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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get on up and get down.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good money, Let's get this party started, y'all. Jail baby,
I'm trying to see what you got.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Come on, good mon good money, good morning. I see
you were back. We back. You know what coming is?
You know what com it is? Jaywalker? Come on, let's
(00:35):
go walk so Jay Walk the shop, the jay Walker Show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Tell you off the soap jack, the sock, the s Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shp, you were listening to the jay Walker Show.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Welcome back to the Jay Walker's Show. I am Jay Walker,
of course.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Today I have one of the greatest comedians to ever
walk this earth. I mean, he's too with everybody from
seeing him tending to Monique and actually I just saw
yesterday him and Monique is back on tour again. I
can't talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Gonna be good man.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Ladies and gentlemen, everybody stop what you're doing, stand up
on your feet, put your hands together, show your love,
the want and only Rotteney Perry.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Time for some cussing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I know, I know that's good about you doing. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
First of all, thank you man. It's an absolute honor. Man.
I know you have a choice over who you talk to,
and I appreciate you coming on here and talking to you. Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Man, I'm so greatful you coming on. I mean, we've
we've set dates before but it just didn't lining up.
And this time I said, we got to make this work.
So man, I want to get right into it. What
is it like being back on to a Monika again?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, I don't know if you can call it a
too yet. So I went to my agent at the
top of the year and I've been seeing all these
big shows and I'm like, why am I not one
of these big theater shows and asking you share receive
and she was like, yo, I got one for you
as Dallas, Texas and guess what your girl is headlining.
So it's always a pleasure to work with more Man,
mo Is is my friend, my family. We worked together
(02:20):
for the last decade and a half and she's just
the consummate professional and I think she's one of the
best comedians alive.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I totally agree with that. So getting them, I know,
I don't want to get too much into this, but
how do you feel on now? Like she's finally got
a net fo it special after years ago she was
going through so much trouble and legal trouble and all this.
How do you feel for more now that she's finally
got what she deserves.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, she and I have had conversations over the years,
and I told her that she may never benefit from
the stance she took and to see the world go
full circle and go with ma me Mo was right.
You know that is is nothing short of amazing. Man,
and she if she and I have had conversations more
(03:07):
recently about you know, how everything is kind of come
full circle and how she's ready for it and she's
always been ready for it. We always say, if you
stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yep. While we're talking about Netflix, man, what is the
Rotney parent Netflix special covering?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean, I see you know, you know, great question, Jay, Man.
I you know, I'm not in business with Netflix yet.
But the crazy part about working as long as I
have is, you know everybody and I know some integral
people over there, so something should be coming, you know,
near future, you know, with with some Netflix business. I
(03:47):
got to show right now on to B called Creative
Hustle that I host, and I'm super proud of that.
I'm a producer on executive producer on that so, I mean,
you know, my profile is growing. So you know, you
can never blame the platform, you know, you can you
can blame the situation. You know, sometimes the platform just
(04:08):
ain't ready for you at that moment. And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah. So I seen Birmingham, Alabama, So I was I
was doing a lot of research and I seen when
you actually shot, especially at the start a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That is that is very true. Uh, it's still out there.
It's on TV as well, Amazon, Prime Man. And the
guy that I shot that with, what's his name just
slipped my mind A Barrett Dungeee and uh myself and
who a shot that day? Somebody else shot a special.
(04:43):
I believe Alex Thomas.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A couple of a couple of us shot the same
day in that space, and uh, it's it's not a
bad special, it's not. I mean, I wouldn't call it
even a special because it was. It was just it's
really a money grab for me. And uh, but it's
still out there, man, and it's a calling card. That's
what I was doing at that moment. You know. You know,
(05:08):
some of my classic jokes got recorded on that space,
and so I'm proud of it, you know, and if
you get a chance to watch it, man get your laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And also you did you did another one with it
was it was like you were hosting. It was Michael
Callier and all these other different comedities.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Also on to gospel piece. It's a gospel piece. It's
clean and dude. It was that like before people were
doing specials. People were doing specials, and so you know,
people would come to you and the bag would be
cool and you would do it. I actually got a
special nobody's ever saw. I shot All Star Weekend myself,
(05:48):
an earthquake. We had the same management at the time. Wow.
And you know it's crazy to see earthquake on top
of the world now, but you shot a special together
on All Star Weekend Orlando, Florida, and and they retain
ownership of it. But it reverts back to me like
as of like right now, wow, And so I may
(06:08):
be re seeing that piece of yees.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So I wanted to ask you this so well. I
want to say this. A lot of people don't know
when you're going to be. There are a lot of
specials like Jamie Fox hosted I can't I can't remember
the name of it. There are so many like.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm I'm on probably two or three of them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like that was the Netflix.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
This is what you don't see. You don't see none
of our comic view stuff, you know, and I'm not
sure who owns that stuff, but you would be It
would be great for people to be able to see
common View right now. I think it would have some power.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And if you think about what if they redid coming
to you for today's generational comedians, meant wow, that would
be amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean, we did a comic view maybe seven eight
years ago. Some More hosted right here in Atlanta showcase
comedians like Pretty Ricky was on there. I believe, uh
some More was the host. It was a great common
View to me, but it never did catch catch the win. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So let me ask you this, how did you get
your started coming? Like what inspired you to be like
I want to be a comedian?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like, well, my deep inspiration is, of course Richard Pryor.
You know, I saw Richard. My parents used to have
get together at the crib and they would listen to
party records Richard Pryor Moles mainly Red Fox, and I
would lay on the floor and listen to them, and
that that guy, Richard Pryor I became a complete fan
(07:42):
of and I consumed everything he ever said. Uh, but
it was Eddie Murphy that gave me a picture of
a dark skinned guy that was a rock star. Yeah,
that's what I was like, I want that's it, That's
what I am. And so Eddie Murphy gave me that picture.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Man, speaking of Eddie Murphy, you just did come into America,
coming to America, How what was that experience?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Like, like, what, man, dude? Again, the reason you tell
jokes is this guy and he walks on set and
he goes, good morning Rodney Perry, and I'm like, yo, hey,
it was bananas man, And I know he was like, man,
what's up to do the tripping because it's a couple
times I speak back because I was like, he ain't
talking to me. I ain't no way this dude talking
(08:31):
to me. But you know what you do. The real
walk away from it, though, is he's still the funniest
guy in the room. And also, how about this, he's
really regal, like Eddie Murphy is like being around a
real king, you know. Of course, city and attained Steve Harvey,
Burnie mag and dl Hulet are our kings of comedy.
(08:53):
But Eddie Murphy is a king. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I was watching him on this renative I was
coming to America.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Spit that out and spit that out, little little post
names of driven.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I was watching him do a press coming to America time,
and he did. He said they were going to do
a tour called Comic all Over.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
America, Coming all over.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The first name that he mentioned was Rodney Perry. How
did that make you feel, dude? So here's the crazy
about Jay. I get called like Eddie Murphy just shouted
you out. And he did it like four times. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So he did it that one time and I was like,
and I missed it, and I was like, man, you know,
man said my name. Well, that was cool. That was cool.
Then he did it again on a late night talk.
Then again we got comments. We got a bunch of
comments in the show. And you know, I love working
with the young comics. When we got Rodney Perry got
he said my name before, like Leslie Jones, he said
my name before. Yeah, Yo, Mike Blaxton, he said my
(09:56):
name before a lot of people, And you know, it
was it was a pleasure. You know, that's God, that's God. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Wow, I just I just don't imagine what it's like
working with Eddie Murphy. So you tour with said entertainer, right,
I did? What was that like? Was it? Was it
post Kings of Comedy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Post Kings of Comedy? So said, comes off to with
the Kings? Uh, And I guess he had a mind
to kind of give back. Wow, so said it said,
picked a bunch of us from the Bay Area of
Black comedy competition, myself, Mark Howard, uh, Dominique Uh? Who
(10:38):
else was on? So many good comedians man, so many
good comedians, and I ended up winning. No, no, no, I
didn't win that year. I can't. I made it to
the semifinals. So Sid's role manager and I kind of bonded.
He was like, yo, ride, can you give me a
ride to my hotel? And I was in the Bay Area.
(10:58):
I had my boy's car, like I got you, So
I'm about to take them to the hotel. Then some
girls was like, yo, can you give us a ride
to our hotel? They lived, They was living in Oakland,
So no other way to bond for guys than over girls.
And nothing happened. Nothing like that. But we you know,
I was like, Yo, this dude, forgive me, y'all need
(11:20):
to be talking to this dude, this dude that says
romantic blah blah. He's like, Roger, you're cool. I'm gonna
hook you up with said wow, he told me that.
In my mind, I was like, no, he why he
lined his name was Kevin Bland. Shout out out to
Kevin Bland. He wasn't lying. I get a call maybe
two weeks later, Hey, Rod, can you go on tour? Said,
(11:43):
And the way the tour went, it wasn't a multiple
day tour. First of all, it was one day. Wow.
And and so I took the date and the way
it worked, I mean, first of all, said, everything was
first class. So this is a way we've never traveled.
So they would send a cardio house. It was like
I was going to prominent. When when they picked us up,
(12:06):
and that's the end. My family came out. We took pictures,
we had We took pictures like it was. I still
got the picture standing on on the U I had
a suit on going to the airport. Wow, I mean
said for the first time at the airport, he was cool.
But again comics don't really know you till they know you.
(12:27):
We have to see you work, right, So come down
to the lobby. Get to the lobby. My first time
standing at the five star hotel, the Athenaeum in Detroit. Wow,
way to tour work. You're flying to that that city.
Do the show. Tour bus to the next city, fly
out of the next city. Wow, it was Detroit and
any that weekend. I did Detroit. I smash after the show.
(12:51):
Said it's like a I alight, little little daddy, I
see you know, like said said, gave me some love.
All right. We we tour bus to the next city.
Now we all we together all day the next day
playing Madden on the tour bus, having a good time.
We get to the next city. It was like six
of us on the show. So it was said do
(13:12):
thirty Uh, we perform intermission, said come back, do thirty more,
and then we would We would do our our but
our minutes and had a wonderful set in Indianapolis. And
I'm headed back home. I got a little two way
page that the big one. I text Kelvin Blaine. I
(13:34):
text him said, hey man, thank you so much. I
really appreciate the gig. I appreciate. Man, I'm headed back
home and dude, I appreciate y'all. He hits me back immediately.
Jay Wow, He's like, look, dog, can you do next week?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Wo?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Somebody had fell out. Mark Howard's father was ill, so
he could not go. So I go and I played.
The next week is Dallas and Hugheston. I know this
is a long story, but trust me. So we we
in Dallas. We flying to Dallas. We do the show
in Dallas. But the Houston floods, right, Houston is prone
(14:16):
to flood. Houston floods. The following day, we do not
go to Houston. I'm thinking they're gonna send us home.
They say no, it's more economic for us to stay
here one day and then fly. So we do that Dallas.
We stay in Downas. The following day is a beautiful day.
We play basketball. Now we just men, We just me
(14:38):
and we're just balling, dudees, balling, talking trash, you know,
having a good time myself. JJ Williamson, Juan villar Reale,
a little duval. Uh, it's it's six of us, said
to his guys. He got another three or four guys,
so we got full court mhm, says I. That's the
first time I get to sit down and talk with
(14:59):
the one on one. So I'm talking to him one
on one and he's like, Yo, man, I like the
way you dress, you carry yourself. You're a good dude, man,
Ridney Perry. Okay, okay, you do your day like word.
Hey guys, tonight eight o'clock, were going to dinner. Put
on your good clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We go to dinner. First of all, we don't know
if we gotta pay or nothing. Hey Walker jay Walker,
we all dude, this said pay of this. So we
gotta pay because I ain't got no money for no
no meal. We pour, We get to the we get
to the restaurant. Everybody kind of timid said say, I
(15:41):
got y'all get whatever you want? Wow? He like whatever
you want? He said, get whatever you want. I said,
you sure, said, man, get whatever you want? All right,
So we ordered steaks. We're gonna shrimp, lobster. You know, dude,
just getting whatever they want. Great meal. But the night
(16:02):
ain't over. J Walker Wow said say, man, y'all want
to go. I just got to text some kid Capri kick.
We got a party night. We're going to the Ki
Capri party. Wow, have you ever been Jay Walker? Have
you ever been to a kickingpri part? I've never been
to a kick So this is what I found out.
DJ's are like comics. So there's an opener. He's mash,
(16:25):
he kills, He's seven minutes, He's mash. Another guy, come on,
he got thirty Wow, twenty five thirty he dropped fire.
Ladies and gentlemen come to take We in the booth
with Kid Capri. Wow, we ain't looking up at kickbre
We We what's my zodiaccent? We say me, said all
(16:49):
of us. We in the VIP, We in the we
in the booth. Kick Capri is being light skinned. He
is in jay He is in the booth. Kill dude,
kick a preplayed nothing but his he did one hour. Wow,
this dude destroyed.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The room was in his. It was in pandemonium. Said,
takes us back to our hotel and we float into
the lobby. We went to our rooms, we calling each other.
We end up meeting the lobby and just like, dude,
do you realize what just happened to us? And so
(17:31):
I did that date and that that opened up the
doors to me getting more dates. That summer so I
had did the Bay Area, mind you, that's what they
saw me at made it to the semifinals. Then I
do a summer of touring with Sid Entertained, King of Comedy. Wow,
I was so ready when I went back to following
(17:51):
year to the competition.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I ended up winning. Wow, I won the bear competition.
Connie coming the following year to the one. That's what
that's when that was. And when I tell you that,
that created uh an opportunity with said, so said, it's
got a TV show coming up called, uh do I
have it here? I'm sure I do. I don't know
(18:17):
where it is, but said had a show called Cedric
the Entertainer Presents Show on Fox and it should have went.
It should have been a success. The only thing to
help it got preempted by baseball that year, right, and
(18:39):
Dave Chappelle hit at the same time. Wow, so so
said called me personally like your dog, I want you
to warm up this show. Do you know what audience
warm up is? So for for your audience. When you
see a live show, there's usually a comedian or somebody
there to keep the show energized between takes. I was
(19:00):
that guy for said show, myself and Alex Thomas and dude.
It was such a great experience. It was my It
was my me seeing Hollywood up close without none of
the ramifications. So I was warm with the shows and
do all this stuff. I would be out there with
the audience longer than them because I was. I was
out there five six hours a night, and I was
(19:22):
making money. I was getting fifteen hundred a show in La.
I was rich, Jay Walker. I was rich because I
was working Thursday and Friday. I was getting three thousand
dollars a week. I was rich. And that was that
(19:44):
was That was my intro to said. I got some
opportunities to perform on that show as well, and that
show ended up getting canceled again. Kevin Bland. I never
forget this guy. I run into him in La. I
know they're about to shoot aim movie because I got
a chance to play Cedric's brother on the at the
table read. Uh huh yo, you we need we need Rod.
(20:08):
I did the table. I had never done the table ree,
but I understood it. I do the table read. I
told my wife they might they might hire me because
I killed the table. They didn't hire me, but and
this job from the vacation right. See see I'm leading.
I'm leading you up, Jay walk So so I run.
I running the KB on the streets in La. It's
been a couple of weeks the show has been canceled.
(20:29):
I ain't seen none of these guys. I running the KB,
I said, KB. I know y'all doing a movie. I
need a movie. He said, Rod, I got you again.
I think he lying. He was not lying. He called
me the following day. I go in. I was supposed
to play cousin Lump. Just asked me today, what was
(20:51):
your name and your carrick? I couldn't remember cousin lump. Uh.
I go in now. The way the script was written,
I supposed to be much bigger. They end up rewriting
the script for my character. They hired me and and
I went on to play Johnson Fellly vacation with said
entertaining Steve Harvey Man it was. It was a great experience.
(21:13):
I wouldn't trade it for none in the world. And
then also created an atmosphere where I met. I met
Steve on the setting. He and I began to work
for Steve shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Wow, so was this a Steve Harvey Show, the sitcom
or the talk show, or.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I worked with Steve Harvey. I worked. I worked on
Steve Harvey's Steve Harvey's a big Steve Harvey. It was
a variety show. Okay, it was Steve. So he's doing
radio at this time in La Now. The show this
now is Steve Harvey in the Morning in l A.
And so he's doing that, and it's called Steve Harvey's
(21:52):
Big Time.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No, Steve Harvey's Big Time.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So it was. It was a short lived show. But
every day Steve Harvey is is valuable because he would
drop jewels on us every day. Let me ask you
a question righting in Pete, what you want out of this?
What you mean Steve? We see see see I'm mad
(22:16):
with my wife. But guess what I can't do. I
can't go to Albe's with my lady turn into something else.
So you got to ask yourself when it don't matter,
if this is what you want. Yeah, he would give
you a little jewels like that all the time. And
so me and Thomas Miles, who is nephew Tommy, we
worked in the writer's room on that show and we
wrote for Steve. We wrote his monologue and any bits
(22:38):
he did. We did that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's nephew's real nephew.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They don't say otherwise, so I'm not gonna say otherwise.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But okay, yeah, okay, I'm gonna leave that alone. Okay,
So you worked with Tyler Perry.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I did.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And but DEA's Big Habit Family probably one. Well, want
to Tyler, I think it's his best movie. Yes, I
love that Big happy Family because it just the story
just went so well and it just did something better
than any of any one of them, any one of
his other movies, regardless of Yah. So Tim, what was
that like?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So Mydea's Big Heavy Family, Let's start with how I
booked it. I auditioned Roger Bob, who at that time
was Tyler Perry's right hand man. He's to Roger Bob
is a director of producer, blah blah blah. Roger Bob
comes randomly. One of his his management folks was my friend.
(23:39):
So they invite him to see me live. Roger Bob
comes to see my live stand up show. After the show,
he's like, yo, dude, you funny. I might have something
for you. Right. This is a Thursday, Friday, Friday morning
I get a call, Hey, so on and so from
time from Roger Bob's off. He wants you to come
(24:01):
in and read for the role of Herald. Wow. I'm like, okay,
all right, jay Walker. You've been on auditions, right, No,
I've never auditioned for it. Well, generally speaking, if you're
on audition two pages of dialogue tops, not more than three.
They sent me ten pages of dialogue. Wow. I'm like,
(24:22):
this is too much. I'm not I'm not gonna make this.
But I read it, and when I read it, I
was like, I know this guy. It was a married guy.
He was having issues with his wife, his family, his kids.
I'm that guy that I lived his life. I know
what it's like for you and your wife to go
through the ups and downs. I know what it. At
that time, I was probably married Shoes twenty years, No,
(24:44):
not even about fifteen years then, So I felt like
I knew him. So I read it and I was
just it, just I just took to the material. Then
I go to an audition, our audition with a young
lady named Alpha Tyler. Alpha Tyler at that time to
me was she is still one of the best people
I've ever read for I mean everything is on tape now.
(25:06):
They don't even in the room no more. She's like,
we need to come in. Just feed that noise a lot,
do your best, and if you gotta do it over,
we'll do it over. I'm like, no pressure, jay Walker.
I go ahead and I smash it. Wow, kay Walker,
I smashed it up this audition. Alpha Title's like, Yo,
(25:29):
your rightny period, that was good. You know what, stay
right here. He going to another room with Tyler's other hand,
left hand hand. You know. Turns out this guy is
the same guy that did casting for Johnson Family Vacation. Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Okay, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now now God is conspiring on my behalf full right,
so we full circle you go. Hey man, I feel
like I know you. I was like I was in
John's foundation. Oh my god, you are the DJ. Yeah,
give me the job right now. Oh they had work, Yo,
you need to read. So I read again, Tyler Alpha Tyler,
(26:12):
and I read again. He was like, okay, that was good.
Right there. He picks up the phone and called Tyler Perry. Hey, Tyler,
what's up man? You're busy? Yeah, I'm busy. I'm always busy.
Uh well, we got a potential. It was my name, Harold.
(26:33):
He said, all right, let me hear on the phone
Tyler Perry, Alpha Tyler and the other executive. I read,
kill it again. Now I'm almost I'm really off book.
Now I'm like, I'm killing it. So Tyler Verry, I
like that. What's his name, Rodney Perry. Rodney Perry. Wait
(26:55):
a minute, we related.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But if that's gonna help me, he keep me funny.
All right, long story short, jay Walker. I'm going home.
I start getting calls from wardrobe. I was like, yo,
we need you to come in, and I'm like, ma'am,
I think you need to call somebody else because they
haven't given me this job yet. She's like, oh my god,
I'm sorry, sir. And they called back five minutes later like, YO,
(27:20):
we're sorry about that, but you got the job of hair. Wow. Family,
It's a Friday. By Monday. If you remember the movie,
I was chopping a block of ice.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That scene was up Monday morning and and I have
I have a moment when I say, uh, I'm chopping ice,
and I said I get more love in jail. I'm
like that. I improvised that moment and that was the
first moment I made Tyler Perry laugh and he was like,
oh he funny. I like him, you know. And so
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that was the beginning and they let me have some
moments in the movie man, thank god.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So what was it like?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What was he directed? Was he he was?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
He was writer, producer, director, two characters, three characters. Dude.
The guy literally did everything. I think I saw him
paint some sets.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You know now, now this is what Tyler Perry will
do as an actor. Any actors listening. He wrote every word.
So if you take a long breath, like you don't
know your line when you take your line, wow, Madia
will do your line for you. Wow. So he got
a thing like if you know you sit on your
(28:33):
butt so much that that was just me taking that
was my line. Wow, he took it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wow. That's another story. So, so you worked with the
show Me the Browns, which is one, in my opinion,
on the funniest sitcoms ever. Like, I don't think that
show gets the credit it deserves.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
David Man and Tamila Man are genius. Man what Man?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I love that show. So what was it like working
with David and Tamwall on that show?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You what I mean. I mean one of my buddies,
David Arnold, who's passed. He was one of the writers
on there. So it's a fast day. Tyler Perryworld is
a fast day. You go in there, you go through
a walking, blocking rehearsal. Nine am, get you some donuts
or some whatever they got that day. Do that. By
(29:21):
noon they have changed the script whatever they're gonna change it.
By one o'clock, right after lunch, you do lunch. Twelve
thirty iset you back on set. You shoot. Yo. I
was at home though, three thirty four o'clock. Wow, literally
(29:42):
one day, one day shooting. And my episode was really
funny too. And that's too. I still get get resilted
checks and credit from that show to the date. So
man loved to meet the Browns man. It was. It
was a great show. So I worked with Tyler twice
and I read for Alpha Tyler again to get that role. Wow.
So actually precursored Madea's Big Happy Family.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh wow, Oh so that's that episode was before BEA's
Big Family.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Absolutely, very true.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, yeah, you're right, because that led to the table
where they start working with him. If I'm not mistaken,
that was the last Family did with him, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So let me ask you this, Can you give me
your mount rushmore of comedians? I know you get asked
this a lot, but I want to I want to
have I.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Want to have Richard Richard, Richard, Eddie Murphy Chappelle and
who is my four I put my Nique on there? Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And I was gonna say, can you give me your
four female mount rustmore of comedians? But you gave me
my knee on that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I mean, if I had to do something with just women,
I would pick Lord Hayes. Oh wow, she don't get
the credit she deserves. I would pick absolutely some more.
Her current special out is very very good, man.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I watched the last night on Netflix. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, very very good. Of course, Monique all women and
you know what, I'm gonna throw flame my role on there,
just to keep it real.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, I'm throwing it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Wow. So writing Perry, what, well you have a new
radio show. Tell us about that new more show.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, I do a show daily man. You know, during
the pandemic, I just wanted to keep myself busy and
I created a show called Rodney Perry Live. And I
was also looking to create content on social for my
my YouTube page. And so this show Rodney Perry Live.
I do it every day and people don't take you
serious till you get to one hundred episodes. So I
(31:52):
did the show every day so I can get to
one hundred episodes fast. So I'm at one hundred and
thirty two episodes right now, thirty two of those from
this year. Wow, And I'm excited. Man.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Uh. The show is basically me. We do ninety minutes
a day. I got some people I call the usual suspects,
people like, uh, mister Hobgood who pops in all the time,
and Traumaa who pops in all the time, Gina g
who pops in all the time. Uh. And I do
my comedy co host, which is a comedian that that
(32:26):
that's that's my right hand. Each day I do a
different person, So like Jay Walker, I'll be calling you man,
come rock with me one moment, you know. And we
use this platform stream yard to do it. And we
go out to we go out to my YouTube, we
go out to Facebook, we go out to Media Room
three sixty, which is my my uh my partner in
(32:47):
crime in terms of distributing us to other platforms and
I maybe getting a national liquor sponsor real soon. Wow,
that's that's up next. Yeah, you know wow.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
So what upcoming projects do you have, like, you know,
any TV shows and movies and.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I've done uh, I'll just be working dog Man movie.
I did a show Cold and Windy which was on
which is was on uh we TV and All Black
if I'm not mistaken that that just wrapped up its
(33:27):
final episode. But you can stream it on Apple TV
or We TV. Uh, that's out in the streets. I
just shot a movie called The Bed and Breakfast. It
it is a not a drama but a suspense thriller.
And I'm like number shoot number two on the call
sheet for That's so many things I do working man,
(33:51):
And you know, the acting stuff keeps me relevant when
you know when and stands in the gap for some
of the comedy stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And of course I'm always touring. This is my next question.
When you're coming back to Birmingham, I'm coming to see you.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I should be. I should be. It's about time for
me to h to book Birmingham and game. So I
would it's not on the books, but I would say
definitely probably around June.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Ish, Bruce, we need to set this up.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Bruce, get great as from Birmingham the Star Dome right there, Birmham, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
So any other So we're gonna be at this weekend
where you off this weekend?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Right, I'm off this weekend and I'm at home next weekend.
I do. I got a screening for my for a
movie I did. Uh, don't ask me the title.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Okay, I got you uh.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And uh, I'm I just had a conversation with Fred Hammond.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I might be doing a national national touring play.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So we're trying to figure that out right now. But
uh yeah, jay Walker, we're just trying to feed these
papers man.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So one more question off, I'll let you go. So
before you go on stage, what is that one thing,
like just that one thing that Rodney Period has to
do for you on stage?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You know what? I'm gonna say this too, and it's
to all the comics that will listen. I don't do
none of the typical stuff. I'm not shadow boxing, I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Not you know, coming back.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You know, I don't pray right before I go on
and and I'm delivered in that because I think people
wait to posture or let me go and get it. Prayer,
y'all ready to pray? You'll be like you never pray.
I pray in the morning and before I go to
bed like everybody else. What do I do before I
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walk on stage? Man? I asked God to leave my
lead guy, my steps and my thoughts and uh. And
then I put out, you know, something worthy and and uh,
something that that he would appreciate. Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, Well one last question. I just thought about this.
So when you go on tour, what is the one
thing that you have to have with you? Like, what's
what's the one thing you should.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Take my PlayStation everywhere? I don't do that no more.
What do I What do I need?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
My phone?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know? I keep my notes on my phone. I
record every set, you know. Uh. And that's that's a
fundamental comedy thing, you know. Comedians like I don't make
a video because it's just too much work. But I
take my phone on stage and I record myself every
single set, and I try my best to go back
and listen to it because you can come up with
(36:32):
jews sometimes just on a riff, and so I just
don't want to miss any of that stuff. Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So Rodney, let everybody know where you can be reached
on social media.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I mean, either find Rodney Perry Live on all social media. Man.
Rodney Perry dot com is the website Rodney Perry Live.
On the YouTube follow the YouTube page and come check
out the show.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
We there every day, all right, joll thank you writing parents,
so it's coming on some today. Man, I truly appreciate
you from thett of my heart. It was greatly It
was just such a great interview. I appreciate you so
much right in the period and I hopefully come on your.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
So so hey consider it done. Jay Walker in the
building peace.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Thank you Jay, all right, Roddy
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Su
Get on up and get down.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good money, Let's get this party started, y'all. Jail baby,
I'm trying to see what you got.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Come on, good mon good money, good morning. I see
you were back. We back. You know what coming is?
You know what com it is? Jaywalker? Come on, let's
(00:35):
go walk so Jay Walk the shop, the jay Walker Show.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Tell you off the soap jack, the sock, the s Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shp, you were listening to the jay Walker Show.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Welcome back to the Jay Walker's Show. I am Jay Walker,
of course.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Today I have one of the greatest comedians to ever
walk this earth. I mean, he's too with everybody from
seeing him tending to Monique and actually I just saw
yesterday him and Monique is back on tour again. I
can't talk about that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Gonna be good man.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Ladies and gentlemen, everybody stop what you're doing, stand up
on your feet, put your hands together, show your love,
the want and only Rotteney Perry.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Time for some cussing.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I know, I know that's good about you doing. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
First of all, thank you man. It's an absolute honor. Man.
I know you have a choice over who you talk to,
and I appreciate you coming on here and talking to you. Boy.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Man, I'm so greatful you coming on. I mean, we've
we've set dates before but it just didn't lining up.
And this time I said, we got to make this work.
So man, I want to get right into it. What
is it like being back on to a Monika again?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Well, I don't know if you can call it a
too yet. So I went to my agent at the
top of the year and I've been seeing all these
big shows and I'm like, why am I not one
of these big theater shows and asking you share receive
and she was like, yo, I got one for you
as Dallas, Texas and guess what your girl is headlining.
So it's always a pleasure to work with more Man,
mo Is is my friend, my family. We worked together
(02:20):
for the last decade and a half and she's just
the consummate professional and I think she's one of the
best comedians alive.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I totally agree with that. So getting them, I know,
I don't want to get too much into this, but
how do you feel on now? Like she's finally got
a net fo it special after years ago she was
going through so much trouble and legal trouble and all this.
How do you feel for more now that she's finally
got what she deserves.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You know, she and I have had conversations over the years,
and I told her that she may never benefit from
the stance she took and to see the world go
full circle and go with ma me Mo was right.
You know that is is nothing short of amazing. Man,
and she if she and I have had conversations more
(03:07):
recently about you know, how everything is kind of come
full circle and how she's ready for it and she's
always been ready for it. We always say, if you
stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yep. While we're talking about Netflix, man, what is the
Rotney parent Netflix special covering?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean, I see you know, you know, great question, Jay, Man.
I you know, I'm not in business with Netflix yet.
But the crazy part about working as long as I
have is, you know everybody and I know some integral
people over there, so something should be coming, you know,
near future, you know, with with some Netflix business. I
(03:47):
got to show right now on to B called Creative
Hustle that I host, and I'm super proud of that.
I'm a producer on executive producer on that so, I mean,
you know, my profile is growing. So you know, you
can never blame the platform, you know, you can you
can blame the situation. You know, sometimes the platform just
(04:08):
ain't ready for you at that moment. And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah. So I seen Birmingham, Alabama, So I was I
was doing a lot of research and I seen when
you actually shot, especially at the start a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
That is that is very true. Uh, it's still out there.
It's on TV as well, Amazon, Prime Man. And the
guy that I shot that with, what's his name just
slipped my mind A Barrett Dungeee and uh myself and
who a shot that day? Somebody else shot a special.
(04:43):
I believe Alex Thomas.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
A couple of a couple of us shot the same
day in that space, and uh, it's it's not a
bad special, it's not. I mean, I wouldn't call it
even a special because it was. It was just it's
really a money grab for me. And uh, but it's
still out there, man, and it's a calling card. That's
what I was doing at that moment. You know. You know,
(05:08):
some of my classic jokes got recorded on that space,
and so I'm proud of it, you know, and if
you get a chance to watch it, man get your laugh.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And also you did you did another one with it
was it was like you were hosting. It was Michael
Callier and all these other different comedities.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Also on to gospel piece. It's a gospel piece. It's
clean and dude. It was that like before people were
doing specials. People were doing specials, and so you know,
people would come to you and the bag would be
cool and you would do it. I actually got a
special nobody's ever saw. I shot All Star Weekend myself,
(05:48):
an earthquake. We had the same management at the time. Wow.
And you know it's crazy to see earthquake on top
of the world now, but you shot a special together
on All Star Weekend Orlando, Florida, and and they retain
ownership of it. But it reverts back to me like
as of like right now, wow, And so I may
(06:08):
be re seeing that piece of yees.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So I wanted to ask you this so well. I
want to say this. A lot of people don't know
when you're going to be. There are a lot of
specials like Jamie Fox hosted I can't I can't remember
the name of it. There are so many like.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm I'm on probably two or three of them.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like that was the Netflix.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
This is what you don't see. You don't see none
of our comic view stuff, you know, and I'm not
sure who owns that stuff, but you would be It
would be great for people to be able to see
common View right now. I think it would have some power.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And if you think about what if they redid coming
to you for today's generational comedians, meant wow, that would
be amazing.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I mean, we did a comic view maybe seven eight
years ago. Some More hosted right here in Atlanta showcase
comedians like Pretty Ricky was on there. I believe, uh
some More was the host. It was a great common
View to me, but it never did catch catch the win. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So let me ask you this, how did you get
your started coming? Like what inspired you to be like
I want to be a comedian?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like, well, my deep inspiration is, of course Richard Pryor.
You know, I saw Richard. My parents used to have
get together at the crib and they would listen to
party records Richard Pryor Moles mainly Red Fox, and I
would lay on the floor and listen to them, and
that that guy, Richard Pryor I became a complete fan
(07:42):
of and I consumed everything he ever said. Uh, but
it was Eddie Murphy that gave me a picture of
a dark skinned guy that was a rock star. Yeah,
that's what I was like, I want that's it, That's
what I am. And so Eddie Murphy gave me that picture.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Man, speaking of Eddie Murphy, you just did come into America,
coming to America, How what was that experience?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Like, like, what, man, dude? Again, the reason you tell
jokes is this guy and he walks on set and
he goes, good morning Rodney Perry, and I'm like, yo, hey,
it was bananas man, And I know he was like, man,
what's up to do the tripping because it's a couple
times I speak back because I was like, he ain't
talking to me. I ain't no way this dude talking
(08:31):
to me. But you know what you do. The real
walk away from it, though, is he's still the funniest
guy in the room. And also, how about this, he's
really regal, like Eddie Murphy is like being around a
real king, you know. Of course, city and attained Steve Harvey,
Burnie mag and dl Hulet are our kings of comedy.
(08:53):
But Eddie Murphy is a king. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I was watching him on this renative I was
coming to America.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Spit that out and spit that out, little little post
names of driven.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I was watching him do a press coming to America time,
and he did. He said they were going to do
a tour called Comic all Over.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
America, Coming all over.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The first name that he mentioned was Rodney Perry. How
did that make you feel, dude? So here's the crazy
about Jay. I get called like Eddie Murphy just shouted
you out. And he did it like four times. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So he did it that one time and I was like,
and I missed it, and I was like, man, you know,
man said my name. Well, that was cool. That was cool.
Then he did it again on a late night talk.
Then again we got comments. We got a bunch of
comments in the show. And you know, I love working
with the young comics. When we got Rodney Perry got
he said my name before, like Leslie Jones, he said
my name before. Yeah, Yo, Mike Blaxton, he said my
(09:56):
name before a lot of people, And you know, it
was it was a pleasure. You know, that's God, that's God. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Wow, I just I just don't imagine what it's like
working with Eddie Murphy. So you tour with said entertainer, right,
I did? What was that like? Was it? Was it
post Kings of Comedy?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Post Kings of Comedy? So said, comes off to with
the Kings? Uh, And I guess he had a mind
to kind of give back. Wow, so said it said,
picked a bunch of us from the Bay Area of
Black comedy competition, myself, Mark Howard, uh, Dominique Uh? Who
(10:38):
else was on? So many good comedians man, so many
good comedians, and I ended up winning. No, no, no, I
didn't win that year. I can't. I made it to
the semifinals. So Sid's role manager and I kind of bonded.
He was like, yo, ride, can you give me a
ride to my hotel? And I was in the Bay Area.
(10:58):
I had my boy's car, like I got you, So
I'm about to take them to the hotel. Then some
girls was like, yo, can you give us a ride
to our hotel? They lived, They was living in Oakland,
So no other way to bond for guys than over girls.
And nothing happened. Nothing like that. But we you know,
I was like, Yo, this dude, forgive me, y'all need
(11:20):
to be talking to this dude, this dude that says
romantic blah blah. He's like, Roger, you're cool. I'm gonna
hook you up with said wow, he told me that.
In my mind, I was like, no, he why he
lined his name was Kevin Bland. Shout out out to
Kevin Bland. He wasn't lying. I get a call maybe
two weeks later, Hey, Rod, can you go on tour? Said,
(11:43):
And the way the tour went, it wasn't a multiple
day tour. First of all, it was one day. Wow.
And and so I took the date and the way
it worked, I mean, first of all, said, everything was
first class. So this is a way we've never traveled.
So they would send a cardio house. It was like
I was going to prominent. When when they picked us up,
(12:06):
and that's the end. My family came out. We took pictures,
we had We took pictures like it was. I still
got the picture standing on on the U I had
a suit on going to the airport. Wow, I mean
said for the first time at the airport, he was cool.
But again comics don't really know you till they know you.
(12:27):
We have to see you work, right, So come down
to the lobby. Get to the lobby. My first time
standing at the five star hotel, the Athenaeum in Detroit. Wow,
way to tour work. You're flying to that that city.
Do the show. Tour bus to the next city, fly
out of the next city. Wow, it was Detroit and
any that weekend. I did Detroit. I smash after the show.
(12:51):
Said it's like a I alight, little little daddy, I
see you know, like said said, gave me some love.
All right. We we tour bus to the next city.
Now we all we together all day the next day
playing Madden on the tour bus, having a good time.
We get to the next city. It was like six
of us on the show. So it was said do
(13:12):
thirty Uh, we perform intermission, said come back, do thirty more,
and then we would We would do our our but
our minutes and had a wonderful set in Indianapolis. And
I'm headed back home. I got a little two way
page that the big one. I text Kelvin Blaine. I
(13:34):
text him said, hey man, thank you so much. I
really appreciate the gig. I appreciate. Man, I'm headed back
home and dude, I appreciate y'all. He hits me back immediately.
Jay Wow, He's like, look, dog, can you do next week?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Wo?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Somebody had fell out. Mark Howard's father was ill, so
he could not go. So I go and I played.
The next week is Dallas and Hugheston. I know this
is a long story, but trust me. So we we
in Dallas. We flying to Dallas. We do the show
in Dallas. But the Houston floods, right, Houston is prone
(14:16):
to flood. Houston floods. The following day, we do not
go to Houston. I'm thinking they're gonna send us home.
They say no, it's more economic for us to stay
here one day and then fly. So we do that Dallas.
We stay in Downas. The following day is a beautiful day.
We play basketball. Now we just men, We just me
(14:38):
and we're just balling, dudees, balling, talking trash, you know,
having a good time myself. JJ Williamson, Juan villar Reale,
a little duval. Uh, it's it's six of us, said
to his guys. He got another three or four guys,
so we got full court mhm, says I. That's the
first time I get to sit down and talk with
(14:59):
the one on one. So I'm talking to him one
on one and he's like, Yo, man, I like the
way you dress, you carry yourself. You're a good dude, man,
Ridney Perry. Okay, okay, you do your day like word.
Hey guys, tonight eight o'clock, were going to dinner. Put
on your good clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We go to dinner. First of all, we don't know
if we gotta pay or nothing. Hey Walker jay Walker,
we all dude, this said pay of this. So we
gotta pay because I ain't got no money for no
no meal. We pour, We get to the we get
to the restaurant. Everybody kind of timid said say, I
(15:41):
got y'all get whatever you want? Wow? He like whatever
you want? He said, get whatever you want. I said,
you sure, said, man, get whatever you want? All right,
So we ordered steaks. We're gonna shrimp, lobster. You know, dude,
just getting whatever they want. Great meal. But the night
(16:02):
ain't over. J Walker Wow said say, man, y'all want
to go. I just got to text some kid Capri kick.
We got a party night. We're going to the Ki
Capri party. Wow, have you ever been Jay Walker? Have
you ever been to a kickingpri part? I've never been
to a kick So this is what I found out.
DJ's are like comics. So there's an opener. He's mash,
(16:25):
he kills, He's seven minutes, He's mash. Another guy, come on,
he got thirty Wow, twenty five thirty he dropped fire.
Ladies and gentlemen come to take We in the booth
with Kid Capri. Wow, we ain't looking up at kickbre
We We what's my zodiaccent? We say me, said all
(16:49):
of us. We in the VIP, We in the we
in the booth. Kick Capri is being light skinned. He
is in jay He is in the booth. Kill dude,
kick a preplayed nothing but his he did one hour. Wow,
this dude destroyed.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The room was in his. It was in pandemonium. Said,
takes us back to our hotel and we float into
the lobby. We went to our rooms, we calling each other.
We end up meeting the lobby and just like, dude,
do you realize what just happened to us? And so
(17:31):
I did that date and that that opened up the
doors to me getting more dates. That summer so I
had did the Bay Area, mind you, that's what they
saw me at made it to the semifinals. Then I
do a summer of touring with Sid Entertained, King of Comedy. Wow,
I was so ready when I went back to following
(17:51):
year to the competition.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I ended up winning. Wow, I won the bear competition.
Connie coming the following year to the one. That's what
that's when that was. And when I tell you that,
that created uh an opportunity with said, so said, it's
got a TV show coming up called, uh do I
have it here? I'm sure I do. I don't know
(18:17):
where it is, but said had a show called Cedric
the Entertainer Presents Show on Fox and it should have went.
It should have been a success. The only thing to
help it got preempted by baseball that year, right, and
(18:39):
Dave Chappelle hit at the same time. Wow, so so
said called me personally like your dog, I want you
to warm up this show. Do you know what audience
warm up is? So for for your audience. When you
see a live show, there's usually a comedian or somebody
there to keep the show energized between takes. I was
(19:00):
that guy for said show, myself and Alex Thomas and dude.
It was such a great experience. It was my It
was my me seeing Hollywood up close without none of
the ramifications. So I was warm with the shows and
do all this stuff. I would be out there with
the audience longer than them because I was. I was
out there five six hours a night, and I was
(19:22):
making money. I was getting fifteen hundred a show in La.
I was rich, Jay Walker. I was rich because I
was working Thursday and Friday. I was getting three thousand
dollars a week. I was rich. And that was that
(19:44):
was That was my intro to said. I got some
opportunities to perform on that show as well, and that
show ended up getting canceled again. Kevin Bland. I never
forget this guy. I run into him in La. I
know they're about to shoot aim movie because I got
a chance to play Cedric's brother on the at the
table read. Uh huh yo, you we need we need Rod.
(20:08):
I did the table. I had never done the table ree,
but I understood it. I do the table read. I
told my wife they might they might hire me because
I killed the table. They didn't hire me, but and
this job from the vacation right. See see I'm leading.
I'm leading you up, Jay walk So so I run.
I running the KB on the streets in La. It's
been a couple of weeks the show has been canceled.
(20:29):
I ain't seen none of these guys. I running the KB,
I said, KB. I know y'all doing a movie. I
need a movie. He said, Rod, I got you again.
I think he lying. He was not lying. He called
me the following day. I go in. I was supposed
to play cousin Lump. Just asked me today, what was
(20:51):
your name and your carrick? I couldn't remember cousin lump. Uh.
I go in now. The way the script was written,
I supposed to be much bigger. They end up rewriting
the script for my character. They hired me and and
I went on to play Johnson Fellly vacation with said
entertaining Steve Harvey Man it was. It was a great experience.
(21:13):
I wouldn't trade it for none in the world. And
then also created an atmosphere where I met. I met
Steve on the setting. He and I began to work
for Steve shortly thereafter.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Wow, so was this a Steve Harvey Show, the sitcom
or the talk show, or.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I worked with Steve Harvey. I worked. I worked on
Steve Harvey's Steve Harvey's a big Steve Harvey. It was
a variety show. Okay, it was Steve. So he's doing
radio at this time in La Now. The show this
now is Steve Harvey in the Morning in l A.
And so he's doing that, and it's called Steve Harvey's
(21:52):
Big Time.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No, Steve Harvey's Big Time.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So it was. It was a short lived show. But
every day Steve Harvey is is valuable because he would
drop jewels on us every day. Let me ask you
a question righting in Pete, what you want out of this?
What you mean Steve? We see see see I'm mad
(22:16):
with my wife. But guess what I can't do. I
can't go to Albe's with my lady turn into something else.
So you got to ask yourself when it don't matter,
if this is what you want. Yeah, he would give
you a little jewels like that all the time. And
so me and Thomas Miles, who is nephew Tommy, we
worked in the writer's room on that show and we
wrote for Steve. We wrote his monologue and any bits
(22:38):
he did. We did that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's nephew's real nephew.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They don't say otherwise, so I'm not gonna say otherwise.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
But okay, yeah, okay, I'm gonna leave that alone. Okay,
So you worked with Tyler Perry.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I did.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And but DEA's Big Habit Family probably one. Well, want
to Tyler, I think it's his best movie. Yes, I
love that Big happy Family because it just the story
just went so well and it just did something better
than any of any one of them, any one of
his other movies, regardless of Yah. So Tim, what was
that like?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So Mydea's Big Heavy Family, Let's start with how I
booked it. I auditioned Roger Bob, who at that time
was Tyler Perry's right hand man. He's to Roger Bob
is a director of producer, blah blah blah. Roger Bob
comes randomly. One of his his management folks was my friend.
(23:39):
So they invite him to see me live. Roger Bob
comes to see my live stand up show. After the show,
he's like, yo, dude, you funny. I might have something
for you. Right. This is a Thursday, Friday, Friday morning
I get a call, Hey, so on and so from
time from Roger Bob's off. He wants you to come
(24:01):
in and read for the role of Herald. Wow. I'm like, okay,
all right, jay Walker. You've been on auditions, right, No,
I've never auditioned for it. Well, generally speaking, if you're
on audition two pages of dialogue tops, not more than three.
They sent me ten pages of dialogue. Wow. I'm like,
(24:22):
this is too much. I'm not I'm not gonna make this.
But I read it, and when I read it, I
was like, I know this guy. It was a married guy.
He was having issues with his wife, his family, his kids.
I'm that guy that I lived his life. I know
what it's like for you and your wife to go
through the ups and downs. I know what it. At
that time, I was probably married Shoes twenty years, No,
(24:44):
not even about fifteen years then, So I felt like
I knew him. So I read it and I was
just it, just I just took to the material. Then
I go to an audition, our audition with a young
lady named Alpha Tyler. Alpha Tyler at that time to
me was she is still one of the best people
I've ever read for I mean everything is on tape now.
(25:06):
They don't even in the room no more. She's like,
we need to come in. Just feed that noise a lot,
do your best, and if you gotta do it over,
we'll do it over. I'm like, no pressure, jay Walker.
I go ahead and I smash it. Wow, kay Walker,
I smashed it up this audition. Alpha Title's like, Yo,
(25:29):
your rightny period, that was good. You know what, stay
right here. He going to another room with Tyler's other hand,
left hand hand. You know. Turns out this guy is
the same guy that did casting for Johnson Family Vacation. Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Okay, well yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now now God is conspiring on my behalf full right,
so we full circle you go. Hey man, I feel
like I know you. I was like I was in
John's foundation. Oh my god, you are the DJ. Yeah,
give me the job right now. Oh they had work, Yo,
you need to read. So I read again, Tyler Alpha Tyler,
(26:12):
and I read again. He was like, okay, that was good.
Right there. He picks up the phone and called Tyler Perry. Hey, Tyler,
what's up man? You're busy? Yeah, I'm busy. I'm always busy.
Uh well, we got a potential. It was my name, Harold.
(26:33):
He said, all right, let me hear on the phone
Tyler Perry, Alpha Tyler and the other executive. I read,
kill it again. Now I'm almost I'm really off book.
Now I'm like, I'm killing it. So Tyler Verry, I
like that. What's his name, Rodney Perry. Rodney Perry. Wait
(26:55):
a minute, we related.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But if that's gonna help me, he keep me funny.
All right, long story short, jay Walker. I'm going home.
I start getting calls from wardrobe. I was like, yo,
we need you to come in, and I'm like, ma'am,
I think you need to call somebody else because they
haven't given me this job yet. She's like, oh my god,
I'm sorry, sir. And they called back five minutes later like, YO,
(27:20):
we're sorry about that, but you got the job of hair. Wow. Family,
It's a Friday. By Monday. If you remember the movie,
I was chopping a block of ice.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That scene was up Monday morning and and I have
I have a moment when I say, uh, I'm chopping ice,
and I said I get more love in jail. I'm
like that. I improvised that moment and that was the
first moment I made Tyler Perry laugh and he was like,
oh he funny. I like him, you know. And so
(27:51):
that was the beginning and they let me have some
moments in the movie man, thank god.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So what was it like?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What was he directed? Was he he was?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
He was writer, producer, director, two characters, three characters. Dude.
The guy literally did everything. I think I saw him
paint some sets.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You know now, now this is what Tyler Perry will
do as an actor. Any actors listening. He wrote every word.
So if you take a long breath, like you don't
know your line when you take your line, wow, Madia
will do your line for you. Wow. So he got
a thing like if you know you sit on your
(28:33):
butt so much that that was just me taking that
was my line. Wow, he took it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Wow. That's another story. So, so you worked with the
show Me the Browns, which is one, in my opinion,
on the funniest sitcoms ever. Like, I don't think that
show gets the credit it deserves.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
David Man and Tamila Man are genius. Man what Man?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I love that show. So what was it like working
with David and Tamwall on that show?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You what I mean. I mean one of my buddies,
David Arnold, who's passed. He was one of the writers
on there. So it's a fast day. Tyler Perryworld is
a fast day. You go in there, you go through
a walking, blocking rehearsal. Nine am, get you some donuts
or some whatever they got that day. Do that. By
(29:21):
noon they have changed the script whatever they're gonna change it.
By one o'clock, right after lunch, you do lunch. Twelve
thirty iset you back on set. You shoot. Yo. I
was at home though, three thirty four o'clock. Wow, literally
(29:42):
one day, one day shooting. And my episode was really
funny too. And that's too. I still get get resilted
checks and credit from that show to the date. So
man loved to meet the Browns man. It was. It
was a great show. So I worked with Tyler twice
and I read for Alpha Tyler again to get that role. Wow.
So actually precursored Madea's Big Happy Family.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh wow, Oh so that's that episode was before BEA's
Big Family.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Absolutely, very true.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, yeah, you're right, because that led to the table
where they start working with him. If I'm not mistaken,
that was the last Family did with him, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So let me ask you this, Can you give me
your mount rushmore of comedians? I know you get asked
this a lot, but I want to I want to
have I.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Want to have Richard Richard, Richard, Eddie Murphy Chappelle and
who is my four I put my Nique on there? Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And I was gonna say, can you give me your
four female mount rustmore of comedians? But you gave me
my knee on that.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I mean, if I had to do something with just women,
I would pick Lord Hayes. Oh wow, she don't get
the credit she deserves. I would pick absolutely some more.
Her current special out is very very good, man.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I watched the last night on Netflix. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, very very good. Of course, Monique all women and
you know what, I'm gonna throw flame my role on there,
just to keep it real.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, I'm throwing it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Wow. So writing Perry, what, well you have a new
radio show. Tell us about that new more show.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, I do a show daily man. You know, during
the pandemic, I just wanted to keep myself busy and
I created a show called Rodney Perry Live. And I
was also looking to create content on social for my
my YouTube page. And so this show Rodney Perry Live.
I do it every day and people don't take you
serious till you get to one hundred episodes. So I
(31:52):
did the show every day so I can get to
one hundred episodes fast. So I'm at one hundred and
thirty two episodes right now, thirty two of those from
this year. Wow, And I'm excited. Man.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Uh. The show is basically me. We do ninety minutes
a day. I got some people I call the usual suspects,
people like, uh, mister Hobgood who pops in all the time,
and Traumaa who pops in all the time, Gina g
who pops in all the time. Uh. And I do
my comedy co host, which is a comedian that that
(32:26):
that's that's my right hand. Each day I do a
different person, So like Jay Walker, I'll be calling you man,
come rock with me one moment, you know. And we
use this platform stream yard to do it. And we
go out to we go out to my YouTube, we
go out to Facebook, we go out to Media Room
three sixty, which is my my uh my partner in
(32:47):
crime in terms of distributing us to other platforms and
I maybe getting a national liquor sponsor real soon. Wow,
that's that's up next. Yeah, you know wow.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
So what upcoming projects do you have, like, you know,
any TV shows and movies and.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I've done uh, I'll just be working dog Man movie.
I did a show Cold and Windy which was on
which is was on uh we TV and All Black
if I'm not mistaken that that just wrapped up its
(33:27):
final episode. But you can stream it on Apple TV
or We TV. Uh, that's out in the streets. I
just shot a movie called The Bed and Breakfast. It
it is a not a drama but a suspense thriller.
And I'm like number shoot number two on the call
sheet for That's so many things I do working man,
(33:51):
And you know, the acting stuff keeps me relevant when
you know when and stands in the gap for some
of the comedy stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And of course I'm always touring. This is my next question.
When you're coming back to Birmingham, I'm coming to see you.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I should be. I should be. It's about time for
me to h to book Birmingham and game. So I
would it's not on the books, but I would say
definitely probably around June.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Ish, Bruce, we need to set this up.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Bruce, get great as from Birmingham the Star Dome right there, Birmham, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
So any other So we're gonna be at this weekend
where you off this weekend?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Right, I'm off this weekend and I'm at home next weekend.
I do. I got a screening for my for a
movie I did. Uh, don't ask me the title.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Okay, I got you uh.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And uh, I'm I just had a conversation with Fred Hammond.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I might be doing a national national touring play.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So we're trying to figure that out right now. But
uh yeah, jay Walker, we're just trying to feed these
papers man.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So one more question off, I'll let you go. So
before you go on stage, what is that one thing,
like just that one thing that Rodney Period has to
do for you on stage?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You know what? I'm gonna say this too, and it's
to all the comics that will listen. I don't do
none of the typical stuff. I'm not shadow boxing, I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Not you know, coming back.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You know, I don't pray right before I go on
and and I'm delivered in that because I think people
wait to posture or let me go and get it. Prayer,
y'all ready to pray? You'll be like you never pray.
I pray in the morning and before I go to
bed like everybody else. What do I do before I
(35:39):
walk on stage? Man? I asked God to leave my
lead guy, my steps and my thoughts and uh. And
then I put out, you know, something worthy and and uh,
something that that he would appreciate. Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, Well one last question. I just thought about this.
So when you go on tour, what is the one
thing that you have to have with you? Like, what's
what's the one thing you should.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Take my PlayStation everywhere? I don't do that no more.
What do I What do I need?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
My phone?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know? I keep my notes on my phone. I
record every set, you know. Uh. And that's that's a
fundamental comedy thing, you know. Comedians like I don't make
a video because it's just too much work. But I
take my phone on stage and I record myself every
single set, and I try my best to go back
and listen to it because you can come up with
(36:32):
jews sometimes just on a riff, and so I just
don't want to miss any of that stuff. Wow.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
So Rodney, let everybody know where you can be reached
on social media.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I mean, either find Rodney Perry Live on all social media. Man.
Rodney Perry dot com is the website Rodney Perry Live.
On the YouTube follow the YouTube page and come check
out the show.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
We there every day, all right, joll thank you writing parents,
so it's coming on some today. Man, I truly appreciate
you from thett of my heart. It was greatly It
was just such a great interview. I appreciate you so
much right in the period and I hopefully come on your.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
So so hey consider it done. Jay Walker in the
building peace.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Thank you Jay, all right, Roddy
Speaker 1 (37:19):
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