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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, step by step amone industry, every corn and those
(00:26):
my big shoes stuffing by my.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sauls is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Crossing lines, they say, be well.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What I'm flying free without a cat. It's the Jay
Watt experience. No rules, no face, y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Walcome back, walcome back. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
I know every show. You hear me saying, O g legend.
This man right here is really a legend. From Martin
in Living Color. Uh Black, Dynald, Mike Booty, call my man,
tell me Davis? Thanksbook coming on?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
O Gee, thank you man?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Thanks taking how much your bus? The schedule? How you
doing it? How how's everybody doing?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm doing really good, man, I'm doing really good.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Let me mention because I haven't mentioned this to anybody
all day, and I've been doing me all day.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'm also in the.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
In the in the movie Outlaw Johnny Black with Michael
John White. Oh wow, yeah, he probably called me to
cuss me out.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So can you show with me your Can you show
me your journey into comedy?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How you got started in the entertainment industry?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Who boy, it's it?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It started unexpectedly because my friend Howard told me to
try it. After I told him I got a job
at the room oota end and he told me, you stupid.
You could be in Hollywood do a movie, doing all
this and you working at a remoda end. Man, you
just madage. You ain't got no job. So finally he
(02:07):
convinced the manager at his job, which was at a
strip cloud, let me go on the mic for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
And I did it. And I looked at him before
I went up there, I said, what do you want
me to say? He was like, okay, what'd you say?
Just say something? And from the first thing I said,
people laugh. And I'm sitting here right now. That's how
it started.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So in Living Color was a groundbreaking show the lesser career.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What was it like working with such a talented cast
and being a part of the show that has such
a cultural impact.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, now, it's beautiful. It's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I mean, you know, it's been over for you know,
we've been off the air for a while and it's
still still still making all of our careers.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
You know, I don't care what anybody says, Jennifer or
Jamie or anyone. Yeah, that's the bomb, that's our start.
You know, we're all going off into our own careers,
but that was the thing that was unique and different.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Wow, and you've had such a successful career from stand
up to acting, So how do you balance both careers?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And what? Do you have a prefact lovel one?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah? Paying bills?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
M hm, Yeah, there there's not Man, It's like it's
like trying to pick one of your children, you know
who's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I love them all.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I work hard at all of them. They all pay
their dividends. I'm really happy to be me. I'm really
happy that I reached the point where I can still
do something good for others. Man.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, wow, So comedy now is all this counter culture?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Mass now? Now? I know. Now we're gonna talk about
a little later that you own too with Cat Williams.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So is it difficult trying to, you know, stay fun
because you're funny? Is it difficult trying to be yourself
when I'm so worried about I'm going to offend somebody
in today's society.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
It's I guess it's hard to go around it. You know,
I never really have experience. I experience that because I
just don't do the kind of comedy that would make
somebody feel uncomfortable. Yeah, you know, I do the kind
of comedy that would make anyone laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
So, but I do understand a little bit about what
was happening in comedy. Was the edgy or the edgier
you could be, you know, or the or the more
controversial you could be, was was sexier?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You know, so laughs were replaced by reactions like.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh yeah that was that was that was the reaction
to a joke.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Now, oh my god, or or or or another.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Reaction is oh, that's hilarious, Oh my god, that that's funny.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's funny. That ain't what what what determines funny. What
determines funny is once you say a joke, the person's going.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know, all right, yeah you maybe laughs do it. So.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
One thing I love is that that you're an author
and you have a book Living in What's Funny About Me?
And in your book and Living Color What's Funny About Me,
you discussed your personal experiences and challenges.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
How is your life.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Journey influenced influence your comedy and your perspective on the world.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
My life has done that because it was my life
and I was able.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I was able to communicate it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I wasn't. I could have been demobilized by it. Yeah,
you know, I could have been demoralized by it.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I could have.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I could have been devastated by it. But I wasn't,
you know. And that's not because of me. That's because
there's a spirit higher than me that brought me through
my lower nature. Man, And and I've changed my nature. Yeah,
so I'm able to do what I couldn't do before. Yeah,
(07:00):
you know, I can see through. I can see through
things that used to make me think that I couldn't
do something.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I can see through.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I can see through situations that presented themselves that I said,
there's no way I can do that.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You know. My experience, thank God, you know, has kind
of thrust.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Me into the the the nothing's impossible zone.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Wow, So you you now you're a jazz artist.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
There you go, not being the impossible zone. You see
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Tell me about that. Now, I've been listening to your
new jazz. Tell tell us how how did you get
into jazz?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What was that like?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
How well I've been I've been in the smooth jazz,
you know, and I love jazz from as a kid.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
You know, there's different categories. I happened to be in the.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Smooth jazz category, you know, and I was that's the
kind of music that I started listening to to live with. Yeah,
you know, that's the kind of music that I've that
I would listen to when I do laundry or when
I'm thinking something, or when I need some time to myself.
The kind of music that made me reflect and made
(08:13):
me think of new ideas. That's the music that did.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
It for me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Although I love R and B, I love hip hop,
can't get enough of anything musically, but that I felt
was a good transition from me being a comedian yeah,
to a singer.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wow, that's my bridge yees.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So who's on your mount rustlore comedians? So who influenced
Tommy Davis? Who influence you?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oj?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Who prior? And Carlyn A goy named college, Charlie Fleischer Wow, Damon.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Oh yeah, and then my contemporaries and all of them there, Martin.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
D l.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I mean that going on and on about that group,
but you know Red Fox, Yeah, you know, on and on.
But you know, I go real deep after deep though
you know, I can say bing ground, I can say
I can say, Bob Hope.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Man, I'm I got I got you know, I got
a little bit all of it. Yeah, you know, I
got a little bit of all of it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So once you got coming up next? What movies and
projects you got coming up next? Movies?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I have Outlaw Johnny Black coming out. It's already out,
it's going and streaming. I have two other movies which
I need to be smack because I forget the name
of them.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
They they happen so fast.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's like, so I ain't gonna lie to lie.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Don't lie right right, don't lie.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You're gonna get caught right now.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, less that check up, don't lie.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Currently traveling the country with with with uh Kat Williams.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When y'all coming to Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
So say it again when you're when y'all coming to Birmingham.
I don't know that's a good question. Go to the
Tommy Davison dot com yep, yep, I was dot com,
got my tour.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yep and click.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You can also find all social media links from Tommy
Davison dot com and Tommy's current series Proud, The Proud
Family Live and Proud, which is just also received the
Emmy nomination.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Congratulations on that and hopefully come all back next year.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's right, that's right, you know see why not?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yep? Wow, thank you so much Achie for coming on.
I truly appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Man, thank you for having us. Man Thorry, that takes so.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Long, but we got it. I appreciate you. O.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
G all right, man, keep going, man, it's your turn.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Oh one more thing before you leave. Hold up, way,
we're gonna in the recording right here. Hold up wait, okay,
I'm gonna stop five three too. What I need you
to say? This is Tummy Davison. You listen to the
Jay Walker Show.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Okay, Hey, this is Tommy Davison. You're listening to the
Jerry Walker Show. You pretty bad, but I'm working working
with Jerry.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but special just walked in and tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That's okay, Tod Jay you want to experience, we'll go
the world next su
Oh, step by step amone industry, every corn and those
(00:26):
my big shoes stuffing by my.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sauls is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Crossing lines, they say, be well.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What I'm flying free without a cat. It's the Jay
Watt experience. No rules, no face, y'all.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Walcome back, walcome back. Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
I know every show. You hear me saying, O g legend.
This man right here is really a legend. From Martin
in Living Color. Uh Black, Dynald, Mike Booty, call my man,
tell me Davis? Thanksbook coming on?
Speaker 5 (01:07):
O Gee, thank you man?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Thanks taking how much your bus? The schedule? How you
doing it? How how's everybody doing?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm doing really good, man, I'm doing really good.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Let me mention because I haven't mentioned this to anybody
all day, and I've been doing me all day.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I'm also in the.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
In the in the movie Outlaw Johnny Black with Michael
John White. Oh wow, yeah, he probably called me to
cuss me out.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So can you show with me your Can you show
me your journey into comedy?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How you got started in the entertainment industry?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Who boy, it's it?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
It started unexpectedly because my friend Howard told me to
try it. After I told him I got a job
at the room oota end and he told me, you stupid.
You could be in Hollywood do a movie, doing all
this and you working at a remoda end. Man, you
just madage. You ain't got no job. So finally he
(02:07):
convinced the manager at his job, which was at a
strip cloud, let me go on the mic for five minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
And I did it. And I looked at him before
I went up there, I said, what do you want
me to say? He was like, okay, what'd you say?
Just say something? And from the first thing I said,
people laugh. And I'm sitting here right now. That's how
it started.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So in Living Color was a groundbreaking show the lesser career.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What was it like working with such a talented cast
and being a part of the show that has such
a cultural impact.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, now, it's beautiful. It's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
I mean, you know, it's been over for you know,
we've been off the air for a while and it's
still still still making all of our careers.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Uh huh.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
You know, I don't care what anybody says, Jennifer or
Jamie or anyone. Yeah, that's the bomb, that's our start.
You know, we're all going off into our own careers,
but that was the thing that was unique and different.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Wow, and you've had such a successful career from stand
up to acting, So how do you balance both careers?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
And what? Do you have a prefact lovel one?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah? Paying bills?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
M hm, Yeah, there there's not Man, It's like it's
like trying to pick one of your children, you know
who's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
I love them all.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I work hard at all of them. They all pay
their dividends. I'm really happy to be me. I'm really
happy that I reached the point where I can still
do something good for others. Man.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, wow, So comedy now is all this counter culture?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Mass now? Now? I know. Now we're gonna talk about
a little later that you own too with Cat Williams.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So is it difficult trying to, you know, stay fun
because you're funny? Is it difficult trying to be yourself
when I'm so worried about I'm going to offend somebody
in today's society.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
It's I guess it's hard to go around it. You know,
I never really have experience. I experience that because I
just don't do the kind of comedy that would make
somebody feel uncomfortable. Yeah, you know, I do the kind
of comedy that would make anyone laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
So, but I do understand a little bit about what
was happening in comedy. Was the edgy or the edgier
you could be, you know, or the or the more
controversial you could be, was was sexier?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You know, so laughs were replaced by reactions like.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh yeah that was that was that was the reaction
to a joke.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Now, oh my god, or or or or another.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Reaction is oh, that's hilarious, Oh my god, that that's funny.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That's funny. That ain't what what what determines funny. What
determines funny is once you say a joke, the person's going.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know, all right, yeah you maybe laughs do it. So.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
One thing I love is that that you're an author
and you have a book Living in What's Funny About Me?
And in your book and Living Color What's Funny About Me,
you discussed your personal experiences and challenges.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
How is your life.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Journey influenced influence your comedy and your perspective on the world.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
My life has done that because it was my life
and I was able.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I was able to communicate it.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I wasn't. I could have been demobilized by it. Yeah,
you know, I could have been demoralized by it.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I could have.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I could have been devastated by it. But I wasn't,
you know. And that's not because of me. That's because
there's a spirit higher than me that brought me through
my lower nature. Man, And and I've changed my nature. Yeah,
so I'm able to do what I couldn't do before. Yeah,
(07:00):
you know, I can see through. I can see through
things that used to make me think that I couldn't
do something.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I can see through.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I can see through situations that presented themselves that I said,
there's no way I can do that.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You know. My experience, thank God, you know, has kind
of thrust.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Me into the the the nothing's impossible zone.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Wow, So you you now you're a jazz artist.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
There you go, not being the impossible zone. You see
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Tell me about that. Now, I've been listening to your
new jazz. Tell tell us how how did you get
into jazz?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
What was that like?
Speaker 6 (07:44):
How well I've been I've been in the smooth jazz,
you know, and I love jazz from as a kid.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
You know, there's different categories. I happened to be in the.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Smooth jazz category, you know, and I was that's the
kind of music that I started listening to to live with. Yeah,
you know, that's the kind of music that I've that
I would listen to when I do laundry or when
I'm thinking something, or when I need some time to myself.
The kind of music that made me reflect and made
(08:13):
me think of new ideas. That's the music that did.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
It for me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Although I love R and B, I love hip hop,
can't get enough of anything musically, but that I felt
was a good transition from me being a comedian yeah,
to a singer.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wow, that's my bridge yees.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So who's on your mount rustlore comedians? So who influenced
Tommy Davis? Who influence you?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oj?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Who prior? And Carlyn A goy named college, Charlie Fleischer Wow, Damon.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Oh yeah, and then my contemporaries and all of them there, Martin.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
D l.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I mean that going on and on about that group,
but you know Red Fox, Yeah, you know, on and on.
But you know, I go real deep after deep though
you know, I can say bing ground, I can say
I can say, Bob Hope.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Man, I'm I got I got you know, I got
a little bit all of it. Yeah, you know, I
got a little bit of all of it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
So once you got coming up next? What movies and
projects you got coming up next? Movies?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
I have Outlaw Johnny Black coming out. It's already out,
it's going and streaming. I have two other movies which
I need to be smack because I forget the name
of them.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
They they happen so fast.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's like, so I ain't gonna lie to lie.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Don't lie right right, don't lie.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You're gonna get caught right now.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, less that check up, don't lie.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Currently traveling the country with with with uh Kat Williams.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
When y'all coming to Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
So say it again when you're when y'all coming to Birmingham.
I don't know that's a good question. Go to the
Tommy Davison dot com yep, yep, I was dot com,
got my tour.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yep and click.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You can also find all social media links from Tommy
Davison dot com and Tommy's current series Proud, The Proud
Family Live and Proud, which is just also received the
Emmy nomination.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Congratulations on that and hopefully come all back next year.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
That's right, that's right, you know see why not?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yep? Wow, thank you so much Achie for coming on.
I truly appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Man, thank you for having us. Man Thorry, that takes so.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Long, but we got it. I appreciate you. O.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
G all right, man, keep going, man, it's your turn.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Oh one more thing before you leave. Hold up, way,
we're gonna in the recording right here. Hold up wait, okay,
I'm gonna stop five three too. What I need you
to say? This is Tummy Davison. You listen to the
Jay Walker Show.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Okay, Hey, this is Tommy Davison. You're listening to the
Jerry Walker Show. You pretty bad, but I'm working working
with Jerry.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but special just walked in and tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That's okay, Tod Jay you want to experience, we'll go
the world next su
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