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November 13, 2025 47 mins
Wednesday 11-12-25 Show #1213: We welcome in comedian great Ali Siddiq!

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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is Kim Miller and the big chure of to night.
James is out. Man, it's his anniversary.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Miguel.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't know where to hell Miguel is at. But
joined the Versusy Studio with my comedy brother Jeff the Batman,
Call from from the Law Office, Call from the Land,
and our official sponsor and my homeboy DJ Collie, one
third of the Crown Royal Boys. But we got a
special guest tonight, so I ain't got time for them
to talk. November fourteenth, this man would be at the
Doctor Phillips Orlando, Florida, and November fifteenth, the Stress Center, Tampa, Florida,

(00:38):
the very funny mister, I least sadik.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
What's going on, my man?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Filth? Flooring? Filth?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
I did two million interviews. Ain't man, watch your mouth.
I know how to do it.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I know, man, it's my bad. It's a habit. Man,
I'm so used to saying it to people.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I know you've been on radio, you done everything. But
before we start this, I owe you an apology.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, damn.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I worked with you years ago. I've known how
they probably seven eight years now. I worked with you
in the Land Dog, got to work with you in
Virginia Beach and I did it. I headlined Thursday, you
popped in for a guest spot. Then I featured for
you the rest of the weekend, and I went up
to the green room and you kept the door shut
all weekend and not until I just recently saw you

(01:24):
the Breakfast Club, I didn't know I couldn't be up
in the green room like that. So my apologies, man,
because I was all up in your green room. I
was like, my bad dog.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I didn't know. And I've been years waiting to see months.
I've been waiting to see you them say my bad dog.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, man, I'm I'm a stickler for that, man. It's
one of them things. If because that's how I came up.
So I came up with the green room is for
the headliner, because you don't never know what the headliner
is doing, what he got going on, And I plan

(02:00):
with the simple thing. You have Dick Gregory, he used
to take a nap in between shows. You have Damion Williams.
It takes a nap in between shows, So why would
I be in their green room going in and out
of the green room while they while they sleeping. And
then when Ron White Ron White, it was the craziest thing.

(02:24):
Ron They the Orlando improv called me and said, hey, Ron,
Ron White wants to feature for you.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was like, what, like, I don't know know young
Ron right, and he was like, nah, the real Ron White.
I was like, feature for me? What?

Speaker 4 (02:44):
So when he came, he he he sent the lady
in said asked him can I come in the green room?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
And I said, yeah, you Ron White?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
And he said, man, I understand, I got my trailer outside.
I'm not gonna be in your space because you know,
everything comes full circle with me, you know. And when
I tell people, they think that it's a slight to them.
You got to earn your way to that room, you know.

(03:16):
And if you didn't come with me, you know what
I'm saying. If I'm if you're traveling with me cold,
you know that you that's your space too because we
together for somebody who I don't know. Man, I don't
I don't know your habits, what you got going on.
And then I don't like people that smacked. You may
have smacked, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like, I've been like this, Hey, bro, you want to
get out here with that smacking. Man?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
You never know what people got going on. What what
about one of them dudes that did Heroin? You're gonna
be in there while I'm tying off and I'm like.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Yes, sir, let me hold that for you.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Let me help you get for you.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
You know, been in the green going into everybody's snoring cocaine.
You're like, Oh, I guess this is not the room
for me.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Let me clean the mirror, sir.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's obviously Orlando. I know even fourteen Doctor Phillips from
Tampa strass in a November fifteen. Bro, if you ever
check your notifications, you will know that I am your
top fan.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I like and lavat everything you post.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I research you, I check you out because you are
one of my favorite comedians of all time.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Man, I watched the interview you did.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
You were talking about moving from the Chitlin circuit to mainstream.
Are you still in that headspace to where you're more
of a mainstream or You're like, like, what are your
audiences like now? With the amount of subscribers you got
in the views you got, what is your audience like now.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Man with this many followers, I don't think it's possible
to be Chitlin circuit, you know, doing theater. I don't
think no theaters is Chipling circuit. It's you know, we
on the second third year of theater tools. You know,
it's I don't know if the beacon and selling out

(05:10):
all these forty forty six hundred seats and I don't
know if you can be Childing circuit with that.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Do you I think it's Do you think it's disrespectful
to call it that or it just because that's what
we've It was called back in the day, like black
comedy is chitling.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
No, I don't. I don't subscribe to black what they
call black comedy. I don't know what that is, because
that is you could be white and be on a
Childing circuit. You know, it's that. I don't think the
color makes it. The chilling circuit is stuff the room.

(05:49):
You know, the Childing circuit is basically underground. It's another
name for underground. So these diad these these small rooms
that people play, it's small theaters that people that they
called is like six hundred seats It's like when if
you go to Montreal. The theater scene in Montreal's maybe

(06:10):
like five hundred seats, you know that, but they just
called it the theaters. The first time I went to Montreal,
they was like, oh, you're doing all theaters. So I
did like six shows all theaters, and I don't think
it was more than five hundred people at any of them.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, but I thought I was going to do.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
I thinking of theaters being big places that the that's
not the that's not the case. So the chiling circuit
is basically the b rooms because the improvs are not
chilling circuit. You didn't move you didn't move up to
mainstream when you when you were in like the Funny

(06:55):
Bones and the Hilarities and the comedy Zones and all that.
That's a that's a more mainstream situation than Allen's comedy Shock.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, that's too. That's two different.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
But you're talking about money, how much people are willing
to pay to see the comedy. You know, there's a
five dollars ticket or a free ticket, and you know,
paid forty to one hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's that's another thing.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
You know, I've been in places where people say, man,
I paid four hundred dollars. It was me and my lady,
And I was like, okay, because I don't really know
what the ticket prices are. I just know that they
are a little more expensive than you know, normal, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
So, and with black comedy, yes, that is that is a.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Title that I definitely run from because that puts you
in a box. So that means if you ask anybody,
you're like, oh, he does black comedy. That means and
it's gonna be a lot of cursing, There's gonna be
a lot of sexual INDI windows, it's gonna be a
lot of physical more like that's more like slapstick, you

(08:10):
know what I'm saying. So I don't think I'm a
black person that happens to do comedy, but that Rodney
Rodney Perry loves the title black comedy.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
So when you think of death jam right, that's that's
that was basically black comedy.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
And then you look.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
At the chair, every last one of those people with
no I ain't gonna say.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Every last one of them.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
The seventy of those individuals have grown to that's not
their stick anymore. You know what I'm saying, so would
d L be considered black comedy or could be sider
a black person to do comedy comedy, it's some more
be considered black comedy or a black woman who does comedy.

(09:00):
The Sykes was on there to Dave Chappelle was on there,
Steve Harvey was on there.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
But what they catered to at that time was different
than what where they were growing where they grew to
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, man, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
An's November fourteen, Orlando, Florida, Doctor Phillips November fifteen, Tempa
Fall Strass Center.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Go get your tickets right now.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
You are Gary Owens is black comedy now. Damn that's
my that's my man.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Yeah, that's another dude. I'm a big fan of bro.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
You you have special after special after specially.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I tell people.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I know people are gonna say, Bill Cosby, I think
you're the greatest storytelling comedian of all time, and that's
just my opinion.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I truly believe that. What's one. Go ahead, bro, that's
my opinion. You you my top five story storyteller.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Because that's nice to hear.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
But Cosby, Okay, Cosby's that guy.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Who's better right now? Who's better right now? Telling the story?
I still I still think your better story than Cosby,
and I love Cosby.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
This is he goes three hours. That's a tough one.
He does three hours. Cosby used to do three and
he not even feel it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, three hours, way too damn much, too much.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I watched, I watched. I watched Cosby for two.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
He did three, but I watched him for two and
I only left because I thought I was gonna die.
So I was like, yo, if I laugh one more time,
I closed my ears. I put my hand on my
ears while I was walking out because I didn't even
want to hear another thing to where I could faint

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while I was walking out.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
It was insane.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
So if he's talking about now, I don't think it's
nobody who can who can deal with me now, Because
the average comic longest story is about what seven minutes, My.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Shortest one is thirty.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
So just one thing and then I just recorded, specially
in Detroit, that story.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'm doing one story for.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
An hour and twenty and it's probably one of my
best pieces of work because of the story.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
But then you have the next one.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm getting ready to shoot is when I broke my classical.
That's an hour by the hour thirty.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
But it's the I don't know man.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
When it comes to, you know, telling a story, that's
just how I grew up, so I don't see it
as It's like everything I've ever learned was based on
somebody telling me a story about why something was important,

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you know. And the style comes from my family. It's
you know, I tell some stories I tell like my grandmother,
which is this going back in history type thing, what
my grandma would always do. Some stories I tell like
my mom, which is very technical, when she would tell
me why I shouldn't be doing something.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Let me tell let me, let me tell you why,
and then it's very technical.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Then my uncle, sometimes I can tell a story that
is so outlandish because of my uncle. My uncle would
tell these stories and I just saved the man's life.
I just pulled him out of a fire, and he'll
tell his crazy story.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And then.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
My uncle, my other uncle will walk in and be like,
the man dropped a cigarette on the ground and it
just smoked a little bit.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
He said, that wouldn't have been that wouldn't have been
a good one.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Though, But his his the way he embellished and told
the man to say this man cat.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
It was like it's like, yo, now what man?

Speaker 4 (13:19):
What where was this? What did this happen at? So
then you have the people old school catch that I
grew up around, would tell these very informational stories.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
That was, you know, like Anthony Covid. Man.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
I would be mad about something and I would come
tell Covid, and Covid would lean back and say, man,
so I bought a goat one time, and he would
tell a ten minute story about a goat. And I'd
be sitting there like what does that have to do
with what I was just man about? And he like,

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are you still mad? I'm like, nah, that was But
that was the point of people telling that story. It's
just to calm you down, say he can talk to
you about what you say because he said he said, man,
people can't really listen well when they're angry.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
So and anything, I'll get mad and telling the story
here lean back nineteen seventy three. Did this happened to
you in seventy three? That's not what the story about.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
This story is about this this thick legged woman nineteen
seventy But so I just draw from the inspirations of.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
How I grew up and what I what I listened to.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
And I am very you know, I do this thing
when I talk, when I tell people, I don't ever
tell people not to get angry, because anger is an energy,
and misplaced anger is a problem, but well placed anger
is fuel. So when people would say I couldn't achieve something,

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it would anger me and it would just give me
more fuel to.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
What I couldn't do.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
When when I tell a story, it's a victory every
time because people say, well, man, people don't listen. People
attention span is short, and I always be like, well,
how do they watch movies? Why was the Game of
Thrones so successful that people attention span is short? And

(15:47):
it's like I'm always trying to prove or disprove what
people's logic is about things.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's like, I never moved. I live in Houston.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
I never moved because people told me I couldn't make
it out of Houston. You would have to move to
la or New York in order to be in the
comedy world.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And I just thought that was ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
And the whole thing was the prophet is not welcome
in his own home and I'll still be like, why though,
that doesn't make good sense.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Why wouldn't you be honored in your own home.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Understood?

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Man the Mountain, go to Mohamaday right.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
So. And the other thing is I'm one of the
few comics in the world that can I can stay
at home for a year and make a ton of
money in my own hometown just headlining at the comedy club.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Like, I don't really have to go anywhere. I have
a huge fan base here, not like people who moved
away from their home town and then they had a
hard time selling tickets in their hometime because you didn't
make your bones in your hometown. You made your bone
somewhere else, and you have a hard time selling tickets
there too, because it's so you know, clustered with other people.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Man, I didn't want to go to la and have
that story. I slept in my car and car story, Yeah,
I'm cool. I'm cool with my car is cool. Well,
at that time, it wouldn't have been comfortable. Hey man,
a ninety Toyota sleeping in it? Naw, I'm cool.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
So yeah, cramp up man, Well, hey man, scoliosis, I'm fourteen, Orlando.
Doctor Phillis November fifteen, Tampa, Florida, Strats Center checking my
Alli man, brother, thank you so much for kicking it
with us tonight. Man, I truly truly appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I would say, ye was fourteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
No, the whole show is what we do three segments
and you can stay if you want to do the
other two.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I didn't know if you had something else to do.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
You up, say, we've got to take a commercial break.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I do one more commercial break.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, well we gotta take a you got commercials, boy,
y'all big time.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
We gotta take a commercial break.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
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Speaker 7 (18:24):
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office of Kaufman and Lynn and the Under Oath podcast
joined the Virtual Studio where Ali Ali would be at
their Doctor Phillips this weekend November fourteenth, Orlando, Florida and
the Strass Center November fifteen, Tampa, Florida. James popped in.
James doesn't ask you all the questions I was gonna
ask you already, but but but that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Though, I saw you pull your note book out. What
is that? What is the thought process of memorizing?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Because you don't, Mike right, because dog dog you on
what special number one?

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Fifteen? Brother, that's fifteen hours.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Fifteen plus hours of stand up to memorize.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
None comedy albums, fifteen specials.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
But what what? What is the memorization process? Man?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I know this is the this is the thing, you know.
I know this is gonna sound crazy to comics. And
then I'll explained that after I said, I'm insulted, and
I and I and I shouldn't be, but I am.
I'm insulted when somebody refers to my stuff as a bit. Hey, man,

(20:54):
remember that bit you did? Remember that bit?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
You? They're like, no, I don't. I don't have any bits.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
I have the story, but I don't have any bits
because when I was writing bits, they were surrounded with
things that.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Didn't happen, you know to me per se or I.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Would read the paper and then I would take something
from the paper and create.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
A bit. That's how I saw it. But D. L.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
Hugley me and him talking one day, and he said, Man,
the funny is you going to ever be in life
is based on how honest you want to be. So
then I just start giving the true stories of what
has happened to me. So if you haven't in these

(21:52):
last six joints, is all me. It's no current events,
it's no other things added. It's just my life from
ten to twenty five, which the domino effects. And then
it's my two sons, and Rugged is me and my

(22:13):
two sons, and then me and me and my home
life with Rugged. So I don't have to remember anything
but the story. The story comes to my head. I
can just tell the story. It's nothing for me to remember.
And it's not a superpower. It's just what happened. You

(22:36):
know what happened to you in the fourth grade because
you were there, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
So I remember in the fourth grade.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I became a flag bearer in the fourth grade, right,
I would go and put the flag up in the morning,
and then got put up both flags, the Texas flag
in the American flag, and then we would get out
of class fifteen and it's early to go get the flags.
The only reason I did it is because it was
this cute white girl name Ta Mika. Never met a

(23:09):
white girl named Tamika before, but never I.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Met her in the fourth in the fourth grade, right,
and she was from Tampa. She literal our family moved
to Houston. She was from Tampa.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
And this was the first person that never told me
about yellow rice. She was like, Yo, we don't eat
white rice in Tampa. We eat yellow rice.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
And I can tell this story about how many times
me and this girl walked to the Saint because it
was my fourth grade experience. And I remember this black
girl named Delisha was like you just like that little
white girl.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
I'm like, man, But I remember when I went home
and told my dad, I said, hey, man, got me
a little girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
She's white.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
And he was like, say, man, how you going to
explain that to your civil rights grandmother? And then and
then I then I read in the Civil Rights I
remember I told my grandmother, I said, Graham, before you
say anything, you know it's white people that helped out

(24:15):
with the Civil rights right.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
N double A, CP, all this stuff. And she was like,
where is this going, sad guy? Their girlfriend she's white.
And I remember my grandmother was on one. She was
still on one. It's like, do you know how many
black I.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Was like, man, but I had already read, I had
my defense and everything.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I think it was all of white people fout right
next to black people.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Like she wasn't trying to hear it from she from Louisiana.
She ain't trying to hit nothing. But you marrying a
black girl, Well, I end up marrying a little brown,
Senttimon Brown when she you know I got close.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
What's crazy is I ain't even know I live in Orlando, Leive,
you know Tampa eight Yellow Rice like that right, kipping Rice?
Even know that?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yo?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
But I think that's a dope thing about your stories.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
You you got a perspective of things in life and
what you've been through that somebody here be like dog,
I ain't even like today Chris will tell you. I
don't nobody take care of their yard the way I
take care of my yard. And I was watching your
video about you going at Chris every week every week,
but you're going to my lawnmower and having to get

(25:34):
a hat, and you out there with the Gucci slides on,
and I'm dying laughing because I'm out there, I got
the sweatpants, my shoes on. I'm like, you know, I
got the best lawn in my neighborhood. But when you
get to listen to your perspective of things, people sitting
there and be like, yo, I did that too, but
it happened to me too. And I think that's what's
so dope about the storyteller aspect of standing up.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
You know the craziest thing. I don't know why. I'm
not good with my yard, but I have a whole
garden that I grow stuff in Okra, tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, I grow I can grow stuff. It's just cutting
that grass. It's just crazy to me. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
And it's supposed to be like on the same line,
but it's not.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
It's not because I with you.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I don't think I could do a garden, but I
can take care of my grass.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I can line it up.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I can do these bushes, the tree I got all that.
I don't think if I had to plant something, if
I had to plant some collars and tomatoes and stuff,
oh they're gonna be dead.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
See.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
And that's where I come in at Hey, man, you
cut the grass, I grow the food.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I thought they were the same, but they are totally different.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Things got the same man, don't be be fourteenth, Orlando, Florida,
Doctor Phillips, November fifteen, Tampa, Fad Distress Center.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Nobody besides one person.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I ain't gonna say his name, but nobody has ever
had a bad thing to say about you.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
You helped so many comics, and I see you got
specials out for Marcus and Hiley, any specially for Ryan Davis.
You got any other comics that you got lined up
with specials that you can talk about or is it
you know in the work?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
I want to know who that one person is. Everybody knows.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
And you know what's the weirdest thing about that that.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
I am.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
I'm still taken aback by the whole thing because I
think about how people, because they like somebody's movies, that
they think that these people are perfect and they think

(27:57):
that they don't they don't have any flaws. And it's
a weird thing for somebody to say, I'm gonna have
a strong opinion about somebody that they actually don't know,
they have no connection with the outside of the entertainment,

(28:17):
but then say something or say.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Things about a person that they actually don't don't know. Hey, man,
I'm not. I remember this comic. This other comic came on.
It was like, Yo, you brother, I'm gonna be I'm
gonna be very respectful of this. You know, I don't
want to smoke with you, but I'm gonna be very pregan, man,
you cop chasing, And I was like, it dawned on me,

(28:42):
hey man, you may need to drop your album that
you recorded probably about nine years ago, and for some reason,
I just haven't dropped it.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's called dope without Association. And so it's all the
people on the on the artwork, it's all all the
people who I actually have pictures with, all the people
who I admire, and I've never posted these pictures because
I don't think that you standing next to somebody in

(29:14):
a picture equates to you being talented. You know what
I'm saying. I got a picture of Smokey Robinson. I
can't sing, So how does that? How did me being
in a picture associate myself with this person makes me talented?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
You know, it's an autograph, it's a graph.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
You have an autograph with him. You know, you have
basic seconds of his life. You know, all the people
who come ask you for your autograph, they want to
say I had five minutes of his life. You're coming,
you're coming close to brilliance.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
That's what it is.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
More than hey, I'm going to say I'm on his level.
You know, it's I got a base of his life
for five seconds.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
I mean that it doesn't make you funny because you
take a picture with Chappelle. It doesn't make you funny
that you get at the picture with Chappelle.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
So if you don't, if you acclimate yourself to one
to one thing, It's kind of like when people said,
well Robert Glasper won the Grammy over Chris Brown, who
is Robert Glasberg. Well, he is a very talented artist

(30:26):
that produced a lot of people and then he produced
his own album and he won a Grammy. Because you know,
because you are Chris Brown fan, that means that you
were supposed to know Robert Glasper too. You don't how
many movies that won Oscars, Like when Nick King Speaks
won an Oscar.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I was like, yeah, man, while you agree with that
because I saw.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
The movie movie. Yeah, yeah, I saw the movie.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
You don't watch these type of movie if you only
watch one thing. Like if somebody had a conversation with
me about like I've never seen, and I know it's
gonna trip people out. I've never seen that one episode
of Snowfall. I've not seen that one episode of Power.
I ever seen one episode of any of them, of
any of the shows. But if you asked me about

(31:20):
the Crown, you asked me, you asked me about.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I never watched what's the popular show? I mentioned it earlier,
Uh with the Winter is Coming? John Snow Yeah, No,
the Dragons.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Man.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
I never watched Game of Thrones when it was out,
but then I watched the show before that dragon know
what I'm saying, And then I.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Went back and watched Game of Thrones. And so.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I think that when people minded is in one box,
that you don't know that I've been out for twenty
eight years. Oh he just now, So how does the
person now in two years trying to chase clout when
I've been out since nineteen ninety seven and not just out.

(32:34):
Comic View two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand, two,
two thousand and three, Who's Got Jokes?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Bring the funny?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Last comic standing the season finale on Death Jam when
it came back in eight Because I remember that because
the season finale It was a season finale of The
Wire and season finale of Death Jam. At the same time,
I was a season fan to be on Last Comic Standing,
to be Grammy nominated for an album, and then also

(33:05):
to be Comedy Central's Comic to Watch in twenty thirteen,
have a special, a half hour special in sixteen, and
then a full hour special in eighteen. Why would I
just all of a suddenly chasing somebody else's cloud. I
was already a work in comic that was successful, So
I don't know what type of car they thought I drove.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
You know what I'm saying. Ever ever really looked at
me and thought I.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Was I don't think that sells tickets. Nobody's coming to
see me because of this person. But if we both
pull up, we both pull up, I'm I'm guaranteeing that.
Hey man, my car is pretty substantial as well.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Let people know where I'm at. You know, I don't drive.
I don't drive. I drive a Bentley And I didn't
just get it any saying he could sleep in this.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Hey, Hey, real quick, Ali, we got one more segment.
It's like it's like ten minutes. I'm gonna hit the
commercial break, come back, because I really want to ask
you about these specials that you got coming up with
these other comedians.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
But we're gonna be taking a quick corrective break. Guys,
we'll be right back. We'll be right back, real lads, we're.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Radio one oh four point one.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
We're back.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
We'll last. We're Radio one or four point one. Your
night cap of comedy and the big Cheff cam Miller.
We got Ali's man Oli will be at Doctor Phillips
this Friday, November fourteenth, and then Tampa November fifteenth Distress
and to make sure y'all check them out. We were
talking about specials, Like I said, I know you got
Marcus Wiley, You got Ryan Davis, which is a good
friend of man straight out of North Carolina. From North
Carolina too? Who else she got coming up? If you

(35:01):
can talk about it.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Man, We were getting ready to produce a Wonderful Lady special.
We redistributing one of my friends special. We recorded Mark
as his second special. In January, we'll be dropping somebody
else's special and then I'll be coming out with mine.
I like to lead an element of surprise on who

(35:26):
we're putting out, and once the ink dries, we'll start
the promotion and people will see, oh he went and
got his boy, you know, because people didn't know I
was gonna do Patrise O'Neil man. And what's crazy is
Patrees was a was a love distribution. It wasn't to

(35:50):
make any money. I was I just was like, yo,
I still want people to room trees. And what he
was doing and was an older special. We didn't even
think that it was gonna do any numbers because how
old it was. And then it was short okay, and
that's that's actually something that he did with Showtime and

(36:13):
that's that's a love thing. So with these with these
new guys that's coming, this is a my friends. I
want to promote my friends. I want to make sure
my friends are selling tickets. I want to make sure
that people see their stuff. And I think that with
networks that gets swept up under. But we're really holding

(36:35):
close to the vest on who we who were dropping
until we get ready because I announced, you know, I
just did a Christmas movie because my own girl shot
up Christmas movie and we wanted to we wanted to
get my balls on it for to see if even if,
because my little network is just not growing. So We're

(36:56):
just trying to see what we can, how hard we
can push people out. But with comedy and I want
to be a place where when people see that they
own my channel, they automatically know that they that they funny,
They automatically know that they talented and to go see them.
Because the special is the commercial. It's just a commercial

(37:20):
for you. You know that you can a long standing commercial.
The cavet the caveat to that is people coming to
your shows, putting bodies in your seat, and that's what
you're making your actual money. It's not with the special.
Nobody gets rich with the special. You know, unless you

(37:41):
already big. You know a lot of these people they
get they gonna get paid more with me in the
long run than being with a network.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
You see what you did with Ryan.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
You had mentioned earlier about people taking pictures and that's
not about you know, that doesn't mean they're good. But
you you I mean, you've been doing this for a
couple of decades. People come at you, probably on a
daily basis, asking for help, asking for and earn. How
tough is it for you to try to give advice?
But you know, let them know that that's not going
to get them on stage.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Man.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
When Ken said design people who say nothing bad about me,
I'm like, well, he hadn't talked to the people who
out hurt down because.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Right, oh, because this is the people who really got
some choice words for me behind my back.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
But I'm and I think that with most people, I'm
very honest with them. And I'm like, hey, listen, I
understand networks headaches now too, because it's some it's some
specials man that I have received.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Jeff Brother, I wish you were the front person for it.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Look the white man said no, he said, man, but
when it's when it is me and you got my
personal phone number and you know me, and you set
me a special and I watched it, and the whole
time I watched.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
It, I'm talking about hen Jeff DJ, Hey, you would
be surprised of how many specials are just said like this,
and some of them I have bolved my head. Man

(39:41):
was am I watching?

Speaker 4 (39:44):
And hey, man, I can't give you notes on a
special that you already recorded.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
You have to let me do that in the beginning.
And I get it.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
And somebody want to tell me how I in ninety
thousand dollars in them and I'll be sitting there like that.
You want me to call the people and tell them
to give your money back.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Because you are crazy right now?

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Like all this is crazy and man, and it's hard
for them to accept it from me because they thinking
that I'm, oh, you only saying it because you're still
doing thing up you and a competition. I told Tamar,
going shoot on the head agent and innovator. I said, Tama,
when I retire, I want you all to give me

(40:35):
an office what I'm saying, and this is called the
Truth Office. Send them, sent them in here, cent'em in here. Hey, man,
not doing coming, or I'll retired. Let me tell you
how terrible your special action is, Tamar, and them can't
tell you. That's why they sent you to the Truth Office,

(40:57):
your actors.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Because.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
I'm I'm looking at specials and I'm and I'm still
going out to comedy clubs when I'm invited to watch somebody,
and so you gotta go to old Mike. You gotta
see other people go up before the person that you
came to see, right.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
And.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
If I tell you season comics are doing open mic
level material, I'm and I'm appalled. I'm like, yo, you
know I just watch somebody who's been doing it four
months say that same thing, like, you're not and you're

(41:44):
not taking me anywhere. If comics are still caught up
in nineteen ninety two, you're not going to resonate with
the people now because comedy has moved to a different plateau.
I get it, you looking at people on the internet

(42:06):
who came with a fan base. But if you realize
all those people came from somewhere else first with their
fan base.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
You If I was a singer, if I was a
successful singer, I got multi platinum albums, and then I
started doing stand up and I bring my whole singing
bass with me, and they coming to the shows, and
when they're not coming because I became this great comedy
coming because hey man, I'm the one that did their

(42:37):
favorite love ballet.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
You know what I'm saying. So that's the thing. It's
not like it's not like us, man, when we came up.
We came from the bottom. Like you learned all the
mechanics of being a stand up. You're a very seasoned
You can pivot, you can go this way, you can
go that way. You ambidextrious with your craft when you

(43:01):
hear like a Drew ski Man, I don't blame Drew
Skie for getting booed, you know what I'm saying. And
the comic show, he's not a comic. You know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
He's a comedic actor is not even a comic. It's
two different, two different muscles, what I'm saying. So it's
kind of like asking a guy who can cut your
steak good at a bunchet shop to become a surgeon.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
You know what I'm saying, Hey man, you cut meat good,
maybe you could be a surgeon. No, it's it's not
the same thing. That's what you're taking off. Plumber, plumber.
Plumbers don't do electricity. They don't.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Bro I learned that I had a pipe busted by
house man. They came and reran that pipe and was like,
we don't do drywall.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
You got to call somebody.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
You got cart.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
I said, y'all have put all these holes in my house. Yeah, dog,
we don't do drywall.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
The person who saw that whole, that little pathway, cannot
put it back. He just know how to take it off.
Hey man, man, man, I had I had a plumber
put the thing back.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Somebody. Hey man, you're gonna have to spat that. I'm like,
it ain't no spacking. It's like who you talk to
that word spa. They gotta be they gotta be sealed up.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Brother, I got, I got. It's kind of like, oh
to the house.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
It's kind of like it's kind of like us can
Hey man, you can cut grass, I can grow.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
I can grow. I can grow grass.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Just we kind of get up out of here.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Man, don't been from fourteen Orlando Flooring Doctor Phillips, November fifteen,
Table Floyd Strass Center. First of all, I want to
thank you for letting me work with you this weekend. Man,
I truly appreciate the man. Always a good time with you.
But we gotta get ready to get up out of here. Man,
Ali go ahead. They probably already know. But tell everybody
how they can find the follow you, my friend.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Hey man, y'all can go on YouTube OLDEP comedy, or
y'all go on my website dot com. I am definitely
not hard to find. Spell my name s I D
D I Q. Want to say appreciate you all for
spelling my name correctly because I don't know what type
of name folks be spelling sometimes and the other The

(45:20):
other thing is, Jeff, I want to tell you this
quick story before we get out of here. Ken called
me and said, hey, man, if you're still looking for
somebody to open for you, I said, Ken, I'm not
looking for anybody.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Chris. Did I tell you that? Chris?

Speaker 4 (45:39):
I said, I am extending that to you, but I'm
not looking for I don't even like like, oh my bad, no,
just know this is this is something bigger because I
respect you.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Don't send nobody else to my phone to.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Hey man, he doesn't open up on I'm like, non, Chris.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Chris, did I tell you that story? I was like,
I said, he said, he's looking.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
For I'm coming to town. It's a theater. Let me
call my friend. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
I'm like, no, if you were just said when you
said when you turned it down the first time, I
was like, okay, cool, It's back to just me, more
time for me. I'm looking to do an hour and
five minutes. You know what I'm saying, he's if you're
still looking for us about I'm not and I'm not.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Brother.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Man.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
We got to get up out of here.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Guys, thank y'all so much for you now, we'll see
you tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
That is our Dick.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
That is Jeff the Batman coll and that is Chris
Alexander aka d J.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Callis Chris.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Do me a favor, tell him what to do, Take
your ass to bed.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Good night,
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