the Ricksmiley
Morning Show. And I'm listening to the J Walker Show
and you should too, so we do it.